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Season
3 (NBC) (1963-64)
Episode Guide
compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox
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########## DuPont Show Of The Week ###########
############## season 3 1963-64 ##############
############### (final season) ###############
NBC Sundays 10:00-11:00pm Eastern (hour long)
Ep 3.01 DuPont Show Of The Week: TO BURY CAESAR
08Sep1963 NBC
written by Berkely Mather
directed by Fielder Cook
starring
Jack Hawkins ....... Adam Hilderson
Pamela Brown ....... Helen Hilderson
Nigel Davenport ....... Philip Maybrick
Kenneth Griffith ....... Lembke
Derek Francis ....... Chayotn, QC
Synopsis:
This episode presents a courtroom melodrama about an English parliamentarian's
fight for his political life. Adam Hilderson
is. a brilliant politician but is passed over for ministerial posts. His wife
Helen thinks there must be an unsavory incident
in his past. Their friend, publisher Philip Maybrick, learns from a sailor
Lembke that after their ship was torpedoed,
Hilderson fought for a space on a lifeboat but a woman, Lembke's wife, was
killed. Maybrick proposes an infallible libel
scheme, which would result in big money for both. Hilderson learns his wife is
colluding with Maybrick and will divorce him
to marry Maybrick. At the libel trial, Hilderson exposes the collusion and
presents evidence he was not aboard the
torpedoed ship, clearing his name. [RF]
Ep 3.02 DuPont Show Of The Week: THE LAST HANGMAN
15Sep1963 NBC
written by Ernest Kinoy
directed by Fielder Cook
starring
Ed Begley ....... John Moore
Finlay Currie ....... O'Connell
Noel Purcell ....... Meager
Clive Revill ....... Boyle
Robert Gerringer ....... Joe Moore
Synopsis:
This episode presents a drama of three aged Irish Republican Army veterans,
O'Connell, Meager and Boyle, who had taken an
oath to eliminate all of those responsible for the hanging of their compatriots
in the rebellion against English rule.
They now live in Cleveland and there is only one more person left, the equally
aged John Moore, who lives on Long Island,
New York. The three make their presence known to Moore, who tells his son, Joe.
He does not believe his father. The three
take Moore to a deserted house to kill him. John, a soldier to the end, accepts
the situation, but Joe arrives to stop them.
O'Connell falls ill and the Moores take him [RF]
Ep 3.03 DuPont Show Of The Week: HOLD-UP!
22Sep1963 NBC
written by Robert Van Scoyk
directed by Paul Bogart
starring
Hans Conreid ....... Charles Hamilton
Hal March ....... Max von Ritter
Gerald Hiken ....... Rudy Schrieber
Charlotte Rae ....... Mona Brinkman
Bernie West ....... Harry Fenn
Synopsis:
This episode presents a farcical story of a plot to stage a million-dollar
robbery of Historyland. Fate and their inadequacy
conspire to snare the plans of Charles Hamilton, an accountant, and Max von
Ritter, a safecracker, to rob Historyland, an
amusement park. They plan to time the robbery with a Jesse James-type bank
holdup which is staged daily in the park and to
escape in the confusion between the real and fake robberies. They enlist the
help of Rudy Schrieber, a dynamite expert who
is virtually deaf, and Harry Fenn, an ice cream vendor who is more interested in
picking pockets. They successfully pull off
their scheme, but when they open up the bags, they find only passes to the park.
[RF]
Ep 3.04 DuPont Show Of The Week: THE BACHELOR GAME
29Sep1963 NBC
written by Irving Gaynor Neiman
directed by Marc Daniels
starring
Barry Nelson ....... Clay Douglas
Diana van der Vlis ....... Paula Amory
Elliott Reid ....... Harrison Hunter
Carolyn Groves ....... Tracey Wilde
Alan Hewitt ....... MacNab
Synopsis:
This episode presents a sophisticated comedy set against the New York magazine
world. Clay Douglas is the editor of a
large-circulation national magazine which is losing money. He determines to put
the magazine on a paying basis by securing
exclusive rights to the life stories of either Paula Amory, an often-married
movie star, or Hunter Harrison, an eccentric
millionaire. Clay's next-door neighbor, Tracey Wilde, falls in love with him.
She was married to Harrison and she convinces
him to sell his memoirs to the magazine, which saves the magazine and traps Clay
into marrying her. [RF]
Ep 3.05 DuPont Show Of The Week: THE TAKERS
13Oct1963 NBC
written by Jacques Gillies
directed by Fielder Cook
starring
Walter Matthau ....... Harley Downing
Shirley Knight ....... Charmian Scott
Claude Rains ....... Baron van der Zost
Nancy Barrett ....... Inga
Larry Hagman ....... Boyd
William Harnson ....... Bouchard
Synopsis:
This episode presents a suspense drama of a near-perfect jewel theft. Baron van
der Zost, one of the wealthiest men in the
world, checks into the Caesar Hotel with his family and jewel collection. A
group of thieves is in the suite across the hall.
The leader is Harley Downing and his key aid is Charmian Scott, who bears a
remarkable resemblance to Zost's daughter, Inga.
The thieves execute their scheme. As Downing is checking out of the hotel,
Bouchard, Zost's private detective, recalls that
Charmian, masquerading as Inga, was wearing dark glasses, but Inga had left hers
on the plane. The thieves are caught. [RF]
Ep 3.06 DuPont Show Of The Week: MANHATTAN BATTLEGROUND
20Oct1963 NBC
directed by William Jersey
narrator Dane Clark
Synopsis:
This episode presents a documentary about a social worker's approach to slum
problems in Spanish Harlem in New York City.
Dan and Hope Murrow lived there for five years and became totally involved with
their neighbors, who included gangs of
youths, alcoholics, drug addicts, and prostitutes. Violence had been a regular
occurrence. Within two years after Murrow's
arrival, the street fighting had ended, the gangs had become clubs and the
fighting had been replaced with psychodramas,
in which the youths worked out their aggression. Since they have completed their
five-year project, the Murrows are leaving
for Brandeis University. A play is performed which re-enacts what happened when
Dan first tried to bring the gangs together
for a peace conference. [RF]
Ep 3.07 DuPont Show Of The Week: THE SILVER BURRO
03Nov1963 NBC
written by Bill Deming & Allan Sloane
directed by William Corrigan
starring
Ray Milland ....... the Investigator
Carroll O'Connor ....... N.S. Kellogg
Laurie Main ....... J.T. Cooper
Thomas Barbour ....... O.O. Peck
Synopsis:
This episode presents a comedy-drama based on a true story of the Idaho Hills in
1885. A present-day investigator tells
the story. A prospector named N.S. Kellogg sets out across the Coeur d'Alene
Mountains, meagerly grubstaked by J.T. Cooper
and O.O. Peck. Along the way, he loses his burro. When he finds the animal, it
is standing atop the biggest vein of silver
in the Northwest. Kellogg tries to cut out his partners and this precipitates a
legal battle, which is finally resolved for
everyone except the burro. [RF]
Ep 3.08 DuPont Show Of The Week: MISS AMERICA -- BEHIND THE SCENES
17Nov1963 NBC
directed by Fred Freed
narrator Frank McGee
Synopsis:
This episode presents a candid study of a young woman's transformation from a
college student into a contestant for the
Miss America crown. The program covers four weeks in the life of Jeanne Richey
Amacker of Beaumont, Texas, from being
named Miss Texas through the decision in Atlantic City. Overnight she becomes a
celebrity and is taken on a whirlwind tour
of her state. She gets a new hairdo, cosmetics and wardrobe courtesy of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce. In Atlantic City,
she attends a briefing session and rehearsals. She is shown responding to the
announcement of the winner. [RF]
Ep 3.09 DuPont Show Of The Week: RIDE WITH TERROR
01Dec1963 NBC
written by Nicholas Baehr
directed by Ron Winston
starring
Gregory Rosakis ....... Connors
Tony Musante ....... Ferrone
Mart Hulswit ....... Teflinger
Ron Leibman ....... Carmatti
Gene Hackman ....... Douglas McCann
Vincent Gardenia
Frieda Altman
John Connell
Louise Troy
James Sheller
Loretta Leversee
John McMartin
Kathy Dunn
Synopsis:
This episode presents a drama of twelve people held captive by hoodlums on a
subway train in New York City. After beating
and robbing an elderly man of eight dollars, Connors and Ferrone decided to take
the Lexington Ave. IRT to Times Square.
They jam the doors so nobody can board or deboard. They terrorize the people on
the train. It becomes apparent
that the only thing the captives have in common is their refusal to get
involved. Finally, Teflinger, a soldier on leave
and with his arm in a cast, fights the hoods alone and knocks them out. In the
tussle, he is stabbed. At Times Square,
the police take the hoods into custody. [RF]
Ep 3.10 DuPont Show Of The Week: THE GAMBLING HEART
23Feb1964 NBC
written by Horton Foote
directed by Paul Bogart
starring
Ruth White ....... Mrs. Turner
Tom Bosley ....... Howard
Sarah Marshall ...... Ada
Estelle Parsons ...... Carrie Bernice
John Cullum .......Hugh
Phillip Coolidge ....... V.J. Thompson
Synopsis:
This episode presents the story of Mrs. Turner and her daughters, Carrie Bernice
and Ada, who inherited $10,000 from their
father. Ada's husband, Howard, is a gambler and turns the money into millions.
Carrie and her husband, Hugh, eke out a
living running a store. Mrs. Turner, also a gambler, encourages Howard to take
risks. He invests in a risky oil deal. At
first, the picture looks bad, but the deal turns into a $50,000 return. He tells
the family, but Howard argues that Hugh
should hold out for more. Hugh disappears and returns with a new car and
expensive purchases. The family is worried, but
he has accepted the $50,000 and the extravagance was to teach them a lesson.
When Mrs. Turner arrives with new wild plans,
Carrie and Hugh tell her to mind her own business. [RF]
Ep 3.11 DuPont Show Of The Week: THE HELL WALKERS
08Mar1964 NBC
written by Jacques Gillies
directed by Fielder Cook
starring
John Mills ...... Davies
Curt Jurgens ........ Kleinerts
George Voskovec ........... Father Boucard
Gusti Huber ........... Maria Parsons
Caroline Brenner ........... Mme. Danier
Eda Reiss Merin ......... Mme. Kemp
Synopsis:
This episode presents a drama about a convicted Nazi war criminal and a man
hired to remind him of the crimes he committed.
Just before his release from prison after serving a 15-year sentence for his
part in the administration of a Nazi extermination
camp, Kleinerts receives a postcard on which is written, "Remember the fifth of
September." In Kleinert's hotel in Paris,
Davies tells him that he has been hired to remind him constantly of his crimes
by a man whose son died in the camp on the
5th of September. Kleinerts realizes there is no place for him to hide, but
Davies sinks into the morass of his hatred. [RF]
Ep 3.12 DuPont Show Of The Week: JEREMY RABBITT -- THE SECRET AVENGER
05Apr1964 NBC
written by Robert Thom
directed by Franklin Schaffner
starring
Frank Gorshin ...... Jeremy Rabbitt
Jennifer West .......... Althea Krupp
Jim Backus .......... Big Boss Buddy Foy
Brian Donlevy .......... Cheese Karapolis
Carolyn Jones ........ Jo Jo
Walter Matthau .......... Tony Maruzella
Franchot Tone .......... Sen. Grady Lyons
Synopsis:
This episode presents a farce comedy about Jeremy Rabbitt, a meek court
stenographer, who decides to dispose of notorious
gangsters to impress his landlady, with whom he is in love. His first victim is
Cheese Karapolis, who is electrocuted by
a short in his toothbrush. Next is Tony Maruzella, whom Jeremy disposes of by
filling his golf ball with explosives. Posing
as a beauty operator, he smothers Jo Jo. Finally he confesses and is sent to a
sanitarium. Althea arrives as a nurse's aid
and they poison Big Boss Buddy Foy. They promise to each other they will not
hurt anyone else. [RF]
Ep 3.13 DuPont Show Of The Week: A DAY LIKE TODAY
19Apr1964 NBC
written by Stanley R. Greenberg
directed by Tom Donovan
starring
Art Carney .......... Walter Matthews
Kathleen Maguire .... Helen
Janice Hanson ....... Dolores
Dennis Cooney ....... Mark
Paul McGrath ........ Jenkins
John Buckwalter ..... Green
Synopsis 1:
This episode presents a story of a middle-aged widower fighting a lonely battle
for his life. For Walter Matthews, Friday
has been just one more day in a succession of bad days. Trying to ease a
splitting headache, he accidentally takes poison.
He proceeds to review the previous 24 hours. He is a harried business executive.
He is interested in his secretary Helen
and she in him, but they have done nothing about it. His daughter Dolores
invites him to dinner and then cancels. His son
Mark refuses to share a summer cottage with him. As all this passes before
Walter, he still wants to live and he prays for
another day. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
Hard-driving insurance executive Walter Matthews finally takes the time to view
his life in perspective - as he lies
paralyzed and perhaps dying from poison he took by mistake. [RF]
Ep 3.14 DuPont Show Of The Week: INCIDENT ON WILSON STREET
03May1964 NBC
written by William Jersey
directed by William Jersey
narrator Frank McGee
Synopsis:
This episode presents a documentary about P.S. 16 in New York City and the
students and teachers of the school. The focus is
on teacher Pegi Gorelick and her nine fifth-graders. They are shown in their
classroom and in the All Day Neighborhood after
school program, in which regular schoolwork is augmented and enriched. One of
the students attacks the teacher, who is not
hurt. The rest of the program focuses on the ramifications of the incident for
the student and her family, her classmates,
the teacher, and the school. [RF]
Ep 3.15 DuPont Show Of The Week: MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE
31May1964 NBC
written by John D. Hess
directed by Franklin Schaffner
starring
Corinne Calvert ....... Maria Pringle
Martin Milner ......... Rex Adams
Patricia Barry ........ Alice Adams
Fred Clark ......... Calvin Coopersmith
Arnold Soboloff ........ John Pick
Synopsis:
This episode presents a comedy-drama about a married couple of limited means who
suddenly strike it rich. Alice and Rex Adams
find themselves rich when a small value of stock turns into a half million
dollars. With the help of his lawyer and cousin,
Calvin Coopersmith, Rex increases his fortune eight-fold. Rex indulges in
extreme extravagance. Another woman appears,
Maria Pringle, whose hobby is taking money from millionaires. Alice counters
with her own huge expenditures, teaching Rex
how corrupt he has become. Calvin amalgamates Rex's holdings into a foundation
under his own control. Calvin counts the money
aboard a yacht with his wife, the former Maria Pringle. [RF]
Ep 3.16 DuPont Show Of The Week: THE PATIENT IN ROOM 601
07Jun1964 NBC
written by Len Giovannitti
directed by Fred Freed
Narrator James Daly
Synopsis:
This episode presents a documentary about Lita Levine, who survived an air
disaster, and her rehabilitation. On Aug. 15, 1958,
her flight to Nantucket, Massachusetts ended in a crash. She had third degree
burns over 50 percent of her body. She endured
unspeakable pain and 41 operations as she was treated in Massachusetts General
Hospital. Her parents sacrificed everything
in helping their daughter to recover. Five years and nine months later, Lita was
again living a meaningful life. A clasp was
made for her hands which enable her to write and paint. She is now an artist. An
exhibit of her paintings opens at the
Hampshire House in Boston. [RF]
Ep 3.17 DuPont Show Of The Week: THE MISSING BANK OF RUPERT X. HUMPERDINCK
21Jun1964 NBC
written by Robert Van Scoyk
directed by Marc Daniels
starring
John McGiver ........ G.F. Springer
Gerald Hiken ......... Lionel Baker
Meg Myles ............. Louise Springer
Hiram Sherman ......... McKinley, the Bank President
Sada Thompson ........ Judy, McKinley's Secretary
Synopsis 1:
This episode presents a comedy about three people scrambling for a large sum of
money in an inactive bank account.
G.F. Springer has a penchant for marriage, railroads and booze. His ex-wife
Louise suspects he held out on her in the
divorce settlement. Twenty-five years earlier in a drunken state, he deposited
$40,000 in a bank in Hangover, North Dakota
under the pseudonym Rupert X. Humperdink. When he tries to withdraw the money,
the bank teller, Lionel Baker, who has been
stealing from the account, prevents him from doing so because he cannot prove he
is Humperdink. They agree to split the
money. When Louise arrives, Springer is arrested for the murder of Humperdink.
Lionel and Louise skip town. He tells her
that he put the money in a safe place but he cannot remember where. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
The most recent wife of oft married G.F. Springer is sure he's holding out some
cash on her divorce settlement - and he is.
But Springer stashed the nest egg away 25 years ago and can't remember what name
he invented at the time he deposited it,
or where the bank is. [RF]
Ep 3.18 DuPont Show Of The Week: HIGH WIRE --THE GREAT WALLENDAS
19Jul1964 NBC
written by Al Wasserman
directed by George Freedland
Narrator Frank McGee
appearing
Karl, Herman, Edith, Gunther, Jenny Wallenda.
Synopsis:
A behind-the-scenes look at the family of high-wire circus performers. The
program focuses on the aerialist family's
struggle to recreate the seven-person pyramid act, which once brought them to
the height of their fame and caused the
fall in Jan. 1962 in Detroit, Michigan, killing two members of the troupe and
permanently crippling one other. At their
winter training quarters in Sarasota, Florida, the Wallendas rehearse the act.
During one rehearsal, there is an accident
and all of the performers are injured. However, they decide to persevere and
successfully perform the act on Nov. 20, 1963
in Ft. Worth, Texas. Then they announce they will never repeat the performance.
[RF]
Ep 3.19 DuPont Show Of The Week: DON'T GO UPSTAIRS
16Aug1964 NBC
written by Roger O. Hirson
directed by Franklin Schaffner
starring
Connie Scott ............ Daisy
Mary Fickett ............ Mrs. Harper
Charles Aidman ............ Mr. Harper
James Daly .............. Mr. Simmons
Doug Chapin .......... Kip
Synopsis:
This episode presents an eerie drama of a 14-year-old girl trapped alone in her
home with an unknown terror. Mr. and Mrs.
Harper argue about firing a life-long employee of their business, Jason Simmons.
Daisy, their daughter, overhears their
argument, and here the fantasy begins. She hears a scuffle and thud. Her mother
tells her under no circumstances to go
upstairs. Daisy must bribe her brother Kip to stay in the kitchen. Simmons
arrives and Daisy manages to lock him in the
cellar. But he breaks down the door and goes upstairs. He tells Daisy that
something terrible has happened. She goes
upstairs and appears to see her murdered mother, but then the fantasy ends and
all is normal. [RF]
Ep 3.20 DuPont Show Of The Week: FLIGHT DECK
23Aug1964 NBC
written by Al Wasserman
directed by Al Wasserman
Narrator Frank McGee
Synopsis:
A typical day of the flight deck crew of the aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Franklin
D. Roosevelt. The ship and its crew of
3,600 men begin their tour of duty with the 6th fleet by sailing from
Jacksonville, Florida to the Mediterranean Sea.
A routine day for the flight deck crew begins at 5 am and continues until 2 am.
They launch aircraft with the steam-powered
catapults. Planes land on the rolling and pitching deck. Their duties are
fraught with dangers, such as blasts from jet
engines and a broken arresting gear wire lashing across the deck. A pilot dies
when his plane crashes into the sea.
There is a burial service. [RF]
Ep 3.21 DuPont Show Of The Week: AMBASSADOR AT LARGE
30Aug1964 NBC
written by Loring Mandel
directed by Franklin Schaffner
starring
Peter Falk .......... Danilo Diaz
Arthur Kennedy ....... Colin Ryan
Andrew Duggan ......... Ambassador Marshall
Oscar Homolka ......... Tomas Medina-Colon
Larry Hagman .......... Elias
Synopsis:
A drama about President Tomas Medina-Colon, a bloody tyrant, who rules the
imaginary Latin American country of Pais del Sol
with an iron fist. Arrayed against him is fiery Danilo Diaz, a rebel leader who
mouths sentiments of democracy and freedom.
When Diaz seeks political asylum at the U.S. Embassy, Colin Ryan must weigh his
potential. Medina-Colon threatens to close
the embassy. Elias, Ryan's assistant, learns that if Diaz replaced Medina-Colon,
he too would be a tyrant. At the execution
of five revolutionaries, Diaz pleads for help from the Americans. Ryan orders
that Diaz be gotten out of the country so he
will not become a martyr. Later they learn that the security forces killed Diaz.
[RF]
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