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Season
2 (NBC
Daytime) (1956-57)
Episode Guide
compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox
references:
TV Guide /
Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
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UCLA Film and Television Archive
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NBC Daytime (Daily) (Weekdays) (Monday - Friday)
2.01 [200] Matinee Theater: THE HOUSE ON 5TH AVENUE
28Aug1956
Written by Henry Misrock
starring
Karen Sharpe
Richard Crane
Synopsis:
A young girl is picked up for passing counterfeit bills and
tells a strange story of how she acquired them.
2.02 [201] Matinee Theater: YANKEE DOODLER
29Aug1956
Written by Allen Swift
starring
Kurt Kasznar
2.03 [202] Matinee Theater: THE PINK HIPPOPOTAMUS
30Aug1956
starring
Lawrence Dobkin
John Wengraf
2.04 [203] Matinee Theater: SEPTEMBER TIDE
31Aug1956
Adapted by Richard McCracken
From the play by Daphne du Maurier
Directed by Larry Schwab (Laurence Schwab Jr.)
Synopsis:
A mother and her son-in-law fall in love destroying her daughter
who is desperate to please her husband.
2.05 [204] Matinee Theater: ARE YOU LISTENING?
03Sep1956
starring
Conrad Janis
Jack Nicholson (8th of 9 performers billed, played a musician's son)
Synopsis:
A Dixieland trumpeter trades off his father's fame as a jazz virtuoso.
*Note: Jack Nicholson's first television appearance.
2.06 [205] Matinee Theater: THE LADY'S MAID'S BELL
04Sep1956
Teleplay by Robert Esson
Story by Edith Wharton
starring
Maureen O'Sullivan
Synopsis:
A devoted housemaid tries as a ghost what she failed to do as a
person - to resolve the complex love life of her mistress.
2.07 [206] Matinee Theater: ONE HUNDRED RED
CONVERTIBLES
05Sep1956
starring
John Baragrey
Synopsis:
A couple decide on divorcing when their teenage
daughter acts up.
2.08 [207] Matinee Theater: THE IVY CURTAIN
06Sep1956 (rerun 06Nov57)
Written by Anthony Spinner
Directed by Albert McCleery
starring
Gene Raymond ......... Conley
Josephine Hutchinson.. Agnes Harper
Addison Richards ..... Simons
Synopsis:
College officials want a local attorney to help whitewash a fatal hazing
incident. [RF]
2.09 [208] Matinee Theater: GRAMERCY GHOST
07Sep1956
Adapted by Richard McCracken
Based on a story by John Cecil Holm
Directed by Arthur Hiller
starring
Sarah Churchill
Synopsis:
A pretty young woman whose hand is sought by a strange
trio of rivals—two young men and a ghost.
2.10 [209] Matinee Theater: THE LOVERS
10Sep1956
Written by Marion C. Baker
starring
Mary Astor
Synopsis:
A young woman is taken by her mother on a trip to Spain
so that the daughter might forget her suitor.
2.11 [210] Matinee Theater: REACH FOR THE STARS
11Sep1956
Synopsis:
The story of a young chemist's dilemma between devotion to the
scientific side of his profession versus the
financially profitable side.
2.12 [211] Matinee Theater: I LIKE IT HERE
12Sep1956 (rerun 08Oct56, 26Oct56)
Written by A.B. Shiffrin
Directed by Sherman Marks
starring
John Hoyt ........... Sebastian
June Vincent ........ Matilda
Steven Geray ........ Willy
Joel Marston ........ Brad
William Allyn ....... David
Synopsis:
A European refugee finds freedom so agreeable that he tries, from his position
as a servant, to inject large doses of it into the lives of his employers. [RF]
2.13 [212] Matinee Theater: A QUESTION OF BALANCE
13Sep1956
starring
Paul Langton ........ Paul McLean
Helen Westcott ...... Kay
2.14 [213] Matinee Theater: MARRIAGE ROYAL
14Sep1956
Written by Robert Wallsten
starring
Jacques Sernas
Franklin Pangborn
Synopsis:
An exiled empress commits her son to a princess only to learn that
he secretly has long been in love with an actress.
[--] Matinee Theater: GREYBEARDS AND WITCHES
17Sep1956 (rerun from 01May56)
[--] Matinee Theater: THE AMATEUR
18Sep1956 (rerun from 26Jan56)
2.15 [214] Matinee Theater: MAD MONEY
19Sep1956
Synopsis:
The story of professional loafer and an amateur inventor who
accidentally
discover how to synthetically make gold.
2.16 [215] Matinee Theater: A LETTER FROM JOHNNY BRACK
20Sep1956
Written by Harold Callen
Synopsis:
The story of an unheroic World War II amputee who so completely
plays the role
of a heroic return that his fiancee leaves him in disgust.
2.17 [216] Matinee Theater: UNCLE HARRY
21Sep1956
Based on the play by Thomas Job
Synopsis:
A meek man is dominated by his two sisters.
2.18 [217] Matinee Theater: AT MRS. LELAND'S
24Sep1956
Written by Elizabeth Hart
Synopsis:
A young girl learns of life and love from a spinster school-teacher.
2.19 [218] Matinee Theater: THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR
25Sep1956
Written by Vera Blackwell
Synopsis:
A young woman whose happy marriage is upset by the ghostly
reappearance of a former soldier sweetheart, supposedly dead.
2.20 [219] Matinee Theater: ALUMNI REUNION
26Sep1956 (rerun 06Jun57)
Producer George M. Cahan
Written by Nicholas E. Baehr
Directed by Boris Sagal
Director of photography Lester Schorr
starring
Don Keefer
Constance Ford
Carol Veazie
Fredd Wayne
Benny Baker
Larry Kerr
Robert Karnes
Stafford Repp
Frank Kreig
Eddie Ryder
Synopsis:
A young man is trying to keep up pretenses even though the business
he inherited from his father is failing. He is furious when a practical joker
at the alumni
reunion asks him if he needs a job.
Synopsis:
A college graduate fails so miserably at taking over his father's business
that his wife tries to use a college reunion to find him a new career.
2.21 [220] Matinee Theater: SOUND OF FEAR
27Sep1956
starring
Jerry Paris
Synopsis:
A young playboy can only defend himself against a murder
charge only by baring
his father's past.
2.22 [221] Matinee Theater: LATE DATE
28Sep1956
Synopsis:
A grandmother with illusions of youthfulness and an aging son with
illusions of talent are both jarred into reality by one of grandma's old flames.
2.23 [222] Matinee Theater: PRIDE & PREJUDICE
01Oct1956
Adapted by Helene Hanff
Based on Jane Austen's novel
Directed by Sherman Marks
starring
Marcia Henderson
Anthony Dearden
Doris Lloyd
Joan Elan
Synopsis:
A mother is anxious to marry off her five daughters
and encounters numerous pitfalls.
2.24 [223] Matinee Theater: PEARLS OF SHEBA
02Oct1956
starring
Eva Gabor
Synopsis:
A Riviera based girl tries to help her millionaire boyfriend retrieve
a $300,000 pearl necklace from his fourth ex-wife.
[--] Matinee Theater: DAUGHTER OF THE
SEVENTH
03Oct1956 (rerun from 03May56)
[--] Matinee Theater: HEART OF A HUSBAND
04Oct1956 (rerun from 03Apr56)
[--] Matinee Theater: SPARE ROOM
05Oct1956 (rerun from 21May56)
[--] Matinee Theater: I LIKE IT HERE
08Oct1956 (rerun 26Oct56)(possibly postponed from 12Sep56)
[--] Matinee Theater: HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES
09Oct1956 (rerun from 06Apr56)
[--] Matinee Theater: ONE OF THE FAMILY
10Oct1956 (rerun 25Oct56)(first aired 12Apr56)
[--] Matinee Theater: THE HOLLOW WOMAN
11Oct1956 (rerun from 10Apr56)
[--] Matinee Theater: THE BABYLONIAN HEART
12Oct1956 (rerun from 20Apr56)
2.25 [224] Matinee Theater: THE STAMP CADDY
15Oct1956
starring
Anita Louise
Synopsis:
A schoolteacher long cured of kleptomania seems to
suffer a relapse.
2.26 [225] Matinee Theater: THE EGOIST
16Oct1956
Adapted by Richard McCracken
Story by George Meredith
Directed by Lamont Johnson
starring
Patrick Macnee
Joan Elan
Isobel Elsom
Edward Everett Horton
Synopsis:
An egotistical 18th-century Englishman repeatedly walks the
thin ice of first wooing then jilting his fiancees.
2.27 [226] Matinee Theater: THE FAMILY MAN
17Oct1956
Written by William McCleery
Synopsis:
A teenage daughter tries to provide her father with the
companionship she thinks he needs.
2.28 [227] Matinee Theater: SIGHT UNSEEN
18Oct1956
Written by Warner Law
Synopsis:
A beautiful young owner of a haunted castle undergoes
matchmaking by the ghosts.
2.29 [228] Matinee Theater: EYE OF THE STORM
19Oct1956 (rerun 07Jun57)
Written by Norman Jacob
Directed by Sherman Marks
starring
Marian Seldes ...... Stella
Ray Danton ......... Ben
Barbara Drew ....... Bess Carlson
Robert Karnes ...... Frank Wilson
Peggy McCay ........ Jane Wilson
Ron Greenway ....... Harper
Theodore Newton .... Mr. Wallace
Will J. White ...... Attendant
Synopsis:
A young backwoods bride is forced by violence from her
husband to flee to home of her jealous sister.
Synopsis 2:
A young wife leaves her husband, taking their child with her back to her family.
Then the old rivalry between her sister and herself starts up again.
*Note: Syndication airing on Cameo Theater 04Jun60.
2.30 [229] Matinee Theater: MAN IN SEVEN LEAGUE BOOTS
22Oct1956
Written by Anthony Spinner
starring
Lillian Roth
Synopsis:
A man hospitalized following an accident also suffers from trying to follow
in his father's footsteps. A kindly nurse tries
to help him live his own life. [RF]
2.31
[230] Matinee Theater: WOMAN ACROSS THE HALL
23Oct1956
Written by Robert Wallsten
Synopsis:
The friendliness of a middle-aged woman is rebuffed by the glamorous
new tenant across the hall in the apartment house. In spite of the cool reception,
she tries to learn all she can about this mysterious
woman. [RF]
2.32
[231] Matinee Theater: AND THEN THERE WERE THREE
24Oct1956
Written by S.V.P. Rand
Synopsis:
A stepmother, bent on finding out more about a prospective son-in-law,
finds herself faced with unexpected problems. [RF]
[--] Matinee Theater: ONE OF THE FAMILY
25Oct1956 (rerun or postponed from 10Oct56)
[--] Matinee Theater: I LIKE IT HERE
26Oct1956 (rerun or postponed from 08Oct56)
2.33 [232] Matinee Theater: SHAKE THE STARS DOWN
29Oct1956
Synopsis:
A charming young housewife struggles with finances to help her husband earn
his Ph.D. She quickly accepts a highly lucrative offer from a cosmetic firm to
pose as the mythical French namesake for their brand of make-up. [RF]
2.34 [233] Matinee Theater: HORSEPOWER
30Oct1956 (rerun 18Apr57 & 19Aug57)
starring
Dean Stockwell
Alex Gerry .......... Hiram
Walter Sande ........ Fred
Synopsis:
A teenage farm boy rebels against his father's old fashioned ways when
he is denied permission to use the family car for an important date. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
The rebellious son of an old-fashioned and tyrannical farmer come to heads. [RF]
2.35 [234] Matinee Theater: WITHOUT SANCTION
31Oct1956
Teleplay by Theodore Apstein
Based on the novel by Hans Kades
Synopsis:
A former medical student returns to Germany after a long interment
in Russia where he had performed hundreds of
operations.
[--] Matinee Theater: SAVROLA
31Oct1956 (postponed to 15Nov56)(first anniversary episode)
[--] Matinee Theater: GEORGE HAS A BIRTHDAY
01Nov1956 (rerun from 11Jun56 copyright date)
2.36 [235] Matinee Theater: THE OUTING
02Nov1956 (rerun 17Mar57)
written by Arnold Rabin
starring
Ann Doran ....... Bess
Tommy Kirk ....... Walter
Robert Karnes ....... Matt
Lydia Reed ....... Ruthie
Amzie Strickland ....... Sarah
Synopsis:
A young boy proves a disappointment to his athletic-minded father
because he prefers books to sports. [RF]
2.37 [236] Matinee Theater: THANK YOU, EDMONDO
05Nov1956
Written by Mac Shoub
Directed by Allan Buckhantz
starring
Warren Berlinger
Jay Novello
Synospsi:
Four impoverished Italian peasants become bitterly divided over whether
to plow a field that has just been returned to them or let it remain the
cemetery of a Canadian soldier who helped win it back for them from the Fascists.
*NOTE: This was the sixth and final Lutheran production.
2.38 [237] Matinee Theater: THE TELL-TALE HEART
06Nov1956
Adapted by William Templeton
Based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe
Directed by Boris Sagal
starring
John Barrymore, Jr.
John Carradine
John Abbott
Synopsis:
After killing a man, the murderer hears his victim's relentless
heartbeat until he himself cannot bear another moment.
*Note: First published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843.
2.39 [238] Matinee Theater: STRANGERS ON A
HONEYMOON
07Nov1956
Written by Robert Freud Rodgers
Synopsis:
A young couple are pushed into marriage by parents who have
over-sheltered them and discover on their honeymoon
that they have nothing in common.
2.40 [239] Matinee Theater: A DRAM OF POISON
08Nov1956
Adapted by Henry Misrock
Based on the novel by Charlotte Armstrong
Directed by Pace Woods
starring
John Hoyt
Mary Anderson
Synopsis:
When a man loses his position, his dignity and now his health,
there is no alternative when things are so hopeless or is there?
Just ask his sister-in-law and wife.
2.41 [240] Matinee Theater: THE SHINING HOUR
prod #56-1122
09Nov1956
Produced by Albert McCleery
Adapted by Richard McCracken
Based on a play by Keith Winter
Directed by Sherman O. Marks
Host: John Conte
starring
Richard Long
Doris Singleton
Peggy McCay
David Linden
Mariella Linden
Synopsis:
When the son of a Wisconsin family returns with his new wife,
things go terribly wrong when they find out she is a common dancer.
2.42 [241] Matinee Theater: LOVE, MARRIAGE & FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS
prod #13539
12Nov1956
Produced by Albert McCleery
Adapted by Kathleen and Robert Howard Lindsay
Based on a play by Alfred Brenner
Directed by Walter Grauman
starring
Virginia Vincent ....... Mim
Bart Burns ....... Dave
Joe di Reda ....... Harry
Rolfe Sedan ....... Gorsky
Paul Lambert ....... Joe
Synopsis:
A post office clerk dreams of striking out on his own as a professional
photographer but lacks the courage. He also lacks the courage
to propose to the girl he's been dating. [RF]
2.43 [242] Matinee Theater: STEP INTO DARKNESS
13Nov1956
Written by Elizabeth Denham
Synopsis:
During the war the British War Office assigns a woman to work with a French
contact to aid English soldiers and fliers in
escaping occupied France. [RF]
*Note: Based on actual events in Miss Elizabeth Denham's life.
2.44
[243] Matinee Theater: A CANDLE IN THE DARK
14Nov1956
Written by Paul Tabori
Synopsis:
The true story of Louis Braille, a blind Frenchman. Braille discovers a method
whereby those who cannot see will be able to learn to
read by touch. [RF]
2.45
[244] Matinee Theater: SAVROLA
15Nov1956 (postponed from 31Oct56)(first anniversary episode)
Adapted by Frank & Doris Hursley
Written by Winston Churchill
starring
Sarah Churchill ..... Lucile
Lamont Johnson ...... Savrola
Victor Jory ......... Molara
Geoffrey Toone
Synopsis:
The mythical country of Laurania is ruled by Molara, a ruthless and unpopular
dictator.
The people elect Savrola, their liberal leader, to act as emissary to the dictator and
protest his lawlessness. On this mission, Savrola meets and is enchanted by the
dictator's lovely young wife, Lucile. And with this turn of events, Molara sees a chance
to use his wife to discredit Savrola with the
people. [RF]
*Note: Sarah Churchill is the daughter of Winston Churchill.
2.46
[245] Matinee Theater: A TABLE SET AT NIGHT
16Nov1956
Written by Peter Berneis
Synopsis:
After many years a woman returns to the scene of a love affair.
She is disturbed when her daughter becomes involved in a romance
much in the same way her mother had years before. [RF]
2.47 [246] Matinee Theater: MADAME DE TREYMES
19Nov1956 NBC Mon
Adapted by William Templeton
Based on the short novel by Edith Wharton
Directed by Walter Grauman
starring
Lisa Ferraday
William Hopper
Mary Anderson
Synopsis:
A wealthy American courts a beautiful compatriot now living in Paris. Though she
is
attracted to him, she hesitates to seek a divorce from her present husband, a marquis,
because she fears he will reclaim custody of their
little son. [RF]
2.48
[247] Matinee Theater: THE PEOPLE VS. JOHN TARR
20Nov1956 NBC Tue
Written by Eunice Luccock Corfman
Synopsis:
A young musician returns to his home town as choir director. The only person who
does not resent the ambitious young man's methods is
the town's woman librarian. [RF]
2.49
[248] Matinee Theater: THE LOCATION OF ROYCEMORE COLLEGE
21Nov1956 NBC Wed
Written by Malcolm Shaw & Dan Blue
Synopsis:
For the first time in years a women's college breaks precedent by hiring a young
bachelor professor. Because of the scarcity of men in the vicinity of the college,
the professor becomes the center of attention not only for the students, but for
the women faculty members as well. [RF]
[--]
22Nov1956 NBC Thur pre-empted for Thanksgiving Day Pro Football Game
2.50
[249] Matinee Theater: DRACULA
23Nov1956
Adapted by Robert Esson
Based on Bram Stoker's novel
Directed by Lamont Johnson
Guest cast:
John Carradine........ Count Dracula
Lisa Daniels....... Lucy Weston
Synopsis:
A man pays a visit to the castle of the Count Dracula.
2.51 [250] Matinee Theater: CEASE FROM ANGER
26Nov1956
Written by Eugene Francis
2.52
[251] Matinee Theater: THE EMPTY NEST
27Nov1956
Written by Josephine Lawrence
Synopsis:
With their children married, a middle-aged couple hope to live alone,
independent of their offspring. One crisis leads to another until the parents
find themselves practically supporting both couples
and their newborn children. [RF]
2.53
[252] Matinee Theater: SPARE YOUR PITY
28Nov1956
Written by C. Stafford Dickens
Synopsis:
Suspects in the murder of a domineering old woman include her son,
her nurse, a tutor with a prison record and even her 11-year-old grandson. [RF]
*NOTE: Listed in TV-guide as Share Your Pity.
[---] Matinee Theater: HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES
29Nov1956 (rerun from 06Apr56)
2.54
[253] Matinee Theater: THE LAST LEAF
30Nov1956 (rerun 22Mar57)
Written by Ross Claiborne and Frances Banks
starring
Evelyn Varden
Sally Moffatt
Eve McVeagh
Synopsis:
An elderly matriarch in a small Southern town fears all her friends
will die before she does. She decides to hold her own funeral
while there are still enough alive to attend. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
An eccentric matriarch plans to hold her own funeral while
she and her cronies are still alive. [RF]
2.55 [254] Matinee Theater: THERESE
03Dec1956
Adapted by Emile Zola
Based on the Thomas Job story by Elizabeth Hart
Directed by Walter Grauman
Hosted by Ruth Conte (wife of regular host John Conte)
starring
John Conte
Constance Ford
Helen Wallace
Eric Sinclair
Synopsis:
Set in 19th century Paris, tells of a wife and lover who successfully dispose
of the woman's husband but then must battle their own consuming feelings of guilt.
2.56 [255] Matinee Theater: THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
04Dec1956
Based on Edith Wharton's 1905 novel "The House of Mirth".
Synopsis:
The story of an attractive woman who is torn between making a strategic
marriage into the wealthy circles she covets or following her heart
into the arms of the man she really loves.
2.57 [256] Matinee Theater: JULIE
05Dec1956
Written by David Davidson
starring
Dean Stockwell
Synopsis:
A teenage boy, unhappy because of a broken home,
gets into trouble for stealing a car. [RF]
2.58 [257] Matinee Theater: THE REFUGEE
06Dec1956
Teleplay Nicholas E. Baehr
Based on a story by Thelma Nurenberg
Synopsis:
A romance between a non-Jewish American veteran of World War II and
a half-Jewish concentration camp survivor have an unorthodox relationship.
2.59 [258] Matinee Theater: JENNY KISSED ME
07Dec1956
Based on a play by Jean Kerr
starring
Rudy Vallee .... Father Moynihan
Synopsis:
Father Moynihan finds himself face to face with the challenge
of the younger generation when Jenny the orphaned teenaged
niece of his housekeeper comes to live at the rectory.
2.60 [259] Matinee Theater: MIRACLE AT CARVILLE
10Dec1956
Based on the autobiography by Betty Martin
Synopsis:
The spoiled young daughter of a prominent southern family
discovers she is suffering from leprosy. [RF]
2.61
[260] Matinee Theater: THE UPPER HAND
11Dec1956
Written by Nathaniel Benchley
Synopsis:
When a little boy runs away from home, both parents assume he'll return by
nightfall.
When the youngster doesn't show up they blame
each other for his leaving. [RF]
2.62
[261] Matinee Theater: LOVE IS A LOCKSMITH
12Dec1956
Written by William McCleery
Synopsis:
A professor of psychology fails to understand why he has been unsuccessful
in using psychology to win his lady love. [RF]
2.63
[262] Matinee Theater: CAPTAIN BRASSBOUND'S CONVERSION
13Dec1956
Adapted & Directed by Boris Sagal
Based on the comedy by George Bernard Shaw
starring
Val Dufour
Patricia Cutts
Synopsis:
Captain Brassbound, a vindictive sea captain, swears revenge on a visiting
Englishman whom he blames for his mother's death. [RF]
2.64
[263] Matinee Theater: THE WISP END
14Dec1956 (rerun 27Jun57)
Written by Richard Wendley
starring
Gene Raymond ......... Edward Dudley
Will Hutchins ........ Robert Dudley
Karen Sharpe ......... Ellen Sidney
Jean Owens ........... Grace
Synopsis:
A father tries to help his son realize he should try for something
other than concert work as a profession. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
An aspiring violinist and his father disagree over the son's ability as
a musician. The son looks down on his father's career
as a builder.
Synopsis 3:
Ambition exceeds the talent of a pianist who vows to have
a career less mundane than his contractor dad's.
2.65 [264] Matinee Theater: PROMINENT CITIZENS
17Dec1956
Adapted by A.B. Shiffrin
Synopsis:
A wealthy industrialist offers to revive the dwindling industry in a small town.
In his ruthless
business dealings he threatens to ruin the town banker. The other prominent citizens
are forced to choose between the banker and the industry the town needs so badly. [RF]
2.66 [265] Matinee Theater: HEAD OF THE FAMILY
18Dec1956
Written by S.S. Schweitzer
Synopsis:
A man suffers a heart attack and must ask
for his incompetent brother's help with the business.
2.67 [266] Matinee Theater: THE PASSWORD
19Dec1956
Synopsis:
A young spinster's search for something that will move
her cautious suitor to propose marriage.
2.68 [267] Matinee Theater: LATE LOVE
20Dec1956
Based on the Broadway play by Rosemary Casey
Synopsis:
The story of an older girl's rebellion against a strict household that she
mistakenly thinks is being regimented by her outwardly stern grandmother.
2.69 [268] Matinee Theater: EUGENIE GRANDET
21Dec1956 (rerun 12Aug57)
Teleplay by Betty Ulius
Story by Honore de Balzac
starring
Peggy McCay .......... Eugenie Grandet
Dayton Lummis ........ Cesar Grandet
Val Dufour ........... Charles
Synopsis:
A young heiress becomes engaged to her cousin, her father is against this
union and insists that it can only end in tragedy. She finds out he's bankrupt.
*Syndication airing on Cameo Theater 05Mar1961.
2.70 [269] Matinee Theater: COLD CHRISTMAS
24Dec1956
Written by Theodore Apstein
Synopsis:
The story of a family Christmas reunion that is suddenly marred by
disclosure that one of the family's sons, a college basketball star,
has accepted a bribe to throw a game.
2.71 [270] Matinee Theater: LITTLE WOMEN
25Dec1956
Teleplay by Elaine Ryan
adapted from novel by Louisa May Alcott
starring
Judith Braun
Lili Gentle
Diane Jergens
Irene Hervey
Alexander Lockwood
Synopsis:
Set at the time of the Civil War, this is the well-known story of the
Marches of New England and their four daughters, particularly Jo who
strives to keep her sisters' reappearances from breaking up the family
only to find that she too, has fallen in love.
2.72 [271] Matinee Theater: SWEETHEART, WIFE OR MOTHER
26Dec1956
Written by Helene Hanff
Synopsis:
A drama of how a young boy's yuletide efforts to sell his last three beauty
boxes kindles the flame of love in a sweetheart, a wife, and a mother.
2.73 [272] Matinee Theater: SMILIN' THRU
27Dec1956
Written by Richard McCracken
Story by Allan Langdon Martin
Directed by Sherman Marks
starring
Margaret O'Brien
Patrick O'Neal
Richard Erdman
Liam Sullivan
Synopsis:
John has lead a solitary life when he is asked to care for a friend's
niece Kathleen. But when Kathleen falls in love with the son of the man
responsible for John's loved ones death he steps in to severe their relationship.
2.74 [273] Matinee Theater: STRONG MEDICINE
28Dec1956 (rerun 10Jul57)
Written by William Mourne
starring
Patrick O'Neal
Myron Healy
Joe Maross
Mary Webster
Synopsis:
The inheritance of frontier territory prompts an Easterner's struggle with
settlers.
2.75 [274] Matinee Theater: EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE
31Dec1956
Written by Dan Beaumont
Synopsis:
A confirmed bachelor finally agrees to marry the girl he has
been going with for several years. After he takes the fatal step, however,
he finds he has to deal with mother-in-law problems. [RF]
01Jan1957 Matinee Theater was pre-empted for the Cotton Bowl
2.76
[275] Matinee Theater: MISS MORISSA
02Jan1957
Adapted by Helene Hanff
From Mari Sandoz's novel
Synopsis:
A young woman is accepted as a frontier doctor, but rejected by the man she
loves.
She marries, on the rebound, a man of dubious
character. [RF]
2.77
[276] Matinee Theater: THE SCANDALOUS PRIEST
03Jan1957
Written by Frank and Doris Hursley
Synopsis:
In a small South American country, a parish priest sides
with the peasants against a landowner. [RF]
2.78
[277] Matinee Theater: DARK VICTORY
04Jan1957
Written by George Brewer Jr.
Directed by Walter Grauman
starring
Patricia Barry
John Baragrey
Bertram Block
Synopsis:
A woman falls in love and marries a doctor. She develops a
brain tumor which changes the course of her life. [RF]
*Note Patricia Barry received an EMMY nomination for her performance.
2.79 [278] Matinee Theater: THE LONELY LOOK
07Jan1957
Written by Herman Raucher
Synopsis:
A young but deaf sculptor vies with a glib comedian for the love of a dancing
girl.
2.80 [279] Matinee Theater: THE SUDDEN TRUTH
08Jan1957
Written by Charles Cagle
Synopsis:
A widow travels to France ten years after her boy was killed in
the war, to seek the last man to see him alive.
2.81 [280] Matinee Theater: THE MAN IN HALF-MOON
STREET
09Jan1957
Written by Kathleen Lindsay & Robert Howard Lindsay
starring
John Baragrey
Synopsis:
A strange painter, living in an area where murder has been committed
regularly even 10 years, who plans mysterious surgery in which
he will exchange glands with an ex-convict.
2.82 [281] Matinee Theater: THE HEX
10Jan1957
Written by Gene Feldman
Synopsis:
A motherless 12-year-old boy who turns to a voodoo
woman to dispel his father's despondency.
2.83 [282] Matinee Theater: IF THIS BE ERROR
11Jan1957
Synopsis:
The story of a woman who tries to keep her past from the family of her new
husband.
2.84 [283] Matinee Theater: ON THE TRAIL OF THE KLINGSFELD
14Jan1957
Written by Philip Kalfur
Synopsis:
The many misadventures of a New Englander decide whether to take
over the family insurance business or raise horses on a Western ranch.
2.85 [284] Matinee Theater: HERE WE ARE
15Jan1957
Synopsis:
Four grown children fight back against the domination of their meddling mother.
2.86 [285] Matinee Theater: ARMS AND THE MAN
16Jan1957
Based on the George Bernard Shaw novel
Directed by Alan Cooke
starring
Marcia Henderson
Fred Beir
Peter Hansen
Mary Scott
Norma Varden
Synopsis:
Taking place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War, Raina who is
engaged to Sergius, falls for a soldier she hides during the war.
2.87 [286] Matinee Theater: HOME IS THE HUNTER
17Jan1957
Written by Howard Berk
Synopsis:
A flashy young man returns to the small town he had fled and the broken family
that he felt rejected him in "Home Is the Hunter".
2.88 [287] Matinee Theater: MADAM AVA
18Jan1957
Synopsis:
Two sisters, a spinster and a worldly carnival fortune teller each decide to
adopt the other's way of life.
2.89 [288] Matinee Theater: THE CUTTING
21Jan1957
Synopsis:
A sensitive 11-year-old boy's father is ashamed of him because of his failure to
develop as an athlete.
2.90 [289] Matinee Theater: NIGHT TRAIN TO CHICAGO
22Jan1957
written by Franklin Barton
Synopsis:
An ailing boy and his doctor and a captured criminal handcuffed to a police
officer are among eight persons thrown together by circumstances.
2.91 [290] Matinee Theater: THIS LANGUAGE CALLED LOVE
23Jan1957
Written by Barbara Davidson
Synopsis:
An able woman fights the battle of career vs. motherhood.
2.92 [291] Matinee Theater: THE THIRTEENTH CRYPT
24Jan1957
Written by Anthony Spinner
Synopsis:
The spoiled scion of an old French family strives to cover his impassioned
murder of his American wife by hiding her body in the thirteenth crypt.
2.93 [292] Matinee Theater: MR. PIRN PASSES BY
25Jan1957
Story by A.A. Milne
starring
Edward Everett Horton ..... Mr. Pirn
Synopsis:
The Marden family welcome quaint elderly gentleman Mr. Pirn to their
country home, unaware that the Marden family have a few skeletons in their closets.
[--] Matinee Theater: DAUGHTER OF THE SEVENTH
28Jan1957 (rerun from 03May56)
2.94 [293] Matinee Theater: ANYTHING FOR A LAUGH
29Jan1957
Written by Eva Greene
Story by Doris Gilbert
Synopsis:
A habitual practical joker's crowning gag leads to a murder charge against an
innocent person.
2.95 [294] Matinee Theater: THE REALMS OF GOLD
30Jan1957
written by Howard Lawrence Davis
Synopsis:
A poor farm boy's yearning for a college education brings a new life outlook to
his hard-pressed father.
2.96 [295] Matinee Theater: DEACON OF OAK RIDGE
31Jan1957
Synopsis:
An atomic physicist upon learning that his research has contributed to the
incineration of Japanese cities turns from laboratory to pulpit.
2.97 [296] Matinee Theater: ACCENT ON YOUTH
01Feb1957
Play by Samson Raphaelson
Synopsis:
A middle-aged playwright finds that his romance with his young secretary
parallels his latest dramatic work but complicates his personal life.
2.98 [297] Matinee Theater: THREE KIDS
04Feb1957
Written by Martin Donovan
starring
Julius LaRosa (both roles)
Synopsis:
Things become extremely mixed up when two men, one a singer, the other a
look-alike are pursued by a girl who worships the singer.
*NOTE: Singer Julius LaRosa made his dramatic acting debut in this episode.
2.99 [298] Matinee Theater: FRANKENSTEIN
05Feb1957 (rerun 07Oct57)
Producer Albert McCleery
Teleplay by Robert Esson
Based on the novel by Mary Shelley
starring
Primo Camera ......... The Monster (Primo Carnera in news article)
Synopsis:
The tale of a scientist who creates a living man — a huge and revolting monster
who proves to be his creator's undoing.
*Note: Producer Albert McCleery decided that when a fellow needs a fiend,
he can hardly do better than ex-Heavyweight Champion Primo Camera (6 ft. 6 in., 270 lbs.).
Camera, 50, wore elevator shoes, a snowsuit, and an unhealthy complexion that
ranged from green to mauve, depending on the receiver's color-knob. Out of a
wealth of dramatic experience as a wrestler, he emitted horrible noises and
(unlike the film version) even some dialogue. [RF]
2.100 [299] Matinee Theater: THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN
06Feb1957
Written by Irving Richin
Synopsis:
A young man recognizes a FBI reward poster as a friend of his and is tempted to
turn him in.
2.101 [300] Matinee Theater: ONE
07Feb1957
written by David Karp
Synopsis:
A college professor is striving for free expression during a time when the state
is supreme and any individuality has been stamped out.
2.102 [301] Matinee Theater: THE IMPORTANCE OF
BEING EARNEST
08Feb1957
Written by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Alan Cooke
starring
Hermione Gingold ........... Lady Bracknell
Roger Moore
Roberta Haynes
Philip Tonge
Synopsis:
The formidable Lady Bracknell is quite willing that Algernon shall marry
Cecily and her fortune. Jack, however, as Cecily's guardian, refuses his
consent unless
Lady Bracknell permits his marriage to Gwendolyn. [RF]
2.103 [302] Matinee Theater: THE BRAT'S HOUSE
11Feb1957
Written by Roy Hargrave
Synopsis:
In a Korean battle five Americans become detached from their company. They take
over a hut in which they find and capture two North Korean soldiers, and an
orphaned youngster. The boy soon becomes their mascot.
Synopsis 2:
A Korean orphan boy risks his life for stranded American soldiers.
2.104 [303] Matinee Theater: THE MYSTERIOUS MR.
TODD
12Feb1957
Story by George Sumner Albee
Synopsis:
A tall, gaunt guest in a present-day Catskill Mountain
boarding house intervenes in a town crisis and a three-sided romance in "The
Mysterious Mr. Todd".
2.105 [304] Matinee Theater: A CASE OF PURE FICTION
13Feb1957
Adapted by Jerome Ross
Synopsis:
A well-known woman mystery writer believes she has found the way to commit
the perfect murder. Unknown to her, a greedy nephew, who stands to inherit
her money, plans to make her the victim of her own ingenuity. [RF]
2.106 [305] Matinee Theater: THE MASTER BUILDER
14Feb1957
Based on the story by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Sherman Marks
starring
Oskar Homolka ........ Halvard Solness
Joan Tetzel
Synopsis:
Halvard Solness a brilliant architect and builder, becomes moody and afraid
of life as he grows old. Hilda a girl who represents the younger generation
comes into his life at this point and inspires him to change his attitude. [RF]
2.107 [306] Matinee Theater: THE OTHERS
15Feb1957 (rerun 30Sep57)
Adapted by Michael Dyne
Based on a
story by Henry James
starring
Sarah Churchill ....... Nina Varden
Geoffrey Toone
Synopsis:
The governess of two motherless children believes they are possessed
by the spirits of two deceased servants. [RF]
2.108 [307] Matinee Theater: THE REMARKABLE MR.
JEROME
19Feb1957 (rerun 08Jul57)
Teleplay by Helene Hanff
Story by Anita Leslie
Synopsis:
The true story of beautiful Jennie Jerome's courtship by Lord Randolph Churchill
over objections of her father, a celebrated American lawyer and Sir Winston's
father, the Duke of Marlborough.
Synopsis2:
The story of the romance of Jennie Jerome, an American girl, who fell in love
with the son of the Duke of Marlborough, Lord Randolph
Churchill.
Against the wishes of their parents, the young sweethearts plan to marry.
[RF]
Based on the biography by Anita Leslie of the parents of Sir Winston Churchill.
2.109
[308] Matinee Theater: BOBBIE
20Feb1957
Synopsis:
A teenage tomboy finds out its fun to be feminine.
2.110
[309] Matinee Theater: THE HICKORY LIMB
21Feb1957
Adapted by John Van Druten
Story by Meade Roberts
Synopsis:
A teenage daughter tries to effect a reconciliation between her divorced
parents.
The father is a famous author who has never had time for his family. [RF]
2.111 [310] Matinee Theater: THE BRIDGE
22Feb1957
Adapted by Joseph Caldwell
Story by Narda Stokes
Directed by Alan Hanson
starring
Natalie Trundy
Fred Beir
Synopsis:
A 15-year-old boy who suffers from lack of attention tries to get attention
from his mother by showing off a watch he has stolen. [RF]
2.112 [311] Matinee Theater: THE SERPENT'S TOOTH
25Feb1957
Written by B.M. Atkinson Jr.
starring
Bill Goodwin
Johnny Crawford
Synopsis:
A harassed father tries to teach his young sons responsibility by
advising them to earn the money to repair their bicycles. [RF]
2.113 [312] Matinee Theater: VOYAGE TO MANDOK
26Feb1957
Written by Peter Barry
Synopsis:
An investigator in disguise arrives in a small country in the Middle East to look
into discrepancies in the reports of the manager of an oil refinery. [RF]
2.114 [313] Matinee Theater: THE DAY BEFORE THE WEDDING
27Feb1957
Written by Anthony Spinner
starring
Frank McHugh
Synopsis:
A young girl must contend with a storm of family disputes the day before her wedding. [RF]
2.115 [314] Matinee Theater: QUEEN OF SPADES
28Feb1957
Adapted by Michael Dyne
Based on the story by the great 19th century Russian poet Alexander S. Pushkin
Synopsis:
A young army officer meets with tragedy when he attempts to force the
secret of winning at cards from an aging countess. [RF]
2.116 [315] Matinee Theater: SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE
01Mar1957
Written by Paul Vincent Carroll
starring
Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Synopsis:
Canon Skerritt finds it impossible to believe that his servant
girl has received visitations from St. Brigid. [RF]
2.117 [316] Matinee Theater: YOU TOUCHED ME
04Mar1957
Written by Tennessee Williams & Donald Windham
Based on Tennessee Williams' play
starring
Oskar Homolka ............. Capt. Cornelius Rockley
John Drew Barrymore ....... Hadrian
Joan Tetzel ............... Emmie
Synopsis:
Captain Cornelius Rockley was retired from the sea after a spectacular binge in
the Caribbean.
The good captain, under the influence of a certain amount of rum, foundered his ship
and lost his skipper's certificate. Since that time, he's lived with his self-righteous spinster
sister Emmie, and his shy and gentle daughter Matilda. The captain doesn't like to see his
daughter turning into a younger replica of Emmie, but the older woman's tyrannical rule
and self-pitying attitude keep him from doing much about it. The his foster son Hadrian
returns for a short visit and the captain sees a
ray of hope. [RF]
2.118
[317] Matinee Theater: THE HEMLOCK CUP
05Mar1957
Adapted by Richard McCracken
Based on a story by Edward Hunt
Directed by Alan Hanson
starring
James Dunn
Peg Hillias
Douglas Rodgers
Cathy Downs
Synopsis:
An elderly schoolteacher disapproves of the system of standard education used in
his town.
He submits a report to the City Council, but it
is violently rejected by the members. [RF]
2.119
[318] Matinee Theater: PAPA'S WIFE
06Mar1957
Adapted by Elizabeth Hart
from the novel by Thyra Ferre Bjorn
Synopsis:
A Lapland preacher's pretty young housekeeper falls in love with him. Because he
doesn't return her affection, she runs away to New
York to begin a new life. [RF]
2.120
[319] Matinee Theater: THE PRIZEWINNER
07Mar1957
Written by Jerome Ross
starring
Mona Freeman
Synopsis:
A girl who thinks of herself as being plain wins a two-week cruise for two. Not
wanting to
go alone, she invites a popular girl from her office to keep her company. But once aboard ship,
she is left alone while her friend seeks
entertainment with a handsome fellow passenger. [RF]
2.121
[320] Matinee Theater: DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
08Mar1957 (rerun 16Aug57)
Teleplay by Robert Esson
Based on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel
Directed by Allan Buckhantz
starring
Douglass Montgomery ... Henry Jekyll/Mr. Hyde
Lisa Daniels ...... Polly Bannon
Patrick Macnee .... Peter
Lumsden Hare ...... Poole
Chet Stratton ..... Utterson
Synopsis:
A highly respected London physician is very much interested in scientific
research.
He chances upon the discovery of a drug which, when he takes it, transforms him
into a repulsive and evil killer. Another dose of the drug returns him to the
personality and body of the gentle doctor. [RF]
[--] Matinee Theater: THE CAREFREE TREE
11Mar1957 (rerun from 30Apr56)
[--] Matinee Theater: BREAD UPON THE WATERS
12Mar1957 (rerun from 28Mar56)
[--] Matinee Theater: THE OUTING
13Mar1957 (rerun from 02Nov56)
2.122 [321] Matinee Theater: YESTERDAY'S MAGIC
14Mar1957
Teleplay by Michael Dyne
Based on a story by Pamela F. Service
Synopsis:
When Evaline's husband is sent to prison, she marries another man.
Later, the first husband returns. [RF]
2.123 [322] Matinee Theater: TONGUE OF SILVER
15Mar1957
Written by Michael Dyne
Directed by Sherman Marks
starring
Robert Horton ....... The Traveller
Marcia Henderson .... Miss Miller
J.M. Kerrigan ....... Farmer Finney
Juney Ellis ......... Miss Prynn
Marjorie Bennett .... Mrs. Mappin
William Fawcett ..... Willy Figg
Beryl Machin ........ Lady Malmoney
Claire Meade ........ Mother Sixpence
Synopsis:
The small and obscure town of Ballykilty in Ireland is visited by a mysterious stranger.
The man offers to sell the townsfolk shares of heaven with
proceeds going to the church in the town. [RF]
2.124 [323] Matinee Theater: THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM
18Mar1957
Written by Arthur Arent
starring
Victor Jory ......... Edward Hicks
Synopsis:
Victor Jory stars as Edward Hicks, artist. In the factual story of the life
of a man who started out bad, became a minister and ultimately a famed painter.
2.125 [324] Matinee Theater: THE NINETEENTH HOLE
19Mar1957 (rerun 23Jul57)
Adapted by Warner Law
Story by Frank Craven
starring
Wally Cox .......... Vernon Chase
Betty Lynn ......... Emmy Chase
Tommy Farrell ...... George Hill
John Craven ........ Trumbull
William E. Green .... Colonel Hammer
Synopsis:
Emmy Chase realizes that her husband has time for only
one thing, golf. She decides to do something about it. [RF]
2.126 [325] Matinee Theater: WEDDING OF THE FAMILY
20Mar1957
Synopsis:
A confirmed bachelor tries to deflect a pretty girl's love to his best friend.
[--] Matinee Theater: MR. KRANE
21Mar1957 (rerun from 03Jan56)
[--] Matinee Theater: THE LAST LEAF
22Mar1957 (rerun from 30Nov56)
2.127 [326] Matinee Theater: THE WAYS OF COURAGE
25Mar1957 Mon
Written by Will Lorin
Synopsis:
An American atomic scientist goes to occupied Vienna to start
tracing a missing colleague behind the Iron Curtain.
2.128 [327] (previous number)
2.124 [328] (new number)
Matinee Theater: JOURNEY INTO DARKNESS [Updated Jan 2020-RF]
26-Mar-1957 NBC Tue (rerun 24Jun58 & 07Mar58)
Teleplay by Theodore Apstein / Based on a story by Selwyn James
Directed by Walter Grauman
Host John Conte
starring
Skip Homeier ....... Mitchell Dayton
Peggy McCay ....... Irene Dayton
Peter Whitney ...... Lt. Burroughs
Lynette Bernay ..... Bettie
Strother Martin .... Phil
Donald Gamble ...... Bobbie
Jerry Hartleben ..... Tim
Ruth March ..... Dr. Denham
Gretchen Thomas .... Mrs. Brannigan
Ruth Swanson ..... Clerk
Russell Whitney ..... Druggist
Synopsis:
After years of carrying the responsibilities of two jobs, Mitchell Dayton has a
nervous breakdown.
Synopsis 2:
A hard-working mechanic is knocked unconscious during a holdup and wakes up with
amnesia.
Synopsis 3:
Young hardworking mechanic, father of two children, suffers a 'headblow in a
holdup
and loses all memory of who he is in 'Journey Into Darkness."
Synopsis 4:
An amnesia victim who laboriously traces his own identity after his memory loss
from a blow
on the head, but psychiatrists tell him it was years of work in dual jobs trying
to earn money to
"keep up with the Joneses" that prepared the ground for his illness..
2.129 [328] Matinee Theater: BARRICADE AT THE BIG BLACK
27Mar1957 (rerun 26Aug57)
Teleplay by Anthony Spinner
starring
Andrew Duggan
Mary LaRoche
Richard Crenna ...... James
George Gilbreth ..... Egan
Synopsis:
An embittered middle-aged Army major takes out a life-long grudge
against the Indians, who massacred his family. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
An Army major (Andrew Duggan) tries to take out a lifelong grudge
against the Indians who massacred his family. [RF]
*Note: Syndication airing on Cameo Theater 12Mar61.
2.130 [329] Matinee Theater: THE VICARIOUS YEARS
28Mar1957
Teleplay by Peggy Lamson
Based on the novel by John Van Druten
starring
Roddy McDowall
Synopsis:
A young man searches for the meaning of life
and begins a writing career in England.
2.131 [330] Matinee Theater: THE FIRST YEAR
29Mar1957
Based on the Broadway play by Frank Craven
starring
Peggy King
Darryl Hickman
Eddie Foy Jr.
Synopsis:
A small-town girl who marries one of her two suitors only to have the other try
to avenge his loss.
2.132 [331] Matinee Theater: END OF A ROPE
01Apr1957 (rerun 24Mar58 & 27Jun58)
Written by Sheldon Stark
Directed by Alan Hanson
starring
George Peppard .... Kincaid
Parley Baer ....... Oldham
John Barrymore II (John Drew Barrymore)
Susan Oliver
Strother Martin
Harvey Stephens
Norma Moore
Synopsis 1:
In a small Arizona mining town, enraged townsfolk refuse to believe a stranger.
He claims that the man they think committed a
murder was 60 miles away at the time of the killing. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
A stranger claims that the man the townspeople think committed a murder was
miles
away at the time of the killing.
Synopsis3:
Enraged townsfolk won't believe a stranger's claim that he was miles away at the
time of a murder. [RF]
*NOTE: Syndication airing on Cameo Theater 11Apr64. [RF]
2.133 [332] Matinee Theater: WE WON'T BE ANY TROUBLE
02Apr1957
Teleplay by George Lowther
Story by John & Ward Hawkins
starring
Patty McCormick
Synopsis:
The four O'Brien children, ages two to 10, have recently lost both parents.
They are sent to stay with a distant relative, Mrs. Johnson. [RF]
2.134 [333] Matinee Theater: THE DAUGHTER OF MATA HARI
03Apr1957 (rerun 03Oct57)
Teleplay by Alvin Boretz
starring
Rita Moreno
Anna Maria Alberghetti
Synopsis:
A young girl is shocked to learn that her mother was the infamous Mata Hari. [RF]
2.135 [334] Matinee Theater: TALK YOU OF KILLING
04Apr1957
Written by Joe Barry
starring
Roddy McDowall
Synopsis:
A young co-ed is warned by her roommate against dating a handsome
young professor. He is suspected of murder. [RF]
2.136 [335] Matinee Theater: THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
05Apr1957
Based on the play Lawrence Langner & Armina Marshall
Langner
Synopsis:
A Hessian soldier, escaping from the British, makes his way to the Connecticut
farm of Aaron Kirkland. There he falls in love with Prudence Kirkland and she with him,
even though she's already engaged to Sheriff Thaddeus Jennnings. [RF]
2.137 [336] Matinee Theater: WUTHERING HEIGHTS
08Apr1957
Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier
starring
Tom Tryon ......... Heathcliffe
Johnny Crawford ..... Heathcliffe (as a child)
Reba Waters ......... Cathy (as a child)
*NOTE: Different cast than the 1955 version
.2.138 [337] Matinee Theater: THE LONG DISTANCE
09Apr1957
Teleplay by George Lowther
Based on the play by Reita Lambert
Synopsis:
A woman infatuated with a wealthy man impersonates
a French maid in order to get closer to him.
2.139 [338] Matinee Theater: POINT OF CLEARING
10Apr1957
Written by Robert E. Thompson
Synopsis:
A British soldier has deserted to the tropics, he falls in love with the
daughter of the man who is binding him to a life of crime.
2.140 [339] Matinee Theater: THE SPORT
11Apr1957
Written by Helene Hanff
Synopsis:
Two sisters vie for the attention of an adventurer.
2.141 [340] Matinee Theater: THE FLASHING STREAM
12Apr1957
Play by Charles Morgan
Synopsis:
A boy and girl each a brilliant young scientist are thrown together to
develop a top secret project on a remote island.
2.142 [341] Matinee Theater: THREAD THAT RUNS SO TRUE
15Apr1957
Produced by Albert McCleery
Directed by Lamont Johnson
Written by Harold Gast
starring
George Peppard ..... Jesse Stuart
Synopsis:
Jesse, a Kentucky farm boy begins his new career teaching at the local
rural school, a small one-room building in poor state of disrepair.
2.143 [342] Matinee Theater: JAMIE PICKS A WIFE
16Apr1957
Written by Peggy Phillips
Synopsis:
An outspoken young woman seeks a dowager's approval of her
intended marriage to
one of the stern old woman's grandsons.
2.144 [343] Matinee Theater: BLIND MAN'S BLUFF
17Apr1957
Written by Richard Wendley
Synopsis:
An accidental blindness threatens to disrupt the recent
marriage of a young
college professor.
[--] Matinee Theater: HORSEPOWER
18Apr1957 (rerun from 30Oct56)
2.145 [344] Matinee Theater: THE STORY OF JOSEPH
19Apr1957
Teleplay by Howard Rodman
starring
Brett Halsey ........ Joseph
Forrest Taylor ...... Jacob
[--] Matinee Theater: WINTER IN APRIL
22Apr1957 (rerun from 27Mar56)
[--] Matinee Theater: THE SPARE ROOM
23Apr1957 (rerun from 21May56)
2.146 [345] Matinee Theater: THE PUSHOVER
24Apr1957
Written by Harriet Frank Jr.
Directed by Sherman Marks
starring
Marshall Thompson
Kathleen Crowley
Les Tremayne
Synopsis:
A pretty cub reporter is assigned to interview a mysterious
author whom nobody has ever seen.
2.147 [346] Matinee Theater: ASHES IN THE WIND
25Apr1957
Written by Mac Shoub
Directed by Walter Grauman
starring
Edward Binns
Russell Conway
Vic Morrow
Claire Meade
Synopsis:
An elderly matriarch is on death's bed and her family
struggles to make ends meet financially.
2.148 [347] Matinee Theater: A HAT, A COAT, A GLOVE
26Apr1957
Teleplay by Luther Reed & Monique Jean
Based on Wilhelm Speyer's play
Synopsis:
A woman's estranged husband defends her boyfriend against a murder charge.
2.149 [348] Matinee Theater: THE PROFESSIONAL
29Apr1957
Written by Stan Cutler
Synopsis:
Story of a onetime golf champ, now winless for years whose
home country club
stops paying his way in tournament competition.
2.150 [349] Matinee Theater: GUARDIANS OF THE TEMPLE
30Apr1957
Synopsis:
Two men, after years of study, must face a compassionless
professor in their
exams for the coveted Ph. D. degree.
2.151 [350] Matinee Theater: THE SHORT SAFARI OF B'WANA BEN
01May1957
Written by Nicholas E. Baehr
Synopsis:
A middle-aged businessman who has never vacationed farther away
than the nearby
seaside resort, decides to shoot the works on an African safari.
2.152 [351] Matinee Theater: CHURCH ON MONDAY
02May1957
Written by Marjorie Adler
Synopsis:
A supervisor is given a bit of information that could remove
one of his aides as a competitor for a choice promotion.
2.153 [352] Matinee Theater: THE GIOCONDA SMILE
03May1957
Teleplay Anthony Spinner
Story by Aldous Huxley
Directed by Boris Sagal
starring
Maureen O'Sullivan
Tom Helmore
Synopsis:
Henry Maurier is smitten by the young Doris, but is that enough motive
to murder his invalid wife. Dr. Libbard a family friend doesn't think so
and finds the true murderer just before Maurier is about to be executed.
2.154 [353] Matinee Theater: SHOW OF STRENGTH
06May1957
Written by Herman J. Epstein
starring
Kerwin Matthews
Synopsis:
A lone newcomer to a western town speaks out against the power wielded by
a ruthless rancher. When the man is forced to shoot one of the rancher's
henchmen in self-defense, he finds himself on trial in a kangaroo court. [RF]
2.155 [354] Matinee Theater: MAKE-BELIEVE AFFAIR
07May1957
Adapted by George Lowther
Story by Robert Standish
starring
Francis Lederer
Phyllis Avery
Richard Long
Synopsis:
A secretary, planning a vacation on the Riviera, writes to the head of a travel
agency with an unusual request. She wants a reliable man to accompany her to the tourist
spots and help her spend the money she has saved for the vacation! [RF]
2.156 [355] Matinee Theater: HYMN TO THE DEDICATED
08May1957
Synopsis:
A man's genius is overshadowed by the ambitions of his friend.
The friend then falls in love with and marries his girl. [RF]
2.157 [356] Matinee Theater: THURSDAY'S CHILD
09May1957
Adapted by Ellen McCracken
Story by Mary George Kochos
Synopsis:
A 12 year old resents the fact her widower-father plans to remarry.
She and her younger brother plan to stay away on the day of the wedding. [RF]
2.158 [357] Matinee Theater: BIG HEARTED HERBERT
10May1957
Adapted for TV by Kay Arthur
Story by Sophie Kerr & Anna Steese Richardson
Synopsis:
Herbert Kainess is a plain man, a fact which he tells his family repeatedly.
Convinced that his family must also be plain, he makes their lives miserable
with his selfish demands. Finally his wife decides to do something. [RF]
2.159 [358] Matinee Theater: EMBATTLED MAIDEN
13May1957
Teleplay by Betty Ulius
Adaptation of a biography by Giraud Chester of Anna Dickinson,
19th century
oratorical prodigy, will start, the week.
Synopsis:
This is the story of Miss Dickinson's rise from obscurity to fame as the
first woman ever to address Congress and then of her descent
to ignoble confinement in an asylum.
2.160 [359] Matinee Theater: THE MIDDLE-AGED
FRESHMAN
14May1957
Teleplay by Robert J. Shaw
Based on a short story by Samson Raphaelson (author of "Skylark" and "Susan and
God")
starring
Will Rogers Jr.
Synopsis:
A druggist whose dream of being-able to afford to go back to school
comes true,
but falls short of its imagined perfection.
2.161 [360] Matinee Theater: THE BEST FRIEND IN TOWN
15May1957
Written by Theodore Apstein
Synopsis:
An ambitious assistant district attorney vows to expose the beloved
town banker, who has been loosely doling out money for years.
2.162 [361] Matinee Theater: JANE EYRE
16May1957 (rerun 08Oct57)
Teleplay by Robert Esson
Based on the
Classic novel by Charlotte Bronte
Directed by Lamont Johnson
starring
Joan Elan ............ Jane Eyre
Patrick MacNee ....... Rochester
Isobel Elsom ......... Mrs. Fairfax
Marcia Henderson
Tita Purdom
Jeanne Gerson
Jeffeson Searles
Theoni Trangas
Synopsis:
When Jane Eyre (Joan Elan) becomes governess to the ward
of a rich Englishman, she encounters some strange happenings.
Based on Charlotte Bronte's classic novel. [RF]
2.163 [362] Matinee Theater: THE STARMASTER
17May1957
starring
Victor Jory
Marianne Stewart
Raymond Bailey
Synopsis:
There's strong opposition to a general's tactics in
handling factory production-line problems.
2.164 [363] Matinee Theater: AFTERMATH
20May1957
Teleplay by Howard Berk
starring
George Peppard
Synopsis:
An American soldier encounters hatred from his former neighbors
when he is stationed in the German town in which he was born.
2.165 [364] Matinee Theater: A GUEST AT THE EMBASSY
21May1957
Written by Jerome Ross
Synopsis:
An ambassador's daughter who learns that her new fiance is her girl friend's old
fiance.
2.166 [365] Matinee Theater: SECOND HAND LOVER
22May1957 (rerun 11Oct57)
Written by George Lowther
Synopsis:
A successful author vows to marry the first girl with love strong
enough to start his father's old clock running again.
2.167 [366] Matinee Theater: THE AVENGING OF ANNE LEETE
23May1957
Producer Albert McCleery
Adapted by Robert Esson
Story by Marjorie Bowen
Directed by Lamont Johnson
starring
Roger Moore
Lisa Daniels
Synopsis:
A man is caught in a mystery by the portrait of a dead woman he once loved.
2.168 [367] Matinee Theater: LONESOME HUSBAND
24May1957
Written by Warner Law
Synopsis:
A married man and married woman married are thrown together
for the duration of a sweltering New York summer.
2.169 [368] Matinee Theater: PUZZLE IN THE STARS
27May1957
Teleplay by Harold Gast
Based on the short story by David Eynon
starring
Johnny Crawford
Synopsis:
A widower searches for the son he thought had been killed in the war.
2.170 [369] Matinee Theater: THE GWENDOLEN HARLETH STORY
28May1957
Story by George Eliot
Directed by Walter Grauman
starring
Lisa Daniels ....... Gwendolen
Geoffrey Toone ..... Daniel
Donald Buka ........ Henleigh
Synopsis:
A selfish young woman of 19th century England who enters a marriage
of convenience with a nobleman she despises, then turns to
a warmhearted man she once had rejected.
2.171 [370] Matinee Theater: THREE GIRLS NAMED
ALMAYNA
29May1957
Synopsis:
A trio of airline hostesses decide to take the same first name and pool
boyfriends, depending on which girl is in town.
2.172 [371] Matinee Theater: THE DREAM THAT WAS FIXED
30May1957
Synopsis:
A father must force his boxer son to deliberately lose a title match or
face the
fists and guns of threatening thugs.
2.173 [372] Matinee Theater: A GROWING WONDER
31May1957
Written by Gail Ingram Clement
Synopsis:
A scheming young blond who challenges a motherly, warm hearted
woman for the
love of a starving artist.
2.174 [373] Matinee Theater: BACHELOR FATHER
03Jun1957
Teleplay by Helene Hanff
Adapted from a magazine novel.
Synopsis:
A father, long divorced, who inherits a teen-aged daughter when his ex-wife
dies.
2.175 [374] Matinee Theater: THE GOLDEN DOOR
04Jun1957
Teleplay by Melba Redman
Based on the novel by Sylvia Regan
Synopsis:
A habitually helpful widow who houses a couple of homeless souls
despite the fact that she, herself, is facing
eviction.
2.176 [375] Matinee Theater: RAIN IN THE MORNING
05Jun1957 (rerun 31Mar58 & 25Jun58)
Teleplay by Paula Fox
Story by Marjorie Kellogg
starring
Barbara Drew ......... Bess Carlson
Robert Karnes ........ Frank Wilson
Robert Morse ..... Larry Wilson
Peggy McCay ...... Jane
Theodore Newton .. Wallace
Will J. White ........ Attendant
Synopsis:
Frank Wilson coaches his shy wife on the tricks of being an
outgoing dinner hostess trying to impress his boss.
Synopsis 2:
Frank Wilson stresses to his wife Jane that when his boss arrives for dinner
that night, she should try to be more forceful and decisive. [RF]
Synopsis 3:
Frank Wilson is bringing his boss home for dinner and is anxious to make
a good impression. He asks his wife Jane to try not to be so shy and tells her
she must be more decisive. During the day a strange young man comes to the
house posing as a magazine salesman. Jane feels that this is a good
opportunity to practice being forceful. [RF]
Synopsis 4:
Wanting to make a good impression on his boss, Larry Wilson
coaches his shy wife on the tricks of being an outgoing dinner hostess. [RF]
[--] Matinee Theater: ALUMNI REUNION
06Jun1957 (rerun from 26Sep56)
[--] Matinee Theater: EYE OF THE STORM
07Jun1957 (rerun from 19Oct56)
2.177 [376] Matinee Theater: RICH MAN, POOR MAN
10Jun1957
Written by Theodore Apstein
Synopsis:
An impoverished Sicilian bridegroom fights with his conscience.
2.178 [377] Matinee Theater: THE PARTY DRESS
11Jun1957
Synopsis:
A girl invokes tragedy in order to avoid wearing an ugly dress to the dance.
2.179 [378] Matinee Theater: WHITE-HEADED BOY
12Jun1957
starring
Roddy McDowall
Synopsis:
A large family sacrifices heavily for the sake of their favorite lad and
when he fails in medical school, the family rebels and demands
he be sent to Canada to shift for himself.
2.180 [379] Matinee Theater: SOUND OF FEAR
13Jun1957
starring
Jerry Paris
Lewis Martin
Frances Helm
Robert F. Simon
Synopsis:
A young playboy defends himself against a murder charge.
[---] Matinee Theater: THE ODD ONES
14Jun1957 (rerun from 09Mar56; rerun 07Feb58 & Jun58)
2.181 [380] Matinee Theater: THE MAN WITH POINTED TOES
17Jun1957 (rerun 28Jan58)
Written by Lynn and Helen Root
(as The Man With the Painted Toes)
Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
starring
Earl Holliman ........ Tom Cotterell
Vanessa Brown ........ Pamela Wright
Joan Tabor
Synopsis:
Young Tom Cotterell, a rich Texas oilman, is hurt when he is rebuffed
by a New York girl, Pamela Wright. Pamela can't stand Tom's crude ways,
so he hires a girl to teach him how to be a gentleman.
Synopsis 2:
Tom Cotterell, young and rich Texas Oilman is hurt and bewildered when a New York girl,
Pamela Wright, turns away from him in disgust at his crude and unpolished ways.
He hires a tutor named Florry, who falls in love with him and is dismayed when
he flies to New York to meet Pamela again. [RF]
2.182 [381] Matinee Theater: A QUESTION OF BALANCE
18Jun1957 (27Nov57 episode was recast and restaged)
Written by Wood Fitchette and Stuart Dunham
starring
Paul Langton ........ Assistant DA Paul McLean
Helen Westcott ...... Kay
Willis Bouchey ...... Robertson
Synopsis:
A happily married assistant attorney is assigned to a murder
investigation which he knows will uncover his
involvement with another woman.
2.183 [382] Matinee Theater: THE HEART'S DESIRE
19Jun1957 (rerun 21Feb58)
Written by Helene Hanff
starring
Kuldip Singh ........ Omar Khayyam
Leon Askin .......... General Rabat
Pernell Roberts ..... Hassan
Lisa Montell ........ Yasmin
Synopsis:
In ancient Persia, three boys, one of whom is Omar Khayyam,
swear a solemn oath. Whoever first gains fame and fortune
promises to share his good luck with the others.
2.184 [383] Matinee Theater: THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
20Jun1957 (rerun 06Feb58 & 20Jun58)
Produced by Albert McCleery
Teleplay by Elihu Winer
From a story by Edward Everett Hale
Directed by Lamont Johnson
Hosted by John Conte
starring
Peter Hansen ........ Philip Nolan
Richard Shannon ..... Ingham
Ralph Clanton
Betty Lynn
Dayton Lummis
Douglass Dumbrille
Synopsis:
This is the famous fictional story of a man who damned his country.
Placed on board a U.S. naval vessel, Philip Nolan
was subjected to a strange sentence. [RF]
*NOTE: Syndication airing on Cameo Theater 09Jun60
2.185 [384] Matinee Theater: MR. WINDIGO
21Jun1957
Written by S.S. Schweitzer
starring
Johnny Crawford ..... Dickie Browning
Peggy Maurer
Peter Hansen
Addison Richards
2.186 [385] Matinee Theater: STOPOVER
24Jun1957
Teleplay by Richard Wendley
Story by Samson Raphaelson
Synopsis:
A motion picture producer calls to mind a lost love when he
stops off in Chicago on the spur of the moment. [RF]
2.187 [386] Matinee Theater: A LIGHT IN THE SKY
25Jun1957
Teleplay by Harold Gast
From the play by Jim Davis
starring
Will Rogers Jr.
Ann Doran
Venetia Stevenson
Synopsis:
A farmer who has always longed to do something creative decides to
put up a lighthouse on his farm even though there is no water for miles around.
His shocked wife and daughter fear the man has lost his senses. [RF]
2.188 [387] Matinee Theater: THE CHARMER
26Jun1957
Teleplay by Gertrude Schweitzer (based on her own novel)
Directed by Allan A. Buckhantz
starring
Richard Long
Catherine McLeod
Peggy McCay
Ross Ford
Synopsis:
A woman copywriter in an advertising agency resents the fact that a younger
brother of the firm's top executive is returning from the Army to take over. [RF]
[--] Matinee Theater: THE WISP END
27Jun1957 (rerun from 14Dec56)
2.189 [388] Matinee Theater: BRIEF CANDLE
28Jun1957
Written by Richard McCracken
starring
Will Hutchins
Gene Raymond
Karen Sharpe
Synopsis:
A young man pays a visit to the family mansion in Newport, R.I.,
now presided over by its sole occupant, his aunt. [RF]
2.190 [389] Matinee Theater: THE LAST VOYAGE
04Jul1957 (rerun 21Apr58)
Written by James Truex
starring
Maurice Manson ..... Benjamin Franklin
Zsa Zsa Gabor ...... Mme. Brillon
Ralph Clanton ...... Arthur Lee
Eric Sinclair ...... Edward Bancroft
Synopsis:
Madam Brillon became a friend and companion to America's
first ambassador to
France, Benjamin Franklin.
Synopsis 2:
Even though he is getting along in years, Benjamin Franklin is asked to become
the third member of a special diplomatic mission being sent to France. The Colonies
hope to win French aid in the struggle with England. [RF]
[--] Matinee Theater: THE REMARKABLE MR. JEROME
08Jul1957 (rerun from 19Feb57)
[--] Matinee Theater: STRONG MEDICINE
10Jul1957 (rerun from 28Dec56)
2.191
[390] Matinee Theater: BUT WHEN SHE WAS BAD
11Jul1957
Story by Marjorie Duhan Adler
Directed by Lamont Johnson
Synopsis:
The child star of a TV show has her father convinced she is capable only of
angelic behavior. But when the father falls in love with a script girl and decides
to marry her, his daughter attempts to cause
trouble. [RF]
2.192
[391] Matinee Theater: THE FABLE OF HARRY
12Jul1957
Synopsis:
Harry Parker, a man who has spent his entire life traveling with carnivals
learns that
the granddaughter of a woman he had once loved lives in the small town where the
carnival has stopped. The girl's finance comes to play the shell game with the money
the couple have saved for their wedding. [RF]
2.193 [392] Matinee Theater: THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
16Jul1957 (rerun 02Oct57, 09Oct57, 29Jan58)
Teleplay by Robert Esson
Based on Edgar Allen Poe's story
Directed by Walter Grauman
starring
Eduardo Ciannelli
Joe DeSantis
Grace Raynor
Synopsis:
A heartless Facist official is lured to the city's underground wine cellars
when he refuses to abandon his quest for a leading citizen's hand.
2.194 [393] Matinee Theater: THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD
17Jul1957
Produced by Darrell Ross, Ethel Frank, John Hinsey
Written by Warner Law
Directed by Alan Cooke
starring
John Abbott
Gloria Castillo
John Carlyle
Naomi Stevens
Anthony Eustrel
Fred Kruger
Joseph Mell
Synopsis:
A young girl's boy friend is appalled at the way she plays on people's emotions
for monetary rewards. She tries to make him understand that her meager salary will
not support her aunt, her uncle and herself. When a rich old man comes to their
small village, the girl goes immediately to strike up another friendship. [RF]
2.195 [394] Matinee Theater: THE FIRST CAPTAIN
22Jul1957
Written by Henry Misrock
Synopsis:
A student at a military academy makes trouble for a new instructor at the school.
The youth brags to his friends that he will even win the instructor's girlfriend away from him. [RF]
[--] Matinee Theater: THE 19TH HOLE
23Jul1957 (rerun from 19Mar57)
2.196 [395] Matinee Theater: THE SHUTTERED HEART
24Jul1957
Adapted by Ellen McCracken
Story by Mary Jane Waldo
Synopsis:
A wife leaves her husband after the death of their first child.
The young man comes to attach deep feeling to the furniture in the nursery
and refuses to part with it. [RF]
2.197 [396] Matinee Theater: ONE FOR ALL
25Jul1957 (rerun 17Mar58)
Teleplay by Harold Gast
Story by James Skardon
Directed by John Barrymore Jr.
starring
Ben Holt
Dina Merrill
Raymond Bailey
Robert Gist
Robert Bray
Miriam Flood
Ezra Flood
Red Bailey
Synopsis:
Two good friends take on jobs as co-sheriffs of a Western town. But soon their
differences of opinion cause trouble. Sheriff Holt feels that outlaws should be given
the trials they are entitled to by law. But the other, Sheriff Barker, is in favor of lynching
them on the spot. When two desperadoes escape from jail and are later found dead,
Holt suspects that his partner is responsible for their deaths. [RF]
2.198 [397] Matinee Theater: CALL IT A DAY
26Jul1957
Written by Dodie Smith
Synopsis:
A mother becomes quite concerned over her daughter's affection for an artist
who is married. But she has a clearer understanding of the situation when a friend of
hers tries to persuade her to leave her husband and marry him. [RF]
2.199
[398] Matinee Theater: ANN VERONICA
29Jul1957
Teleplay by Greer Johnson
Based on H.G. Wells' novel
Directed by Walter Grauman
starring
Wendy Hiller
Patric Knowles
Synopsis:
A rebellious girl who wavers between the suitor her
family picked and the choice of her heart.
2.200 [399] Matinee Theater: BOYS WILL BE MEN
30Jul1957
Synopsis:
The story of conflict between a grandfather and daughter-in-law
over whether to spare the rod in rearing her son.
2.201 [400] Matinee Theater: THE FORBIDDEN SEARCH
31Jul1957 (rerun 04Oct57)
Synopsis:
A young widow of postwar Germany is forced by poverty to let her
son be adopted
by strangers, but then realizes she is forced by love to find him.
2.202 [401] Matinee Theater: THE FAWN
01Aug1957
Teleplay by Lucille Duffy
Synopsis:
A boy who loves animals clashes with a father who loves hunting.
2.203 [402] Matinee Theater: SUNDAY IN SONORA
02Aug1957
Written by Sheldon Stark
starring
Johnny Crawford
Marshall Thompson
2.204 [403] Matinee Theater: THE ROSE BUSH
05Aug1957
Synopsis:
A married woman finds herself unaccountably attracted
at her 20th anniversary party to another man.
2.205 [404] Matinee Theater: FINLEY'S FAN CLUB
06Aug1957
Written Robert Dozier
Synopsis:
The story of an envious lad who finds a chink in
the moral armor of a small town's only hero.
2.206 [405] Matinee Theater: LAUGH A LITTLE TEAR
07Aug1957 (rerun 10Oct57, 19Feb58)
Teleplay by Robert E. Thompson
Based on a story by Gerald Sanford
Directed by Alan Hanson
starring
Lawrence Dobkin
Virginia Christine
Susan Kohner
Synopsis:
An immigrant father arranges to marry off his daughter to a man she has never
seen.
Synopsis 2:
Old World customs prevail when Juliette meets Broc, who has been
betrothed to her since they were small children. [RF]
2.207 [406] Matinee Theater: THE INVISIBLE MAN
08Aug1957 (rerun 30Dec57)
Teleplay by Robert Esson
Based on the novel by H.G. Wells
Directed by Larry Schwab
starring
Geoffrey Toone
Chester Stratton
Angela Thornton
Synopsis:
Griffin, a brilliant medical student seeks out Dr. Kemp
to help him with an
experiment that went wrong.
*NOTE:
TV-Guide Jan25-31, listed this episode as a TV milestone
in that the special effects were a TV first.
2.208 [407] Matinee Theater: WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO
TREAD
09Aug1957
Written by George Lowther
Synopsis:
A broker switches jobs to an advertising man just to
stay near a pretty girl he
sees on the street.
[--] Matinee Theater: EUGENIE GRANDET
12Aug1957 (rerun from 21Dec56)
2.209 [408] Matinee Theater: FIRST LOVE
13Aug1957
Based on the short story by Gertrude Schweitzer
Synopsis:
A shy, clumsy 16-year-old lad's struggle to follow in the
footsteps of his
handsome, football-hero brother.
2.210 [409] Matinee Theater: THE LOST SURVIVORS
14Aug1957 (rerun 07Apr58)
Synopsis:
A man and a young woman, each harboring private reasons for
dreading the
limelight of publicity, flee the scene of a plane crash.
2.211 [410] Matinee Theater: TIME FOR ACTION
15Aug1957
Written by Greer Johnson
Synopsis:
A 17-year-old girl fights the domination of a tyrannical
aunt with whom she has gone to live.
[--] Matinee Theater: DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
16Aug1957 (rerun from 08Mar57)
[--] Matinee Theater: HORSEPOWER
19Aug1957 (rerun from 30Oct56)
2.212 [411] Matinee Theater: HAVEN'S END
20Aug1957
Teleplay by David Davidson
Story by John P. Marquand
Synopsis:
Here the long rivalry between two old American families takes
a new twist when two of their young, present-day
descendants fall in love with each other.
2.213 [412] Matinee Theater: HEED THE FALLING SPARROW
21Aug1957
Written by Alvin Boretz
Synopsis:
For political reasons an ambitious district attorney tries to hang a murder
rap on a helpless tramp, unaware, that a state-assigned defense attorney
and the
victim's own father might not cooperate.
2.214 [413] Matinee Theater: THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD BRIDE
22Aug1957
Teleplay by Abby Mann
Synopsis:
The seldom-told story of Teddy Roosevelt's first love and marriage
to Alice Hathaway Lee, the inspiration of the man who late was
to become president,
although she died at a tender age.
2.215 [414] Matinee Theater: NOW OR NEVER
23Aug1957
Synopsis:
A young woman who accidentally re-meets the man she reluctantly spurned two
years earlier.
[--] Matinee Theater: BARRICADE ON THE BIG BLACK
26Aug1957 (rerun from 27Mar57)
2.216 [415] Matinee Theater: THE AWAKENING
27Aug1957
starring
Richard Jaeckel
Sue Randall
Alexander Lockwood
Synopsis:
The story of a young woman who is crippled for life in
an auto accident on the eve of her marriage.
*NOTE: (California Independent has a repeat
airing 30Jan58)
2.217 [416] Matinee Theater: ANGEL FACE
28Aug1957
Synopsis:
The story of a young girl whose determination always to tell the truth
complicates her older brother's romance with a sophisticated society girl.
Synopsis 2:
A girl's determination to tell the truth leads to complications
in her brother's
romance with a society girl.
2.218 [417] Matinee Theater: THE STAR SAPPHIRE
29Aug1957
Story by Ben Hecht
Synopsis:
A ship's doctor, vacationing in Las Vegas, risks his life to keep a
murder rap
from being hung on a pretty nightclub singer.
2.219 [418] Matinee Theater: WOMEN HAVE WAYS
30Aug1957
Synopsis:
A pair of city slickers, a pretty young girl and a smooth-Talking man,
compete at bilking a country bumpkin of his year's receipts.
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