Plymouth Playhouse (1953)
(originally titled ABC Album
- title changed in
the third telecast)
Sponsored by: Chrysler Corporation - makers of the Plymouth Automobile
Episode Guide
compiled by The Classic TV Archive
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with contributions by:
Tom Alger,
J. Fred MacDonald (www.macfilms.com),
Rina Fox
references:
Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
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UCLA Film and Television Archive
PLYMOUTH PLAYHOUSE
John Rust Productions
April 12, 1953 to June 21, 1953
ABC Sun 7:30-8:00
Host: Donald Cook
Three of the episodes went on to become series of their own.
1) Jamie (Talent Associates/ABC)(1953-54) starring Brandon De Wilde on ABC.
2) Colonel Humphrey Flack (DuMont 1953-54) starring Alan Mowbray for Dumont.
3) Justice (NBC)(1954-55) starring Paul Douglas and Lee Grant for NBC.
Some of the productions were live others filmed.
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ABC Sundays 7:30-8:00pm (12Apr53-21Jun53)
1.01 [--] ABC Album: JUSTICE
12-Apr-1953 ABC Sun
executive producer, Herbert Brodkin
written by Halsted Welles
directed by Ralph Nelson
Host: Donald Cook
starring
Paul Douglas
Lee Grant
John Lehne
John Seymour
Barbara Townsend
Synopsis:
Here, Justice, based on the files of the Legal Aid Society.
The plot concerns a wife's discovery that her husband is a bigamist.
Introduction by Judge Learned Hand
Justice became a series, but on NBC, in 1954. [RF]
1.02 [--] ABC Album /
Plymouth Playhouse: MISTER GLENCANNON TAKES ALL
19Apr1953 ABC Sun (East Coast) [Syracuse Herald NY]
05May1953 ABC Tue (West Coast) [Long Beach Independent]
Producer Herbert Brodkin
Written by Alvin Sapinsley
Directed by Sir Cedric Hardwicke
starring
Robert Newton
Melville Cooper
Myron McCormick
Synopsis:
The indomitable Scot becomes enmeshed in the company's effort to win the cargo
trade of one MacKenzie Duggan,
maker of a "vurra guid whisky" called Duggan's Dew of Kirkintilloch. Glencannon
upsets the applecart. [RF]
1.03 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: JAMIE
26-Apr-1953 ABC Sun
written by David Swift
directed by Curt Conway
producer Herbert Brodkin
starring
Brandon de Wilde as Jamie
Ernest Truex
Polly Rowles
Eva Marie Saint
Adnia Rice
Eda Heineman
Charles Kuhn
David Winters
Neil Harrison
Synopsis:
Heartwarmingly touching and comic tale of a young boy in search of a place
to unpack his suitcase. Pilot for the 1953-1954 series Jamie, in which an orphaned
boy moves in with his aunt and grandfather. [RF]
1.04 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: A TALE OF TWO CITIES Part 1 [verified on film]
03-May-1953 ABC Sun
Executive producer, Cecil Barker;
Producer Robert M. Banker
Adapted by John Vlahos; From the story by Charles Dickens
Directed by Dik Darley
original music by Dmitri Tiomkin
Host: Whit Bissell
starring
Wendell Corey ...... Sydney Carton
Wanda Hendrix ...... Lucie Manette
Murray Matheson .... Dr. Alexander Manette
Carleton Young ..... Charles Darnay
Esther Dale ........ Pross
Paul Cavanagh ...... Mr. Stryver
Jerry LaZarre ...... Baraud
Norman Budd ........ Jerry Cruncher
Ted Stanhope ....... The Judge
Colin Kenny ........ The Bailiff
Larry Williams ..... The Barrister
*
Art Director ....... Al Goodman
Music Director ..... Rex Koury
Production Manager.. Darrell Ross
Lighting Directors.. Alex Quirona & Truck Krone
Audio Engineer ..... Kenneth Grinde
Technical Director.. Irwin Stanton
Synopsis:
The London Story of 1780 London recovering
from the war of the New Colonies.
Part 2 the story continues with Paris recovering from the fall
of the Bastille and the dawn of beheading.
1.05 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: A TALE OF TWO CITIES Part 2 [verified on film]
10-May-1953 ABC Sun
Executive producer, Cecil Barker;
Producer Robert M. Banker
Adapted by John Vlahos; From the story by Charles Dickens
Directed by Dik Darley
Original music by Dmitri Tiomkin
Host: Whit Bissell
starring
Wendell Corey ...... Sydney Carton
Wanda Hendrix ...... Lucie Manette
Judith Evelyn ...... Therese Defarge
Murray Matheson .... Dr. Alexander Manette
Carleton Young ..... Charles Darnay
Esther Dale ........ Pross
Lucille Pierlot .... The Seamstress
Bob Foulk .......... Ernest Defarge
Jerry LaZarre ...... Baraud
Norman Budd ........ Jerry Cruncher
Constance Cavendish ..... Regiene
Ivan Triesault ..... The President
*
Art Director ....... Al Goodman
Music Director ..... Rex Koury
Production Manager.. Darrell Ross
Lighting Directors.. Alex Quirona & Truck Krone
Audio Engineer ..... Kenneth Grinde
Technical Director.. Irwin Stanton
*
Synopsis:
The Paris Story 1789.
*NOTE: Special guest host Whit Bissell announces that next week Host Donald Cook will return.
1.06 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: HOGAN'S DAUGHTER
17-May-1953 ABC Sun
Host Donald Cook
starring
Sheila Bond
1.07 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: FOUR STORIES
24-May-1953 ABC Sun
starring
Boris Karloff
Philip Truex
Kyle MacDonnell
1) The Chase starring Boris Karloff
1.08 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: COLONEL HUMPHREY J. FLACK
31-May-1953 ABC Sun
starring
Alan Mowbray ........ Colonel Humphrey J. Flack
Constance Ford
Synopsis:
Colonel Humphrey J. Flack swindler of all swindlers finagles his way
thru life's up's and downs. Known to his friends as the
fabulous fraud.
*Note: This was the pilot for the series.
1.09 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: THE SPLIT SECOND
07-Jun-1953 ABC Sun
starring
Alan Webb
Geraldine Fitzgerald
1.10 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: BABY AND ME
14-Jun-1953 ABC Sun
written by Frank Gabrielson
starring
Janis Paige
Robert Preston
Stanley Prager
Synopsis:
Comedy about a family whose members undergo a metamorphosis when
the daughter of the house wins a beautiful child contest. [RF]
*Note: Frank Gabrielson was the writer of "Mama".
1.11 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: THE TURNING POINT
21-Jun-1953 ABC Sun
written by Halsted Welles
starring
Neva Patterson
Richard Kelly
Johnny Stewart
Richard Ney
Synopsis:
Story of violence among teenagers.
1.12 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: JETFIGHTER
28-Jun-1953 ABC Sun
Narrated by Jackson Beck
starring
John Granger
Tige Andrews (as Tiger Andrews)
Ben Hammer
Synopsis:
Story of an American flyer in trouble over the Russian occupied zone in
Germany.
Filmed at Maguire Air Force Base, Fort Dix,
N.J. [TA]
[--] Plymouth Playhouse: DREAM JOB
17-Jul-1953 ABC Friday
starring
Vincent Price
Joan Leslie
Synopsis:
Joan is hired as a secretary by Vincent Price. [JFM]
*Note: Aired on Hollywood Half Hour on ABC.
[--] Plymouth Playhouse: OUTLAWS RECKONING
written by Halsted Welles
[--] Plymouth Playhouse: SKETCHBOOK
written by John Collier & Dorothy Parker & Stephen Vincent Benet & Saki
[--] Plymouth Playhouse: RETICENCE OF LADY ANNE
starring
Boris Karloff
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