Classic TV Archive - Robert Montgomery Presents

The Classic TV Archive - US Dramatic Anthology Series

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 ROBERT MONTGOMERY PRESENTS

 

Episode Guide

version 32.0 April 2009

(General Update)

compiled by

The Classic TV Archive

 

http://ctva.biz/index.htm

 

with contributions by:

Rina Fox

 Des Martin

references:

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ROBERT MONTGOMERY PRESENTS

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A Robert Montgomery Production

for

NBC (Mondays 9:30 pm EST)

Executive Producer by Robert Montgomery  

 

US drama anthology series  1950-57     321 episodes x 60 min

      release date  30Jan50  final episode  24Jun57   

 

Robert Montgomery ....  Host/Occasional Lead Actor (1950-57)  

Elizabeth Montgomery ....  Repertory Player (1951-57) 

 

Also Known As:

"Lucky Strike Theater" (1950)

"Montgomery's Summer Stock" (1950)

"Robert Montgomery Summer Theater, The" (1950)

Runtime: USA:60

Country: USA 

Language: English 

Color: Black and White

 

host/executive producer.....Robert Montgomery (1950-1957)

summer repertory player..........John Newland (1952-1954)

summer repertory player.........Vaughn Taylor (1952-1954)

summer repertory player........Margaret Hayes (1952-1953)

summer repertory player .Elizabeth Montgomery (1953-1954)

summer repertory player....Elizabeth Montgomery (1956)

summer repertory player.............Jan Miner (1954-1956)

summer repertory player...............Anne Seymour (1954)

summer repertory player............Cliff Robertson (1954)

summer repertory player.........Charles Drake (1955-1956)

summer repertory player.............Augusta Dabney (1955)

summer repertory player..............House Jameson (1955)

summer repertory player..........Dorothy Blackburn (1955)

summer repertory player..............Eric Sinclair (1955)

summer repertory player..............Mary K. Wells (1956)

summer repertory player................John Gibson (1956)

summer repertory player..............Tom Middleton (1956)

 

Theme song: "Orchid Room" by Busby

 

######### Robert Montgomery Presents #########

############# season 1 early 1950 ############

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 release date 30Jan50  

 

1.01 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE LETTER

30-Jan-1950 Original airdate

Adapted from the play by W. Somerset Maugham

starring

Madeleine Carroll .....  Leslie Crosby

Howard Wierum
Theodore Newton
William Post Jr.

Synopsis:
A woman convinces her husband and lawyer that she committed murder

 in self-defense when an incriminating letter tells otherwise. [RF]

Notes: Based on the 1940 feature film The Letter.

 

1.02 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: KITTY FOYLE

13-Feb-1950 Original airdate

Adapted from the novel by Christopher Morley

starring

Jane Wyatt ..... Kitty Foyle

Richard Derr
Peter Cookson
Farrell Pelly

Synopsis:
Kitty is a social climber and a young man's family

objects to this determined young girl. [RF]

Notes: Based on the 1940 feature film Kitty Foyle.

 

1.03 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE MALE ANIMAL

27-Feb-1950 Original airdate

Based on the James Thurber play
starring
Elliott Nugent ... Prof. Tommy Turner
Martha Scott ..... Ellen Scott
Synopsis:
The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers

out of their jobs for being suspected communists.
 

1.04 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE EGG AND I

13-Mar-1950 Original airdate

Based on the novel by Betty MacDonald
starring
Barry Nelson ........ Bob MacDonald
June Havoc .......... Harriet Putnam
Ann Shoemaker ....... Ma Kettle
Vaughn Taylor ....... Pa Kettle
Myrtle Ferguson ..... Darleen
Arthur Jarrett
Sandra Ann Wigginton
George Hindsley
Red Robin

Synopsis:
Bob informs his new bride that he has purchased a chicken farm.
*Based on the Ma and Pa Kettle series of films.
 

1.05 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: RIDE THE PINK HORSE

27-Mar-1950 Original airdate

Based on the novel by Dorothy B. Hughes
starring
Robert Montgomery ... Lucky Gagin
Burgess Meredith .... Frank Hugo
Susan Douglas ....... Pila
Thomas Gomez ........ Pancho
Vaughn Taylor ....... Retz
Synopsis:
Gagin's mission is to find Frank Hugo before the FBI does.
 

1.06 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: OUR TOWN

17- Apr-1950 Original airdate

Adapted from the play by Thornton Wilder

Directed by Norman Felton

starring

Burgess Meredith .... George Gibbs
Jean Gillespie ...... Emily Webb
Dean Harens
Dudley Sadler
Leona Powers
Helen Carew
John McGovern
Richard Bishop
Stanley Martin
Gail Widdington
Synopsis:
Life is simple in the sleepy little New Hampshire town were you grow up,

get married, work and leave your doors unlocked.

Note: Based on the 1940 feature film Our Town.

 

*NOTE: This episode was to air April 10th, 1950 but was cancelled

due to a dispute between NBC and television technicians.

 

1.07 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: PHANTOM LADY

Prod #50-689

24-Apr-1950 Original airdate

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes

Teleplay by Alvin Sapinsley

Adapted from Cornell Woolrich story

Directed by Norman Felton

starring

Ella Raines ....... Carol 'Kansas' Richman

Hugh Reilly

Gordon Mills

Gene O'Donnell

Allan Stevenson
Catherine Cosgriff
Jack Luchsinger
Julius Bing
Clark Bingham
Don Grusso
Ashley Cooper
Kay Lyder
George Cotton
Victor Bernaducci
Synopsis:
An unhappily married man spends his evenings

 with a woman he picked up in a bar.

Notes:  Based on the 1944 feature film Phantom Lady.

 

1.08 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: PITFALL

Prod #50-787

08-May-1950 Original airdate

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes

Teleplay by Richard Morrison

Based on the novel by Jay Dratler
Directed by Norman Felton

starring

Lee Bowman ....... John Forbes

Nancy Coleman ....... Mona Stevens

Jean Carson

Stanley Martin

Frank Maxwell
Patricia White
James O'Neill
Charles Mendick
George Cotton
James Bender

Gordon Clarke
Philip Gordon
Alan Hale
Synopsis:
Tired of his 9 to 5 humdrum existence, family man John Forbes falls for one

 of his clients. Her boyfriend has robbed a store insured by Forbes' company

and he begins an obsessive affair with her.

Notes: Based on the 1948 feature film Pitfall.

 

1.09 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: REBECCA

22-May-1950 Original airdate

Based on the novel by Daphne DuMaurier
starring

Barbara Bel Geddes ........ The Second Mrs. de Winter

Peter Cookson ........... Maxim de Winter
Edith King .............. Mrs. Danvers

Ivan Simpson ........ Frith
John McQuade
Ronald Long
Jean Bates
Jock McGraw
Henry Gurvey
Barry Macollum
Claude Horton
Sarah Burton
Sue Ellen Blake

Synopsis:
A naive woman marries a rich widower and settles into his mansion

where she finds the memory of his first wife still very much alive.

Notes: Based on the 1940 feature film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, "Rebecca"

starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine and George Sanders.

 

1.10 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: THE CHAMPION

05-Jun-1950 Original airdate

Adapted from the story by Ring Lardner

starring

Richard Kiley

Louise Albritton

Vicki Cummings

Synopsis:
A boxer tries to make it to the big time and is approached to throw the fight in his pursuit of success.

Notes: Based on the 1949 film Champion starring Kirk Douglas.

 

1.11 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: THE CITADEL

19-Jun-1950 Original airdate

Adapted from the novel by A.J. Cronin
starring

Robert Montgomery ..... Dr. Andrew Manson

Angela Lansbury ....... Christine Manson

Anna Lee

Justice Watson (as Rudolph Watson)
Jean Bates
Wells Richardson
Richard Abbott
Anthony Kemble-Cooper
Ernest Rowan
Patsy Bruder
Gwilym Williams
Jean Cameron
Alexander Clark
Claude Horton
Graham Velsey
Elmer Lehr
Anne Meacham
Synopsis:
A doctor fails to establish his own practice. Things get better when

he realizes that caring for the ailments of the rich prove very lucrative.

Notes: Based on the Oscar nominated 1938 feature film "The Citadel" starring

Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell and Rex Harrison..

 

######### Robert Montgomery Presents #########

############## season 2 1950-51 ##############

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 NBC Mondays 9:30 pm (Hour Long)

  alternated with "Musical Comedy Time"

 

2.01 Robert Montgomery presents: THE AWFUL TRUTH

11-Sep-1950 Original airdate

Adapted from the play by Arthur Richman

starring

Lee Bowman ....... Jerry Warriner

Jane Wyatt ....... Lucy Warriner

Donald Curtis
Eda Heinemann

Maxine Stuart
Maurice Burke
Hilda Haynes
Synopsis:
A couple suspect each other of having an affair and decide to divorce.

Their bone of contention is their dog, Mr. Smith and who takes care of him.
Notes: Based on the 1937 feature film The Awful Truth starring Cary Grant and Barbara Stanwyck.

 

2.02 Robert Montgomery presents: THE BIG SLEEP

25-Sep-1950 Original airdate

Adapted from the novel by Raymond Chandler

starring

Zachary Scott ....... Philip Marlowe

Patricia Gaye

Synopsis:
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a dying man to

 keep an eye on troubled daughter. [RF]

Notes: Based on the 1946 feature film The Big Sleep starring Humphrey Bogart.

 

2.03 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: ARROWSMITH

09-Oct-1950 Original airdate

starring

Van Heflin ....... Dr. Martin Arrowsmith

June Dayton
Bruno Wick
Synopsis:
The story of Dr. Arrowsmith's discovery of a phage that destroys

 bacteria and his experiences as he faces an outbreak of bubonic plague.
Notes: Adapted from Sinclair Lewis novel and

the subsequent 1931 feature film.

2.04 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE PETRIFIED FOREST
23Oct1950
Based on the play by Robert E. Sherwood
starring
Kitty Kelly
Brian Aherne
Joan Lorring
Jason Johnson
John McQuade
Jack Bittner
Edwin Cooper
Ralph Riggs
*Based on the 1936 film of the same name.

2.05 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: RIO RITA

13-Nov-1950 Original airdate

starring

Bert Wheeler

Patricia Morison

Notes: Adapted from the play by Guy Bolton.

 

2.06 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE CANTERVILLE GHOST

20-Nov-1950 Original airdate

starring

Margaret O'Brien ....... Lady Jessica deCanterville

Cecil Parker

Maurice Manson
Valerie Cossart
Lex Richards
Byron Russell
Phoebe McKay
Basil Howes
Synopsis:
Sir Simon de Canterville, cursed and now a ghost haunting his family's

17th century home when a family moves into the ancient haunt.

Notes: Adapted from the story by Oscar Wilde

and the subsequent 1944 feature film.

 

2.07 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE PHILADELPHIA STORY

04-Dec-1950 Original airdate

Based on a play by Philip Barry
starring

Barbara Bel Geddes ....... Tracy Samantha Lord

Richard Derr ....... Macaulay (Mike) Connor

Leslie Neilsen ....... C.K. Dexter Haven

Louis Hollister
Richard Abbott
Judith Parrish
James J. Van Dyk
John Craven
Peggy Nelson
Edward Lindemann
Madeleine Clive
Toni Hallaran
Riza Royce

Notes: Adapted from the play by Philip Barry and

the subsequent 1940 feature film.

 

2.08 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: MRS. MIKE

18-Dec-1950 Original airdate

starring

Barbara Britton

Glenn Langan
Margaretta Warwick
Bill Martel

Notes: Adapted from the novel by Benedict &

Nancy Freedman and the subsequent 1949 feature film. 

 

2.09 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: KISS AND TELL

01-Jan-1951 Original airdate

starring

Walter Abel ....... Harry Archer

William Windom
Betty Caulfield

Notes: Adapted from the play by F. Hugh Herbert

and the subsequent 1945 feature film.

 

2.10 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: VICTORIA REGINA

15-Jan-1951 Original airdate

prod #51-159

Sponsor: Lucky Stike Cigarettes

Director: Norman Felton

Writer: Thomas W. Phipps

starring

Helen Hayes ....... Queen Victoria

Kent Smith ....... Prince Albert

Robert Harris ....... Lord Braconsfield

Halliwell Hobbes

Charles Francis

Alexander Clark

Olga Fabian

Notes: Adapted from the Laurence Houseman play

about Queen Victoria.

 

2.11 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: QUICKSAND

29-Jan1951 Original airdate

starring
Skip Homeier
Cara Williams
Martin Newman

Henry Worth
Norman Keats
Rock Rogers
Frank Stephens
Charles Jordan
Lester Lonergran Jr.
Tom Ahearne
Donal O'Brien
Michael Wyler
Hal Alexander
Gerald Milton
Frank Rowan
Arthur Edwards
Bethel Long

 

2.12 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: A STAR IS BORN

12-Feb-1951 Original airdate

starring

Conrad Nagel ....... Norman Maine

Kathleen Crowley ......... Esther

Howard St. John
George Petrie
Harry Sheppard
Nelson Olmsted
Rosemary Murphy
Blake Ritter
Drummond Erskine

Notes: Adapted from the 1937 feature film scenario.

 

2.13 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE LAST TYCOON

26-Feb-1951 Original airdate

starring

Robert Montgomery

Judy Parrish

Louis Hector

June Duprez

Richard Kendrick
Gregg Sherwood

Notes: Adapted from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

 

2.14 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE YOUNG IN HEART

12-Mar-1951 Original airdate

starring

Alan Mowbray

Adrianne Allen

Dorothy Sands
Frederic Worlock
Joyce Linden
Rhoderick Walker
Valerie Cardew
Elizabeth Eustis
Richard Fraser
Margaretta Warwick

Notes: Adapted from the 1938 feature film scenario.

 

2.15 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: DARK VICTORY

26-Mar-1951 Original airdate

starring

Dorothy McGuire .......... Judith Traherne

John Forsythe ........ Dr. Frederick Steele

Richard Coogan
Carroll Ashburn
Polly Rowles
Helen Carew
Barbara Townsend
Roberta Bellinger
Tyler Carpenter

Notes: Adapted from the play by George Emerson Brewer, Jr.

& Bertram Bloch and the subsequent 1939 feature film.

 

2.16 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

09-Apr-1951 Original airdate

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes

Director: Norman Felton

Writer: Alvin Sapinsley

Guest Host: Lee Bowman

starring

Richard Greene ......... Peter Carter

Jean Gillespie ....... June

Bramwell Fletcher ....... Dr. Reeves

Francis Compton

Notes: Adapted from the 1946 film scenario by

Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell.

 

2.17 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE BISHOP'S WIFE

23-Apr-1951 Original airdate

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes

Director: Norman Felton

Writer: Peter Barry

prod #51-1215

starring

Martha Scott ....... Julia Brougham

Richard Derr

Philip Bourneuf

Janet Alexander

Notes: Adapted from the novel by Robert Nathan

and the subsequent 1947 feature film.

 

2.18 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: LADIES IN RETIREMENT

07-May-1951 Original airdate

starring

Lillian Gish

Betty Sinclair
Una O'Connor
Michael McAloney

Notes: Adapted from the play by Reginald Denham

& Edward Percy and the subsequent 1941 feature film.

 

2.19 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE HOUSE OF SEVEN GABLES

21-May-1951 Original airdate

starring

Gene Lockhart

June Lockhart

Leslie Nielsen
Richard Purdy

Notes: Adapted from the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne

and the subsequent 1940 feature film.

 

2.20 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: FOR LOVE OR MONEY

04-Jun-1951 Original airdate

story by F. Hugh Herbert

starring

John Loder

June Lockhart

Vicki Cummings

Notes: Adapted from the 1939 feature film scenario.

 

2.21 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THREE O'CLOCK
18Jun1951
Based on the story by Cornell Woolrich
starring
Olive Deering
Robert Montgomery
Vaughn Taylor

 

2.22 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: WHEN WE ARE MARRIED

02-Jul-1951 Original airdate

starring

Roddy McDowall

Bramwell Fletcher

Notes: Adapted from the play by J.B. Priestley

and the subsequent 1942 feature film.

 

######### Robert Montgomery Presents #########

############## season 3 1951-52 ##############

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 NBC Mondays 9:30 pm (Hour Long)

  alternated with "Somerset Maugham Theatre"  

 

3.01 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: BUBBLES

10-Sep-1951 Original airdate

starring

Richard Derr

Denise Alexander

J. Pat O'Malley

 

3.02 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: I AM STILL ALIVE

 24-Sep-1951 Original airdate

starring

Audra Lindley

Donald Woods

Judith Parrish

Hollis Irving
Arthur Hanson
John McGovern
Synopsis:
When a woman rear-ends another driver, he loses consciousness

and she searches his person for identification, they only clue leads

 her to suspect that he is a spy. [RF]

 

3.03 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: TO WALK THE NIGHT

08-Oct-1951 Original airdate

starring

Geraldine Fitzgerald

John Baragrey

Frank Rowan
Viola Roche
Don Briggs
Matt Briggs
Alan MacAteer
Synopsis:
A scientist believes another scientists death to be murder.

 

3.04 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: I WOULDN'T WANT TO BE IN YOUR SHOES

22-Oct-1951 Original airdate

starring

Katherine Squire

Vaughn Taylor

James Milhollin
Harry Worth
George Kluge
Jack Arthur
Ralph Hertz

 

3.05 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: AN INSPECTOR CALLS

05-Nov-1951 Original airdate

starring

Herbert Marshall

Faith Brook

Sarah Marshall
Jennifer Raine
Isolbe Elsom

Notes: Adapted from the play by J.B. Priestley.

 

3.06 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE KIMBALLS

19-Nov-1951 Original airdate

starring

Boris Karloff

Vanessa Brown

Richard Waring
Louis Sorin
Jo Graham
Pat Malone
Ruth Maynard

 

3.07 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: TOP SECRET

03-Dec-1951 Original airdate

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes

Director: Norman Felton

Writer: Thomas W. Phipps

starring

Robert Montgomery ......... Mr. Ward

Elizabeth Montgomery ......... Susan Ward

Margaret Phillips ........ Maria Dorne

James Van Dyk ....... Edmund Gerry

John D. Seymour ....... Dawson

Patrick O'Neal ....... Brooks

Reese Taylor ....... General Connors

Edward Harvey ....... Ambassador

Joseph Holland ........ Rex

Anthony Dawson

Synopsis:
A foreign service agent takes his daughter to a country

 nearing a revolution to the mission that he is to run.
Notes: This was Elizabeth Montgomery's TV debut

and the first time a story was written directly for the series.

 

3.08 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: A CHRISTMAS GIFT

17-Dec-1951 Original airdate

starring

Cast: Jean Pierre Aumont

 

 3.09 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE FARMER'S HOTEL

07-Jan-1952  Original airdate

starring

Thomas Mitchell

 

3.10 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: CASHEL BYRON'S PROFESSION

14-Jan-1952  Original airdate

directed by Norman Felton

starring

Charlton Heston

June Lockhart

Melville Cooper

J. Pat O'Malley
Robert Coote
Miriam Stovall

 

3.11 [--] Robert Montgomery presents:  THE TENDER MAN

21-Jan-1952  Original airdate

starring

Skip Homeier

Jean Gillespie

Anthony Ross

 

3.12 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: EVA? CAROLINE?

28-Jan-1952  Original airdate

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes

Director: Norman Felton

Writer: Thomas W. Phipps

prod #52-504

starring

Richard Carlson

Jayne Meadows

Raymond Bramley

Frederic Worlock

John Harvey

Viola Roache

Summary:

A tale of deception between twins.

Notes: Adapted from Allan Vaughan Elston short story.

 

3.13 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: RISE UP AND WALK

04-Feb-1952  Original airdate

starring

Kim Hunter

Lloyd Bridges

 

3.14 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE MOONSTONE

11-Feb-1952 Original airdate

starring

Richard Greene

Stella Andrew

Noel Leslie
Alexander Clark
Leslie Harris

 

3.15 [--]  Robert Montgomery presents. THOSE IN FAVOR

18-Feb-1952 Original airdate

[1952-02-25] (Gianakos has this date) 

a Robert Montgomery production ; producer, Robert Montgomery ;

director-writer, Norman Felton. 

  Source: From a play by Christopher Mayhew.

  starring

     Raymond Massey

Herbert Berghof

Robert Emhardt

Kurt Katch

    Stuart McIntosh

Martin Brandt

Guy Sorel

Will Hussung

    Francois Grimard

Hosted by Robert Montgomery.

  Summary: 

Cold War political drama about an episode in a U.N. meeting in

Paris, and the relationship between the U.S. and Soviet delegates.

  Contents:  Commercials: Lucky Strike Cigarettes -- Johnson's Wax.

  Broadcast on NBC.

 

3.16 [--]  Robert Montgomery presents. STORM

25-Feb-1952 Original airdate

 (Gianakos has 01Jun53) possibly rerun/restaged

 a Robert Montgomery production

 producer, Robert Montgomery

director-writer, Norman Felton. 

  Source: From a novel by George R. Stewart.

starring

  Harry Eno

Bill Daniels

Frank Thomas Sr.

Addison Richards

Jean Stapleton
Jim Boles

Harry Sheppard

Elizabeth Ross

Kay Strozzi

Charles Eggleston

Ralph Dunn

Don Grusso

Hosted by Robert Montgomery.

  Summary

Whitney Burke has named an unusual storm which has

started in the Pacific, 'Maria,' and follows it from beginning to end.

 We see how 'Maria' affects various people across the U.S. as

she moves from west to east, among them telephone linemen,

powerhouse workers, farmer, travelers, industrialists. A total cast

of 36 appears in the production, among them an unbilled Jean Stapleton.

  Contents:  Commercials: Lucky Strike Cigarettes -- Prevent forest fires.

  Broadcast on NBC. [UCLA]

 

3.14 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GEORGE

03-Mar-1952 Original airdate

starring

Leslie Nielsen

Jeffrey Lynn

Gaby Rodgers

Synopsis:
An American soldier spends three birthdays overseas during World War II,

each birthday meeting a different girl. [RF]

 

3.15 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: GUARDIAN OF THE CLOCK

10-Mar-1952 Original airdate

Teleplay by Irving Gaynor Neiman
Based on the short story by Robert Zacks
starring
Jack Hartley
Marcia Van Dyke
Helen Shields
Synopsis:
A prank played by a maintenance man of a huge skyscraper

 clock changes the lives of several people. [RF]
 

3.16 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE WALL

17-Mar-1952 Original airdate

Based on Mary Robert Rinehart's thriller
starring

Jane Wyatt

Douglass Montgomery

Nydia Westman

Joseph Boland
Ann Dere
Joan Chandler
Ethel Remy (as Ethel Everett)
Perry Wilson

Synopsis:
A family in a decaying mansion and a murder lead to further intrigue. [RF]
 

3.17 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: CLAIRE AMBLER

24-Mar-1952  Original airdate

starring

Peggy Ann Garner

Margalo Gillmore

Isobel Elsom
Gene Lyons
Alan Marshal
Zolya Talma
Anthony Dawson

Stan Shayne
Synopsis:
A 1920's flapper, whose belief in her father's morality is suddenly

shattered and she starts a confused pattern of revenge. [RF]

 

3.18 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: SEE NO EVIL

31-Mar-1952  Original airdate

starring

Tom Ewell

Betty Field

Synopsis:
A man finds himself and his family the objects of gangland

vengeance just because he saw a murder. [RF]

 

3.19 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: O EVENING STAR

07-Apr-1952  Original airdate

starring

Fay Bainter

Gene Raymond
Robert H. Harris
Synopsis:
A once-famous actress who tries to rise to the top of her profession once again. [RF]
 

3.20 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: OPERATION HITCHHIKE

14-Apr-1952  Original airdate

starring

June Lockhart

Synopsis:
The story tells of a Red Cross hostess and three GI hitchhikers who

might possibly be German soldiers during wartime France. [RF]

 

3.21 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: AND NEVER COME BACK

21-Apr-1952  Original airdate

starring

 Teresa Wright

Mike Kellin

Audra Lindley

Adele Newton
Parker Fennelly
Stuart Macintosh
Synopsis:
Two former wives of a man strive to outdo each other

to regain their former husband. [RF]

 

3.22 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE TRUTH ABOUT BLAYDS

28-Apr-1952  Original airdate

Adapted from the play by A.A. Milne.

starring

Robert Cummings (Guest Host)

Anna Lee

Leslie Barry

Romney Brent

Isobel Elsom

Michael McAloney
Synopsis:
A venerated poet for 60 years finally confesses that he

did not write the poetry he is credited with. [RF]

 

3.23 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE LONELY

05-May-1952 Original airdate

Based on Paul Gallico's war story
starring

Robert Sterling

Leueen McGrath

Dorothy Peterson

 

3.24 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: LILA, MY LOVE

12-May-1952 Original airdate

starring

Robert Cummings

Gaby Rodgers

Synopsis:
A man is forced to change his passive viewpoint of love or give up his girl. [RF]

 

3.25 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE LONGEST NIGHT

19-May-1952 Original airdate

starring

Joan Caufield

John Newland

Eva Condon

Alice Frost

Synopsis:
A promising concert pianist is guided by her ambitious

mother into rejecting the man she loves. [RF]

 

3.26 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE RINGMASTER

26-May-1952 Original airdate

Written by Keith Winter
starring
Vincent Price
Anna Lee
Paul Lukas
Synopsis:
A former actor who was crippled at the beginning of a brilliant career now

runs an inn and takes delight in cruelly influencing the lives of his guests. [RF]
 

3.27[--] Robert Montgomery presents: CANDLES FOR THERESE

02-Jun-1952 Original airdate

Based on I.A.R. Wylie's story
starring

Grace Kelly ..... Therese

Robert Sterling

Jacques Aubuchon
Nils Asther
Marcel Hillaire
Synopsis:
A tale of hatred and suspicion in a war-ravaged French village. [RF]
 

3.28 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: PENNY

09-Jun-1952 Original airdate

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

Writer: Emily Kimbrough

starring

Joanne Woodward ....... Penny

Walter Abel ....... Father

Anne Seymour

Synopsis:
The harassed but patient father of a distraught 15-year-old

daughter causes drama in her family. [RF]
Notes: Based on the New York Herald Tribune comic strip "Penny".

*Note: This was Joanne Woodward's television debut.

 

3.29 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: OF LENA GEYER

16-Jun-1952 Original airdate

 Adapted from the 1936 novel by Marcia Davenport.

starring

Mimi Benzell ..... Lena Geyer

Cameron Prud'Homme

Anthony Dawson

Synopsis:
A gifted young woman who wins acclaim for her voice

 but fights a losing battle with love. [RF]

 

3.30 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: TIL NEXT WE MEET

23-Jun-1952 Original airdate

starring

Barbara Britton

James Daly

Roland Winters

Synopsis:
A rich girl has difficulty in convincing her hard-boiled boyfriend

 that she can love him despite social differences.[RF]

 

3.31 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: KING OF THE CASTLE

30-Jun-1952 Original airdate

starring

Melville Cooper

J. Pat O'Malley
Frederic Worlock
Robert Coote

Leslie Barrie
Francis Compton
Rex O'Malley

Synopsis:
The last descendant of a line of Scottish lords takes precautions

 to escape a curse that has plagued his family. [RF]

 

3.32[--] Robert Montgomery presents: SHEPPY
07-Jul-1952 Original airdate

(postponed from 18Feb52)
Written by Norman Felton

Directed by Norman Felton

starring
Melville Cooper

Geraldine Fitzgerald
Robert Coote

Synopsis:

An English barber wins the Irish Sweepstakes and decides

to spread his wealth around to those less fortunate. [RF]

3.33 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE CATBIRD SEAT
14Jul1952 Original airdate
Based on James Thurber's novel
starring
John Newland
Vaughn Taylor
Margaret Hayes

Synopsis:
Erwin Martin has been an exemplary and respected head of the filing department

for the past 30 years in the advertising agency of "Fitweiler and Schlosser". [RF]

 Robert Montgomery presents pre-empted for Convention broadcasting
21Jul1952

3.35 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN
28Jul1952 Original airdate
starring
Margaret Hayes
Vaughn Taylor
John Newlandynopsis:
A newspaper publisher has no time for romance and tries to get his paper's

 "Advice to the Lovelorn" column a try on a more scientific basis. [RF]

 

 3.36 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: MR. DOBIE TAKES A POWDER

04-Aug-1952 Original airdate

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes

Director: Norman Felton

Writer: Mathilde and Theodore Ferro

starring

John Newland

Margaret Hayes

Vaughn Taylor

Jack Lemmon

J. Pat O'Malley

Marjorie Eaton

Joseph Boland

Harrison Dowd

Charles Jordan

Rock Rogers

Jim McMahon

Harriet McGibbon

Helen Donaldson

Synopsis:

Mr. Dobie, the extremely capable manager of the household furnishings section of

a department store, is upset when an efficiency expert is forced upon him.

 He rebels, but through a series of events, is rewarded for his loyalty to the

company and the efficiency expert is fired. [TA]

Synopsis 2:
The reliable, meticulous, autocratic Mr. Dobie who takes his first unauthorized

day off from his duties in a department store. He is embroiled in a barroom brawl,

an altercation with the police, and a new experience in life. [RF]

 

3.37 [--] Robert Montgomery presents:  SUMMER STORY
11-Aug-1952 Original airdate
starring
Vaughn Taylor
John Newland
Margaret Hayes

Synopsis:
A girl seeks a husband while on vacation at a summer resort. [RF]

 

3.38 [--] Robert Montgomery presents:  STAND-IN BRIDE
18-Aug-1952 Original airdate
starring
John Newland
Vaughn Taylor
Margaret Hayes

Synopsis:
A dressmaker's employee delivers a bridal gown and finds

herself playing decoy for the wedding party.[RF]

 

3.38 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: NOSTRADAMUS BERRY

25-Aug-1952 Original airdate

starring

John Newland

Margaret Hayes

Vaughn Taylor

Synopsis:
A man has the gift of being able to predict the future. [RF]

 

######### Robert Montgomery Presents #########

############## season 4 1952-53 ##############

##############################################

 NBC Mondays 9:30 pm (Hour Long) 

 

4.01 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: UNCLOUDED SUMMER

01-Sep-1952 Original airdate

starring

Signe Hasso

Richard Kiley
Synopsis:
An American falls in love with a married British noblewoman.

 

4.02 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE LAW-ABIDING

08-Sep-1952 Original airdate

starring

Chester Morris

 

4.03 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: FAIRFIELD LADY

15-Sep-1952 Original airdate

starring

June Havoc

Hugh Reilly
Donald Buka
Heywood Hale Broun

 

4.04 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THERE ONCE WAS A DIAMOND RING
22-Sep-1952 Original airdate
Written by Adrian Spies
starring
Joan Wetmore
Robert Pastene
Reinhold Schunzel
Tamara Daykarhanova
Marcel Hillaire

 

4.05 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: PRECINCT

29-Sep-1952 Original airdate

starring

Paul Kelly

 

4.06 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: SENORA ISABEL

06-Oct-1952 Original airdate

starring

Edmon Ryan
Constance Bennett
Synopsis:
Her husbands pursuit in politics has jeopardized their marriage.

 

4.07 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE FALL GUY

13-Oct-1952 Original airdate

starring

Jackie Cooper

Geraldine Page

 

4.08 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: KEANE VS. KEANE

20-Oct-1952 Original airdate

Written by Elaine Carrington

starring

Wanda Hendrix

Barbara Baxley

 

4.09 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE SHEFFIELD STORY

27-Oct-1952 Original airdate

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

Director: Herbert Swope, Jr.

Writer: Paul Manning & Joe Graham

starring

David Niven ....... Sheffield

Frederic Worlock ........ Sir Oliver

Irja Jensen ........ The Baroness

Francis Bethencourt ....... Lt. Keyes

Kurt Katch ....... Capt. Blucher

Martin Kosleck ........ Capt. Krueger

H.H.V. Twardowski ....... General Von Gruber

Naomi Campbell ....... Madge Sheffield

Valerie Cardew ....... Pamela

Michael McAloney ....... Captain Farnsworth

Peter Pagan ....... The Sentry

Cullen Desmond ....... The Radio Operator

Synopsis:
During World War II a German general was a actually

 a secret agent for the British.

 

4.10 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE BENCH IN THE PARK

03-Nov-1952 Original airdate

starring

Walter Hampden

Margaret Hayes

Henry Jones

 

4.11 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE BIARRITZ SCANDAL

10-Nov-1952 Original airdate

starring

Gene Lockhart

June Lockhart

Synopsis:

An American tycoon and his lovely daughter are almost taken

in by the international set which preys on tourists.

 

4.12 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE DAVIDIAN REPORT

17-Nov-1952 Original airdate

starring

Maria Riva

Robert Sterling

Notes: Adapted from the book by Dorothy B. Hughes.

 

4.13 [--]  Robert Montgomery presents: THE VALERI SPECIAL

24-Nov-1952 Original airdate

starring

  Enzo Pinza ....... Tony Valeri

Synopsis:
An Italian racer is distraught upon learning that he has been replaced.

The race team went with someone younger, his own son. His mechanic

still has faith in "old" man Valeri and builds another car for him to race.

  Contents:  Commercials: Johnson's Wax Products -- Lucky Strike. [UCLA]

 

4.14 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE POST ROAD

01-Dec-1952 Original airdate

starring

Dorothy Gish ....... Emily Madison
Dennis Green
Synopsis:
Emily owns and runs a Connecticut Boarding House.

 

4.15 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE INWARD EYE

08-Dec-1952 Original airdate

starring

Jane Wyatt

Synopsis:
In a case of mistaken identity, a seven year old is kidnapped from his mother.

 

4.16 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: VICTORY

15-Dec-1952 Original airdate

starring

Sidney Blackmer

Margaret Phillips

Synopsis:
A girl is rescued from her job in a hotel by a baron who falls for the girl.

 

4.17 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE CHRISTMAS CARDS

22-Dec-1952 Original airdate

starring

John Newland

Lydia Reed

Synopsis:
A lonely man buys three Christmas cards and mails

each one to a person he has randomly selected.

 

4.18 [--]  Robert Montgomery presents. THE CLOSED DOOR

29-Dec-1952 Original airdate 

a Robert Montgomery production ; producer, Robert Montgomery

director, Norman Felton

writer, Jerome Ross. 

  Source: From a novel by Paul Conant.

starring

  Charlton Heston

Joan Chandler

Jan Miner

Boris Aplon

James Gregory

Dennis Harrison

Edward Cullen

Dorothy Elder

Ed Prentiss

Helen Ray

Gerald Milton

Hosted by Robert Montgomery.

  Summary:

Peter Handley, a detective, is in the hospital for treatment

of a memory block after his girlfriend is found murdered.

Montgomery talks to Heston after the drama concludes.

  Contents:  Commercials: Lucky Strike Cigarettes.

  Broadcast on NBC. [UCLA]

 

4.19 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: KEEP YOUR HEAD UP, MR. PUTNAM

05-Jan-1953 Original airdate

starring

Robert Sterling ...... Peter Putnam

Synopsis:

A young man's experiences at the Seeing Eye School in

 Morristown, New Jersey after losing his sight while a student

at Princeton University.

*Adapted from the 1952 autobiographical novel by Peter Putnam.

 

4.20 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: RICOCHET

12-Jan-1953 Original airdate

starring

Edmond O'Brien

Patricia Benoit
Dorothy Hart
Herbert Rudley
Ernest Graves
Synopsis:
A shady reporter makes a name for himself by

exposing skeletons in other people's closets.

 

4.21 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: MAGGIE, PACK YOUR BAGS

19-Jan-1953 Original airdate

starring

Margaret Hayes

Robert Preston
Synopsis:
An ex-Army officer retired in Mexico with his second wife receive

 an unexpected visit from his son and a general.

 

4.22 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE OUTER LIMIT

26-Jan-1953 Original airdate

starring

Jackie Cooper

Robert H. Harris

Synopsis:
A spaceship becomes lost in space.

 

4.23 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: ELEMENT OF RISK

02-Feb-1953 Original airdate

starring

Brian Aherne

Diana Douglas
Isobel Elsom
Synopsis:
A burnt out actor on a relaxing vacation encounters anything but relaxation.

 

4.24 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE SHADOW LINE
09-Feb-1953 Original airdate
starring
Skip Homier
Leslie Barrie
 

4.25 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE BURTONS

16-Feb-1953 Original airdate

starring

Gene Lockhart

Kathleen Lockhart

June Lockhart

Synopsis:
A family in 1910 New England are informed that their business

stands in the way of a proposed highway.

 

4.26 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: DINAH, KIP AND MR. BARLOW

22-Feb-1953 Original airdate

starring

Jack Lemmon

Diana Lynn

Synopsis:
Two people applying for the same job at an advertising agency find more than they bargained for.

 

4.27 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: BETRAYED

02-Mar-1953 Original airdate

Guest Host Patric Knowles
starring
Jane Wyatt
Joanne Dru
Synopsis:
A widow is informed that her husband may not be dead

but is being held by Communists.

 

4.28 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE CENTRIFUGE
09-Mar-1953 Original airdate
starring
Lisa Ferraday
James Hanley
Synopsis:
An unsuspecting research scientist is led into espionage.
 

4.29 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: TOMORROW WILL SING

16-Mar-1953  Original airdate

starring

Robert Alda

 

4.30 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE BIG NIGHT

23-Mar-1953 Original airdate

starring

Chester Morris

Joan Lorring
Scott McKay
Katharine Bard
Synopsis:
A former Air Force pilot is finding it difficult to adjust to civilian life.

 

4.31 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: BURDEN OF PROOF

30-Mar-1953 Original airdate

written by Gerald Savory

starring

 Boris Karloff

Synopsis:
The murder of a wealthy British aristocrat and the subsequent trial of

his son for the crime, devastates the rest of the family.

 

4.32 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: SECOND-HAND SOFA
06-Apr-1953 Original airdate
starring
Leslie Nielsen
Ann Rutherford
Synopsis:
A couple renting a furnished apartment and blame

 the sofa for causing all their troubles.

 

4.33 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE GLASS CAGE

13-Apr-1953 Original airdate

starring

Lee Bowman

Marilyn Erskine
Synopsis:
An employee accused of embezzling company funds

believes one of the women in the office set him up.

 

4.34 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: WORLD BY THE TAIL

20-Apr-1953 Original airdate

written by Thomas W. Phipps

starring

Phyllis Kirk

Diana Lynn

Hildy Parks

Roger Moore .... French Diplomat

4.35 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: SUMMER TEMPEST

27-Apr-1953 Original airdate

written by Dennis Green

starring

Geraldine Fitzgerald

 

4.36 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: LINDA

04-May-1953 Original airdate

starring

Maria Riva

John Newland

 

4.37 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA

11-May-1953 Original airdate

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

Director: Herbert Swope, Jr.

Writer: Irving Gaynor Neiman

prod #53-1908

starring

Robert Montgomery ....... Julian English

Margaret Hayes

Edward Binns

William Post, Jr.

Richard Carlson

Jack Harvey

Notes: Adapted from John O'Hara novel; death speech

from Sheppey by W. Somerset Maugham; subject - suicide.

 

4.38 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE WIND CANNOT READ

18-May-1953 Original airdate 

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes

Director: Norman Felton

Writer: Therese Lewis

starring

prod #53-2013

Donald Woods

Betty Bendyk

Guy Staul

Roger Moore

Notes: Adapted from the novel by Richard Mason;

subject - World War II.

 

4.39 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: ALL THINGS GLAD AND BEAUTIFUL

25-May-1953 Original airdate 

starring

Fay Bainter

Marshall Thompson

Synopsis:

A devoted mother awaits the return of her GI son.

 

[--] Robert Montgomery presents: STORM

            01-Jun-53 - Larry Gianakos has this date

         UCLA has 25Feb52 possible rerun

 

4.40 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: NO HEAD FOR MOONLIGHT

08-Jun-1953 Original airdate

written by Thomas W. Phipps

starring

Dennis O'Keefe

Mary Sinclair

Synopsis:

Two attractive girls and the romance of moonlight present

a dilemma to a handsome young man.

 

15Jun53 Preempted for Ford 50th Anniversary Show
with Ethel Merman, Oscar Hammerstein, Marian Anderson, Howard Lindsay,

Dorothy Stickney, Mary Martin, Edward R. Murrow. Produced by Leland Hayward

 

4.41 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE WOMAN WHO HATED CHILDREN

22-Jun-1953 Original airdate

written by A.H. Bailey

starring

Leora Dana

Jeffrey Lynn

Kent Smith

Andrew Duggan

Clifford Tatum Jr.

Maxine Stuart
Sally Gracie

Synopsis 1:

After her small son dies, a woman refuses to have anything to do

with any other children.

Synopsis 2:
The transformation of a woman's life is brought about by a small boy.

 

4.42 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: HALF A KINGDOM

29-Jun-1953 Original airdate

written by Theodore & Mathilda Ferro

starring

Wendell Corey

Lynn Loring
Morton L. Stevens
Loring Smith
Lillian Schaaf
Abby Lewis

 

4.43 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE HALF MILLIONAIRE

06-Jul-1953 Original airdate

starring

Elizabeth Montgomery

John Newland

Margaret Hayes

Vaughn Taylor

Synopsis:

A man who has been unsuccessful all his life comes into

a half a million dollars by chance.

*Note: This episode is listed as "The Vise" in the TVGuide,

with the same cast of characters.

 

4.44 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: TWO OF A KIND

13-Jul-1953 Original airdate

written by Theodore & Mathilda Ferro

starring

Elizabeth Montgomery

 

4.45 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: A SUMMER LOVE

20-Jul-1953 Original airdate

starring

Elizabeth Montgomery

John Newland
Vaughn Taylor
Margaret Hayes
Melville Cooper
Gregory Morton
Marshall Thompson

 

4.46 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: ANNE'S STORY

27-Jul-1953 Original airdate

written by Gail Ingram

starring

Elizabeth Montgomery
John Newland
Margaret Hayes
Vaughn Taylor
Judy Parrish

Synopsis:

A young woman who is overshadowed by her more

vivacious younger sister goes away to a summer art colony

and unexpected romance.

 

4.47 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: DUET FOR TWO HANDS

03-Aug-1953 Original airdate

starring

Elizabeth Montgomery

John Newland
Margaret Hayes
Vaughn Taylor

Notes: Adapted from the play by Mary Hayley Bell.

 

4.48 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: RED ROBIN RIDES AGAIN

10-Aug-1953 Original airdate

written by Robert J. Shaw

starring

Elizabeth Montgomery

Marshall Thompson

Vaughn Taylor
John Newland
Margaret Hayes

Synopsis:

Two unemployed actors get involved with a flighty Westchester

club woman.

 

4.49 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: PIERCE 3098

17-Aug-1953 Original airdate

written by Richard Garland

starring

Elizabeth Montgomery

John Newland
Margaret Hayes
Vaughn Taylor

Synopsis:

A husband plots his wife's demise, she won't grant him a divorce.

*Notes: This episode was also known

as "Whom Death Has Joined Together."

 

4.50 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: GRASS ROOTS

24-Aug-1953 Original airdate

written by Jerome Ross

starring

John Newland

Margaret Hayes

Elizabeth Montgomery

Vaughn Taylor

Synopsis:

A young man from a rural area, who is running for congress,

plans an unusual campaign.

 

######### Robert Montgomery Presents #########

############## season 5 1953-54 ##############

##############################################

        NBC Mondays 9:30 pm (Hour Long)

            

5.01 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
31Aug1953 Original airdate
starring
Brian Donlevy
Olive Blakeney
June Dayton
Dean Harris

Synopsis:
A tyrannical business executive's dinner party turns disastrous

when his family, fed up with his controlling ways revolt.

 

5.02 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: PRIVATE PURKEY'S PRIVATE PEACE

07-Sep-1953 Original airdate

written by Irving Gaynor Neiman

starring
Jackie Cooper

5.03 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: LOST AND FOUND

14-Sep-1953 Original airdate

written by Agnes Eckhardt

starring

 Kent Smith

Doreen Lang

Lydia Reed

 Synopsis:

Two refugee children, found in a concentration camp,

 pose a problem for an English social worker.

 

5.04 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: SEPTEMBER TIME

prod #53-3788

21-Sep-1953 Original airdate

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes

Director: Norman Felton

Writer: Thomas W. Phipps

starring

 Ruth Warrick ..... Marion Shaw

Scott Forbes

J. Scott Smart

Jon DeLeo

Synopsis:
Marion Shaw loses her voice and her singing career is over, she retreats

 to Cape Cod and meets a man who gives her a new purpose in life.

 

5.05 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE BIG MONEY

28-Sep-1953 Original airdate

written by Irving Gaynor Neiman

starring
Wendell Corey
Jeanne Shepherd

Synopsis:
A man believes that money can buy happiness when

he not only loses his money but his girl.

 

5.06 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: BREAKDOWN

prod #53-3993

05-Oct-1953 Original airdate

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes

Director: Norman Felton

Writer: Adrian Spies

starring

Brian Aherne

 Margaret Phillips

Scott Forbes

 Frederic Worlock

Francis Compton

Horace Brenham

Synopsis:
A scientist faces a mental breakdown on the brink of

an important research experiment.

Notes: Subject - mental breakdown

 

5.07 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: A CRIMINAL ASSIGNMENT
12-Oct-1953
Written by Denis Green
starring
Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Harold Vermilyea
Halliwell Hobbes
Richard Ahern

Synopsis:
The British Secret Service release a known counterfeiter into

France to find two plates which they were unable to locate.

 

5.08 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE SUNDAY PUNCH

19-Oct-1953 Original airdate

written by Thomas C. Parisi

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes

starring

 Gig Young

Barbara Joyce
Frank Wilson

Synopsis:

Prize fighter Tony Marino discovers that his greatest

weakness is his own sense of honesty and decency.

 

5.09 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: CAKES AND ALE

25-Oct-1953 Original airdate

From the novel by W. Somerset Maugham.
starring

Angela Lansbury
Bramwell Fletcher

Synopsis:
Local barmaid Rosie has quite a story to tell about her marriage to an unsuccessful

middle-aged writer and helped to guide him to becoming a successful one.

 

5.10 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: NO PICNIC AT MT. KENYA

02-Nov-1953 Original airdate

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes

Writer: Irving Gaynor Neiman

Adapted from the book by Felice Venuzzi.

starring

Gary Merrill

George Chandler

Bruce Gordon

Ray Julian

Jan Merlin

 Buck Kartalian

Fred Scollay

Charles Benjamen

Bill Hellinger

Andy Sabilia

Jimmy Wall

 Mike Gazzo

 Ernest Sarracino

Matty Mario

 David Balfour

Synopsis:

The true story of three Italian POW's who escaped from a prison

compound in Africa to scale Mt. Kenya.

 

5.11 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: WEEKEND PASS
09Nov1953
written by Irving Gaynor Neiman
starring
Brian Keith

Synopsis:
A soldier on a weekend pass is determined to paint the

 town in New York City's hotspots.

 

5.12 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE DEEP SIX

16-Nov-1953 Original airdate

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes

Director: Norman Felton

Writer: Robert R. Presnell, Sr.

Adapted from a novel by Martin Dibner

starring

John Payne....... Lt. Alex Austen

Stephen Courtleigh

Scott Forbes

Herbert Rudley

Donald McKee

Raymond Bramley

Terry Becker

Paul Clarke

Al Ramsen

 Leonard Barry

 Raymond Bruce

 Ray McDonnell

 Dennis McCarthy

Roberto Rodriguez

 Philip Foster

 Sidney Paul

Synopsis:

A story of life aboard a Navy cruiser in the Aleutians;

the clash of personalities and the presence of the Japanese enemy.

 

5.13 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: HARVEST

23-Nov-1953 Original airdate

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

Director: James Sheldon

Writer: Sandra Mitchell

Choral director, Ray Porter.

starring

Dorothy Gish ......... Ellen Zalinka

Ed Begley ........... Karl Zalinka

Vaughn Taylor ............ Gramps

James Dean .......... Paul

 Reba Tassell ........ Arlene

John Connell ........ Chuck

John Dennis ....... Joe

Joseph Foley ....... Herb

Nancy Sheridan ........ Louise

 Mary Lou Taylor ....... Fran

Tommy Taylor ....... Kip

 Frank Tweddell ....... Mr. Franklin

 Pidge Jameson ....... Kitty

Peter Lazer ....... Billy

Synopsis:

This heartfelt story of the hopes and dreams of a Minnesota family

 striving against great odds to eke out a living on a small wheat farm.

Synopsis 2:
A farm family looks forward to the coming Thanksgiving with joy, until a series

of setbacks completely changes their life. [RF]

Notes: Subject - family farms
*

PRESERVATION HISTORY:

   Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive from the

    original 16 mm. kinescope.

    Laboratory services by Film Technology Co., Inc.

 

5.14 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE SOPRANO AND THE PICCOLO PLAYER

30-Nov-1953 Original airdate

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes

written by Mary Murry

starring

Francis L. Sullivan

Dana Wynter
*Note this role was originally set to be played by Eva Gabor but
due to illness Dana Wynter took over the role.

 

5.15 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: REALLY THE BLUES
07Dec1953 Original airdate
Written by Agnes Eckhardt

Adapted from the autobiography by jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow
starring
Jackie Cooper

Synopsis:
Jazz clarinetist and saxophonist Mezz Mezzrow was born in Chicago, Illinois.

Jazz was in his blood and so was his opium addiction and jail time.

Working at Capone's club during prohibition he really knew the blues.

5.16 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: NO VISIBLE MEANS
14Dec1953 Original airdate
written by Thomas W. Phipps & John McLain

starring
Robert Montgomery
Claudia Morgan
Patricia Breslin

Synopsis:
A smooth talker, Tom hooks up with Veronica a woman of means,

he soon loses interest in her when he meets Iris, who pretends

 to be something she is not.

 

5.17 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: WHAT ABOUT CHRISTMAS?

21-Dec-1953 Original airdate

written & directed by Norman Felton

starring
John Newland
Rex Thompson
Hugh Reilly

Anita Sharp-Bolster
Gage Clarke
Addison Richards
Gaye Jordan
Leona Powers

Synopsis:
Story about three people, one a lonely old man and his cat,

one an actor waiting for his big break and an obsessed scientist on Christmas.

 

5.18 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE GREATEST MAN IN THE WORLD

28-Dec-1953 Original airdate

written by Theodore & Mathilde Ferro

from the story by James Thurber
starring

Chester Morris

Synopsis:
A mechanic causes a sensation when he flies solo around the world.

 

5.19 [--]  Robert Montgomery presents: THE STEADY MAN

04-Jan-1954 Original airdate

written by Theodore & Matilde Ferro

starring

Leatrice Joy

June Lockhart

Arthur Franz

Synopsis:

A young married couple try to adopt a child.

 

5.20 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: A CASE OF IDENTITY

(aka The Identified Man)

11-Jan-1954 Original airdate

written by Adrian Spies
Based on a true story...made into the 1956 feature film The Wrong Man,

directed by Alfred Hitchcock
sponsored by Lucky Strike
starring
Robert Ellenstein  ... Manny Balestrero
Florence Anglin ..... Rose Balestrero
Synopsis:
A musician is accused and identified as the man who robbed an

insurance company office in a New York suburb,

despite his protestations of innocence.
 

5.21 [--] Robert Montgomery presents:  MACHINAL
18Jan1954
written by Irving Gaynor Neiman
starring
Robert Webber
Carol Stone
Malcolm Lee Beggs

Synopsis:
A young office worker marries her employer, whom she doesn't

love and after several years of boredom and unhappiness she

meets an attractive man.

 

5.22 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: RICHARD SAID NO

25-Jan-1954 Original airdate

starring

Phyllis Thaxter

John Newland

Lisa Farraday

Synopsis:
A publicist for a French perfumer runs into trouble

when he meets a female French publicist at a party,

during his jealous wife's absence.

 

5.23 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE 17th OF JUNE

01-Feb-1954 Original airdate

written by Irving Gaynor Neiman

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

starring

 Wendell Corey

Synopsis:

A little man becomes a hero during the uprisings

in East Berlin on the 17th of June.

Based on a series of articles

 in the New Yorker by Joseph Wechberg.

 

5.24 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: MR. WHITTLE AND THE MORNING STAR

08-Feb-1954 Original airdate

written by Theodore & Mathilde Ferro

Adapted from the 1947 novel by Robert Nathan.

starring

 Elliott Nugent

Nancy Nugent (Elliott's real life daughter)
Flora Campbell
Rex Thompson
Vinton Hayworth
Synopsis:
A history professor decides that the world is coming to an end. [RF]

 

5.25 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND GAY

15-Feb-1954 Original airdate

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

Written by Nathaniel Curtis
Based on the novel by Cornelia Otis Skinner & Emily Kimbrough
Directed by Perry Lafferty

starring

Elizabeth Montgomery ....... Cornelia Otis Skinner

Sally Kemp ....... Emily Kimbrough

Elliott Reid ....... Alistair Cochran

Cliff Robertson ....... Paul Smith

Marjorie Gateson ....... Mrs. Skinner

 John Griggs ....... Mr. Otis Skinner

Earl Hammond ....... Henri

Lucie Lancaster ....... Hawkins

Michael Dreyfus ....... Ralph

 Felix Deebank ....... Band Leader

 Stafford Dickens ....... The Steward

 Peter Pagan ....... The Guide

Synopsis:
The adventures of Cornelia and Emily aboard a luxury ship bound for Europe.

Note: Based on the autobiographical stories of  Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough.

 

5.26 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: LAND OF HAPPINESS

22-Feb-1954 Original airdate

Adapted from a play by Hans Peter Falk-Ronne.

starring

 Osa Massen ....... Liz

Robert Wark ....... Erick Poulson

John Newland ....... Frederick Carstens

 Anne Seymour ....... Baroness

 Synopsis:

A wealthy Copenhagen girl marries a struggling young minister

and goes with him to a lonely Faeroe Island near Iceland. [RF]

 

5.27 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: SUCH A BUSY DAY TOMORROW

01-Mar-1954 Original airdate

written by Sandra Michael

starring

Walter Hampden

Russell Arms
Mary Fickett
Synopsis:
An old man believes he has outlived his usefulness. [RF]

 

5.28 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE PARADISE CAFE

08-Mar-1954 Original airdate

written by Adrian Spies

starring

 Barbara Baxley

James Dunn

Robert Webber
Collette Lyons
Synopsis:
A piano player with big dreams is surrounded by more dreamers.

 

5.29 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE QUALITY OF MERCY

15-March-1954 Original airdate

written by Irving Gaynor Neiman

starring

 Lillian Gish

Mario Alcalde
Synopsis:
Angry patrons call for the police when the baby of an

immigrant couple cries in a movie house. [RF]

 

5.30 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: PINK HIPPOPOTAMUS

22-Mar-1954 Original airdate

starring

Oscar Homolka

Mary Laslo

 Herman Schwedt

Synopsis:

Story about a professional spy behind the Iron Curtain. [RF]

 

5.31 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: MY LITTLE GIRL

29-Mar-1954 Original airdate

written by Noel B. Gerson

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

starring

James Dunn

Lee Remick

William Lundmark

 

5.32 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: FOR THESE SERVICES

05-Apr-1954 Original airdate

written by Theodore & Mathilde Ferro

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes

starring

Raymond Massey ........ Dr. Henry Craig

Arthur Franz ......... His Son

Leora Thatcher ...... Mrs. Woodruff

Gale Page ...... The Girl

Synopsis:

Conflict between father and son, both doctors, about practice of medicine. [RF]

 

5.33 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE PALE BLONDE OF SAND STREET

12-Apr-1954 Original airdate

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
starring

Joan Loring

 Billy Halop

 

5.34 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: BIG BOY

19-Apr-1954 Original airdate

Written by Robert J. Shaw
Directed by Norman Felton
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
starring
Ed Begley ......... Joe Grant
Katherine Squire .. Amy Grant
John Connell ...... Bill Grant
James Boles ....... Ed Marley
Fred Vogel ........ Mickey Ross
Julian Noa ........ Doc Lynch
Jared Reed ........ The Guitarist
 

5.35 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: NO NEED OF FAVOR
(aka Love Story)

26-Apr-1954 Original airdate

written by Gail Ingram Clement

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
starring

Geraldine Fitzgerald

John Newland

Frederic Worlock

 

5.36 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE WAGES OF FEAR

03-May-1954 Original airdate

Written by Adrian Spies
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
starring
Louis Jourdan
Hope Miller

 

5.37 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: PILGRIM'S PRIDE

10-May-1954 Original airdate

written by Irving Gaynor Neiman

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

starring

Elliott Nugent

Cliff Robertson

Audrey Christie

Synopsis:
Taking his client to a meeting in the country, a businessman finds

 his daughter there with a house full of party guests.

 

5.38 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: SKY BLOCK

17-May-1954 Original airdate

written by Denis Green

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes

starring

 Zachary Scott

Vaughn Taylor

 

5.39 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE POWER AND THE PRIZE
24May1954
Adapted for TV by Robert J. Shaw
From the novel by Howard Swiggett
Starring
Robert Montgomery ...... Cleves Barwick
Gusti Huber ............ Rachel
Louis Hector ........... Salt
Collette Lyons ......... Ella
Frank Overton .......... Lester
Addison Richards ....... Henry
Synopsis:
An American businessman falls in love with a refugee from behind the Iron Curtain,

 while in Europe. When he brings the girl back to the States,

 he must fight the prejudice of his associates. [RF]
 

5.40 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: ONCE UPON A TIME

31-May-1954 Original airdate

starring

Elizabeth Montgomery

Peggy Ann Garner

Synopsis:
A bride and groom recall the days of their courtship,

and the people they might have married - if. [RF]

 

5.41 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE PATRIOT FROM ANTIBES

07-Jun-1954 Original airdate

Adapted by Gerald Savory
From a story by Toni Howard
starring
Francis Lederer ....... The Baron
Joan Wetmore .......... The Baroness Helene
Jacques Aubuchon ...... Bertier
Leon Belasco .......... Alberto
Henry Lascoe .......... Emil
Marcel Hillaire ....... Gauraldine
Synopsis:
Based on an actual case taken from the files of the French police,

it involves a handsome young baron and his beautiful wife,

a trunkful of uranium and a fortune in francs. [RF]
 

5.42 [--] Robert Montgomery presents:

      GREAT EXPECTATIONS Part 1. THE PROMISE

14-Jun-1954 Original airdate

story by Charles Dickens

starring

 Estelle Winwood

Rex Thompson

Roddy McDowall

Scott Forbes
Malcolm Lee Beggs
Jacques Aubuchon

 

5.43 [--] Robert Montgomery presents:

   GREAT EXPECTATIONS Part 2. THE REALITY

21-Jun-1954 Original airdate

starring

Roddy McDowall

Estelle Winwood

Rex Thompson

Scott Forbes
Malcolm Lee Beggs
Jacques Aubuchon

Notes: Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens.

 

5.44 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: IN HIS HANDS

28-Jun-1954 Original airdate

Written by Agnes Eckhardt
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
starring

Elizabeth Montgomery

John Newland

Cliff Robertson
Vaughn Taylor
Jan Miner
Also known as "The Decision."

 

5.45 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE EXPERT

05-Jul-1954 Original airdate

starring

Elizabeth Montgomery

Cliff Robertson

John Newland
Jan Miner

*Note: This episode was also known as "The Marriage Expert".

 

5.46 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: STORY ON 11th STREET

12-Jul-1954 Original airdate

written by Elaine Carrington

starring

Elizabeth Montgomery

John Newland
Kevin Coughlin
Notes: Also known as "Don't You Ever Go Home."
 

5.47 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: IT HAPPENED IN PARIS

19-Jul-1954 Original airdate

starring

 Elizabeth Montgomery

Orson Bean

 

5.48 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: PATRICIA

26-Jul-1954 Original airdate

written by Thomas W. Phipps

starring

Elizabeth Montgomery ........ Patricia

John Newland ......... Michael

Vaughn Taylor ........ Captain Crocker

Don Dubbins ........ Luke

Katherine Anderson ....... Mrs. Howes

Synopsis:

A society girl defies family opposition to her desire for the

Bohemian life. She enters an art school and promptly falls in love

 with an older instructor, who rejects her attention. [RF]

 

5.49 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: HOME TOWN

02-Aug-1954 Original airdate

Written by Irving Gaynor Neiman

Adapted from the novel by Cleveland Amory

starring

Cliff Robertson ......... Mitch Hickock

Elizabeth Montgomery ......... Jen Deveraux

Vaughn Taylor ....... William Deveraux

Anne Seymour

Frank Albertson

Jan Miner

 Synopsis:

The story of a country boy who goes to the big city where he

meets a super publicity man and a city-slicker girl. [RF]

 

5.50 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: ABOUT SARA CAINE (Crane?)

09-Aug-1954 Original airdate

starring

Elizabeth Montgomery

Jan Miner

 

5.51 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: INVITATION TO MURDER

16-Aug-1954 Original airdate

Written by Doria Folliott

Adapted from the play Distinguished Gathering by James Parish
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

starring

John Newland .......... Felix

Claudia Morgan ........ Judith

Vaughn Taylor ........ Barnes

Jan Miner ........ Lesley

Nelson Olmsted ......... Rutherford

 Anne Seymour ........ Caroline

 William Neil ........ Williams

Synopsis:

 A publisher who has received a manuscript with damaging

statements about many prominent people invites the author and

 all of those he mentions to a party. The publisher suggest to his

 guests that the best method of retaliation would be for one of them

 to murder the author. [RF]

 

5.52 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: PERSONAL STORY

23-Aug-1954 Original airdate

written by Theodore & Mathilde Ferro

Directed by Norman Felton
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
starring
Elizabeth Montgomery
John Newland
Anne Seymour
Jan Miner
Vaughn Taylor

 

5.53 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: A MATTER OF LUCK

30-Aug-1954 Original airdate

written by Sid Morse

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

starring

John Newland ..... Bill
Elizabeth Montgomery ...... Chris Luck
Vaughn Taylor .... Dabe
Anne Seymour ..... Dr. Matthews
Synopsis:
A down-and-out singer finally gets a chance at success, but something

prevents him from taking advantage of the opportunity. [RF]

 

5.54 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE PEOPLE YOU MEET

06-Sep-1954 Original airdate

Written by Agnes Eckhardt

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
starring
John Newland ........... Dick Perry
Elizabeth Montgomery ... Claire
Vaughn Taylor .......... Harry Knighton
Anne Seymour ........... Grace Knighton
Jan Miner .............. Julia
Synopsis:
A comedy about the trials and tribulations involved in the

Boston pre-Broadway tryout of a new play. [RF]

 

5.55 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: TEN MINUTE ALIBI

13-Sep-1954 Original airdate

Written by Alvin Sapinsley

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

starring

Elizabeth Montgomery .......... Betty

Cliff Robertson ......... Clark

Vaughn Taylor ...... Lester

Robert Webber ...... Philip

William Johnstone ..... Lt. Farmwell

Anne Seymour ..... Landlady

Synopsis:

There are many who despise the scoundrel who runs off with other

men's girlfriends and then blackmails the men who want their lady

loves to return to them [RF]


 

######### Robert Montgomery Presents #########

############## season 6 1954-55 ##############

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        NBC Mondays 9:30 pm (Hour Long)

 

6.01 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: DIARY

20-Sep-1954 Original airdate

Written by Robert E. Sherwood

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
starring
John Cassavettes
Janice Rule
William Langford
Bill Smithers
William A. Lee
Abby Lewis
Wallace Rooney
Arthur O'Connell
Synopsis:
A young small-town girl finds death as well as love with a hoodlum in the big City. [RF]

 

6.02 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: A DREAMER OF SUMMER

27-Sep-1954 Original airdate

written by Noel B. Gerson

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

starring

Jackie Cooper ..... Maurice Gaines
Virginia Vincent .. Rosalie Murphy
Synopsis:
A couple are in love but each is haunted by fear of being found out for

 each has misrepresented himself to the other. [RF]
 

6.03 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: TWO WISE WOMEN

04-Oct-1954 Original airdate

starring

 Paul McGrath

Carl Betz

 Signe Hasso

Synopsis:
A Yankee can't choose between his ever-loving wife

and a Central European charmer. [RF]

 

6.04 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: AUTUMN CROCUS

11-Oct-1954 Original airdate

Adapted from the play by C.L. Anthony
starring
Julie Haydon
Betty Sinclair
George Voskovec

Synopsis:
A vacationing school marm falls in love.

 

6.05 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: A FOREIGN AFFAIR
18Oct1954
starring
Katharine Bard
Steve Cochran
Signe Hasso

Donald McKee
Peter Von Zerneck
Synopsis:
A comedy-romance about fraternization in Germany following World War II.

 

6.06 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: REMOTE

25-Oct-1954 Original airdate

written by Adrian Spies

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

starring
E.G. Marshall
Ellen Cobb-Hill
Edward Andrews

Frank Schofield

George Forrest

Synopsis:
Probing the right and the function of television coverage at a murder trial.

The story of a murder trial of a candidate for Governor of a Southern state unfolds

as a mobile TV unit follows the action. The cameras play an important role

 in bringing the case to its final resolution. [RF]

 

6.07 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: THE GENTLEMAN

01Nov-1954 Original airdate

Written by Theodore and Mathilde Ferro

starring

Donald Woods

Joan Westmore

Lauren Gilbert
J. Pat O'Malley

Synopsis:

A Southerner with a desire to live a normal life gets fed up

with the rush and roar of New York's jungle. He leaves his job

in a brokerage house and his demanding wife to return to the

town where he was raised.

 

6.08 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME [Part 1]

08-Nov-1954 Original airdate

Adapted from the novel by Victor Hugo

starring

Robert Ellenstein ... Quasimodo
Bramwell Fletcher ... Frolio
Celia Lipton ........ Esmerelda
Hurd Hatfield
Mary Sinclair
Frederic Worlock
Scott Forbes
James Milhollin
Ronald Long
Tom Duggan
David Lewis

Synopsis:

A Gypsy defends a deformed bell ringer who is accused of murder.

Notes: Based on the 1939 feature film The Hunchback of Notre Dame starring Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara.

 

6.09 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME [Part 2]

15-Nov-1954 Original airdate

as above

 

6.10 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: HOMECOMING

22-Nov-1954 Original airdate

Written by Noel B. Gerson
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

starring

Don Taylor ......... Mark Pine
Joanne Woodward .... Elsie
John Lupton ........ Charlie
June Dayton ........ Irene Wyzinsky
Ken Konopka ........ Paul Wyzinsky
Marcus Valen ....... Rock
Patricia Breslin
Synopsis:
A college football star falls for a rich co-ed and this could be his ticket for success.

 

6.11 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: JUDITH

29-Nov-1954 Original airdate

Story by Britain's A.E. Coppard
starring
Margaret Phillips ..... Judith
Scott Forbes
Tom Duggan
Christopher Hewett
Synopsis:
A haughty lady falls in love with a young schoolteacher who knows

his place but cannot keep it. There is a murder, and the young man will hang

 if the lady doesn't reveal that they spent the night in question together.

Will she tell? Won't she? The lady confesses, but the young man hangs anyway. [RF]
 

6.12 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: DR. ED

06-Dec-1954 Original airdate

written by Sandra Michael

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

starring

Walter Matthau

Lucy Lancaster

Synopsis:
A true story based on Dr. Edward Conner who opened a clinic for handicapped children.

 

6.13 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: END OF A MISSION

13-Dec-1954 Original airdate

written by James Sheldon

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
starring

Leslie Nielsen

Lilia Skala
Joan Elan

Anatol Winogradoff
Synopsis:
A pilot thought to have died in a plane crash delays his return to the American

forces to stay near the girl he loves. He does return home one day, both a dead

 hero and a live deserter to face the military verdict on his actions.

 

6.14 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: DAVID COPPERFIELD Part 1: THE SEARCH

20-Dec-1954 Original airdate

Teleplay by Doria Folliott

Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens
starring

David Cole ....... David Copperfield

Ralph Bunker ....... Mr. Wickfield

Earl Montgomery ....... Uriah Heep

Sarah Marshall ....... Agnes Wickfield

Carolyn Lee ....... Dora

Ethel Owen ....... Aunt Betsey

Frederic Worlock ....... Mr. Spenlow

Cavada Humphrey ....... Jane Murdstone

J. Pat O'Malley ....... Mr. Micawber

Isobel Elsom ....... Mrs. Micawber

Anthony Kemble-Clark ....... Mr. Jorkins

Josephine Brown ....... Mrs. Crupp

 

6.15 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: DAVID COPPERFIELD Part 2: THE REWARD

27-Dec-1954 Original airdate

Writer: Doria Folliott

starring

David Cole ....... David Copperfield

Ralph Bunker ....... Mr. Wickfield

Earl Montgomery ...... Uriah Heep

Sarah Marshall ....... Agnes Wickfield

Carolyn Lee ....... Dora

Ethel Owen ....... Aunt Betsey

Frederic Worlock ....... Mr. Spenlow

Cavada Humphrey ....... Jane Murdstone

J. Pat O'Malley ....... Mr. Micawber

Isobel Elsom ....... Mrs. Micawber

Anthony Kemble-Clark ....... Mr. Jorkins

Josephine Brown ....... Mrs. Crupp

Notes: Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens. 

 

6.16 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: DEATH AND THE SKY ABOVE

03-Jan-1955 Original airdate

starring

Jeffrey Lynn

Gale Page

Nancy Guild

Staats Cotsworth

Notes: Adapted from the 1953 novel by Andrew Garve.

 

6.17 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: A NIGHT FOR DREAMING

10-Jan-1955 Original airdate

starring

Inger Stevens

Midge Ware
Carol Gustafson

 

6.18 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: THE CYPRESS TREE

17-Jan-1955 Original airdate

written by Robert J. Shaw

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

starring

Dorothy Stickney

June Walker
Katherine Squire

Synopsis:
After the death of her husband, a widow tries to move on with her life,

but her sister won't let her.

 

6.19 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: JOE'S BOY

24-Jan-1955 Original airdate

starring

James Dunn

Jo Van Fleet

Lee Bergere
Loretta Leversee

 

6.20 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: DEADLINE

31-Jan-1955 Original airdate

written by Noel B. Gerson

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

starring

Peggy Ann Garner

 

6.21 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: THE LOST WEEKEND

07-Feb-1955 Original airdate

Adapted from the novel by Charles R. Jackson

starring

Robert Montgomery  .... Don Birnam
Edward Andrews ....... Birnam's Friend
Leora Dana ........... Birnam's Girlfriend
Walter Matthau ....... The Bartender

Synopsis:
An alcoholic must deal with demons or lose everything that matters to him.
Notes: After the 1945 feature film; subject - alcoholism.

 

6.22 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: THE BREAKING POINT

14-Feb-1955 Original airdate

written by Alfred Geto

starring

Geoffrey Horne ....... Cal Travers
Barry Jones .......... Professor Staver
Sally Kemp ........... Helen Staver
Peter Fernandez ...... Vince Clark

Synopsis:

A pre-med college professor, whose wife died on the operating table,

makes exams especially difficult for his students. His aim is to weed

out those unworthy of the trust of the medical profession.

 

6.23 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: COMING OF AGE
(aka Halfway House)

21-Feb-1955 Original airdate

starring

Robin Morgan

Lee Bowman

Jan Miner

 

6.24 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: A VERY SPECIAL WORLD
(aka It Depends On You) 

28-Feb-1955 Original airdate

written by Agnes Eckhardt

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

starring

 Jackie Cooper

Lee Remick

Bramwell Fletcher

 

6.25 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: A MATTER OF DIGNITY

07-Mar-1955 Original airdate

written by Alvin Sapinsley

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
starring

John Cheever ....... Mr. Blake

Elizabeth York ....... Ruth Dent

June Dayton ....... Lila Blake

Anne Seymour ....... Mrs. Compton

Mason Adams ....... Mr. Watkins

Barbara Townsend ....... Miss Fiske

 Synopsis:

A secretary carries out a plan to wreak vengeance on her

unfeeling boss.

 

6.26 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: A STONE FOR HIS SON
(aka "A Westerner's Race")

14-Mar-1955 Original airdate

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

starring

Walter Matthau

Lin McCarthy
Gale Page

Jo Ralib

Synopsis:
A young man's marriage is threatened by his racist father.

 

6.27 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: N.Y. TO L.A.

21-Mar-1955 Original airdate

written by Robert J. Shaw

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
starring

Charles Drake ...... Johnny Bond
Edward Binns ....... Dan Thompson
Pamela Rivers ...... Joan Winters
Loretta Daye ....... Sally Ingells
Synopsis:
An unscrupulous young actor uses those around him in his plans to get ahead.

 It is the girl he leaves behind in New York and the woman he meets while making a

Hollywood screen test who are most deeply affected by his ruthlessness. [RF]
 

6.28 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: THE IRON COBWEB

28-Mar-1955 Original airdate

 Adapted from the 1953 novel by Ursula Curtiss.

starring

Geraldine Fitzgerald .. Elizabeth
Hugh Reilly ........... Oliver
Polly Rowles .......... Lucy
David Lewis ........... Steve
Judy Sanford .......... Mary
Larry Biggio .......... Jeep
Betty Low ............. Noreen
Mildred Baker ......... Constance
Synopsis:
After losing her newborn, a woman returns to the hospital and she realizes

 that someone wants to make her seem unhinged.

 

6.29 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: THE TENDER LEAVES OF HOPE

04Apr-1955 Original airdate

Written by Mathilde and Theodore Ferro
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
starring

Raymond Massey ......... Dr. Clark Evans

Anne Seymour .......... Linda Evans

 Robert Goodier ........ Dr. Haskell

Norman Rose ......... Dr. Archer

Harrison Dowd ...... Mr. Sproule
Doris Dalton ....... Marian
John Hodges ......... Miss Whittesley
Viola Roche ........ Miss Kelsey

 Synopsis:

 The head surgeon at a major metropolitan hospital

injures his hand in an auto accident. The years he has devoted to

his profession, the skill he has developed--all seem worthless now. [RF]

 

[---] Robert Montgomery presents: The Great Gatsby
11Apr1955 (postponed due to Montgomery's illness aired May 9, 1955)

 

6.30 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: P.J. MARTIN AND SON

18-Apr-1955 Original airdate

written by Robert J. Shaw

Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
starring

 Edna Best .......... Pauline Martin
Lin McCarthy ........ David
Jack Mullaney .......... Tommy
Gloria Stroock ........ Joan
Lori March ........ Emily
Ann Dere ....... Hilda Nelson
Raymond Bramley ....... Mike Stark
Philippa Bevans ...... Sarah Stark
William Erwin ......... Jens Nelson
Synopsis:
Pauline Martin discovers too late that she can't run her family

as she has run her successful construction business. She has

lost the love of her two sons. [RF]

 

6.31 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: THE TALL DARK MAN

25-Apr-1955 Original airdate

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

Director: Grey Lockwood

Writer: Milton Gelman

starring

Robin Morgan ........ Sarah Gross

Mary Jackson ......... Mrs. Gross

Val Avery ......... Philip Reilly the Tall Dark Man

Joe Latham ..... Mr. Grayson

Al Checco ......... Smith

Rosemary Murphy ......... Miss Milford

Charles Gaines ......... Mr. Mulligan

Margaretta Warwick .......... Miss Everett

Anita Bayliss ........... Miss Appleby

Ben Yafee ....... Mr. Gross

Truman Smith ....... Rowland Rath

Billy Buckley ......... Walter

Sandy Horn ....... Rosalind

Denise Alexander ........ Jeannie

Janet Alexander ........ Katherine

Synopsis 1:

An unpopular young girl with a penchant for inventing stories

witnesses a murder, but no one will believe her story...except the killer. [JB]

Synopsis 2:

A young girl, addicted to the telling of tall tales,

sees a murder committed outside her schoolroom window.

To her terror, she realizes that the murderer saw her too.

*Adapted from the novel by Anne Chamberlain.

 

6.32 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: BELLA FLEACE GAVE A PARTY

02-May-1955 Original airdate

Sponsor: American Tobacco

Director: Norman Felton

Writer: Doria Folliott

Adapted from the novel by Evelyn Waugh
starring

Fay Bainter

J. Pat O'Malley

Chester Stratton

Frederic Worlock

Ralph Bunker

John McLiam

Ronald Long

Patricia Moore

Harrison Dowd

Marjorie Eaton

 Beulah Garrick

Philipa Bevans

Cecil Clovelly

 

6.33 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: THE GREAT GATSBY
09May1955
Written by Alvin Sapinsley
Adapted from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

starring
Robert Montgomery ........ Gatsby
Phyllis Kirk ......... Daisy
Lee Bowman ....... Nick

(Ed Binns was to play Nick at original airing but was unavailable for this airing.)

Gena Rowlands ....... Myrtle
John Newland ....... Tom Buchanan
Ralph Bunker ....... Portly Man
Frederic Worlock ........ Middle-aged Man
Jane Heller ........ Young Girl
Gage Clark ........ Chauffeur
Scott Tennyson ....... Wilson
Synopsis:
The story of a man's pathetic longing to regain the sweetheart who, in his youth,

jilted him for a wealthy boy. Through nefarious schemes, Gatsby is now

rich himself. He sets himself up as a more attractive prospect,

  despite the fact that the girl has long since married his rival. [RF]
      *Note This episode was postponed from April 11, 1955,

      due to Robert Montgomery's illness.

 

6.34 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: THE CAGE

prod #55-2025

16-May-1955 Original airdate

Sponsor: American Tobacco

Director: Norman Felton

Writer: Paul Manning and Joseph Graham

starring

Colin Keith-Johnston ........ Colonel Townes

Sam Gray ........ Jan Lootens

 Svea Grunfeld ......... Hilda Narden

Christopher Hewitt ........ Major Sanders

Bruno Wick ........ Henrick Roosendaal

Synopsis:

A spy drama set in London during World War II, it tells of the efforts

of British counter-espionage agents to track down a dangerous

German spy. "The Cage" is the building taken over by the British

agents where they hold all interrogations.
Note: Subject - British Secret Service

 

6.35 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: THE DRIFTER

23-May-1955 Original airdate

written by John Vlahos
from "The Girl From Frisco" by William Herman.

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
starring

 Zachary Scott ......... Owen Gilroy
Sally Gracie ........ Mercedes McCall
David White ....... Barney
Philip Kenneally ....... Bruce Wyman
Fred Herrick ........ Bannister
Coe Norton ........ Margeson
Jack Manning ........ Caswell
Ed Lattimer ....... Trayford
William Windom
Synopsis:
This saga of the Old West tells of a drifter named Owen Gilroy

and a dance-hall girl from San Francisco. As joint inheritors of a

stagecoach line, their first job is to find the unknown person who's

 trying to destroy the business.

 

6.36 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: NOW OR NEVER

30-May-1955 Original airdate

written by Martha Wilkerson

starring

Barbara Britton ......... Liz
Christopher Dark ........ Jack
Dorothy Blackburn ........ Mrs. Brownley
Keith Clark .......... Clay
James Milhollin ...... Hank

Humphrey Davis ........ First Conductor
Joseph Leberman ...... Second Conductor
Josephine Brown ...... Landlady
Synopsis:
We soon realize that Liz and Jack, who met at the

Stamford, Connecticut express have seen each other

before. Through flashbacks, their story is told.

 

6.37 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: THE KILLERS

06-Jun-1955 Original airdate

Written by Milton Gelman
Adapted from the short story by Ernest Hemingway
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

starring

Luther Adler

Katherine Squire
Jack Mullaney
Harry Bellaver
Jenny Egan
Luis Van Rooten

Notes: From a 1946 feature film.

 

6.38 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: SECOND CHANCE
(aka "Everything For Andy")

13-Jun-1955 Original airdate

Written by Mathilde and Theodore Ferro
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
starring
Diana Hyland  ...... Judy (credited as Diana Gentner)
Henry Garrard ..... Andy

Barry McGuire ..... Tom
Ken Konopka ....... Sam
George Gilbreath .. George
Ruth Saville ...... Lol
George McIver ..... Doug
Jimsey Somers ..... Ellen

Synopsis:
Feeling indebted to his family who sacrificed so much for him to attend college,

Andy almost ruins his academic career.

 

6.39 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: THERE'S NO NEED TO SHOUT

20-Jun-1955 Original airdate

written by Doria Folliott

Adapted from the autobiographical story by Frances Warfield
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

starring

Mark Roberts

Nancy Malone ...... Frances Warfield

Eric Sinclair

William A. Lee

Synopsis:

Tells how Miss Frances Warfield, a successful newspaperwoman,

almost ruined both her career and her chances for personal happiness

by refusing to admit her partial deafness. 

 

6.40 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: TOWHEAD

27-Jun-1955 Original airdate

written by John McLiam

starring

Charles Drake ........ Ivan

Deidre Owens ........ Miss Evans

Glenn Walken ........ Michael

Audra Lindley ....... Maggie

Synopsis:

Tells the warm tale of a little boy who's desperately in love

with his schoolteacher. Set in a northwestern frontier town.  [RF]

 

6.41 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: THE FOURTH OF JULY

04-Jul-1955 Original airdate

written by John Newland
Adapted from the story by S.S. Schweitzer.

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

starring

 Gale Page

Carlos Montalban
Svea Grunfeld
Charles Drake
Eric Sinclair
Luis Van Rooten
House Jameson

Coe Norton

Note: This was the first show of the summer stock season.

 

6.42 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: THE PAPER HERO

11-Jul-1955 Original airdate

written by Dagny Delph

starring

 Gwen Van Dam

John Gibson
Dorothy Blackburn
Elizabeth Eustis
House Jameson
*Note: This episode was also known as The Well-Wisher.

 

6.43 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: THE DIAMOND CURTAIN

18-Jul-1955 Original airdate

written by Thomas W. Phipps

starring

Charles Drake

Augusta Dabney

House Jameson

Dorothy Blackburn

Synopsis:

A small-town girl who has become a New York fashion expert

discovers that love is not always a simple thing. The "diamond curtain'

that surrounds New York society threatens to keep her from the man

she loves.

 

6.44 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: DECISION BY MORNING

25-Jul-1955 Original airdate
written by Theodore & Matilda Ferro
Adapted from the novel by Sylvia Cooper.

starring
Charles Drake
Eric Sinclair
Dorothy Blackburn
Augusta Dabney
House Jameson

*Note: This episode was also known as "Thunder Stone".

 

6.45 [---] Robert Montgomery presents:  A SLIGHTLY IMPORTANT MAN
01-Aug-1955 Original airdate
Written by Noel B. Gerson

starring
Eric Sinclair
Augusta Dabney
House Jameson

6.46 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: UNCLE SNOWBALL

08-Aug-1955 Original airdate

Written by Doria Folliott
starring

Charles Drake

Augusta Dabney
House Jameson
Dorothy Blackburn

Synopsis:

The tale of elderly handyman Uncle Snowball,

 whose wanderlust has carried him all over the U.S. He's now

living in a small town where it looks like he's found the woman who

will make him settle down.

 

6.47 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: LATE LOVE

15-Aug-1955 Original airdate

Written by Gail Ingram
Adapted from the play by Rosemary Casey
Directrd by Robert Ellenstein

Sponsor: Richard Hudnut Beauty Products
starring

Augusta Dabney ........... Constance Warburton

House Jameson .......... Graham Colby

Charles Drake ........ Billy Gordon

Eric Sinclair ........ Matthew Anderson

Viola Roche ....... Mrs. Colby

Rosemary Prinz ....... Janet Colby

 Nellie Burt ........ Sarah

Synopsis:

A sophisticated lady artist arrives at the house

of a famous novelist to paint his portrait. But soon she's also

busy freeing the house of the tyranny imposed in it by the novelist's

domineering mother. The priggish novelist offers her little help. 

** This is the same play in which Elizabeth Montgomery had a

role on Broadway in 1953. That role is taken here by Rosemary Prinz.

 

6.48 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: ROSIE
(aka A Woman With a Past)
22-Aug-1955 Original airdate
written by Milton Gelman
starring
Bibi Osterwald
Carlos Montalban
Eric Sinclair

Alfred Drake
Augusta Dabney
Dorothy Blackburn
Synopsis:
An office secretary likes to live in a dreamworld. She has been engaged

 to a dentist for 10 years. The doctor feels he must have security

before he settles down to wed and start a family. [RF]

 

6.49 [---] Robert Montgomery presents: THE RETURN OF JOHNNY BURRO

29-Aug-1955 Original airdate

Sponsor: Richard Hudnut Beauty Products

Director: Frank Telford

Writer: Milton Gelman

Announcer: Art Fleming

starring

Charles Drake ........ Lew

Augusta Dabney ....... Allie

House Jameson ........ George

Eric Sinclair ........ Johnny

Bill Johnstone ....... Russell

Wyatt Cooper ........ Mr. Cook

Jay Barney

Ken Renard

Synopsis:

An outlaw attempts a reunion with his former partner-in-crime,

and the girl who once loved him. Now she is the ex-partner's

sweetheart. Set in New Mexico.

*Adapted from Outlaw's Daughter by John Cunningham

Contents:  Commercials: Richard Hudnut Beauty Products --

Listerine -- Antizume Toothpaste -- Johnson's Wax. Glo-Coat.

  Broadcast on NBC. [UCLA]

In these summer episodes of Robert Montgomery presents,

a permanent cast of summer stock players were presented each week in a

 different play. Following this particular play, cast members make a plea

for donations to the Red Cross to help victims of the recent Hurricane

Diane which ravaged New York and New England.

 

######### Robert Montgomery Presents #########

############## season 7 1955-56 ##############

##############################################

        NBC Mondays 9:30 pm (Hour Long)

 

7.01[--] Robert Montgomery presents: DEAR EMILY
05-Sep-1955 Original airdate
written by Elaine Carrington
starring
Dorothy Blackburn
Augusta Dabney
Charles Drake
House Jameson
Eric Sinclair

Synopsis:
A controlling father is ruining his daughter's life with his possessive manner. [RF]
 

7.02 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: WOMAN IN THE WINDOW

12-Sep-1955 Original airdate

Adapted by Doria Folliott

Based on the novel "Once Off Guard" written by J.H. Wallis

starring

Robert Preston .... Professor Richard Wanley
Maria Riva ........ Alice Reed

Synopsis:
A college professor falls for the beautiful woman in the painting

next to the club that he is a member of. One day he meets her and is

 invited to her apartment for some champagne and ..... a murder. [RF]

Note: Based on the subsequent 1944 feature film "The Woman in the Window"

 starring Edward G. Robinson and Joan Bennett.

 

7.03 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: MR. AND MRS. MONROE

19-Sep-1955 Original airdate

Sponsor:

Director: John Newland

Writer: St. John Terrell

starring

Edward Andrews ........ Mr. Monroe

Augusta Dabney ....... Mrs. Monroe

Humphrey Davis

Synopsis:

Story of a meek husband and his skeptical spouse.

Mrs. Monroe kindly takes off for Europe, leaving Mr. Monroe free to

indulge his dreams of being bold, brave, debonair and well-informed,

without the deflating presence of Mrs. Monroe. Among his fantasies is

one in which he triumphs over an escaped convict. In another,

Monroe the Fierce nabs a desperate diamond smuggler.

*Adapted from a story by James Thurber.

 

7.04 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: ALONG CAME JONES

26-Sep-1955 Original airdate

Adapted by by Doria Folliott

Based on the novel by Alan LeMay

starring

Charlton Heston ....... Melody Jones

Pat Roe ......... Cherry de Longpre

Lonny Chapman ....... George Fury
Synopsis:
A plucky cowboy triumphs over both the cops and robbers

 while winning the love of spirited damsel.

*Adapted from the novel by Alan LeMay

and the subsequent 1945 feature film

starring Gary Cooper and Loretta Young in the lead roles.

 

7.05 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE STRANGER

03-Oct-1955 Original airdate

Written by Doria Folliott

starring

 John Baragrey

Barbara Britton

Parker Fennelly

Luis Van Rooten
Jack Livesy

 

7.06 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: PAPER TOWN

10-Oct-1955 Original airdate

Written by Robert J. Shaw
Directed by John Newland
starring

Sidney Blackmer ..... Vardis Ward
Jan Miner ........... Jennie Ward
Jack Mullaney ....... Robert Ward
Pat Sales ........... Jane Ward
Synopsis:
The son of a lumber baron is expected to take over his father's

business even though he wants to finish law school. [RF]

 

7.07 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: TOMORROW IS FOREVER

17-Oct-1955 Original airdate

written by Ray Bailey

starring

Gale Storm

William Windom

Robert Ellenstein

Notes: Adapted from the 1946 feature film scenario.

 

7.08 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: MAN LOST

Original Air Date: October 24, 1955 Original airdate

Sponsor: Schick

Director: Perry Lafferty

Writer: William Kendall Clarke

starring

Franchot Tone

Phillip Bourneuf

Lee Remick

Earl Hammond

Aneta Corsaut

Note: Subject - self-confidence

 

7.09 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: IN A FOREIGN CITY

31-Oct-1955 Original airdate

written by John McPhee
from Robert Coates' short story

starring

John Hudson ........ Chuck Cormoran
Jack Manning ........ Matt Schorrell
Tony Bickley .......... Frank Schumacher
Joseph Campanella ......... Tony

Synopsis:
A somewhat weak-minded college graduate has one drink too

 many at the downtown club. As a lark, he pretends to be a holdup

 man. The results are most unfunny.

 

7.10 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE WORLD TO NOTHING

07-Nov-1955 Original airdate

written by Abby Mann

starring

Eddie Albert ......... Jesse
Marian Winters ....... Miriam
Dolores Sutton ....... Gloria
Burt Brinckerhoff
Brett Somers
Patricia Bosworth
A matinee idol realizes that gaining success has lost him all that is

 important in his personal life. He has alienated his wife, his daughter

and his girlfriend. His family, friends and associates will have little

to do with him.

 

7.11 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: CRY SILENCE

14-Nov-1955 Original airdate

adapted by Milton Gelman

starring

 Edward Andrews .......... Agent
George Mathews ......... Bill Meyers
Anne Seymour ........ Sara

Synopsis:
The young wife of a farmer dies in a tragic "accident".

The county police officers wonder whether or not the death

was accidental.
Note: Adapted from the short story by Fredric Brown.

 

7.12 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: ISOBEL

21-Nov-1955 Original airdate

written by Doria Folliott
directed by John Newland
starring
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Alfred Ryder
Anne Meacham
Viola Roache
Robert Carroll
A successful lady detective-story writer is the

last person to see alive a young girl named Isobel.

The authoress becomes involved in the girl's murder

because she uses the name of Isobel for one of her

detective story heroines.

 

7.13 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: END OF THE RAINBOW
28-Nov-1955 Original airdate
written by Theodore & Matilda Ferro
starring
George Voskovec
A factory worker learns from his immigrant brother that there

 are two kinds of Iron Curtains.

 

7.14 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: LUCIFER

05-Dec-1955 Original airdate

written by J. Harvey Howells

starring

Charles Dingle

John Newland

House Jameson

Synopsis:

A publishing house manager has, in the course of his career,

caused much unhappiness among his colleagues. It's inevitable

that he, too, should be made to suffer.

 

7.15 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: SEE THE MAN
12-Dec-1955 Original airdate
written by Theodore & Matilda Ferro
starring
Skip Homeier
Jan Miner

 

7.16 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: QUALITY TOWN

19-Dec-1955 Original airdate

Writer: William Kendall Clarke

starring

Piper Laurie ......... Clovis Spender

Lee Bowman ...... Stacey Spender

Mary Fickett .......... Amanda Cole

 Raymond Bramley ....... Mr. Wherry

James Reese ....... Cass Lomax

Synopsis:

A millionaire oil tycoon who has risen in the ranks from a position

as a wildcatter, tries to give his daughter all the material things he

lacked.

 

7.17 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE SECOND DAY OF CHRISTMAS

26-Dec-1955 Original airdate

starring

Lois Smith

  Charles Taylor

 

7.18 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THREE MEN FROM TOMORROW

02-Jan-1956 Original airdate

Sponsor: Schick

Director: John Newland

Writer: Robert J. Shaw

Synopsis:

Jack Mullaney

Bill Daniels

Tom Ellis

 Lee Remick

Notes: Subject - teenagers

 

7.19 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE END OF THE TETHER

09-Jan-1956 Original airdate

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

Director: James Yarbrough

Writer: Abby Mann

Synopsis:

Barry Jones

Richard Newton

Jack Livesey

Maureen Hurley

Note: Adapted from the 1902 novel by Joseph Conrad;

subject - ship's captain, integrity.

 

7.20 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE TYRANT

16-Jan-1956 Original airdate

Sponsor: Schick

Directed by Perry Lafferty

Written by Franklin Barton

Synopsis:

June Havoc ......... Crystal Davis

Ray Bramley .... Zale Yoder

Eric Sinclair ......... Malcolm Craig

Gale Page

Jay Barney

Synopsis:
A father and son are determined to control the town of Prairieview just

as their ancestors did. They learn that running a Western town is not as

 easily done today as a century ago. Among the obstacles the pair encounters

 is a progressive young lady who runs the local newspaper. [RF]
 

7.21 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: AFTERMATH

23-Jan-1956 Original airdate

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

Director: John Newland

Writer: Merwin Gerard

Synopsis:

Charles Drake ...... Paul Doniger
Martin Ritt ........ Hugo Green
Olive Deering ...... Eleanor
Judith Braun ....... Eve
Harry Bannistter ... Mr. Walker
House Jameson ...... Lawrence Webber
Synopsis:
A promising young lawyer must make peace with his own conscience before he can

 marry the girl he loves. He is haunted by the memory of a murder for which a friend was

 executed. Believing that he was innocent, the young man must search for the real killer. [RF]
Notes: Subject - Mystery

 

7.22 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: MR. TUTT BAITS THE HOOK

30-Jan-1956 Original airdate

Sponsor: Schick

Adapted by Murray Burnett
Based on a story by Arthur Train
Directed by James Yarbrough

starring
Parker Fennelly .... Mr. Ephraim Tutt
Hal Cooper ......... Ed Wilson
Dolores Mann ....... Kitty
Tom Middleton ...... Henry Clark
Ian Martin ......... Jason Kirby
Karl Weber ......... Judge Thompson
Les Damon .......... Mose Higgins
Stewart Bradley .... Bonnie Doon
Synopsis:
Mr. Tutt a famous small-town lawyer comes to the aid of a young man

accused of murder. Combining his skill at fishing with his knowledge of the law,

 Tutt baits a legal hook to free the accused. [RF]
*Note:

Based on the series of Saturday Evening Post

stories Tutt and Mr. Tutt by Arthur Train; subject - courtroom drama.

 

7.23 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: GOOD FRIDAY, 1865

06- Feb-1956 Original airdate

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

Director: Perry Lafferty

Writer: John Lewellen

starring

Michael Allen

William A. Lee

Charles Aidman

John Griggs

Anne Seymour

Walter Kinsella

Suggested by William A. Ferguson autobiography I Saw Booth Shoot Lincoln; subject -

Lincoln's assassination as seen through the eyes of a 14-year-old boy

 

7.24 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE MAN WHO VANISHED

13-Feb-1956 Original airdate

Director: John Newland

Writer: John McPhee

starring

Gene Rayburn

Augusta Dabney

Loraine Grover

Sam Gray

Robert Carroll

Frederic Worlock

Henry Sharp

 Jack Manning

Martine Bartlett

Catherine Payne

Louis Sorin

Mary Jackson

Leslie Barrett

 Ben Yaffee

 Fay Sappington

Synopsis:

This fantasy centers around a middle-aged businessman who comes the conclusion

that the freedom of his youth was worth more than the success and security he now enjoys.

But his mental retreat into the past has a startling physical effect. As he dreams of happier days,

he becomes dimmer and dimmer--actually begins to fade--in the eyes of the people he knows. [RF]

*Adapted from a story in The New Yorker magazine by Robert M. Coates.

 

7.25 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: AN EXCUSE FOR SHANKS
20-Feb-1956 Original airdate
written by Gilbert S. Faust
starring
William Redfield

 

7.26 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: END OF MORNING

27-Feb-1956 Original airdate

Written by William Kendall Clarke

starring

Jackie Cooper ..... Willy Benton
Joan Loring ....... Harriet Benton
Joseph Boland ..... Mr. Benton
Peter Lazer ....... Richie
William A. Lee .... Doc
Jan Miner ......... Irene
Katherine Squire .. Mrs. Shelby
Synopsis:
A school bus is hit by a railroad train and several children are killed.

The bus driver is faced with the dreadful responsibility for this tragic accident. [RF]
 

7.27 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: SON OF ADAM

05-Mar-1956 Original airdate

written by Theodore & Matilda Ferro
starring
Raymond Massey ....... Judge Benton

Synopsis:
A man so renowned for his honesty and integrity he has been nicknamed

 "the saint". But no man is perfect, and the judge learns a few facts of life

when he enters politics. [RF]

 

7.28 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE BRIEFCASE

12-Mar-1956 Original airdate

written by J. Harvey Howells

starring

Gloria DeHaven ... Betty Laurence
Edmon Ryan ....... Jim Hart
John Hudson ...... Harry Jones
Logan Ramsey ..... Paul Hartell
Edward Holmes .... Herb
Synopsis:
Two young men, both employed in similar positions by a large business firm,

 have different ideas about getting ahead. One is ruthless in his ambition,

while the other believes in ethics and fair play. A promotion, given to one,

has a big effect on both of their lives. [RF]
 

7.29 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE SECRET

19-Mar-1956 Original airdate

written by Milton Gelman

starring

Don Gordon
Nita Talbot
Edward Holmes
Synopsis:

A secret black box is guarded by a lumberjack. Others in the camp

find this intriguing and speculate about the contents of the box,

are they love letters or evidence of a murder. [RF]
 

7.30 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE LONG WAY HOME

26-Mar-1956 Original airdate

Sponsor: Schick

Director: John Newland

Writer: Burton J. Rowles and Robert Wallace

starring

John Beal ........... Commuter
Alfred Ryder ........ Detective
Betty Low ........... Margaret
Rosemary Murphy ..... Chorny
Mike Keene .......... Dr. Jack
Catherine Payne ..... Gray Woman
Fred Herrick ........ Brakeman
Humphrey Davis ...... Conductor
Ray Boyle ........... First Policeman
Gaye Jordan ......... Nurse
Synopsis:
A commuter suffers a heart attack as he is boarding a train in Grand Central Station

 in New York City, on his way to his home in Connecticut. [RF]
*NOTE: Based on a factual article by Robert Wallace in LIFE Magazine.

 

TRIVIA: Robert Montgomery scored with a taut production of

Robert Wallace's The Long Way Home, starring John Beal as a Connecticut

commuter stricken with a heart attack as his train pulls out of Grand Central Terminal.

What gripped the viewer, as it did the readers of the original LIFE story, was

Real's it-could-happen-to-you helplessness at the hands of strangers: the

well-intentioned conductor who let him off the train at a deserted station

where he faced a seemingly endless climb to reach the street, a calloused cop

who thought that Beal was drunk, not sick, and finally the cold ministrations

of the hospital staff. But Beal's own remarkable performance told most of the story:

his tautened body and hanging jaw gave an eerie impression of the tempests

raging inside his rib cage, and his wildly questing eyes had all the shocked

horror of a man who has looked into eternity.
 

7.31 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: DEATH INSURANCE

02-Apr-1956 Original airdate

written by Martha Wilkerson

starring

Henry Jones

Synopsis:
Unhappy with his life and marriage, a mechanic decides

 to murder his wife to collect the insurance money. [RF]

 

7.32 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: PISTOLERO

09-Apr-1956 Original airdate

Written by John Vlahos

starring

Cast: Farley Granger ....... Fred

Sue Ellen Blake ....... Lucy

Luis Van Rooten ....... Juan

Alfred Ryder ....... Henry

Martin Rudy ....... Doc

Dolores Sutton ...... Innocencio

Synopsis:

An ex-GI returns to his home in the southwest and opens a gas station.

He soon learns that the town is under the control of a crooked politician

and decides to do something about it. [RF]

 

7.33 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: PORTRAIT OF A MAN

16-Apr-1956 Original airdate

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

Director: Perry Lafferty

Writer: William Kendall Clarke

starring

Robert Ellenstein

Nina Hansen

Peter von Zerneck

Eva Stern

Ray Boyle

Beverly Lunsford
Synopsis:
The story of a gentle man from his early days in Prague when his

Theory of Relativity caused a change in the conception of the relationship

of man and the universe through to his life in Princeton, N.J.

living simply and modestly among his neighbors. [RF]

*NOTE: Albert Einstein died April 18, 1955.
 

7.34 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE BAOBAB TREE

23-Apr-1956 Original airdate

written by Doria Folliott

starring

Elizabeth Montgomery

Charles Drake

Martha Scott

Synopsis:
At an African plantation a woman flirts with men and destroys them

like the baobab tree does (where this tree grows nothing can live).

 

7.35 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: DON'T DO ME ANY FAVORS

30-Apr-1956 Original airdate

starring

Betty Von Furstenberg

Johnny Desmond

Joe De Santis
Katherine Meskill

Melville Ruick
Martha Greenhouse
Synopsis:
A crooner achieves success only to find that his very life

is owned and controlled by a big-time operator who desires

money from him and more of it. [RF]

 

7.36 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: JACK BE NIMBLE

07-May-1956 Original airdate

written by Doria Folliott

starring

June Lockhart

John Newland

Augusta Dabney

Lawrence Webber
Fay Sappington
Synopsis:
A man is confronted by one of his two wives and

 commits a crime he unexpectedly is forced to do.

 

7.37 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE RIGHT THING

14-May-1956 Original airdate

written by Elliott Baker

starring

Forrest Tucker ..... Bob Slater
Fran Carlon ........ Ellen Slater
Glenn Walken ....... Chris Slater
Sandy Horn ......... Cathy Slater
Alan Hewitt ........ Phil Adams
Edward Holmes ...... Al Orleski
Grant Sullivan ..... Wilson
Synopsis:
A man is filled with guilt after the death of girl in a car accident due to his negligent driving.
 

7.38 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: ALL EXPENSES PAID

21-May-1956 Original airdate

Writer: Robert J. Shaw

starring

Lee Remick

Lee Bowman

Gale Page

Ken Renard
Harry Dean Stanton
Lisa Howard
P. Jay Sidney

Synopsis:
A salesclerk wins an all expenses paid trip by her store where she was

named "Miss Courtesy". In the Bahamas she meets and falls for a playboy. [RF]
 

NOTE: It was this program that brought Lee Remick to the

attention of Elia Kazan who cast her in her first film role in A Face

in the Crowd (1957).

 

7.39 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: WHO?

28-May-1956 Original airdate

Written by Robert Wallace
starring

Tom Poston

Frank Schofield
Synopsis:
A man sees himself as the "Standard Who". There are six other variants

of the base "Who", the "Ineffectual Who", the "Solid Who", the "Slob Who",

the "Satyr Who", the "Godlike Who" and the "Nasty Who".

 

7.40 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: HONORED GUEST

04-Jun-1956 Original airdate

Sponsor: Schick

Director: Perry Lafferty

Writer: William Kendall Clarke

starring

 Walter Slezak as Krisons Ringo

Lilia Skala

Henry Garrard

Raymond Bramley

William A. Lee

Joe Boland

Jay Barney

 Stephen Ellsworth

 Hugh Simpson

 Frank Blair

Joe Leberman

 Virginia Chew

 Audrey Erhardt

Sally Singer

 Nancy Devlin

Synopsis:

 Walter Slezak stars as Krisons Ringo, a recent immigrant to this

country, who settles in a small Long Island town. Though he taught

in the old country, he cannot get a certificate here, so he takes a

job as a school janitor.

Contents:  Commercials: Schick -- U.S. Savings Bonds --

Milton Berle show--television promo. Starring Elvis Presley.

  Broadcast on NBC. [UCLA]


7.41 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: STORM OVER SWAN LAKE

11-Jun-1956 Original airdate

written by Kevin McKay

starring

Haila Stoddard

Frederic Tozere
John Shelly
Jan Miner

Synopsis:
An economy minded school board hires a ruthless superintendent who saves

money by firing teachers. One teacher objects and this leads to the division

of  the town's citizens and considerable trouble. [RF]

 

7.42  [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE SOLDIER ROOM
18-Jun-1956 Original airdate
written by Milton Gelman
starring
John Newland

Deidre Owens
Synopsis:
A man hides his borderline psychosis pretty well

 but it does work a hardship on his wife. [RF]

7.43  [--] Robert Montgomery presents: AN ELEPHANT FOR PEANUTS
25-Jun-1956 Original airdate
written by Stanley G. Brown
starring
Lin McCarthy
Glenn Walken
Lesley Woods
Edmund Gaynes

Synopsis:
A child wants nothing more than to own a baby elephant. His dad makes it

easy by being a purchasing agent for a big firm, so the boy simply makes

out a purchase order for a baby elephant and gets one! [RF]

 

7.44 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: DREAM NO MORE

02-Jul-1956 Original airdate

adapted by Milton Gelman

based on a short story by Philip MacDonald

starring

Charles Drake ...... Gavin Rhodes

Jan Miner ...... Enid Garroway

Tom Middleton ...... John Garroway

Synopsis:
Dream No More concerns three people. One is John Garroway, a college boy due to

come into a fortune on his 21st birthday. The seocnd is Gavin Rhodes, one of John's

professors; Rhodes has designs on that fortune. The third is Enid Garroway, John's

widowed mother. The summer home of the Garroways' is high on the cliffs of California.

John has invited Professor Rhodes for a visit. It's not long before Mrs. Garroway sees

through Rhodes' plot and hatches a little counterplot of her own. [DM]

 

7.45 [--] Robert Montgomery presents:  A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
09-Jul-1956 Original airdate
written by Theodore & Matilda Ferro
starring
Phyllis Newman
Charles Drake
Jan Miner
Mary K. Wells

Synopsis:
A marriage of some nine years is about to go on the rocks, and

 the wife decides to face her husband with her own suspicions. [RF]

7.46 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: DAY OF GRACE
16-Jul-1956 Original airdate
written by Doria Folliott
starring
John Gibson ..... William Potter
Charles Drake
Jan Miner
Mary K. Wells

Synopsis:
An ordinary man who receives a copy of tomorrow's

newspaper today with the events that haven't yet happened.

 He sees a chance for spectacular things. [RF]

 

7.47 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: CATCH A FALLING STAR

23-Jul-1956 Original airdate

written by David Levy
starring

 Charles Drake
Elizabeth Montgomery
Jan Miner
Mary K. Wells
Synopsis:
A falling Hollywood star refuses to face the fact that his acting days are numbered.
 

7.48 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: SOUTHERN EXPOSURE

30-Jul-1956 Original airdate

starring
Elizabeth Montgomery
Charles Drake
John Gibson
Jan Miner
Mary K. Wells

Synopsis:
A Southern aristocrat raises the ire of her neighbors by opening

her house to paying guests as a tourist attraction. [RF]

 

7.49 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: MAYBE TOMORROW

06-Aug-1956 Original airdate

Sponsor: Johnson's Wax

Director: William Hamilton

Writer: Sandra Michael

starring

Mary Pickett

Charles Drake

Jan Miner

John Gibson

Mary K. Wells

Synopsis:
A woman's dream of happiness despite bitter disillusion from a mother

who has dominated her to such an extent as to ruin her live and leave

her with nothing but empty dreams of happiness. [RF]

 

13Aug56 preempted for Convention coverage
20Aug56 preempted for Convention coverage

 

7.50 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: THE COMPANY WIFE

27-Aug-1956 Original airdate

Sponsor: Schick

Director: Ira Cirker

Writer: Martha Wilkerson

starring

Charles Drake

Mary K. Wells

Jan Miner

John Gibson

Elizabeth Montgomery

Synopsis:

When a new executive comes to a closely-knit company,

much speculation is made. Such is the case with Carl Philips who,

with his wife Melinda, arouses the envy and fright. [RF]

Synopsis:
A new couple move to a suburb and the husband becomes an executive in

a firm where three other neighbors are employed. The wives believe the

newcomer is threatening their security by working to take over one of the

husband's jobs and they set out to find out which one. [RF]

 

7.51 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: MR. PARKER RHUBARB

03-Sep-1956 Original airdate

starring

Elizabeth Montgomery

John Gibson
Jan Miner
Tom Middleton
Charles DrakeSynopsis:
An accountant is picked to umpire the baseball game between his

firm and it's competitor. The ump makes a critical decision against his own

team and this doesn't make him a hero around the office or his home. [RF]

 

######### Robert Montgomery Presents ##########

############## season 8 1956-57 ##############

################ (final season) ###############

        NBC Mondays 9:30 pm (Hour Long)

 

8.01 [--] Robert Montgomery presents: SOLDIER FROM THE WARS RETURNING

10-Sep-1956 Original airdate

Sponsor: Schick

Director: Perry Lafferty

Writer: Robert Wallace

starring

James Cagney .......... George Bridgeman

George Matthews

Muriel Kirkland

Audra Lindley

Frank Schofield

Synopsis:
An Army sergeant assigned to escort the body of another sergeant to