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

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

 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

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

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

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

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

06-Dec-1954 Original airdate

written by Sandra Michael

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

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

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

Inger Stevens

Midge Ware
Carol Gustafson

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

17-Jan-1955 Original airdate

written by Robert J. Shaw

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

Peggy Ann Garner

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

07-Feb-1955 Original airdate

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

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

 Jackie Cooper

Lee Remick

Bramwell Fletcher

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

07-Mar-1955 Original airdate

written by Alvin Sapinsley

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

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

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

28-Mar-1955 Original airdate

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

 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.

 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

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

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

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

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.

 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

 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

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

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