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 Season 2 (CBC)(1956-57)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by:  Rina Fox [Uploaded April 2018]
references:
TV Guide / Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive / Writers Guild of America (wga)
Winnipeg Free Press, Ottawa Journal

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CBC Wednesdays at 10pm

2.01 [31] CBC Folio: HMS PINAFORE (first episode of season 2)
31Oct1956
Produced by Norman Campbell
Libretto by W.S. Gilbert and Sullivan
Directed by Godfrey Ridout
Cast:
Yvonne O'Sullivan ......... Josephine Corcoran
Harry Mossfield ......... Captain Corcoran
Jon Vickers ........... Ralph Rackstraw
Arthur Selater ........ Sir Joseph Porter
Irene Byatt ........... Little Buttercup
Don McManus ........ Dick Deadeye
Elizabeth Mawson
John Harcourt
Andrew MacMillan

2.02 [32] CBC Folio: THE CASE OF POSTERITY VERSUS JOSEPH HOWE
07Nov1956
Produced by Robert Allen
Written by Joseph Schull
Cast:
John Drainie ........... Joseph Howe
Robert Christie ....... Sir John A. Macdonald
Lloyd Bochner ......... Prosecutor
Douglas Rain ........... Judge T.C. Haliburton
James Doohan ....... William Annand
Charles Jarrott ......... Sir Rupert George
James Edmont ........ Sir Brenton Haliburton
Norman Ettlinger ...... Sir Colin Campbell
William Needles ......... Sir Charles Tupper
Paul Kligman ............. Magistrate John Roach
John Hardinge .......... S.G.W. Archibald
Lew Davidson ........ Defence Attorney
Edward Holmes .... Clerk of the Court

[--] CBC Festival: #1of 6 [first of six programs].
14Nov1956 [Opening program]
Presented by Chrysler of Canada
Hosted by Hume Cronyn and Elaine Grand
starring
Eartha Kitt
Shirley Jones
Edmund Hockridge
The Winnipeg Ballet
Dave Brubeck and his Quartet.

2.03 [33] CBC Folio: THE DEVIL'S INSTRUMENT
21Nov1956
Written by W.O. Mitchell
Directed by David Greene
Cast:
Douglas Rain ..... Jacob Schunk
Jack Creley ........ Peter the Goose Boss
Margot Christie
Larry D. Mann
Ron Hartmann
Janet Reid
Leonard Ontkean
Henry Comor
Murray Westgate
Daryl Masters
Frank Perry
Bill Walker
David Toguri
Synopsis:
Story about a farm boy torn between the discipline imposed by the code of belief
and obedience of his people and his desire to express himself as a free human being.

[--] CBC Festival: #2 of 6
28Nov1956
Presented by Chrysler of Canada
Hosted by Hume Cronyn and Elaine Grand
starring
Italian bariton Tito Gobbi (in a scene from Rigoletto)
Spanish lyric soprano Pilar Lorengar
comedian-actor Peter Sellers
harmonica player Larry Adler
Percy Faith conducts with his own arrangements of tunes from My Fair Lady
Bob Hamilton Trio
a modern dance group from the U.S.
The orchestra is conducted by Lucio Agostini.

2.04 [34] CBC Folio: DAWN, DAY AND NIGHT
05Dec1956
Adapted by Robert Rietty
Play by Dario Niccodemi
Cast:
Robert Goulet
Toby Robins
Synopsis:
The story is about a daring young man who wins a duel, then fences romantically
with a beautiful young woman he's met in an Italian garden.

2.05 [35] CBC Folio: SWAN LAKE
12Dec1956
Produced by Norman Campbell
Narrator Barry Morse
Cast:
David Adams ..... Prince Siegfried
Lois Smith .......... Princess Odette / Odile
Ray Moller .......... Benno
David Kerval ....... Von Rothbart
Jacqueline Ivings ... Princess Mother
Betty Pope ........... Peasant girl
Angela Leigh .... Swan maiden
Lillian Jarvis ...... Swan Maiden
*Performance by the National Ballet Company of Canada.

2.06 [36] CBC Folio: THE NATIVITY
19Dec1956
Produced by Robert Allen
Written by Andrew Allan
Directed by Elmer Iseler
Music sung by the Festival Singers
Cast:
Janet Reid ....... Virgin Mary
John Drainie .... Joseph
Barry Morse ....... King Herod
Al King ............... Reader
Douglas Rain ..... Shepherd
Richard Easton ... Shepherd
James Edmond .... Shepherd
Lloyd Bochner ..... King
Powys Thomas .... King
Robert Christie ..... King
Maud Whitmore ..... Maid
Harold Burke ..... Soldier
Frank Mathias .... Soldier
Roland Bull ........ Messenger
Vernon Chapman ...... Herod's Courtier

2.07 [37] CBC Folio: GIANNI SCHICCHI
26Dec1956
Produced by Mario Prizek
Libretto by Giovacchino Forzano
Conductor George Crum
Cast:
Andrew MacMillan .... Gianni Schicchi
Angela Antonelli ....... Lauretta
Jon Vickers ........ Rinuccio
John Harcourt
Patricia Rideout
Don McManus
Glenn Gardiner
Sylvia Grant
Bernard Johnson
Bertrand Turgeon
Marry Morrison
Alexander Gray
Ernest Adams

2.08 [38] CBC Folio: THE CHANGING SHORE
02Jan1957
Producer, Writer, Commentator J. Frank Willis
Synopsis:
A documentary about the south shore of Nova Scotia.

2.09 [39] CBC Folio: 56 IN REVUE
09Jan1957
Produced by Harvey Hart
Cast:
Donald Harron
Pierre Berton
Bernie Orenstein
Sammy Sales
Wayne and Shuster
Rod Coneybeare
Mavor Moore
and Max Ferguson.
A satirical year-end musical.

2.10 [40] CBC Folio: OEDIPUS REX
16Jan1957
Cast:
Douglas Campbell ......... Oedipus
Eric House ..................... Priest
Robert Goodier .......... Creon
Donald Davis .............. Tiresias
Eleanor Stuart ............ Jocasta
William Shatner
Bruno Gerussi
Robert Christie
Ted Follows
Barbara Franklin
Roland Bull
Neil Vipond
Bruce Swerfager
William Hutt
Douglas Rain
Tony Van Bridge
Louis Negin
Grant Reddick
Gertrude Tyas
Naomi Cameron
David Gardner
Richard Howard
Roland Hewgill
Edward Holmes
James Manser
A filmed version of the Stratford Festival production.

[--] CBC Festival: #3 of 6
23Jan1957
Presented by Chrysler of Canada
Hosted by Elaine Grand
starring
Parisienne chanteuse Edith Piaf
tenor Richard Tucker
Swiss soprano Lisa Della Casa
TV and recording star Dorothy Collins
the Hungarian dance team of Kovach and Rabovsky
and the two-piano team of Ferrante and Teicher.

2.11 [41] CBC Folio: THE SECRET AGENT
30Jan1957
Written by Joseph Conrad

2.12 [42] CBC Folio: SIR JOHN A. AND THE DOUBLE WEDDING
06Feb1957
Produced by Mario Prizek
Cast:
Tommy Tweed ...... Sir John A. Macdonald
Robert Christie
Aileen Seaton
John Drainie
Frank Perry
Synopsis:
Story about Sir John A. Macdonald and his attempt to bring about the union of British North America.

2.13 [43] CBC Folio: THE DANCE AND THE DRAMA
13Feb1957
Producer Harvey Hart
Victor Feldbrill conducts the orchestra.
Cast:
Emily Frankel and Mark Ryder of the Dance Drama Company of New York give their interpretation of Romeo and Juliet.
Jose Limon, Lucas Hoving and Mr. Limon's company of dancers give their version of Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones.

[--] CBC Festival: #4 of 6
20Feb1957
Presented by Chrysler of Canada
Hosted by Elaine Grand
starring
pianist Glenn Gould
contralto Maureen Forrester
singer Rosemary Clooney
comedienne Kaye Ballard
dance satirists Mata and Hari.

2.14 [44] CBC Folio: THE EMPTY FRAME
27Feb1957
Produced by Mario Prizek
Written by Lister Sinclair
Cast:
Corinne Conley .......... Louise
Lloyd Bochner
James Doohan
Anna Reiser
Synopsis:
Louise, a rich young girl from Saskatchewan comes to Paris to take a course
in art, and in a pension haunted by artists and their models she meets Max,
a lady-charmer of uncertain origin. Max follows the path of "non-involvement"
because to him art must remain pure; to become involved in anything leads
inevitably to action, and action means failure to some degree. So he paints
pictures in his mind, writes poems in his head, and plays ("brilliantly") a violin
without strings. Louise manages to involve him, however, and gets both Max
and her courses mixed up.

2.15 [45] CBC Folio: RING AROUND THE SQUARE
06Mar1957
Produced by Norman Campbell
Musical comedy by Saul Ilson
based on the book by Jacqueline Rosenfeld
Ring Around the Square is conducted by Gordon Kushner
Musical arrangements by Phil Nimmons
Choreographed by Gladys Forrester
Cast:
Shirley Harmer ...... Susan
Shane Rimmer ........ Byron Moon
Drew Thompson ....... Abner
Larry Moon ........ Sam
Jack Duffy ........... Jimmie
Synopsis:
Scene: a city where Byron Moon, gyrating "rock 'n roll" singer has set off a wave
of teen-age hysteria. Action: a serious minded young reporter named Susan,
who is revolted by Moon's antics, is assigned to cover the story.
Conclusion: Moon may not be as "gone" as the "square" Susan thought.

[--] CBC Folio:
13Mar1957
pre-empted for "Homo the Magnificent", the second program in the Trans-Canada Telephone system's program.
Starring Richard Carlson and Dr. Frank Baxter.
*Note: Frank Capra produced the first program "Our Mr. Sun" also produces this one.

[--] CBC Festival: #5 of 6
20Mar1957
Presented by Chrysler of Canada
starring
Ernie Kovacs
The Four Lads
The George Shearing Quintet
ballet dancers Melissa Hayden and Andre Eglevsky
Opera singer Martin Green
and the Don Wright Singers.

2.16 [46] CBC Folio: PROUD PASSAGE
27Mar1957
Producer Robert Allen
Written by Joseph Schull
Cast:
Douglas Rain ........ Dr. Neil McCulloch
Frances Hyland ..... Frances McCulloch
Frank Peddie ......... Dr. Clearly
Jonathan White ........ Jamie
Anne Sass-Wilson ....... Aileen
Jane Mallett ....... Mrs. Ogilvie
Ruth Springford ....... Meg
Alexander Webster ....... David
Rex Devlin .......... Angus
Brendan Dillon ........ Michael
Synopsis:
A moving drama about a young Cape Breton Island doctor, a native of the Island,
who is torn between his ambitions and his people. Dr. Neil McCulloch returns
to his village with his city-bred wife to relieve Dr. Clearly, the old village doctor
who had adopted and raised Neil and helped him to become a doctor.
Spurred on by his own ambitions and his wife's desire for city life, Neil plans
to return to Montreal to practise as a surgeon. However, when his childhood
friend Jamie becomes very ill, Neil realizes how much he is needed by his
people and is forced to a decision.

2.17 [47] CBC Folio: THE BLACK JUDGE
03Apr1957
Cast:
Donald Wolfit
Synopsis:
The film is an 18th century Chinese murder mystery. It revolves around
an ancient law which forbade the death sentence unless the offender
confessed. However, the judge who handed down the death sentence
had to undergo the same torture and sentence, if it were later proved
that the accused had been innocent.

2.18 [48] CBC Folio: PICASSO / MASKERAGE
10Apr1957
Synopsis:
Two films on art: a documentary on the great Spanish painter Pablo Picasso,
and a short Dutch film —Maskerage— on primitive African art. The Picasso film
shows the 75-year-old painter at work in his studio on the French Riviera,
making magic with wood designs, charcoal and ceramics, and recreating
by memory, the huge panels for War and Peace. The film makes use of
nearly 500 of his works, tracing his career from early family sketches done
in his early teens in Spain (around 1896) to some of his latest murals.
The film was directed by Luciano Emmer, with scenario by Picasso himself
and Sergio Amidei, who produced the film.
The Flamenco musical score is by Roman Vlad.

[--] CBC Festival: #6 of 6
17Apr1957
Presented by Chrysler of Canada
starring
Opera singer Marian Anderson
pianist Liberace
TV and radio comic Herb Shriner
baritone George London
TV star and singer Shirley Harmer
and the cast of the annual Toronto review, Spring Thaw.
The Spring Thaw cast will present Something Cool in Denmark, a take-off on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Taking part will be Robert Goulet as Hamlet, Peters Mews, Sheila Billing, Paul Kligman, Barbara Hamilton, Dave Broadfoot and others.
*Final Chrysler Festival program of the season.

2.19 [49] CBC Folio: THE UNBURIED DEAD
24Apr1957
Produced by Mario Prizek
Adapted by John Bethune
from a translation by Kitty Black
Play by Jean Paul Sartre
Cast:
Lorne Greene ........... Henri
Lloyd Bochner .......... Jean
Kate Reid .................. Lucie
Rupert Davies ........... Canoris
Jack Creley ............... Sobrier
John Charlesworth .... Francois
Ron Hartmann ........... Clochet
Synopsis:
The story concerns a group of people in the French resistance, five men
and a woman, who have been taken prisoner after engaging in an attack
on a village which ended in disaster—the village is in flames and many
innocent villagers are dead or badly wounded. The prisoners face the
prospect of torture and death without any compensating sense of
achievement or justification for their action, and the play follows their
individual reactions to each other, to their captors and to their own plight.

2.20 [50] CBC Folio: CARMEN A two hour performance of Bizet's opera is the season finale
01May1957
From Bizet's opera
Producer Franz Kraemer
Conducted by Jean Beaudet
Cast:
Gloria Lane ........ Carmen
Andre Turp ........ Don Jose
Claire Gagnier .... Micaela
Morley Meredith ........ Escamillo
Don Garrard ............. Zuniga
Bernard Johnson ......... Morales
Patricia Snell .......... Frasquita
Sylvia Grant ........ Mercedes
Ernest Adams .......... El Remedado
Bernard Turgeon ....... El Dancairo
John Harcourt ....... Lillas Pastia
 

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