ABC Stage 67 (1966-67)
 Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox
references:
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ABC STAGE 67
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Producers (various) including:  Hubbell Robinson
for
ABC (Wednesdays 10:00-11:00pm Eastern)

US Anthology Series 1966-67   27 episodes x 60min

A series of original television productions (Drama, Music, Comedy, & Documentary)

Theme music ABC Stage 67 by Elmer Bernstein

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ABC (Wednesdays 10:00-11:00pm Eastern)

1.01 ABC Stage 67: THE LOVE SONG OF BARNEY KEMPINSKI
14Sep1966 ABC Wed
Written by Murray Schisgal
Directed by Stanley Prager
starring
Alan Arkin ............ Barney Kempinski
John Gielgud .......... Rich Man
Alan King ............. Leo
Lee Grant ............. Laura
Leonardo Cimino ....... Dino
Philip Coolidge ....... Farley
Rex Everhart .......... Klein
Arlene Golonka ........ Mary
Charlotte Rae
Jerome Guardino
David Doyle
Frank Campanella
with:
Mark Kearney, Jane Rose, ROsetta Lenoire, Stanley Simmonds, Pierre Epstein, Helen Curtis, Barney Martin , John C. Becher,
Valerie Morrell, William Hansen, Andrew Duncan, Joanna Wood, Edith N. King, Enid Markey, Judith Lowry ,Beverly Todd,
Janak Khendry, Willis Pinkett, Maxwell Glanville, Tom Carlin, Wallace Englehardt, Roberta Carr
Synopsis:
Barney Kempinski, thirtyish and contentedly self-unemployed, leaves his Lower East Side apartment smiling
and happy. On this fine sunny day he is to be married--3 o'clock at City Hall--to his girl Francine,
in the few remaining hours of his bachelorhood, Barney goes off to tour the city and sing his love song
--exhuberant, irresponsible and frequently dangerous--to life, love and the city of New York. [RF]

1.02 ABC Stage 67: WHERE IT'S AT
28Sep1966 ABC Wed
Host Dick Cavett
starring
Larry Hovis
Synopsis:
A look at comic humor in an unconventional setting hosted by Dick Cavett with a lineup of comic actors
Larry Hovis (Hogan's Heroes), Ronnie Schell (Gomer Pyle), Pat McCormick (Jonathan Winters' madman),
The Doodletown Pipers (Roger Miller Show) and Bob Lind (recording "Elusive Butterfly"). [RF]

1.03 ABC Stage 67: THE KENNEDY WIT
05Oct1966 ABC Wed
starring
Jack Paar ............. Narrator
David Francis Powers .. Himself
Synopsis:
No member of his family, no friend, no statesman was immune to the incisive, affectionate humor of our youthful
late President. David Francis Powers, a White House confidant during Kennedy's presidential years, adds intimate
sidelights to Paar's commentary. The evening promises to be an amusing, absorbing, often poignant experience. [RF]

1.04 ABC Stage 67: OLYMPUS 7-0000
12Oct1966 ABC Wed
Written by Jerome Chodorov
Story by George Bradshaw
Directed by Stanley Rigsby
Music scored by Richard Adler
starring
Donald O'Connor ....... Hermes
Phyllis Newman ........ Mary Severance
Eddie Foy, Jr. ........ Casey
Larry Blyden .......... Todd Bronson
Fred Clark ............ Dean Severance
Lou Jacobi
Joe Namath
New York Jets
(New England College Football Team)
Synopsis:
A musical about an enchanted football team.
When a Greek God meddles in the fortunes of a feeble college team and its hapless coach to cure the team of its
chronic fumbleitis. Hermes is not too happy being summoned from Mt. Olympus to help this team of misfits. [RF]

1.05 ABC Stage 67: THE CONFESSION
19Oct1966 ABC Wed
Written by David Karp
Directed by Alex Segal
starring
Arthur Kennedy ........ Lieutenant Hammond
Brandon De Wilde ...... Carl Boyer
Dana Elcar ............ Lou Coolidge
Hugh Franklin ......... Howard Boyer
Byron Sanders ......... Cable
Katharine Houghton .... Bonnie
Synopsis:
Young Carl Boyer and his fiancee Bonnie agreed on a suicide pact as a last resort when they learned that she was
pregnant. Carl turned on the gas jets - but he lived, and Bonnie died. At the police station Carl is interrogated
by Lieutenant Hammond. Aiding and abetting suicide is punishable as first degree manslaughter, but Hammond is
convinced that Carl is guilty of murder. [RF]

1.06 ABC Stage 67: THE CANTERVILLE GHOST
02Nov1966 ABC Wed
Adapted by Burt Shevelove
Story by Oscar Wilde
Directed by Burt Shevelove
Music score by Jerome Bock and Sheldon Harnick
starring
Douglas Fairbanks Jr... Mr. Otis
Peter Noone ........... David, the Duke of Cheshire
Michael Redgrave ...... Sir Simon Canterville
Natalie Schafer ....... Mrs. Otis
Tippy Walker .......... Virginia Otis
Mark Colleano ......... Matthew Otis
David Charkham ........ Mark Otis
Synopsis:
A 20th century American family sets up housekeeping in a haunted, 17th century English castle with a 300-year-old
ghost in residence that drive the family to distraction. [RF]

1.07 ABC Stage 67: THE PEOPLE TRAP
09Nov1966 ABC Wed
Written by Earl Hamner
starring
Stuart Whitman ........ Steve
Vera Miles ............ Adele
Connie Stevens ........ Flame
Lew Ayres ............. Arthur
Estelle Winwood ....... Sarah
Lee Grant ............. Ruth
with
Pearl Bailey
Jackie Robinson
Michael Rennie
Cesar Romero
Mort Sahl
Mercedes McCambridge
Phil Harris
Betty Furness
Synopsis:
The frightening results of the population explosion, 100 years hence, but it gets bogged down in the melodramatic
treatment of its all too stereotyped characters. Despite its short comings, the picture it portrays of a civilization
where privacy bringing up families, and green grass, are all things of the past should give one food for thought. [RF]

1.08 ABC Stage 67: EVENING PRIMROSE
16Nov66 ABC Wed
Adapted by James Goldman
Short Story by John Collier
Directed by Paul Bogart
starring
Anthony Perkins ....... Charles Snell
Charmian Carr ......... Ella Harkins
Dorothy Stickney ...... Mrs. Monday
Larry Gates ........... Roscoe Potts
Synopsis:
Disillusioned poet Charles Snell retreats to a department store and hides until closing time. There, he encounters
other 20th Century rejects (who pose as mannequins during store hours) and becomes involved with Ella Harkins,
a young prisoner of the "store people" who desperately wants to see the outside world. [RF]
Songs by Stephen Sondheim
*Note: Filmed on location in New York City

1.09 ABC Stage 67: NOON WINE
23Nov1966 ABC Wed
Written & Directed by Sam Peckinpah
Story by Katherine Anne Porter
starring
Jason Robards ......... Royal Earle Thompson
Theodore Bikel ........ Homer T. Hatch
Olivia de Havilland ... Ellie Thompson
Per Oscarsson ......... Olaf Helton
Robert Emhardt ........ Burleigh
Ben Johnson ........... Sheriff Barbee
Steve Sanders ......... Arthur
Peter Robbins ......... Herbert
L.Q. Jones ............ Deputy
Joan Tompkins ......... Meg
Jill Andre ............ Pearl
Synopsis:
Royal Earle Thompson's small dairy farm in West Texas isn't a thriving enterprise until he takes on Olaf Helton,
a moody, hard-working Swede. Because business starts booming, Thompson makes a point of never prying into the personal
life of his silent hired hand. But one day Thompson learns that Helton's stoicism masks a terrible secret. [RF]

1.10 ABC Stage 67: THE LEGEND OF MARILYN MONROE
30Nov66 ABC Wed (rerun 13Apr67)
Written by Terry Sanders & Theodore Strauss
Directed by Terry Sanders
starring
John Huston ........... Narrator
Marilyn Monroe ........ Herself
Synopsis:
The life of glamourous movie queen is told thru fan magazine approach with a rather candid narration. A touching story
unfolds as Marilyn's lonely childhood in a series of foster homes, her public exposure as one of Hollywood's most
famous sex goddesses and her three unsuccessful marriages and her endless depressions which led to her suicide at
the age of 36. [RF]

1.11 ABC Stage 67: ON THE FLIP SIDE
07Dec1966 ABC Wed
Written by Robert Emmett
Directed by Joe Layton
starring
Ricky Nelson .......... Carlos O'Connor
Joanie Sommers ........ Angie
James Coco ............ Mr. Zuckerman
Donna Jean Young ...... Juanita
Lada Edmund Jr. ....... Irene D'Oeuvre
Anthony Holland ....... Don Prospect, Head of Vertigo Records
Will Mackenzie ........ Jerome
Murray Roman .......... Hairy Eddie Popkin
Evelyn Russell ........ Don Prospect's Mother
Jeff Siggins .......... Member of The Celestials
and
The Celestials (Steve Perry, Tyrone Cooper, Jeff Siggins)
Synopsis:
A musical satire on youth and the record world, a has-been singer branded a square cornball at 25 is helped by an
angel and the Celestials in achieving a new image and a new loud sound. [RF]

1.12 ABC Stage 67: THE BRAVE RIFLES
14Dec66 ABC Wed
Written & Directed by Laurence E. Mascott
Narrated by Arthur Kennedy
Synopsis:
The Story of the Battle of the Bulge.
Individual GIs had to make for themselves the life-and-death decision of whether to run or to stand and fight.
"When each GI, for his own reasons, chose to stand and fight, he created a new American legend, a legend as great
as Valley Forge or the Alamo or Gettysburg, a legend that will live as long as American lives the legend of
"The Brave Rifles". [RF]

1.13 ABC Stage 67: A CHRISTMAS MEMORY
21Dec66 ABC Wed
Directed by Frank Perry
Written by Truman Capote
Director of photography Conrad Hall
Musical score written & conducted by Meyer Kupferman
Art Direction by Gene Callahan
Narrated by Truman Capote
starring
Donnie Melvin ......... Buddy
Geraldine Page ........ Sookie
Lavinia Cassels ....... Auntie
Christine Marler ...... Emma
Josip Elic ............ Haha
Lynn Forman ........... Passenger
Win Forman ............ Storekeeper
Synopsis:
In a small Alabama town, the young Capote shared his desperately lonely childhood with his cousin Sookie, a gentle
and eccentric spinster, and some less imaginative. mirthless relatives. The reminiscence begins in "fruitcake weather",
time for the annual ritual of baking Christmas cakes for the people whom Sookie and Buddy like and admire. [RF]
Summary:
Emmy Award winning adaptation of Capote's recollection of his youth in the rural South during the Depression.
Living with a slightly dotty but loving "cousin," Capote remembers back to when he was about 10 years old and
it was suddenly decided that "it was fruitcake weather." The task of baking 30 cakes for mostly far-away friends
and the other rituals of Christmas time are painted with such loving and nostalgic strokes, this becomes a truly
beautiful Christmas experience. The poverty of the 1930s fails to stop or even slow down a loving relationship
at a loving time of the year. [RF]

1.14 ABC Stage 67: THE TRAP OF SOLID GOLD
04Jan1967 ABC Wed
Adapted by Ellen Violett
Story by John D. MacDonald
Directed by Paul Bogart
starring
Cliff Robertson ....... Ben Weldon
Dina Merrill .......... Ginny Weldon
James Broderick ....... Hal Crady
Dustin Hoffman ........ J.J. Semmons
John Baragrey ......... Ed Bartlett
Conrad Nagel .......... Mr. Mallory
Synopsis:
A young executive on his way up, finds himself being smothered by debts incurred by status obligations, even with
an income of over $20,000 a year. [RF]

1.15 ABC Stage 67: SEX IN THE SIXTIES
12Jan67 ABC Wed
Narrator Joseph Julian
Synopsis:
Documentary about the public state of sexual values, behavior and discussion among tho participants.
Dr. William H. Masters ond Mrs. Virginia E. Johnson, authors of "Human Sexual Response."
Hugh Hefner, publisher of Playboy Magazine; Sloan Wilson novelist ond chairman of the Committee Against
Absurd Censorship. [RF]

[--] ABC Stage 67
19Jan67 pre-empted by
Henry Fonda special "To Save a Soldier".

1.16 ABC Stage 67: GENERAL EISENHOWER ON "THE MILITARY CHURCHILL"
26Jan67 ABC Wed
Narrator and Host Alistair Cooke
Dwight D. Eisenhower as Himself
Synopsis:
Commemorates the second anniversary of the death of Winston Churchill with the documentary, "General Eisenhower on
the Military Churchill." [RF]

1.17 ABC Stage 67: DAVID FROST'S NIGHT OUT IN LONDON
02Feb67 ABC Wed
Written by Buck Henry & John Cleese & David Frost
Directed by James Gilbert & Trevor Wallace
starring
Albert Finney
Laurence Olivier
Peter Sellers
Carol Lynley
Kenneth Connor
Ronnie Corbett
Julie Felix
Libby Morris
Denys Palmer
Danny LaRue
Synopsis:
In foggy, swinging London, satirist David Frost introduces viewers to the late-life of the most 'in' town in the world.
Heading where the action is, David goes to the posh West End, noted for its theaters, smart shops and fine restaurants;
and the shady, Bohemian quarter called Soho. London is steeped in hiStory, but on this tour, places are less important
than faces: Sir Laurence Olivier, on stage to do his song-and-dance routine from John Osborne's The entertainer;
Albert Finney, who performs a scene from Osborne's Broadway hit, Luther; female impersonator Danny La Rue;
and cabaret singer Libby Morris, who offers Just one of those songs. In two comedy sketches, Peter Sellers portrays
a snobbish wine taster and a bombastic BBC announcer interviewing a deep-sea diver
(played by Kenneth Connor of the "Carry On .." films) [RF]

1.18 ABC Stage 67: THE LIGHT FANTASTIC
09Feb67 ABC Wed
Written by Arthur Laurents
Directed by Marc Breaux
starring
Lauren Bacall & John Forsythe (hostess & host)
Synopsis:
A nostalgic look for the oldtimers (in today's frame of reference that's everyone more than 25) at the dances of past
decades. There are quick glimpses of such former dance fads as the big apple, praise allah, and the conga, to such
updated items as the frug. Lauren Bacall is a slinky and charming hostess of this dancing divertissement, and
John Forsythe is his usual suave self as her co-host. [RF]

[--] 16Feb1967 ABC Stage 67
is pre-empted for the World Ice-Skating Championship

1.19 ABC Stage 67: C'EST LA VIE
23Feb67 ABC Wed
Written by Suzanne Bujot
Directed by Jean-Christophe Averty
starring
Maurice Chevalier ..... Himself
Diahann Carroll ....... Herself
Synopsis:
Paris-taped Gallic-American celebration in song and dance, directed and produced by controversial young Jean-Christopher
Averty, leader of the "new wave" in TV. [RF]

1.20 ABC Stage 67: RODGERS & HART TODAY
02Mar1967 ABC Wed
Directed by Bill Davis
starring
Bobby Darin ........... Hosts
Petula Clark .......... Herself
Denny Doherty ......... Himself
'Mama' Cass Elliot .... Herself
John Phillips ......... Himself
Michelle Phillips ..... Herself
Peter Gennaro ......... Himself
Count Basie and his Orchestra
The Doodletown Pipers
The Supremes
Synopsis:
The irresistible music of Richard Rodgers and the ingenious lyrics of Larry Hart sung by today's stars. The songs
are divided into sections: "Friends and Lovers", "Places and Things", and "Songs of Advice, Hope, Wisdom". [RF]

1.21 ABC Stage 67: THE AMERICAN BOY
09Mar67 ABC Wed
Written & Directed by Noel Black
director of photography James Wong Howe
starring
Robert Young .......... Host
Synopsis:
Three short films which tell stories about three completely different adolescent boys: one living in the city;
one in the country; and one in the suburbs.
A total charming, human look, through three short pieces, at the joys and sorrow of adolescence, particularly as
it concerns a young boy first really noticing a young girl. Robert Young narrates the tales, which are acted by
non-professionals, and which will be very evocative whether you have grown up in the suburbs, the country or a
big city. "Skaterdater," which won a Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, concerns a young girl who wins a boy
away from a skateboard. "The River Boy" is about a tongue-tied youth who spends his money to buy a too large suit
to impress a store owner's niece. "Reflections" is the doomed infatuation of a Chinese boy for a Puerto Rican girl.[RF]

1.22 ABC Stage 67: I'M GETTING MARRIED
16Mar67 ABC Wed
Written by Betty Comden
Music written by Jule Styne
starring
Anne Bancroft ......... Virginia
Dick Shawn ............ Paul Benderhof
Synopsis:
A musical comedy paroding the fears and fanatasies of a young woman on the brink of matrimony.

1.23 ABC Stage 67: A TIME FOR LAUGHTER: A LOOK AT NEGRO HUMOR IN AMERICA
06Apr67 ABC Wed
Produced by Harry Belafonte
Hosted by Sidney Poitier
starring
Harry Belafonte ....... Himself
Redd Foxx ............. Himself
Moms Mabley ........... Herself
Richard Pryor ......... Himself
Pigmeat Markham ....... Himself
Godfrey Cambridge ..... Himself
Diahann Carroll ....... Herself
Diana Sands ........... Herself
Dick Gregory .......... Himself
Synopsis:
Produced by Harry Belafonte, it is a look at Negro humor through the years. Sidney Poitier is the host,
and Diahann Carroll, Dick Gregory. Diana Sands Godfrey Cambridge and Belafonte are the performers well known
to the general public. But it's old-timers Pigmeat Markham, Redd Foxx and Moms Mabley and young Richard Pryor
who offer the brightest comic segments. Markham is a judge in a slapstick skit with Belafonte and Miss Carroll
which leads to her song "Good Lovin'". Foxx is a "signifier" in a great pool room monologue, Moms Mabley is the
maid in a skit with Cambridge and Miss Sands and young Pryor is a nervous young man trying to deliver a funeral
oration. An excellent opening with Charles Moore and Bill Reilly; George Kirby playing all the characters
(including Senator Irkson) in a barbershop skit. Harry Belafonte sings "Dogs". [RF]

[--] ABC Stage 67
13Apr1967
repeats "The Life and Legend of Marilyn Monroe".

1.24 ABC Stage 67: THE WIDE OPEN DOOR
20Apr1967 ABC Wed
Teleplay by Tom Waldman & Frank Waldman
From a story by T.E.B. Clarke
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
starring
Tony Randall .......... Inspector Berry/Geoffrey Judge
Honor Blackman ........ Jane & Jill Marriott
Leon Ames ............. Gray
Reginald Gardiner ..... Uncle Andrew
Richard Haydn ......... Whitey
Bernard Fox ........... Jack
Synopsis:
An American con man and his lookalike, laconic Scotland Yard inspector who is incapacitated from an accident
caused by a gang headed by J. Marriott must solve the case. Hindered by an amorous overage secretary and an ex-con. [RF]

1.25 ABC Stage 67: DARE I WEEP, DARE I MOURN?
27Apr67 ABC Wed
Written by Stanley Mann
based on a Story by John Le Carre (The Spy who Came In From the Cold)
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
starring
James Mason ........... Otto Hoffmann
Hugh Griffith ......... Karl Hoffmann
Jill Bennett .......... Frieda
Kay Walsh ............. Greta
Maureen Pryor ......... Rebecca
Hamilton Dyce ......... Koorp
Derek Francis ......... Dr. Leander
Jerry Verno ........... Hansen
Synopsis:
Otto Hoffmann is a small-time West German businessman whose personality was crushed by a domineering father.
Now it seems that Otto will be rid of him, he has only to go into East Germany to bring back the old man's
body for burial. [RF]

1.26 ABC Stage 67: THE HUMAN VOICE
04May1967 ABC Wed
Produced by David Susskind Lars Schmidt
Associate Producer: Jacqueline Babbin
Written by Clive Exton
Story by Jean Cocteau
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
starring
Ingrid Bergman
Synopsis:
A middle-aged woman who is going through the emotional and psychological crisis of ending a long love affair.
The entire play is shaped as a monolog--the woman's side of a telephone conversation with her lover, who is
leaving her to marry a young girl. The telephone is the woman's last link with the man, and she uses it in a
desperate attempt to win him back, despite a bad connection and her growing certainty that he is calling from
his fiancée's home. [RF]

1.27 ABC Stage 67: EAT THE DOCUMENT
UNAIRED
starring
Bob Dylan ............. Himself
Robbie Robertson ...... Himself
Garth Hudson .......... Himself
Rick Danko ............ Himself
Richard Manuel ........ Himself
Johnny Cash ........... Himself
John Lennon ........... Himself
Synopsis:
Documentary about Bob Dylan's 1966 European tour. [RF]

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