Cameo Theatre (1950-55)
Episode Guide
compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by:
Rina Fox
references:
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CAMEO THEATRE
NBC
Creator and Producer: Albert McCleery
May 16, 1950 - August 21, 1955
May 1950-Sep 1950 NBC 8:30-9:00 (Wed)
Jun 1951-Aug 1951 NBC 8:00-8:30 (Mon)
Jan 1952-Apr 1952 NBC 10:00-10:30 (Sun)
Jul 1955-Aug 1955 NBC 10:00-10:30 (Sun)
writer Mort Thaw
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1.01 [--] Cameo Theatre: IT TAKES A THIEF
16May50
written by Arthur Miller
starring
Jack Hartley
Marjorie Gateson
1.02 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE GREAT MERLINI
23May50
starring
Chester Morris
Mary K. Wells
1.03 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE LONG WALK
30May50
starring
Richard Carlyle
Patricia Breslin
1.04 [--] Cameo Theatre: MANHATTAN FOOTSTEP
07Jun50
starring
Sam Wanamaker
Tod Andrews
1.05 [--] Cameo Theatre: no details
14Jun50
1.06 [--] Cameo Theatre: WEEP FOR THE HEART
21Jun50
starring
Ernest Truex
1.07 [--] Cameo Theatre: A DAUGHTER TO THINK ABOUT
28Jun50
starring
Ruth Ford
Tod Andrews
1.08 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE CANON'S CURTAIN
19Jul50
starring
Ernest Truex
Eva Condon
1.09 [--] Cameo Theatre: LINE OF DUTY
26Jul50
starring
Ed Begley
1.10 [--] Cameo Theatre: GOOGAN
02Aug50
starring
Judy Parrish
Billy Green
John Harvey
1.11 [--] Cameo Theatre: no details
09Aug50
1.12 [--] Cameo Theatre: A POINT OF VIEW
16Aug50
starring
William Post Jr.
1.13 [--] Cameo Theatre: SARAH LEE'S CHILDREN
23Aug50
starring
Mildred Natwick
1.14 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE WESTLAND CASE
13Sep50
starring
Carol Hughes
Frank Jenks
Preston Foster
1.15 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE PAPER SACK
20Sep50
starring
Dennis Harrison
Gavin Gordon
James Little
1.16 [--] Cameo Theatre: MURDER IS A MATTER OF OPINION
27Sep50
starring
Freddie Bartholomew
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2.01 [--] Cameo Theatre: SPECIAL DELIVERY
18Jun51
starring
June Havoc
Rusty Lane
2.02 [--] Cameo Theatre: BLACKOUT
25Jun51
starring
Jeffrey Lynn
Barbara Britton
2.03 [--] Cameo Theatre: BETRAYAL
02Jul51
starring
Nina Foch
Philip Reed
2.04 [--] Cameo Theatre: AVALANCHE
09Jul51
starring
Constance Bennett
Richard Carlson
2.05 [--] Cameo Theatre: DECEPTION
16Jul51
starring
Madge Evans
2.06 [--] Cameo Theatre: OF UNSOUND MIND
23Jul51
starring
Philip Reed
Claire Luce
Donald Briggs
2.07 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE THIRD TIME
30Jul51
starring
Ilona Massey
2.08 [--] Cameo Theatre: STRANGE IDENTITY
06Aug51
starring
Jan Miner
Donald Briggs
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3.01 [--] Cameo Theatre: DARK OF THE MOON
06Jan52
starring
Rita Gam
Alfred Drake
3.02 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE GATHERING TWILIGHT
13Jan52
starring
Sylvia Sidney
3.03 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE VISIT
20Jan52
starring
John Newland
3.04 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE PAPER SACK
27Jan52
starring
Judy Parrish
Dennis Harrison
3.05 [--] Cameo Theatre: PROBLEM CHILD
03Feb52
starring
Butch Cavell
3.06 [--] Cameo Theatre: PEER GYNT (Part 1)
24Feb52
written by Henry Ibsen
producer/director Albert McCleery
starring
Douglass Montgomery
Claire Luce
Wesley Addy
Frances Reid
Humphrey Davis
Gavin Gordon
Philip Coolidge
Winfield Hoeny
Larry Newton
Kenneth Kraus
Robert Gunther
3.09 [--] Cameo Theatre: PEER GYNT (Part 2)
02Mar52
second part
same as above
3.10 [--] Cameo Theatre: PEER GYNT (Part 3)
09Mar52
third part
same as above
3.11 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE CANON'S CURTAIN
16Mar52
starring
Ernest Truex
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Summer season
4.01 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE INCA OF PERSUALEM
03Jul55
starring
Cedric Hardwicke
Mary Scott
4.02 [--] Cameo Theatre: BENDING OF THE BOUGH
17Jul55
written by Wilton Schiller
directed by Albert McCleery
starring
Guy Williams
Barbara Jean Wong
Angie Dickinson
Synopsis:
A young GI returns from his tour of duty in Japan with a new bride--pregnant and Japanese.
Both encounter much hostility from family and friends, but in the end,
the GI's mother comes to love the new bride.
4.03 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE GROWN ONES
24Jul55
starring
James Drury
Karen Sharpe
Dorothy Granger
4.05 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE MAN FROM THE SOUTH
07Aug55
written by Peter Kortner
producer/director Albert McCleery
based on a short story by Roald Dahl
narrated by Charles Addams
starring
Joseph Schildkraut
John Lupton
Mary Webster
Gertrude Michael
Stephen Coit
Charles Addams
Synopsis:
A bizarre story of a sinister wager. In Southern France a man overhears an
American GI boast that his lighter never fails. The man approaches the GI
and challenges him to a bet. The stakes--his expensive car against the little finger of the GI. [RF]
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