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 Season 1 (CBS)(Early 1956)
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by:  Rina Fox [Uploaded Feb 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)

 

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1/2 season

[00] Camera Three: Crime and Punishment
15Jan1956 [pre-national]
starring
Gerald Sarracini
Olga Bielinska
Final episode of Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment".

[01] Camera Three: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
22Jan1956 CBS Sun
Producer Robert Herridge
Based on the short story by Feodor Dostoevsky
Directed by Francis Moriarty
Musical score by Thomas Scott
Host James Macandrew
cast:
John Drainie
Synopsis:
A moralistic tale of a dream which helped a man renew his faith in living and in helping mankind.
Synopsis 2:
A man is convinced that life is futile. On the night he plans to kill himself he has a strange and inspiring dream.
*NOTE: Canadian born actor John Drainie plays the only role in this one-man show.

[02] Camera Three: The Rendezvous
29Jan1956 CBS Sun
Producer Robert Herridge
TV adaptation by Robert Herridge
Based on a story by Ivan S. Turgenev
Musical score by Thomas Scott
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Lois Nettleton ....... Akulina
Gerald Sarracini ... Viktor Alexandrich
Michael Higgins .... Narrator
Synopsis:
It is the melancholy end of a summer romance, as Michael Higgins the narrator observes when he sees a peasant girl
meeting a valet in the woods one day.

[03] Camera Three: Ozark Set
05Feb1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Elie Siegmeister's musical score
cast:
choreographer and dancer John Butler
Yuriko Kikuchi
Ian Tucker
Joan Skinner
Synopsis:
An Elie Siegmeister musical composition, "Ozark Set", will provide the background for a performance of the John Butler Dance Theater.
Synopsis 2:
An interpretive picture of mid-American folkways will be presented by the John Butler Dance Theater when nine of
its members perform to Elie Siegmeister's musical score in "Ozark Set".

[04] Camera Three: Folk Song
12Feb1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
cast:
folksinger Jo Mapes
balladier Ed McCurdy
Synopsis:
American folk music popular during the first half of the 19th century are performed as the balladiers
pay a special tribute to Abraham Lincoln with a selection of Walt Whitman verses set to music.

*NOTE: Jo Mapes was a recent winner on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts.

[05] Camera Three: Swan Lake
19Feb1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Maria Tallchief
Nicholas Magallanes
Synopsis:
Dancers Maria Tallchief and Nicholas Magalianes evaluate and perform "Swan Lake" ballet.

[06] Camera Three: Democratic Vistas
26Feb1956 CBS Sun
Producer Robert Herridge
Based on Walt Whitman's essay
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Jean Stapleton
Lois Nettleton
Lee Henry
Synopsis:
Walt Whitman's famous essay demonstrates his discouragement at what he saw in American.
The sobering effects of the Civil War and the assasination of President Abraham Lincoln.

I have said that the soul is not more than the body,
And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is,
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."
Whitman's enduring lesson about American democracy: "O I see flashing that this America is only you and me."
No better, no worse. "The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures,
nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors
...but always most in the common people."

[07] Camera Three: Emily Dickinson
04Mar1956 CBS Sun
Producer Robert Herridge
Host James Macandrew
Original music score by composer-balladier Tom Scott
cast:
Lois Nettleton
Synopsis:
The delicate yet powerful lyrics of Emily Dickinson, American poetess of the late 19th century,
are spoken today in a continuous solo performance by Lois Nettleton.
The verse is arranged to suggest how Emily Dickinson came to write poetry.

[08] Camera Three: A Legend of Our Time
11Mar1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
with John Butler dance group
Synopsis:
Story of a young man seeking values for living in dance and drama.

[09] Camera Three: Toulouse-Lautrec
18Mar1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
The world and artistic achievement of the 19th century French painter Toulouse Lautrec will be explored.

[10] Camera Three: Intricate Image of Dylan Thomas
25Mar1956 CBS Sun
Producer Robert Herridge
Host James Macandrew
cast:
John Ciardi
Tom Clancy
Richard Morse (both portray Dylan Thomas).
Synopsis:
The art of poetry in a portrait of the 20th century poet Dylan Thomas as a man through readings of his works
of lyric poetry and prase are spoken.
James Macandrew is the host of this show which features several selections of poetry by Dylan Thomas being
recited by different personalities portraying Thomas
and an interview by Macandrew with a professor from Rutgers University on Thomas’ poetry writings.
Dylan Thomas reading A Child’s Christmas in Wales and five poems

[--] Camera Three:
01Apr1956 CBS Sun
pre-empted for a special Easter Mass Service by Rev. Francis P. Sayre Jr. and the Rev. Angus Don.


[11] Camera Three: A Gallery of Rebels
08Apr1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
with Dr. Rene Fulop-Miller
Synopsis:
The first of three programs on rebels and rebellion, with a discussion about the essence of rebellion.

[12] Camera Three: The Act of Rebellion Part II
15Apr1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
A three-part study of rebellion and the rebel Part II
"The Independent Rebel" An individual revolts against society.

[13] Camera Three: The Act of Rebellion Part III
22Apr1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
A three-part study of rebellion and the rebel.
Part III.
"The Artistic Time Bomb." An analysis of cultural rebellion.

[14] Camera Three: An Elizabethan Miscellaney I
29Apr1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
The Elizabethan era depicted in song and story.

[15] Camera Three: An Elizabethan Miscellaney II
06May1956 CBS Sun [Florence Morning News]
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
A procession of people, poetry and prose illustrating the expanding horizons of the 16th Century English way of life.

[16] Camera Three: An Elizabethan Miscellaney III
13May1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew

[17] Camera Three: Freedom and Restraint (Part I)
20May1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
with
C. Dickerman Williams, attorney and author
Synopsis:
First of a two part discussion of history and application of the Constitution's Fifth Amendment.

[18] Camera Three: Freedom and Restraint (Part II)
27May1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
with
Michael Higgins
Thayer David
Synopsis:
Part II will present the dramatization of Plato's "Crito".
Imprisoned Socrates reflects on State vs. individual rights.

[19] Camera Three: The Triumph of Darkness
03Jun1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
with
Louisa Trinia and group
Mario Escudero, guitar
Chinin de Triana, vocal
Synopsis:
The artistic biography of the Spanish painter Goya, interwoven with song and dance.

[20] Camera Three: What Price Nonsense
10Jun1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
A study of the works of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear.

[21] Camera Three: The Music of Mozart
17Jun1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
with Dr. Kurt List, critic and musicologist
Nadia Reisenberg, concert pianist
Dr. Erich Leinsdorf, conductor
Synopsis:
Program is in celebration of bicentennial of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth.

[22] Camera Three: The Art of Song
24Jun1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
From the Middle Ages to present day.

[23] Camera Three: The Green and Golden Bough
01Jul1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
The tree as a source of inspiration throughout history from Central Park.

[24] Camera Three: The Far Side of Politics
08Jul1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
with
Finley Peter Dunne
and H.L. Mencken
Synopsis:
Dr. Malcolm Moos illustrates the theme by dramatizing opinions of de Tocqueville.

[25] Camera Three: Ladies' and Gentlemen's Glossary for Conventions
15Jul1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
It features Dr. Malcolm Moos of Johns Hopkins university and K.W. Kenworthy of the New York Times.

[26] Camera Three: Stanislavaky and the Actor
22Jul1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
with
Gerald Hiken and the Fourth Street Theatre Company.
Synopsis:
An analysis of the great director's methods.

[27] Camera Three: Variations on an Instrumental Theme
29Jul1956 CBS Sun
with Dr. Charles Roth, guest moderator.
Synopsis:
A jazz quartet is contrasted with a traditional string quartet.

[28] Camera Three: Daisy Miller
05Aug1956 CBS Sun
Based on the novel by Henry James
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Nancy Malone ..... Daisy Miller
Peter Donat ...... Winterbourne
Synopsis:
A naive American girl, vacationing in Europe, brushes with complicated continental tradition and customs.

[29] Camera Three: Americans Abroad
12Aug1956 CBS Sun
Dr. Charles Roth subs for vacationing Moderator James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Explores the reasons why Americans, since the founding of the United States, have felt the need to travel to Europe.

[30] Camera Three: Selections from "Rooms"
19Aug1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
with
choreographer Anna Sokolow
Synopsis:
A modern dance interpretation of the urban deweller's loneliness.

[31] Camera Three: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
26Aug1956 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
with
Gerald Hiken
Synopsis:
A dramatic adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem.

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