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Season
5 (CBS)(1959-60)
Episode Guide
compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox [Uploaded Feb
2018]
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5.01 [187] Camera Three: Knights and Ladies, Gentle and Otherwise
06Sep1959 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
A troubador, five knights and three ladies present old ballads.
A refreshing romp with Old English ballads. The poems are read by a talented
acting troup.
5.02 [188] Camera Three: Ballads Are News
13Sep1959 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Oscar Brand
Synopsis:
Folk singer Oscar Brand is one of the performers in this survey of American
songs which were inspired by natural events,
like floods and storms, that became important news stories. The songs come from
all over the United States and include
works like "So Long, It's Been Good to Know You" which was written as a result
of the dust bowl droughts.
5.03 [189] Camera Three: At the End of the Passage
20Sep1959 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Rudyard Kipling's forceful reminder that the individual Briton paid a heavy
personal price for his country's colonial
interests in India is dramatically played by a group of four.
Their tale of loneliness and struggle in an alien climate is moving and
memorable.
5.04 [190] Camera Three:
27Sep1959 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
5.05 [191] Camera Three: The Plight of the Composer
04Oct1959 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Fascinating half hour devoted to correcting the neglect of American composer
George Antheil's music. The vintage 1920's music
created a sensation at home and abroade as far off as Russia, echoing as it did,
the precision and sound of the mechanistic age.
5.06 [192] Camera Three: Controlled Chance
11Oct1959 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Lukas Foss
Synopsis:
Pianist-composer Lukas Foss demonstrates a system to guide musicians who wish to
improvise on semi-classical and classical music.
5.07 [193] Camera Three: The U.N. and the Arts
18Oct1959 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Films made by the U.N. of art subjects are shown.
5.08 [194] Camera Three: Selma Broeter
25Oct1959 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
A short story by the late Norwegian authoress Sigrid Undset is dramatized.
5.09 [195] Camera Three: Why I Live at the P.O.
01Nov1959 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
From the short story by Eudora Welty.
5.10 [196] Camera Three: The Desperate People
08Nov1959 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
The plight of the vanishing Eskimo tribe is explored.
5.11 [197] Camera Three: The Culture of Poverty
15Nov1959 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Today's dramatization of life in a Mexico city slum staggers the imagination.
But over and beyond the shocking deprivation
illustrated here, therms a warmth and vitality in the people themselves that's
all th more astounding.
"Culture of Poverty", dramatization of segments of the book "Five Families".
5.12 [198] Camera Three: Winter Words
22Nov1959 CBS Sun
Producer John McGiffert
Written by Clair Roskam & Joseph Hurley
Directed by John Desmond
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Sada Thompson
Peter Brandon
Ian Wolfe
Synopsis:
Anyone who enjoys a dramatic reading should listen in on Thomas Hardy's poems
this morning.
Sada Thompson. Peter Brandon and Ian Wolfe appreciate the irony and sensuous
charm they echo, and bring to life a little
known side of the lamed Victorian novelist.
Synopsis:
Thomas Hardy, writer in unique position of having been a Victorian Novelist and
a modern poet will be the subject.
*NOTE: Thomas Hardy, a writer in the unique position of having been a Victorian
novelist and a modern poet, will be the subject
of two programs on CBS-TV's multi award-winning "Camera Three," the first of
which, on Sunday Nov. 22, will concentrate on his
significance as a writer of novels
The program, at 10:30 a.m. on Ch. 5 which will suggest some reasons why Hardy is
not as widely read today as he was a few years ago,
will offer dramatized scenes from Hardy's novels, "The Mayor of Casterbridge"
and "Far From the Madding Crowd."
5.13 [199] Camera Three:
29Nov1959 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
5.14 [200] Camera Three:
06Dec1959 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
5.15 [201] Camera Three: Save the Hay for Winter
13Dec1959 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
The biting satire in these dramatized vignettes written by Polish writers is a
far great indictment of Soviet domination of
a foreign power than any political tract could be.
5.16 [202] Camera Three: From Hiroshima to the Moon
20Dec1959 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
For an actual bystander's reaction to the testing of the atom bomb, today's
dramatized vignettes provide food for thought
for many a day to come.
5.17 [203] Camera Three: The Toys of Peace
27Dec1959 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Two short stories by the Scottish author Saki (H.H. Munro) are interpreted in
dramatic vignettes.
A mother asks her brother to give her two boys "peace toys" as an Easter
present. Fed up with the ravages of War and rather
than giving them toy soldiers and toy guns she opts for a peaceful resolution.
5.18 [204] Camera Three: Toward a Calm 1960
03Jan1960 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
A retrospect of the past year and a look at the year ahead.
5.19 [205] Camera Three: Actor's Choice
10Jan1960 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Maureen Stapleton
Synopsis:
Actress Maureen Stapleton reads poetry.
5.20 [206] Camera Three: More Than One Franklin
17Jan1960 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
The Franklin in the title belongs to our one and only Benjamin, and the occasion
his 254th birthday anniversary.
To celebrate it in style, two actors appear as the versatile gentleman, quoting
a delightful variety of his witticisms
and beliefs on everything from religion, to freedom, wine, vegetarianism and
bathing.
5.21 [207] Camera Three:
24Jan1960 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
5.22 [208] Camera Three:
31Jan1960 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
5.23 [209] Camera Three: Il Filosofo di Campagna (The Guardian Tricked)
07Feb1960 CBS Sun (rerun 11Jun61)
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Salvatore Baccaloni .. Don Tritenio
Arlene Saunders ...... Eugenia
Ezio Flagello ........ Nardo
William Lewis ........ Rinaldo
Barbara Meister ...... Eugenia's sister
Synopsis:
Salvatore Baccaloni stars in an impudent eighteenth century opera bouffe, with a
score by Baldassare Galuppi and a
libretto by Carlo Goldoni. The story is about how love triumphs against all odds
and almost everybody is happy.
5.24 [210] Camera Three: The Stamp of Steinberg
14Feb1960 CBS Sun (rerun 09Jun63)
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
The camera focuses on several groupings of the drawings by artist Saul
Steinberg.
5.25 [211] Camera Three: The Real Thing
21Feb1960 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
A dramatic adaptation of Henry James' short story "The Real Thing"
about a young English artist, commissioned to draw a magazine illustration of
members of polite society, must choose
between two sets of models; an aristocratic couple and a pair of low-class
professional models.
5.26 [212] Camera Three: The Way of All Flesh
28Feb1960 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Judith Evelyn
Kent Smith
Melville Ruick
Ronnie Welsh
Synopsis:
A portion of Samuel Butler's great novel "The Way of All Flesh will be seen in
dramatic adaptation.
The story of a young man's emergence from an antagonistic relationship between
him and his domineering hypocritical parents.
Ernest takes the theological road and becomes a clergyman and is faced with many
obstacles along the road to redemption.
5.27 [213] Camera Three: Light Poetry
06Mar1960 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
5.28 [214] Camera Three: The Counties of Ireland
13Mar1960 CBS Sun (rerun 19Mar61)
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
A trio of Irish actors, singers and balladeers lift their green-tipped voices in
song, recital, ballad and brogue, in toasts
to the countries of Ireland, with a Pre-St. Patrick's Day program.
The performers are: Helena Carroll, actress; Liam Clancy and Tom Makem, singers
and actors.
Look in on this timely rerun as two men and a girl. I.iam Clancy, Tom Makem and
Helena Carroll, all born in various counties of Ireland,
sing away a charming half hour of rare Irish tunes.
If you're in the know, you may recognize "Whack Fol the Diddle," "Whisky in the
Jar" and "Kelly the Boy from Killane," among others.
5.29 [215] Camera Three: The Endless House
20Mar1960 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Illustration and discussion of architectural creations of Frederick Kiesler,
where he will show his "endless house".
5.30 [216] Camera Three: The Sickness of Sicily
27Mar1960 CBS Sun
Written by Joseph Hurley
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
A study of one of the poorest areas in the world is presented in dramatic form.
The stories are taken from three books:
"Report from Palermo" by Danilo Dolci; "The Ten Pains of Death" by Gavin
Maxwell" and "Little Noves of Sicily" by Giovanni Verga.
These authentic sources form the basis for a dramatic outline ot a case history
ot mass poverty on Italy's southernmost island.
5.31 [217] Camera Three: They Called Her Moses
03Apr1960 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
The story of Harriet Tubman is told in an original dance-song-drama of the
underground railroad leader during the Civil War.
5.32 [218] Camera Three: Chitra
10Apr1960 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
An ancient Indian love story is dramatized in dance pantomine form by a group of
Indian artists, and the result is a tender
demonstration of the eternal patterns of romance.
5.33 [219] Camera Three:
17Apr1960 CBS Sun
Host James Macandrew
5.34 [220] Camera Three: He Done Her Wrong
24Apr1960 CBS Sun
story by Milt Gross
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
A backwoods wilderness man falls in love with a city girl. When he goes to the
big city to find her mixed up with an unsavory
fellow he becomes the hero.
5.35 [221] Camera Three: Art Treasures of Early America
01May1960
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
A comprehensive look at American folk arts.
5.36 [222] Camera Three: Mainly Anonymous
08May1960
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
The works of three 17th Century English poets. Robert Herrick ("Gather Ye
Rosebuds While Ye May").
George Herbert and John Donne, echo a love of life and its adventure that will
surely bring a smile to their lips.
5.37 [223] Camera Three: The Destroyer
15May1960
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Patricia Cutts
Reginald Denny
Margaret Barker
Synopsis:
An interpretation of Elizabeth Bowen's short story "Her Table Spread" is
dramatized.
The love story about a girl with the sense of reality of a phantom is unveiled
in this offbeat drama.
5.38 [224] Camera Three: The Faces of Ingmar Bergman
22May1960
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Arthur Knight
Synopsis:
Sweden's great motion picture director is represented here by excerpts of three
of his unique films,
"Wild Strawberries," ''Lessons in Love," and "The Seventh Seal."
Film Critic Arthur Knight discusses the director's attitude toward film making
and his entry into the field.
5.39 [225] Camera Three: Boswell Without Johnson
29May1960
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
The insufferable conceit of the youthful Boswell is told in this dramatization
and bear with him as he wangles two interviews
with an unwilling Rousseau and an outspoken Voltaire.
5.40 [226] Camera Three: From Fish to Fools
05Jun1960
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Israeli Mime Shai K. Ophir and actress Karla most light-heartedly trace the
history of organic life from the fish to the organization man.
5.41 [227] Camera Three: Forbidden to Land
12Jun1960
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
A little known but significant subject is explored in today's dramatization
about the refugee seaman whose only
freedom is to roam the seas.
As one of the characters explains, "a man without a passport is a man without a
soul."
In this troubled tale, the seamen are escapees from iron-curtained Hungary.
5.42 [228] Camera Three: Modern American Sculpture (Baker's Dozen?)
19Jun1960
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
A discussion of the contemporary development of sculpture.
5.43 [229] Camera Three: Choreographer at Work
26Jun1960
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Offbeat and intriguing half hour with a modern dancer and choreographer, Yuriko,
teaching her troupe
the pattern of a dance sequence completely new to them.
5.44 [230] Camera Three:
03Jul1960
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Question of ex-presidents examined.
5.45 [231] Camera Three: The Best and the Worst
10Jul1960
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Efforts of such literary lights as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Byron and Longfellow
demonstrates the fact that even a
genius can miss the mark occasionally.
5.46 [232] Camera Three: The Men from Company K
17Jul1960 (rerun 27Aug61)
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
A dramatization of William March's "Company K". A gripping World War I about the
men who face a death they don't understand,
illuminated and intensified by a simplicistic understatement.
5.47 [233] Camera Three: They Can't Come Clean
24Jul1960
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
The art (or vice) of rationalization, so prevalent in the modern world, is the
subject of "They Can't Come Clean"
a satirical sketch based on the writings of humorists E.B. White, Stephen
Leacock and Jules Pfeiffer.
[--] Camera Three: Saul and the Witch of Endor
31Jul1960 (repeat from 07Jun59)
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
"The Pleasures of Purcell".
(Repeat.) A brief but welcome visit with the great 7th century English,
composer, Henry Purcell. After three short, joyful songs,
Purcell's tiny but heroic opera, complete in one scene, recounts the dramatic
biblical story of "Saul and the Witch of Endor."
[--] Camera Three: Fete For Four Hands
07Aug1960 (repeat from 02Aug59)
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Duo pianists Vera Brodsky and Harold Triggs in Bach, Chopin and Milhaud.
[--] Camera Three: Larry Adler
14Aug1960 (repeat from 08Mar59)
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler presents the classics.
5.48 [234] Camera Three: A Night with Chichikov
21Aug1960
Host James Macandrew
Synopsis:
19th Century Russian political corruption is satirized with the poetry of Pavel
Chichikov.
5.49 [235] Camera Three: Jane Austen's Matchmaker
28Aug1960
Host James Macandrew
cast:
Nancy Wickwire .... Emma
Synopsis:
The problem of getting properly married in the aristocratic world of 19th
Century England is the focus of
dramatic excerpts from Jane Austen's novel "Emma".
Synopsis 2:
A gem of a show adapted from a portion of Miss Austen's
Nineteenth century novel "Emma."
Any fan of the deceptively sweet works of Jane Austen will be delighted with the
acute characterization of her wilful
heroine Emma on a matchmaking spree. Nancy Wickwire plays her with care.
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