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2 (NBC) (1962-63)
Episode Guide
compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox
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########## DuPont Show Of The Week ###########
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NBC Sundays 10:00-11:00pm Eastern (hour long)
2.01 DuPont Show Of The Week: THE OUTPOST
16Sep1962 NBC
written by Roger O. Hirson
directed by Fielder Cook
starring
Neville Brand ....... Sergeant
Richard Conte ....... Captain
Keir Dullea ....... Lieutenant
Claude Rains ....... Colonel
Everett Sloane ....... Private
Synopsis:
This episode presents an allegorical drama without a specific time or location.
There is a military outpost in a desert
wilderness near a hypothetical enemy. A young lieutenant arrives and is shocked
to find only four other soldiers, each
with a stain against their military record. When he reports enemy troop
movements, the others accuse him of having
hallucinations. The action builds to a surprise ending and because the exact
significance of the story is unclear,
viewers are can draw their own conclusions. [RF]
Ep 2.02 DuPont Show Of The Week: THE INTERROGATOR
23Sep1962 NBC
written by Don M. Mankiewicz
directed by Jack Smight
starring
John Mills ...... Inspector Fallon
Ina Balin ...... Drusilla
Robert Loggia ...... Kiki
Murray Matheson ...... Commissioner Thompson
Synopsis:
This episode presents a drama about Cyprus in 1957 during the height of the
three-sided conflict between British colonial
rule and Greek and Turkish terrorists. Inspector Fallon, a British police
superintendent, brings in a Cypriot prisoner,
Christos, one of a gang who blew up a power plant. In order to climb a hill,
Fallon releases Christos, who knocks him out
and escapes. When Fallon returns, he is accused of murdering Christos.
Commissioner Thompson thinks Fallon has comprised
himself and orders a replacement. A band of terrorists, including Kiki and
Drusilla, is interrogated by Fallon, who uses
fierce measures to break down the prisoners. They confess to blowing up the
plant. Fallon is freed from the accusation but
realizes he has used brutality in the process. [RF]
Ep 2.03 DuPont Show Of The Week: FIRE RESCUE
30Sep1962 NBC Sun (rebroadcast 21Jul63)
written by Jack Fuller
directed by Fred Freed
narrator Walter Matthau
Synopsis 1:
This episode presents a documentary about the Rescue Company One of the New York
Fire Dept., a small corps of firefighters
whose training and skills have equipped them for the most challenging
assignments. The program follows the firefighters as
they answer calls to multiple alarm fires, resuscitation calls and other
emergencies day and night. Incidents include the
death of firefighter John Farragher in a fire in the city's Hell's Hundred Acres
section and a nine-alarm fire in a clothing
store in Queens. The show focuses on Lt. William McMahon as he leads his men.
There are scenes at the company's quarters on
West 43rd St. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
For three months, cameras recorded New York City's Fire Rescue Company One in
action and at the firehouse. There was a
nine-alarmer in Queens; a fire in a Manhattan novelty store; a tough mopping up
job in a fire-gutted building; the rescue
of an 80 year-old woman trapped during a blaze; first aid to a girl who
collapsed on the street; the rescue of other firemen
overcome by smoke in a burning tenement; and a tragic loft fire in which one man
in the squad lost his life. Off-camera
narrator: Walter Matthau. [RF]
Ep 2.04 DuPont Show Of The Week: BIG DEAL IN LAREDO
07Oct1962 NBC Sun
written by Sidney Carroll
directed by Fielder Cook
starring
Teresa Wright ...... Mary
Walter Matthau ...... Meredith
John McGiver ...... C.P. Ballinger
Zachary Scott ...... Habershaw
Roland Winters ...... Drummond
John Megna ...... Jackie
William Hansen ...... Dr. Scully
Arthur Hughes ...... Buford
James Kenny ...... Sam
Dana Elcar ...... Wilcox
Allen Collins
Keith Carsey
Synopsis 1:
A Western about a game of poker among four millionaires in Laredo. Meredith,
traveling with his wife Mary and son Jackie,
watches the game and as a compulsive gambler has to join in. He is dealt the
best five-card hand but dies of a heart attack.
Mary takes over and secures a loan from the bank using the hand as collateral.
She wins the huge pot. In fact, they have
pulled off a con that cannot be repeated. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
At the Palomar Hotel in Laredo, the biggest durn poker game in the history of
Texas is underway. Four cattle barons are
battling for blood in the back room, when the game is interrupted by a dirt
farmer named Meredith, who asks permission to
kibitz. Meredith, a compulsive gambler, finally breaks down, joins the game -
and bets his entire life savings. [RF]
Note: This was made into the feature film "A Big Hand for the Little Lady".
Ep 2.05 DuPont Show Of The Week: THE BETRAYAL
21Oct1962 NBC
written by Ernest Pendrell
directed by Jack Smight
starring
Franchot Tone ...... the Inspector
Maureen Stapleton ...... Prof. Gretchen Anna Thaelman
Margaret O'Brien ...... Elsa Thaelman
Burt Brinckerhoff ...... Carl Richter
John Alderman ...... Richard Thaelman
Synopsis:
This episode presents a drama about contemporary East Berlin. A colonel of the
East German People's Police is assassinated
by Richard Thaelman, a young underground hero, and son of Professor Gretchen
Anna Thaelman, a Nobel Prize winner. Richard
flees to the apartment of Carl Richter, a non-political student of the
professor. Under threats from Richard, he helps to
plan his escape when he is taken into custody. When he tells the inspector about
Richard, he does not believe Carl. Richard
is caught and the Inspector tells his mother that Carl turned him in. But Carl
wins his release and he insists they flee
the country and he pledges to carry on their work. [RF]
Ep 2.06 DuPont Show Of The Week: THE SHADOWED AFFAIR
04Nov1962 NBC
written by Michael Dyne
directed by Fielder Cook
starring
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. ...... Hans Harben
Greer Garson ...... Juliette Harben
Lois Nettleton ...... Jennifer Graham
Synopsis:
This episode presents a drama of a isolated Nobel Prize-winning novelist, Hans
Harben, his psychotic wife, Juliette, and a
young journalist, Jennifer Graham, who is assigned to interview him. Jennifer
idolizes Hans, but she observes the strange
relationship between Hans and Juliette, who takes charge of all of his affairs
with pathological determination. Jennifer
cannot work under her authoritative direction. She discovers she is in love with
Hans and he with her. They plan to go to
Greece, but Juliette tells her about the strange bond that links her to Hans and
why she throws Hans at young women. None
of his books would have been finished without these affairs. As Jennifer leaves,
Hans and Juliette are at work on his newest
book, about their affair, entitled The shadowed affair. [RF]
Ep 2.07 DuPont Show Of The Week: EMERGENCY WARD
18Nov1962 NBC
written by Frank De Felitta
directed by Frank De Felitta
narrator Dana Andrews
Synopsis:
This episode presents a documentary about the experiences of a young doctor
confronted with a succession of crises in one of
the world's busiest hospitals, Bellevue Hospital in New York City. The program
shows the physicians, nurses, patients, and
medical students of Bellevue's emergency ward on a typical night. Dr. Martin
Mulder, a 26-year-old intern, works a routine
of 36 hours on duty and 8 hours off. He works at his utmost capacity on his
cases, some of whom include a middle-aged man
who dies from a brain injury, a patient who rejects his advice of surgery
because it will leave him disabled, and a man with
an acute heart attack. [RF]
Ep 2.08 DuPont Show Of The Week: MUTINY
02Dec1962 NBC
written by Jerome Ross
directed by Jack Smight
starring
Dana Andrews ...... Commander Jason Vanning
Robert Walker ...... Cadet Philip Cantrell
John Baragrey ...... the Judge Advocate
Staats Cotsworth ...... Commandant Matthew Wayde
Lonnie Chapman ...... Seaman Cromwell
Synopsis:
This episode presents a drama suggested by the only recorded mutiny in U.S.
naval history. In 1842, the U.S.S. Bowers returns
to the Brooklyn Navy Yard from a training cruise. One cadet, 17-year old Philip
Cantrell, son of a leading senator, was killed
during the voyage and a Naval Court of Inquiry summons the ship's captain,
Commander Jason Vanning, to a hearing on charges of
murder. Cantrell always broke the rules and talked about seizing the vessel. The
crew informed the captain and he put Cantrell
in irons. Cantrell told him that he had always felt inferior to his father. The
crew became restless and Vanning prepared to
hang Cantrell but only if he did not confess. Cantrell tried to incite the crew
and then jumped overboard. Vanning is cleared. [RF]
Ep 2.09 DuPont Show Of The Week: THE ORDEAL OF DR. SHANNON
16Dec1962 NBC
written by Robert Stewart
directed by Joan Kemp-Welch
starring
Rod Taylor ...... Dr. Robert Shannon
Elizabeth MacLennan ...... Jean Law
Finlay Currie ...... Sir Wilfred Challis
Ronald Fraser ...... Dr. James Mathers
Moultrie Kelsall ...... Dr. Usher
Synopsis:
This episode presents a drama about Dr. Robert Shannon, a brilliant American
resident physician, who abandons a promising
career and resigns his hospital post to find the right vaccine against a new and
fatal influenza germ. He faces pressures
from all sides, from his friends, medical superiors and the woman he loves. [RF]]
Ep 2.10 DuPont Show Of The Week: WINDFALL
13Jan1963 NBC
written by Roger O. Hirson
directed by Franklin Schaffner
starring
Eddie Albert ...... Frank Foster
Glynis Johns ...... Emily Foster
Murray Hamilton ...... Bob Fay
Milton Selzer ...... Mr. Raymond
Rex Everhart ...... Charlie
Gene Wilder ...... 1st Reporter
Synopsis:
This episode presents the story of Emily and Frank Foster, who find $92,000 in a
sink which they bought in a junk shop.
Although he could use the money, he turns it over to the police. Some call them
fools and the IRS think they are holding
out more money. When they find more money, Frank wants to keep it because of the
suspicion and ridicule they have already
received. Realizing that they have caught the money bug, they burn the money. [RF]
Ep 2.11 DuPont Show Of The Week: TWO FACES OF TREASON
10Feb1963 NBC
written by Philip Reisman Jr.
directed by Franklin Schaffner
starring
Lloyd Nolan ....... James Feveral
Larry Blyden ....... William Yarrow
James Daly ....... Albert
Martha Scott ....... Helen Adams
James Patterson ....... Bob Crane
Valora Noland ....... Maddie
Frank Campanella ....... Sergeant
Synopsis 1:
A communist spy dies in an accident, but the government does not release this
information. The army comes up with Corporal
William Yarrow to take his place. He reports to a counter-intelligence unit
under James Feveral. He learns everything about
the dead spy. He meets two communist agents, Albert and Helen Adams. Albert
reveals that there is a leak. Yarrow implicates
Adams, whom Albert kills. He tells Yarrow to go fishing. When Yarrow tells
Feveral about his concerns about the death of
Adams and he responds glibly, he punches him and goes fishing. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
Though Cpl. William Yarrow is a good soldier, he is not exactly the ambitious
type. When he requests reassignment, he expects
to get the sort of job that demands his usual marginal output of energy. But
Uncle Sam wants him for something much more
demanding. Yarrow is ordered to report to a civilian named James Feverel, whose
business is counterespionage. Feverel wants
the corporal to play a very dangerous game of impersonation. He is to assume the
identity of a Communist agent who has just
died - an agent who bore a striking resemblance to him. If the ruse succeeds,
Yarrow's country will benefit. If he fails,
he could pay with his life. [RF]
Ep 2.12 DuPont Show Of The Week: COMEDIAN BACKSTAGE
10Mar1963 NBC
written by Fred Freed
directed by Fred Freed
narrator Frank McGee
starring
Shelly Berman
Marty Klein
Jim Davis
Harry Bell
Synopsis:
This episode presents a behind-the-scenes and candid study of comic Shelley
Berman. The program examines the tensions and
demands that a performer lives with in the serious business of making people
laugh. The show covers a 36-hour period in
Berman's life, centering on his performance at a Hollywood, Florida hotel. [RF]
Ep 2.13 DuPont Show Of The Week: DIAMOND FEVER
24Mar1963 NBC
written by Jerome Ross
directed by Gerald Freedman
starring
Peter Lorre ....... Archie Lefferts
Theodore Bikel ....... Herbert Vanderling
Sidney Blackmer ....... Arthur Hartwick
Martin Brooks ....... Joe Vanderling
Katharine Sergava ....... Mrs. Vanderling
Synopsis:
This episode presents the drama of a financially pressed jeweller, Arthur
Hartwick, who concocts a scheme whereby he would be
the victim of the theft of his fabulous diamond. He needs Herbert Vanderling, an
embittered diamond cutter, to turn the stone
into an article of priceless beauty. His brother Joe plots to steal the diamond.
Herbert tells Hartwick, who has insured the
diamond for one million dollars. Archie Lefferts, a great jewel thief, plans to
steal the diamond. Vanderling successfully
cuts the diamond. After making a deal to kill the Vanderlings, Lefferts scuffles
with Hartwick and the police catch them
both, having been tipped off by Joe. [RF]
Ep 2.14 DuPont Show Of The Week: THE SHARK
07Apr1963 NBC
written by Larry Marcus
directed by Franklin Schaffner
starring
Anthony Franciosa ....... Fred Russo
Skip Homeier ....... Harry Graham
Diana Hyland ....... Ellen Graham
Fred Stuart ....... Leonard
Peg Murray ....... Emily Quale
Synopsis:
This episode presents a drama about Harry Graham, a prosperous grocer, who owes
his life to Fred Russo. Fred saved Harry
from a shark, losing his leg in the rescue. Fred visits the Graham family and is
treated like a guardian angel. However,
Fred has just killed a prostitute, Emily Quale. He feels compelled to tell Harry
but changes his mind just before passing
out. When he awakes he is not sure what he has told Harry. He needs to know
before he leaves and so takes a walk with Harry,
who fearing Fred calls for help. He and his wife Ellen acknowledge their debt to
Fred but feel they must inform the police. [RF]
Ep 2.15 DuPont Show Of The Week: PRISONER AT LARGE
21Apr1963 NBC
written by William Jersey
directed by William Jersey
narrator Walter Matthau
Synopsis:
This episode presents a documentary about the personal relationship between a
parole officer and a paroled convict. Joseph
McCormick has worked most of his life in the Massachusetts Dept. of Corrections
as a prison social worker and parole officer.
John Hackett (this is not the person's real name) first got into trouble when he
was nine-years-old and was just paroled after
serving seven years for armed robbery. McCormick thinks he is an intelligent and
likeable person, for whom there seems hope
of rehabilitation. After nearly a year, Hackett commits another crime and
is caught. They meet with a sense of emotional crisis. [RF]
Ep 2.16 DuPont Show Of The Week: SOMETHING TO HIDE
05May1963 NBC
written by Leslie Sands
directed by Lewis Freedman
starring
Henry Jones ....... Davies
Colleen Dewhurst ....... Karen Holt
Dirk Kooiman ....... Howard Holt
Hilda Brawner ....... Julie Grant
Mary Doyle ....... Stella
Synopsis:
This episode presents a murder mystery. Howard Holt, a second rate author who is
married to his wealthy publisher, Karen, is
having an affair with Julie Grant. Karen runs over Julie and Howard tells her
not to call the police because they will charge
her with manslaughter. Karen calls them anyway and D.A. Davies arrives to
question them. Karen listens in on a phone call to
Howard from a woman and becomes suspicious. Karen, who has a gun, pleads with
Howard to tell the truth to the police, but he
demands that she give him the money in the safe. They struggle and Howard is
killed. Then Julie arrives, confesses she murdered
Howard and demands the money. Davies arrests her. [RF]
Ep 2.17 DuPont Show Of The Week: THE LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE
19May1963 NBC
written by Robert Thom
directed by Franklin Schaffner
starring
Tuesday Weld ....... Elsie Brinkmann
Alfred Drake ....... Louis Zakin
Michael Tolan ....... Welles Resnick
Sorrell Booke ....... Jake Resnick
Johnny Baymer ....... Mickey Mandell
Synopsis:
This episode presents a drama of eerie suspense based on the legend of the
dibbuk in which the spirit of a dead person
possesses a living body and acts through it. Elsie Brinkmann is an ingenue
discovered in Las Vegas by Mickey Mandell and
signed by director Louis Zakin and producer Jake Resnick to star in a film
biography of legendary movie goddess, Lylah Clare,
who has been dead for 25 years. Despite a striking resemblance, Elsie has none
of her qualities. Lylah was unregenerate and
perverse. As filming progresses, Elsie begins to imagine that she is Lylah and
becomes an evil creature. Finally, Elsie is
scheduled for the death scene, in which the character falls down the stairs and
is killed. As she performs the scene, she
in fact falls down and dies. [RF]
Ep 2.18 DuPont Show Of The Week: THE TRIUMPH OF GERALD Q. WERT
09Jun1963 NBC
written by Ernestine Barton
directed by Lewis Freedman
starring
Art Carney ....... Gerald Q. Wert
John Megna ....... Peter
David Opatoshu ....... General Crayton
Charles White ....... Mayor Harper
Frank Christi ....... Officer Folson
Synopsis:
This episode presents a drama about the last comedian on earth, Gerald Q. Wert.
The totalitarian world-super-government
deems laughter to be a malignant infection of public morals and a revolutionary
activity. All comedians and laughmakers
have been executed or surrendered their art to avoid death. In this society, no
one laughs or smiles. Wert is the subject of a
worldwide search. He finds sanctuary in a small American community and befriends
a boy, Peter. At night Wert gives performances
in cellars. Wert is captured and led to his death. Peter performs Wert's
act for his friends and they roar with laughter. [RF] .
Ep 2.19 DuPont Show Of The Week: SAN FRANCISCO DETECTIVE
16Jun1963 NBC
written by Arthur Zegart & Len Giovannitti
directed by Arthur Zegart
narrator Walter Matthau
Synopsis:
This episode presents a documentary about police work in San Francisco. The
central figure is Inspector George Asdrubale,
a veteran of 16 years with the San Francisco Police Dept., 10 of them as
homicide specialist. The program follows him to a
cheap hotel room in which an 18-year-old woman is found strangled, to skid row
to serve a subpoena on a witness, to a shabby
rooming house searching for a suspect in an assault case, to the morgue where
police seek identification of a murder victim,
and on a coffee break. The show also includes scenes of a line-up, the
interrogation of witnesses and the work of the crime lab. [RF]
Ep 2.20 DuPont Show Of The Week: A DOZEN DEADLY ROSES
23Jun1963 NBC
written by Leonard Kantor
directed by Robert Allen
starring
Lauren Bacall ....... Lorraine Boswell
Walter Matthau ....... Martin Pitt
Robert Alda ....... Ben Caulder
Vincent Gardenia ....... Samson
Addison Powell ....... Mr. Oates
Synopsis:
This episode presents a spy drama. Lorraine Boswell is acquitted of killing her
wealthy husband thanks to the testimony of
a total stranger, Martin Pitt. They fall in love and marry. Martin is trying to
get his hands on her husband's collection of
manuscripts and autographs because his passport is included in its contents and
it proves he is a spy. Ben Caulder, who is
an Interpol agent, tries to buy the collection, but Martin refuses. Caulder
tells Lorraine about Martin, who apparently kills
him. Lorraine tells Martin that there are copies of his passport in the bank, so
they play Russian roulette with drinks
laced with arsenic. He dies and she is tried for his murder, but Caulder appears
to clear her. [RF]
Ep 2.21 DuPont Show Of The Week: OPENING NIGHT
30Jun1963 NBC
written by Al Wasserman
directed by Al Wasserman
narrator Jason Robards Jr.
starring
Joseph Andrews
Louise Sorel
Joe Ponazecki
Leslie Barnett
C.K. Alexander
Synopsis:
This episode presents a behind-the-scenes study of the launching of a new play.
The program focuses on the aspirations,
talents and efforts of a director and cast that culminate in the exciting moment
when a new play comes to life. The play
is The dragon, a story of tyranny in the guise of a fairy tale, which opened
April 9, 1963 at the Phoenix Theatre in
New York City. This is the first off-Broadway production of Joseph Anthony, one
of Broadway's top directors. The show
includes Anthony's working with the actors and fusing the acting with the other
elements of the play, such as lighting
and costumes. Backstage scenes include Anthony's parting speech to the cast,
portions of the play, and the principal
players watching a review on TV. The play closed after a three-week run. [RF]
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