The Elgin TV Hour
(1954-55)
Episode Guide compiled by
The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by:
Rina Fox
references:
Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive
THE ELGIN TV HOUR
October 5, 1954 to June 14, 1955 ABC
Tuesdays 9:30-10:30
Producer Herbert Brodkin
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ABC Tuesdays 9:30-10:30pm - alternating with U.S. Steel Hour
Ep 1.01 [--] The Elgin TV Hour: FLOODTIDE
05-Oct-1954 ABC Tue
written by Mort Wishengrad
starring
Robert Cummings ... Jeff Clark
Janet Blair ....... Lacey Gaddis Clark
Richard Jaeckel ... Virgil Gaddis
Charles Dingle .... Miles Virdin
Dorothy Gish ...... Miss Psyche
Dorothy Sands ..... Angela Buck
Paula Trueman ..... Edna Earle
Frank H. Wilson ... Henry
Synopsis:
Clark tries valiantly to save his old plantation from a flood, keep his
ex-waitress wife at home, and bail out his amoral brother-in-law who had
a tendency to shoot upstate troopers. [RF]
Ep 1.02 [--] The Elgin TV Hour: FAMILY CRISIS
19-Oct-1954
starring
James Daly as Jim
Betty Field as Blanche
Fay Bainter as Grandma
Charles Taylor as Terry
Iris Mann as Nancy
Ep 1.03 [--] The Elgin TV Hour: HIGH MAN
02-Nov-1954
starring
Ralph Bellamy as Walter
Joanne Woodward as Nancy
William Redfield as Hopper
John Beal as Harvey
Neva Patterson as Iris
King Calder as Sibley
Edgar Stehli as Mr. Ward
Anne Seymour as Miss Summers
Jeffrey Lynn as Jackson
Ep 1.04 [--] The Elgin TV Hour: WARM CLAY
16-Nov-1954
written by Winifred Wolfe & Jack Gordon
directed by Donald Richardson
starring
Louis Jourdan as Ben Cory
Ruth Hussey as Fran Tillman
Margaret Hamilton as Gwen
Herbert Nelson as Nate
Malcolm Brodrick as Mike
Adele Newton
Ep 1.05 [--] The Elgin TV Hour: HEARTS AND HOLLYWOOD
30-Nov-1954
directed by Daniel Petrie
starring
Gertrude Berg as Bessie
Mikhail Rasumny as Berman
Nita Talbot
Norman Feld as Morton
Robert Strauss as Sid Roth
Rudy Bond as Nate
Lenka Peterson as Marge
Betty Walker as Mrs. Lewis
Dora Weissman as Mrs. Perlman
Frank Overton as Ad Man
Ep 1.06 [--] The Elgin TV Hour: YESTERDAY'S MAGIC
14-Dec-1954
written by Michael Dyne
starring
Roddy McDowall as Jamie
Francis Lederer as Ferrante
Rex O'Malley as Soames
Herbert Marshall as Belmont
Ep 1.07 [--] The Elgin TV Hour: FALLING STAR
28-Dec-1954
starring
Polly Bergen as Dawn Desmond
E.G. Marshall as Brady Weeks
Jackie Cooper as Joe Morton
Luella Gear as Mom Morton
Frank McHugh as Photographer
Ep 1.08 [--] The Elgin TV Hour: THE BRIDGE
11-Jan-1955
starring
John Ireland as Major Marshall
Kim Stanley as Lili
Walter Burke as Armstrong
Miko Oscard as Jean
Rex O'Malley as Miller
Tonio Selwart as Levesque
Anthony Dawson as German
Jarmila Novotna as Mother
Ep 1.09 [--] The Elgin TV Hour: FAMILY MEETING
25-Jan-1955
starring
Robert Emhardt as Senator Harold Grimes
William Redfield as Lyman Poole
Janis Carter as Rita Forbes
Margery Gray as Hope
Alan Bunce as Walter
Polly Rowles as Mother
Ep 1.10 [--] The Elgin TV Hour: DAYS OF GRACE
08-Feb-1955
starring
Franchot Tone as Will L'Hommedieu
Nancy Malone as Gloria L'Hommedieu
Peggy Conklin as Madge L'Hommedieu
George Macready as Ralph Chambers
Pat Harrington Jr. as Benny
Malcolm Lee Beggs as Jim Fuller
John Alexander as Doctor
Synopsis:
An advertising executive loses his job after 20 years with the same agency. [RF]
Ep 1.11 [--] The Elgin TV Hour: THE STING OF DEATH
22-Feb-1955
written by Alvin Sapinsley
story by H.F. Heard
starring
Boris Karloff as Mr. Mycroft
Hermione Gingold as Alice
Martyn Green as Mr. Hargrove
Robert Flemyng as Mr. Silchester
Ep 1.12 [--] The Elgin TV Hour: CRIME IN THE STREETS
08-Mar-1955
written by Reginald Rose
directed by Sidney Lumet
starring
Robert Preston as Ben Wagner
John Cassavetes as Frankie Dane
Van Dyke Parks as Richie Dane
Glenda Farrell as Mrs. Dane
Mark Rydell as Lou Macklin
Will Kuluva as Mr. Gioia
Ivan Cury as 'Baby' Gioia
David Winters as Glasses
Ep 1.13 [--] The Elgin TV Hour: THE $1000 DOLLAR WINDOW
22-Mar-1955
written by Alvin Sapinsley
starring
Sir Cedric Hardwicke .. August Draper
Mary Astor ............ Madge Draper
Larry Blyden .......... Harrison B. Harrison
Patricia Barry ........ Betty
Joe Mantell ........... Mugsy
Malcolm Lee Beggs ..... O'Neil
Kenny Delmar .......... Meadows
James Millhollin ...... Weiner
Percy Waram ........... Stanhope
Mort Marshall ......... Punk
Synopsis:
The pompous and dapper gentleman behind a race-track window is
himself taken in by his bank president manner. [RF]
Ep 1.14 [--] The Elgin TV Hour: BLACK EAGLE PASS
05-Apr-1955
written by Halsted Welles
starring
Paul Douglas ..... Zeke
Joan Lorring ..... Maggie
Philip Abbott .... Lynn
Valerie Bettis ... Violet
Charles Dingle ... Green Castle
Ed Binns ......... Tucker
Synopsis:
The pretty young wife of an older rancher discovers that her husband
had never bothered to divorce his first wife. That little lady is back in town
as the companion of a notorious gambler. Set in the Old West. [RF]
Ep 1.15 [--] The Elgin TV Hour: MIDSUMMER MELODY
19-Apr-1955
starring
June Lockhart as Martha
Jerome Courtland as Kennedy
Kathleen Nolan as Celia
Ernest Truex as Pops
Ep 1.16 [--] The Elgin TV Hour: DRIFTWOOD
03-May-1955
written by Michael Dyne
starring
Lorne Greene as Bernon Dyall
John Forsythe as George Conway
Teresa Wright as Marianne Merrick
Vaughn Taylor as Jericho
Ep 1.17 [--] The Elgin TV Hour: SAN FRANCISCO FRACAS
17-May-1955
written by Alvin Sapinsley
starring
Polly Bergen as Betty West
Theodore Bikel as Dr. Wu
Orson Bean as Arthur
Ralph Bunker as Mr. Widewillow
John McGiver as Gubbins
Judy Tyler as Pickpocket
Joe Mantell as Bellboy
Guy Raymond as Detective
Ep 1.18 [--] The Elgin TV Hour: MIND OVER MOMMA
31-May-1955 ABC Tue
written by Gertrude Berg & James Yaffe
starring
E.G. Marshall as Saul Hirsch
Norma Crane as Joan Hirsch
Gertrude Berg as Helen Hirsch
Gene Saks as Mitchell Sanders
Frieda Altman as Sadie Mandel
Eulabelle Moore as Gurlene
Ep 1.19 [--] The Elgin TV Hour: COMBAT MEDICS
14-Jun-1955 ABC Tue
written by David Davidson
directed by Donald Richardson
starring
Jack Lord as Lt. Davis
Brian Keith as Corporal Snow
John Cassavetes as Private Tommy Fitch
John Kerr as Private Foster
Joe Maross as Private Barnes
Mickey Shaughnessy
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