Wilbur Stark Productions
Colonel Humphrey Flack (DuMont 1953-54 live)(Wilbur Stark/CBS Films 1958-59) starring Alan Mowbray, Frank Jenks
True Story (Wilbur Stark/NBC Saturday Noon)(1957-61) Dramatic Anthology Series
The Brothers Brannagan (Wilbur Stark/CBS Films)(1960-61) starring Steve Dunne & Mark Roberts

True Story (1957-61)

Production Company Not Known
for NBC (Saturdays Noon)
Produced by Wilbur Stark

US Dramatic Anthology series  1957-61    ? episodes x 30 min

(16Mar57-09Sep61)
  Originally Broadcast Live - Later on Videotape 30 min episodes

Hostess Kathi Norris

 

Note:
  Wilbur Stark (1912-1995) also produced COLONEL FLACK and  THE BROTHERS BRANNAGAN 

 - and is the father of actress Koo Stark (one-time girlfriend of our Prince Andrew)

 

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[--] True Story (anthology): THE RETURN OF JULIA LAWSON
30Mar57 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
Synopsis:
After his fiancee's car is found wrecked, a man believes she is dead

even though her body is not located in the wreckage. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): DREAM NO MORE
20Apr57 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
starring
Augusta Dabney
Synopsis:
A secretary marries a wealthy businessman, but feels socially inferior to his friends.

Her tendency to keep to herself is reinforced when she learns she needs

an operation to avoid becoming deaf. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): THE ACCIDENT
04May57 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris

starring

William Price
Synopsis:
Driving while drunk, a man has an accident, killing his wife.

 The wife's brother thirsts for revenge. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): BLIND MAN'S BLUFF
15Jun57 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
Synopsis:
After a free-lance reporter disappears while working on a series of articles

about racketeering, his fiancee goes to search for him. [RF]

[--] True Story (anthology): THE MOUNTAIN
22Jun57 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
Synopsis:
Four members of a mountain-climbing expedition are imperiled by an

avalanche that has swept three of their companions to their deaths. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): A MATTER OF SUSPICION
20Jul57 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
starring
Frank Sutton ........ David McCloud
Dolores Sutton ........ Phyllis McCloud
Harrison Dowd ........ Amos Parry
John Gibson ........ Dr. Warren
Synopsis:
While oh her honeymoon a young bride sees her husband's picture on a wanted circular in a post office.

 When she asks her husband about it he says that the man in the picture is his double. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): THE WIDOW OF ERIC BOWLES
27Jul57 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
Synopsis:
A man who deserted his wife and son many years before, returns home.

But his sudden reappearance threatens their happiness. [RF]

 

[--] True Story: CONFIDENCE MAN
16Nov57 NBC Sat
Hostess Kathi Norris
Synopsis:
Tom Stewart, rocket-research engineer, and his wife Betty are honeymooning

at a southwestern guest ranch. There a self-styled investment counselor

persuades Tom to invest in his mining enterprise. [RF]
 

[--] True Story (anthology): THE WRITER
14Dec57 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
Synopsis:
Jonathan's fiancee Sylvia takes an interest in her future brother-in-law Randy's writing.

He must attain success as a writer or lose his share of his father's inheritance. [RF]

[--] True Story (anthology): HONEST POLITICS
21Dec57 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
Synopsis:
An idealistic young man running for councilman is blamed for a misappropriation of funds. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
25Jan58 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
Synopsis:
While vacationing at a summer resort, two women meet a charming young actor.

Another guest tells them that the actor is a suspect in a homicide case. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): THE OPENING DOOR
01Feb58 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
written by William Kendall Clarke
Synopsis:
A young girl is shocked when she learns the facts of her parentage.

 It seems that the man she took to be her father is actually her stepfather. [RF]

 

[--] True Story: unknown Title
22Feb58 NBC Sat
Hostess Kathi Norris
Synopsis:
A very sick woman discovers a love letter in her husband Tod's mail

 from a woman named Margo, agreeing to a plot to kill her. [Rf]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
22Mar58
written by James Blumgarten
Hostess: Kathi Norris
starring
Kathleen McGuire ...... Joan Farrell
Martin Brooks ...... Bill
John Kellogg ...... Lou Dillon
Doris Wiss ...... Sally
Synopsis:
Joan Farrell suspects her husband Bill of seeing another woman.
Her fears are confirmed when gangster Lou Dillon warns Joan that Bill
will die unless he stays away from Dillon's sweetheart. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
29Mar58 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
written by William Kendall Clarke
Synopsis:
With her son in danger of losing his scholarship because he cheated on a test, a mother

threatens a member of the scholarship committee with blackmail. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
19Apr58 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
written by William Kendall Clarke
guest cast:
Millette Alexander ...... Jenny Chase
Phyllis Hill ...... Claire Fogarty
Coe Norton ...... Steve Rogers
Synopsis:
Claire Fogarty suspects Jenny Chase, a new office employee, of being

a fugitive from justice. Although office manager Steve Rogers at first refuses to believe it,

circumstantial evidence begins to make him think Claire is right. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title

17May58 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris

written by Jesse Sandler

guest cast:

Georgann Johnson ...... Ann Saunders

Philip Abbott ...... Jack

Lawrence Weber ...... Lt. Fanning

Warren Berlinger ...... Buddy
Synopsis:

High school teacher Ann Saunders has been receiving mysterious phone calls. Lt. Fanning

of the police department questions her and suspects the callers may be some of her high

school students. When he leaves, Ann finds one of the boys in her house. [RF]

 

[--] True Story: unknown Title
31May58 NBC Sat
written by Harry Junkin
Hostess Kathi Norris
Guest cast:
Staats Cotsworth ..... Morton Winters
Barbara Wilkins ...... Faith Winters
Jamie Smith .......... Scott
Bert Freed ........... Meyers
Synopsis:
A wealthy man is found dead in his home and though a note

 left by the man indicates suicide, the police suspect murder.

They question the man's wife and his male secretary. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title

07Jun58 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris

written by Michelle Cousin

guest cast:

Pamela King ...... Emily Turner

Nancy Coleman ...... Lydia Turner

Edmon Ryan ...... Mark Turner

Lesley Woods ...... Madeline Dalton
Synopsis:

Emily Turner is thrilled to get a part in her high school play, but her mother does not approve

of the theatre. When Madeline Dalton, who is heralded as a popular star, comes to town,

Emily invites her to stay with the Turners. [RF]

 

[--] True Story: Unknown Title
14Jun58 NBC Sat
written by George Lowther
Hostess Kathi Norris
Synopsis:
A murderer who kills only widows and always leaves a message

 in lipstick is at large. When widow Polly Burke, who runs a rooming house,

 finds a lipstick in her boarder's jacket she immediately calls the police. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title

21Jun58 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris

written by Irving Elman

guest cast:

Maxine Stewart ...... Lois Hillyer

Bill Daniels ...... Joe
Synopsis:

When his wife is unable to find her diamond bracelet, Hillyer suspects her

young brother Joe, who is on parole and who lives with them. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title

09Aug58 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris

written by Irving Elman

guest cast:

Lesley Woods ...... Amy Holland
Synopsis:

Actress Amy Holland has agreed to star in a play by budding playwright Tom Kellogg.

But Kellogg feels that her daughter would be better suited to the role. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
16Aug58 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
written by Gene Watts
Synopsis:
Jean Porter and her uncle run a small roadside diner. One evening, after hearing of several

local robberies, they find a strange man at the counter just at closing time. [RF]

 

[--] True Story: SLEEPING HEART
23Aug58 NBC Sat
written by Irving Elman
Hostess Kathi Norris
Guest cast:
Joy Hodges
Synopsis:
A woman who has lost her son meets a young man and thinks she has fallen in love. [RF]

[--] True Story (anthology): THE MAN IN 1-B
30Aug58 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
guest cast:
Jan Miner ........ Martha Sims
John Gibson ....... Joe Sims
Philip Sterling ...... Fred Carter
Synopsis:
A suspicious-looking man moves into the apartment across the hall from young Johnny Sims

and his parents. The man soon wins Johnny's allegiance against the wishes of the parents. [RF]

 

[--] True Story: A QUESTION OF FAITH
18Oct58 NBC Sat
written by Barry Lake
Hostess Kathi Norris
Synopsis:
A policeman assigned to make the acquaintance of a girl whose

boyfriend has escaped from prison, falls in love with the girl. [RF]
 

[--] True Story (anthology): THE BOY AND THE BICYCLE
01Nov58 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
Synopsis:
Marge Williams loses her only son, but won't let a homeless orphan take her boy's place. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): STRANGE HONEYMOON
15Nov58
Hostess: Kathi Norris
Synopsis:
Soon after her wedding, Jane Stoddard is warned that her husband is a murderer. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology) : SILVER EVE (film)
     03Jan59  NBC Sat daytime rerun
    Hostess: Kathi Norris
  Guest Cast:
  Jerome Cowan
 Synopsis:
 Alix Towne, a college coed asks a psychology professor to help

 prevent her parents from getting a divorce. [TA]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): THE 39TH BOMB
24Jan59 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris

 

[--] True Story (anthology): AN ARTIST'S LIFE FOR ME
31Jan59 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
Synopsis:
A shrewd art dealer tries to swindle an artist out of a prize painting. (tape) [RF]

 

[--] True Story: AN ATTRACTIVE FAMILY
21Mar59 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
Synopsis:
A family of three, responsible for two undetected crimes, plot to kill a young

heiress whose death will net them a fortune. (tape) [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): STAKEOUT
28Mar59 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
Synopsis:
A masked gunman steals into a house and attempts to strangle a woman. (tape) [RF]

[--] True Story (anthology): STILL HUNT
04Apr59 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
starring
Kathleen Murray
Frederic Downs
Synopsis:
A maniac escapes from an asylum. The sheriff hunting him is unaware that his own

daughter is being held prisoner by the crazed man. (tape) [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title

11Apr59 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
Synopsis:

An ex-boxer can't find a witness to prove his story

that he killed a man in self-defense. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): THE GREAT CARLINI
04Jul59 NBC Sat
Hostess Kathi Norris
Guest cast:
Coe Norton ...... Bob Carlin
Lisa Howard ..... Betty Carlin
Synopsis:
An out-of-work magician accepts a very large salary to work

as the dealer in a fixed game of cards. [RF]

[--] True Story (anthology): THE ESCAPE
11Jul59 NBC Sat
Hostess Kathi Norris
Guest cast:
Margaret Stewart .. Mary
Ed Peck ........... Larry
Richard Derr ...... Jonathan
Synopsis:
Hoping to prove the innocence of her brother, who is falsely accused of murder,

a young waitress makes a date with the real killer. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
25Jul59 NBC Sat
Hostess Kathi Norris
Synopsis:
A woman is accused of killing her husband's best friend. Her husband,

 a lawyer, sets out to prove her innocence. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
15Aug59 NBC Sat

guest cast:
Martyn Green ...... Harry Kent
Synopsis:
A Shakespearean actor, Harry Kent, who attempts to make a comeback after

a long illness. Kent is bothered by phone calls from his wife, who is supposedly dead.

His valet and manager try to convince him that the calls are a hoax. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
22Aug59 NBC Sat

guest cast:
Elaine Stritch ...... Lois Kirby
Howard Morton ...... Bradford Miles
Synopsis:
An aggressive businesswoman whose clients know her only by her voice.

 When a bachelor client writes a book criticizing American women,

 Lois decides to come out into the open. [RF]
 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title

12Sep59 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris

guest cast:

Lois Nettleton ....... Sue Richards

Philip Sterling ....... Sandy Sanford

Arthur Storch ....... Mike Barnes

Harrison Dowd ....... Ben Miller
Synopsis:

A young widow, hoping to recapture the memory of her dead husband,

returns to the lonely railroad station where they first met.

Here she meets a stranger who shatters her dreams. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title

10Oct59 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris

guest cast:

Herbert Evers ....... Clifford Lowe

Patricia Barry ....... Lorry

John Gibson ....... Constable Gregson
Synopsis:

A destitute fortune hunter hopefully visits the home of his wealthy aunt.

He is surprised to find the house inhabited only by a young recluse. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
31Oct59 NBC Sat
Hostess Kathi Norris
Guest cast:
Dan Morgan ........ Neal
Louise Troy ....... Amy
Synopsis:
A young girl, frightened after seeing a murder committed,

flees into the apartment of a strange young man. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
12Dec59 NBC Sat
Hostess Kathi Norris
Guest cast:
Nancy R. Pollock... Laura Carlin
Craig Huebing ..... David
Synopsis:
A veteran schoolteacher is tempted to accept a position with

a publishing firm at a much greater salary. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
19Dec59 NBC Sat
Hostess Kathi Norris
Guest cast:
Sam Locante ....... Alex Findley
Anne Sargent ...... Margaret
Synopsis:
A couple living in a bleak flat and looking forward to a dreary Christmas are paid a surprise visit. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
26Dec59 NBC Sat
Hostess Kathi Norris
guest cast:
Fran Spanier
Synopsis:
A young woman tries to make her husband stop gambling. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
13Feb60 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
guest cast:
Milt Kamen ....... Big Patsy Janelli
Shepperd Strudwick ....... Dr. George Edwards
Synopsis:
A convicted racketeer volunteers to serve as a guinea pig in a dangerous medical experiment.

Unknown to him, one of the doctors conducting the test wants it to fail. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
14May60 NBC Sat
Guest cast:
Raymond Bramley ......... Frank Crossman
Synopsis:
Lawyer Arthur Vance forces his secretary to pose as a missing heiress

who has just inherited a fortune. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
04Jun60 NBC Sat
Guest cast:
Ethel Remey ...... Agnes Quigley
Philip Bourneuf ........ Kevin
Jane Rose ........ Nellie Smith
Synopsis:
Agnes Quigley is reunited with her brother after many years.

 The gap in time makes it hard for them to become close again. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
18Jun60 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
starring
Helen Stenberg ....... Martha Cassidy
Synopsis:
The mother of a jailed hit-and-run driver decides that things must go on in the normal way,

even though her family is being shunned by neighbors. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
09Jul60 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
Synopsis:
A private in the Union Army is caught in a struggle between honor and duty. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
23Jul60 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
guest cast:
Milt Kamen ....... Nick Gallo
Dolores Sutton ....... Teresa Gallo
Synopsis:
A widowed father has two problem children: his daughter has run away

from home and his son is associating with hoodlums. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): JUNIOR
27Aug60 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
guest cast:
Larry Robinson ....... Junior
Synopsis:
Junior is suspected of murder, but his devoted mother lies to give him an alibi. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title

14Jan61 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris

guest cast:

Bill Hayes ....... Larry Foster

Francis Helm ........ Dr. Leslie Barrett
Synopsis:

When salesman Larry Foster meets the pretty psychologist that

his company has hired, he asks her for a date. [RF]

 

[--] True Story: MOUNTAIN GAL
21Jan61 NBC Sat
Hostess Kathi Norris
Synopsis:
Theatrical agent Doug Moore and his wife Evajoan stop at a gas station in

the South where Doug hears a gal named Willy singing and playing the guitar. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): WEEKEND SON
04Mar61 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
guest cast:
Adrienne Bayan ..... Kay Rogers
Synopsis:
Kay Rogers runs into opposition from husband Harry when she suggests

 to him that they adopt a young boy. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): DERBY FEVER
11Mar61 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
guest cast:
Sarah Meade ....... Martha Connors
Synopsis:
Martha Connors approves of building soap-box racers - but only if her son Buzz builds them. [RF]

 

[--] True Story: Unknown Title
01Apr61 NBC Sat
Hostess Kathi Norris
Guest cast:
Skippy Kolby ........ Irene Turner
Synopsis:
Irene Turner embezzles money from the beauty parlor that she and Jo Wallace own. [RF]
 

[--] True Story: Unknown Title
08Apr61 NBC Sat
Hostess Kathi Norris
Guest cast:
Robert Hogan ....... George Mitchell
Joan Anderson ...... Dottie Mitchell
Synopsis:
George and Dottie Mitchell buy a beauty parlor. But George's rich Uncle Wyllis,

 who wants George in business with him starts making trouble. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
15Apr61 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
guest cast:
Remo Pisani ...... Al Hanson
Katherine Balfour ..... Lee
Synopsis:
Al Hanson tries to keep his blind wife Lee from knowing about a bullet wound he has. [RF]

 

[--] True Story: Unknown Title
22Apr61 NBC Sat
Hostess Kathi Norris
Guest cast:
George Cuttingham ... Michael
Russell Gold ........ General
Jimsey Somers ....... Olga
Stephen Gray ........ Captain
Synopsis:
An American writer makes his way through the Iron Curtain to visit

an uncle he hasn't seen for many years. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): DR. WETZEL
03Jun61 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
guest cast:
Stuart MacIntosh ....... Dr. Wetzel
Julie Burns ...... Lucy Caricco
Synopsis:
The long-time town physician is about to leave on a trip when Lucy Caricco

calls and says that her husband has been hurt. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
10Jun61 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
guest cast:
Peter Lazer ....... Plato
Synopsis:
Plato Solekas' father and his friend Lenny Lepko are both waiting for Plato to come home. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
17Jun61 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
guest cast:
Barney Martin ....... Hamilton Brent
Nancy Pollock ....... Aunt Eppy
Lynn Wood ....... Molly Brent
Synopsis:
Advertising copywriter Hamilton Brent, hard at work on a singing commercial, feels that his

peace and quiet will be disturbed by a visit from his eccentric Aunt Eppy. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
24Jun61 NBC Sat
Hostess Kathi Norris
Guest cast:
Staats Cotsworth .. Jason Wheel
Connie Clark ...... Estelle Vollmer
Griff Evans ....... Lieutenant McKaye
Synopsis:
Private eye Jason Wheel is approached by Estelle Vollmer, secretary to an eminent economist.

She asks him to locate her boss, who has mysteriously disappeared. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
22Jul61 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
guest cast:
Shepperd Strudwick
Vince O'Brien
Synopsis:
Head man Jack Parker is easing George Penrose out of his spot on the board of

directors to make a place for Carl Linden but George is Carl's friend. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
29Jul61 NBC Sat

Hostess: Kathi Norris
guest cast:
Herb Duncan ....... Martin T. Underwood
Edgar Stehli ....... Corinthian Suggs
Synopsis:
Social Security agent Martin T. Underwood goes into the hill country to tell

Corinthian Suggs that he can collect benefits. When he reaches the mountaineer's cabin,

he is met at the door by Sugg's granddaughter Shirley who is holding a loaded gun. [RF]

 

[--] True Story (anthology): Unknown Title
12Aug61 NBC Sat
Hostess Kathi Norris
guest cast:
Fred Stewart ...... Malcolm Forester
Synopsis:
Architect Malcolm Forester has just 24 hours to deliver the designs

 for a new gas station to a contractor. [RF]
 

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