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Episode Guide
compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox
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WINDOWS
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CBS
Producer: Mort Abrahams
Directors: Leonard Valenta, George Gould,
US Drama anthology Summer 1955 8 episodes x 30 min
*Summer replacement series for Edward Murrow's "Person to Person"
program.
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CBS Fridays 10:30-11:00pm Eastern
[01] Windows: THE OUTING
08Jul1955 CBS Fri
Written by Shirley Peterson
starring
Kent Smith
Synopsis:
Story about the small children of a town who go on an outing and for some
mysterious reason refuse to return. [RF]
[02] Windows: SUB-LET
15Jul1955 CBS Fri
Teleplay by Frank DeFelitta
Adapted from a short story by Joyce Selznick
Synopsis:
Tells how a woman is trapped when she leases an apartment for the summer. [RF]
[03] Windows: THE WORLD OUT THERE
22Jul1955 CBS Fri
Teleplay by Arnold Schulman
Adapted from Ray Bradbury's story "The World Out There"
starring
Mary Perry
Anthony Perkins
Joseph Sweeney
Doro Merande
Synopsis:
The story of an elderly backwoods woman whose life is changed when she learns to
read and write. [RF]
[04] Windows: THE LOVE LETTERS OF SMITH
29Jul1955 CBS Fri
starring
Eileen Heckart
Synopsis:
A lonely seamstress living on the seventh floore of a walk-up is wooed by the
man next door entirely by
the notes he passes to her on a stick. [RF]
[05] Windows: A DOMESTIC DILEMMA
05Aug1955 CBS Fri
starring
Ralph Nelson
Geraldine Page
Jason Robards
Synopsis:
A negligent mother is stunned by the shock of having her only child run away. [RF]
[06] Windows: THE LANGUAGE OF THE ROSES
12Aug1955 CBS Fri
Teleplay by David Shaw
Adapted from a short story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
starring
Wesley Addy
Judith Evelyn
Synopsis:
The story of two lovers who are separated because of their inability to cope
with reality. [RF]
[07] Windows: ARCADE
19Aug1955 CBS Fri
Teleplay by Arnold Schulman
From a short story by Ray Bradbury
starring
Melvyn Douglas
Patricia Smith
Merlvyn Berger
Synopsis:
The story of a pathetic fat man who is the butt of jokes and target of cruelty.
[RF]
[08] Windows: THE CALLIOPE TREE [Final show of
the series]
26Aug1955 CBS Fri
Written by Doris Frankel
starring
Henry Hull
Van Dyke Parks
Synopsis:
A poignant tale of two unloved persons - an elderly ex-circus clown and a young
boy whose parents are divorced. [RF]
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