Producers' Showcase
Producers' Showcase is an American anthology television series that was telecast live during the 1950s in compatible color by NBC. With top talent, the 90-minute episodes, covering a wide variety of genres, aired under the title every fourth Monday at 8 p.m. ET for three seasons, beginning October 18, 1954. The final episode, the last of 37, was broadcast May 27, 1957. Showcase Productions, Inc., packaged and produced the series, which received seven Emmy Awards, including the 1956 award for Best Dramatic Series.
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Cast
Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Tonight at 8:30
18-10-195490mThree playlets by Noel Coward, original music composed and conducted by Carmen Dragon: ""Red Peppers,"" a satirical affectionate look at small-time vaudeville with two musical numb...
- Ep 2
2.State of the Union
15-11-195490mAn extremely successful and fundamentally honest businessman is lured into presidential ambitions, and is forced to make compromise after compromise until he withdraws from the rac...
- Ep 3
3.Dateline
13-12-195490m""Foreign correspondents and stars of show business present a 90-minute tribute to former colleagues. The Overseas Press Club Memorial Building in Manhattan is dedicated with a pro...
- Ep 4
4.Call to Freedom
07-01-195590mDocummentary made as part of ""Project Twenty"" series but run in Producer's Showcase time slot with regular Producer's Showcase sponsors. Relates the struggle for freedom in Austr...
- Ep 5
5.Yellow Jack
10-01-195590mThe story of the pursuit of the cause of yellow fever by Dr. Walter Reed and his Army medical colleagues after the Spanish-American War.
- Ep 6
6.The Women
07-02-195590mA sociological satire on the female of the species, set against a glamorous Park Avenue background that eventually extends to Reno and back, in which a happily married society lead...
- Ep 7
7.Peter Pan
07-03-195590mThis marvelous show won several Emmy awards. They are as follows: Best Program, Best Actress (Martin), with nominations for director (Jones) and Supporting Actor (Ritchard).
- Ep 8
8.Reunion in Vienna
04-04-195590mThe story of a banished Austrian archduke who returns to Vienna for a reunion of the old nobility and reunites with his former love, now married to a psychoanalyst.
- Ep 9
9.The King and Mrs. Candle
22-04-195590mThe deposed king of Brandovia, whose inhabitants spend their time exporting bologna and repelling invasions by neighboring Carps and Gloats, finds his way to America, where he earn...
- Ep 10
10.Darkness at Noon
02-05-195590mSet in Russian prison during purge trials of 1930s, with prisoner Rubashov, an old Bolshevik, reviewing his life in series of flashbacks and tapped conversations with prisoner in a...
- Ep 11
11.The Petrified Forest
30-05-195590mSet in Black Mesa Bar-B-Q at desert crosswords, as a patrons, owner and his daughter Gaby Maple and an unfortunate hitchhiker Alan Squier are held hostage by fleeing killer Duke Ma...
- Ep 12
12.Wide Wide World
27-06-195590m(""That's My Desire"") backed up by the Woody Herman orchestra (with Woody singing)and Louis Armstrong and Velma Middleton, featuring Bobby Hackett on trumpet (""My Funny Valentine...
- Ep 13
13.The Fourposter
25-07-195590mA gently humorous and perceptive story of a marriage, from the wedding night in 1890, through 35 years of marriage, all in or near the couple's old four-poster bed, which finally h...
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