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Producers' Showcase

6.5 / 10
1954
3 seasons
38 episodes
ComedyDrama

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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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Tonight at 8:30

    18-10-195490m

    Three 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

    15-11-195490m

    An 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

    07-01-195590m

    Docummentary 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

    10-01-195590m

    The 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

    07-02-195590m

    A 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

    07-03-195590m

    This 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

    04-04-195590m

    The 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

    22-04-195590m

    The 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

    02-05-195590m

    Set 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

    30-05-195590m

    Set 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

    25-07-195590m

    A 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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