TV ShowEnded

The Best of Broadway

7.0 / 10
1954
1 season
9 episodes
ComedyDrama

The Best of Broadway is a 60-minute television anthology series telecast live on CBS from 1954 to 1955 for a total of 9 episodes.

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  • Ep 1

    1.The Royal Family

    15-09-1954

    Comedy about the Cavendishes, a leading and slightly eccentric theatrical family. Their real-life family drama occurs in a Manhattan apartment when the grand matriarch, Fanny Cave...

  • Ep 2

    2.The Man Who Came to Dinner

    13-10-1954

    Comedy about what happens to a typical midwestern family when a visiting New York theatre critic slips and breaks his hip leaving their house and is forced to stay there to recoupe...

  • Ep 3

    3.Panama Hattie

    10-11-1954

    Hattie Mahoney is a singer in the Canal Zone in love with a Philadelphia socialite, Nick Bullett. Hattie has to win over Nick's daughter Gerry before she can marry him. She does...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Philadelphia Story

    08-12-1954

    Spoiled Philadelphia heiress Tracy Lord throws out her playboy husband C.K. Dexter Haven shortly after their marriage. Two years later, Tracy is about to marry respectable, but dul...

  • Ep 5

    5.Arsenic and Old Lace

    05-01-1955

    Comedy that concerns the Brewster sisters, Abby and Martha, who put lonely old men out of their misery by serving them poisoned elderberry wine. Their nephew Teddy buries them in...

  • Ep 6

    6.The Show-Off

    02-02-1955

    Aubrey Piper, only a clerk, pretends to be a railroad executive. He comes into the life of the Fisher family when daughter Amy falls in love with him. The family sees through his...

  • Ep 7

    7.The Guardsman

    02-03-1955

    Story concerns a married couple, actors both, where the husband suspects the wife of losing interest in him. To test her love and fidelity he disguises himself as a royal guardsma...

  • Ep 8

    8.Stage Door

    06-04-1955

    Story of aspiring actresses and dancers who live in a theatrical boarding house. Terry Randall is from a well-to-do family and her superior attitude annoys the other girls. Kaye...

  • Ep 9

    9.Broadway

    04-05-1955

    Dancer Roy Lane and gangster Steve Crandell vie for the affection of chorus girl Billie Moore amidst gangland turf battles, dancing girls, bootleggers and assorted Broadway types.

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