Title: THE STEADY MAN
Original Air Date: January 4, 1954
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Mathilde and Theodore Ferro
Cast: Leatrice Joy; June Lockhart; Arthur Franz
Notes:
Title: A CASE OF IDENTITY
Original Air Date: January 11, 1954
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Director:
Writer: Adrian Spies
Cast: Robert Ellenstein (Manny Balestrero); Florence Anglin (Rose Balestrero)
Notes: Also known as "The Identified Man." Based on a true story...made into the 1956
feature film The Wrong Man, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Title: MACHINAL
Original Air Date: January 18, 1954
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Irving Gaynor Neiman
Cast: Joan Lorring; Robert Webber; Malcolm Lee Beggs
Notes:
Title: RICHARD SAID NO
Original Air Date: January 25, 1954
Sponsor:
Director:
Writer:
Cast: Phyllis Thaxter, John Newland; Phyllis Kirk
Notes:
Title: THE 17th OF JUNE
Original Air Date: February 1, 1954
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Irving Gaynor Neiman
Cast: Wendell Corey
Notes: Synopsis: A little man becomes a hero during the uprisings in East Berlin on the 17th
of June. Based on a series of articles in the New Yorker by Joseph Wechberg.
Title: MR. WHITTLE AND THE MORNING STAR
Original Air Date: February 8, 1954
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Director:
Writer: Mathilde and Theodore Ferro
Cast: Elliott Nugent
Notes: Adapted from the 1947 novel by Robert Nathan.
Title: OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND GAY
Original Air Date: February 15, 1954
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director: Perry Lafferty
Writer: Nathaniel Curtis
Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery (Cornelia Otis Skinner); Sally Kemp (Emily Kimbrough); Elliott
Reid (Alistair Cochran); Cliff Robertson (Paul Smith); Marjorie Gateson (Mrs. Skinner); John
Griggs (Mr. Otis Skinner); Earl Hammond (Henri); Lucie Lancaster (Hawkins); Michael Dreyfus
(Ralph); Felix Deebank (Band Leader); Stafford Dickens (The Steward); Peter Pagan (The
Guide)
Notes: Based on the autobiographical stories of Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough.
Title: THE LAND OF HAPPINESS
Original Air Date: February 22, 1954
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Director:
Writer:
Cast: Osa Massen (Liz); Robert Wark (Erick Poulson); John Newland (Frederick Carstens);
Anne Seymour (Baroness)
Notes: Synopsis: A wealthy Copenhagen girl marries a struggling young minister and goes
with him to a lonley Faeroe Island near Iceland. -- Adapted from a play by Hans Peter
Falk-Ronne.
Title: SUCH A BUSY DAY TOMORROW
Original Air Date: March 1, 1954
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Sandra Michael
Cast: Walter Hampden
Notes:
Title: THE PARADISE CAFE
Original Air Date: March 8, 1954
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Director:
Writer: Adrian Spies
Cast: Barbara Baxley; James Dunn
Notes:
Title: THE QUALITY OF MERCY
Original Air Date: March 15, 1954
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Irving Gaynor Neiman
Cast: Lillian Gish
Notes:
Title: THE PINK HIPPOPOTAMUS
Original Air Date: March 22, 1954
Sponsor:
Director:
Writer:
Cast: Oscar Homolka; Mary Laslo; Herman Schwedt
Notes:
Title: MY LITTLE GIRL
Original Air Date: March 29, 1954
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Noel Gerson
Cast: James Dunn; Lee Remick; William Lundmark
Notes:
Title: FOR THESE SERVICES
Original Air Date: April 5, 1954
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Director:
Writer: Mathilde and Theodore Ferro
Cast: Raymond Massey; Arthur Franz; Gale Page
Notes:
Title: THE PALE BLONDE OF SAND STREET
Original Air Date: April 12, 1954
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer:
Cast: Joan Lorring; Billy Halop
Notes:
Title: BIG BOY
Original Air Date: April 19, 1954
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Director: Norman Felton
Writer: Robert J. Shaw
Cast: Ed Begley (Joe Grant); Katherine Squire (Amy Grant); John Connell (Bill Grant); James
Boles (Ed Marley); Fred Vogel (Mickey Ross); Julian Noa (Doc Lynch); Jared Reed (The
Guitarist)
Notes: subject - steam locomotives
Title: NO NEED OF FAVOR
Original Air Date: April 26, 1954
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Gail Ingram
Cast: Geraldine Fitzgerald; John Newland; Frederick Worlock
Notes:
Title: THE WAGES OF FEAR
Original Air Date: May 3, 1954
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Director:
Writer: Adrian Spies
Cast: Louis Jourdan; Hope Miller
Notes:
Title: PILGRIM'S PRIDE
Original Air Date: May 10, 1954
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Irving Gaynor Neiman
Cast: Elliott Nugent; Cliff Robertson; Audrey Christie
Notes:
Title: SKY BLOCK
Original Air Date: May 17, 1954
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Director:
Writer: Denis Green
Cast: Zachary Scott; Vaughn Taylor
Notes:
Title: THE POWER AND THE PRIZE
Original Air Date: May 24, 1954
Sponsor:
Director:
Writer:
Cast: Gusti Huber; Robert Montgomery
Notes:
Title: ONCE UPON A TIME
Original Air Date: May 31, 1954
Sponsor:
Director:
Writer:
Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery; Peggy Ann Garner
Notes:
Title: THE PATRIOT FROM ANTIBES
Original Air Date: June 7, 1954
Sponsor:
Director:
Writer:
Cast: Francis Lederer; Joan Wetmore
Notes:
Title: GREAT EXPECTATIONS: THE PROMISE
Original Air Date: June 14, 1954
Sponsor:
Director:
Writer:
Cast: Rex Thompson; Estelle Winwood; Roddy McDowall; Scott Forbes; Malcolm Lee Beggs;
Jacques Aubuchon
Notes: Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens.
Title: GREAT EXPECTATIONS: THE REALITY
Original Air Date: June 21, 1954
Sponsor:
Director:
Writer:
Cast: Rex Thompson; Estelle Winwood; Roddy McDowall; Scott Forbes; Malcolm Lee Beggs;
Jacques Aubuchon
Notes: Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens.
SUMMER STOCK:
Title: IN HIS HANDS
Original Air Date: June 28, 1954
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Director:
Writer: Agnes Eckhardt
Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery; John Newland; Cliff Robertson; Vaughn Taylor; Jan Miner
Notes: Also known as "The Decision."
Title: THE EXPERT
Original Air Date: July 5, 1954
Sponsor:
Director:
Writer:
Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery; Cliff Robertson; John Newland; Jan Miner
Notes:
Title: STORY ON 11th STREET
Original Air Date: July 12, 1954
Sponsor:
Director:
Writer:
Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery; John Newland; Kevin Coughlin
Notes: Also known as "Don't You Ever Go Home."
Title: IT HAPPENED IN PARIS
Original Air Date: July 19, 1954
Sponsor:
Director:
Writer:
Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery; Orson Bean
Notes:
Title: PATRICIA
Original Air Date: July 26, 1954
Sponsor:
Director:
Writer:
Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery (Patricia); John Newland (Michael); Vaughn Taylor (Captain
Crocker); Don Dubbins (Luke); Katherine Anderson (Mrs. Howes)
Notes: Synopsis: A society girl defies family opposition to her desire for the Bohemian life.
She enters an art school and promptly falls in love with an older instructor, who rejects her
attention.
Title: HOME TOWN
Original Air Date: August 2, 1954
Sponsor:
Director:
Writer:
Cast: Cliff Robertson (Mitch Hitchcock); Elizabeth Montgomery (Jen); John Miner; Vaughn
Taylor; Anne Seymour; Frank Albertson
Notes: Synopsis: The story of a country boy who goes to the big city where he meets a super
publicity man and a city-slicker girl. ---- Adapted from the novel by Cleveland Amory.
Title: ABOUT SARA CAINE
Original Air Date: August 9, 1954
Sponsor:
Director:
Writer:
Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery; Jan Miner
Notes:
Title: INVITATION TO MURDER
Original Air Date: August 16, 1954
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Doria Folliott
Cast: John Newland (Felix); Claudia Morgan (Judith); Vaughn Taylor (Barnes); Jan Miner
(Lesley); Nelson Olmsted (Rutherford); Anne Seymour (Caroline); William Neil (Williams)
Notes: Synopsis: A publisher who has received a manuscript with damaging statements
about many prominent people invites the author and all of those he mentions to a party. The
publisher suggest to his guests that the best method of retaliation would be for one of them to
murder the author. ---- Adapted from the play Distinguished Gathering by James Parish.
Title: PERSONAL STORY
Original Air Date: August 23, 1954
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Director: Norman Felton
Writer: Mathilde and Theodore Ferro
Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery; John Newland; Anne Seymour; Jan Miner; Vaughn Taylor
Notes:
Title: A MATTER OF LUCK
Original Air Date: August 30, 1954
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Sid Morse
Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery; John Newland
Notes:
Title: THE PEOPLE YOU MEET
Original Air Date: September 6, 1954
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Director:
Writer: Agnes Eckhardt
Cast: Anne Seymour; John Newland; Vaughn Taylor; Jan Miner
Notes:
Title: TEN MINUTE ALIBI
Original Air Date: September 13, 1954
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Alvin Sapinsley
Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery; Cliff Robertson; Vaughn Taylor; Anne Seymour
Notes:
SEASON SIX:
Title: DIARY
Original Air Date: September 20, 1954
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Director:
Writer: Robert Emmett Sherwood
Cast: Janice Rule; John Cassavetes
Notes:
Title: A DREAM OF SUMMER
Original Air Date: September 27, 1954
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Noel B. Gerson
Cast: Jackie Cooper
Notes:
Title: TWO WISE WOMEN
Original Air Date: October 4, 1954
Sponsor:
Director:
Writer:
Cast: Carl Betz; Signe Hasso; Paul McGrath
Notes:
Title: AUTUMN CROCUS
Original Air Date: October 11, 1954
Sponsor:
Director:
Writer:
Cast: Julie Haydon; George Voskovec; Betty Sinclair
Notes: Adapted from the play by C.L. Anthony.
Title: A FOREIGN AFFAIR
Original Air Date: October 18, 1954
Sponsor:
Director:
Writer:
Cast: Signe Hasso; Katherine Bard; Steve Cochran
Notes:
Title: REMOTE
Original Air Date: October 25, 1954
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Adrian Spies
Cast: George Forrest; E.G. Marshall; Frank Schofield; Ellen Cobb Hill
Notes:
Title: THE GENTLEMAN
Original Air Date: November 1, 1954
Sponsor:
Director:
Writer: Theodore and Mathilde Ferro
Cast: Donald Woods; Joan Wetmore; J. Pat O'Malley; Lauren Gilbert
Notes: Synopsis: A Southerner with a desire to live a normal life gets fed up with the rush
and roar of New York's jungle. He leaves his job in a brokerage house and his demanding
wife to return to the town where he was raised.
Title: THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Original Air Date: November 8 & 15, 1954
Sponsor:
Director:
Writer:
Cast: Hurd Hatfield; Bramwell Fletcher; Mary Sinclair; Frederic Worlock; Celia Lipton; Robert
Ellenstein
Notes: Adapted from the novel by Victor Hugo.
Title: HOMECOMING
Original Air Date: November 22, 1954
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Noel B. Gerson
Cast: Don Taylor; Joanne Woodward; John Lupton; June Dayton; Patricia Breslin
Notes:
Title: JUDITH
Original Air Date: November 29, 1954
Sponsor:
Director:
Writer:
Cast: Margaret Phillips
Notes:
Title: DR. ED
Original Air Date: December 6, 1954
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Sandra Michael
Cast: Walter Matthau; Lucy Lancaster
Notes:
Title: END OF A MISSION
Original Air Date: December 13, 1954
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Director:
Writer: James Sheldon
Cast: Leslie Nielsen; Joan Elan
Notes:
Title: DAVID COPPERFIELD
Original Air Date: December 20 & 27, 1954
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax & Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Director:
Writer: Doria Folliott
Cast: David Cole (David Copperfield); Ralph Bunker (Mr. Wickfield); Earl Montgomery (Uriah
Heep); Sarah Marshall (Agnes Wickfield); Carolyn Lee (Dora); Ethel Owen (Aunt Betsey);
Frederic Worlock (Mr. Spenlow); Cavada Humphrey (Jane Murdstone); J. Pat O'Malley (Mr.
Micawber); Isobel Elsom (Mrs. Micawber); Anthony Kemble-Clark (Mr. Jorkins); Josephine
Brown (Mrs. Crupp)
Notes: Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens.
ROBERT MONTGOMERY PRESENTS
EPISODE GUIDE
1954
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