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1955
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Original Air Date: January 3, 1955
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Cast: Jeffrey Lynn; Gale Page; Nancy Guild; Staats Cotsworth
Notes: Adapted from the 1953 novel by Andrew Garve.
Title: A NIGHT FOR DREAMING
Original Air Date: January 10, 1955
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Cast: Inger Stevens; Midge Ware; Carol Gustafson
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Title: THE CYPRESS TREE
Original Air Date: January 17, 1955
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Robert J. Shaw
Cast: Dorothy Stickney; Katherine Squire; June Walker
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Title: JOE'S BOY
Original Air Date: January 24, 1955
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Cast: James Dunn; Jo Van Fleet; Loretta Leversee; Lee Bergere
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Title: DEADLINE
Original Air Date: January 31, 1955
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Noel B. Gerson
Cast: Peggy Ann Garner
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Title: THE LOST WEEKEND
Original Air Date: February 7, 1955
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Cast: Robert Montgomery (Don Birnam); Leora Dana (Helen St. James); Walter Matthau (the Bartender); Edward Andrews (Don's Friend)
Notes: Adapted from the novel by Charles R. Jackson and the subsequent 1945 feature film; subject - alcoholism.
Title: THE BREAKING POINT
Original Air Date: February 14, 1955
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Cast: Geoffrey Horne; Barry Jones
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Title: COMING OF AGE
Original Air Date: February 21, 1955
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Cast: Robin Morgan; Lee Bowman; Jan Miner
Notes: Also knownn as "Halfway House."
Title: A VERY SPECIAL WORLD
Original Air Date: February 28, 1955
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Agnes Eckhardt
Cast: Jackie Cooper; Lee Remick; Bramwell Fletcher
Notes: Also known as "It Depends on You."
Title: A MATTER OF DIGNITY
Original Air Date: March 7, 1955
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Director:
Writer: Alvin Sapinsley
Cast: John Cheever (Mr. Blake); Elizabeth York (Ruth Dent); June Dayton (Lila Blake); Anne Seymour (Mrs. Compton); Mason Adams (Mr. Watkins); Barbara Townsend (Miss Fiske)
Notes: Synopsis: A secretary carries out a plan to wreak vengeance on her unfeeling boss.
Title: A STONE FOR HIS SON
Original Air Date: March 14, 1955
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
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Cast: Walter Matthau; Gale Page; Lin McCarthy; Jo Ralib
Notes: Also known as "A Westerner's Race."
Title: N.Y. TO L.A.
Original Air Date: March 21, 1955
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Director:
Writer: Robert J. Shaw
Cast: Charles Drake; Pamela Rivers; Edward Binns
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Title: THE IRON COBWEB
Original Air Date: March 28, 1955
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Cast: Geraldine Fitzgerald; Polly Rowles; Hugh Reilly
Notes: Adapted from the 1953 novel by Ursula Curtiss.
Title: THE TENDER LEAVES OF HOPE
Original Air Date: April 4, 1955
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Director:
Writer: Mathilde and Theodore Ferro
Cast: Raymond Massey (Dr. Clark Evans); Anne Seymour (Lida Evans); Robert Goodier (Dr. Haskell); Norman Rose (Dr. Archer)
Notes: Synopsis: The head surgeon at a major metropolitan hospital injures his hand in an auto accident. The years he has devoted to his profession, the skill he has developed--all seem worthless now. -- Adapted from a story by Robert J. Shaw.
Title: P.J. MARTIN AND SON
Original Air Date: April 18, 1955
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Director:
Writer: Robert J. Shaw
Cast: Edna Best; Lin McCarthy; Jack Mullaney
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Title: THE TALL DARK MAN
Original Air Date: April 25, 1955
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director: Grey Lockwood
Writer: Milton Gelman
Cast: Robin Morgan (Sarah Gross); Mary Jackson (Mrs. Gross); Val Avery (the Tall Dark Man); Joe Latham (Mr. Grayson); Al Checco (Smith); Rosemary Murphy (Miss Milford); Charles Gaines (Mr. Mulligan); Margaretta Warwick (Miss Everett); Anita Bayliss (Miss Appleby); Ben Yafee (Mr. Gross); Truman Smith (Rowland Rath); Billy Buckley (Walter); Sandy Horn (Rosalind); Denise Alexander (Jeannie); Janet Alexander (Katherine)
Notes: Synopsis: An unpopular young girl with a penchant for inventing stories witnesses a murder, but no one will believe her story...except the killer. ---- Adapted from the novel by Anne Chamberlain.
Title: BELLA FLEACE GAVE A PARTY
Original Air Date: May 2, 1955
Sponsor: American Tobacco
Director: Norman Felton
Writer: Doria Folliott
Cast: Fay Bainter; J. Pat O'Malley; Chester Stratton; Frederick Worlock; Ralph Bunker; John McLiam; Ronald Long; Patricia Moore; Harrison Dowd; Marjorie Eaton; Beulah Garrick; Philipa Bevans; Cecil Clovelly
Notes: Adapted from the novel by Evelyn Waugh.
Title: THE GREAT GATSBY
Original Air Date: May 9, 1955
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Alvin Sapinsley
Cast: Robert Montgomery (Jay Gatsby); Phyllis Kirk (Daisy); Lee Bowman; Gena Rowlands; Frederic Worlock; Scott Tennyson; John Newland
Notes: Adapted from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Title: THE CAGE
Original Air Date: May 16, 1955
Sponsor: American Tobacco
Director: Norman Felton
Writer: Paul Manning and Joseph Graham
Cast: Sam Gray; Svea Grunfeld; Colin Keith-Johnston; Christopher Hewitt
Notes: Subject - British Secret Service
Title: THE DRIFTER
Original Air Date: May 23, 1955
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: John Vlahos
Cast: Zachary Scott; William Windom; Sally Gracie; Jack Manning; Coe Norton
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Title: NOW OR NEVER
Original Air Date: May 30, 1955
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Director:
Writer: Martha Wilkerson
Cast: Barbara Britton; Charles Drake; Dorothy Blackburn; James Millhallin
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Title: THE KILLER
Original Air Date: June 6, 1955
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Milton Gelman
Cast: Luther Adler; Katherine Squire; Jack Mullaney; Luis Van Rooten; Harry Bellaver; Jenny Egan
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Title: SECOND CHANCE
Original Air Date: June 13, 1955
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Director:
Writer: Mathilde and Theodore Ferro
Cast: Diana Hyland (credited as Diana Gentner); Henry Garrard; Ruth Saville; Ken Konopka; George Gilbreath
Notes: Also known as "Everything For Andy."
Title: THERE'S NO NEED TO SHOUT
Original Air Date: June 20, 1955
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Doria Folliott
Cast: Nancy Malone; Mark Roberts; Eric Sinclair; Chris White; William A. Lee
Notes: Synopsis: Tells how Miss Frances Warfield, a successful newspaperwoman, almost ruined both her career and her chances for personal happiness by refusing to admit her partial deafness. -- Adapted from the autobiographical story by Frances Warfield.
Title: TOWHEAD
Original Air Date: June 27, 1955
Sponsor: Lucky Strike Cigarettes
Director:
Writer: John McLiam
Cast: Charles Drake (Ivan); Diedre Owens (Miss Evans); Glenn Walken (Michael); Audra Lindley (Maggie); Thomas Coley
Notes: Synopsis: Tells the warm tale of a little boy who's desperately in love with his schoolteacher. Set in a northwestern frontier town.
SUMMER STOCK:
Title: THE FOURTH OF JULY
Original Air Date: July 4, 1955
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: John Newland
Cast: Gale Page; Charles Drake; House Jameson; Eric Sinclair; Carlos Montalban; Coe Norton; Swea Grunfeld; Luis Van Rooten
Notes: Adapted from the story by S.S. Schweitzer.
Title: THE PAPER HERO
Original Air Date: July 11, 1955
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Director:
Writer: Dagny Delph
Cast: Gwen VanDam; John Gibson; Elizabeth Eustis; House Jameson; Dorothy Blackburn
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Title: THE DIAMOND CURTAIN
Original Air Date: July 18, 1955
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Thomas W. Phipps
Cast: Charles Drake; Augusta Dabney; House Jameson; Dorothy Blackburn
Notes: Synopsis: A small-town girl who has become a New York fashion expert discovers that love is not always a simple thing. The "diamond curtain' that surrounds New York society threatens to keep her from the man she loves.
Title: DECISION BY MORNING
Original Air Date: July 25, 1955
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Cast: Charles Drake; Augusta Dabney; House Jameson; Dorothy Blackburn; Eric Sinclair
Notes: Adapted from the novel by Sylvia Cooper.
Title: A SLIGHTLY IMPORTANT MAN
Original Air Date: August 1, 1955
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Director:
Writer: Noel B. Gerson
Cast: House Jameson; Augusta Dabney; Eric Sinclair
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Title: UNCLE SNOWBALL
Original Air Date: August 8, 1955
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Director:
Writer: Doria Folliott
Cast: Charles Drake; Augusta Dabney; House Jameson; Dorothy Blackburn
Notes: Synopsis: The tale of elderly handyman Uncle Snowball, whose wanderlust has carried him all over the U.S. He's now living in a small town where it looks like he's found the woman who will make him settle down.
Title: LATE LOVE
Original Air Date: August 15, 1955
Sponsor: Richard Hudnut Beauty Products
Director: Robert Ellenstein
Writer: Gail Ingram
Cast: Augusta Dabney (Constance Warburton); House Jameson (Graham Colby); Charles Drake (Billy Gordon); Eric Sinclair (Matthew Anderson); Viola Roche (Mrs. Colby); Rosemary Prinz (Janet Colby); Nellie Burt (Sarah)
Notes: Synopsis: A sophisticated lady artist arrives at the house of a famous novelist to paint his portrait. But soon she's also busy freeing the house of the tyranny imposed in it by the novelist's domineering mother. The priggish novelist offers her little help. -- Adapted from the play by Rosemary Casey. -- This is the same play in which Elizabeth Montgomery had a role on Broadway in 1953. That role is taken here by Rosemary Prinz.
Title: ROSIE
Original Air Date: August 22, 1955
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Director:
Writer: Milton Gelman
Cast: Bibi Osterwald; Eric Sinclair; Carlos Montalban
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Title: THE RETURN OF JOHNNY BURRO
Original Air Date: August 29, 1955
Sponsor: Richard Hudnut Beauty Products
Director: Frank Telford
Writer: Milton Gelman
Cast: Charles Drake (Lew); Augusta Dabney (Allie); House Jameson (George); Eric Sinclair (Johnny); Bill Johnstone (Russell); Wyatt Cooper (Mr. Cook); Jay Barney; Ken Renard
Notes: Synopsis: An outlaw attempts a reunion with his former partner-in-crime, and the girl who once loved him. Now she is the ex-partner's sweetheart. Set in New Mexico. ---- Adapted from Outlaw's Daughter by John Cunningham.
Title: MY DEAR EMILY
Original Air Date: September 5, 1955
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Elaine Corrington
Cast: Charles Drake; Augusta Dabney; House Jameson; Eric Sinclair; Dorothy Blackburn
Notes:
SEASON SEVEN:
Title: WOMAN IN THE WINDOW
Original Air Date: September 12, 1955
Sponsor: Schick
Director:
Writer: Doria Folliott
Cast: Maria Riva (Alice Reed); Robert Preston
Notes: Adapted from the novel Once Off Guard by J.H. Wallis and the subsequent 1944 feature film.
Title: MR. AND MRS. MONROE
Original Air Date: September 19, 1955
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Director: John Newland
Writer: St. John Terrell
Cast: Edward Andrews (Mr. Monroe); Augusta Dabney (Mrs. Monroe)
Notes: Synopsis: Story of a meek husband and his skeptical spouse. Spouse kindly takes off for Europe, leaving Mr. Monroe free to indulge his dreams of being bold, brave, debonair and well-informed, without the deflating presence of Mrs. Monroe. Among his fantasies is one in which he triumphs over an escaped convict. In another, Monroe the Fierce nabs a desperate diamond smuggler. ---- Adapted from a story by James Thurber.
Title: ALONG CAME JONES
Original Air Date: September 26, 1955
Sponsor: Schick
Director:
Writer: Doria Folliott
Cast: Charlton Heston (Melody Jones); Louis Lytton; Pat Roe; Lonny Chapman
Notes: Adapted from the novel The Useless Cowboy by Alan LeMay and the subsequent 1945 feature film.
Title: THE STRANGER
Original Air Date: October 3, 1955
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Doria Folliott
Cast: John Baragrey; Barbara Britton; Parker Fennelly; Luis Van Rooten; Jack Livesy
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Title: PAPER TOWN
Original Air Date: October 10, 1955
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Director: John Newland
Writer: Robert J. Shaw
Cast: Sidney Blackmer; Pat Sales; Jan Miner; Jack Mullaney; Brandon Peters
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Title: TOMORROW IS FOREVER
Original Air Date: October 17, 1955
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Roy Bailey
Cast: Gale Storm; William Windom; Robert Ellenstein
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Title: MAN LOST
Original Air Date: October 24, 1955
Sponsor: Schick
Director: Perry Lafferty
Writer: William Kendall Clarke
Cast: Franchot Tone; Phillip Bourneuf; Lee Remick; Earl Hammond; Aneta Corsaut
Notes: Subject - self-confidence
Title: IN A FOREIGN CITY
Original Air Date: October 31, 1955
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: John McPhee
Cast: Joseph Campanella; John Hudson
Notes: Adapted from a story by Robert M. Coates.
Title: THE WORLD TO NOTHING
Original Air Date: November 7, 1955
Sponsor: Schick
Director:
Writer: Abby Mann
Cast: Eddie Albert; Dolores Sutton; Brett Somers; Patricia Bosworth; Burt Brinckerhoff; Tommy Holleran
Notes:
Title: CRY SILENCE
Original Air Date: November 14, 1955
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Cast: Edward Andrews; George Mathews
Notes: Adapted from the short story by Fredric Brown.
Title: ISABEL
Original Air Date: November 21, 1955
Sponsor: Schick
Director:
Writer: Doria Folliott
Cast: Geraldine Fitzgerald; Anne Meacham; Robert Carrol; Viola Roach; Alfred Ryder
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Title: END OF THE RAINBOW
Original Air Date: November 28, 1955
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Mathilde and Theodore Ferro
Cast: George Voskovec
Notes: Adapted from a story by Vern Sneider.
Title: LUCIFER
Original Air Date: December 5, 1955
Sponsor: Schick
Director:
Writer: J. Harvey Howells
Cast: Charles Dingle; John Newland; House Jameson; Audra Lindley
Notes: Synopsis: A publishing house manager has, in the course of his career, caused much unhappiness among his colleagues. It's inevitable that he, too, should be made to suffer.
Title: SEE THE MAN
Original Air Date: December 12, 1955
Sponsor: Johnson's Wax
Director:
Writer: Mathilde and Theodore Ferro
Cast: Skip Homeier; Milette Alexander; Jan Miner
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Title: QUALITY TOWN
Original Air Date: December 19, 1955
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Director:
Writer: William Kendall Clarke
Cast: Piper Laurie (Clovis Spender); Lee Bowman (Stacey Spender); Mary Fickett
(Amanda Cole); Raymond Bramley (Mr. Wherry); James Reese (Cass Lomax)
Notes: Synopsis: A millionaire oil tycoon who has risen in the ranks from a position as a wildcatter, tries to give his daughter all the material things he lacked. -- Adapted from the story by Margaret Cousins.
Title: THE SECOND DAY OF CHRISTMAS
Original Air Date: December 26, 1955
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Director:
Writer: Sandra Michael
Cast: Lois Smith; Charles Taylor; Frank Scoffield
Notes: Subject - the romance between Hans Christian Anderson and Jenny Lind.
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