Matinee Theater S2E78

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1. The House Off Fifth Avenue

2. Yankee Doodler

3. The Pink Hippopotamus

4. September Tide

5. Are You Listening?

6. Ladies' Maid Bell

7. 100 Red Convertibles

8. The Ivy Curtain

9. The Gramercy Ghost

10. Lovers

11. Reach for the Stars

12. I Like It Here

13. A Question of Balance

14. The Marriage Royal

15. Mad Money

16. A Letter from Johnny Brock

17. Uncle Harry

18. At Mrs. Leland's

19. The House Next Door

20. Alumni Reunion

21. Sound of Fear

22. Late Date

23. Pride and Prejudice

24. Pearls of Sheba

25. The Stamp Caddy

26. The Egotist

27. The Family Man

28. Sight Unseen

29. The Eye of the Storm

30. The Man in the Seven League Boots

31. The Woman Across the Hall

32. And Then There Were Three

33. Shake the Stars Down

34. Horse Power

35. Without Sanction

36. The Outing

37. Thank You, Edmondo

38. The Tell-Tale Heart

39. Strangers on a Honeymoon

40. A Dram of Poison

41. The Shining Hour

42. Love, Marriage and Five Thousand Dollars

43. Step Into Darkness

44. Candle in the Dark

45. Savrola

46. Table Set at Night

47. Madame de Treymes

48. The People vs. John Tarr

49. The Location of Roycemore College

50. Dracula

51. Julie

52. The Empty Nest

53. Spare Your Pity

54. The Last Leaf

55. Therese

56. Julie

57. Refugee

58. Jenny Kissed Me

59. Miracle at Carville

60. The Upper Hand

61. Love is a Locksmith

62. Captain Brassbound's Conversion

63. The Wisp End

64. Prominent Citizens

65. Head of the Family

66. Password

67. Late Love

68. Eugenie Grandet

69. Cold Christmas

70. Little Women

71. For Sweetheart, Wife or Mother

72. Smilin' Through

73. Strong Medicine

74. Everything's Relative

75. Miss Morissa

76. The Scandalous Priest

77. Dark Victory

78. The Lonely Look

79. The Sudden Truth

80. The Man in the Half-Moon

81. The Hex

82. If This Be Error

83. On the Trail of the Kingsfield

84. Here We Are

85. Arms and the Man

86. Home is the Hunted

87. Madam Ada

88. Night Train

89. This Language

90. The 13th Crypt

91. Mr. Pirn Passes By

92. Anything for a Laugh

93. Realms of Gold

94. Deacon of Oak Ridge

95. Accent on Youth

96. Three Kids

97. Frankenstein

98. The Most Dangerous Man

99. One

100. The Importance of Being Earnest

101. The Brat's House

102. Mr. Todd

103. A Case of Pure Fiction

104. The Master Builder

105. The Others

106. The Remarkable Mr. Jerome

107. Bobbie

108. The Hickory Limb

109. The Bridge

110. The Serpent's Tooth

111. Voyage to Mandok

112. The Day Before the Wedding

113. Queen of Spades

114. Shadow and Substance

115. You Touched Me

116. The Hemlock Cup

117. Papa's Wife

118. The Prizewinner

119. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

120. Yesterday's Magic

121. Tongue of Silver

122. Peaceable Kingdom

123. The 19th Hole

124. Wedding in the Family

125. The Ways of Courage

126. Journey Into Darkness

127. Barricade at the Big Black

128. The Vicarious Years

129. The First Year

130. End of the Rope

131. We Won't Be Any Trouble

132. The Daughter of Mata Hari

133. Talk You of Killing

134. The Pursuit of Happiness

135. Wuthering Heights [restaged]

136. Long Distance

137. The Point of Cleaning

138. The Sport

139. The Flashing Stream

140. Thread That Runs So True

141. Jamie Picks a Wife

142. Blind Man's Bluff

143. The Story of Joseph

144. Pushover

145. Ashes in the Wind

146. A Hat, a Coat, a Glove

147. The Professional

148. Guardians of the Temple

149. The Short Safari of B'wana Ben

150. Church on Monday

151. The Gioconda Smile

152. Show of Strength

153. Make Believe Affair

154. Hymn to the Dedicated

155. Thursday's Child

156. Big-Hearted Herbert

157. The Embattled Maiden

158. The Middle-Aged Freshman

159. Best Friend in Town

160. Jane Eyre

161. Starmaster

162. Aftermath

163. Guest at the Embassy

164. Second-Hand Lover

165. The Avenging of Anne Leete

166. The Lonesome Husband

167. Puzzle in the Stars

168. The Gwendolyn Harleth Story

169. The Girls Named Almaya

170. The Dream That Was Fixed

171. A Growing Wonder

172. Bachelor Father

173. The Golden Door

174. Rain in the Morning

175. Eye of the Storm

176. Rich Man, Poor Man

177. The Party Dress

178. White-Headed Boy

179. Liza

180. Pigeons and People

181. Things Hoped For

182. Mr. Wendigo

183. Stopover

184. A Light in the Sky

185. The Charmer

186. The Brief Candle

187. Too Much Johnson

188. Money in the Bank

189. Trouble Traine

190. The Last Voyage

191. The Price of Scandal

192. But When She Was Bad

193. The Fable of Harry

194. Portrait in Mini

195. The Cask of Amontillado

196. The Richest Man in the World

197. The Last Hour

198. The First Captain

199. Shuttered Hearts

200. One for All

201. Call It a Day

202. Ann Veronica

203. Boys Will Be Men

204. The Forbidden Search

205. The Fawn with Crooked Teeth

207. The Rose Bush

208. Finley's Fan Club

209. Laugh a Little Tear

210. The Invisible Man

211. Where Angels Fear

212. First Love

213. The Last Survivors

214. Time for Action

215. Haven's End

216. Heed the Falling Sparrow

217. The President's Child Bride

218. Now or Never

219. Awakening

220. Angel Face

221. The Star Sapphire

222. Women Have Ways

223. Jewel Boy

224. Molly Morgan

225. Woman Alone

226. Among Strangers

227. The Adjustable Mr. Willing

228. Freedom Comes Later

229. In the Fog

230. Son of 37 Fathers

231. Hand Me Down

232. Emma

233. Personal Equation

234. Night Cry

235. The Mysterious Disappearance

236. The Impersonal Touch

237. The Story of Sarah

238. The Waiting Swan

239. One Mummy Too Many

240. Hearthstones

241. The Reluctant Heiress

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Matinee Theater

Drama

Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.

Date: 10/31/1955

Rating: 4.6

Cast: John Conte

John Conte