Matinee Theater S1E82

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Episodes

1. Beginning Now

2. Make Believe Mother

3. The Persistent Image

4. I'm Straight with the World

5. Progress and Minnie Sweeney

6. The House on Wildwood Lane

7. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

8. One for the Road

9. An Apple for Miss Myrtle

10. The Man Without a Country

11. Jigsaw

12. She's the One with the Funny Face

13. All the Hoffmeyers in the World

14. The Aspern Papers

15. Roman Fever

16. Midsummer

17. The Lady Chooses

18. The Courtship of Miles Standish

19. Dispossessed

20. One for the Road

21. The Touchstone

22. Wuthering Heights

23. The Brass Ring

24. Jason

25. Arrowsmith

26. Passing Strange

27. For These Services

28. Cordially - With Bombs

29. The White Oaks

30. O'Toole from Moscow

31. The Milwaukee Rocket

32. This One is Different

33. Sins of the Fathers

34. See You on Sunday

35. Coming of Age

36. Technique

37. Gallin: All-American

38. Santa is No Saint

39. The Unwelcomed

40. The Red Sanders Story

41. Class of '58

42. Horns of the Dilemma

43. Little Girls Grow Up

44. The Shot

45. Mr. Krane

46. Yesterday is Gone

47. Double Door

48. The Happy Rest

49. The Gate

50. One Left Over

51. All the Trees in the Field

52. The Century Plant

53. Friday the 13th

54. The Old Maid

55. Mother Was a Bachelor

56. The Bottom of the River

57. The Carefree Tree

58. Interlude

59. The Big Box

60. Sincerely Yours, Charlie Fisher

61. Doc

62. The Amateur

63. Light and Shadow

64. Romney

65. O Promise Me

66. Hold My Hand and Run

67. Dark Possession

68. The Diamond

69. Susan and God

70. As Young As You Feel

71. The White Knight

72. The Anxious Years

73. The Heart of Mary Lincoln

74. The Middle Son

75. Valentine's Day

76. Summer Cannot Last

77. The Last Battlefield

78. The Catbird Seat

79. Dream House

80. The Runaways

81. The Ledger

82. When the Bough Breaks

83. I Want to March

84. Skylark

85. Tall, Dark Stranger

86. Anything But Love

87. Robin Daw

88. Letter to a Stranger

89. Dinner at Antoine's

90. The Mating of Watkins Tottle

91. Her Son's Wife

92. The Shining Palace

93. The Odd Ones

94. A Cowboy for Chris

95. The Rocking Chair

96. The Big Guy

97. Statute of Limitations

98. The Baron and the Banshees

99. Notebook Warrior

100. Temptation for a King

101. The White Knight

102. The Anxious Years

103. M is for the Many

104. Silent Partner

105. Winter in April

106. Bread Upon the Waters

107. The Giant Killer

108. The Book of Ruth

109. Singer in the Valley

110. The Heart of a Husband

111. From the Desk of Margaret Tydings

112. But You Look Like Sisters

113. The House of Seven Gables

114. Fiddlin' Man

115. The Hollow Woman

116. People in Glass

117. One of the Family

118. Young Hands, Young Feet

119. The Lark Shall Sing

120. In Dread of Winter

121. The Babylonian Heart

122. Ask Me No Questions

123. Whom Death Has Joined Together

124. The Wedding

125. The Reckoning

126. A Woman Named Ruby

127. The Bright Boy

128. The Carefree Tree

129. Graybeards and Witches

130. The Legend of Jenny Lind

131. Daughter of the Seventh Day

132. Night Must Fall

133. The 25th Hour

134. A Man and His Maid

135. Perspective

136. The Catamaran

137. Johnny Came Marching Home

138. A Family Affair

139. Blind Date

140. To Have and to Hold

141. Edwina Black

142. The Spare Room

143. The Bottle Imp

144. Brief Music

145. The Girl from Boro Park

146. To Whom It May Concern

147. Bachelor Buttons

148. The Children of Papa Juan

149. Herself Alone

150. Three for the Money

151. Taxi to the Moon

152. The Goodtime Boys

153. The American

154. Cause for Suspicion

155. Fight the Whole World

156. Autumn Crocus

157. George Has a Birthday

158. The Serpent's Tooth

159. Crime at Blossom's

160. The Luck of Amos Currie

161. Alison's House

162. Safe Place

163. The Guest Cottage

164. Forsaking All Others

165. Love, Honor and O'Day

166. The Damask Cheek

167. Moon Over

168. But Fear Itself

169. The Birthday Present

170. The Ghost of Greenwich Village

171. The Young and the Damned

172. There's Always Juliet

173. Seasoned Timber

174. The Declaration

175. High Places

176. Black Chiffon

177. Class of '58

178. Marriage by the Millions

179. Backfire

180. The Bishop Misbehaves

181. Remittance

182. Beg, Borrow or Steal

183. Summer Pavilion

184. The Feast

185. A Full, Rich Life

186. The Reverberator

187. Woman at the Window

188. Another Sky

189. Letter of Introduction

190. Home at Seven

191. The Cypress Tree

192. Belong to Me

193. Pygmalion Jones

194. Gretel

195. Some Man Will Want You

196. The Fall of the House of Usher

197. Cupid Rode a Horse

198. The Old Payola

199. The Perfect Alibi

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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