Matinee Theater S3E1

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Episodes

1. Father Come Home

2. Villa of the Angels

3. A Tone of Time

4. Almost Any Man Will Do

5. Sing for Me

6. Run for the Money

7. Lest We Forget

8. The Glass Hill

9. Out of the Frying Pan

10. The Last Stop

11. The Weak and the Strong

12. Nine-Finger Jack

13. Elementals

14. Plummer in Paradise

15. Something About a Dollar

16. Return in Winter

17. Grandmama and Grandfather

18. Aesop and Rhodope

19. All Over the World

20. The Ransom of Sigmund Freud

21. Iris

22. Remember Me Kindly

23. The Embassy House

24. Witness to Murder

25. The Johnson House

26. Cadenza

27. Green Shores

28. A Question of Balance

29. Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent

30. The Conversation Tables

31. Out of My Darkness

32. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

33. The Broom and the Groom

34. A Cloud for Jeni

35. The Consul

36. The Old Friend

37. Give Me a Wand

38. The Sure Thing

39. Dark of the Moon

40. The Giver and the Gift

41. No Time for Comedy

42. Gentleman of Fortune

43. The Gentleman Caller

44. Tender Leaves

45. In 25 Words or Less

46. Sara Crewe

47. Amahl and the Night Visitors

48. The Little Minister

49. Daughter of Kings

50. The Survival Kit

51. The House with the Golden Street

52. The Europeans

53. The Collected Letters of Mr. Sage

54. Two-Picture Deal

55. The Great Obstacle Courtship

56. A Chance to Die

57. Home on the Range

58. The Makropoulos Secret

59. More Than a Man

60. Something Stolen, Something New

61. Thunderbolt

62. Daisy Mayne

63. The Man Who Wanted to Hate

64. The Golden Fleecing

65. Forever and Ever

66. Decision

67. Solider's Boy

68. The Man with Pointed Toes

69. Love Out of Town

70. Cave-In

71. The Iceman

72. The Long, Long Laugh

73. Man Without a Country

74. The Odd Ones

75. Monsieur Beaucaire

76. Life Upon the Wicked Stage

77. Without Fear or Favor

78. The Third Person

79. Eden End

80. The 10th Muse

81. Goodbye on Thursday

82. Heart's Desire

83. Marriage of Convenience

84. The Suicide Club

85. The 65th Floor

86. The Hickory Heart

87. The Devil's Violin

88. Wednesday's Child

89. Vigilante

90. The Prophet Hosea

91. Mrs. Moonlight

92. With Love We Live

93. You and I

94. Career Angel

95. Contingent Fire

96. Anxious Night

97. On Approval

98. Dandy Dick

99. Hush, Mahala, Hush

100. O'Rourke's House

101. The Alleyway

102. The Vagabond

103. The Silver Spider

104. Design for Glory

105. The Inspector General

106. The Two Mrs. Carrolls

107. The Velvet Glove

108. Death Takes a Holiday

109. Man of the House

110. A Case of Fear

111. Walk in the Sky

112. The Canterville Ghost

113. Found Money

114. Washington Whispers Money

115. A Boy Grows Up

116. Phony Venus

117. Some Blessed People

118. The Quiet Street

119. The Quest of Quesnay

120. Angel Street

121. The Cause

122. Much Ado About Nothing, Part 1

123. Much Ado About Nothing, Part 2

124. Day of Discoveries

125. The Young and the Fair

126. The Riddle of Mary Murray

127. Button Button

128. The End of the Season

129. Look Out for John Tucker

130. The Road to Recovery

131. The Nightbird's Crying

132. The Story of Marcia Gordon

133. Town in Turmoil

134. Washington Square

135. Course for Collision

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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