Armstrong Circle Theatre
Running for almost thirteen years, this dramatic anthology series featured many well-know actors and actresses, as well as a number who would later go on to become stars. Originally, the program presented dramas written by contemporary writers on a number of subjects, but later in its run it changed to documentary-style dramas on subjects ranging from espionage and the history of Russian communism to the dangers of medical and insurance fraud.
- 1950-1963
- 13 seasons
- NBC
- Drama
Running for almost thirteen years, this dramatic anthology series featured many well-know actors and actresses, as well as a number who would later go on to become stars. Originally, the program presented dramas written by contemporary writers on a number of subjects, but later in its run it changed to documentary-style dramas on subjects ranging from espionage and the history of Russian communism to the dangers of medical and insurance fraud.
Season 10 Episode Guide
21 Episodes 1959 - 1960
Episode 1
The Zone of Silence
Wed, Sep 30, 1959 60 mins
The Bronx's St. Joseph's School for the Deaf focuses into a tense, hour-long exploration of all the dimensions of a handicapped child's difficulties.
Episode 2
The Jailbreak
Wed, Oct 14, 1959 60 mins
A dramatic re-creation of an attempted prison break at the Massachusetts State Prison at Walpole. Six desperate prisoners seize guards and other prisoners and threaten to make them human torches unless the prison gate is opened.
Episode 3
35 Rue Du Marche
Wed, Oct 28, 1959 60 mins
A documentary drama that recalls the devotion of a Belgian priest, Nobel Prizewinning Dominique Georges Henri Pire, to his self-imposed task: providing homes for European D.P.'s.
Episode 4
Security Risk
Wed, Nov 25, 1959 60 mins
Dr. Jan Larvik is asked to work on a top-secret defense project. He seems to have a clean record, but after his security check both he and the Army get letters accusing him of being a Communist.
Episode 5
Operation Moonshine
Wed, Dec 9, 1959 60 mins
A semi-documentary, Operation Moonshine takes a hooch-raking look at still waters.
Episode 6
The Boy on Page One
Wed, Dec 23, 1959 60 mins
The Boy on Page One deals with forgotten four-to ten-year-old orphans, and how agencies in Hamilton, Ontario, have found homes for them.
Episode 7
Full Disclosure
Wed, Jan 20, 1960 60 mins
A primer in stock market investing, this is a frank and fact-filled tour of the "bucket shops" and "boiler rooms" where too many market amateurs are separated from their cash.
Episode 8
Ghost Bomber: The Lady Be Good
Wed, Feb 3, 1960 60 mins
The story of the loss of a B-24D Liberator heavy bomber on an April 1943 mission to Naples with the wreck of the plane found in 1958 in the Libyan Desert hundreds of miles south of their base.
Episode 9
House of Cards
Wed, Feb 17, 1960 60 mins
Episode 10
Raid in Beatnik Village
Wed, Mar 2, 1960 60 mins
A dramatization of the adventures of members of the New York City Police Department's narcotics squad who turned themselves into beatniks to get the goods on dope peddlers. These "Fuzzniks," as they were labeled after they revealed themselves,, adopted the garb, language and habits of beatniks and set themselves up in Greenwich Village.
Episode 11
The Desperate Season
Wed, Mar 16, 1960
Suicide is the problem dramatized in "The Desperate Season," by Alvin Boretz. An English professor's feeling of rejection becomes acute when he is treated coolly by a former student, now a successful author. Becoming more and more dejected, he thinks of suicide.
Episode 12
Trial by Fury
Fri, Aug 12, 1960
An American adventurer named Austin Young escaped from a Cuban jail and contacted a friend in the United States for help in getting out of the country. Newspaperman James Buchanan was sent to Cuba to get the story and soon found himself in the headlines. This dramatization of Buchanan's adventures is narrated by Douglas Edwards.
Episode 13
The Numbers Racket
Wed, Apr 13, 1960 60 mins
The story, based on police case histories, of a small-time racketeer who tries to build nickels and dimes into big money in The Numbers Racket.
Episode 14
Dishonor System
Wed, Apr 27, 1960 60 mins
A freelance writer turns stool pigeon and the D.A. moves in on the "Carlton Literary Service," a ghostwriting organization on a Midwest campus.
Episode 15
Separate Parents
Wed, May 11, 1960 60 mins
A drama by Alvin Boretz about the problems faced by divorced parents. Laura Gilbert, recently divorced, is left to care for her nine-year-old son. Then another mother invites her to join the Parents Without Partners organization.
Episode 16
Positive Identification
Wed, May 25, 1960 60 mins
A dramatization of the work of the Legal Aid Society when it defends a man who is falsely accused.
Episode 17
Illegal Entry
Wed, Jun 8, 1960 60 mins
The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service gets word that a smuggling ring is planning to bring four Italians to New York from Genoa and goes to work to prevent it
Episode 18
The Prison Professor
Wed, Jun 22, 1960 60 mins
A schoolteacher serving a six-month prison term for narcotics possession notices that the teenage inmates have no constructive outlet for their youthful energy. He hits upon the idea of setting up a school inside the prison walls. Based on a true story.
Episode 20
Episode #10.20
Fri, Aug 12, 1960
Episode 22
Security Risk
Wed, Aug 31, 1960 60 mins
Episode 24
Ghost Bomber
Wed, Sep 28, 1960 60 mins