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Producers' Showcase Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 1954 - 1955
Episode 1
Tonight at 8:30
Mon, Oct 18, 195490 mins
3 short plays by Noel Coward: "Red Peppers," "Still Life," and "Shadow Play."
Episode 2
State of the Union
Mon, Nov 15, 195490 mins
A wealthy businessman is persuaded to run for U.S. President. He finds that he is constantly forced to compromise his principles in order to secure support and funding, and finally withdraws from the race. However, his experience has only made him more determined to reform the political system. ;
Episode 3
Dateline
Mon, Dec 13, 1954
A tribute to the American reporter.
Episode 4
Call to Freedom
Fri, Jan 7, 195555 mins
The story of the quest for freedom in Austria, with an emphasis on music. Highlights include scenes from Beethoven's opera "Fidelio".
Episode 5
Yellow Jack
Mon, Jan 10, 1955
The story of US Army doctor Walter Reed and how he and his medical team helped to find the cause of yellow fever, which was responsible for the deaths of thousands every year, in Cuba after the Spanish-American war of 1898.
Episode 6
The Women
Mon, Feb 7, 1955
Claire Boothe Luce's famous all-female play, about a woman whose husband leaves her, and how all her friends endlessly gossip about it and their own problems.
Episode 7
Peter Pan
Mon, Mar 7, 195590 mins
A live restaging of the 1955 TV production of the Broadway musical version.
Episode 8
Reunion in Vienna
Mon, Apr 4, 195590 mins
An archduke who had been banished from Austria returns to Vienna for a reunion of his old fellow aristocrats and meets up with the former love of his life, who is now married to a psychoanalyst.
Episode 9
Darkness at Noon
Mon, May 2, 195590 mins
During the Stalinist purges in Russia in the 1930s, a committed Bolshevik named Bubashov sits in prison, having been betrayed by the cause he fought for, and goes over his life via a series of flashbacks and coded conversations with other condemned prisoners in an adjoining cell.
Episode 10
The Petrified Forest
Mon, May 30, 195590 mins
Gabrielle Maple works in a dusty desert gas station-café, but yearns for the life of an artist in France, knowing there must be something finer than the provincial dead-end she is trapped in. A hitch-hiking writer, the disillusioned Alan Squier, appears and revitalizes her dreams of a better place, and finds his own sense of worth refreshed by this vital young girl. When Duke Mantee and his gang, wanted killers, show up and take hostages, Gabrielle falls in love with the poetic Alan, and Squier begins to see a way to give Gabby the life she deserves.
Episode 11
Wide, Wide World
Mon, Jun 27, 1955
A wonderful around the world look at the variety of talents and music performances.
Episode 12
The Fourposter
Mon, Jul 25, 1955
Adapted from the prize-winning Broadway play that featured two people and a four-poster bed, in which the couple enacts their marriage, from its day in 1897, until he dies, some time after she has died from cancer. It is a "love" that endured wars, an "other" woman, and the death of their favorite son.
Episode 13
The King and Mrs. Candle
Mon, Aug 22, 195590 mins
The King of Brandovia is overthrown and exiled. He winds up in America, where he gets a job as a dancing instructor. He falls in love with a commoner, Mrs. Candle, but he doesn't know that his former fiancé from Brandovia has also come to America, with a set of very valuable pearls that he gave her for safekeeping.