Producers' Showcase Season 2 Episodes

Episode 1

The Skin of Our Teeth

Sun, Sep 11, 195590 mins

This Thornton Wilder play, the story of life on Earth from prehistoric times through World War II as lived by Mr. And Mrs. Antrobus, their two children, and their house maid, Sabina, is filled with biblical and mythological references.

Episode 2

Our Town

Mon, Sep 19, 195590 mins

Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors.

Episode 3

Cyrano de Bergerac

Mon, Oct 17, 1955

Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.

Episode 4

Dateline II

Mon, Nov 14, 1955

The Overseas Press Clubs salute to Freedom of the Press.

Episode 5

The Sleeping Beauty

Wed, Dec 14, 195575 mins

Tchaikovsky's ballet, with Margot Fonteyn in the title role, presented on TV in color. Only a black-and-white kinescope of this production seems to survive.

Episode 6

Peter Pan

Mon, Jan 9, 195690 mins

Episode 7

Festival of Music

Mon, Jan 30, 1956

A stage concert with 13 of world's top opera singers and musicians, each performing a single number.

Episode 8

Caesar and Cleopatra

Mon, Mar 5, 195690 mins

Julius Caesar's advance into Egypt is halted when he meets Cleopatra, the sister of the boy pharaoh.

Episode 9

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Mon, Apr 2, 195690 mins

Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

Episode 10

Dodsworth

Mon, Apr 30, 1956

The owner of an automobile manufacturing company succumbs to his vain wife's pressure for him to retire--which he really doesn't want to do--and for them to take a cruise to Europe. On the cruise he learns some truths about himself, his wife, and their marriage.

Episode 11

Bloomer Girl

Mon, May 28, 1956

A musical set before Civil War that centers around Evalina Applegate, daughter of a hoop skirt manufacturer, who sides with her Aunt Dolly Bloomer, an avid suffragette, and falls in love with a handsome slave owner, Jefferson Calhoun.

Episode 12

Happy Birthday

Mon, Jun 25, 1956

A shy young Newark librarian is secretly in love with a handsome and dashing bank clerk. She hatches a scheme to meet him in a bar, but in her nervousness she has too much to drink and winds up plastered. However, four patrons in the bar take pity on her and resolve to help her catch the man of her dreams.

Episode 13

Rosalinda

Mon, Jul 23, 195690 mins

Practical jokes and disguises cause confusion in this adaptation of Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II.