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Producers' Showcase Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
11 Episodes 1956 - 1957
Episode 1
The Lord Don't Play Favorites
Mon, Sep 17, 195690 mins
A small-time traveling circus is stranded in a small Kansas town that has been devastated by a drought. The town government has subjected the circus to large fines in order to raise money to hire a rainmaker to alleviate the drought. The circus folk find a way to turn the tables on the town to raise their own money to enter the circus' trick horse in the county race.
Episode 2
The Letter
Mon, Oct 15, 195690 mins
The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense; a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing.
Episode 3
Jack and the Beanstalk
Mon, Nov 12, 195690 mins
An original musical version of the classic children's tale.
Episode 4
Festival of Music (#2)
Mon, Dec 10, 1956
90 minutes of music performed by outstanding artists.
Episode 5
Ruggles of Red Gap
Sun, Feb 3, 1957120 mins
English butler comes to the Wild West to work for newly rich hicks - finds it unbearable - but then comes to his senses.
Episode 6
Mayerling
Mon, Feb 4, 195785 mins
Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.
Episode 7
Romeo and Juliet
Mon, Mar 4, 1957
In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
Episode 9
The Great Sebastians
Mon, Apr 1, 1957
It's 1948 in Communist-controlled Prague, Czechoslovakia. A mind-reading act is commanded by the authorities to entertain at a private party. They discover what the authorities really want is for them to use their "powers" to expose spies and traitors to the regime. In addition, the anti-Communist Czech president has recently died a mysterious "suicide", and the officials want them to falsely swear in a statement that they knew the man and he was depressed and suicidal. Realizing the kind of trouble they're in for, they decide to escape using their best stage tricks.
Episode 10
Cinderella
Mon, Apr 29, 1957
A ballet in three acts with music by Sergei Prokofiev, performed by the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company (n/k/a The Royal Ballet).
Episode 11
Mr. Broadway
Sat, May 11, 195790 mins
Biography of Broadway impresario George M. Cohan.
Episode 12
Festival of Magic
Mon, May 27, 1957
Hosted by Ernie Kovacs (who doubles as amateur magician whose acts fail miserably), a show that features world famous magicians from seven countries performing their best-known acts.