The Classic TV Archive - US Dramatic Anthology Series

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Episode Guide
version 4.0 December 2007
compiled by
The Classic TV Archive

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Stage/2950/

with contributions by:
Rina Fox
references:
Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (http://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive

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CHEVROLET TELE-THEATRE

(aka Chevrolet on Broadway)

(aka The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre)

(aka The Broadway Playhouse)

Sep 27, 1948 to Jun 26, 1950

Sep 1948-Jan 1949 NBC Mon 8:00-8:30

Feb 1949-Apr 1949 NBC Mon 8:30-9:00

May 1949-Jun 1950 NBC Mon 8:00-8:30
 

Producer Victor McLeod
 

Writers Emlyn Williams, Tad Mosel

This was a big budget, live dramatic series which aired original plays or adaptations each week.

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1.01 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE HOME LIFE OF A BUFFALO

27-Sep-1948

written by Richard Harrity

directed by Gordon Duff

prod #48-159

starring

John McQuade as Eddie

Virginia Smith as Josie

Kevin Mathews as Joe

Ernest Truex as Otto

Sylvia Field as Mollie

1.02 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: MIRAGE IN MANHATTAN

04-Oct-1948

written by Lawrence Du Pont

directed by Gordon Duff

prod #48-175

starring

Jessie Royce Landis as Bessie

Will Geer as Sam Hobbs

Eric Rhodes

Helene Reynolds

Russell Arms

Alan Stevenson

Synopsis:

The life of an Oklahoma couple who strike it rich and head for New York.

They go "Park Avenue" and think they are having a wonderful time. Suddenly,

they realize that it is a mirage and they are not enjoying themselves. They drop

their phony friends, quit the "rich" atmosphere and act naturally. [RF]

1.03 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THINKING ALOUD

11-Oct-1948

starring

Dean Jagger

Judith Evelyn

1.04 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: WHISTLE DAUGHTER, WHISTLE

18-Oct-1948

written by Ernest Kinoy

directed by Gordon Duff

starring

Gertrude Berg as Mrs. Marks (her TV debut)

Minerva Pious as Mrs. Kalat

Lenore Lonergan as Peggy

John Harvey as Adam

Synopsis:

A comedy about a couple of Bronx housewives trying to work out a marriage

between their respective daughter and son. [RF]

* Note This was based on her highly popular radio series The Goldbergs and became

 the prototype for the TV series of the same name which premiered a few months later.

1.05 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: HIS MASTER'S AFFAIRS

25-Oct-1948

starring

Arthur Treacher

Judy Parrish

Mischa Auer

1.06 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE PURPLE DOORKNOB

01-Nov-1948

written by Walter Pritchard Eaton

directed by Gordon Duff

starring

Faye Emerson

Ethel Griffies

Joanna Roos

Synopsis:

A stage star who is attracted by a doorknob on a cottage on  Cape Cod,

where she is vacationing. Her attempts to purchase it from the invalid recluse

living in the cottage and the novel twist to the ending makes for a "play within a play." [RF]

1.07 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: A STUDY IN TRIANGLES

08-Nov-1948

starring

Erni Arneson

1.08 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: NO SHOES

15-Nov-1948

written by Lawrence Du Pont

directed by Gordon Duff

prod #48-289

starring

Vinton Hayworth

James Dunn

John Kane

Helene Reynolds

Andrea Wallace

Robert Bolger

Marion Weeks

Virginia Deyer

Jane Hagerman

Synopsis:

The story of a wealthy trucking company owner who "expects" a son to be born

momentarily. His plans to change the name of his company to Cassidy and Son

receive a setback when he becomes the father of a girl. [RF]

1.09 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE FLATTERING WORD

22-Nov-1948

starring

John Carradine

Zasu Pitts

1.10 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE VALIANT

29-Nov-1948

starring

Paul Muni

1.11 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: CLOSE QUARTERS

06-Dec-1948

starring

Barry Nelson

Louisa Horton

1.12 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: SHAM

13-Dec-1948

starring

Natalie Schafer

Edward Everett Horton

1.13 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: A LITTLE MATTER OF FAITH

20-Dec-1948

starring

Frank Conroy

Iris Mann

1.14 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: WHO'S YOUR JUDGE?

27-Dec-1948

starring

Eddie Albert

Frank M. Thomas

1.15 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE MIRROR AND THE MANICURE

03-Jan-1949

starring

Glenda Farrell

Guy Kibbee

1.16 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: GOOD-BYE TO LARRY K

10-Jan-1949

starring

Buddy Ebsen

1.17 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: JINXED

17-Jan-1949

Written by Tad Mosel (his first teleplay)

starring

Jackie Cooper

Mary Anderson

Vaughn Taylor

1.18 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: TRAPEZE

24-Jan-1949

starring

Luise Rainer

Tod Andrews

Charles Korvin

Clay Clement

1.19 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: ALL'S FAIR

31-Jan-1949

starring

Roland Young

Patricia Kirkland

Mary Boland

1.20 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: EXPERT OPINION

07-Feb-1949

starring

Boris Karloff

Vicki Cummings

Dennis King

1.21 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: MIRACLE IN THE RAIN

14-Feb-1949

starring

Mary Anderson

John Dall

1.22 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: SUPPRESSED DESIRES

21-Feb-1949

starring

Ernest Truex

Valerie Cossart

Ilka Chase

1.23 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: HEAT LIGHTNING

28-Feb-1949

written by Robert F. Carroll

directed by Garry Simpson

prod #49-692

starring

Dean Jagger as the Killer

Elisabeth Bergner as the Girl

Philip Huston as Bus Passenger

Andrew Duggan as State Trooper

Synopsis:

This program presents a suspense story based on the fear of a woman caught

in a summer heat lightning storm. She sees a murder, runs to a deserted bus station

and there, unknown to her, encounters the killer. The story is built around the

killer's attempt to find out whether the woman recognizes him. [RF]

1.24 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: MR. BELL'S CREATION

07-Mar-1949

starring

Janet Blair

Romney Brent

Ann Thomas

1.25 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: LONDONDERRY AIR

14-Mar-1949

starring

John Conte

Nanette Fabray

1.26 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: SMART GUY

21-Mar-1949

starring

Nancy Coleman

Alan Baxter

1.27 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE MANAGERS

28-Mar-1949

starring

Victor Moore

Guy Kibbee

1.28 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: GOOD NIGHT, PLEASE

04-Apr-1949

starring

Edward Everett Horton

Natalie Schafer

1.29 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE TWELVE POUND LOOK

11-Apr-1949

starring

Margaret Sullavan

Ralph Forbes

1.30 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: EVERYBODY LOVES MY BABY

18-Apr-1949

starring

Calvin Thomas

Jane Withers

Richard Noyes

1.31 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: TOMMY MALONE COME HOME

25-Apr-1949

starring

James Dunn

1.32 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE SUICIDE CLUB

02-May-1949

starring

Bramwell Fletcher

Francis L. Sullivan

Oliver Thorndike

1.33 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: A PASSENGER TO BALI

09-May-1949

starring

Boris Karloff

Vicki Cummings

Stanley Ridges

1.34 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: MANHATTAN MARY

16-May-1949

starring

Mitzi Green

Robert Scheerer

1.35 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE UNCERTAIN HOUR

23-May-1949

starring

Hume Cronyn

Fay Bainter

1.36 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: LONG LOST BROTHER

30-May-1949

starring

John Carradine

Don Hastings

1.37 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: JOHNNY CARTWRIGHT'S CAMERA

06-Jun-1949

starring

Lee Tracy

1.38 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: WEATHER AHEAD

13-Jun-1949

starring

Brian Donlevy

1.39 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: HERITAGE OF WIMPOLE STREET

20-Jun-1949

adapted by Ethel Frank

based on the play by Robert Knipe

directed by Garry Simpson

prod #49-1301

starring

Leo G. Carroll as Edward M. Barrett

Valerie Cossart as Henrietta Barrett

Emily Lawrence as Arabel Barrett

Judson Reese as Robert

Daisy Atherton

Bertha Belmore

Mabel Taylor

Robert Bolger

Synopsis:

The story of life at 50 Wimpole Street, London, in 1856,

after Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning. [RF]

1.40 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: HALF AN HOUR

27-Jun-1949

adapted by Samuel Carter

based on a play by J.M. Barrie

directed by Garry Simpson

prod #49-1329

starring

John Conte as Hugh

Nina Foch as the Wife

John Moore as Richard Carson

Maurice Manson as Dr. Brodie

Synopsis:

The story of a woman who is of an old but impoverished family and who makes a

marriage of convenience for money. Her husband, aware of this, allows her social

prestige to outweigh his personal feelings. She is secretly in love with another man,

who is killed by a bus on the night they are eloping. How the wife and Dr. Brodie

cover up the escapade brings the story to a finish. [RF]

1.41 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: LESSON FOR EDDY

01-Jul-1949

starring

Charles Ruggles

Zolya Talma

Frank Tweddell

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2.01 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: LEO AND SAGITTARIUS

19-Sep-1949

starring

Vicki Cummings

2.02 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: HER MAJESTY, THE KING

26-Sep-1949

starring

Barry Macollum

Ethel Griffies

2.03 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE UNGUARDED MOMENT

03-Oct-1949

adapted by Eleanor Tarshis & Harry W. Junkin

based on a story by Ernest Lehman

directed by Garry Simpson

prod #49-1661

starring

Valerie Bettis as His Wife

Paul Lukas as the Psychiatrist

Dora Clement as the Mother

Louis Beachner as the Patient

Barbara Townsend as the Doctor's Assistant

Charles G. Martin

Frank Rowen

Eugene Rawls

Harold Grau

Kem Dibbs

Synopsis:

The story of a troubled psychiatrist who finds relief from his own

problems from an unusual source--a patient. [RF]

2.0[--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: 4 LEAVE IT TO MOTHER

10-Oct-1949

starring

Ralph Locke

Mary Malone

Irene Rich

2.05 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE BOAT RIDE

17-Oct-1949

starring

Dane Clark

2.06 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE BIRTHDAY PARTY

24-Oct-1949

starring

John Beal

Blanche Yurka

Henry Hull

2.07 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION

31-Oct-1949

starring

Walter Abel as Sir Wilfred Robarts

Felicia Montealegre as Christine Vole

Nicholas Saunders as Leonard Vole

Anne Ives

Hilda Vaughn

2.08 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: HIS NAME IS JASON

07-Nov-1949

starring

Jonathan Harris

Margo

Norma Jane Marlow

2.09 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: TEMPORARILY PURPLE

14-Nov-1949

starring

Nina Foch

John Conte

2.10 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: HART TO HEART

21-Nov-1949

starring

Miriam Hopkins

Donald Curtis

Charles Martin

2.11 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE DOOR

28-Nov-1949

starring

Don Ameche

Dennis Harrison

Grace Valentine

Tom Pedi

2.12 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: AT NIGHT ALL CATS ARE GREY

05-Dec-1949

starring

Basil Rathbone

2.13 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: DESERT INCIDENT

12-Dec-1949

starring

Joshua Shelley

Guy Kibbee

Iggie Wolfington

2.14 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE PRICELESS GIFT

19-Dec-1949

starring

Mary Patton

Lee Tracy

2.15 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: I COVER TIMES SQUARE

26-Dec-1949

starring

Harold Huber

2.16 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: HART TO HEART

02-Jan-1950

starring

Louise Albritton

Dick Foran

Roscoe Karns

2.17 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: MIDNIGHT FLIGHT

09-Jan-1950

written by Norman Anthony

directed by Garry Simpson

prod #50-43

starring

Barry Nelson as Joe Golden

Ferdi Hoffman as Jerome Lawson

Sylvia Stone as Avila Grayson

Guy Spaull as Bill Grantz

Melba Rae as Helen

Synopsis:

This series presents one-act plays, both adaptations of Broadway plays and

original dramas and comedies, starring theatre and movie personalities

supported by Broadway actors and actresses. This program presents the

story of the mysterious death of a famous movie actor on a transcontinental

airplane flight. Each of his traveling companions, including Avila Grayson, his

estranged wife, Joe Golden, his public relations man, Bill Grantz, his writer, and

Jerome Lawson, a has-been actor and gambler, have a motive for killing him.

Golden takes charge of questioning all the suspects while they are still aboard the

plane. Just as the plane is landing, the killer is revealed to be Helen, the stewardess,

who holds a longstanding grudge against the star. [RF]

2.18 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE CHIRP OF THE CRICKET

16-Jan-1950

starring

Mercedes McCambridge

Noel Leslie

Dennis Harrison

2.19 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE FINAL BELL

23-Jan-1950

starring

Harry Bellaver

Canada Lee

2.20 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION

30-Jan-1950

starring

Frank Albertson

Faye Emerson

2.21 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: OROPALO

13-Feb-1950

starring

Victor Jory

Clarence Derwent

2.22 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE HOOSIER SCHOOL-MASTER

13-Feb-1950

starring

Forrest Tucker

Wesley Addy

2.23 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: ONCE TO EVERY BOY

20-Feb-1950

starring

Peggy Ann Garner

Carmen Mathews

Howard Smith

2.24 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THREE SMART GIRLS

27-Feb-1950

starring

Patricia Crowley

Charles Winninger

Isobel Elsom

Sally Moffet

2.25 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: QUEEN OF SPADES

06-Mar-1950

starring

Basil Rathbone

Margaret Whycherly

2.26 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE MAN WHO ORDERED APPLE PIE

13-Mar-1950

starring

Guy Kibbee

2.27 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE WALKING STICK

20-Mar-1950

starring

Rex Harrison

Elizabeth Patterson

Dennis King

Una O'Connor

Eileen Peel

2.28 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE GREAT EMPTINESS

27-Mar-1950

starring

Dick Foran

Peggy Badley

2.29 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE VOICE IN THE NIGHT

03-Apr-1950

starring

Dort Clark

Arlene Whelan

Don Hanmer

2.30 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: ONCE A GENTLEMAN

10-Apr-1950

starring

Milton Frome

Victor Varconi

2.31 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE BONE FOR THE SHADOW

17-Apr-1950

starring

Flora Campbell

John Loder

Roberta Jonay

2.32 [--]Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE CALIFORNIAN'S TALE

24-Apr-1950

starring

Dean Harens

E.G. Marshall

Edgar Stehli

Daniel Reed

2.33 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: INTRODUCTION

01-May-1950

starring

Frances Reid

Philip Bourneuf

William Prince

Ben Lackland

2.34 [--]Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: WELCOME JEREMIAH

08-May-1950

starring

Mercer McLeod

John McQuade

2.35 [--]Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE SUN

15-May-1950

starring

Torin Thatcher

Cara Williams

2.36 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

22-May-1950

starring

Dora Clement

Francis Compton

Mary Wickes

2.37 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: LETTER TO EDITH

29-May-1950

starring

Nelson Olmsted

2.38 [--]  Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE BRAVE MAN WITH A CORD

05-Jun-1950

starring

John Newland

William Post Jr.

2.39 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE WAY I FEEL

12-Jun-1950

starring

Biff McGuire

Edith King

2.40 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE FISHERMAN

19-Jun-1950

starring

Betty Caulfield

Dort Clark

Daniel Reed

2.41 [--] Chevrolet Tele-Theatre: THE VERANDA

26-Jun-1950

starring

Hiram Sherman

Nydia Westman
 

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