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Episode Guide

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TV Guide

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DUPONT SHOW OF THE WEEK

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Various Production Companies

for

NBC (Sundays 10:00-11:00 pm EST)

US dramatic/musical/documentary anthology series

1961-64 71? episodes x 60 min

(17Sep61-30Aug64)

Premise:

This anthology series presents a panorama of programs, such as musical

variety, dramatic shows, documentaries, and special projects.

########## DuPont Show Of The Week ###########

############## season 1 1961-62 ############## ##############################################

NBC Sundays 10:00 pm Eastern (hour long)

Ep 1.01 DuPont Show Of The Week:  LAUGHTER U.S.A.

17Sep1961 NBC Sun

written by Richard Hanser & Rod Reed

directed by Donald B. Hyatt

musical score composed by Robert Russell Bennett

produced by Don Hyatt

Host/Narrator: George Burns.

Opening quote by George Burns:

"Why, they even say that old Ben Franklin wasn't allowed to write

the Declaration of Independence for fear he'd put a joke in it."

Performers: Phil Silvers, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Eddie Cantor,

Burns and Allen, Ben Turpin, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin,

Keystone Kops, Rudy Vallee, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Laurel and Hardy,

W.C. Fields, Marx Brothers, Jack Paar.

*

Acts and Performances:

Stuck Hands ........... Phil Silvers

Vaudeville Teams ........ Harrigan and Hart, Gallagher and Shean,

Weber and Fields, Clark and McCullough

Berlin Monologue ................ Bob Hope

"Curse of An Aching Heart" ................ Eddie Cantor

"Lost Chord" .............. Jimmy Durante

"Steamboat Willie" Scene ................ Buster Keaton

Backyard Circus ............... Burns and Allen

Asparagus ............. Ben Turpin

Charlie Chaplin ............. Tramp

Keystone Kops ........... Chase (TV guide spelling of Cops)

Home Town ............... Fred Allen

Upper Berth ............. Laurel and Hardy

Golf ................ W.C. Fields

Hotel Clerk ................. Groucho Marx

Palladium Story .............. Jack Benny

Synopsis:

Main stops on this historical tour: tall stories and Davy Crockett; the

satire that created Uncle Sam; rural comedy and the "Toby" tent

shows; cartoons of Lincoln; wartime humor from the Civil War to World

War II; vaudeville; silent films; radio comedians; and the new comics

such as Shelley Berman and Jonathan Winters.

Summary:

This program presents a look at American humor, from slapstick to

satire, from Ben Franklin to Jack Benny and what makes people laugh.

It features scenes from movie comedies and television programs,

performances by famous comedians, and sketches with George Burns. [RF]

Ep 1.02 DuPont Show Of The Week:  HAPPY WITH THE BLUES

24Sep1961 NBC Sun

written by George Foster

directed by Bill Colleran

Narrator Bing Crosby

Performers:

Harold Arlen, Peggy Lee, Vic Damone, Joanie Sommers, La Vern Baker,

Paul Weston & Orchestra.

*

Highlights

"Any Place I Hang My Hat" ............... Arlen, Strauss

"Get Happy" ............ Chorus

"Come Rain or Come Shine" ............. Peggy Lee

"Paper Moon" ........... Joanie Sommers

"Got the World On A String" ........... Peggy Lee

"Black Magic" .......... Vic Damone

"Got A Right to Sing the Blues" ........... La Vern Baker

"Two Ladies" ............ Peggy Lee

"House of Flowers", "Jamaica" .......... Dancers

"One For My Baby" ............ Vic Damone

"Down With Love" ............. Joanie Sommers

"Ill Wind", "Stormy Weather" ............ La Vern Baker

"Man That Got Away" ............ Peggy Lee

"Blues in the Night" ............ Dancers, Chorus

"Happy With the Blues", "Happiness Is Just a Thing Called Joe",

"Accentuate the Positive", "Over the Rainbow" ................ All

"Little Drops of Rain" ................ Harold Arlen

"Hooray For Love", "Hit the Road" ............ All

Summary:

"Who is Harold Arlen?" That's what the cab driver (Robert Strauss) who

drives Arlen to the studio wants to know.

In this tribute to Harold Arlen, singers perform many of his popular

tunes. Arlen appears in a brief introductory segment. In the second .

half of the show, Bing Crosby recounts highlights of Arlen's career.

At the end, Arlen plays and sings some of his music. [RF]

Ep 1.03 DuPont Show Of The Week:  HEMINGWAY

01Oct1961 NBC Sun

written by Julian Claman

directed by Julian Claman

Voice: Andrew Duggan as Ernest Hemingway

This episode presents an exploration of the life of Ernest Hemingway

from his boyhood, through his years as a journalist and novelist,

until his death. Major literary and artistic personalities of the

20th century are seen. Footage documents the turbulent times in

which he lived and took active part including World Wars I and II

and the Spanish Civil War. [RF]

Ep 1.04 DuPont Show Of The Week:  USO -- WHEREVER THEY GO!

08Oct1961 NBC Sun

written by George Foster

Performers: Dick Powell, Jack Benny, Marilyn Monroe

Debbie Reynolds, Lena Horne

Summary:

In 1942 the late Al Jolson led the first USO unit overseas to entertain the troops.

Films of that trip and many others that followed are highlights of this hour-long tribute

and a number of USO headliners are on hand to talk about their experiences.

*

Dick Powell comments on films taken aboard the carrier Intrepid, where the audience

 is listening to a crooner named Dick Powell. Marilyn Monroe narrates clips of her

tour of Korea, Jack Benny remarks on his rendition of "Love in Bloom", Merle Oberon,

Debbie Reynolds, Danny Thomas, Joe E. Brown and Danny Kaye talk about trips

during World War II and the Korean War. Frances Langford recalls her stint with the

Bob Hope troupe, Bob himself is on hand to view himself in such activities as a duet

with Bing Crosby of "Mairzy Doats" and Steve Lawrence and Edyie Gorme recollect

their recent journey to Berlin and discuss the shows and services of the USO Today.
*
Also seen on this filmed memoir,
Gary Cooper, Frank Sinatra, Phil Silvers, Dinah Shore, Edward G. Robinson,

Leo Durocher, Martha Raye, Ray Bolger, Kay Kyser, James Cagney, Mickey Rooney,

Jane Russell and Marlene Dietrich singing at a night club in liberated Paris.
*
Former Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower appear briefly

to applaud the patriotic spirit of show people.
*
This episode presents a tribute to the USO on its 20th anniversary

and to those of the entertainment world who have given their time

and performed for the American armed forces at bases at home and

abroad, in peace and war. [RF]

Ep 1.05 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE BALLET OF THE PAPER BULLETS

15Oct1961 NBC Sun

written by Henry Misrock

directed by Lela Swift

starring

Frank Lovejoy ........... Major Gesner

Cesar Romero .......... Lukas

Jerry Lester ............ Janusz

Russell Collins ........... Viertal

Enzo Stuarti .............. Girard

Summary:

This episode presents an historically authentic drama of secret

intelligence in Nazi Germany during World War II. The story is about

a Nazi plot to win the war by flooding the free world with counterfeit

English and American money. Major Ludwig Gesner conceives the idea

and gains the approval of Hitler and Himmler. He selects seven

prisoners of war to carry out his plan. They are promised their

freedom once they have finished, but they think they will be killed

so they delay the project as long as they can. By the time they have

finally prepared the counterfeit money, the Americans have liberated

their camp. [RF]

Ep 1.06 DuPont Show Of The Week:  MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG

22Oct1961 NBC Sun

written by Philip Reisman Jr.

directed by Robert C. Bendick

produced by Bob Bendick
music by Robert Russell Bennett

narrator: Groucho Marx.

Summary:

This episode presents a documentary combining sociology with humor,

telling the story and history of the automobile. The program depicts

America's love affair with the car. It traces the development of

the automobile from its pioneer days through the era of the

"tin Lizzie" to 1961's traffic and shows how the car has affected

the social life, customs, entertainment, and daily labors of the

country. Archival footage is included  [RF]

Synopsis:
The automobile - once described as a noisy, smoky, stink-wagon and its struggle

for respectability is the subject of this hour long taped and filmed show.
Groucho Marx, one of the few men who can talk with his tongue in his cheek and

a cigar in his mouth, is the on- and off-screen narrator for this view of Americans

getting off their high horses and into critterless carriages.
How the automobile was opposed by everyone from farmers ("the sight of one is enough

to dry up a whole dairy herd"), to moralists and social reformers, its acceptance after

Henry Ford suited the Nation's driving needs to a T, and its subsequent cultural and moral

impact are some of the highlights.
Seen in a nostalgic chase sequence, with a score by Skitch Henderson, are such

freewheelers as the Keystone Kops, Will Rogers and Ben Turpin. [RF]

Ep 1.07 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE ZIEGFELD TOUCH 

29Oct1961 NBC

written by William Nichols

directed by James Elson

host Joan Crawford

starring

Barbara Cook

Jack Irwin

Marilyn Lovell

Danny Meehan

Summary:

His touch transformed the American girl, displaying her in extravagant, exotic surroundings.

The girls and comics of his Follies delighted the pleasure-seeking public of the boom

years following World War I. Present day performers taking part in this on-hour

tribute to impresario Florenz Ziegfeld include, Barbara Cook, Marilynn Lovell, Danny

Meehan and Jack Irwin and dancer Jayne Turner. There are film clips of performances

by such Follies stars as Marilyn Miller, Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers and W.C. Fields.
Synopsis:

This episode is a musical variety show telling the story of

Florenz Ziegfeld and his Ziegfeld Follies and includes portrayals

of some of the famous stars of that show, such as Anna Held,

Mademoiselle Dazie and her Salome Dancers, Nora Bayes, and the

Dolly Sisters. Joan Crawford hosts the show and the performers

recreate scenes and numbers from the Ziegfeld Follies. There are

film clips of Follies performers, such as Dolores, Paulette Goddard,

Justine Johnson, Marion Davies, and Billie Dove.  [RF]

*

Highlights
"Rio Rita" medley ...Lowell, Irwin, Meehan and Cook
"Play With Me", "Look For the Silver Lining"...Cook
"Salome Dance" ...Turner
"Bumble Bee"...Cook, Meehan
"Hello, Frisco"...Irwin
"On the Beach at Honolulu", "Makin' Whoopee"...Meehan
"Make Believe"...Cook, Irwin
"Bill"...Lovell
"Pretty Girl", "Mandy"...All

Ep 1.08 DuPont Show Of The Week:  AMERICA'S MUSIC OF THE THIRTIES

05Nov1961 NBC

written by William Nichols

directed by Bill Colleran

Performers:

Count Basie, John Bubbles, Blossom Dearie, Bill Hayes, Dorothy Loudon.

Synopsis:

This episode presents a documentary exploring the golden age of

popular music. The program recreates some of the hit musical numbers

of the the thirties and includes original recordings and archival

footage. The program explores Broadway musicals, the growth of the

radio audience, the advent of the film musical, the jukebox craze,

and the coming of swing and the big bands and includes the songs of

Gershwin, Berlin, Kern, Porter, Arlen, Ellington, Schwartz, Rodgers,

and others. [RF]

Ep 1.09 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF TOYS

12Nov1961 NBC

written by George Foster

directed by Richard Barstow

Hosts: Harpo Marx and Carol Burnett.

Performers:

Carol Burnett, Edie Adams, Merv Griffin, Paterson, New Jersey East

Side High School Band.

Appearing:

Rube Goldberg, Milton Berle, Eva Gabor, Elsa Maxwell, Audrey Meadows.

Synopsis:

In this episode, Harpo Marx acts as silent guide and Carol Burnett

acts as narrator through toyland. There are also performances.

Rube Goldberg interviews several children about scientific toys.

Musical highlights include, "Autumn Leaves," by Harpo Marx. [RF]

Ep 1.10 DuPont Show Of The Week:  FRED WARING AND THE PENNSYLVANIANS - THE UNFORGETTABLES

19Nov1961 NBC

written by George Foster

directed by Clark Jones

Performers: Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians

Synopsis:

This episode presents a special Christmas program of all-time

favorites from the repertoire of Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians.

In Christmas settings, Waring and his 53-member glee club,

orchestra, choir, vocal groups, and soloists perform unforgettable

songs, including America the beautiful, Stars and stripes forever

and Heritage and concluding with 'Twas the night before Christmas,

Silent night and Battle hymn. [RF]

Ep 1.11 DuPont Show Of The Week:  AMERICA'S MUSIC CHICAGO AND ALL THAT JAZZ

26Nov1961 NBC

director, James Elson

producer and writer, William Nichols

hosted by Garry Moore

Performers:

Red Allen, Louis Armstrong, Buster Bailey, Mae Barnes, Eddie Condon,

Bud Freeman, Johnny Guarnieri, Bob Haggart, Gene Krupa,

Meade Lux Lewis, Jack Teagarden.

Synopsis:

* Chicago and All That Jazz.VJC-2002. This is a tape of the Dupont

Show of the Week telecast on NBC on November 26, 1961, with Garry

Moore as the host. The show consists of several segments that feature

several artists such as Eddie Condon, Bud Freeman, Pee Wee Russell

and Jimmy McPartland who were from Chicago and/or contributed to the

Chicago style of jazz. Bill Challis acted as consultant and wrote

several of the orchestral arrangements. There are two magnificent

tributes, one to Bix and one to Louis Armstrong. The Bix tribute has

two parts. In one, the soundtrack plays Frankie Trumbauer's seminal

1927 recording of Singin' the Blues while silent footage of Bix and

several of Jean Goldkette's sideman is seen on video.

*

The second part has Johny Guarneri playing In a Mist.

The Louis tribute also consists of two parts. In the first, we hear

Louis' 1927 landmark recording of West End Blues while still

photographs and film footage are displayed on the screen.

The second consists of a film of Louis Armstrong and his orchestra

playing Dippermouth Blues. The people responsible for making the

choices of what to include in the show were quite insightful.

Undoubtedly, the two most important jazz recordings of all times are

Singin' the Blues and West End Blues. The contrast between Bix's

lyrical solo in Singin' the Blues and Louis' virtuoso solo in West

End Blues is worthy of notice. [RF]

Ep 1.12 DuPont Show Of The Week:  TRICK OR TREASON

17Dec1961 NBC

written by Leon Tokatyan

directed by Leonard Horn

starring

Martin Gabel ......... DiLuca

Monique van Vooren ............ Krys

Tom Hellmore ............. Osborne

Russell Collins ........... Struycken

Randy Kraft ............. Carlin

Synopsis:

This episode presents a drama of espionage during World War II.

To catch a Dutch spy and mislead the Nazis, an operation for an

invasion through Holland is fed to the Germans to throw them off

from the actual invasion on the Normandy coast. DiLuca, an American

OSS captain, falls in love with Krys, the Dutch spy. Her perfidy

almost costs him his life when he learns she is a spy and tries to

stop her from revealing what he thinks is true information to the

Nazis. He does not succeed and the erroneous invasion plans confuse

and divert the Nazis. [RF]

Ep 1.13 DuPont Show Of The Week:  HOLLYWOOD - MY HOME TOWN

07Jan1962 NBC

written by Royal Foster

directed by William Martin

narrated by Ken Murray

footage of Tom Mix, Will Rogers, John Barrymore,

Jean Harlow, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford

Synopsis:

This episode consists of the home movies taken by Ken Murray,

entertainer and amateur cameraman, of Hollywood celebrities from

1927 to the present. Approximately 75 of Hollywood's top stars

are seen. The show is divided loosely into five parts:

Hollywood in the 20's; Hollywood revisited; Playtime in Hollywood;

Hollywood goes to war; and Hollywood today. [RF]

Ep 1.14 DuPont Show Of The Week:  CIRCUS

21Jan1962 NBC

written by Richard Hanser & Bill Ballantine

directed by Donald B. Hyatt

Narrator: Emmett Kelly.

Performers: The Great Wallendas, La Norma.

Synopsis:

This episode explores the appeal of the circus and traces its

history from the Roman Circus Maximus through P.T. Barnum to today.

There is archival footage of famous circus performers, such as

Bird Millman and Alfredo Codona, and circus parades.Circus acts

are seen performing. Setting and taking down the circus tents are

shown as well as the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus and the

Florida State University training center. [RF]

Ep 1.15 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE FORGERY

04Feb1962 NBC

written by Gordon Russell

directed by Jack Smight

starring

Arthur Kennedy as Hans Maasdijk

Robert Burr as Police Commissioner Stryker

Thayer David as Gerald Wolters

John Abbott as Vanderkamp

Gaby Rodgers as Marie Maasdijk

Synopsis:

This episode presents a dramatization of the trial of the Dutch

painter and forger Hans Van Moegeren, who confessed to forging

a dozen paintings of Jan Vermeer, one of which he sold to Field

Marshall Hermann Goering. After the war, he confessed to the

forgeries to establish his innocence of collaboration charges.

Convicted in 1947, he died in jail but he delighted the Dutch by

fooling the art experts. [RF]

Ep 1.16 DuPont Show Of The Week:  POLICE EMERGENCY

18Feb1962 NBC

written by Julian Claman

directed by Julian Claman

narrator Walter Matthau

Synopsis:

This episode presents a documentary that follows two emergency

patrol car officers, Walter Chadwick and Eugene Corcoran, from

the 14th Precinct in New York City as they answer calls throughout

lower Manhattan. Incidents that occur include a race to assist a

heart attack victim; a steam leak with 60 people trapped behind a

wall of steam; an armed robbery of a Western Union office; and a

body floating in the East River being retrieved. Also included

are conversations between the two officers as they travel around

the city. Their backgrounds, interests and families are discussed. [RF]

Ep 1.17 DuPont Show Of The Week:  AMERICA'S MUSIC REGARDS TO GEORGE M. COHAN

04Mar1962 NBC

written by William Nichols

directed by James Elson

starring

Peter Lind Hayes

Dorothy Loudon

Danny Meehan

Paula Hayden

Lester James

Synopsis:

This episode presents the story of George M. Cohan. The program

includes performances of songs by Cohan and scenes from the film

Yankee Doodle Dandy, starring Jimmy Cagney as Cohan. [RF]

Ep 1.18 DuPont Show Of The Week:  COPS AND ROBBERS

18Mar1962 NBC

written Philip Reisman Jr

directed by Donald B. Hyatt

Narrator: Edward G. Robinson

Synopsis:

This episode presents a documentary about crime in America from

pre-Revolutionary days to the present. The program shows a typical

city police headquarters, squad cars, officers on the beat, crime

lab, as well as how the state and federal governments use mobile

forces and long-range strategy in detecting crime. Rare photos of

American criminals, such as John Billington, who was the first

felon in America and was hanged for murder, are shown. Archival

news footage show crime figures such as Al Capone and John Dillinger. [RF]

Ep 1.19 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE BEAUTY OF A WOMAN

01Apr1962 NBC

written by Ernest Pendrell

directed by Lynwood King

narrated by Cyril Ritchard

appearing

Richard Brooks, Anita Colby, Ruby Dee, Jimmy Durante, Zsa Zsa Gabor,

Hermoine Gingold, Lillian Gish, Philippe Halsman, Edith Head,

Alexander King, Vincente Minnelli, Katherine Anne Porter,

and Cyril Ritchard

Synopsis:

A discussion on what makes a woman beautiful. Pictures various women

from the early days of history to the movie stars of the twentieth

century and points out why they have been considered beautiful:

examines the use of makeup for creating beauty. [RF]

Ep 1.20 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE ACTION OF NEW ORLEANS

15Apr1962 NBC

written by Franklyn MacGregor

directed by Jack Smight

starring

Robert Cummings ....... Alabama

Audrey Meadows ....... Constance

Frank McHugh ....... The Hub Tub Kid

Howard St. John ....... Crazy Horse Kid

William Hickey ....... the Clerk

Synopsis:

This episode presents the story of Alabama, a con man who romances

rich widows and leaves them once he has obtained their money.

In New Orleans, he meets an attractive widow, Constance, who is

selling her business. She is aware of his motive but, finding him

attractive, she gives him the money. He "loses" the money in

investments and pockets the money. She informs the police but she

will not press charges if he will marry her. If he does not like

being married to her after two years, he will be free to leave.

Alabama and Constance have been recalling these events after fifteen

happy years of marriage. [RF]

Ep 1.21 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE WORLD'S GREATEST ROBBERY (Part 1)

29Apr1962 NBC

written by Loring Mandel

directed by Franklin Schaffner

starring

Milton Selzer ....... Billy Noonan

Paul Mazursky ....... Lou Pugliese

Paul Lambert ....... James Cavanaugh

Gerald Price ....... Eugene "Gino" Carbonne

William Phipps ....... William "Whitey" Johnson

Ep 1.22 DuPont Show Of The Week: THE WORLD'S GREATEST ROBBERY (Part 2)

06May1962 NBC

written by Loring Mandel

directed by Franklin Schaffner

starring

Milton Selzer ....... Billy Noonan

Paul Mazursky ....... Lou Pugliese

Paul Lambert ....... James Cavanaugh

Gerald Price ...... Eugene "Gino" Carbonne

William Phipps ...... William "Whitey" Johnson

This episode presents a docudrama based on the armed robbery of the Brink's

Company in Boston on Jan. 17, 1950. This was the largest cash robbery in history,

totaling $2,775,395. This program recounts the aftermath of the robbery. Although the

seven robbers had taken a pledge to kill any member who broke the rules of secrecy,

the brutality, antagonisms and betrayal within the group turned one of its number to the law.

The greatest police search for a criminal did not catch the robbers until 1956 and only $60,000

was recovered. Doonan was cheated out of his share and he revealed everything to the FBI. [RF]

Ep 1.23 DuPont Show Of The Week:  AMERICA'S MUSIC FADS AND FOIBLES

13May1962 NBC

written by William Nichols

directed by Bill Colleran

starring

Eileen Rodgers

Art Carney

Alice Ghostley

James Hurst

John Smolko

Barbara Cook

Synopsis:

This episode presents a musical show exploring a century of fads

and foibles including dance crazes, musical vogues, sports, fashion,

and automobiles in America. Musical selections, commentary,

archival footage, and still photos in action help portray the theme. [RF]

Ep 1.24 DuPont Show Of The Week:  A SOUND OF HUNTING

20May1962 NBC

written by Harry Brown

directed by Seymour M. Robbie

starring

Peter Falk ....... Collucci

Sal Mineo ....... Coke

Robert Lansing ....... Sgt. Mooney

Michael Tolan ....... Carter

Gene Wilder ....... Muller

Synopsis:

This episode presents a World War II drama set in 1944 in Monte Cassino, Italy.

A rifle squad of eight GI's pinned down by German gunfire are ordered to withdraw from

the frontline position they hold by nightfall. One of them, Small, is trapped and must wait

until nightfall to join the unit or get the help of his buddies to get out safely before then.

Eventually, the embittered combat soldier, Collucci, disobeys orders and sets out to get

Small. On the way, he wipes out the enemy machine gun unit. When Collucci finds Small,

he is already dead. [RF]

Ep 1.25 DuPont Show Of The Week:  HURRICANE

27May1962 NBC

directed by Al Wasserman

Narrator, Dane Clark

Synopsis:

This episode presents a documentary which analyzes Hurricane Carla,

which struck the Gulf Coast of Texas in the early fall of 1961.

The program traces the earliest beginnings of the storm and tracks

it until it builds its full fury and hits Galveston Sept. 10-11, 1961.

The show focuses on Galveston, which sustained the heaviest damage.

Preparations before the arrival of the hurricane and the devastation

afterwards are shown. Repairs and rebuilding are undertaken and normal

activities resume. [RF]

Ep 1.26 DuPont Show Of The Week:  D-DAY

03Jun1962 NBC

written by Malvin Wald

directed by Mel Stuart

Narrated by Richard Basehart

appearing

Generels Dwight D. Eisenhower

Bernard Montgomery

Charles de Gaulle and Omar Bradley

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Prime Minster Winston Churchill

Synopsis:

This episode presents a documentary that provides an hour-by-hour

account of the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944, recalling

the first 24 hours of the beachhead and the harrowing weeks preceding

the largest military landing in history. The program includes footage

of D-Day not previously seen in the U.S., such as captured German

film and reels of the French underground waging guerrilla warfare. [RF]

Ep 1.27 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE MOVIE STAR

10Jun1962 NBC

written by Robert Crean

directed by Jack Smight

starring

Dane Clark ....... Jerry Ross

Norma Crane ...... Anne Allen

Harry Townes ...... Mr. Allen

Nancy Marchand ...... Edna Rawley

Kathleen Widdoes ...... Kathy Allen

Synopsis:

This episode presents a drama of the hysteria that arises when an

international movie idol dies at the peak of his career. Billy Allen

is brought to his small Midwestern hometown of Charity for a hero's

burial. When a Hollywood columnist suggests a memorial fund to his

memory, the bitter truth about Billy is divulged. Through the eyes

of his widow, his business manager and his brother's widow, a less

than glamorous and heroic image of Billy takes form. Billy's widowed

sister-in-law proclaims to the mourners that he was the father of

her son. Billy's widow asks the mourners to remember him as a fine

actor and to allow his family to mourn him alone. [RF]

Ep 1.28 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE RICHEST MAN IN BOGOTA

17Jun1962 NBC

written by Frank Gabrielson

directed by Ralph Nelson

starring

Lee Marvin ...... Juan de Nuñez

Miriam Colon ...... Marina

Richard Eastman ...... Great Elder

Eugene Iglesias ...... Pedro

E.J. Andre ...... Father José

Synopsis:

This episode presents the science fiction story of Juan de Nuñez,

who is searching for precious minerals in the mountains near his

home of Bogotá, Colombia. After an avalanche, he awakes in a hidden

valley inhabited by eyeless people. They speak his language but do

not understand words such as eyes and see. One of the eyeless people,

Marina, pities him and tries to protect him from the others, who are

revolted by his eyes and think he is evil. He tries to escape the

valley, but the Great Elder rules his eyes must be destroyed so he

will not leave their paradise. With Marina's help, Nu~ez escape and

learns the meaning of the valley and its inhabitants. [RF]

Ep 1.29 DuPont Show Of The Week:  SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE

24Jun1962 NBC

written by George M. Cohan

directed by Paul Almond

starring

Fred Gwynne ....... Magee

Joe E. Ross ....... Chief Kennedy

Pat Stanley ....... Mary

Jayne Meadows ....... Myra

Howard St. John ....... the Mayor

Synopsis:

This episode presents the story of William Hallowell Magee, a TV

writer, makes a $5,000 bet with a friend, the owner of the deserted

Baldpate Inn in New England, that he can write a TV mystery in 24

hours. Magee arrives at the inn in the dead of winter with, supposedly,

the only key. However, mysterious intruders, each with their own key,

disturb his concentration. He discovers that there are six other people

with keys. There is the theft of $200,000 left in the safe and one of

the intruders, Myra, is killed. The whole situation turns out to be

a hoax. [RF]

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NBC Sundays 10:00 pm Eastern

(hour long)

p 2.01 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE OUTPOST

16Sep1962 NBC

written by Roger O. Hirson

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Neville Brand ....... Sergeant

Richard Conte ....... Captain

Keir Dullea ....... Lieutenant

Claude Rains ....... Colonel

Everett Sloane ....... Private

Synopsis:

This episode presents an allegorical drama without a specific time

or location. There is a military outpost in a desert wilderness near

a hypothetical enemy. A young lieutenant arrives and is shocked to

find only four other soldiers, each with a stain against their

military record. When he reports enemy troop movements, the others

accuse him of having hallucinations. The action builds to a surprise

ending and because the exact significance of the story is unclear,

viewers are can draw their own conclusions. [RF]

Ep 2.02 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE INTERROGATOR

23Sep1962 NBC

written by Don M. Mankiewicz

directed by Jack Smight

starring

John Mills ...... Inspector Fallon

Ina Balin ...... Drusilla

Robert Loggia ...... Kiki

Murray Matheson ...... Commissioner Thompson

Synopsis:

This episode presents a drama about Cyprus in 1957 during the

height of the three-sided conflict between British colonial rule

and Greek and Turkish terrorists. Inspector Fallon, a British

police superintendent, brings in a Cypriot prisoner, Christos,

one of a gang who blew up a power plant. In order to climb a hill,

Fallon releases Christos, who knocks him out and escapes. When

Fallon returns, he is accused of murdering Christos. Commissioner

Thompson thinks Fallon has comprised himself and orders a replacement.

A band of terrorists, including Kiki and Drusilla, is interrogated

by Fallon, who uses fierce measures to break down the prisoners.

They confess to blowing up the plant. Fallon is freed from the

accusation but realizes he has used brutality in the process. [RF]

Ep 2.03 DuPont Show Of The Week:  FIRE RESCUE

30Sep1962 NBC Sun (rebroadcast 21Jul63)

written by Jack Fuller

directed by Fred Freed

narrator Walter Matthau

Synopsis 1:

This episode presents a documentary about the Rescue Company One

of the New York Fire Dept., a small corps of firefighters whose

training and skills have equipped them for the most challenging

assignments. The program follows the firefighters as they answer

calls to multiple alarm fires, resuscitation calls and other

emergencies day and night. Incidents include the death of

firefighter John Farragher in a fire in the city's Hell's Hundred

Acres section and a nine-alarm fire in a clothing store in Queens.

The show focuses on Lt. William McMahon as he leads his men. There

are scenes at the company's quarters on West 43rd St. [RF]

Synopsis 2:
For three months, cameras recorded New York City's Fire Rescue Company One in

action and at the firehouse. There was a nine-alarmer in Queens; a fire in a Manhattan

novelty store; a tough mopping up job in a fire-gutted building; the rescue of an 80 year-old

woman trapped during a blaze; first aid to a girl who collapsed on the street; the rescue

of other firemen overcome by smoke in a burning tenement; and a tragic loft fire in which

one man in the squad lost his life. Off-camera narrator: Walter Matthau. [RF]

Ep 2.04 DuPont Show Of The Week:  BIG DEAL IN LAREDO

07Oct1962 NBC Sun

written by Sidney Carroll

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Teresa Wright ...... Mary
Walter Matthau ...... Meredith
John McGiver ...... C.P. Ballinger
Zachary Scott ...... Habershaw
Roland Winters ...... Drummond
John Megna ...... Jackie
William Hansen ...... Dr. Scully
Arthur Hughes ...... Buford
James Kenny ...... Sam
Dana Elcar ...... Wilcox
Allen Collins
Keith Carsey

Synopsis 1:
A Western about a game of poker among four millionaires in Laredo. Meredith,

traveling with his wife Mary and son Jackie, watches the game and as a compulsive gambler

has to join in. He is dealt the best five-card hand but dies of a heart attack. Mary takes over

and secures a loan from the bank using the hand as collateral. She wins the huge pot. In fact,

 they have pulled off a con that cannot be repeated. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
At the Palomar Hotel in Laredo, the biggest durn poker game in the history of Texas is underway.

Four cattle barons are battling for blood in the back room, when the game is interrupted by

a dirt farmer named Meredith, who asks permission to kibitz. Meredith, a compulsive gambler,

finally breaks down, joins the game - and bets his entire life savings. [RF]
Note: This was made into the feature film "A Big Hand for the Little Lady".

Ep 2.05 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE BETRAYAL

21Oct1962 NBC

written by Ernest Pendrell

directed by Jack Smight

starring

Franchot Tone ...... the Inspector

Maureen Stapleton ...... Prof. Gretchen Anna Thaelman

Margaret O'Brien ...... Elsa Thaelman

Burt Brinckerhoff ...... Carl Richter

John Alderman ...... Richard Thaelman

Synopsis:

This episode presents a drama about contemporary East Berlin.

A colonel of the East German People's Police is assassinated by Richard Thaelman,

a young underground hero, and son of Professor Gretchen Anna Thaelman,

a Nobel Prize winner. Richard flees to the apartment of Carl Richter, a non-political

student of the professor. Under threats from Richard, he helps to plan his escape

when he is taken into custody. When he tells the inspector about Richard,

he does not believe Carl. Richard is caught and the Inspector tells his mother

 that Carl turned him in. But Carl wins his  release and he insists they flee the country

and he pledges to carry on their work. [RF]

Ep 2.06 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE SHADOWED AFFAIR

04Nov1962 NBC

written by Michael Dyne

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. ...... Hans Harben

Greer Garson ...... Juliette Harben

Lois Nettleton ...... Jennifer Graham

Synopsis:

This episode presents a drama of a isolated Nobel Prize-winning

novelist, Hans Harben, his psychotic wife, Juliette, and a young

journalist, Jennifer Graham, who is assigned to interview him.

Jennifer idolizes Hans, but she observes the strange relationship

between Hans and Juliette, who takes charge of all of his affairs

with pathological determination. Jennifer cannot work under her

authoritative direction. She discovers she is in love with Hans

and he with her. They plan to go to Greece, but Juliette tells her

about the strange bond that links her to Hans and why she throws

Hans at young women. None of his books would have been finished

without these affairs. As Jennifer leaves, Hans and Juliette are

at work on his newest book, about their affair, entitled The shadowed

affair. [RF]

Ep 2.07 DuPont Show Of The Week:  EMERGENCY WARD

18Nov1962 NBC

written by Frank De Felitta

directed by Frank De Felitta

narrator Dana Andrews

Synopsis:

This episode presents a documentary about the experiences of a

young doctor confronted with a succession of crises in one of the

world's busiest hospitals, Bellevue Hospital in New York City.

The program shows the physicians, nurses, patients, and medical

students of Bellevue's emergency ward on a typical night.

Dr. Martin Mulder, a 26-year-old intern, works a routine of

36 hours on duty and 8 hours off. He works at his utmost capacity

on his cases, some of whom include a middle-aged man who dies

from a brain injury, a patient who rejects his advice of surgery

because it will leave him disabled, and a man with an acute heart

attack. [RF]

Ep 2.08 DuPont Show Of The Week:  MUTINY

02Dec1962 NBC

written by Jerome Ross

directed by Jack Smight

starring

Dana Andrews ...... Commander Jason Vanning

Robert Walker ...... Cadet Philip Cantrell

John Baragrey ...... the Judge Advocate

Staats Cotsworth ...... Commandant Matthew Wayde

Lonnie Chapman ...... Seaman Cromwell

Synopsis:

This episode presents a drama suggested by the only recorded

mutiny in U.S. naval history. In 1842, the U.S.S. Bowers returns

to the Brooklyn Navy Yard from a training cruise. One cadet,

17-year old Philip Cantrell, son of a leading senator, was killed

during the voyage and a Naval Court of Inquiry summons the ship's

captain, Commander Jason Vanning, to a hearing on charges of murder.

Cantrell always broke the rules and talked about seizing the vessel.

The crew informed the captain and he put Cantrell in irons.

Cantrell told him that he had always felt inferior to his father.

The crew became restless and Vanning prepared to hang Cantrell but

only if he did not confess. Cantrell tried to incite the crew and

then jumped overboard. Vanning is cleared. [RF]

Ep 2.09 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE ORDEAL OF DR. SHANNON

16Dec1962 NBC

written by Robert Stewart

directed by Joan Kemp-Welch

starring

Rod Taylor ...... Dr. Robert Shannon

Elizabeth MacLennan ...... Jean Law

Finlay Currie ...... Sir Wilfred Challis

Ronald Fraser ...... Dr. James Mathers

Moultrie Kelsall ...... Dr. Usher

Synopsis:

This episode presents a drama about Dr. Robert Shannon, a brilliant

American resident physician, who abandons a promising career and

resigns his hospital post to find the right vaccine against a

new and fatal influenza germ. He faces pressures from all sides,

from his friends, medical superiors and the woman he loves. [RF]

Ep 2.10 DuPont Show Of The Week:  WINDFALL

13Jan1963 NBC

written by Roger O. Hirson

directed by Franklin Schaffner

starring

Eddie Albert ...... Frank Foster

Glynis Johns ...... Emily Foster

Murray Hamilton ...... Bob Fay

Milton Selzer ...... Mr. Raymond

Rex Everhart ...... Charlie

Gene Wilder ...... 1st Reporter

Synopsis:

This episode presents the story of Emily and Frank Foster, who

find $92,000 in a sink which they bought in a junk shop. Although

he could use the money, he turns it over to the police. Some call

them fools and the IRS think they are holding out more money.

When they find more money, Frank wants to keep it because of the

suspicion and ridicule they have already received. Realizing that

they have caught the money bug, they burn the money. [RF]

Ep 2.11 DuPont Show Of The Week:  TWO FACES OF TREASON

10Feb1963 NBC

written by Philip Reisman Jr.

directed by Franklin Schaffner

starring

Lloyd Nolan ....... James Feveral

Larry Blyden ....... William Yarrow

James Daly ....... Albert

Martha Scott ....... Helen Adams

James Patterson ....... Bob Crane

Valora Noland ....... Maddie

Frank Campanella ....... Sergeant

Synopsis 1:

A communist spy dies in an accident, but the government does not

release this information. The army comes up with Corporal William

Yarrow to take his place. He reports to a counter-intelligence unit

under James Feveral. He learns everything about the dead spy. He

meets two communist agents, Albert and Helen Adams. Albert reveals

that there is a leak. Yarrow implicates Adams, whom Albert kills.

He tells Yarrow to go fishing. When Yarrow tells Feveral about his

concerns about the death of Adams and he responds glibly, he punches

him and goes fishing. [RF]

Synopsis 2:

Though Cpl. William Yarrow is a good soldier, he is not exactly the ambitious type.

 When he requests reassignment, he expects to get the sort of job that demands his

usual marginal output of energy. But Uncle Sam wants him for something much more

demanding. Yarrow is ordered to report to a civilian named James Feverel, whose

business is counterespionage. Feverel wants the corporal to play a very dangerous game

of impersonation. He is to assume the identity of a Communist agent who has just died -

an agent who bore a striking resemblance to him. If the ruse succeeds, Yarrow's country will

benefit. If he fails, he could pay with his life. [RF]

Ep 2.12 DuPont Show Of The Week:  COMEDIAN BACKSTAGE

10Mar1963 NBC

written by Fred Freed

directed by Fred Freed

narrator Frank McGee

starring

Shelly Berman

Marty Klein

Jim Davis

Harry Bell

Synopsis:

This episode presents a behind-the-scenes and candid study of comic

Shelley Berman. The program examines the tensions and demands that

a performer lives with in the serious business of making people

laugh. The show covers a 36-hour period in Berman's life, centering

on his performance at a Hollywood, Florida hotel. [RF]

Ep 2.13 DuPont Show Of The Week:  DIAMOND FEVER

24Mar1963 NBC

written by Jerome Ross

directed by Gerald Freedman

starring

Peter Lorre ....... Archie Lefferts

Theodore Bikel ....... Herbert Vanderling

Sidney Blackmer ....... Arthur Hartwick

Martin Brooks ....... Joe Vanderling

Katharine Sergava ....... Mrs. Vanderling

Synopsis:

This episode presents the drama of a financially pressed jeweller,

Arthur Hartwick, who concocts a scheme whereby he would be the

victim of the theft of his fabulous diamond. He needs Herbert

Vanderling, an embittered diamond cutter, to turn the stone into

an article of priceless beauty. His brother Joe plots to steal

the diamond. Herbert tells Hartwick, who has insured the diamond

for one million dollars. Archie Lefferts, a great jewel thief,

plans to steal the diamond. Vanderling successfully cuts the

diamond. After making a deal to kill the Vanderlings, Lefferts

scuffles with Hartwick and the police catch them both, having

been tipped off by Joe. [RF]

Ep 2.14 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE SHARK

07Apr1963 NBC

written by Larry Marcus

directed by Franklin Schaffner

starring

Anthony Franciosa ....... Fred Russo

Skip Homeier ....... Harry Graham

Diana Hyland ....... Ellen Graham

Fred Stuart ....... Leonard

Peg Murray ....... Emily Quale

Synopsis:

This episode presents a drama about Harry Graham, a prosperous

grocer, who owes his life to Fred Russo. Fred saved Harry from

a shark, losing his leg in the rescue. Fred visits the Graham

family and is treated like a guardian angel. However, Fred has

just killed a prostitute, Emily Quale. He feels compelled to tell

Harry but changes his mind just before passing out. When he

awakes he is not sure what he has told Harry. He needs to know

before he leaves and so takes a walk with Harry, who fearing

Fred calls for help. He and his wife Ellen acknowledge their

debt to Fred but feel they must inform the police. [RF]

Ep 2.15 DuPont Show Of The Week:  PRISONER AT LARGE

21Apr1963 NBC

written by William Jersey

directed by William Jersey

narrator Walter Matthau

Synopsis:

This episode presents a documentary about the personal relationship

between a parole officer and a paroled convict. Joseph McCormick

has worked most of his life in the Massachusetts Dept. of Corrections

as a prison social worker and parole officer. John Hackett

(this is not the person's real name) first got into trouble when

he was nine-years-old and was just paroled after serving seven

years for armed robbery. McCormick thinks he is an intelligent

and likeable person, for whom there seems hope of rehabilitation.

After nearly a year, Hackett commits another crime and is caught.

They meet with a sense of emotional crisis. [RF]

Ep 2.16 DuPont Show Of The Week:  SOMETHING TO HIDE

05May1963 NBC

written by Leslie Sands

directed by Lewis Freedman

starring

Henry Jones ....... Davies

Colleen Dewhurst ....... Karen Holt

Dirk Kooiman ....... Howard Holt

Hilda Brawner ....... Julie Grant

Mary Doyle ....... Stella

Synopsis:

This episode presents a murder mystery. Howard Holt, a second rate

author who is married to his wealthy publisher, Karen, is having

an affair with Julie Grant. Karen runs over Julie and Howard tells

her not to call the police because they will charge her with

manslaughter. Karen calls them anyway and D.A. Davies arrives to

question them. Karen listens in on a phone call to Howard from a

woman and becomes suspicious. Karen, who has a gun, pleads with

Howard to tell the truth to the police, but he demands that she

give him the money in the safe. They struggle and Howard is killed.

Then Julie arrives, confesses she murdered Howard and demands the

money. Davies arrests her. [RF]

Ep 2.17 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE

19May1963 NBC

written by Robert Thom

directed by Franklin Schaffner

starring

Tuesday Weld ....... Elsie Brinkmann

Alfred Drake ....... Louis Zakin

Michael Tolan ....... Welles Resnick

Sorrell Booke ....... Jake Resnick

Johnny Baymer ....... Mickey Mandell

Synopsis:

This episode presents a drama of eerie suspense based on the legend

of the dibbuk in which the spirit of a dead person possesses a

living body and acts through it. Elsie Brinkmann is an ingenue

discovered in Las Vegas by Mickey Mandell and signed by director

Louis Zakin and producer Jake Resnick to star in a film biography

of legendary movie goddess, Lylah Clare, who has been dead for

25 years. Despite a striking resemblance, Elsie has none of her

qualities. Lylah was unregenerate and perverse. As filming

progresses, Elsie begins to imagine that she is Lylah and becomes

an evil creature. Finally, Elsie is scheduled for the death scene,

in which the character falls down the stairs and is killed. As she

performs the scene, she in fact falls down and dies. [RF]

Ep 2.18 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE TRIUMPH OF GERALD Q. WERT

09Jun1963 NBC

written by Ernestine Barton

directed by Lewis Freedman

starring

Art Carney ....... Gerald Q. Wert

John Megna ....... Peter

David Opatoshu ....... General Crayton

Charles White ....... Mayor Harper

 Frank Christi ....... Officer Folson

Synopsis:

This episode presents a drama about the last comedian on earth,

Gerald Q. Wert. The totalitarian world-super-government deems

laughter to be a malignant infection of public morals and a

revolutionary activity. All comedians and laughmakers have been

executed or surrendered their art to avoid death. In this society,

no one laughs or smiles. Wert is the subject of a worldwide search.

He finds sanctuary in a small American community and befriends a boy,

Peter. At night Wert gives performances in cellars. Wert is captured

and led to his death. Peter performs Wert's act for his friends and

they roar with laughter.

Ep 2.19 DuPont Show Of The Week:  SAN FRANCISCO DETECTIVE

16Jun1963 NBC

written by Arthur Zegart & Len Giovannitti

directed by Arthur Zegart

narrator Walter Matthau

Synopsis:

This episode presents a documentary about police work in San

Francisco. The central figure is Inspector George Asdrubale, a

veteran of 16 years with the San Francisco Police Dept., 10 of

them as homicide specialist. The program follows him to a cheap

hotel room in which an 18-year-old woman is found strangled, to

skid row to serve a subpoena on a witness, to a shabby rooming

house searching for a suspect in an assault case, to the morgue

where police seek identification of a murder victim, and on a

coffee break. The show also includes scenes of a line-up, the

interrogation of witnesses and the work of the crime lab. [RF]

Ep 2.20 DuPont Show Of The Week:  A DOZEN DEADLY ROSES

23Jun1963 NBC

written by Leonard Kantor

directed by Robert Allen

starring

Lauren Bacall ....... Lorraine Boswell

Walter Matthau ....... Martin Pitt

Robert Alda ....... Ben Caulder

Vincent Gardenia ....... Samson

Addison Powell ....... Mr. Oates

Synopsis:

This episode presents a spy drama. Lorraine Boswell is acquitted of killing her wealthy

husband thanks to the testimony of a total stranger, Martin Pitt. They fall in love and marry.

Martin is trying to get his hands on her husband's collection of manuscripts and autographs

because his passport is included in its contents and it proves he is a spy. Ben Caulder,

who is an Interpol agent, tries to buy the collection, but Martin refuses. Caulder tells Lorraine

about Martin, who apparently kills him. Lorraine tells Martin that there are copies of his passport

in the bank, so they play Russian roulette with drinks laced with arsenic. He dies and she is

tried for his murder, but Caulder appears to clear her. [RF]

Ep 2.21 DuPont Show Of The Week:  OPENING NIGHT

30Jun1963 NBC

written by Al Wasserman

directed by Al Wasserman

narrator Jason Robards Jr.

starring

Joseph Andrews

Louise Sorel

Joe Ponazecki

Leslie Barnett

C.K. Alexander

Synopsis:

This episode presents a behind-the-scenes study of the launching

of a new play. The program focuses on the aspirations, talents and

efforts of a director and cast that culminate in the exciting moment

when a new play comes to life. The play is The dragon, a story of

tyranny in the guise of a fairy tale, which opened April 9, 1963

at the Phoenix Theatre in New York City. This is the first off-

Broadway production of Joseph Anthony, one of Broadway's top

directors. The show includes Anthony's working with the actors

and fusing the acting with the other elements of the play, such

as lighting and costumes. Backstage scenes include Anthony's

parting speech to the cast, portions of the play, and the

principal players watching a review on TV. The play closed after

a three-week run. [RF]

########## DuPont Show Of The Week ###########

############## season 3 1963-64 ##############

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NBC Sundays 10:00 pm Eastern

(hour long)

Ep 3.01 DuPont Show Of The Week:  TO BURY CAESAR

08Sep1963 NBC

written by Berkely Mather

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Jack Hawkins ....... Adam Hilderson

Pamela Brown ....... Helen Hilderson

Nigel Davenport ....... Philip Maybrick

Kenneth Griffith ....... Lembke

Derek Francis ....... Chayotn, QC

Synopsis:

This episode presents a courtroom melodrama about an English

parliamentarian's fight for his political life. Adam Hilderson is.

a brilliant politician but is passed over for ministerial posts.

His wife Helen thinks there must be an unsavory incident in his past.

Their friend, publisher Philip Maybrick, learns from a sailor

Lembke that after their ship was torpedoed, Hilderson fought for a

space on a lifeboat but a woman, Lembke's wife, was killed. Maybrick

proposes an infallible libel scheme, which would result in big money

for both. Hilderson learns his wife is colluding with Maybrick and

will divorce him to marry Maybrick. At the libel trial, Hilderson

exposes the collusion and presents evidence he was not aboard the

torpedoed ship, clearing his name. [RF]

Ep 3.02 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE LAST HANGMAN

15Sep1963 NBC

written by Ernest Kinoy

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Ed Begley ....... John Moore

Finlay Currie ....... O'Connell

Noel Purcell ....... Meager

Clive Revill ....... Boyle

Robert Gerringer ....... Joe Moore

Synopsis:

This episode presents a drama of three aged Irish Republican Army

veterans, O'Connell, Meager and Boyle, who had taken an oath to

eliminate all of those responsible for the hanging of their

compatriots in the rebellion against English rule. They now live

in Cleveland and there is only one more person left, the equally

aged John Moore, who lives on Long Island, New York. The three

make their presence known to Moore, who tells his son, Joe. He

does not believe his father. The three take Moore to a deserted

house to kill him. John, a soldier to the end, accepts the

situation, but Joe arrives to stop them. O'Connell falls ill and

the Moores take him [RF]

Ep 3.03 DuPont Show Of The Week:  HOLD-UP!

22Sep1963 NBC

written by Robert Van Scoyk

directed by Paul Bogart

starring

Hans Conreid ....... Charles Hamilton

Hal March ....... Max von Ritter

Gerald Hiken ....... Rudy Schrieber

Charlotte Rae ....... Mona Brinkman

Bernie West ....... Harry Fenn

Synopsis:

This episode presents a farcical story of a plot to stage a

million-dollar robbery of Historyland. Fate and their inadequacy

conspire to snare the plans of Charles Hamilton, an accountant,

and Max von Ritter, a safecracker, to rob Historyland, an amusement

park. They plan to time the robbery with a Jesse James-type bank

holdup which is staged daily in the park and to escape in the

confusion between the real and fake robberies. They enlist the

help of Rudy Schrieber, a dynamite expert who is virtually deaf,

and Harry Fenn, an ice cream vendor who is more interested in

picking pockets. They successfully pull off their scheme, but

when they open up the bags, they find only passes to the park. [RF]

Ep 3.04 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE BACHELOR GAME

29Sep1963 NBC

written by Irving Gaynor Neiman

directed by Marc Daniels

starring

Barry Nelson ....... Clay Douglas

Diana van der Vlis ....... Paula Amory

Elliott Reid ....... Harrison Hunter

Carolyn Groves ....... Tracey Wilde

Alan Hewitt ....... MacNab

Synopsis:

This episode presents a sophisticated comedy set against the New York

magazine world. Clay Douglas is the editor of a large-circulation

national magazine which is losing money. He determines to put the

magazine on a paying basis by securing exclusive rights to the life

stories of either Paula Amory, an often-married movie star, or Hunter

Harrison, an eccentric millionaire. Clay's next-door neighbor, Tracey

Wilde, falls in love with him. She was married to Harrison and she

convinces him to sell his memoirs to the magazine, which saves the

magazine and traps Clay into marrying her. [RF]

Ep 3.05 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE TAKERS

13Oct1963 NBC

written by Jacques Gillies

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Walter Matthau ....... Harley Downing

Shirley Knight ....... Charmian Scott

Claude Rains ....... Baron van der Zost

Nancy Barrett ....... Inga

Larry Hagman ....... Boyd

William Harnson ....... Bouchard

Synopsis:

This episode presents a suspense drama of a near-perfect jewel

theft. Baron van der Zost, one of the wealthiest men in the world,

checks into the Caesar Hotel with his family and jewel collection.

A group of thieves is in the suite across the hall. The leader is

Harley Downing and his key aid is Charmian Scott, who bears a

remarkable resemblance to Zost's daughter, Inga. The thieves

execute their scheme. As Downing is checking out of the hotel,

Bouchard, Zost's private detective, recalls that Charmian,

masquerading as Inga, was wearing dark glasses, but Inga had

left hers on the plane. The thieves are caught. [RF]

Ep 3.06 DuPont Show Of The Week:  MANHATTAN BATTLEGROUND

20Oct1963 NBC

directed by William Jersey

narrator Dane Clark

Synopsis:

This episode presents a documentary about a social worker's

approach to slum problems in Spanish Harlem in New York City.

Dan and Hope Murrow lived there for five years and became totally

involved with their neighbors, who included gangs of youths,

alcoholics, drug addicts, and prostitutes. Violence had been a

regular occurrence. Within two years after Murrow's arrival, the

street fighting had ended, the gangs had become clubs and the

fighting had been replaced with psychodramas, in which the youths

worked out their aggression. Since they have completed their

five-year project, the Murrows are leaving for Brandeis University.

A play is performed which re-enacts what happened when Dan first

tried to bring the gangs together for a peace conference. [RF]

Ep 3.07 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE SILVER BURRO

03Nov1963 NBC

written by Bill Deming & Allan Sloane

directed by William Corrigan

starring

Ray Milland ....... the Investigator

Carroll O'Connor ....... N.S. Kellogg

Laurie Main ....... J.T. Cooper

Thomas Barbour ....... O.O. Peck

Synopsis:

This episode presents a comedy-drama based on a true story of the

Idaho Hills in 1885. A present-day investigator tells the story.

A prospector named N.S. Kellogg sets out across the Coeur d'Alene

Mountains, meagerly grubstaked by J.T. Cooper and O.O. Peck. Along

the way, he loses his burro. When he finds the animal, it is

standing atop the biggest vein of silver in the Northwest.

Kellogg tries to cut out his partners and this precipitates a legal

battle, which is finally resolved for everyone except the burro. [RF]

Ep 3.08 DuPont Show Of The Week:  MISS AMERICA -- BEHIND THE SCENES

17Nov1963 NBC

directed by Fred Freed

narrator Frank McGee

Synopsis:

This episode presents a candid study of a young woman's

transformation from a college student into a contestant for the

Miss America crown. The program covers four weeks in the life of

Jeanne Richey Amacker of Beaumont, Texas, from being named Miss

Texas through the decision in Atlantic City. Overnight she becomes

a celebrity and is taken on a whirlwind tour of her state. She gets

a new hairdo, cosmetics and wardrobe courtesy of the Junior Chamber

of Commerce. In Atlantic City, she attends a briefing session and

rehearsals. She is shown responding to the announcement of the winner. [RF]

Ep 3.09 DuPont Show Of The Week:  RIDE WITH TERROR

01Dec1963 NBC

written by Nicholas Baehr

directed by Ron Winston

starring

Gregory Rosakis ....... Connors

Tony Musante ....... Ferrone

Mart Hulswit ....... Teflinger

Ron Leibman ....... Carmatti

Gene Hackman .......  Douglas McCann

Vincent Gardenia
Frieda Altman
John Connell
Louise Troy
James Sheller
Loretta Leversee
John McMartin
Kathy Dunn

Synopsis:

This episode presents a drama of twelve people held captive by

hoodlums on a subway train in New York City. After beating and

robbing an elderly man of eight dollars, Connors and Ferrone decided

to take the Lexington Ave. IRT to Times Square. They jam the doors so nobody

can board or deboard. They terrorize the people on the train. It becomes apparent

that the only thing the captives have in common is their refusal to get involved. Finally,

Teflinger, a soldier on leave and with his arm in a cast, fights the hoods alone and knocks

 them out. In the tussle, he is stabbed. At Times Square, the police take the hoods into custody. [RF]

Ep 3.10 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE GAMBLING HEART

23Feb1964 NBC

written by Horton Foote

directed by Paul Bogart

starring

Ruth White ....... Mrs. Turner

Tom Bosley ....... Howard

Sarah Marshall ...... Ada

Estelle Parsons ...... Carrie Bernice

John Cullum .......Hugh

Phillip Coolidge ....... V.J. Thompson

Synopsis:

This episode presents the story of Mrs. Turner and her daughters,

Carrie Bernice and Ada, who inherited $10,000 from their father.

Ada's husband, Howard, is a gambler and turns the money into

millions. Carrie and her husband, Hugh, eke out a living running

a store. Mrs. Turner, also a gambler, encourages Howard to take risks.

He invests in a risky oil deal. At first, the picture looks bad, but the deal turns into

a $50,000 return. He tells the family, but Howard argues that Hugh should hold

out for more. Hugh disappears and returns with a new car and expensive purchases.

The family is worried, but he has accepted the $50,000 and the extravagance was to teach

them a lesson. When Mrs. Turner arrives with new wild plans, Carrie and Hugh tell her to

mind her own business. [RF]

Ep 3.11 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE HELL WALKERS

08Mar1964 NBC

written by Jacques Gillies

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

John Mills ...... Davies

Curt Jurgens ........ Kleinerts

George Voskovec ........... Father Boucard

Gusti Huber ........... Maria Parsons

Caroline Brenner ........... Mme. Danier

Eda Reiss Merin ......... Mme. Kemp

Synopsis:

This episode presents a drama about a convicted Nazi war criminal

and a man hired to remind him of the crimes he committed. Just before

his release from prison after serving a 15-year sentence for his part

in the administration of a Nazi extermination camp, Kleinerts

receives a postcard on which is written, "Remember the fifth of

September." In Kleinert's hotel in Paris, Davies tells him that he

has been hired to remind him constantly of his crimes by a man whose

son died in the camp on the fifth of September. Kleinerts realizes

there is no place for him to hide, but Davies sinks into the morass

of his hatred. [RF]

Ep 3.12 DuPont Show Of The Week:  JEREMY RABBITT -- THE SECRET AVENGER

05Apr1964 NBC

written by Robert Thom

directed by Franklin Schaffner

starring

Frank Gorshin ...... Jeremy Rabbitt

Jennifer West .......... Althea Krupp

Jim Backus .......... Big Boss Buddy Foy

Brian Donlevy .......... Cheese Karapolis

Carolyn Jones ........ Jo Jo

Walter Matthau .......... Tony Maruzella

Franchot Tone .......... Sen. Grady Lyons

Synopsis:

This episode presents a farce comedy about Jeremy Rabbitt, a meek

court stenographer, who decides to dispose of notorious gangsters

to impress his landlady, with whom he is in love. His first victim

is Cheese Karapolis, who is electrocuted by a short in his toothbrush.

Next is Tony Maruzella, whom Jeremy disposes of by filling his golf

ball with explosives. Posing as a beauty operator, he smothers Jo Jo.

Finally he confesses and is sent to a sanitarium. Althea arrives as

a nurse's aid and they poison Big Boss Buddy Foy. They promise to

each other they will not hurt anyone else. [RF]

Ep 3.13 DuPont Show Of The Week:  A DAY LIKE TODAY

19Apr1964 NBC

written by Stanley R. Greenberg

directed by Tom Donovan

starring

Art Carney .......... Walter Matthews
Kathleen Maguire .... Helen
Janice Hanson ....... Dolores
Dennis Cooney ....... Mark
Paul McGrath ........ Jenkins
John Buckwalter ..... Green

Synopsis 1:

This episode presents a story of a middle-aged widower fighting a

lonely battle for his life. For Walter Matthews, Friday has been

just one more day in a succession of bad days. Trying to ease a

splitting headache, he accidently takes poison. He proceeds to

review the previous 24 hours. He is a harried business executive.

He is interested in his secretary Helen and she in him, but they

have done nothing about it. His daughter Dolores invites him to

dinner and then cancels. His son Mark refuses to share a summer

cottage with him. As all this passes before Walter, he still wants

to live and he prays for another day. [RF]

Synopsis 2:
Hard-driving insurance executive Walter Matthews finally takes the time to

view his life in perspective - as he lies paralyzed and perhaps dying

from poison he took by mistake. [RF]

Ep 3.14 DuPont Show Of The Week:  INCIDENT ON WILSON STREET

03May1964 NBC

written by William Jersey

directed by William Jersey

narrator Frank McGee

Synopsis:

This episode presents a documentary about P.S. 16 in New York City

and the students and teachers of the school. The focus is on teacher

Pegi Gorelick and her nine fifth-graders. They are shown in their

classroom and in the All Day Neighborhood after school program, in

which regular schoolwork is augmented and enriched. One of the

students attacks the teacher, who is not hurt. The rest of the

program focuses on the ramifications of the incident for the

student and her family, her classmates, the teacher, and the school. [RF]

Ep 3.15 DuPont Show Of The Week:  MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE

31May1964 NBC

written by John D. Hess

directed by Franklin Schaffner

starring

Corinne Calvert ....... Maria Pringle

Martin Milner ......... Rex Adams

Patricia Barry ........ Alice Adams

Fred Clark ......... Calvin Coopersmith

Arnold Soboloff ........ John Pick

Synopsis:

This episode presents a comedy-drama about a married couple of

limited means who suddenly strike it rich. Alice and Rex Adams find

themselves rich when a small value of stock turns into a half million

dollars. With the help of his lawyer and cousin, Calvin Coopersmith,

Rex increases his fortune eight-fold. Rex indulges in extreme

extravagance. Another woman appears, Maria Pringle, whose hobby

is taking money from millionaires. Alice counters with her own huge

expenditures, teaching Rex how corrupt he has become. Calvin

amalgamates Rex's holdings into a foundation under his own control.

Calvin counts the money aboard a yacht with his wife, the former

Maria Pringle. [RF]

Ep 3.16 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE PATIENT IN ROOM 601

07Jun1964 NBC

written by Len Giovannitti

directed by Fred Freed

Narrator James Daly

Synopsis:

This episode presents a documentary about Lita Levine, who survived an air disaster,

and her rehabilitation. On Aug. 15, 1958, her flight to Nantucket, Massachusetts ended in

a crash. She had third degree burns over 50 percent of her body. She endured unspeakable

pain and 41 operations as she was treated in Massachusetts General Hospital. Her parents

sacrificed everything in helping their daughter to recover. Five years and nine months later,

Lita was again living a meaningful life. A clasp was made for her hands which enable her to write

and paint. She is now an artist. An exhibit of her paintings opens at the Hampshire House in Boston. [RF]

Ep 3.17 DuPont Show Of The Week:  THE MISSING BANK OF RUPERT X. HUMPERDINCK

21Jun1964 NBC

written by Robert Van Scoyk

directed by Marc Daniels

starring

John McGiver ........ G.F. Springer

Gerald Hiken ......... Lionel Baker

Meg Myles ............. Louise Springer

Hiram Sherman ......... McKinley, the Bank President

Sada Thompson ........ Judy, McKinley's Secretary

Synopsis 1:

This episode presents a comedy about three people scrambling for

a large sum of money in an inactive bank account. G.F. Springer

has a penchant for marriage, railroads and booze. His ex-wife Louise

suspects he held out on her in the divorce settlement. Twenty-five

years earlier in a drunken state, he deposited $40,000 in a bank in

Hangover, North Dakota under the pseudonym Rupert X. Humperdink.

When he tries to withdraw the money, the bank teller, Lionel Baker,

who has been stealing from the account, prevents him from doing so

because he cannot prove he is Humperdink. They agree to split the

money. When Louise arrives, Springer is arrested for the murder of

Humperdink. Lionel and Louise skip town. He tells her that he put

the money in a safe place but he cannot remember where. [RF]

Synopsis 2:
The most recent wife of oft married G.F. Springer is sure he's holding out some

cash on her divorce settlement - and he is. But Springer stashed the nest egg

away 25 years ago and can't remember what name he invented at the time

he deposited it, or where the bank is. [RF]

Ep 3.18 DuPont Show Of The Week:  HIGH WIRE --THE GREAT WALLENDAS

19Jul1964 NBC

written by Al Wasserman

directed by George Freedland

Narrator Frank McGee

appearing

Karl, Herman, Edith, Gunther, Jenny Wallenda.

Synopsis:

A behind-the-scenes look at the family of high-wire circus performers.

The program focuses on the aerialist family's struggle to recreate

the seven-person pyramid act, which once brought them to the height

of their fame and caused the fall in Jan. 1962 in Detroit, Michigan,

killing two members of the troupe and permanently crippling one other.

At their winter training quarters in Sarasota, Florida, the Wallendas

rehearse the act. During one rehearsal, there is an accident and all

of the performers are injured. However, they decide to persevere and

successfully perform the act on Nov. 20, 1963 in Ft. Worth, Texas.

Then they announce they will never repeat the performance. [RF]

Ep 3.19 DuPont Show Of The Week:  DON'T GO UPSTAIRS

16Aug1964 NBC

written by Roger O. Hirson

directed by Franklin Schaffner

starring

Connie Scott ............ Daisy

Mary Fickett ............ Mrs. Harper

Charles Aidman ............ Mr. Harper

James Daly .............. Mr. Simmons

Doug Chapin .......... Kip

Synopsis:

This episode presents an eerie drama of a 14-year-old girl trapped

alone in her home with an unknown terror. Mr. and Mrs. Harper argue

about firing a life-long employee of their business, Jason Simmons.

Daisy, their daughter, overhears their argument, and here the

fantasy begins. She hears a scuffle and thud. Her mother tells her

under no circumstances to go upstairs. Daisy must bribe her brother

Kip to stay in the kitchen. Simmons arrives and Daisy manages to

lock him in the cellar. But he breaks down the door and goes upstairs.

He tells Daisy that something terrible has happened. She goes

upstairs and appears to see her murdered mother, but then the fantasy

ends and all is normal. [RF]

Ep 3.20 DuPont Show Of The Week:  FLIGHT DECK

23Aug1964 NBC

written by Al Wasserman

directed by Al Wasserman

Narrator Frank McGee

Synopsis:

A typical day of the flight deck crew of the aircraft carrier, U.S.S.

Franklin D. Roosevelt. The ship and its crew of 3,600 men begin their

tour of duty with the 6th fleet by sailing from Jacksonville, Florida

to the Mediterranean Sea. A routine day for the flight deck crew

begins at 5 am and continues until 2 am. They launch aircraft with

the steam-powered catapults. Planes land on the rolling and pitching

deck. Their duties are fraught with dangers, such as blasts from jet

engines and a broken arresting gear wire lashing across the deck.

A pilot dies when his plane crashes into the sea. There is a burial

service. [RF]

Ep 3.21 DuPont Show Of The Week:  AMBASSADOR AT LARGE

30Aug1964 NBC

written by Loring Mandel

directed by Franklin Schaffner

starring

Peter Falk .......... Danilo Diaz

Arthur Kennedy ....... Colin Ryan

Andrew Duggan ......... Ambassador Marshall

Oscar Homolka ......... Tomas Medina-Colon

Larry Hagman .......... Elias

Synopsis:

A drama about President Tomas Medina-Colon, a bloody tyrant, who

rules the imaginary Latin American country of Pais del Sol with an

iron fist. Arrayed against him is fiery Danilo Diaz, a rebel leader

who mouths sentiments of democracy and freedom. When Diaz seeks

political asylum at the U.S. Embassy, Colin Ryan must weigh his

potential. Medina-Colon threatens to close the embassy. Elias,

Ryan's assistant, learns that if Diaz replaced Medina-Colon, he

too would be a tyrant. At the execution of five revolutionaries,

Diaz pleads for help from the Americans. Ryan orders that Diaz be

gotten out of the country so he will not become a martyr. Later

they learn that the security forces killed Diaz. [RF]

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