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Episode Guide
version 9.0 August 2008

(Ep 1.13)
compiled by
The Classic TV Archive

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

with contributions by:

James Beer (JM58)

Rod Bennett (ep 13)
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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GRUEN GUILD PLAYHOUSE

(aka Gruen Guild Theatre)

(aka The Gruen Playhouse)

(aka Chevron Theatre)

(aka Your Play Time)
also aired on ABC Dramatic Shorts (first season only)

Syndication title "Family Theater"

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1.01 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: UNFINISHED BUSINESS

27-Sep-1951 ABC Thu

starring

Alan Mowbray

Ann Rutherford

Dane Clark

Synopsis:
A dead man returns to this earth to help his widow. [RF]

1.02 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: THE DRIVEN SNOW

04-Oct-1951 ABC Thu

starring

Bruce Cabot

Kristine Miller

1.03 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: HIT AND RUN

11-Oct-1951 ABC Thu

starring

Robert Hutton

Bonita Granville

1.04 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: ANGEL

18-Oct-1951 ABC Thu

starring

Steve Brodie

1.05 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: RETURN TO VIENNA

25-Oct-1951 ABC Thu

starring

Ruth Warrick

Cameron Mitchell

1.06 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: PERIL IN THE HOUSE

01-Nov-1951 ABC Thu

starring

Marjorie Reynolds

John Baragrey

1.07 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: THAT TIME IN BOSTON

08-Nov-1951 ABC Thu

starring

Jorja Curtright

1.08 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: ONE STRANGE DAY

15-Nov-1951 ABC Thu

starring

Bonita Granville

Steve Brodie

1.09 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: THE BALLERINA

22-Nov-1951 ABC Thu

written by Monroe Manning & John Kohn

directed by Richard Irving

director of photography Clark Ramsey

starring

Ann Dvorak

Kathleen Case

Brett King

Shepard Menken

David Ahdar

Byron Foulger

Synopsis:

The daughter of a famous ballerina makes a smash debut, but is then forced

to choose between the bright future of a great career as a prima ballerina or the

bright future as wife to the man she loves. She chooses--love!

1.10 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: THE CASE OF THE CAVORTING STATUE

29-Nov-1951 ABC Thu

starring

Cesar Romero

Ann Rutherford

Synopsis:
The wife of a lawyer schemes to make her husband a

success but ends up making a blunder. [JBeers]
Syndicated rerun on Famous Playhouse 24Sep68

WTCN-11 Mpls-St.Paul, Mn 10:30 am.

1.11 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: THE LUCKIEST GUY IN THE WORLD

06-Dec-1951 ABC Thu

starring

Gordon Oliver

Marjorie Reynolds

Synopsis:
Oliver learns what it is to be happily
married even though he is not successful as a businessman.
Syndicated rerun on "Spotlight Playhouse  Wed. 11Nov53,
KSTP-5 Minneapolis-St.Paul, MN. [JM58]

1.12 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: SWAMI

13-Dec-1951 ABC Thu

starring

Morris Ankrum

Bernadene Hayes

1.13 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: JOE SANTA CLAUS

20-Dec-1951  ABC Thu

starring

Ray Montgomery ...... Joe

Maria Palmer

Sigrid Gurie

1.14 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: THE BIG RIDE

20-Mar-1952 ABC Thu

Written by Norman Jacobs
Directed by Richard Irving
Director of photography Philip Tannura

starring

Steve Brodie ........... Johnny Collins
Ludwig Donath
Adele Longmire
Margie Miller

Synopsis:
A young man arouses his family's suspicions by giving beautiful gifts

and large sums of money. (film) [RF]

Synopsis 2:
Returning home after being away for a year, a young man arouses the suspicions

of his father and sister by flashing beautiful gifts and large sums of money. [RF]

Synopsis 3:
When Johnny Collins returns home after a year he arouses the suspicions

 of his father and sister by flashing beautiful gifts and large sums of money. [JBeer]
Syndication airing on Famous Playhouse KSTP-5

Minneapolis-St.Paul, MN Sat. 27Jun 64 12:30 p.m. CST
 

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*Dumont Mar27/52 to Sep23/52

2.01 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: THE BACHELOR'S WEEKEND

27-Mar-1952 DUM Thu

starring

Ann Doran

Robert Paige

2.02 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: DREAM MAN

10-Apr-1952 DUM Thu

starring

Vincent Price

Harry Carey Jr.

Andrea King

Synopsis:

A matinee idol pays attention to a taken-for-granted housewife. [RF]

2.03 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: THE TIGER

24-Apr-1952 DUM Thu

(rebroadcast on 16Feb58 on Famous Playhouse)

starring

Raymond Burr (TV acting debut)

Ludwig Donath

Randy Stuart

Synopsis:
A ruthless tycoon refuses to believe the astrologer's prediction that he will

lose his fortune, wife, and eventually his own life. [RF]

2.04 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: AL HADDON'S LAMP

08-May-1952 DUM Thu

starring

Buddy Ebsen as the Genie

Robert Hutton

Synopsis 1:

A salesman accidentally gains possession of Aladdin's Lamp. [RF]

Synopsis 2:
When an ambitious real estate salesman accidentally gains possession

 of Aladdin's lamp, he enlists the genie's aid in winning a bride. [RF]
*Note: Reaired in Syndication "Drama of Life", 09Apr56.
 

2.05 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: A BOY WEARS A GUN

22-May-1952 DUM Thu

starring

Billy Gray

Francis Ford

2.06 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: COUNTERPLOT

05-Jun-1952 DUM Thu

starring

Norbert Schiller

John Hudson

2.07 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: BIRD OF PREY

19-Jun-1952 DUM Thu

starring

Patrick O'Neal

Elizabeth Frazer

2.08 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: FOR LIFE

03-Jul-1952 DUM Thu

starring

Shirley Jones

Bill Lester

2.09 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: THE CORNER SHOP

29-Jul-1952 DUM Thu

starring

Ruth Warrick

Craig Stevens

2.10 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: EMERGENCY

12-Aug-1952 DUM Thu

starring

Dorothy Patrick

John Hoyt

Robert Hutton

Synopsis:

A doctor and nurse engage in the scientific pursuit of an insane poisoner of pets. [RF]

2.11 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: OUT OF THE DARK

26-Aug-1952 DUM Thu

starring

Ludwig Donath

2.12 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: THE LEATHER COAT

09-Sep-1952 DUM Thu

starring

Raymond Burr

Randy Stuart

Bill Phipps
Synopsis:
A wife abandons chance for freedom from hated desert to save her husband's life. [JM58]
(Syndicated rerun under "Family Theater" title, Sun 18 Nov 62, 1 p.m.
KSTP-5 Minneapolis-St.Paul, MN)

2.13 [--] Gruen Guild Playhouse: FACE VALUE

23-Sep-1952 DUM Thu

starring

Raymond Burr

Synopsis:
A wanted murderer will avoid being caught at all costs. [RF]
(Syndicated rerun under "Favorite Story" 28May63.)
 

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UNKNOWN AIRDATES

THE SECRET DEFENSE OF 117

1952

written by Gene Roddenberry

VICTIM ANN NORVILLE

1952

starring

Peter Graves

THE GIRL FROM KANSAS

1952

starring

Barry Sullivan

MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS

(originally broadcast on Silver Theater June 26, 1950 - rebroadcast date not known)

written by George Panetta

story by William Saroyan

producer/director Frank Telford

director of photography Meredith Nicholson

starring

Howard da Silva

Art Smith

Jeffrey Silver

Byron Foulger

Harry Lewis

Adeline de walt Reynolds

Linda Hussey

Ann Lovelady

Jay Barney

INCREDIBLE LUCK

written by Lawrence Kimble

directed by Leslie H. Martinson

director of photography Ellsworth Fredricks

starring

Judith Evelyn

Walter Coy

Francis Bavier

Jack Raine

James Craven

Gil Herman

Synopsis:

Love story concerning a lovesick man, and a woman who suffers from

a neurological illness who is cured by a doctor who has

recently escaped from a mental hospital. [RF]

UNCLE CHARLEY

written by Howard J. Green

directed by Richard Irving

director of photography Clark Ramsey

starring

Cliff Arquette

Frances Rafferty

Ross Ford

Geraldine Carr

Frank Scannell

Synopsis:

Story of a young farm woman who is vacationing in New York City with

her husband. In order to fool her husband into believing the trip is a legitimate

one (he is nice, but a bit of a tightwad), she invents a rich Uncle Charley and gets

an escort service to supply her with a suitable man. He turns out to be Cliff

Arquette playing a nice old financier (he's really a gambler). At the track, he

convinces the husband to bet a large sum of money on a horse that loses. Feeling

terrible, he plays a hunch, wins back the money and gives it to the couple,

 thus exposing his true identity. [RF]

THE CAVE

written by Howard J. Green

directed by Richard Irving

director of photography Ellsworth Fredericks

starring

Pat Walker

John Dutra

Janet Stewart

William Tannen

Pamela Duncan

John Day

Synopsis:

Two young women, trapped in a cave and menaced by gangsters,

are rescued by a valiant ranger. [RF]

LADY WITH IDEAS

22-Apr-1951 (rebroadcast originally broadcast on Silver Theatre May 8, 1950)

written by True Boardman

producer/director Frank Woodruff

director of photography Meredith Nicholson

starring

Pam Britton

Gig Young

Mikhail Rasumny

Hugh Beaumont

Irving Bacon

Frank Orth

Patrick Aherne

Synopsis:

Story concerns a young woman who fakes amnesia in order to become

a public figure, and her fiance who straightens her out. [RF]

CHEVRON THEATRE (Revue Productions)

The Whistling Room

The Green And the Gold String

The Haver Technique

THE GRUEN GUILD THEATRE:

ORIENTAL CLUE

FLESH AND LEATHER

THE MISSING WITNESS

THE STREET IS MY BEAT
 

GRADY EVERITT FOR THE PEOPLE

written by Rod Serling (first tv script and he was paid $100. for it!)

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