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Episode Guide
version 6.0 December 2007

(Ep 1.9, 1.12)
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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MOTOROLA TELEVISION HOUR

(aka Motorola TV Theatre)

ABC Tues 9:30-10:30

(alternated with The U.S. Steel Hour)

Producer: Herbert Brodkin

Director: Donald Richardson

 

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Ep 1.01 [--] Motorola Television Hour: OUTLAW'S RECKONING

03-Nov-1953 ABC Tues

starring

Eddie Albert

Jane Wyatt

Lee Marvin

Vicki Cummings

Wallace Ford

 

Ep 1.02 [--] Motorola Television Hour: WESTWARD THE SUN

17-Nov-1953 ABC Tues

starring

Brian Keith

Jackie Cooper

Richard Ney

 

Ep 1.03 [--] Motorola Television Hour: BRANDENBURG GATE

01-Dec-1953 ABC Tues

starring

Jack Palance as Scott Malone/Kurt Bauman

Maria Riva as Lisa

Elisha Cook Jr. as Charlie

Lili Darvas as Ilsa Bruckner

Thomas Gomez as Lustig

Joseph Wiseman as Baroff

Peter Capell as Emile Bruckner

 

Ep 1.04 [--] Motorola Television Hour: AT EASE

15-Dec-1953 ABC Tues

written by Rod Serling

starring

Brian Donlevy

Horace MacMahon

Pat Harrington

 

Ep 1.05 [--] Motorola Television Hour: THE THIRTEEN CLOCKS

29-Dec-1953 ABC Tues

written by Fred Sadoff & John Crilly

story by James Thurber

starring

Basil Rathbone as Duke

Sir Cedric Hardwicke as the Golux

Alice Pearce as Hagga

Roberta Peters as Princess Sara Linda

John Raitt as Prince

 

Ep 1.06 [--] Motorola Television Hour: THE LAST DAYS OF HITLER ABC Tues

12-Jan-1954

written by David Davidson

starring

Lilia Skala as Frau Goebbels

Philip Bourneuf as Adolf Hitler

Lawrence Fletcher as Goering

Martin Kosleck as Goebbels

Arnold Moss as Bormann

Luis Van Rooten as Himmler

Bob Harris

 

Ep 1.07 [--] Motorola Television Hour: SIDE BY SIDE

26-Jan-1954 ABC Tues

written by William McCleery

starring

Helen Hayes as Frances Parry

Jerome Cowan

Dennis King as Mr. Parry

Addison Richards

Anne Seymour

Synopsis:

A successful housewife and mother whose prominence in local and state

civic affairs causes the state politicians to urge her to run for Congress.

 

Ep 1.08 [--] Motorola Television Hour: A DASH OF BITTERS

09-Feb-1954 ABC Tues

written by Reginald Denham

story by Conrad Sutton Smith

starring

Estelle Winwood

Richard Waring

Joan Lorring

Zachary Scott

 

Ep 1.09 [--] Motorola Television Hour: THE MULDOON MATTER

23-Feb-1954 ABC Tues

written by Rod Serling

directed by Donald Richardson

starring

Charles Ruggles ....... Mordecai Muldoon
Kent Smith ............ Doc Stacey
Ed Begley ............. Horace Clowden
Patricia Barry ........ Polly
Frank McHugh .......... Mayor Pease
Malcolm Brodrick ...... Justice
Pud Flanagan
Christopher Walken (credited as Ronnie Walken)
Synopsis:
A happy-go-lucky drifter takes refuge in a little village. [RF]
 

Ep 1.10 [--] Motorola Television Hour: THE FAMILY MAN

09-Mar-1954 ABC Tues

written by William McCleery

starring

Hume Cronyn as Anthony Updyke

Jane Wyatt as Ruth Updyke

Elaine Stritch as Hazel Beck

Pat Smith as Alice Updyke

Steve Harris as Corey

 

Ep 1.11 [--] Motorola Television Hour: NIGHTMARE IN ALGIERS ABC Tues

23-Mar-1954

starring

Luther Adler as General Fox

Tony Randall as Harry

Rita Gam as Anna

Francis L. Sullivan as Dupuit

 

Ep 1.12 [--] Motorola Television Hour: THE SINS OF THE FATHERS ABC Tues

06-Apr-1954

written by David Davidson

starring

Betty Field ....... Rita Bell
Gene Lockhart ..... Professor Welch
Walter Hampden .... Arthur Bell
Elliott Nugent .... Walter Bell
Pat Smith ......... Sue
Synopsis:
A man determines his daughter must understand his problems. [RF]
 

Ep 1.13 [--] Motorola Television Hour: BLACK CHIFFON

20-Apr-1954 ABC Tues

written by Philip Barry

starring

Judith Anderson as Alicia

Cedric Hardwicke as Hawkins

Leora Dana as Thea

Martin Green as Robert

 

Ep 1.14 [--] Motorola Television Hour: LOVE SONG

04-May-1954 ABC Tues

written by Kenneth Sellers & Philip McKenna

starring

Royal Dano as Don Gerrasio

Joe De Santis as Turiddu

Oscar Homolka

Enid Markey as Poncetta

Lydia St. Clair as Rosa

Lisa Kirk

 

Ep 1.15 [--] Motorola Television Hour: ATOMIC ATTACK

18-May-1954 ABC Tues

written by David Davidson

from the novel "Shadow on the Hearth" (1950)by Judith Merril

directed by Ralph Nelson

starring

William Kemp as Jim Turner

Walter Matthau as Dr. Spinelli

Phyllis Thaxter as Gladys Mitchell

Audrey Christie as Mrs. Moore

Elizabeth Russell as Mrs. Harvey

Robert Keith as Dr. Lee

John Daly as Conelrad Announcer

Synopsis:

Story of a Westchester, NY matriarch who must guide what remains of

her family through the aftermath of an H-Bomb attack on Manhattan.

 

Ep 1.16 [--] Motorola Television Hour: CHIVALRY AT HOWLING CREEK

01-Jun-1954 ABC Tues

written by Joseph Cochran

starring

Jack Palance

Leora Dana

 

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