The Classic TV Archive - US Dramatic   Anthology Series

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Episode Guide
version 24.0 May 2008

(Ep 1.7, 1.38)
compiled by
The Classic TV Archive

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

with contributions by:

James Beer

J. Fred MacDonald (www.macfilms.com)

Sal Crisanti
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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PEPSI COLA PLAYHOUSE

Revue Productions, Inc.
for
ABC (Fridays 8:30-9:00 EST) (season 1)(Oct 1953 - Jun 1954)
ABC (Sundays 7:30-8:00 EST) (season 2)(Jul 1954 - Jun 1955)
 

US Dramatic Anthology series

OCTOBER 2, 1953 TO JUNE 26, 1955

Hosted by:

Arlene Dahl (1953-54)

Anita Colby (1954 Apr to Jun)

Polly Bergen (1954-55)

directors:

Leslie Martinson
Robert G. Walker

Aired in Syndication 1957-58 on "Action Tonight".

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1.01 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: WHEN LOVELY WOMEN

02-Oct-1953 ABC Fri

Hosted by Arlene Dahl
starring
Marguerite Chapman
James Millican
Karen Sharpe
Tony Randall
Irene Hervey
Ron Randell
Dick Simmons

1.02 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: WAIT FOR ME DOWNSTAIRS

09-Oct-1953 ABC Fri

Teleplay by Fenton Earnshaw
Based on Cornell Woolrich's novel "Finger of Doom"
Directed by John English

Hosted by Arlene Dahl

starring

John Hudson

Allene Roberts

1.03 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE NIGHT LIGHT AT VORDEN'S

16-Oct-1953 ABC Fri (copyright date 31Dec53)

Teleplay by August Derleth
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson

Hosted by Arlene Dahl

starring
Craig Stevens ......... Ward Preston

Jean Byron .......... Vanessa Vorden

Mira McKinney ........ Bianca Vorden (as Myra McKinney)

Emmett Vogan ....... Harold Atkins

Bruce Payne ...... Dr. Paul Tabor

Synopsis 1:
A possessive mother uses every possible ruse to

 keep her only daughter from marrying. [RF]

Synopsis: 2:

A domineering mother stops at nothing to keep

her daughter from marrying her schoolteacher suitor. [RF]

*Note: Also aired on Your Playtime 05Sep54.

1.04 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: DEATH HAS A SYSTEM

23-Oct-1953 ABC Fri (copyright date 31Dec53)

Hosted by Arlene Dahl

starring
Ian MacDonald
Kim Spalding

1.05 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE RAGGED STRANGER

30-Oct-1953 ABC Fri (copyright date 31Dec53)

Hosted by Arlene Dahl
starring
Joanne Davis
Michael Hall
Hayden Rorke

1.06 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: MELODY IN BLACK

06-Nov-1953 ABC Fri (copyright date 31Dec53)

Hosted by Arlene Dahl

starring

Peter Graves ....... Fred Crain
Nancy Gates ........ Peggy Harper
Robert Paige ....... Roger Libbott
Synopsis:
The town is gossiping about a local murder. Her continued piano lessons

and a $1000 note implicate a young girl in the crime. [RF]
*Note: Syndication airing on Your Playtime 07Sep54.
 

1.07 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE HOUSE NOBODY WANTED  [verified by SC]

13-Nov-1953 ABC Fri (copyright date 31Dec53)

Teleplay by Lawrence Kimble
Story by Fredric Brown
Directed by Richard Irving

Hosted by Arlene Dahl

starring  [SC]

Craig Stevens.......... as Richard Fleming
Marilyne Erskine....... as Jennie Fleming
Sheila Bromley......... as Nelli Harlow
Jack Raine............. as George Sinder
Dean Cromer............ as The Killer
Synopsis:
A woman is sure her new husband fits the description of a known murderer.

* Also listed as The House That Nobody Wanted.

1.08 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: CLAIRE

20-Nov-1953 ABC Fri

Hosted by Arlene Dahl
starring
Marguerite Chapman
Walter Coy
Marilyn Erskine

1.09 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: FROZEN ESCAPE

27-Nov-1953 ABC Fri (copyright date 31Dec53)

Hosted by Arlene Dahl

starring

Jorja Curtright ....... Julie

Morris Ankrum ....... Tom

DeForest Kelley ....... Jeff

Synopsis:

Jeff and Julie have been prospecting in the Alaskan wilds for three years.

Jeff has told Julie that he went to visit his friend Arthur McLain -- who had recently

struck it rich -- and found him dead. Believing he'll be blamed, Jeff insists on running

 away, but a blizzard blocks the pass and the couple seek refuge with blind Tom,

stating that they'd been hunting. Tom confronts Jeff, saying that the radio just reported

Arthur McLain and his dog killed in their cabin. As Jeff starts arguing threateningly with

Tom, Tom's dog starts growling. Tom points out that Jeff is stuck there until the storm,

because the only other way out is past the Ranger station. Julie tries to talk Jeff out of

running away, insisting that "they don't hang innocent people." Jeff is unconvinced.

 However, Tom gets Julie alone and explains that Jeff must have been the murderer.

That night, Tom offers to let Jeff escape if Jeff will give him the gold he must have stolen

from Arthur -- since only Jeff was a good enough friend of Arthur's to have known where

the gold was. Jeff demurs, trying to hide the gold in his pocket. Tom attacks Jeff,

and the scuffle brings in Julie, who sees the gold and is now convinced of her husband's

 guilt, despite Jeff's protestations that he took it in a panic when he found Arthur dead.

Jeff frantically insists to Julie that Tom must have done it, and they set up a trap to see if

Tom is really blind. He is. Whereupon Jeff hands his gun over to Julie in despair. Julie

finds Tom's hand bleeding and tends it. She steps out, finds a torn blanket on Tom's sled,

and on returning overhears Tom telling Jeff that actually, Julie must be the murderer, that she

 and Arthur were probably having an affair. Jeff tells him to shut up. Julie goes to Tom's

dog and starts to untie it. Jeff begs her not to set the dog on him. But the dog, freed,

attacks Tom instead. Julie explains that she noticed that the dog was really growling at Tom,

 not Jeff; the attack proves that it's not really Tom's dog, it's Arthur's.

 Tom's dog is dead in the cabin where he killed Arthur. [RF]

1.10 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: VACATION WIFE

Revue Productions, Inc. (copyright date 31Dec53)
04-Dec-1953 ABC Fri
Hosted by Arlene Dahl
starring
Frances Rafferty ...... Penny
Robert Paige .......... Sam
Robert Hutton ......... David
Dorothy Green ......... Selma
Geraldine Carr ........ Nella
Synopsis:
A young wife takes a vacation alone at a mountain resort and meets another man. [RF]
*Note: Syndication airing on Star Theater 17Sep54.

1.11 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE MOTIVE GOES ROUND AND ROUND

11-Dec-1953 ABC Fri (copyright date 31Dec53)

Teleplay by Lawrence Kimble
Story by Fredric Brown
Directed by Robert G. Walker

Hosted by Arlene Dahl

starring

Ludwig Donath

Eve Miller

1.12 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: DEATH MAKES A PASS

18-Dec-1953 ABC Fri (copyright date 31Dec53)

Hosted by Arlene Dahl
starring
Lloyd Corrigan
Jay Novello

1.13 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: WHO IS SYLVIA?

(aka MAN ON THE BLUFF)

25-Dec-1953 ABC Fri (copyright date 31Dec53)

Hosted by Arlene Dahl
starring
Rick Jason
Frances Rafferty

1.14 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: MISS DARKNESS

01-Jan-1954 ABC Fri (copyright date 31Dec53)

Teleplay by Richard Collins & Fenton Earnshaw
Based on the story by Fredric Brown
Directed by Leslie H. Martinson

Hosted by Arlene Dahl

starring

Peter Graves

Dee Carroll

Synopsis:

A girl recognizes a bank robber, and afraid to tell the police,

seeks refuge in a boarding house. [RF]

1.15 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE GOLD THUMB

08-Jan-1954 ABC Fri (copyright date 31Dec53)

Hosted by Arlene Dahl

starring

Jeanne Cooper ...... Martha
Walter Reed ........ William Martin
Dolores Mann ....... Annie

Synopsis 1:

A ruthless sister plots murder in order to get a large inheritance. [RF]

Synopsis 2:
A drama concerning two sisters and the effect of an expected inheritance on them.
*Note: Syndication airing on Star Theater 10Sep54.

1.16 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: ACCOUNT CLOSED

15-Jan-1954 ABC Fri (copyright date 31Dec53)

Hosted by Arlene Dahl

starring

Carolyn Jones

George Nader

Synopsis:

A bank embezzler defrauds an innocent victim. [RF]

1.17 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: FAREWELL PERFORMANCE

22-Jan-1954 ABC Fri (copyright date 31Dec53)

Hosted by Arlene Dahl

starring

John Hoyt
Joan Shawlee

Synopsis:

A ventriloquist's wife brings on her own destruction when she plays

up to an actor with whom she was once friendly. [RF]

1.18 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: TOO GLOOMY FOR PRIVATE PUSHKIN

29-Jan-1954 ABC Fri (copyright date 31Dec53)

Hosted by Arlene Dahl
starring
Steve Brodie
Robert Strauss

Maurice Kelly
Synopsis:
A bombed-out castle on the Italian war front becomes

a refuge for a private trying to evade the approaching German patrol.

1.19 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE PSYCHOPHONIC NURSE

05-Feb-1954 ABC Fri

Hosted by Arlene Dahl
starring
Lee Marvin
Joanne Davis

Synopsis:
A couple believe that raising their daughter scientifically will benefit them so they employ a mechanical nurse.

1.20 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: A FAR, FAR BETTER THING

12-Feb-1954 ABC Fri  (copyright date 31Dec53)

Hosted by Arlene Dahl

starring

Robert Lowery ....... George

Nancy Gates ....... Virginia

Sally Mansfield ....... Betty

Richard Gaines ....... Len

Synopsis:

A wife becomes infatuated with a fellow tourist during a cruise to Hawaii. [SC]

1.21 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: LIVE A LITTLE

19-Feb-1954 ABC Fri  (copyright date 31Dec53)

Hosted by Arlene Dahl

starring
Walter Coy
Marie Windsor
Jean Byron
Bethel Leslie
Synopsis:
A devoted husband becomes involved with another woman in a life of crime. [RF]

1.22 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: HIS BROTHER'S GIRL

26-Feb-1954 ABC Fri

Hosted by Arlene Dahl
starring
George Nader
Nancy Gates
Keith Larsen

1.23 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: TAPS FOR A HOOFER

05-Mar-1954 ABC Fri

Hosted by Arlene Dahl
starring
Peggy Knudsen
Roy Roberts
Andrea King

1.24 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: DON'T YOU REMEMBER?

12-Mar-1954 ABC Fri

Written by Lawrence Kimble
Directed by Herschel Daughtery

Hosted by Arlene Dahl

starring
Philip Ober  ....... Paul
Nancy Gates ....... Anne Collins
Frances Bavier .... Helen Collins
Synopsis:
A lonely man returns to his boyhood village to find his

 former sweetheart still young and beautiful. [RF]

1.25 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: OPEN SEASON

19-Mar-1954 ABC Fri

Hosted by Arlene Dahl
starring
Lee Marvin
Dennis Morgan
Douglass Montgomery

1.26 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE SILENCE

26-Mar-1954 ABC Fri

Hosted by Arlene Dahl
starring
Rod Cameron
Carolyn Jones

Synopsis:
A woman frightens the construction workers in the jungles

 of India when they believe she is the "kiss of death".

1.27 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE GREY AND GOLD DRESS

02-Apr-1954 ABC Fri

Hosted by Arlene Dahl

starring

Vera Miles ...... Nancy

Peggy Converse ..... Jane

Gertrude Michael [PM]

Synopsis:

A supposedly exclusive dress design alters lives of three women. [RF]

*Note: Commercials for RICHARD HUDNUT HOME PERMANENT (with Julia Meade)

and LUCKY STRIKE CIGARETTES—ends with animated spot for Lucky Strike
(c. 12/31/54) airing on Your Play Time a summer replacement series. [JFM]
 

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Anita Colby replaces Arlene Dahl as hostess.
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1.28 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: BORROW MY CAR

09-Apr-1954 ABC Fri

Directed By John English
Teleplay By Fenton W. Earnshaw
Story By Philip Ketchem.
Hosted by Anita Colby (entry)
Guest Cast:
Bill Phipps .......... Rick Cleary
Robert Patten...... Jim Miller
Alan Dexter........ Mike Stabler
Lola Albright...... Jane
Virginia Brissac... Mrs. Adams
Louis Jean Heydt... Sgt. Brenner
Synopsis:
Two garage mechanics become involved with an attractive woman

and a store robbery. [SC]

Note: the 09Apr54 episode is the first to list Anita Colby as hostess.

1.29 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: HOLLYWOOD, HOME SWEET HOME

16-Apr-1954 ABC Fri

Hosted by Anita Colby
starring
Lloyd Corrigan
Frances Bavier
Francix X. Bushman

1.30 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE SOUND OF SILENCE

23-Apr-1954 ABC Fri

Hosted by Anita Colby
starring
Jack Kelly
Sallie Brophy
Carl Benton Reid

1.31 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: AND THE BEASTS WERE THERE

30-Apr-1954 ABC Fri

written by Lawrence Kimble

story by Wilbur S. Peacock

directed by Richard Irving

director of photography Clark Ramsey

starring

William Bishop

Jorja Curtright

John Doucette

Paul Cavanagh

Synopsis:

A hunter in the Burmese jungle is clawed to death by a tiger when he is locked in

 the cage by a hidden hand. Investigation into his death reveals his sadism toward

animals and that it stemmed from years past, when a tiger almost killed him. And the

hand which locked him in turns out to be that of his pet monkey, which he also mistreated. [RF]

*Note: Syndication airing  on Armstrong Summer Theatre 03Sep1957.

1.32 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: GIRL ON THE DRUM

07-May-1954 ABC Fri

Hosted by Anita Colby
starring
Jack Kelly
Lita Baron
Carleton Young

1.33 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE BLACK PURSE

14-May-1954 ABC Fri

Hosted by Anita Colby
starring
Patrick O'Neal
Pat Carroll
 

1.34 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: FIE, FIE, FIFI

21-May-1954 ABC Fri

Hosted by Anita Colby

starring
Fifi D'Orsay ....... Fifi
Lloyd Corrigan ..... Jerome
Frances Bavier ..... Thelma
Harry Stewart ...... Ole
Synopsis:
Fifi, the owner of a matrimonial business, involves a poor middle-aged couple in her schemes.

 Complications mount as they try to match the right man to the right woman. [RF]

1.35 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: GRENADINE

28-May-1954 ABC Fri

Hosted by Anita Colby
starring
Sally Blane
William Bishop

1.36 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: UNFAIR GAME

04-Jun-1954 ABC Fri

Written by Richard Tregaskis,  author of "Guadalcanal Diary"

Hosted by Anita Colby

starring
Marguerite Chapman ..... Barbara Nicholson
Richard Travis ......... Mark Nicholson
Joan Elan .............. Sylvia Rouse
Gavin Muir ............. Mr. Rouse
Synopsis:
A long-married couple travels from sophisticated life in Sydney, Australia,

 into the rugged life of the wilds of that country. There the couple meets

a beautiful girl who has designs on the husband. [RF]
 

1.37 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: TERROR TRAIN

11-Jun-1954 ABC Fri

Hosted by Anita Colby
starring
Whit Bissell
Frances Rafferty

1.38 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: DOUBLED IN DANGER

(copyright title) [verified by SC]
(aka "Double in Danger")

18-Jun-1954 ABC Fri

Directed By Richard Irving
Teleplay By Fenton Earnshaw / Story By Bruce Cassiday
Hosted by Anita Colby
Guest cast:
Bill Phipps ........... as Joe Kirby
Carolyn Jones ......... as Karen Brook
Lawrence Dobkin ....... as Vern Morris / Hampton
Lynne Millan .......... as The Waitress
Richard Shackleton .... as The Shoeshine Boy
Synopsis:
An ex-convict just released from prison plans to kill the man responsible for murdering his sister. [SC]
 

1.39 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: WHEN THE POLICE ARRIVE

25-Jun-1954 ABC Fri

Hosted by Anita Colby
starring
Cesar Romero
Hillary Brooke
 

**changes from ABC Friday to ABC Sunday**

1.40 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: DEAR LITTLE FOOL

04-Jul-1954 ABC Sun
Hosted by Anita Colby
starring
Patrick O'Neal
Leslye Banning

1.41 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: UNCLE CHARLIE

11-Jul-1954 ABC Sun

1.42 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE WHISTLING ROOM

18-Jul-1954 ABC Sun
Hosted by Anita Colby
starring
Barbara Bestar

1.43 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: BACHELOR'S WEEKEND

25-Jul-1954 ABC Sun
Hosted by Anita Colby
starring
Robert Paige

1.44 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: ANNUAL HONEYMOON

01-Aug-1954 ABC Sun
Hosted by Anita Colby
starring
Bonita Granville
Garry Moore
Alan Mowbray

1.45 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: LONG, LONG AGO

08-Aug-1954 ABC Sun

Directed By Alan Davis
Teleplay By Howard J. Green
Story By August Derleth

Hosted by Anita Colby
Guest Cast:
Andrea King........ Harriet Grant
Leslie Bradley..... Tom Grant
Tommy Rettig....... Johnny
Jack Raine......... Ed Newcomb
David Bruce........ The Doctor
Dorothy Adams...... Miss Fordham
Queenie Leonard.... The Lady
Synopsis:
A London couple purchase a run-down country home and believe it is haunted,
have a visit by a young boy who ran away from an orphanage and tells a story

about a family that lived in the same home and were killed during a WW2 bombing. [SC]

1.46 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: MUNGARA

(IMDB Mungahana)

15-Aug-1954 ABC Sun
Hosted by Anita Colby
starring
John Hoyt

1.47 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN

22-Aug-1954 ABC Sun
Hosted by Anita Colby
starring
Bruce Cabot

1.48 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: PLAYMATES

29-Aug-1954 ABC Sun

Directed by Richard Irving

Hosted by Anita Colby

starring

Alan Napier

Natalie Wood

Synopsis:

Natalie Wood is a lonely child who finds friends in one room of their

sprawling mansion. Her Uncle starts to hear the voices of the

"Playmates," and discovers they are ghosts. [RF]

1.49 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: ADOPTED SON

05-Sep-1954 ABC Sun

Hosted by Anita Colby
starring
Frances Gifford .... Mother
Gordon Oliver ...... Father
Dee Pollock ........ Boy
Synopsis:
A mother tries to remake the athletic boy she has adopted to

the image of her musically inclined son who passed away. [RF]

1.50 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: A MANSION FOR JIMMY

12-Sep-1954 ABC Sun

Hosted by Anita Colby

starring

Patric Mitchell ....... Jimmy

Robert Paige ...... the Father

Paul Collins ........ Red

Gordon Gebert ....... Phil

Synopsis:

Young Jimmy is so ashamed of his modest home that he adopts

an empty mansion and tells his rich friends that he really lives amidst its splendors. [RF]

1.51 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER

19-Sep-1954 ABC Sun

1.52 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: PORTRAIT FOR TOBY

26-Sep-1954 ABC Sun
Hosted by Anita Colby
starring
John Qualen
Lynne Roberts

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*Note: Polly Bergen begins her duties as hostess

on this first show of the new season.

2.01 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: SAL

03-Oct-1954 ABC Sun

Hosted by Polly Bergen

starring

Jean Bryson .......... Ellen Harley
Gladys George ........ Sal
Charles Coburn
Synopsis:
A woman is about to have her sordid past revealed

by an unexpected visit from a carny.
 

2.02 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: GENTLEMEN'S AFFAIR

10-Oct-1954 ABC Sun

starring

Jay Novello

2.03 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: DEATH, THE HARD WAY

17-Oct-1954 ABC Sun

2.04 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: I WENT TO HAVANA

24-Oct-1954 ABC Sun

2.05 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: "THE AFFAIRS OF ANN" SUCH A NICE LITTLE GIRL

31-Oct-1954 ABC Sun

starring

Marguerite Chapman ....... Ann Scotland

*Note: one of a number of pilots for an unsold series

"The Affairs of Ann" about lady lawyer Ann Scotland
- see Studio 57 #4 "The Traveling Room", #15 "Sauce for the Gander"

2.06 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: DEATH RIDES A WILDCAT

07-Nov-1954 ABC Sun

2.07 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THIS MAN FOR HIRE

14-Nov-1954 ABC Sun

2.08 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE COLONEL AND HIS SON

21-Nov-1954 ABC Sun

Guest cast:
Walter Coy ....... Colonel
Kim Charney ...... Son
Synopsis:
A colonel returning to his home in an East-West border

 town discovers his son is missing.

2.09 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: DESERT RECKONING

28-Nov-1954 ABC Sun

2.10 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: GIRL IN DISTRESS

05-Dec-1954 ABC Sun

Directed By Herschel Daugherty
Story and Teleplay By Fenton W. Earnshaw.
Hosted by Polly Bergen
Guest Cast:
Bill Phipps........ Donald Blackburn
Joanne Davis........ Ellen Eaton
Ward Wood........ Barney
Onslow Stevens........ Detective Meers
Paul Dubov........ Al Drummond
Edith Evanson........ Mrs.Meers
Russ Conway........ Vince Fetter
Nelson Leigh........ Norman Kane.
Synopsis:
An ex-soldier released from a mental institution inherits a large sum of
money and is framed for a murder that his girlfriend was involved in.  [SC]

2.11 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE WOMAN ON THE BUS

12-Dec-1954 ABC Sun

Hosted by Polly Bergen
starring

Dorothy Green ....... Virginia
Ross Elliott ....... Mark Blayne
Linda Stirling ....... Helen Blayne
Onslow Stevens ....... Thompson

Chick Chandler .... Motley
Richard Eyer ...... Pete
Synopsis:
Fleeing from two gunmen, a desperate woman seeks refuge with a family

 in a remote desert area. Too late she realizes that she has endangered

the lives of her protectors. (film) [RF]
*Note: Syndication airing on Action Tonight 22Jul57.

2.12 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: SANTA'S OLD SUIT

19-Dec-1954 ABC Sun (rebroadcast on Studio 57 19Dec55)

starring

Andy Clyde

Jane Darwell

Synopsis:

A story about a downhearted Santa Claus who can't afford a new suit, but

finds his reward in the happiness of a youngster at Christmas. [RF]

2.13 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: LOST LULLABY

26-Dec-1954 ABC Sun

2.14 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: MIDNIGHT CHIMES

02-Jan-1955 ABC Sun

2.15 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE GOLDEN FLOWER

09-Jan-1955 ABC Sun

2.16 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE UNBLUSHING BRIDE

16-Jan-1955 ABC Sun

Guest cast:
Barbara Eiler
Robert Clarke
Ross Elliott
Kip Davidson
Synopsis:
A woman dumps her boyfriend at the altar for a rich man.

2.17 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE HOUSE ON JUDAS STREET

23-Jan-1955 ABC Sun

Guest cast:
Jean Byron
Synopsis:
A young schoolteacher is terrified by the mysterious

goings-on in the house where she boards.
Syndication airing on Film Drama KLZ-7,

 Denver, CO Tuesday 14Jun 60 10:30 p.m. MDT [JBeer]

2.18 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: OTTO AND THE COAT

30-Jan-1955 ABC Sun

Guest cast:
Hans Conried ..... Otto
Synopsis:
A struggling theatrical producer buys a coat in a thrift shop

and a miracle occurs as his luck turns around.

2.19 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: AND NEVER COME BACK

06-Feb-1955 ABC Sun

Hosted by Polly Bergen
Guest cast:
Laura Elliott

Synopsis:
An estranged wife attempts reconciliation with her husband.
Syndication airing on Film Drama, KLZ-7 Denver, CO Thurs.

16Jun 60 10:30 p.m. MDT [JBeer]
*Note: (Laura Elliott changed her name to Kasey Rogers,

 better known as Louise Tate from "Bewitched")

2.20 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: PALS TO THE END

13-Feb-1955 ABC Sun

starring

Brian Keith

Robert Armstrong

Norman Keats
Evelyn Scott

Synopsis:

A group of vicious fortune-hunters tries to get  a grizzled old prospector to

reveal the location of the rich mineral deposit he has just discovered. [RF]

Synopsis 2:
Two men seek a rich mine in the Western desert country.

But the prospect of wealth has its effect on both. [JBeer]
Syndication airing on Famous Playhouse 26Sep68,

 WTCN-11 Mpls-St.Paul, MN 10:30 am.

2.21 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE VANISHING SUITOR

20-Feb-1955 ABC Sun

2.22 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE QUIET WIFE

27-Feb-1955 ABC Sun

written by Lawrence Kimble

directed by Herschel Daugherty

director of photography John MacBurnie

starring

John Howard

Tina Carver

Eleanore Tanin

Howard Wendell

Archie Robbins

Pierre Watkin

Synopsis:

A husband cannot understand the reason behind his wife's fear of making friends.

 She is, unknown to him, leading a double life. [RF]

2.23 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: MISTER DONALD TAKES A RISK

06-Mar-1955 ABC Sun

2.24 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: WAIT FOR GEORGE

13-Mar-1955 ABC Sun

Hosted by Polly Bergen
Guest cast:
Josephine Hutchinson ... Lyddie Hampton
Frank Ferguson ... Dr. Bryce
Walter Baldwin ... George
Norman Leavitt ... Burt
Synopsis:
A woman is terrorized by one of the farmhands

who says he must "wait for George" to return.

2.25 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: A HUSBAND APPEARS

20-Mar-1955 ABC Sun

2.26 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE LONER

27-Mar-1955 ABC Sun

Hosted by Polly Bergen

starring

Peter Votrain

Anna Lee

Hayden Rorke

Synopsis:
A boy neglected by his parents goes into his own fantasy world.
 

2.27 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: PASSAGE HOME

03-Apr-1955 ABC Sun

Hosted by Polly Bergen

starring

Brian Keith ...... Passenger

John Doucette ...... Captain

Jean Howell ....... Native Girl

Synopsis:

A steamship passenger is forced into drastic action when

the captain robs him and his fellow passengers and leaves

them stranded on an island. [RF]

2.28 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: PETERSEN'S EYE (film)

10-Apr-1955 ABC Sun

Hosted by Polly Bergen

starring

Robert Ellenstein ....... Pete

Herbert Patterson ....... Rutherford

Synopsis:

A man who happened to be too close to an atomic blast discovers that it has left him

with the power to see the future. A bum urges him to use his gift for personal gain. [RF]

2.29 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE HOUSE WHERE TIME STOPPED (film)

17-Apr-1955 ABC Sun

written by John McGreevey

directed by Herschel Daugherty

Hosted by Polly Bergen

starring

Vera Miles ....... Daughter

Josephine Hutchinson ....... Sister

Ian Keith ....... Brother

Synopsis:

If the man's long-lost daughter hadn't arrived on the scene, time would have remained

at a standstill for the brother and sister, alone in an old house.

*Note:

Cool and blonde, Vera Miles first caught Alfred Hitchcock's eye playing a
woman of mystery in "The House Where Time Stopped." Within days the
director had signed the former beauty pageant queen to an exclusive
five-year contract and set about remaking her as "the girl who is going to
replace Grace Kelly" (who, to his disappointment, had given up Hollywood
for Monaco). "I think the reason I was so impressed with her to begin with
was that I saw her in black and white on television," he later told
costume designer Edith Head, whom he instructed--with an obsessiveness
fully documented in Vertigo --on all the minute details of Miles's
makeover, including a complete wardrobe in shades of gray to emulate his
initial vision of her on television. [RF]

2.30 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE LADY CHALLENGES

24-Apr-1955 ABC Sun

Hosted by Polly Bergen
starring

Eve Miller ....... the Woman

Eleanor Tanin ....... the Friend

Craig Stevens ....... the Man

Synopsis:

There is a reason behind an ambitious woman's scorn for all those who

cannot keep pace with her drive toward success. [RF]

2.31 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE LONGEST LEGS IN SHOW

01-May-1955 ABC Sun

(aka The Longest Legs in the Town)

Hosted by Polly Bergen
starring
Frances Farwell
Synopsis:
A tall chorus girl has a hard time finding a man her own size. [RF]

2.32 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: STAKE MY LIFE [verified SC]

08-May-1955 ABC Sun

Directed By John English
Story & Teleplay By James Gunn
Guest cast:
Lynn Bari ......... Linda Rainey
Hugh Beaumont ..... Jeff Rainey
Claude Akins ...... Carl
Steven Geray ...... Martin
Nana Bryant ....... Adele
Simon Scott ....... Capt. Mathews
Arthur Millan ..... The Detective

Synopsis:

A wife is too ambitious for her husband's career.

Before she is through she is even mixed up with murder. [SC]

*Special thanks to Sal Crisanti for the episode details.

2.33 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE MAN NOBODY WANTED (film)

15-May-1955 ABC Sun

Hosted by Polly Bergen
starring

Bruce Bennett ....... Peter Triton

Barton MacLane ....... Captain Hansen

Tom Drake ....... John Black

Claude Akins ....... Saracki

Bill Haade ....... Hennessey

George Givot ....... Pruneda

Edward Colmans ....... Fillipo

Synopsis:

A seaman aboard a ship gets into trouble because of his notorious past

and is not allowed by any country to land. [RF]

2.34 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: AUSTRALIAN SEARCH (film)

22-May-1955 ABC Sun

Hosted by Polly Bergen
Synopsis:

An American adventurer, on a strange mission for a Hollywood producer, seeks

an escaped fugitive, hiding out somewhere along the Australian coast. [RF]

2.35 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE BOY WITH THE BEAUTIFUL MOTHER  (film)

29-May-1955 ABC Sun

Hosted by Polly Bergen
starring

Peter Votrian ....... Paul

Jean Byron ....... Teacher

Ross Bagdasarian ....... Father

Natalie Norwick ....... Mother

Synopsis:

A brilliant student dreads the day when the teachers and classmates must meet his parents.

 He's ashamed of them because they're immigrants. [RF]

2.36 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: THE BOY AND THE COACH

05-Jun-1955 ABC Sun

Hosted by Polly Bergen
Former pro football stars Elroy Hirsch and Norm Van Brocklin star in this episode.
Synopsis:
A high school coach tries to rehabilitate a youngster injured in a fire. [RF]

Tank Younger, Stan West and the Los Angeles Rams--also has footage

of Chicago Bears in period 1945.

*Note: Syndication airing on "The Turning Point". [JFM]

2.37 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: WOMAN IN THE MINE

12-Jun-1955 ABC Sun (rebroadcast 06Dec55)

starring

Charles Bronson ......... Joe Krossen

2.38 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: I'LL BE WAITING

19-Jun-1955 ABC Sun

Hosted by Polly Bergen
Guest cast:
Ed Kemmer
Synopsis:
A man finds it difficult to tell his disabled girlfriend it's over

and that he has found someone new. [JFM]

2.39 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: NIGHTINGALE

26-Jun-1955 ABC Sun

Hosted by Polly Bergen
 

2.40 [--] Pepsi Cola Playhouse: I LOVE YOU, TRUDY

03-Jul-1955 ABC Sun
starring
Karen Sharpe ............. Trudy
Synopsis:
An ex-boyfriend and thieves keep things humming for a newlywed couple. [RF]

*Note: Syndication airing on Famous Playhouse 27Feb56)

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