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Episode Guide
version 5.0 June 2008

(Ep 1.4, 1.5)
compiled by
The Classic TV Archive
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Stage/2950/

with contributions by:

Tom Alger

J. Fred MacDonald (www.macfilms.com)
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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PLYMOUTH PLAYHOUSE

(originally titled ABC ALBUM  named changed in the third telecast)

 

April 12, 1953 to June 21, 1953

ABC Sun 7:30-8:00

 

Host: Donald Cook

in association with John Rust Productions

 

Three of the episodes went on to become series of their own.

1) Jamie starring Brandon De Wilde on ABC.

2) Colonel Humphrey Flack starring Alan Mowbray for Dumont.

3) Justice starring Paul Douglas and Lee Grant for NBC.

 

Some of the productions were live others filmed.

 

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1.01 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: JUSTICE

12-Apr-1953

written by Halsted Welles

directed by Ralph Nelson

Host: Donald Cook

starring

Paul Douglas

Lee Grant

John Lehne

John Seymour

Barbara Townsend

Synopsis:

Here, Justice, based on the files of the Legal Aid Society.

The plot concerns a wife's discovery that her husband is a bigamist.

Introduction by Judge Learned Hand

Justice became a series, but on NBC, in 1954. [RF]

 

1.02 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: MISTER GLENCANNON TAKES ALL

19-Apr-1953

written by Alvin Sapinsley

directed by Sir Cedric Hardwicke

starring

Robert Newton

 

1.03 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: JAMIE

26-Apr-1953

written by David Swift

directed by Curt Conway

producer Herbert Brodkin

starring

Brandon de Wilde as Jamie

Ernest Truex

Polly Rowles

Eva Marie Saint

Adnia Rice

Eda Heineman

Charles Kuhn

David Winters

Neil Harrison

Synopsis:

Heartwarmingly touching and comic tale of a young boy in search of a place

 to unpack his suitcase. Pilot for the 1953-1954 series Jamie, in which an orphaned

 boy moves in with his aunt and grandfather. [RF]

 

1.04 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: A TALE OF TWO CITIES Part 1 [verified on film]

03-May-1953

Executive producer, Cecil Barker
Producer Robert M. Banker
Adapted by John Vlahos
From the story by Charles Dickens
Directed by Dik Darley
original music by Dmitri Tiomkin
Host: Whit Bissell
starring
Wendell Corey ...... Sydney Carton
Wanda Hendrix ...... Lucie Manette
Murray Matheson .... Dr. Alexander Manette
Carleton Young ..... Charles Darnay
Esther Dale ........ Pross
Paul Cavanagh ...... Mr. Stryver
Jerry LaZarre ...... Baraud
Norman Budd ........ Jerry Cruncher
Ted Stanhope ....... The Judge
Colin Kenny ........ The Bailiff
Larry Williams ..... The Barrister
*
Art Director ....... Al Goodman
Music Director ..... Rex Koury
Production Manager.. Darrell Ross
Lighting Directors.. Alex Quirona & Truck Krone
Audio Engineer ..... Kenneth Grinde
Technical Director.. Irwin Stanton
*
Synopsis:
The London Story of 1780 London recovering

from the war of the New Colonies.

Part 2 the story continues with Paris recovering from the fall

of the Bastille and the dawn of beheading.

 

1.05 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: A TALE OF TWO CITIES Part 2 [verified on film]

10-May-1953

Executive producer, Cecil Barker
Producer Robert M. Banker
Adapted by John Vlahos
From the story by Charles Dickens
Directed by Dik Darley
Original music by Dmitri Tiomkin
Host: Whit Bissell
starring
Wendell Corey ...... Sydney Carton
Wanda Hendrix ...... Lucie Manette
Judith Evelyn ...... Therese Defarge
Murray Matheson .... Dr. Alexander Manette
Carleton Young ..... Charles Darnay
Esther Dale ........ Pross
Lucille Pierlot .... The Seamstress
Bob Foulk .......... Ernest Defarge
Jerry LaZarre ...... Baraud
Norman Budd ........ Jerry Cruncher
Constance Cavendish ..... Regiene
Ivan Triesault ..... The President
*
Art Director ....... Al Goodman
Music Director ..... Rex Koury
Production Manager.. Darrell Ross
Lighting Directors.. Alex Quirona & Truck Krone
Audio Engineer ..... Kenneth Grinde
Technical Director.. Irwin Stanton
*
Synopsis:
The Paris Story 1789.

*NOTE: Special guest host Whit Bissell announces

 that next week Host Donald Cook will return.

 

1.06 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: HOGAN'S DAUGHTER

17-May-1953

 Host Donald Cook

starring

Sheila Bond

 

1.07 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: FOUR STORIES

24-May-1953

starring

Boris Karloff

Philip Truex

Kyle MacDonnell

1) The Chase starring Boris Karloff

 

1.08 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: COLONEL HUMPHREY J. FLACK

31-May-1953

starring

Alan Mowbray ........ Colonel Humphrey J. Flack

Constance Ford

Synopsis:

Colonel Humphrey J. Flack swindler of all swindlers finagles his way

thru life's up's and downs. Known to his friends as the

fabulous fraud.

*Note: This was the pilot for the series.

 

1.09 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: THE SPLIT SECOND

07-Jun-1953

starring

Alan Webb

Geraldine Fitzgerald

 

1.10 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: BABY AND ME

14-Jun-1953

written by Frank Gabrielson

starring

Janis Paige

Robert Preston

Stanley Prager

Synopsis:

Comedy about a family whose members undergo a metamorphosis when

the daughter of the house wins a beautiful child contest. [RF]

*Note: Frank Gabrielson was the writer of "Mama".

 

1.11 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: THE TURNING POINT

21-Jun-1953

written by Halsted Welles

starring

Neva Patterson

Richard Kelly

Johnny Stewart

Richard Ney

Synopsis:

Story of violence among teenagers.

 

1.12 [--] Plymouth Playhouse: JETFIGHTER

28-Jun-1953

Narrated by Jackson Beck
starring
John Granger
Tige Andrews (as Tiger Andrews)
Ben Hammer
Synopsis:
Story of an American flyer in trouble over the Russian occupied zone in Germany.

 Filmed at Maguire Air Force Base, Fort Dix, N.J. [TA]
 

[--] Plymouth Playhouse: DREAM JOB

17-Jul-1953

starring

Vincent Price

Joan Leslie
Synopsis:
Joan is hired as a secretary by Price. [JFM]
*Note: Aired on Hollywood Half Hour on ABC.

 

[--] Plymouth Playhouse: OUTLAWS RECKONING

written by Halsted Welles

 

[--] Plymouth Playhouse: SKETCHBOOK

written by John Collier & Dorothy Parker & Stephen Vincent Benet & Saki

 

[--] Plymouth Playhouse: RETICENCE OF LADY ANNE

starring

Boris Karloff

 

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