The Classic TV Archive - US Dramatic Anthology Series

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Episode Guide
version 3.0 January 2008
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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THE PRUDENTIAL FAMILY PLAYHOUSE
 

October 10,1950 to March 27, 1951

CBS Tuesdays 8:00-9:00

Live Dramatic Presentations

(aired on alternate Tuesdays with 'Sure As Fate').

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1.01 [--] The Prudential Family Playhouse: BIOGRAPHY

10Oct1950 CBS Tue

adapted from the S.N. Behrman play

guest stars

Gertrude Lawrence as Marion Forsythe

Kevin McCarthy as Richard 'Dickie' Kurt

Hiram Sherman as Leonard 'Bunny' Nolan

Synopsis:

A magazine editor convinces a well know artist to publish her memoirs.

The resulting consternation of her former lover, now a respectably married politician,

is balanced by the editor falling for the woman in spite of his disdain for that type of woman.

1.02 [--] The Prudential Family Playhouse: DODSWORTH

24Oct1950 CBS Tue

written by Sidney Howard

based on a novel by Sinclair Lewis

guest stars

Ruth Chatterton as Fran Dodsworth

Walter Abel as Sam Dodsworth

Cliff Hall as Arnold Iselin

Eva Marie Saint as Emily

Synopsis:

The story of Midwest industrialist who lets his youth obsessed wife bully him into retirement

and a grand European tour, eventually seeing through her, her promiscuity, and the

pretensions of European society and leaving for a civilized widow.

1.03 [--] The Prudential Family Playhouse: CALL IT A DAY

07Nov1950 CBS Tue

adapted from the play by Dodie Smith

guest stars

Peggy Ann Garner as Cathi Hilton

Kay Francis as Dorothy Hilton

John Loder as Roger Hilton

John McQuade as Frank Haines

Synopsis:

After a tumultuous affair with a married man, Cathi pines to be a bride, alas her

poor mother ends up being mistaken as the prospective bride.

1.04 [--] The Prudential Family Playhouse: THREE MEN ON A HORSE

21Nov1950 CBS Tue

adapted from the play by George Abbott & John Cecil Holm

guest stars

Hiram Sherman as Edwin Trowbridge

1.05 [--] The Prudential Family Playhouse: THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET

05Dec1950 CBS Tue

adapted from the play by Rudolph Besier

guest stars

Helen Hayes as Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett

Bethel Leslie as Henrietta Moulton-Barrett

Gene Lockhart as Edward Moulton-Barrett

Robert Pastene as Robert Browning

Synopsis:

Story about 19th century English poet Elizabeth Barrett, a semi-invalid, who finds romance

 with fellow poet Robert Browning, much to the dismay of her controlling father.

1.06 [--] The Prudential Family Playhouse: OVER 21

19Dec1950 CBS Tue

adapted from the play by Ruth Gordon

guest stars

Ruth Gordon as Paula Wharton

Paul Stewart as Max Wharton

Synopsis:

Based on Ruth Gordon's story about her husband Garson Kanin, joining the armed forces.

1.07 [--] The Prudential Family Playhouse: BURLESQUE

02Jan1951 CBS Tue

adapted from the play by George Manker Watters & Arthur Hopkins

guest stars

Bert Lahr as Ralph 'Skid' Johnson

Carol Stone as Bonny

Donald Curtis

Haila Stoddard

Synopsis:

Vaudevillians Skid and Bonny are partners onstage and off. When success comes

to comedian Skid, he develops an oversized ego and a taste for booze. With help from

friends, he gets back on the stage and reclaims his place in Bonny's act and in heart.

NOTE: Adapted from the play by George Manker Watters and Arthur Hopkins.

1.08 [--] The Prudential Family Playhouse: SKYLARK

16Jan1951 CBS Tue

adapted from the play by Samson Raphelson

guest stars

Gertrude Lawrence as Lydia Kenyon

Donald Cook as Tony Kenyon

Haila Stoddard as Myrtle Valentine

John McQuade as Harley Valentine

Donald Curtis as Bill Blake

Synopsis:

Sophisticated romantic comedy about a neglected wife who decides to divorce

her workaholic husband. She has an affair with a playboy that turns sour and

decides to return to her husband.

1.09 [--] The Prudential Family Playhouse: ICEBOUND

30Jan1951 CBS Tue

adapted from the play by Owen Davis

guest stars

Jessica Tandy as Jane Crosby

Kevin McCarthy as Ben Jordan

1.10 [--] The Prudential Family Playhouse: BERKELEY SQUARE

13Feb1951 CBS Tue

guest stars

Richard Greene as Peter Standish

Grace Kelly as Helen Pettigrew

Rosalind Ivan as Lady Ann Pettigrew

Mary Scott as Kate Pettigrew

1.11 [--] The Prudential Family Playhouse: RUGGLES OF RED GAP

27Feb1951 CBS Tue

adapted from the play by Harry Leon Wilson

guest stars

Cyril Ritchard as Marmaduke 'Bill' Ruggles

Glenda Farrell as Effie Flound

Walter Abel as Egbert Flound

1.12 [--] The Prudential Family Playhouse: ONE SUNDAY AFTERNOON

13Mar1951 CBS Tue

adapted from the play by James Hagen

guest stars

Richard Carlson as Timothy Lucius 'Biff' Grimes

June Lockhart as Amy Lind

Virginia Gilmore as Virginia Brush

1.13 [--] The Prudential Family Playhouse: THE BISHOP MISBEHAVES

27Mar1951 CBS Tue

adapted from the play by Frederick Jackson

guest stars

Walter Hampden as James, Bishop of Broadminster

Dorothy Gish as Lady Emily Lyons

 

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