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Episode Guide
version 12.0 January 2008

(General Update)
compiled by
The Classic TV Archive
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Stage/2950/

with contributions by:

J. Fred MacDonald (www.macfilms.com)

Tom Alger
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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YOUR FAVORITE STORY

a Ziv Production

(Syndicated title 1957-58, Favorite Story)

1953-1954

78 episodes

Hosted and Narrated by Adolphe Menjou

(Adolphe Menjou also acted in several episodes)

Adapted from the 1946-49 radio series "Favorite Story" hosted by Ronald Colman.

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1.01 [--] Your Favorite Story: HOW MUCH LAND DOES A MAN NEED?

11-Jan-1953

adapted from a story by Tolstoy

starring

Raymond Burr

1.02 [--] Your Favorite Story: THE MAGICIAN

18-Jan-1953

starring

Regis Toomey

Anita Louise

1.03 [--] Your Favorite Story: no details

25-Jan-1953

1.04 [--] Your Favorite Story: no details

01-Feb-1953

1.05 [--] Your Favorite Story: PHANTOM RICKSHAW

08-Feb-1953

story by Rudyard Kipling

starring

Anne Kimbell

Edward Morris

1.06 [--] Your Favorite Story: no details

15-Feb-1953

1.07 [--] Your Favorite Story: THE CRIME OF SYLVESTER BONNARD

22-Feb-1953

starring

Ralph Morgan

1.08 [--] Your Favorite Story: no details

01-Mar-1953

1.09 [--] Your Favorite Story: no details

08-Mar-1953

1.10 [--] Your Favorite Story: THE GAMBLER

15-Mar-1953 (rerun 10Jan54)

Based on the story by Feodor Dostoevski

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
starring
Adolphe Menjou
Adeline deWalt Reynolds
Todd Karns
Margaret Field

Synopsis:

A man patiently waits for his mother to die in order to inherit her fortune. [RF]

Synopsis 2:
A general waits at a casino for his rich mother to die but she shows up at the club. [RF]

1.11 [--] Your Favorite Story: no details

22-Mar-1953

1.12 [--] Your Favorite Story: no details

29-Mar-1953

1.13 [--] Your Favorite Story: THE COPPER PENNY

05-Apr-1953

starring

Henry Hull

1.14 [--] Your Favorite Story: JACK OF HEARTS
12-Apr-1953
From a Pushkin story
directed by Eddie Davis
starring
Tris Coffin [JFM]

1.15 [--] Your Favorite Story: THE CANTERVILLE GHOST

19-Apr-1953

Based on the story by Oscar Wilde
Hosted by Adolphe Menjou

starring
John Qualen
Mary Ellen Kay
Synopsis:
A group of American soldiers getting ready to fight during World War II

are billeted in Canterville Castle and a very gregarious ghost. [RF]

1.16 [--] Your Favorite Story: BORN UNTO TROUBLE

26-Apr-1953

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou

starring

Robert Blake

Noah Beery
Synopsis:
An ex-convict's efforts to live within the law are continually being thwarted. [RF]

1.17 [--] Your Favorite Story: THE WORLD BEYOND

03-May-1953

starring

Billy Halop

1.18 [--] Your Favorite Story: TURTLE ISLAND

10-May-1953

starring

Billy Halop

1.19 [--] Your Favorite Story: no details

17-May-1953

1.20 [--] Your Favorite Story: COLONEL CHABERT

24-May-1953

story by Honore de Balzac

starring

Gertrude Michael

1.21 [--] Your Favorite Story: THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SHADOW

31-May-53

starring

DeForest Kelley

1.xx [--] Your Favorite Story: no details

12-Jun-1953

1.xx [--] Your Favorite Story: THE POSTMISTRESS (film)
19-Jun-1953
story by Anna Nicholas
starring
Shirley Patterson
Synopsis:
The widow of a mining explosion rescue hero is made postmistress. [RF]

1.xx [--] Your Favorite Story: no details

03-Jul-1953

1.xx [--] Your Favorite Story: THE DIAMOND LENS (film)

10-Jul-1953 (original airdate) (Chicago 9:30 pm channel 2, CBS)

Based on the story by Fitz-James O'Brien

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou

starring

Ronald Randolph (Donald Randolph)
Richard Simmons

Synopsis:

A scientist kills a man to obtain a diamond. [TA]

Synopsis 2:
Pursuit of a perfect microscopic lens helps a scientist (Donald Randolph)

discover a new universe. [RF]

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2.05 [--] Your Favorite Story: FACE OF PARIS

03-Jan-1954

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou

starring

Suzanne Flon

Gilles Queant

Synopsis:
A former French underground agent finds that a friend she'd thought

dead is still alive but he refuses to recognize her. [RF]

2.06 [--] Your Favorite Story: THE GAMBLER

10-Jan-1954 CBS Sun (rerun from15Mar53)

Based on the story by Feodor Dostoevski

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
starring
Adolphe Menjou
Adeline deWalt Reynolds
Todd Karns
Margaret Field

Synopsis:

A man patiently waits for his mother to die in order to inherit her fortune. [RF]

Synopsis 2:
A general waits at a casino for his rich mother to die but she shows up at the club. [RF]

2.xx [--] Your Favorite Story: LADY AND THE LAW
10-May-1954 CBS Sun
starring
Adolphe Menjou
Billy Halop  [JFM]

2.xx [--] Your Favorite Story: THE MAN TRAP
31-May-1954 CBS Sun

(28Jan1958 ABC Syndication airdate on Favorite Story)
adapted by by Herman Cyril McNeille
from a Robert Louis Stevenson story
directed by Lewis Allen
starring
Adolphe Menjou
Victor Sen Yung
Barbara Jean Wong
Synopsis:
Two men attempt to save a former buddy who has joined a suicide club. [JFM]

2.xx [--] Your Favorite Story: STORM CENTER
07Jun1954
From a story by Stephen Crane
Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
Synopsis 1:
An author in search of a story finds one he never hoped for during a fatal hurricane. [RF]

Synopsis 2:

A retired literary genius lives in seclusion until a magazine writer tries to get his story. [RF]
*Note: Sponsored by F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co.

2.25 [--] Your Favorite Story: INSIDE OUT: THE STORY OF BUNDER-RUNDER THE JAILBIRD
02-Aug-1954

(24Mar58 ABC Syndication airdate on Favorite Story)

Adapted from the Story by Laurence Houseman
starring
DeForest Kelley as John Ainslee

Synopsis:
A British newspaperman is imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain and tortured. [RF]

2.30 [--] Your Favorite Story: THE CRIME

20-Sep-1954

Adapted from the Story by Robert William Chambers

starring

Bill Henry

Synopsis:
A returning GI's strange behavior causes his family to suspect him of murder. [RF]

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3.01 [--] Your Favorite Story: THE UNKNOWN

13-Oct-1954

(26Mar58 ABC Syndication airdate on Favorite Story)

Adapted from the Story by Guy de Maupassant

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou

starring
Edith Evanson
Peter Hansen
Synopsis 1:
A wealthy spinster believes an ex-convict is out to kill her. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
A wealthy spinster is in fear of her life. She believes that an ex-convict

she once protected is out to silence her. [RF]

3.xx [--] Your Favorite Story: THE BEDFORD HOUSE CONSPIRACY
08-Dec-1954
Adapted from the Story by William Makepiece Thackeray
directed by Lewis Allen
starring
Adolphe Menjou 

Synopsis:
A senator (Adolphe Menjou) tries to break a Presidential-convention deadlock. [RF]

3.xx [--] Your Favorite Story: THE TURNING POINT

1954
directed by Eddie Davis
starring
Adolphe Menjou
Mae Clarke [JFM]

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[--] Your Favorite Story: THE ADOPTION

1953 airdate unknown
Adapted from the story by Guy de Maupassant
Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
starring
Leonard Nimoy
Larry Craine
Synopsis:
A family feud that arises when a pauper lets his son be raised by a marquesa. [RF]
 

[--] Your Favorite Story: THE BRAVE EYES

1953 airdate unknown

Based on John Kneubuhl's book "The Brave Eyes."
Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
starring
Adolphe Menjou
Synopsis:
Approaching blindness doubles the despair of a fading aristocrat

 (Adolphe Menjou) for whom social status is everything. [RF]

[--] Your Favorite Story: CITY HUNTER

1953 airdate unknown
Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
starring
Robert Emmett Keane
Lewis Martin
Synopsis:
Police are baffled by a series of murders involving young girls:

all the victims have broken necks. [RF]

[--] Your Favorite Story: COLONEL ESTEBAN'S JEWEL

1953 airdate unknown
Adapted from the Story by Alexandre Dumas
Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
starring
Adolphe Menjou
Synopsis:
A Spanish commander is deeply troubled by the actions of one of his

 lieutenants: the man's dueling skill is reducing the regiment's ranks. [RF]
 

[--] Your Favorite Story: CONFLICT

1953 airdate unknown
Based on the story by Jack Rock
Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
starring
Adolphe Menjou
Gloria Talbott
Shepard Menken
Synopsis:
A French chemist refuses to divulge the formula for an explosive

 to Napoleon for use in war. [RF]
Synopsis 2:
An 18th-century French inventor (Adolphe Menjou) refuses to divulge

 his explosive formula to Napoleon for use in war. [RF]

[--] Your Favorite Story: DECISION

1953 unknown airdate
Adapted by Stephen Crane
Based on the Story by John O'Hara
Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
starring
Christine Larsen
Bill Phipps
Synopsis:
A farm girl, believing her brother's story about being framed

for murder, hides him from the police. [RF]
 

[--] Your Favorite Story: DIVIDING LINE

1953 airdate unknown
Adapted by Clarence Budington Kelland
Based on the story by Mark Twain
Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
starring
Russ Conway
John Hamilton
Synopsis:
A penniless gambler has died and left a sack of gold for his benefactor. [RF]
 

[--] Your Favorite Story: DR. MORLEY'S DAUGHTER

1953 unknown airdate
Based on the story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
starring
Keith Richards
Aileen Stanley Jr.
Synopsis:
A young doctor tries to find out why roses suddenly wither

when a scientist's daughter touches them. [RF]
 

[--] Your Favorite Story: THE DYNAMITER

1953 unknown airdate

written by Donn Mullally

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou

starring

Kenneth Tobey

Virginia Gibson

John Doucette

Synopsis:

The leader of the Irish revolutionaries imports a professional dynamiter. [RF]

Synopsis 2:
An Irish revolutionary leader imports an explosives expert to help fight for freedom. [RF]

[--] Your Favorite Story: THE EMPTY HOLSTER

1953 unknown airdate
Adapted from the Story by Stephen Crane
Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
starring
Clark Howat
Robert J. Wilke
Synopsis:
An unarmed sheriff and his new bride are held captive by a ruthless killer. [RF]
 

[--] Your Favorite Story: AN EYE FOR AN EYE

1953 unknown airdate
Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
starring
Adolphe Menjou
Sydney Tafler
Synopsis:
A detective trails a former client to England, unaware that the man witnessed a murder. [RF]
 

[--] Your Favorite Story: THE FURY

1953 unknown airdate
Based on the story by Paul Heyse
Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
starring
John Kellogg
Wanda Hendrix
Synopsis:
An Italian fisherman tries to win over a shy girl who believes men are cruel. [RF]
 

[--] Your Favorite Story: GALLEGHER
1953 unknown airdate
Based on the story by Richard Harding Davis
Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
starring
Bennie Bartlett
Stevan Darrell
Synopsis:
An ambitious copy boy plots the capture of a killer his editor wants a story on. [RF]
 

[--] Your Favorite Story: GOD SEES THE TRUTH

1953 unknown airdate
Based on the story by Leo Tolstoy
Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
starring
George Dolenz
Frank Richards
Synopsis:
After serving 20 years of a life sentence for a murder he didn't commit,

a man seeks vengeance when he meets the real killer. [RF]

[--] Your Favorite Story: THE GOLD BUG

1953 airdate unknown

Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou

starring
Neville Brand
Daniel White
Lloyd Corrigan
Synopsis:
Two former Confederate soldiers on a desolate island bemoan their bad fortune. [RF]

[--] Your Favorite Story: HEROISM

[--] Your Favorite Story: HIGH SEAS

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou

starring
Richard Karlan
Synopsis:
Captain Mazarin learns that the new dictator has ordered him

 to dispose of the late President's son. [RF]

[--] Your Favorite Story: IT COULDN'T HAPPEN

(28Jan58 ABC Syndication airdate on Favorite Story)

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
starring
Peter Hanson
Nancy Gates
Synopsis:
An artist attempts to commit suicide when his paintings won't sell. [RF]
 

[--] Your Favorite Story: JACK OF HEARTS

[--] Your Favorite Story: THE LAST MESSAGE

(25Mar58 ABC Syndication airdate on Favorite Story)

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou

Synopsis:

A physics professor is assigned to assist a genius in her efforts to transmit

electric power without wires. [RF]

[--] Your Favorite Story: LIVE FOREVER

(27Jan58 ABC Syndication airdate on Favorite Story)

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou

Synopsis:
Navy Lt. Felton finds himself in trouble when he is forced

to bail out of his storm-lashed plane. [RF]

[--] Your Favorite Story: THE LOST DUCHESS

story by Julian Hawthorne

[--] Your Favorite Story: THE LOST YEARS
(19Feb1958 syndication on Favorite Story)

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
Synopsis:
Captain George Arden is found alive several years after

 his supposed death on a flying mission. [RF]

[--] Your Favorite Story: THE MAGIC EGG

Adapted from the Story by Frank Stockton

[--] Your Favorite Story: MAGIC FOG

Adapted from the Story by ?

[--] Your Favorite Story: A MARTYR TO SCIENCE (film)
(30Jun56 ABC Syndication airdate on Favorite Story)

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
Synopsis:
A surgeon experiments on a special technique for heart surgery. [RF]

[--] Your Favorite Story: THE MORNING FINGER

[--] Your Favorite Story: MR. DOUBLE

[--] Your Favorite Story: OUT OF DARKNESS

Adapted from the Story by Cale Young Rice and Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
starring
Kay Morley
Synopsis:
A Confederate lieutenant hides a wounded Southern deserter

in his fiancee's barn. [RF]

[--] Your Favorite Story: THE PRISON WITH THE OPEN DOOR

[--] Your Favorite Story: THE REPORTER WHO MADE HIMSELF KING

Story by Richard Harding Davis

[--] Your Favorite Story: THE ROBBERS

Story by Anton Chekhov

[--] Your Favorite Story: THE RUBBER STAMP

(28Mar58 ABC syndication airdate on Favorite Story)

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou

Synopsis:

A man finds himself in serious trouble when he tries to

double-cross a politician. [RF]

[--] Your Favorite Story: THE STORY OF TWO LIVES

[--] Your Favorite Story: STRANGE JOURNEY

story by Mary Roberts Rinehart

[--] Your Favorite Story: THE STRANGE MR. BARTLEBY

story by Herman Melville

[--] Your Favorite Story: STRANGE VALLEY (film)

(18May58 ABC syndication airdate on Favorite Story)

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou

Synopsis:

Adventurer Raoul Martel is injured and knocked unconscious by an avalanche

on an Asiatic mountainside. He awakens to find himself in the strange valley of the blind. [RF]

[--] Your Favorite Story: SUDDEN IMPULSE

(27Mar58 ABC syndication airdate on Favorite Story)

Adapted from the Story by ?

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
Synopsis:
A young surgeon has to decide whether to jeopardize his own future by

saving the life of his injured friend. [RF]

[--] Your Favorite Story: SWORD OF VAGABOND

[--] Your Favorite Story: A TALE OF NEGATIVE GRAVITY

Story by Frank Stockton

[--] Your Favorite Story: THICKER THAN WATER (film)
(20Apr58 ABC syndication airdate on Favorite Story)
Adapted from the Story by Paul Gallico

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
Synopsis:
A couple behind the Iron Curtain operate a railroad to freedom. [RF]

[--] Your Favorite Story: TRANSFERRED GHOST

Story by Frank Stockton

[--] Your Favorite Story: TWENTY-ONE DAYS

Adapted from the Story by ?

[--] Your Favorite Story: THE UNFORESEEN

19Sep55

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou

starring

Jack Raine ........ Mr. Townsend

Peter Hanson ....... Bill

Stapleton Kent ......... William the Smith

Leonard Carey ........ Mr. Chapman

Leo Britt ....... Sergeant

Synopsis:

William the Smith, who, before being executed in 1602, drank a potion

which would revive him centuries later, comes to life in 1902. [RF]

[--] Your Favorite Story: VACANT ROOM

Adapted from the Story by ?

[--] Your Favorite Story: VENGEANCE

(31Jan58 ABC syndication airdate on Favorite Story)
Story by Anton Chekhov
Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
starring
Anthony Caruso
Synopsis:
A young Mexican criminal is about to be hanged. [RF]

[--] Your Favorite Story: VICE VERSA

Hosted by Adolphe Menjou
Synopsis:
A busy industrialist neglects his son. [RF]

[--] Your Favorite Story: WORK OF ART

story by Anton Chekhov

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