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Matinee Theater S3 E38
Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.
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Father Come Home
Villa of the Angels
A Tone of Time
Almost Any Man Will Do
Sing for Me
Run for the Money
Lest We Forget
The Glass Hill
Out of the Frying Pan
The Last Stop
The Weak and the Strong
Nine-Finger Jack
Elementals
Plummer in Paradise
Something About a Dollar
Return in Winter
Grandmama and Grandfather
Aesop and Rhodope
All Over the World
The Ransom of Sigmund Freud
Iris
Remember Me Kindly
The Embassy House
Witness to Murder
The Johnson House
Cadenza
Green Shores
A Question of Balance
Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent
The Conversation Tables
Out of My Darkness
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
The Broom and the Groom
A Cloud for Jeni
The Consul
The Old Friend
Give Me a Wand
The Sure Thing
Dark of the Moon
The Giver and the Gift
No Time for Comedy
Gentleman of Fortune
The Gentleman Caller
Tender Leaves
In 25 Words or Less
Sara Crewe
Amahl and the Night Visitors
The Little Minister
Daughter of Kings
The Survival Kit
The House with the Golden Street
The Europeans
The Collected Letters of Mr. Sage
Two-Picture Deal
The Great Obstacle Courtship
A Chance to Die
Home on the Range
The Makropoulos Secret
More Than a Man
Something Stolen, Something New
Thunderbolt
Daisy Mayne
The Man Who Wanted to Hate
The Golden Fleecing
Forever and Ever
Decision
Solider's Boy
The Man with Pointed Toes
Love Out of Town
Cave-In
The Iceman
The Long, Long Laugh
Man Without a Country
The Odd Ones
Monsieur Beaucaire
Life Upon the Wicked Stage
Without Fear or Favor
The Third Person
Eden End
The 10th Muse
Goodbye on Thursday
Heart's Desire
Marriage of Convenience
The Suicide Club
The 65th Floor
The Hickory Heart
The Devil's Violin
Wednesday's Child
Vigilante
The Prophet Hosea
Mrs. Moonlight
With Love We Live
You and I
Career Angel
Contingent Fire
Anxious Night
On Approval
Dandy Dick
Hush, Mahala, Hush
O'Rourke's House
The Alleyway
The Vagabond
The Silver Spider
Design for Glory
The Inspector General
The Two Mrs. Carrolls
The Velvet Glove
Death Takes a Holiday
Man of the House
A Case of Fear
Walk in the Sky
The Canterville Ghost
Found Money
Washington Whispers Money
A Boy Grows Up
Phony Venus
Some Blessed People
The Quiet Street
The Quest of Quesnay
Angel Street
The Cause
Much Ado About Nothing, Part 1
Much Ado About Nothing, Part 2
Day of Discoveries
The Young and the Fair
The Riddle of Mary Murray
Button Button
The End of the Season
Look Out for John Tucker
The Road to Recovery
The Nightbird's Crying
The Story of Marcia Gordon
Town in Turmoil
Washington Square
Course for Collision
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