ABC Stage 67(1966)
DramaDocumentary
First Air Date: 1966-09-14
Average Runtime: 1h 0m
Rating: 6.8
Votes: 6
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 27
ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and original musicals. It premiered on American Broadcasting Company on September 14, 1966 with Murray Schisgal's The Love Song of Barney Kempinksi, directed by Stanley Prager and starring Alan Arkin as a man enjoying the sights and sounds of New York City in his last remaining hours of bachelorhood. Arkin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama and the program was nominated as Outstanding Dramatic Program. Future programs included appearances by Petula Clark, Bobby Darin, Sir Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Peter Sellers, David Frost, and Jack Paar. ABC's effort to bring culture to the masses was a noble but unsuccessful experiment. Scheduled first against I Spy on Wednesdays and then The Dean Martin Show on Thursdays, the show consistently received low ratings. Its last production, an adaptation of Jean Cocteau's one-woman play The Human Voice starring Ingrid Bergman, aired on May 4, 1967. "Stage 67" was not actually a part of the primary ABC facilities in Los Angeles. It was produced at the old Monogram Studios backlot that was later sold to KCET.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 27E01
The Love Song of Barney Kempinski
Air Date: 1966-09-14
Barney Kempinski, thirtyish and contentedly self-unemployed, leaves his Lower East Side apartment smiling and happy. ...
E02
Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn
Air Date: 1966-09-21
Otto Hoffman, a small time West German manufacturer, is a weakling-mercilessly henpecked by his two spinster cousins ...
E03
Where It's At
Air Date: 1966-09-28
Dick Cavett hosts this comedy musical revue. Guests include comedians Ann Elder, Ronnie Schell, Larry Hovis and Pat M...
E04
The Kennedy Wit
Air Date: 1966-10-05
President Kennedy's speeches were filled with ringing rhetoric-and also with wit and humor that was eloquent and subt...
E05
Olympus 7-0000
Air Date: 1966-10-12
Original musical, songs by Richard Adler, about the world's worst football team, transformed into an unbeatable power...
E06
The Confession
Air Date: 1966-10-19
This drama probes the dilemma of a police officer who goes beyond the letter of the law to find the truth. Young Car...
E07
The Canterville Ghost
Air Date: 1966-11-02
Original musical version of the Oscar Wilde story with music and lyrics by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. U. S. Amb...
E08
The People Trap
Air Date: 1966-11-09
Story was about a young couple living in one of those overpopulated futures where you have to have a special permit t...
E09
Evening Primrose
Air Date: 1966-11-16
This original musical, with songs by Stephen Sondheim, is a story about a poet, Charles Snell, who decides to drop ou...
E10
Noon Wine
Air Date: 1966-11-23
Royal Earle Thompson's small dairy farm in West Texas isn't a thriving enterprise until he takes on Olaf Helton, a mo...
E11
The Legend of Marilyn Monroe
Air Date: 1966-11-30
Documentary about Marilyn Monroe.
E12
On The Flip Side
Air Date: 1966-12-07
An original rock musical, with songs by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, about a washed up teen idol (Nelson) who is coa...
E13
The Brave Rifles
Air Date: 1966-12-14
Documentary about the Battle of the Bulge.
E14
A Christmas Memory
Air Date: 1966-12-21
Classic Capote story set in a small Alabama town where he was sent to live with relatives. The young Capote (Buddy) ...
E15
The Trap of Solid Gold
Air Date: 1967-01-04
Ben Weldon is an ambitious businessman on the fast track to success. The company he works for expects him to live th...
E16
Sex in the Sixties
Air Date: 1967-01-12
Documentary about the changing sexual manners and mores of the 1960's. Participating in the discussion are Drs. Willi...
E17
General Eisenhower on The Military Churchill
Air Date: 1967-01-26
Alistair Cooke spent three days at Eisenhower's farm in Gettyburg, Pennsylvania interviewing the former President abo...
E18
David Frost's Night Out in London
Air Date: 1967-02-02
In foggy, swinging London, satirist David Frost introduces viewers to the late-life of the most 'in' town in the worl...
E19
The Light Fantastic
Air Date: 1967-02-09
Lauren Bacall and John Forsythe star in this lighthearted look at dancing in the United States. The show is subtitle...
E20
C'est La Vie
Air Date: 1967-02-23
Musical revue taped in Paris. Songs included: What The World Needs Now / Walking Happy / Just In Time / I Love Par...
E21
Rodgers and Hart Today
Air Date: 1967-03-02
Salute to the songs of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. All music program with no spoken dialogue. Songs include: ...
E22
The American Boy
Air Date: 1967-03-09
Three short films which tell stories about three completely different adolescent boys: one living in the city; one in...
E23
I'm Getting Married
Air Date: 1967-03-16
Original musical, with songs by Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, about a couple soon to be married and thei...
E24
A Time For Laughter: A Look at Negro Humor in America
Air Date: 1967-04-06
Singer-actor Harry Belafonte produced this showcase of Negro humor, satire and self-parody. Sketches: A suburban coup...
E25
The Wide Open Door
Air Date: 1967-04-20
Twins Jane and Jill Marriott are beautiful and criminal. Story concerns their efforts to rob a jewelry store.
E26
The Human Voice
Air Date: 1967-05-03
Ingrid Bergman plays a middle-aged woman going through a psychological crisis as a love affair ends. French playwrigh...
E27
Eat The Document
Air Date: N/A
Documentary about Bob Dylan's 1966 tour of Europe. This was the tour where he ""went electric"". Appearing with him...
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