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Screen Director's Playhouse(1955)

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First Air Date: 1955-10-05
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 7.0
Votes: 5
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 35

Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.

Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 35
E01
Meet The Governor

Air Date: 1955-10-05

30m

A "bumpkin-type" lawyer runs for governor until the opposition digs into his past.

E02
Day is Done

Air Date: 1955-10-12

30m

During the catastrophic 1951 retreat of American troops in Korea, a recruit finds a Chinese bugle. His sargeant then ...

E03
Midsummer Daydream

Air Date: 1955-10-19

30m

A young man who wants desperately to get married finds "The Girl" in, of all places, a marriage license bureau. But t...

E04
Arroyo

Air Date: 1955-10-26

30m

A small New Mexican town enjoys a reasonably peaceful existence under the rule of self-appointed judge Lamar Kendall....

E05
Want ad Wedding

Air Date: 1955-11-02

30m

A young naval officer, alone in a strange city, is planning to be married. Having no friends in town, he places an ad...

E06
The Life of Vernon Hathaway

Air Date: 1955-11-09

30m

A meek little watch repairman daydreams himself into exciting adventures. When his alter ego takes over, he begins li...

E07
The Final Tribute

Air Date: 1955-11-16

30m

A nurse in a small-town doctor's office protests the attitude of the new young physician. His cold, impersonal treatm...

E08
The Brush Roper

Air Date: 1955-11-23

30m

Grandpa Atkins tries to live up to his tales of former glory as a cowpoke. He learns a dangerous bull is at large in ...

E09
Tom and Jerry

Air Date: 1955-11-30

30m

It's Christmas Eve at the Macy house. Tom Macy plays Santa for he and wife Jerry's little boy, Tommy. It is obvious t...

E10
Rookie of the Year

Air Date: 1955-12-07

30m

A small-town newspaper sports writer harbors an ambition to work for a big city daily. He sees his chance to achieve ...

E11
Lincoln's Doctor's Dog

Air Date: 1955-12-14

30m

Discouraged and saddened by the War Between the States, President Lincoln is cheered by the gift of a puppy from his ...

E12
The Silent Partner

Air Date: 1955-12-21

30m

Watching the TV broadcast of the Academy Awards presentation, a faded actress realizes that the patron at another tab...

E13
Titanic Incident

Air Date: 1955-12-28

30m

A cardsharp and his wife aboard the Titanic on its fateful last voyage pick a wealthy Britisher as their pigeon. The ...

E14
Hot Cargo

Air Date: 1956-01-04

30m

A chorus girl, stranded in a waterfront town in the Orient, is befriended by the skipper of a freighter. She marries ...

E15
It's Always Sunday

Air Date: 1956-01-11

30m

A kindly minister who believes in doing good for the unfortunate befriends a pair of itinerants who arrive in town.

E16
Number Five Checked Out

Air Date: 1956-01-18

30m

A young deaf woman is left alone to look after the resort cabins owned by her father. Two dangerous bank robbers move...

E17
Prima Donna

Air Date: 1956-02-01

30m

A philanthropic concert artist takes an interest in a 13-year-old newsboy with an outstanding singing voice. She runs...

E18
Cry Justice

Air Date: 1956-02-15

30m

Bitter because his law partner married the woman he loved, a man plots his own disappearance, making it appear he has...

E19
Affair in Sumatra

Air Date: 1956-02-22

30m

A beautiful half-caste girl is torn between love for her people and love for a man.

E20
One Against Many

Air Date: 1956-03-07

30m

A scientist devoted to saving lives is faced with a difficult decision: he may be forced to kill in order to prevent ...

E21
It's a Most Unusual Day

Air Date: 1956-03-14

30m

A married couple take in a night club show starring Jimmy McHugh, and are prompted by his melodies to relive their past.

E22
The Sword Of Villon

Air Date: 1956-04-04

30m

The swashbuckling poet Francois Villon fights for love and liberty while preventing the assassination of the King of ...

E23
Markheim

Air Date: 1956-04-11

30m

Late on Christmas Day, a man coaxes an antiques shopkeeper to let him in under the pretense of needing a gift for his...

E24
Claire

Air Date: 1956-04-25

30m

A young doctor brings his second wife to his lakeside home to live. She is taunted by the presence of his pet cat, wh...

E25
A Ticket For Thaddeus

Air Date: 1956-05-09

30m

A humble refugee from war-torn Poland has never been able to shed his fear of anyone in uniform. When the immigrant i...

E26
The Dream

Air Date: 1956-05-16

30m

In France in 1887 an impressionable youth gives his mother cause for alarm. The young man has a recurrent dream in wh...

E27
What Day is it?

Air Date: 1956-06-06

30m

A husband and wife dance team bicker backstage when the husband can't remember what special date his wife is observin...

E28
Every Man Had Two Wives

Air Date: 1956-06-13

30m

In the spring, when one gentleman's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of a former love, his wife decides to take drasti...

E29
Partners

Air Date: 1956-07-04

30m

A rodeo star befriends an orphan boy who yearns to compete.

E30
White Corridors

Air Date: 1956-07-11

30m

An American tourist in London accompanies a friend to the hospital for an emergency operation. At the hospital, she c...

E31
The Carroll Formula

Air Date: 1956-07-18

30m

A college professor stumbled across a fantastic formula for reducing the size of things in the unpublished mathematic...

E32
Apples on the Lilac Tree

Air Date: 1956-07-25

30m

A couple's peculiar marital arrangement is the talk of the town. It seems that the husband loves to do the housework,...

E33
Bitter Waters

Air Date: 1956-08-01

30m

In a fashionable German resort at the turn of the century, a wealthy young American touring Europe with his uncle mee...

E34
The Day I met Caruso

Air Date: 1956-09-05

30m

On a train between Boston and New York, a ten-year-old Quaker girl meets Enrico Caruso. She takes him to task for his...

E35
High Air

Air Date: 1956-09-12

30m

Long separated, a river-tunnel foreman and his son come face to face during an under-river disaster which almost take...

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