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Matinee Theater - Season 1

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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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First Air Date: Oct 31, 1955

Last Air date: Jun 13, 1958

Season: 3 Season

Episode: 574 Episode

Runtime: 60 minutes

IMDb: 3.30/10 by 4.00 users

Popularity: 51.056

Language: English

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Episode Beginning Now Make Believe Mother The Persistent Image I'm Straight with the World Progress and Minnie Sweeney The House on Wildwood Lane Beyond a Reasonable Doubt One for the Road An Apple for Miss Myrtle The Man Without a Country Jigsaw She's the One with the Funny Face All the Hoffmeyers in the World The Aspern Papers Roman Fever Midsummer The Lady Chooses The Courtship of Miles Standish Dispossessed One for the Road The Touchstone Wuthering Heights The Brass Ring Jason Arrowsmith Passing Strange For These Services Cordially - With Bombs The White Oaks O'Toole from Moscow The Milwaukee Rocket This One is Different Sins of the Fathers See You on Sunday Coming of Age Technique Gallin: All-American Santa is No Saint The Unwelcomed The Red Sanders Story Class of '58 Horns of the Dilemma Little Girls Grow Up The Shot Mr. Krane Yesterday is Gone Double Door The Happy Rest The Gate One Left Over All the Trees in the Field The Century Plant Friday the 13th The Old Maid Mother Was a Bachelor The Bottom of the River The Carefree Tree Interlude The Big Box Sincerely Yours, Charlie Fisher Doc The Amateur Light and Shadow Romney O Promise Me Hold My Hand and Run Dark Possession The Diamond Susan and God As Young As You Feel The White Knight The Anxious Years The Heart of Mary Lincoln The Middle Son Valentine's Day Summer Cannot Last The Last Battlefield The Catbird Seat Dream House The Runaways The Ledger When the Bough Breaks I Want to March Skylark Tall, Dark Stranger Anything But Love Robin Daw Letter to a Stranger Dinner at Antoine's The Mating of Watkins Tottle Her Son's Wife The Shining Palace The Odd Ones A Cowboy for Chris The Rocking Chair The Big Guy Statute of Limitations The Baron and the Banshees Notebook Warrior Temptation for a King The White Knight The Anxious Years M is for the Many Silent Partner Winter in April Bread Upon the Waters The Giant Killer The Book of Ruth Singer in the Valley The Heart of a Husband From the Desk of Margaret Tydings But You Look Like Sisters The House of Seven Gables Fiddlin' Man The Hollow Woman People in Glass One of the Family Young Hands, Young Feet The Lark Shall Sing In Dread of Winter The Babylonian Heart Ask Me No Questions Whom Death Has Joined Together The Wedding The Reckoning A Woman Named Ruby The Bright Boy The Carefree Tree Graybeards and Witches The Legend of Jenny Lind Daughter of the Seventh Day Night Must Fall The 25th Hour A Man and His Maid Perspective The Catamaran Johnny Came Marching Home A Family Affair Blind Date To Have and to Hold Edwina Black The Spare Room The Bottle Imp Brief Music The Girl from Boro Park To Whom It May Concern Bachelor Buttons The Children of Papa Juan Herself Alone Three for the Money Taxi to the Moon The Goodtime Boys The American Cause for Suspicion Fight the Whole World Autumn Crocus George Has a Birthday The Serpent's Tooth Crime at Blossom's The Luck of Amos Currie Alison's House Safe Place The Guest Cottage Forsaking All Others Love, Honor and O'Day The Damask Cheek Moon Over But Fear Itself The Birthday Present The Ghost of Greenwich Village The Young and the Damned There's Always Juliet Seasoned Timber The Declaration High Places Black Chiffon Class of '58 Marriage by the Millions Backfire The Bishop Misbehaves Remittance Beg, Borrow or Steal Summer Pavilion The Feast A Full, Rich Life The Reverberator Woman at the Window Another Sky Letter of Introduction Home at Seven The Cypress Tree Belong to Me Pygmalion Jones Gretel Some Man Will Want You The Fall of the House of Usher Cupid Rode a Horse The Old Payola The Perfect Alibi