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"Producers' Showcase" (1954) More at IMDbPro »

Season: 1 | 2 | 3 | unknown
Year: 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Tonight at 8:30

18 October 1954

Season 1, Episode 2: State of the Union

15 November 1954
A wealthy businessman is persuaded to run for U.S. President. He finds that he is constantly forced to compromise his principles in order to secure support and funding, and finally withdraws from the race. However, his experience has only made him more determined to reform the political system. ;

Season 1, Episode 3: Dateline

13 December 1954
A tribute to the American reporter.

Season 1, Episode 4: Call to Freedom

7 January 1955
The story of the quest for freedom in Austria, with an emphasis on music. Highlights include scenes from Beethoven's opera "Fidelio".

Season 1, Episode 5: Yellow Jack

10 January 1955
The story of US Army doctor Walter Reed and how he and his medical team helped to find the cause of yellow fever, which was responsible for the deaths of thousands every year, in Cuba after the Spanish-American war of 1898.

Season 1, Episode 6: The Women

7 February 1955
Claire Boothe Luce's famous all-female play, about a woman whose husband leaves her, and how all her friends endlessly gossip about it and their own problems.

Season 1, Episode 7: Peter Pan

7 March 1955
A live restaging of the 1955 TV production of the Broadway musical version.

Season 1, Episode 8: Darkness at Noon

2 May 1955
During the Stalinist purges in Russia in the 1930s, a committed Bolshevik named Bubashov sits in prison, having been betrayed by the cause he fought for, and goes over his life via a series of flashbacks and coded conversations with other condemned prisoners in an adjoining cell.

Season 1, Episode 9: The Petrified Forest

30 May 1955

Season 1, Episode 10: Wide, Wide World

27 June 1955

Season 1, Episode 11: The Fourposter

25 July 1955

Season 1, Episode 12: The Skin of Our Teeth

11 August 1955
This Thornton Wilder play, the story of life on Earth from prehistoric times through World War II as lived by Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus, their two children, and their house maid, Sabina, is filled with biblical and mythological references.

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: Our Town

19 September 1955

Season 2, Episode 2: Cyrano de Bergerac

17 October 1955

Season 2, Episode 3: Dateline II

14 November 1955
The Overseas Press Clubs salute to Freedom of the Press.

Season 2, Episode 4: The Sleeping Beauty

14 December 1955
Tchaikovsky's ballet, with Margot Fonteyn in the title role, presented on TV in color. Only a black-and-white kinescope of this production seems to survive.

Season 2, Episode 5: Peter Pan

3 January 1956

Season 2, Episode 6: Festival of Music

30 January 1956

Season 2, Episode 7: Caesar and Cleopatra

5 March 1956

Season 2, Episode 8: The Barretts of Wimpole Street

2 April 1956

Season 2, Episode 9: Dodsworth

30 April 1956
The owner of an automobile manufacturing company succumbs to his vain wife's pressure for him to retire--which he really doesn't want to do--and for them to take a cruise to Europe. On the cruise he learns some truths about himself, his wife, and their marriage.

Season 2, Episode 10: Bloomer Girl

28 February 1956

Season 2, Episode 11: Happy Birthday

25 June 1956
A shy young Newark librarian is secretly in love with a handsome and dashing bank clerk. She hatches a scheme to meet him in a bar, but in her nervousness she has too much to drink and winds up plastered. However, four patrons in the bar take pity on her and resolve to help her catch the man of her dreams.

Season 2, Episode 12: Rosalinda

23 July 1956

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: The Lord Don't Play Favorites

17 September 1956
A small-time traveling circus is stranded in a small Kansas town that has been devastated by a drought. The town government has subjected the circus to large fines in order to raise money to hire a rainmaker to alleviate the drought. The circus folk find a way to turn the tables on the town to raise their own money to enter the circus' trick horse in the county race.

Season 3, Episode 2: The Letter

15 October 1956

Season 3, Episode 3: Jack and the Beanstalk

12 November 1956

Season 3, Episode 4: Festival of Music (#2)

10 December 1956

Season 3, Episode 5: Ruggles of Red Gap

3 February 1957
English butler comes to the Wild West to work for newly rich hicks - finds it unbearable - but then comes to his senses.

Season 3, Episode 6: Mayerling

4 February 1957
Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.

Season 3, Episode 7: Romeo and Juliet

4 March 1957

Season 3, Episode 8: Reunion in Vienna

4 April 1955
An archduke who had been banished from Austria returns to Vienna for a reunion of his old fellow aristocrats and meets up with the former love of his life, who is now married to a psychoanalyst.

Season 3, Episode 9: The Great Sebastians

1 April 1957
It's 1948 in Communist-controlled Prague, Czechoslovakia. A mind-reading act is commanded by the authorities to entertain at a private party. They discover what the authorities really want is for them to use their "powers" to expose spies and traitors to the regime. In addition, the anti-Communist Czech president has recently died a mysterious "suicide", and the officials want them to falsely swear in a statement that they knew the man and he was depressed and suicidal. Realizing the kind of trouble they're in for, they decide to escape using their best stage tricks.

Season 3, Episode 10: Cinderella

29 April 1957

Season 3, Episode 11: Mr. Broadway

11 May 1957
Biography of Broadway impresario George M. Cohan.

Season 3, Episode 12: Festival of Magic

27 May 1957

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The King and Mrs. Candle

22 April 1955
The King of Brandovia is overthrown and exiled. He winds up in America, where he gets a job as a dancing instructor. He falls in love with a commoner, Mrs. Candle, but he doesn't know that his former fiancé from Brandovia has also come to America, with a set of very valuable pearls that he gave her for safekeeping.

Wide Wide World II

6 January 1957