Episodes cast for
"Sunday Showcase" (1959)

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Season: 1 | unknown
Year: 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | unknown

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: People Kill People Sometimes

20 September 1959

	Zina Bethune
	Geraldine Page
	Jason Robards		(as Jason Robards Jr.)
	George C. Scott

Season 1, Episode 2: What Makes Sammy Run?: Part 1

27 September 1959

	Sidney Blackmer	...	H.L. Harrington
	Larry Blyden	...	Sammy Glick
	Norman Fell	...	Sammy's Brother
	John Forsythe	...	Al Manheim
	Jay Lawrence	...	Sheik Romero
	Horace McMahon	...	Mike Crowley (as Horace MacMahon)
	Dina Merrill	...	Laurette Harrington
	Nelson Olmsted	...	Ben Osborne
	David Opatoshu	...	Sidney Fineman
	William Post Jr.	...	Lucky Westover
	Barbara Rush	...	Kit Sargent
	Milton Selzer	...	Julian Blumberg
	Monique van Vooren	...	Zizi Molnari
	Earl Wilson	...	Himself

Season 1, Episode 3: What Makes Sammy Run?: Part 2

4 October 1959

	Sidney Blackmer	...	H.L. Harrington
	Larry Blyden	...	Sammy Glick
	Norman Fell	...	Sammy's Brother
	John Forsythe	...	Al Manheim
	Jay Lawrence	...	Sheik Romero
	Horace McMahon	...	Mike Crowley (as Horace MacMahon)
	Dina Merrill	...	Laurette Harrington
	Nelson Olmsted	...	Ben Osborne
	David Opatoshu	...	Sidney Fineman
	William Post Jr.	...	Lucky Westover
	Barbara Rush	...	Kit Sargent
	Milton Selzer	...	Julian Blumberg
	Monique van Vooren	...	Zizi Molnari
	Earl Wilson	...	Himself

Season 1, Episode 4: A Tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt on Her Diamond Jubilee

11 October 1959

	Joan Crawford	...	Herself
	Helen Hayes	...	Herself
	Bob Hope	...	Himself
	Mary Martin	...	Herself
	Eleanor Roosevelt	...	Herself

Season 1, Episode 5: Murder and the Android

18 October 1959

	Martin Ashe	...	Policeman
	Robert Blackburn	...	Harry
	Floyd Ennis	...	Officer (as Flloyd Ennis)
	Kevin McCarthy	...	James Valentine
	Sono Osato	...	Dallas Burton
	Suzanne Pleshette	...	Mari Sutton
	Telly Savalas	...	Cotton
	Vladimir Sokoloff	...	Dr. Alexis Rostov
	David J. Stewart	...	Jervis
	Rip Torn	...	The Android

Season 1, Episode 6: Milton Berle Show

25 October 1959

	Barbara Heller	...	Herself
	Peter Lawford	...	Himself
	Danny Thomas	...	Himself
	Lana Turner	...	Herself

Season 1, Episode 7: The Milton Berle Special

1 November 1959

	Milton Berle
	Lucille Ball	...	Lucy Ricardo
	Desi Arnaz

Season 1, Episode 8: The Light in the Dark

15 November 1959

Season 1, Episode 9: Episode #1.9

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Season 1, Episode 10: The Practical Dreamer

22 November 1959

	Peggy Ann Garner
	Burgess Meredith
	Betsy Palmer
	Mark Stevens

Season 1, Episode 11: Episode #1.11

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Season 1, Episode 12: The Jimmy Durante Show

6 December 1959

	Ray Bolger	...	Himself
	Jimmy Durante	...	Himself
	Eddie Hodges	...	Himself
	Jane Powell	...	Herself
	Jimmie Rodgers	...	Himself

Season 1, Episode 13: The Indestructible Mr. Gore

13 December 1959
Drama based on the early career of Gore Vidal's grandfather, Senator Thomas Gore. In the early 1890s, Thomas seeks employment in the office of a Texas judge. During the interview Thomas reveals that it is his life's ambition to become a United States Senator. He also informs Judge Wingate that he is completely blind.

	William Shatner	...	Thomas Gore
	Henderson Forsythe	...	Mr. Clegg
	Nancy Marchand	...	Mrs. Clegg
	E.G. Marshall	...	Judge Wingate
	Inger Stevens	...	Nina Kay
	William Traylor	...	Cam Kay
	Gore Vidal	...	Narrator

Season 1, Episode 14: Episode #1.14

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Season 1, Episode 15: Episode #1.15

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Season 1, Episode 16: The Margaret Bourke White Story

3 January 1960

Teresa Wright

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Margaret Bourke White

Season 1, Episode 17: Episode #1.17

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Season 1, Episode 18: One Loud Clear Voice

17 January 1960

Larry Blyden

Season 1, Episode 19: Episode #1.19

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Season 1, Episode 20: Episode #1.20

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Season 1, Episode 21: After Hours

7 February 1960

Buster Keaton

Season 1, Episode 22: The Devil and Daniel Webster

14 February 1960
New Englander Jabez Stone is about to lose the farm, in a fit he tells his wife that he'd sell his soul to the devil for just about two cents! And of course the devil takes him up on it. Contract in hand, he offers Jabez the customary irresistible terms, seven years of good fortune.

	Royal Beal	...	Justice Hawthorne
	Edgar Bergen	...	Host
	Howard Freeman	...	Pinkham
	Stuart Germain	...	Stevens
	Betty Lou Holland	...	Dorcas Stone
	Tim O'Connor	...	Jabez Stone
	Edward G. Robinson	...	Daniel Webster
	David Wayne	...	The Devil

Season 1, Episode 23: Our American Heritage: Shadow of a Soldier

21 February 1960
At age 63, Ulysses S. Grant learns he is dying of cancer. Mark Twain, his friend, remarked, "He was groping in the past to find himself, to salvage from the wreckage of his life some remnants of his self-esteem." The story unfolds in flashbacks through his illustrious life.

	James Whitmore	...	Ulysses S. Grant
	Melvyn Douglas	...	Mark Twain
	Teresa Wright	...	Julia Grant
	John Baragrey	...	Robert E. Lee
	Paul Tripp	...	Dr. Douglas
	Ford Rainey	...	Abraham Lincoln

Season 1, Episode 24: The Secret of Freedom

28 February 1960

	Lonny Chapman
	Kim Hunter
	John McGiver
	Thomas Mitchell
	Tony Randall

Season 1, Episode 25: Turn the Key Deftly

6 March 1960

	Barbara Bulgakov	...	Baroness
	Humphrey Davis	...	Captain Feidman
	Louis Edmonds	...	Marcel Roget
	Julie Harris	...	Francesca
	Francis Lederer	...	Mario Morgan
	Shaike Ophir		(as Shai K. Ophir)
	Maximilian Schell	...	Peter Gerard

Season 1, Episode 26: Episode #1.26

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Season 1, Episode 27: Our American Heritage: Autocrat and Son

20 March 1960
This program dramatizes the early life of Oliver Wendell Holmes.

	Anne Francis
	Ann Harding	...	Mrs. Holmes
	Cedric Hardwicke	...	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
	Christopher Plummer	...	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Season 1, Episode 28: The American

27 March 1960
Between scenes of a movie ("Sands of Iwo Jima") in which he appears as an extra, Pima Indian Ira Hayes recalls the horrors of the actual battle of Iwo Jima in which he forever sealed his fate in history as one of the men who raised the flag in the world-famous photograph taken during the battle.

	Lee Marvin	...	Ira Hayes
	Thomas A. Carlin	...	Nicholson
	Frank Corsaro	...	The Director
	Steven Hill	...	George Pitt
	Frank Overton	...	Congressman
	Milton Selzer	...	Harry Cooler

Season 1, Episode 29: Hollywood Sings

3 April 1960

	Eddie Albert
	Franz Allers
	Tammy Grimes
	Boris Karloff	...	Host

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Our American Heritage: Gentleman's Decision

22 April 1961
General Robert E. Lee must make his decision whether to surrender his army to General Grant or risk one last attack are recounted.

	Barbara Babcock	...	Annie Lee
	Jim Barney	...	General Longstreet
	Bill Berrian	...	Currier
	Philip Bosco	...	General Gordon
	James Duncan	...	Custis Lee
	Robert Emhardt	...	General Scott
	Dean Jagger	...	General Robert E. Lee
	Kenneth Konopka	...	General Ulysses S. Grant
	Dirk Kooiman	...	Soldier
	Allen Nourse	...	Venable
	David O'Brien	...	Rooney Lee
	Mark O'Daniels	...	General Alexander
	Lowell Thomas	...	Host

Our American Heritage: Not Without Honor

21 October 1960

	Ralph Bellamy	...	Thomas Jefferson
	Arthur Kennedy	...	Alexander Hamilton
	Roddy McDowall	...	Philip Hamilton

Our American Heritage: The Secret Rebel

11 March 1961
Presented by The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, this progam pays homage the history of Washington's steadfastness against all odds. In December of 1776 with no victories and sagging morale, things looked bleak for Washington and his men. But the capture of suspected Tory spy John Honeyman provided the edge that was needed to change the course of the war. This taped special bore the advertisement "It was tar and feathers for the "traitor" who claimed to know George Washington!"

	Norman Barrs	...	Bates
	Jack Collins	...	Col. Rail
	Humphrey Davis	...	Magistrate
	Joseph Della Sorte	...	Soldier
	Alexander Holt	...	Sentry
	Betty Miller	...	Mary
	Hugh O'Brian	...	John Honeyman
	Gerald S. O'Loughlin	...	Grogan
	Lou Robb	...	Von Drachow
	Alfred Sandor	...	Wilson
	Howard St. John	...	Gen. George Washington
	Lowell Thomas	...	Host / Narrator

The 1st Annual Grammy Awards

29 November 1959

	Meredith Willson	...	Himself - Host-Recipient
	Ross Bagdasarian	...	Himself - Recipient
	Count Basie	...	Himself - Recipient
	Shelley Berman	...	Himself - Performer
	The Champs	...	Themselves-Recipients
	Mormon Tabernacle Choir	...	Themselves - Performers
	Van Cliburn	...	Himself - Performer-Recipient
	Nat 'King' Cole	...	Himself - Performer
	Perry Como	...	Himself - Recipient
	Bobby Darin	...	Himself - Performer
	Jimmie Driftwood	...	Himself - Performer
	Duke Ellington	...	Himself - Performer
	Ella Fitzgerald	...	Herself - Performer-Recipient
	Stan Freberg	...	Himself - Recipient
	Dave Guard	...	Himself - Performer-Recipient (as The Kingston Trio)
	The Hollywood String Quartet	...	Themselves-Recipients
	Jonah Jones	...	Himself - Performer
	The Kingston Trio	...	Themselves-Performers-Recipients
	Henry Mancini	...	Himself - Recipient
	Domenico Modugno	...	Himself - Recipient
	André Previn	...	Himself - Recipient
	Louis Prima	...	Himself - Recipient
	Nick Reynolds	...	Himself - Performer / Recipients (as The Kingston Trio)
	Nelson Riddle	...	Himself - Recipient
	Andrés Segovia	...	Himself - Recipient
	Bob Shane	...	Himself - Performer-Recipient (as The Kingston Trio)
	Frank Sinatra	...	Himself - Recipient
	Keely Smith	...	Herself - Recipient
	Axel Stordahl	...	Himself - Music Director
	Renata Tebaldi	...	Herself - Recipient
	Roger Wagner	...	Himself - Recipient
	David Buck Wheat	...	Accompanist (as The Kingston Trio)

The Jimmy Durante Show: The Evolution of the American Husband

9 August 1961

	Jimmy Durante	...	Himself
	Bob Hope	...	Himself
	Garry Moore	...	Himself
	Janice Rule	...	Herself

The Sacco-Vanzetti Story: Part 1

3 June 1960
In 1920, two Italian immigrants are charged with murdering a paymaster and his guard in South Braintree, Massachusetts. They are tried and convicted of murder in nearby Dedham, Massachusetts.

	Martin Balsam	...	Nicola Sacco
	Royal Beal	...	Walter Ripley
	John C. Becher	...	Chief Stewart
	Frank Campanella	...	Prison Guard
	Tom Carlin	...	Gardner Jackson
	Tom Clancy	...	Will H. Daly
	Harry Davis	...	Michael Levangie
	Dana Elcar	...	Newspaperman
	Robert Emhardt	...	Governor Fuller
	Rex Everhart	...	Officer LeBaron
	Stuart Germain	...	Judge Webster Thayer
	Ben Grauer	...	Narrator
	Wyley Hancock	...	John Vaney (as Wiley Hancock)
	Anne Hegira	...	Lola Andrews
	Steven Hill	...	Bartolomeo Vanzetti
	Mary James	...	Mary Splaine
	House Jameson	...	A. Lawrence Lowell
	E.G. Marshall	...	William Thompson
	Dan Morgan	...	Captain Proctor
	Carroll O'Connor	...	Frederick Katzman
	Charles Tyner	...	Clerk
	Ben Yaffee	...	C.A. Barr

The Sacco-Vanzetti Story: Part 2

10 June 1960
After Sacco and Vanzetti are convicted of murder, their lawyers file a series of appeals. Many in the public are convinced that the two men were convicted because they are self-confessed anarchists, and not because of the evidence presented at their trial.

	Martin Balsam	...	Nicola Sacco
	Royal Beal	...	Walter Ripley
	John C. Becher	...	Chief Stewart
	Frank Campanella	...	Prison Guard
	Tom Carlin	...	Gardner Jackson
	Tom Clancy	...	Will H. Daly
	Harry Davis	...	Michael Levangle
	Dana Elcar	...	Newspaperman
	Robert Emhardt	...	Governor Fuller
	Rex Everhart	...	Officer LeBaron
	Stuart Germain	...	Judge Webster Thayer
	Ben Grauer	...	Narrator
	Wyley Hancock	...	John Vaney (as Wiley Hancock)
	Anne Hegira	...	Lola Andrews
	Steven Hill	...	Bartolomeo Vanzetti
	Mary James	...	Mary Splaine
	House Jameson	...	A. Lawrence Lowell
	E.G. Marshall	...	William Thompson
	Dan Morgan	...	Captain Proctor
	Carroll O'Connor	...	Frederick Katzman
	Charles Tyner	...	Clerk
	Ben Yaffee	...	C.A. Barr