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The Schaefer Century Theatre

Playmates

  • Episode aired Aug 20, 1952
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The Schaefer Century Theatre (1952)
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An uncle has charge of his brother's teenage daughter after the death of her parents. The two move to a more isolated country village. The teenager becomes friends with what her uncle and ho... Read allAn uncle has charge of his brother's teenage daughter after the death of her parents. The two move to a more isolated country village. The teenager becomes friends with what her uncle and housemaid think are imagined playmates in what the girl insists on calling the "school room"... Read allAn uncle has charge of his brother's teenage daughter after the death of her parents. The two move to a more isolated country village. The teenager becomes friends with what her uncle and housemaid think are imagined playmates in what the girl insists on calling the "school room" of the house. Her uncle comes to find out from the local vicar that the house was long ag... Read all
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    • Richard Irving
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    • A.M. Burrage(story)
    • Howard J. Green
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    • Alan Napier
    • Moyna MacGill
    • Nelson Welch
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    • Richard Irving
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    • A.M. Burrage(story)
    • Howard J. Green
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    • Alan Napier
    • Moyna MacGill
    • Nelson Welch
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      The episode "Playmates" marked the television debut of Natalie Wood.

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    Early TV Drama.
    This relic from the early days of US Television, an anthology episode apparently shot on film but with the meager production values of live TV, has some ambition in its blanded down "Turn of the Screw" concept and the performance from young Wood at her most vulnerable-appealing.

    She is being home schooled in the isolated house by uncle Napier, when the visit of local vicar Welch reveals the house's sinister secrets - aha!

    There is an attempts at style in the opening mobile camera, non verbal material - which misleadingly suggests that Natalie is mute.

    Hard to imagine the later accomplished Fredricks contributing these drab images.
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    • Feb 2, 2012

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