Matinee Theatre

- Season 3

(1957)

A ghost writer finds the courage to cast off his bonds.

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Set in 1962. An ambitious salesman uses a conscientious secretary in his climb to success after he meets a man who claims to be a member of a superhuman race that has come to Earth to prevent the human race from destroying itself.

A young wife claims she is descended from a long line of witches.

A bachelor falls in love with the widowed mother of six children.

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Four men relate details of a baffling mystery to detain a fifth man, so that he cannot make a speech in Parliament.

A series of mysterious incidents makes a group of American soldiers in Korea distrust a 12-year-old boy whom they have practically adopted.

A 15-year-old boy's loyalty to his older brother is put to the test.

While matchmaking for friends and neighbours, a young 19th Century Englishwoman nearly misses her own chance at love.

An ambitious young husband re-woos an old flame in order to dissuade her tycoon grandfather from moving his factory to another town.

An embittered detective kills a young murder suspect, lets suspicion fall on the victim's girl friend, then falls in love with her.

An English professor and his aunt encounter two visitors from another planet who have just landed in a space ship.

Two women, one a stockholder and the other a secretary, vie for the affections of a young magazine publisher.

A live colorcast of the "Story of Sarah" to commemorate Rosh Hoshanah, the high Holy day and start of the new year among the world's Jewry.

An aging playboy chief of a film studio is repudiated by his son for foiling his dissolute ways.

A young American in Egypt gets involved in a murder when an Egyptian politician is killed and wrapped up like a mummy.

Four ancient sisters, hermit daughters of a Confederate deserter, find a young doughboy unconscious on the cobwebbed doorstep.

A scheming backwoods woman tries to marry off her younger sister to one of two bachelor brothers she thinks might soon come into an inheritance.

A lighthearted story of a suave father who returns from the continent to meet his 20-year-old daughter for the first time.

At a lonely inn a writer falls for a woman who is convinced she has been a kiss of death to everyone who has loved her.

A woman painter is commissioned by a woman of means to do the portrait of a man who has meant much to both of them.

To land the starring role in a big TV series a bachelor girl must land a husband in three weeks.

The story of a laundress who gains fame as a radio singer.

An eloping couple of modest means have their first argument when they clash over what to do with $18,000 they win at a race track.

A Hungarian Freedom Fighters story of a Hungarian worker who flees the country to elude the secret police, only to learn that the police chief has moved in with the worker's pregnant wife on the pretense of waiting for the rebel to return.

A brooding widower succumbs to the mysterious attraction of his only friend's supposedly insane niece.

Well known actors and actresses children played the roles of the stagestruck youngsters who drive a Broadway producer crazy trying to get parts in his new production.

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The problems of being an unwed mother are examined.

John Smith has made money as a professional lady-killer. He has collected nine insurance policies on as many wives, and is currently working on number 10, Hester. But Hester proves to be a little more difficult to do away with.

A professor taunts his aide in order to win a bet.

A former Spanish boy, now the plumbing king of the U.S. must choose between the girl he went home to claim and the English girl he meets aboard ship on the way back to his native land.

When a boys' camp counselor finds his favorite youngster has become the prime suspect in a petty theft. Remembering this boyhood experience teaches a jealous husband how to deal with his wife.

A young dedicated doctor jeopardizes his marriage to pursue his work in the New York flu epidemic of 1918.

Greed possesses a Frenchman who decides to hasten his inheritance.

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British war brides try to get along with in-laws.

The story of Freud 's difficulties in trying to leave Austria after the Nazis take over. President Roosevelt intercedes to help him.

A marriage-hungry spinster feels that this is her last chance at matrimony.

Alicia is positive her daughter's next visit will end her stay at the retirement home where she is unhappy. This contrasts with Bert and Meg who enjoy the companionship they have found among theirs peers.

A young secretary in Washington, D.C. falls in love with a man who passes himself off as a rising young diplomat. Only a cynical treasury agent has doubts about the young man's truthfulness.

The prime suspect in a robbery-murder is an accountant who handled the murdered man's finances. In a race against time, the accountant tries to locate the real murderer before the police pick him up.

A small college town divides against itself over the romance of a college girl and a handsome student from Iraq. Prejudice threatens to put a blight on the couple's plans of marriage.

The true story of a man blind since the age of eight. As a young man he marries a woman he has never seen and becomes the father of a boy. Then he learns that a delicate operation may enable him to see again.

A motion-picture executive learns that he is seriously ill, just as he is about to begin production on a movie he has wanted to film all his life.

A Hungarian violinist is planning a concert in the U. S. as a benefit for the Hungarian rebels. A young girl, acting as the musician's press agent, is disturbed by two strange men who turn up everywhere the musician appears.

A student doctor leaves America to visit his aunt in Ireland.

Presidential candidate Daniel Webster seeks respite from the duties of state by going deep-sea fishing. To his amazement, he hooks but loses an oversized sea serpent.

A penniless countess is offered a job at a boarding school.

A mysterious stranger descends on the small town of Hadleyburg to teach its deceitful residents a lesson. Inspired by writer Mark Twain's short story.

The lonely life of a show business daughter is brightened when she falls in love.

During the administration of President Lincoln, a highly principled but lowly stationed American diplomat finds he can win a coveted promotion if he will compromise his integrity.

A humdrum book reviewer yearns for the life he reads about.

A prep school boy is snubbed and set up for a crime he didn't commit.

A black sheep son convinces the members of his family that they should bet their life savings on a race horse.

A supernatural story set in the hills of the Smoky Mountains. A witch-boy begs to become human after having his way with a mortal. There is one thing that the irrepressible Barbara must do: be faithful to him for a full year.

A strong-willed woman purposely breaks up her family.

Playwright Gaylord Esterbrook scores a hit with his first Broadway play, both with the critics and with leading lady Linda Paige. He and Linda are happily married until a patroness of the arts convinces Esterbrook to forget about comedy and concentrate on writing a tragedy. The end result nearly destroys his career and his marriage.

At a country fair, a retired con man sizes up a young couple who, he discovers, have just eloped.

Miss Emmy Rice, a lonely old woman, is befriended by a young man she meets in the park. Grateful for his attentions, she finds an old magazine picture resembling her new friend and hangs it in her room.

A woman wins a contest and finds her dream prize isn't what it's cracked up to be.

A young girl is relegated to servitude at a boarding school when her father goes missing and is presumed dead.

One night in Judea, a disabled shepherd boy-turned-beggar and his mother are visited by three strangers. They are the Three Kings, and they are on their way to Bethlehem to visit the Christ Child, who has just been born.

In rural 1840's Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the soldiers after she incites a Luddite riot. But unknown to Gavin, Babbie is more than she seems. And they must overcome her secret, the villagers' fears of her, and worst of all, Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities, before they can openly declare their love.

A small town girl believes she is descended from royalty.

Based on true story of a U.S. airman scheduled to fly a mission to test a new survival kit. For the first time, the flier's wife expresses fear for her husband's safety.

The wife of an oil worker wants to settle down.

It's the fall of 1850, a few miles outside Boston. The household of the dour Mr. Wentworth receives two unannounced visitors from Europe, Eugenia and Felix, the daughter and son of his half sister. Gertrude, one of Wentworth's two daughters, is instantly infatuated with her cousins, thinking them sophisticated and worldly. She turns her back on the local Unitarian minister, Mr. Brand, who has been calling on her, to delight in the pleasure and amusement Felix offers. Another wealthy neighbor, Mr. Acton, is attracted to Eugenia, who is going through a divorce with a ...

A business tycoon tries to top competitors.

A movie queen forsakes Hollywood for the more intellectual Broadway her husband prefers.

A gambling man tries to win the hand of the town beauty and the consent of her thrift-conscious banker father.

A woman convicted of murder makes a deal with the doctor.

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An ex-prizefighter is angry when he learns that his son plans to forsake his law studies to take up boxing.

Frances Farmer portrays a woman left waiting at the altar. She suspects there is more involved than the usual jilting and investigates.

In 1905 the Mortimore family gathers at Linchpool, England, following the death of a wealthy but long-estranged brother. Though no will has yet been found, the covetous relatives learn that their brother has a daughter living in Paris.

A man and woman, workhorses for their respective families, meet and discover romance midway through their lives of servitude.

A father and son run the risk of identifying hoodlums.

A greedy sister-in-law's scheme to prove a supposedly wealthy widow mentally incompetent verges on paying off, until the latter takes her inheritance to the Las Vegas gambling tables.

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A father and son, both chance witnesses of a holdup killing, must each decide whether to run the risk of identifying the guilty hoodlums.

Gen. Stanton Brisk, on the day of his retirement from the Army, visits his wife Edith in a sanitarium. Ever since the day their son Edward was killed in the war, she has blocked off her mind to 24 years of married life and returned to the time when Edward was 12 and her husband was just a captain.

Writer Linda Stone is thrilled at the opportunity to write the biography of her idol, the great poetess Mathilda Morrell. But she is disturbed by dark hints dropped by Miss Morrell's nephew about his aunt's writing.

An out-of-town play headed for Broadway runs into some difficulties. A local critic berates the performers as inadequate. The leading lady is in love with the director. And the director wants to change the play from drama to comedy.

Two children accidentally expose an affair between one's mother and the other's dad.

Clyde, sore over being fired by his brother-in-law, takes his anger out on his wife -- by not allowing her to adopt a child.

A secretary tries to aid Ernie Barton, whose efforts to please everyone he works with have resulted in his becoming the office clown.

A soldier and a girl conspire to peddle a dead GI's novel as their own.

When M. Beaucaire, a handsome barber, catches the Duke of Winterset cheating at gambling, Beaucaire exacts Winterset's cooperation in sneaking Beaucaire into a great ball, disguised as the Duke de Chartres, and to introduce him to the beautiful Lady Mary. The disguised barber successfully pulls off the masquerade and is soon the toast of society. But Winterset is embittered at having been blackmailed so, and he sets out to destroy Beaucaire if he can do so without revealing his own duplicity.

A young man and a woman profess affection for an employer.

The story of the politician Boss Tweed, who in 1870 runs New York City and its officials to suit himself.

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With the return of young Wilfred Kirby from his job in British West Africa, the Kirby family is still not completely reunited. Stella, who left nine years ago for a career in the theater, still remains out of the family fold.

A girl who lives on a boat with her father and brother feels that a newspaper editor's attentions toward her are a means of getting her father to stay in town and to continue his job as a linotype operator with the newspaper.

Two young people are among a group trekking across the Oregon territory in 1865. They are drawn to each other when the girl's father dies and when, later, she saves the young man's life.

A prince and a Colonel, traveling incognito, meet a young man in a bar. When he says he is planning to join a secret organization called the Suicide Club, the prince begs to be taken along.

After receiving a promotion, a young man accepts an offer by a female co-worker to help him learn his new duties. He is unaware that the woman is trying to break up his marriage.

A mother of 12, interferes with her oldest son's romance, when he becomes interested in the new school teacher.

A U.S. Army officer's daughter becomes an international pawn when she wanders from West to East Germany.

Story of the Hebrew prophet, his wife Gomer and the unethical priest Dagnon. Gomer leaves her husband for the love of Dagnon, who is eventually won over by Hosea's ethical precepts and deserts Gomer.

A father is devastated when his son ignores the law to suit his own purpose.

A boy of divorced parents is sent to military school, where he learns about life.

The story of an amnesia victim who is charged with murder tries to trace his identity. He learns it wasn't amnesia alone that led to his condition.

A charmed necklace worn on her wedding day, keeps a young bride from growing old.

A great beauty's face is disfigured in a crash, when she leaves her unfaithful husband. He tries for reconciliation and their lives take a new turn when she refuses to undergo plastic surgery.

A young woman who is rescued from a suicide attempt is sent to a mental care hospital, where she meets a young man with similar emotional problems.

A business man who gave up his dream of becoming an artist sees a similar situation developing in the life of his son.

A Catholic boy's school, on the verge of financial ruin, is saved by the guardian angel of its beloved but scatterbrained director.

A convicted murderer asks a blind lawyer to probe his case, promising to will his eyes to the blind man if he cannot set him free.

A mother over-indulges her son to the point where he steals.

Two couples about to be married agree to wait until they can make a more thorough evaluation.

A church vicar tries to come up with the money to fix the church's crooked steeple by betting his life savings on Dandy Dick, a nag running at the local racetrack at a 10-to-1 shot.

A woman lapses into a comatose state after the death of her daughter. Her husband decides that seeing her granddaughter will bring her back to consciousness.

The story of a dying mother of two sons who tries to show her husband - a stern and harsh policeman - that he must change in order to look after the sons when she is gone.

A handsome young man becomes involved with an older married woman whose husband is in prison.

A dancer falls in love with a wealthy man and finds herself involved with a higher class of society.

An aging actress vies with a lovely female writer for the love of her youthful husband.

A young singer tries to pass herself off as the daughter of a producer.

Story concerns a provincial town in the 1900's, so worried about a warning of a visit from the Inspector General, that they assume a stranger in town is the Inspector traveling incognito.

Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally whilst on holiday in the country. A romance develops but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suffering from mental illness, Geoffrey returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He marries Sally but after a while he finds a strange urge to paint her as the angel of death too and history seems about to repeat itself.

The story of a Mother Hildebrand, head of a convent school, who is ordered by her bishop to dismiss a teacher.

Death decides to take a holiday from his usual business to see what it is like to be a mortal. Posing as Prince Sirki, he spends 3 days with Duke Lambert and his guests at his estate. Several of the women are attracted to the mysterious prince, but shy away from him when they sense his true nature. But Grazia, the beautiful young woman whom the Duke thought was to marry his son, loves him even when she knows who he is.

A husband quits work because of an accident. His wife goes into business and makes it a success and he runs the house with an efficiency she never had. He submits a recipe to a TV contest under his wife's name wins a $50,000 prize.

An employee of the American Cancer Society undergoes dangerous treatments to expose a quack.

An American pilot at loose ends in India, becomes involved with Red China agents in an attempt to help Tibet's Dalai Lama escape.

In the 1600s, cowardly Sir Simon of Canterville flees a duel and seeks solace in the family castle. His ashamed father seals him in the room where he is hiding and dooms him to life as a ghost until one of his descendants performs a brave deed. Simon believes he may be saved when he meets Cuffy Williams, an American kinsman stationed with a troop of soldiers at the castle in 1943. Will this blood relative save the family honor, or will his blood be as yellow as the rest of the Cantervilles?

A skid row drunk inherits a thief's loot.

The congressman is murdered at a party and five guests are suspects.

A 14-year-old boy guides his younger sisters and brother to the Northwest Territory.

Story of an American curator of a museum in France, and of a hoax to get his museum, to buy a'phony statue.

A story concerning an old woman, living in poverty and sending greeting cards to a son long lost and the young people who try to help her.

Story of a young Israeli girl, a soldier in her country's struggle to hold the Negev against the Arab snipers, who has the kind of courage that inspires a cynical American youth to participate in her cause.

Jim Mannix takes great pride in the athletic ability of both his sons and is pleased when they win football scholarships to the same college, although one of them has an obvious distaste for such glory.

A man from another planet who lands on Long Island ends up wanting to stay after falling love.

An ignorant young gold prospector hires a mother to take care of his house, so the boys at the saloon will have a real home to come to.

A father's past causes dissension between himself and his son when the boy becomes involved in a robbery at college.

Story of how a teenage girl's love of rock 'n' roll turns her father into America's newest singing sensation.

A millionaire playboy vanishes and mysteriously reappears after two years in another identity at the Country Inn.

A woman restless with her quiet life, tries to persuade her husband to run for Governor.

Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret that he will do anything to protect, even if means driving his wife insane.

A Civil War story about a Southern girl who falls in love with a Union officer. She meets opposition from her father who is better against the North.

The Shakespeare classic, done live for this daytime color series, the first time a two part story was offered. It tells of a woman, a rich merchant's daughter about to be married to a man she loves, but a devious rival to the groom sets up an incident to fool him into thinking she's been sleeping around just before the wedding day.

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.

A young businessman almost ruins his life trying to live up to his father-in-law's formula for success.

A college girl tries to prove that a girl she dislikes has stolen money.

Story about Mary Murray who aided the rebels during the American Revolution.

An unmarried schoolteacher becomes involved in a romance with a retired business man.

Fantasy about a spaceship which patrols the Earth and sets off a bomb on Latin America.

A widow doubts that the death her husband met while mountain climbing was accidental.

The life of a once well-known concert pianist, blinded 10 years ago in an accident, takes on new meaning when an eye surgeon tells him his sight might be restored.

A teenager is wanted by the law for some petty robberies he committed in an attempt to help his crippled father. He decides that escape is the only thing that will save him, so he hops a freight train in an attempt to outrun the law.

A writer meets a doctor at a dude ranch. He hopes the doctor can help him recover from tuberculosis.

Cassie Richwood, the wife of an executed prisoner, an expectant mother, agrees to give up the baby and leave her mother-in-law's home where she is blamed for her husband's misfortune.

Marcia Gordon has her successful mother's talent for fashion designing. But Marcia has decided she doesn't want to follow in her mother's footsteps; instead wants to fulfill her role as a wife and mother, something her mother never did.

A woman vigorously campaigns with members of the League of Women Voters for a new school in their town. But she runs into violent opposition from older citizens who feel the new school would be much too expensive.

A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.

The story of a presidential airliner which nearly bumps into a Soviet bomber over the North Pole.