Screen Director's Playhouse (1955)
Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.
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Episode 1 - Meet The Governor
Release Date: 1955-10-05A "bumpkin-type" lawyer runs for governor until the opposition digs into his past.
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Episode 2 - Day is Done
Release Date: 1955-10-12During the catastrophic 1951 retreat of American troops in Korea, a recruit finds a Chinese bugle. His sargeant then attempts to use it to instill the fighting spirit in his men.
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Episode 3 - Midsummer Daydream
Release Date: 1955-10-19A young man who wants desperately to get married finds "The Girl" in, of all places, a marriage license bureau. But the happy ending is threatened by the appearance of a suave, smooth, sophisticated gambling man.
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Episode 4 - Arroyo
Release Date: 1955-10-26A small New Mexican town enjoys a reasonably peaceful existence under the rule of self-appointed judge Lamar Kendall. This state of affairs is disrupted by the appearance of a wounded young woman, who reports that an Indian raid has wiped out her wagon train.
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Episode 5 - Want ad Wedding
Release Date: 1955-11-02A young naval officer, alone in a strange city, is planning to be married. Having no friends in town, he places an ad in the newspaper advertising for wedding guests.
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Episode 6 - The Life of Vernon Hathaway
Release Date: 1955-11-09A meek little watch repairman daydreams himself into exciting adventures. When his alter ego takes over, he begins living his dreams in real life.
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Episode 7 - The Final Tribute
Release Date: 1955-11-16A nurse in a small-town doctor's office protests the attitude of the new young physician. His cold, impersonal treatment of patients is exactly opposite that of the kindly and gentle elderly doctor he will someday replace.
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Episode 8 - The Brush Roper
Release Date: 1955-11-23Grandpa Atkins tries to live up to his tales of former glory as a cowpoke. He learns a dangerous bull is at large in the brush, saddles up, and goes after him with his rope.
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Episode 9 - Tom and Jerry
Release Date: 1955-11-30It's Christmas Eve at the Macy house. Tom Macy plays Santa for he and wife Jerry's little boy, Tommy. It is obvious that Jerry is not happy with her husband Tom. Jerry knows Tom has a woman on the side named Lola. Their dear friends, Father O'Dowd and attorney Mr. Garrity coax Tom and Jerry into seeing sense and save the couple's marriage.
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Episode 10 - Rookie of the Year
Release Date: 1955-12-07A small-town newspaper sports writer harbors an ambition to work for a big city daily. He sees his chance to achieve his goal while attending the World Series: one of the rookies shows a style reminiscent of a former all-time great banned from baseball for accepting a bribe.
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Episode 11 - Lincoln's Doctor's Dog
Release Date: 1955-12-14Discouraged and saddened by the War Between the States, President Lincoln is cheered by the gift of a puppy from his physician.
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Episode 12 - The Silent Partner
Release Date: 1955-12-21Watching the TV broadcast of the Academy Awards presentation, a faded actress realizes that the patron at another table in the restaurant was once a well-known comic. Her happy discovery is marred, however, by a man who calls both of them has-beens.
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Episode 13 - Titanic Incident
Release Date: 1955-12-28A cardsharp and his wife aboard the Titanic on its fateful last voyage pick a wealthy Britisher as their pigeon. The cardsharp sets up the Britisher for a climactic card session, but the tables seem to turn as the ship goes down.
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Episode 14 - Hot Cargo
Release Date: 1956-01-04A chorus girl, stranded in a waterfront town in the Orient, is befriended by the skipper of a freighter. She marries the skipper and then meets a good-looking young harbor policeman who falls in love with her.
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Episode 15 - It's Always Sunday
Release Date: 1956-01-11A kindly minister who believes in doing good for the unfortunate befriends a pair of itinerants who arrive in town.
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Episode 16 - Number Five Checked Out
Release Date: 1956-01-18A young deaf woman is left alone to look after the resort cabins owned by her father. Two dangerous bank robbers move in, using the secluded spot as a temporary hideout.
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Episode 17 - Prima Donna
Release Date: 1956-02-01A philanthropic concert artist takes an interest in a 13-year-old newsboy with an outstanding singing voice. She runs into difficulties when the boy also shows a marked preference for baseball.
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Episode 18 - Cry Justice
Release Date: 1956-02-15Bitter because his law partner married the woman he loved, a man plots his own disappearance, making it appear he has been murdered by his partner. Ten years later, the partner is released from prison and seeks revenge.
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Episode 19 - Affair in Sumatra
Release Date: 1956-02-22A beautiful half-caste girl is torn between love for her people and love for a man.
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Episode 20 - One Against Many
Release Date: 1956-03-07A scientist devoted to saving lives is faced with a difficult decision: he may be forced to kill in order to prevent a state-wide livestock epidemic.
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Episode 21 - It's a Most Unusual Day
Release Date: 1956-03-14A married couple take in a night club show starring Jimmy McHugh, and are prompted by his melodies to relive their past.
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Episode 22 - The Sword Of Villon
Release Date: 1956-04-04The swashbuckling poet Francois Villon fights for love and liberty while preventing the assassination of the King of France by a scheming count and countess.
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Episode 23 - Markheim
Release Date: 1956-04-11Late on Christmas Day, a man coaxes an antiques shopkeeper to let him in under the pretense of needing a gift for his fiancée, but it is soon clear he wants something else. To his surprise, what he gets is a battle with his own conscience.
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Episode 24 - Claire
Release Date: 1956-04-25A young doctor brings his second wife to his lakeside home to live. She is taunted by the presence of his pet cat, which serves to remind her that because she couldn't swim, she stood helplessly by while the first wife drowned.
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Episode 25 - A Ticket For Thaddeus
Release Date: 1956-05-09A humble refugee from war-torn Poland has never been able to shed his fear of anyone in uniform. When the immigrant is involved in a minor traffic altercation, he tries to prove to the police he was at fault even though he wasn't.
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Episode 26 - The Dream
Release Date: 1956-05-16In France in 1887 an impressionable youth gives his mother cause for alarm. The young man has a recurrent dream in which he searches for his dead father. The mother is further upset when the boy tells her of meeting a baron who offers to take him aboard ship for a journey to the West Indies.
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Episode 27 - What Day is it?
Release Date: 1956-06-06A husband and wife dance team bicker backstage when the husband can't remember what special date his wife is observing. Between song and dance numbers, the arguments escalate until a singing telegram arrives. Music by Leon Klatzkin. Songs: Yankee doodle boy, Mary's a grand old name by George M. Cohan; When you're a clown by Jeff Bailey, Jack Latimer; arrangements by Walter Sheets, Russell Garcia
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Episode 28 - Every Man Had Two Wives
Release Date: 1956-06-13In the spring, when one gentleman's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of a former love, his wife decides to take drastic action. She and hubby make a trip back to the old home town, determined to come face to face with his childhood sweetheart.
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Episode 29 - Partners
Release Date: 1956-07-04A rodeo star befriends an orphan boy who yearns to compete.
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Episode 30 - White Corridors
Release Date: 1956-07-11An American tourist in London accompanies a friend to the hospital for an emergency operation. At the hospital, she claims she has witnessed a murder, but the doctors think she is imagining things.
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Episode 31 - The Carroll Formula
Release Date: 1956-07-18A college professor stumbled across a fantastic formula for reducing the size of things in the unpublished mathematical works of C.L. Dodgson, who, as Lewis Carroll, wrote Alice in Wonderland.
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Episode 32 - Apples on the Lilac Tree
Release Date: 1956-07-25A couple's peculiar marital arrangement is the talk of the town. It seems that the husband loves to do the housework, while his wife spends the day at the office.
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Episode 33 - Bitter Waters
Release Date: 1956-08-01In a fashionable German resort at the turn of the century, a wealthy young American touring Europe with his uncle meets a woman and her widowed mother. A romance develops between the young couple, until the society matron mother brings her own past to bear on their relationship.
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Episode 34 - The Day I met Caruso
Release Date: 1956-09-05On a train between Boston and New York, a ten-year-old Quaker girl meets Enrico Caruso. She takes him to task for his worldliness and extravagances, but is eventually won over by his voice, as he sings arias from Aida, La Boheme, Tosca, and Pagliacci, as well as the World War I tune ""Over There.""
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Episode 35 - High Air
Release Date: 1956-09-12Long separated, a river-tunnel foreman and his son come face to face during an under-river disaster which almost takes their lives.