NBC Sunday Showcase (1959)
NBC Sunday Showcase was a series of hour-long specials telecast in color on NBC during the 1959-60 season. The flexible anthology format varied weekly from comedies and science fiction to musicals and historical dramas. The recent introduction of videotape made repeats possible, and two 1959 dramas had repeats in 1960. On the heels of his Broadway hits The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, Richard Adler composed the opening Sunday Showcase theme music, titled "Sunday Drive".
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Episode 1 - People Kill People Sometimes
Release Date: 1959-09-20 -
Episode 2 - What Makes Sammy Run?: Part 1
Release Date: 1959-09-29 -
Episode 3 - What Makes Sammy Run?: Part 2
Release Date: 1959-10-04 -
Episode 4 - A Tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt on Her Diamond Jubilee
Release Date: 1959-10-11 -
Episode 5 - Murder and the Android
Release Date: 1959-10-18 -
Episode 6 - Milton Berle Show
Release Date: 1959-10-25 -
Episode 7 - The Milton Berle Special
Release Date: 1959-11-01In this "lost" episode of 'I Love Lucy,' Milton Berle extends his engagement at a Las Vegas night club for an extra two weeks along with his bandleader Ricky Ricardo. When Milton's wife gets upset at him missing their anniversary, Ricky's wife, Lucy, assists Milton in a crazy scheme to help Milton's wife forgive him. In the process, they get mixed up with two mobsters as hilarity ensues.
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Episode 8 - The Light in the Dark
Release Date: 1959-11-15 -
Episode 9 - The Practical Dreamer
Release Date: 1959-11-22 -
Episode 10 - The Jimmy Durante Show
Release Date: 1959-12-06 -
Episode 11 - The Indestructible Mr. Gore
Release Date: 1959-12-13 -
Episode 12 - The Margaret Bourke White Story
Release Date: 1960-01-03 -
Episode 13 - One Loud Clear Voice
Release Date: 1960-01-17 -
Episode 14 - After Hours
Release Date: 1960-02-07A romantic comedy by Tony Webster starring Sally Ann Howes and Christopher Plummer. Also starring Paul McGrath and Natalie Schaefer. A young man poses as a psychiatrist to win the hand of a young girl who seeks counsel for her premarital jitters.
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Episode 15 - The Devil and Daniel Webster
Release Date: 1960-02-14New 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.
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Episode 16 - Our American Heritage: Shadow of a Soldier
Release Date: 1960-02-21 -
Episode 17 - Turn the Key Deftly
Release Date: 1960-03-06 -
Episode 18 - The American
Release Date: 1960-03-27 -
Episode 19 - Hollywood Sings
Release Date: 1960-04-03 -
Episode 22 - The Millionaire's Mite
Release Date: 1960-04-10 -
Episode 23 - The Sacco-Vanzetti Story: Part 1
Release Date: 1960-06-03 -
Episode 24 - The Sacco-Vanzetti Story: Part 2
Release Date: 1960-06-12