Philco Television Playhouse Films, 1948-1955

Contents List

Container Title
Season 1
DE 403-404
"This Thing Called Love," 1948 November 7
Note: An Actor's Equity Television Production
Writer: Edwin Burke
Director: Fred Coe
Host: Bert Lytell
Cast: Ralph Bellamy, Peggy Conklin, Ernest Cossart, Ann Lee, Hiram Sherman, Reed Brown Jr., Marta Linden, Hope Miller, Ruth Carpenning

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only.
DE 676-677
"Camille," 1948 November 14
Note: An Actors' Equity Television Production
Based on the story by Alexandre Dumas
Host: Bert Lytell
Guest: Reesa Stevens
Cast: Judith Evelyn, John Alberts, Rex O'Malley, Edwin Jerome, Doris Rich, George Lambrose, Timothy Kearse, Bram Nossen, Roland Hogue, Harry Worth, Helen Ray

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 360-361
"An Inspector Calls," 1948 Noevmber 21
Note: An Actor's Equity Television Production
Host: Bert Lytell
Writer: J.B. Priestley
Director: Fred Coe
Cast: Walter Abel, George Coulouris, Margery Maude, Oliver Thorndike, Jeanne Macintyre, Philip Saville, Naomi Campbell

DE 674-675
"Suspect," 1948 December 5
Note: An Actors' Equity Television Production
Host: Bert Lytell
Writers: Edward Percy, Reginald Denham
Director: Fred Coe
Cast: Ruth Chatterton, Bramwell Fletcher, Louis Hector, Mary Orr, Michael Duane, Peg Mayo, Louise Prussing, Vaughn Taylor

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 288-289
"Parlor Story," 1948 December 12
Note: An Actor's Equity Television Production
Writer: William McCleery
Director: Fred Coe
Cast: Dean Jagger, Edith Atwater, Walter Greaza, Paul Huber, Richard Noyes, Patricia Jenkins, Joan Gray, Frances Woodbury

DE 630-631
"A Christmas Carol," 1948 December 19
Note: An Actors' Equity Television Production
Host: Bert Lytell
Announcer: Bob Stanton
Original story by Charles Dickens
Director: Fred Coe
Cast: Dennis King, Frank M. Thomas, Dennis King Jr., James McColl, Valerie Cossart, Judson Sonny Rees, Barry Southern, Loring Smith, Tom Emlyn Williams, Eric Burtis, Artie Quinn, Ben Laughlin, John Baragrey, Marie Kenny, Naomi Riordanz

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 737-738
"Ramshackle Inn," 1949 January 3
Alternate Format: Digital access copy available.

Note: An Actor's Equity Production
Writer: George Batson
Cast: Zasu Pitts, Joseph Downing, Vivian Vance, Dorrit Kelton, Gordon Peters, Richard Bishop, Michael Lawson, Joseph Sweeny, Nancy Davis, Robert Toms, Lewis Charles, George Haggerty, Don DeLeo

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 718-719
"Papa Is All," 1949 January 16
Note: An Actors' Equity Television Production
Host: Bert Lytell
Writer: Patterson Greene
Director: Fred Coe
Cast: Mady Christians, Carl Benton Reid, Mary MacArthur, Walter Starkey, Edmon Ryan, Philippa Bevans

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 282-283
"Pride and Prejudice," 1949 January 23
Alternate Format: Digital access copy available.

Note: An Actor's Equity Television Production
Host: Bert Lytell
Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen
Director: Fred Coe
Cast: Madge Evans, John Baragrey, Viola Roache, Louis Hector

DE 407-408
"Dark Hammock," 1949 January 30
Note: An Actor's Equity Television Production
Host: Bert Lytell
Writers: Mary Orr, Reginald Denham
Cast: Peggy Wood, Sidney Blackmer, Mary Wickes, Mary Orr, Mort Stevens, Roy Fant, Mabel Bergen

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 741-742
"The Late Christopher Bean," 1949 February 6
Note: An Actors' Equity Television Production
Host: Bob Stanton
Writer: Sidney Howard
Director: Fred Coe
Cast: Lillian Gish, Bert Lytell, Clarence Derwent, Helen Carew, Ellen Cobb Hill, Perry Wilson, Louis Sorin, Philip Collidge

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 379-380
"St. Helena," 1949 February 27
Note: An Actor's Equity Television Production
Host: Bert Lytell
Announcer: Bob Stanton
Writers: R.C. Sherriff, Jeanne de Casalis
Director: Fred Coe
Cast: Dennis King, Whitford Kane, Stephen Courtleigh, Nicholas Saunders, Kendall Clark, Guy Repp, Philip Coolidge, Robin Crave

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 329-330
"The Druid Circle," 1949 March 6
Note: An Actors' Equity Television Production
Writer: John Van Druten
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Harry Sarznick(?)
Cast: Leo G. Carroll, Ethel Griffies, Philip Faversham, Mary Alice Moore, James Dobson, Elinor Randel, Katherine Squire, Reynolds Evans, Merle Maddern, Guy Spaull

DE 417-418
"Dinner at Antoine's," 1949 March 20
Note: An Actor's Equity Television Production
Adapted from a novel by Frances Parkinson Keyes
Director: Fred Coe
Cast: William Eythe, Janet Blair, Lawrence Fletcher, Ruth Matteson, James Whitmore, Edgar Stehli, Augusta Dabney, Steve Cochran, Richard Coogan, Evelyn Ellis, James Little, Timothy Keats

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 390-391
"What Makes Sammy Run?," 1949 April 10
Alternate Format: Digital access copy available.

Note: Writer: Budd Schulberg, adapted from the novel
Cast: Jose Ferrer, Philip Bourneuf, Phyllis Hill, John Marley, Lou Gilbert, Howard Smith, Fredd Wayne, Doe Avedon, Solen Burry, Earl George

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
Season 2
DE 222-223
"The Little Sister," 1949 September 18
Note: No production credits on print
Cast: William Eythe, Jean Carson, Lola Montez, Patricia Breslin

DE 425-426
"The Last Tycoon," 1949 October 16
Alternate Format: Digital access copy available.

Note: Adapted from the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Cast: Leueen MacGrath, John Baragrey, Alfreda Wallace, John McQuade, Ivan Simpson, Frances Hammond

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 253-254
"The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram," 1949 November 27
Note: Based on a novel by Harlan Ware
No other production credits on print
Cast: Carol Goodner, Nydia Westman, Valerie Cossart, Stephen Courtleigh, Ben Lackland

DE 480-481
"The Strange Christmas Dinner," 1949 December 18
Note: Based on a story by Margaret Cousins
No other production credits on print
Cast: Vaughn Taylor, Ralph Riggs, Frank Tweddell, Daniel Reed, Bill Story, Melle Matthews, Melvyn Douglas, Elaine Ellis

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 735-736
"In Beauty Like the Night," 1949 December 25
Note: Writer: Lewis Arnold
Cast: Alfred Ryder, Mary Alice Moore, Mercer McLeod, Philip Tonge, Cathleen Cordell, Bram Nossen, Donald Foster, Byron Russell, Ethel Remey, Ronald Dawson

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 272-273, DE 323-324
"Little Boy Lost," 1950 January 1
Physical Description: 2 copies 
Note: [Original story by] Marghanita Laski
No other production credits on print
Cast: John Newland, Alfreda Wallace, Maurice Cavell, Isabel Bonner, Jane Seymour, and Richard Purdy

DE 401-402
"Bethel Merriday," 1950 Januaury 8
Note: Adapted from the Sinclair Lewis play
No production credits on print
Cast: Grace Kelly, Oliver Thorndike, Warren Stevens, Ivan Simpson, Katherine Marshall, Mary K. Wells, Mary Patton, Frank Stephens, and Ralph Longley

DE 276-277
"Uncle Dynamite," 1950 January 29
Note: Adapted from the novel by P.G. Wodehouse
Adaptor: David Shaw
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Gordon Duff
Cast: Arthur Treacher, John Buckmaster, Robin Craven, Bertha Belmore, John Merivale

DE 192-193
"The Sudden Guest," 1950 February 5
Note: Writer: Christopher La Farge
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Florence Reed, John Baragrey, Tonio Stewart, Jean Muir, Frances Waller

DE 431-432
"Ann Rutledge," 1950 February 12
Note: Writer: Joseph Liss
Based on a story by Norman Corwin
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Gordon Duff
Cast: Grace Kelly, Stephen Courtleigh

DE 427-428
"Home Town," 1950 February 26
Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Based on a novel by Cleveland Amory
Adapted by William Kendall Clarke
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Gordon Duff
Cast: Barry Nelson, Faye Emerson, Vinton Hayworth, Betty Caulfield, Leona Powers, Lawrence Fletcher, Philippa Bevans, Larry Fuller, Eileen Heckart, Ann Lincoln, Billy Green

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
FF 858, VBC 653
"The Life of Vincent van Gogh," 1950 March 5
Note: No credits or commercials on print
Cast: Everett Sloane, Chester Stratton, Jeff Morrow

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 270-271
"Uncertain Molly Collicutt," 1950 March 12
Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Original story by Booth Tarkington
Adapted by William Kendall Clarke
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Gordon Duff
Cast: Lilli Palmer, Philip Bourneuf, George Reeves, Valerie Cossart, Ben Lackland

DE 689-690
"The Trial of Steven Kent," 1950 March 19
Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Original story by Josephine Bentham
Adaptation by Nelson Olmsted
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: John Newland, Richard Sanders, Richard Fraser, Alfreda Wallace, Anne Ives, Leona Powers, John D. Seymour, Dan Morgan

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 702-703
"The Second Oldest Profession," 1950 March 26
Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Based on a novel by Robert Sylvester
Adapted by Joseph Liss
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Gordon Duff
Cast: William Prince, Victor Jory, Felicia Montealegre, Mark Roberts, Russell Collins, Bernard Hoffman, Oswald Marshall, Glenn Discus

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 733-734
"Dirty Eddie," 1950 April 9
Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Original story by Ludwig Bemelmans
Adapted by David Shaw
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Gordon Duff
Cast: Joseph Buloff, Judy Parrish, John Buckmaster, Frank M. Thomas, Kathleen Comegys, Vinton Hayworth, James McColl

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 747-748
"The End Is Known," 1950 April 16
Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Original story by Geoffrey Holliday Hall
Adapted by Joseph Liss
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Kent Smith, Adelaide Klein, Warren Stevens, Cara Williams, Nicholas Saunders, Jack Warden, Bern Hoffman, Anna Minot, William Gibberson, Richard Goode, Phillip Kenneally, Al Patterson

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 257-258
"The Feast," 1950 May 8
Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Based on a novel by Margaret Kennedy
Adapted by H.R. Hays
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Margaret Wycherly, Mildred Natwick, Colin Keith-Johnston, Louis Hector, Ernest Graves, Bertha Belmore, Barbara Joyce

DE 753-754
"Brat Farrar," 1950 May 14
Note: Based on the story by Josephine Tey
Adaptation by Norman Rosten
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Gordon Duff
Cast: John Newland, Augusta Dabney, John Baragrey
Episode may have been shown on July 27, 1952.

DE 421-422
"The Charmed Circle," 1950 May 21
Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Based on a novel by Peggy Lamson
Adaptation by William Kendall Clarke
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Alfred Ryder, Betsy Blair, Jo Anne Paul, Ralph Riggs, Helen Carew, Herbert Evers, Lawrence Blyden

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 435-436
"Semmelweis," 1950 May 28
Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Writer: Joseph Liss
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Gordon Duff
Cast: Everett Sloane, Felicia Montealegre, Guy Spaull, E.G. Marshall, E.A. Krumschmidt, Mercer McLeod, Robert H. Harris, Anna Minot, John Craven, Nancy Millard, Pamela Gordon, Ben Irving, Wyrley Birch

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 278-279, VBC 655
"Sense and Sensibility," 1950 June 4
Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Adapted from a novel by Jane Austen
Adapted by H.R. Hayes
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Madge Evans, John Baragrey, Cloris Leachman

DE 327-328
"The Bump on Brannigan's Head," 1950 June 11
Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Original story by Myles Connolly
Television adaptation by David Shaw
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Gordon Duff
Cast: Pat O'Malley, Vinton Hayworth, Leona Powers, Dean Harens, Betty Caulfield, Ruth McDevitt, Ralph Riggs, Michael Strong, and Maurice Schrog

DE 309-310
"Anything Can Happen," 1950 June 18
Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Original story by George and Helen Papashvily
Television play by William Wendall Clarke
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Joseph Buloff, Adia Kuznetzoff, Barbara Bulgakov, Catherin Lynn, and George Renavent

DE 317-318
"Hear My Heart Speak," 1950 June 25
Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Original story by Charlotte Paul
Television adaptation by Stephen de Baun
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Gordon Duff
Cast: Charlton Heston, Olive Deering, Jane Seymour, Frank Maxwell, John D. Seymour, and Ellen-Cobb Hill

DE 745-746
"The Reluctant Landlord," 1950 July 2
Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Based on the book by Scott Corbett
Adapted for television by Joseph Liss
Director: Delbert Mann
Producer: Fred Coe
Cast: Hume Cronyn, Haila Stoddard, Billy M. Greene, Guy Thomajan, Frank Campanella, Sandra Ann Wigginton, John Marley, Isabelle Bonner, Perry Bruskin, Peggy Fenn, Muriel Landers

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
Season 3
DE 706-707
"The Power Devil," 1950 November 5
Note: Original story by Eustace Cockerall and Herbert Dalmas
Television play by William Kendall Clarke
Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Augusta Dabney, Walter Brooke, John D. Seymour, Carroll Ashburn

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 284-285, DD 182-183,
VBC 656
"Torch for a Dark Journey," 1950 November 26
Physical Description: 2 copies 
Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Adapted by Max Wilk from the story by Lionel Shapiro
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Bramwell Fletcher, Loring Smith, Felicia Montealgre, Edgar Stehli, Richard Webb, Robert H. Harris, Louis Sorin, Jon Dawson
DE 284-285 is part of the David Susskind Papers. DD 182-183 is part of the Fred Coe Papers

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 212-213
"The Symbol: Jefferson Davis," 1951 January 7
Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Writer: William Kendall Clarke
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: John Baragrey, Lesley Woods, E.G. Marshall, Ellen-Cobb Hill, and John D. Seymour

FF 905
"The Great Escape," 1951 January 28
Alternate Format: Digital access copy available.

Note: No credits or commercials on print
Adapted from the Paul Brickall novel
Cast: E.G. Marshall, Everett Sloane, Kurt Katch, and Horace Braham

DE 200-201, DE 202-203,
VHA 348
"Bulletin 120," 1951 March 25
Physical Description: 2 kinescope copies and a videocassette viewing copy 
Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Based on a report in the files of the United States Public Health Service
Writer: Joseph Liss
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Stephen Courtleigh, Robert Quarry, Elinor Randel, Daniel Reed, John Randolph, and Jack Bittner

DE 206-207, DE 198-199,
VBC 658
"The Birth of the Movies," 1951 April 22
Physical Description: 2 copies 
Note: Host and narrator: Lillian Gish
Writer: H.R. Hays and Robert Alan Aurthur
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Lillian Gish, John Newland, Paul Mann, and Jean Pearson

Season 4
DE 303-304
"The Rich Boy," 1952 February 10
Alternate Format: Digital access copy available.

Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Based on a story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Television play by Walter Bernstein
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Gene Lyons, Grace Kelly, Phyllis Kirk, Robert Pastene, Mary Jackson, Tom Pedi, Kathleen Comegys, David White, Geoffrey Lumb, Elinor Randel, Robert McQueeney, Henry Hart, Eric Sinclair, Stratton Walling

DD 267
"The Best Laid Schemes," 1952 March 23
Note: Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: Joseph Liss
Cast: Joseph Buloff
Joseph Buloff, Eileen Heckart, Wolfe Barzell
This film reel is part of the Fred Coe Papers.

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 636-637, DE 204-205
"A Cowboy for Chris," 1952 May 18
Physical Description: 2 copies 
Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Writers: Walter Black, William Mendrek
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Gordon Duff
Cast: Brandon de Wilde, Buster Crabbe, Judith Parrish, Lenka Peterson, Nelson Olmsted, Frederic de Wilde, Gordon Peters

DE 722-723, VHA 353
"A Man's Game," 1952 June 1
Physical Description: Kinescope copy and videocassette viewing copy 
Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Writer: Robert Alan Aurthur
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Gordon Duff
Cast: Patricia Benoit, Joe Maross, Vinton Hayworth, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Jack Warden, Don Murry, Brett Somers, Fred Gwynne, Arthur O'Connell, Garry Walberg
This episode was remade as a musical for the Kaiser Aluminum Hour (DE 724-725)

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
Season 5
DE 321-322, DE 749-750
"The Gift," 1952 November 30
Physical Description: 2 copies 
Note: Announcer: Jay Jackson
Writer: H.R. Hays
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Gordon Duff
Cast: Johnny Johnston, Pat O'Malley, Penny Hays, Glenn Anders, Henry Jones, Georgianne Johnson, Cliff Hall, David Winters

DE 305-306
"A Young Lady of Property," 1953 April 5
Note: Announcer, Jay Jackson
Writer: Horton Foote
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Vincent J. Donehue
Cast: Kim Stanley, Joanne Woodward, Margaret Barker, Fredye Marshall, James Gregory

DE 178-179
"Ernie Barger Is 50," 1953 August 9
Note: Announcer, Jay Jackson
Writer: Tad Mosel
Director: Delbert Mann
Producer: David Susskind
Cast: Ed Begley, Carmen Matthews, Howard St. John, John Connell, Joseph Sweeney, Addison Powell

DE 325-326, VBC 652
"Holiday Song," 1953 September 20
Note: Writer: Paddy Chayefsky, based on a true incident as reported in Reader's Digest
Produced by Fred Coe
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Joseph Buloff, Herbert Berghof, David Opatoshu, Anne Hegira, Doris Weissman, Irja Jensen, Werner Klemperer, Michael Sivy, Leo Bayard, and Minnette Barrett

Season 6
DE 286-287
"The Sixth Year," 1953 November 29
Note: Announcer, Jay Jackson
Writer: Paddy Chayefsky
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Arthur Penn. Cast: Kim Stanley, Warren Stevens, Kathleen Comegys, John McGovern, Ruth Hope, Vivian Nathan, Will Hare

DE 186-187, DE 680-681
"The Glorification of Al Toolum," 1953 December 27
Physical Description: 2 copies 
Note: Writer: David Shaw
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: Walter Matthau, Maxine Stuart, Murray Hamilton, Betsy Palmer, Van Dyke Parks

DE 672-673
"The Hangman in the Fog," 1954 January 10
Note: Writer: Lionel Shapiro
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Dane Clark, Maureen Hurley, Michael Gorrin, Werner Klemperer, Francis Compton, Neil Fitzgerald, Rita Vale, Donald McClelland, Dermot McNamara

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 668-669
"Smoke Screen," 1954 January 24
Note: Writer: Mann Rubin
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Rod Steiger, Anne Hegira, William Hansen, Frieda Altman, Jay Jostyn, Ed Prentiss, David White, Andrew Duggan, Addison Powell, Alfred Leberfeld, Greta Markson, Elizabeth Lawrence, Ann Pitoniak

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 743-744
"Statute of Limitations," 1954 February 21
Note: Narrator,Charles Sladen
Writer: A.J. Russell
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Vincent J. Donehue
Cast: Martin Balsam, Anne Jackson, Larry Gates, Barbara Baxley, Fred Stewart, Will Hare, George Mitchell, David White, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Josephine Nichols, Lonny Chapman, Jerry Morris
Appearance by newscaster Frank Blair

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 341-342
"The Dancers," 1954 March 7
Note: Writer: Horton Foote
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Vincent J. Donehue. Cast: James Broderick, Janet De Gore, Joanne Woodward, Katherine Squire, Helen Wagner, Frank Overton, Mary Lou Taylor, William Erwin, Gloria Jones, Mary Haynsworth

DC 977-978
"The Broken Fist," 1954 March 21
Note: Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: Claude Dauphin
These reels are part of the Fred Coe Papers.

DE 331-332, VBC 659
"The Mother," 1954 April 4
Note: Writer: Paddy Chayefsky
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Cathleen Nesbitt, Maureen Stapleton, David Opatoshu, George L. Smith, Estelle Hemsley, Perry Wilson, Katherine Hynes, Doris Weissmann, Anna Berger

DE 375-376
"The King and Mrs. Candle," 1954 April 18
Note: Narrator, Westbrook Van Voorhis
Writer: Sumner Locke Elliott
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: Cyril Ritchard, Joan Greenwood, Irene Manning, Jerome Kilty, Raymond Bramley, Helen Raymond, Will Scholz

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 339-340
"The Joker," 1954 May 2
Note: Writer: N. Richard Nash
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: Martin Balsam, Eva Marie Saint, Maurice Shrog, Will West, Andy Sabilia

DE 217-218, DE 251-252
"The Catamaran," 1954 July 25
Physical Description: 2 copies 
Note: Writer: Lawrence Elikann
Producer: Fred Coe
Director: Vincent J. Donehue
Cast: Cloris Leachman, Patrick O'Neal, Barbara O'Neil, Howard St. John, Carson Woods

DE 260-261, VBC 657
"Man in the Middle of the Ocean," 1954 August 8
Note: Writer: Tad Mosel
Based on a story by Daniel Fuchs
Producer: David Susskind
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Larry Gates, Perry Wilson, James Gregory, David Opatoshu

DE 226-227, VHA 246
"Run Like a Thief," 1954 September 5
Physical Description: Kinescope copy and videocassette viewing copy 
Note: Writer: Sam Hall
Based on a original story by Mann Rubin
Producer: Gordon Duff
Directed by Jeffrey Hayden
Cast: Kurt Kasznar, Gusti Huber, James Dean, Barbara O'Neil

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
Season 7
DE 190-191
"Middle of the Night," 1954 September 19
Note: Writer: Paddy Chayefsky
Producer: Gordon Duff
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Eva Marie Saint, E.G. Marshall, Steven Hill

DE 215-216
"Time Bomb," 1954 October 3
Alternate Format: Digital access copy available.

Note: Writer: Sumner Locke Elliott
Producer: Gordon Duff
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: John Ireland, Nancy Kelly, Katharine Bard, Rebecca Darke

DE 349-350
"Time of Delivery," 1954 October 31
Note: Writer: David Shaw
Based on an original story by Don Barrie
Producer: Gordon Duff
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Martin Brooks, James Broderick, Helen Auerbach, Alexander Scourby

FH 314
"Beg, Borrow or Steal," 1954 November 28
Note: Writer: Jay Presson Allen
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: Phillip Abbott, Sylvia Field, Bess Myerson, Anthony Ross, Patricia Smith
DE 335-336
"Run, Girl, Run," 1954 December 26
Note: Writer: Sumner Locke Elliott
Producer: Gordon Duff
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Lee Meriwether, Mary Astor, Lin McCarthy, Robert F. Simon, Margot Stevenson, Ann Shoemaker, Duncan McLeod, Patricia Falkenhain

DE 343-344
"Walk into the Night," 1955 January 9
Note: Writer: Edmund Morris
Producer: Gordon Duff
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Cast: Walter Matthau, Neva Patterson, Ford Rainey, Virginia Kaye, Florenz Ames, Don Keefer, Frank Overton, Bob Lieb, Jim Boles

DE 230-231, VBC 654
"Play Me Hearts and Flowers," 1955 March 6
Note: Writer: David Shaw
Producer: Gordon Duff
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Johnny Desmond, Joey Adams, Kay Medford, Ellen- Cobb Hill, Luis Van Rooten

DE 474-475
"Watch Me Die," 1955 April 3
Note: Writer: F.W. Durkee Jr.
Producer: Gordon Duff
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: John Baragrey, Claire Kirby, Arthur Storch, Julie Follansbee, Katherine Green, Arthur Marlowe, Bruce Kirby

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 233-234
"The Bold and the Brave," 1955 April 17
Note: Writer: Calder Willingham [Adapted from the play End as a Man, which was the basis for the 1957 Columbia film The Strange One]
Producer: Gordon Duff
Director: Jeffrey Hayden
Cast: Tom Tully, John Kerr, Mark Richman, Jack Weston, Don Fellows

DE 242-243
"Letter of Recommendation," 1955 May 1
Alternate Format: Digital access copy available.

Note: Writer: Jerome Ross
Producer: Gordon Duff
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Maureen Hurley, Augusta Dabney, Ross Martin

DE 462-463, DC 986-987
"The Pardon-Me Boy," 1955 May 15
Physical Description: 2 copies 
Note: Television play by J.P. Miller
Producer: Gordon Duff
Director: Arthur Penn
Cast: Jackie Cooper, Harry Bellaver, Peggy Maurer, Joanna Roos, Carlos Montalban, Frank Overton, James Karen, Allen Nourse, Aneta Corsaut, Carleton Carpenter
DE 462-463 is part of the David Susskind Papers. DC 986-987 is part of the Fred Coe Papers.

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 369-370
"The Ghost Writer," 1955 May 29
Note: Writer: Bernard Wolfe
Producer: Gordon Duff
Director: Jack Smight
Cast: Betsy Palmer, Philip Abbott, Shepperd Strudwick, Bert Freed, Nehemiah Persoff, Margot Stevenson, Chris Gampel, Rod Winchell

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
DE 176-177
"Total Recall," 1955 June 12
Note: Writer: David Shaw
Producer: Gordon Duff
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Arthur Franz, Loretta Leversee, Lois Wheeler

DE 433-434, DE 237-238
"Black Frost," 1955 June 26
Physical Description: 2 copies 
Note: Writer: Steven Hill
Producer: Gordon Duff
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Pat Hingle, Bert Freed, Lonny Chapman, Logan Ramsey, Lenka Peterson, R.G. Armstrong

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only for DE 433-434
DE 307-308, DE 632-633
"Incident in July," 1955 July 10
Physical Description: 2 copies 
Note: Writer: Calder Willingham based on his novel “To Eat a Peach”
Producer: Gordon Duff
Director: Jack Smight
Cast: Maureen Stapleton, Dick York, Charles Dingle, Peggy Maurer, Fred Eisley, Will West, Allen Nourse, Ethel Remey

DE 413-414
"A Room in Paris," 1955 August 7
Note: Writer: Peggy Mann
Producer: Gordon Duff
Director: Paul Lammers
Cast: John Cassavetes, Kathleen Maguire, Al Markim, Caprice Chantel, Michael Everett, Paul Savoir, Jenny Egan, John Boruff, Floyd Ennis, Sam Main

Access Restrictions: Restricted viewing: Steenbeck only
Season 8
DE 394-395, VHA 350
"A Man Is Ten Feet Tall," 1955 October 2
Physical Description: Kinescope copy and videocassette viewing copy 
Note: Writer: Robert Alan Aurthur
Producer: Gordon Duff
Director: Robert Mulligan
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Don Murray, Martin Balsam, Michael Strong, Hilda Sims, Kathleen Murray, Don Gordon, Joe Comadore, Johanna Douglas

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