The series
Producers' Showcase is an American anthology television series that was telecast live during the 1950s in compatible color by NBC. With top talent, the 90-minute episodes, covering a wide variety of genres, aired under the title every fourth Monday at 8 p.m. ET for three seasons, beginning October 18, 1954. The final episode, the last of 37, was broadcast May 27, 1957. Showcase Productions, Inc., packaged and produced the series, which received seven Emmy Awards, including the 1956 award for Best Dramatic Series.
Episodes
Season 3 · 12 episodes · 1956
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Episode 117 Sep 19561h 30m
The Lord Don't Play Favorites
The story of small-time traveling circus stranded in a drought-stricken small Kansas town, subjected to huge fine by city fathers as a way of raising money to pay for a professional rain-maker, when the circus needed money to enter its tri…
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Episode 215 Oct 19561h 30m
The Letter
The scene is a rubber plantation outside of Singapore. As the story opens, Mrs. Leslie Crosbie is shooting one Geoffrey Hammond. Leslie insists she acted in self-defense. An attorney friend of the family agrees to take her case, only to…
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Episode 312 Nov 19561h 30m
Jack and the Beanstalk
As the Peddler who exchanges the magic beans for Jack's cow, Cyril sang THERE ONCE WAS A BOY AND HIS NAME WAS JACK and THIS IS THE ONE about the cow. Later in the plot, Cyril and Celeste Holm, revealed as having plotted to bring Jack to t…
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Episode 410 Dec 19561h 30m
Festival of Music II
The stage concert starring Victoria De Los Angeles, Barry Morrell, Elizabeth Doubleday, Virginio Assandri, Arthur Newman (in opening scene of Verdi's ""La Traviata""), Marian Anderson (""Heav'n, Heav'n,"" ""My Lord, What a Mornin',"" ""Rol…
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Episode 56 Jan 19571h 30m
Wide Wide World II
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Episode 63 Feb 19571h 30m
Ruggles of Red Gap
The musical version of classic tale of English butler who is ""lost"" in a poker game by his noble English employer to a nouveau riche couple from out West, who charms the community and resigns from service to open a restaurant.
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Episode 724 Feb 19571h 30m
Mayerling
Mayerling is the title of an episode of the American television series Producers' Showcase made for NBC, which was aired in 24 February 1957 and released theatrically as a film in Europe. It was produced and directed by Anatole Litvak, who…
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Episode 84 Mar 19571h 30m
Romeo and Juliet
Tragic star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliette unfold in this classic story.
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Episode 91 Apr 19571h 30m
The Great Sebastians
Set in Prague in 1948, comedy-melodrama of vaudeville mind-reading team commanded by Communist general to entertain at a private party to use their talents to ferret out traitors; they are asked to falsely swear that the patriot Masaryk wa…
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Episode 1029 Apr 19571h 30m
Cinderella
Classic fairy tale of Cinderella and her evil step sisters unfold as she longs for her prince.
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Episode 1111 May 19571h 30m
Mr. Broadway
Musical version of rags-to-Vaudeville-riches life of George M. Cohan, musical numbers and choreography staged by Peter Gennaro; songs include ""Give My Regards to Broadway,"" ""Harrigan,"" ""Over There,"" ""Yankee Doodle Dandy,"" and ""You…
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Episode 1227 May 19571h 30m
Festival of Magic
Ernie Kovacs (who doubles as amateur magician whose acts fail miserably), features world famous magicians from seven countries performing their best-known acts: Milbourne Christopher (American who catches bullet in his teeth), Richard Card…
Cast
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