Hayden Rorke

Profile

Hayden Rorke (1910–1987) was an American actor best known for playing Dr. Bellows on I Dream of Jeannie. Rorke was born in New York City as the son of screen and stage actress Margaret Rorke. He began his stage career in the 1930s with the Hampden Theatrical Company. During World War II, he enlisted in the army, where he made his uncredited film debut in This is the Army. After the war, he left the army and worked in small parts on Broadway, returning to Hollywood in 1949 for more small and uncredited role in Lust for Gold, Kim, The Magnificent Yankee and An American in Paris. Born : 23rd-Oct-1910

Movie Credits

Pocketful of Miracles

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Released : 18th-Dec-1961

The Barefoot Executive

In the great Disney tradition of wild family fun, a young Kurt Russell stars as Steven Post - an ambitious mailroom clerk at a second-rate TV network. With his eye on the boardroom, and getting nowhere with the studio's top dog, he makes a career-changing discovery. His girlfriend's lovable pet chimp can pick a hit show every time! His secret for success turns into a madcap monkey business when he makes vice president and jealous rivals want in on the act. Ride along with narrow escapes and a classic cast featuring Joe Flynn and Harry Morgan in a comedic climb up the corporate ladder that will leave you howling for more!
Released : 17th-Mar-1971

Suddenly, Love

Young lovers — she's a child of the ghetto, determined to escape her alcoholic, bickering parents; he's a socially prominent attorney with a long-standing health problem — attempt to defy every obstacle to their romance and ultimate marriage.
Released : 4th-Dec-1978

Father's Little Dividend

Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.
Released : 5th-Apr-1951

The Thrill of It All

A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.
Released : 17th-Jul-1963

Project Moon Base

In the future (1970) the US sends a mission to the moon to investigate the building of a moon base.
Released : 4th-Sep-1953

Midnight Lace

Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.
Released : 13th-Oct-1960

Lucky Me

Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promising them stardom if it comes to fruition.
Released : 9th-Apr-1954

Parrish

Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up.
Released : 4th-May-1961

The Night Walker

A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire.
Released : 30th-Dec-1964

The Robe

Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixion. Marcellus has never been a man of faith like his slave, Demetrius, but when Demetrius escapes with the robe, Marcellus experiences disturbing visions and feels guilty for his actions. Convinced that destroying the robe will cure him, Marcellus sets out to find Demetrius — and discovers his Christian faith along the way.
Released : 16th-Sep-1953

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can sing and play the piano, and learns quickly. Soon she marries Johnny Brown, who in a few years will be able to replace the original cigar wrapper wedding ring with a replica in gold and gemstones. The Browns head for Europe and bring a few crowned heads back to Denver for a party that turns into a ballroom brawl. Molly goes to Europe alone, returning on the Titanic. She didn't survive a flood as a baby for the story to end here.
Released : 11th-Jun-1964

All That Heaven Allows

Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
Released : 25th-Dec-1955

Rope of Sand

Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.
Released : 3rd-Aug-1949

Tammy Tell Me True

Tammy leaves the river in Mississippi to attend college, developing a relationship with Tom Freeman (John Gavin). Sandra Dee replaces Debbie Reynolds in this and the third Tammy movie. This film introduces both a new theme song, "Tammy Tell Me True", and the character of Mrs. Annie Call, played by veteran Beulah Bondi. Mrs. Call ultimately moves in with Tammy at the Ellen B. and would be the catalyst for the events in the following film, "Tammy and The Doctor".
Released : 26th-Jul-1961

Spencer's Mountain

Clay Spencer and his wife, Olivia, live in a small town deep in the mountains. When Clay isn't busy drinking with his buddies or railing against the town minister, he's building the house he's always promised Olivia. He is overjoyed when he learns his eldest son will be the first Spencer to attend college, if he can resist the charms of a pretty local girl and rustle up the money for tuition.
Released : 16th-May-1963

Above and Beyond

The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it can do tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll resulting from it will be huge. He is reluctant to be the person who will end so many lives, but as time goes on, the pressure upon him only increase.
Released : 2nd-Jan-1953

Double Crossbones

Falsely accused by the corrupt Governor Elden of Charleston of fencing stolen pirate booty, young Davey Crandall and friend Tom Botts buy passage on the ship of local buccaneer Bloodthirsty Ben. They avoid being killed by faking a case of the pox, which causes the panicked captain and crew to desert the ship. The two find themselves alone, and when a lucky cannon shot hits a mast on a British ship, they find themselves mistaken for pirates. They sail to Tortuga, where they recruit such notorious corsairs as Henry Morgan, Captain Kidd, Anne Bonney, and Blackbeard to lay siege to Chaleston and expose the villain Elden.
Released : 26th-Apr-1951

I Dream of Jeannie... Fifteen Years Later

Jeannie has been a happily married housewife for 15 years to her astronaut husband Tony Nelson and has a teenage son, T.J. When Tony is promoted to Colonel and is about to retire from the NASA space program, Jeannie decides to give him a celebration party in their backyard. However, egged on by his colleagues to retire with a dramatic flair, Tony breaks his promise to Jeannie for one more space flight (aboard the shuttle), this time with a female astronaut, Captain Nelly Hunt.
Released : 19th-Oct-1985

South Sea Woman

Marine Sergeant James O'Hearn is being tried at the San Diego Marine base for desertion, theft, scandalous conduct and destruction of property in time of war. He refuses to testify or plead guilty or not guilty to the charges. Showgirl Ginger Martin takes the stand against his protest. She testifies O'Hearn won't talk because he is protecting the name of his pal, Marine Private Davey White. Ginger tells how she, broke and stranded, met the two marines in Shanghai two weeks before Pearl Harbor.
Released : 27th-Jun-1953

Drum Beat

President Grant orders Indian fighter MacKay to negotiate with the Modocs of northern California and southern Oregon. On the way he must escort Nancy Meek to the home of her aunt and uncle. After Modoc renegade Captain Jack engages in ambush and other atrocities, MacKay must fight him one-on-one with guns, knives and fists.
Released : 10th-Nov-1954

This Happy Feeling

Janet Blake leaves a party when her boss drunkenly makes passes at her and is offered a ride to the subway with Bill Tremaine. When she thinks Bill is making advances too, she flees into a rainstorm and ends up at the house of his neighbor, retired actor Preston Mitchell. Preston hires her as his secretary, and soon both men are pursuing Janet.
Released : 18th-Jun-1958

Tip on a Dead Jockey

Broke and about to divorce his wife, a pilot joins a smuggling scheme in postwar Madrid.
Released : 6th-Sep-1957

I'd Rather Be Rich

An updated remake of It Started With Eve (1941). A young heiress is summoned to the bedside of her dying grandfather. The man's last wish is to meet her fiance, but problems arise when the fiance is delayed and a young chemical engineer is persuaded to take his place. When the grandfather suddenly (and secretly) recovers, he uses the situation to his advantage - playing matchmaker in an attempt to ensure his granddaughter's happiness.
Released : 25th-Aug-1964

Starlift

To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.
Released : 14th-Dec-1951

Wild Stallion

A young orphan grows into adulthood, all the while searhing for his beloved white horse that disappeared years earlier.
Released : 27th-Apr-1952

A House Is Not a Home

Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.
Released : 12th-Aug-1964

The Law and the Lady

A former housemaid now works as a confidence trickster, but her plans for a big job in California go awry.
Released : 20th-Jul-1951

Francis Goes to the Races

In this funny sequel to the popular Francis the Talking Mule, the talkative Mule and his pal Peter get a job working on a horse-breeder's ranch. They end up saving it from financial ruin when Francis, who has the inside track with the racehorses, provides Peter with names of the winners before the races are run. Sure enough Peter finds himself with a fistful of cash and uses it to buy a racehorse for the farm. Unfortunately, the horse he chooses is suffering from a debilitating lack of confidence. When not dealing with the mare, Peter finds time to court the horse breeder's niece and trying to avoid the gangsters who want in on the winnings.
Released : 1st-May-1951

A Stranger in My Arms

An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow.
Released : 3rd-Mar-1959

The Restless Years

A pretty, sheltered teenager falls for a boy from the wrong side of town.
Released : 1st-Dec-1958

The Eternal Sea

Biography of Admiral John Hoskins' efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury.
Released : 19th-Apr-1955

Back Street

Ambitious but thwarted, Rae Smith meets handsome Marine Paul Saxon, (of the Saxon department store chain), as he passes through Lincoln, Nebraska, on his way home from World War II. There's a definite spark between them but circumstances intervene and he leaves town without her. Later she learns he's married. Determined to make it as a fashion designer, Rae moves to New York and becomes a great success. One day she happens to meet Paul again and again there's that spark but he's still married so, as a form of escape, Rae moves to Rome to set up shop. Once again she meets Paul and finally they begin an actual affair since Paul's shrewish, drunken wife, Liz, won't give him a divorce. Time passes, the affair continues whenever time and place permit, but then, Paul's young son finds out about Rae and Rae's back-street world begins to crumble.
Released : 11th-Oct-1961

Confidentially Connie

Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up his teaching career and come back to Texas and take over the ranch. When Opie finds out that Connie, who is expecting a baby, can not afford the steaks she yearns for on Joe's salary, Opie, who believes that pregnant women gotta have meat, arranges for the local butcher, Spangenberg to cut his prices in half (with Opie paying the difference) so that Connie can have the meat she desires.
Released : 12th-Mar-1953

This Is the Army

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
Released : 14th-Aug-1943

Inside Straight

A tycoon rises to the top in 19th-century San Francisco through greed and corruption.
Released : 1st-Mar-1951

The Legend of Lizzie Borden

A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.
Released : 10th-Feb-1975

Rogue's March

After being unjustly accused of spying, a British officer tries to redeem himself in India.
Released : 13th-Feb-1953

The Story of Three Loves

Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.
Released : 26th-Mar-1953

When Worlds Collide

When a group of astronomers calculate a star is on a course to slam into Earth, a few days before, it's accompanying planet will first pass close enough to the Earth to cause havoc on land and sea. They set about building a rocket so a few selected individuals can escape to the planet.
Released : 14th-Sep-1951

The Girl Next Door

Stage-and-night club star Jeannie Laird buys her first home, and everyone who is anyone comes to her first garden party only to be blinded by smoke from next door. Jeannie charges next door to bawl out her new neighbor and meets comic-strip artist Bill Carter. Bill has devoted himself to his strip, and raising his ten-year-old son Joe since the death of his wife. Joe bases his strip on the everyday happenings of he and his son and is proud of keeping it scrupulously honest. When Jeannie and Bill fall in love, young Joe is hurt, especially when Bill starts using a lot of the father-son time to be with Jeannie. Bill cancels a father-son trip to Canada, and Joe decides to write a letter to Bill's syndicate pointing out that the current plot line of the script being set in Canada isn't honest, since they didn't go.
Released : 13th-May-1953

Meet the Governor

A backwoods lawyer's race for the governor's office is thwarted by mainstream opponents who dig up dirt from his past.
Released : 5th-Oct-1955

An American in Paris

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.
Released : 26th-Sep-1951

Pillow Talk

Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Morrow, who shares a telephone party line with him and hears all his breezy routines. After Jan unsuccessfully lodges a complaint against him, Brad sets about to seduce her in the guise of a sincere and upstanding Texas rancher. When mutual friend Jonathan discovers that his best friend is moving in on the girl he desires, however, sparks fly.
Released : 7th-Oct-1959

Lust for Gold

A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of the mine has lead her to double-cross her husband.
Released : 10th-Jun-1949

Skirts Ahoy!

Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn't long marches or several weeks in a small boat, but their love life.
Released : 28th-May-1952

Johnny Shiloh

Johnny Shiloh is a 1963 made for TV film that originally aired in two parts on the Wonderful World of Disney in Color. It was released in other countries theatrically as one film and is on DVD as one film. Johnny Shiloh is the true story about Johnny Clem, the ten year old drummer boy who became a union officer in the Civil War.
Released : 20th-Jan-1963

Youngblood Hawke

An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.
Released : 4th-Nov-1964

The Prince Who Was a Thief

An Arabian prince, kidnapped at birth and raised as a thief, plots to regain his throne from his evil uncle in this colorful costume adventure.
Released : 17th-May-1951

The Lives of Jenny Dolan

A newspaper reporter's life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination.
Released : 27th-Oct-1975

Sword in the Desert

First American film about the conflict between Jewish nationalists and the British in the creation of the state of Israel.
Released : 24th-Aug-1949

TV Credits

Mister Ed

- Wilbur Post and his wife Carol move into a beautiful new home. When Wilbur takes a look in his new barn, he finds that the former owner left his horse behind. This horse is no ordinary horse . . . he can talk, but only to Wilbur, which leads to all sorts of misadventures for Wilbur and his trouble-making sidekick Mister Ed.
Released : 5th-Jan-1961

The Andy Griffith Show

A.J. Considine - The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.
Released : 3rd-Oct-1960

Cheyenne

- Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.
Released : 20th-Sep-1955

Here's Lucy

Judge -
Released : 23rd-Sep-1968

The Beverly Hillbillies

Wilkins - Jed Clampett's swamp is loaded with oil. When a wildcatter discovers the huge pool, Jed sells his land to the O.K. Oil Company and at the urging of cousin Pearl, moves his family to a 35-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California.
Released : 26th-Sep-1962

I Love Lucy

Mr. O'Brien - Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
Released : 15th-Oct-1951

Petticoat Junction

H.J. Grant - The Bradley family are proud owners of the Shady Rest Hotel. Kate and her three young daughters do the job of running the hotel.
Released : 24th-Sep-1963

Mannix

- Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He is played by Mike Connors. Mannix was the last series produced by Desilu Productions.
Released : 16th-Sep-1967

Perry Mason

Jay Holbrook - The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Released : 21st-Sep-1957

Wonder Woman

Professor Otis Warren - With the strength of Hercules, the wisdom of Athena, the speed of Mercury and the beauty of Aphrodite, she’s Wonder Woman. Beautiful Amazon princess Wonder Woman travels to 1940s America disguised as Diana Prince, assistant to handsome but trouble-prone Major Steve Trevor. Using her golden belt, which imbues her with astonishing strength, her bullet-deflecting bracelets, a golden lasso that dispels dishonesty and an invisible supersonic plane, Wonder Woman combats evil.
Released : 7th-Nov-1975

General Electric Theater

Mr. Bolton - General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
Released : 1st-Feb-1953

Cannon

- Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the title character, private detective Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad. He also appeared on two episodes of Barnaby Jones. Cannon is the first Quinn Martin-produced series to be aired on a network other than ABC. A "revival" television film, The Return of Frank Cannon, was aired on November 1, 1980. In total, there were 124 episodes.
Released : 14th-Sep-1971

The Twilight Zone

Sykes - A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
Released : 2nd-Oct-1959

Target: The Corruptors!

- Target: The Corruptors! is an American crime drama series starring Stephen McNally which aired on ABC from September 29, 1961 to June 8, 1962. The series was produced by Dick Powell's Four Star Television.
Released : 29th-Sep-1961

The Outcasts

- The Outcasts is an American Western genre television series, appearing on ABC in the 1968-69 season. The series stars Don Murray and Otis Young. It is most notable for being the first television Western with an African American co-star.
Released : 23rd-Sep-1968

The Millionaire

Burt Costello - An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
Released : 19th-Jan-1955

Thriller

Dr. Frank - Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.
Released : 13th-Sep-1960

Peter Gunn

- Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and featuring Henry Mancini music that could tell you the action with your eyes closed, Peter Gunn worked in style. Known as Pete to his friends and simply as Gunn to his enemies, he did his job in a calm cool way.
Released : 22nd-Sep-1958

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Pastor Thompson - Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
Released : 5th-Oct-1951

The Thin Man

- Nick Charles was a private detective who married the wealthy Nora and decided to settle down and leave the good life. Unfortunately for the couple, Nick's past frequently caught up with him and got the couple involved in mystery after mystery. The series was based on the popular MGM series of movies of the 1930's starring William Powell and Myrna Loy. Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk starred as the televison versions of Nick and Nora which ran on NBC for two seasons from 1957-59.
Released : 20th-Sep-1957

Richard Diamond, Private Detective

Frank Judson - Richard Diamond, Private Detective is an American detective drama which aired on radio from 1949 to 1953, and on television from 1957 to 1960.
Released : 1st-Jul-1957

Petrocelli

- Petrocelli is an American legal drama which ran for two seasons on NBC from September 11, 1974 to March 31, 1976. Tony Petrocelli is an Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer who gave up the big money and frenetic pace of major-metropolitan life to practice in a sleepy city in the American Southwest. He and wife Maggie live in a trailer in the country while waiting for their new house to be built, and travel around in a beat-up old pickup truck. For a quiet rural area, Petrocelli seems to have no trouble running into his share of murderers to defend.
Released : 11th-Sep-1974

Adventures of Superman

- Announcer: "The Adventures of Superman. Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings at a single bound!" Voices: "Look up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Announcer: "Yes, it's Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman, who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands; and who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way."
Released : 19th-Sep-1952

Bronco

- Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin.
Released : 23rd-Sep-1958

The Donna Reed Show

- Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the children.
Released : 24th-Sep-1958

Matinee Theater

- Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily in the afternoon, was frequently live. It was produced by Albert McCleery, Darrell Ross, George Cahan and Frank Price with executive producer George Lowther. McCleery had previously produced the live series Cameo Theatre which introduced to television the concept of theater-in-the-round, TV plays staged with minimal sets. Jim Buckley of the Pewter Plough Playhouse recalled: When Al McCleery got back to the States, he originated a most ambitious theatrical TV series for NBC called Matinee Theater: to televise five different stage plays per week live, airing around noon in order to promote color TV to the American housewife as she labored over her ironing. Al was the producer. He hired five directors and five art directors. Richard Bennett, one of our first early presidents of the Pewter Plough Corporation, was one of the directors and I was one of the art directors and, as soon as we were through televising one play, we had lunch and then met to plan next week’s show. That was over 50 years ago, and I’m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator —yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleery’s chief claims to favor with the producers was his elimination of the setting per se and simply decorating the scene with a minimum of props. It took a bit of ingenuity.
Released : 31st-Oct-1955

The Dakotas

- The Dakotas is an ABC/Warner Brothers western television series starring Larry Ward and featuring Jack Elam broadcast during 1963. The short-lived program is considered a spin-off of Clint Walker's Cheyenne. The Dakotas is perhaps most notable for the fact that it was cancelled one week after heavy viewer protest over an objectionable scene.
Released : 7th-Jan-1963

Ellery Queen

- Ellery Queen is an American television detective mystery series based on the fictional character Ellery Queen. It aired on NBC during the 1975-76 television season and stars Jim Hutton as Ellery Queen, David Wayne as his father, Inspector Richard Queen, and Tom Reese as Sgt. Velie. Created by the writing/producing team of Richard Levinson and William Link, the title character "breaks" the fourth wall to ask the audience to consider their solution.
Released : 11th-Sep-1975

Riverboat

Ferdinand Maret - Riverboat is a 44-episode western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds broadcast on the NBC television network from September 13, 1959 until January 2, 1961. It was produced by Revue Studios.
Released : 13th-Sep-1959

The Whistler

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Released : 13th-Jul-1954

Cavalcade of America

- Cavalcade of America is an anthology drama series that was sponsored by the DuPont Company, although it occasionally presented a musical, such as an adaptation of Show Boat, and condensed biographies of popular composers. It was initially broadcast on radio from 1935 to 1953, and later on television from 1952 to 1957. Originally on CBS, the series pioneered the use of anthology drama for company audio advertising. Cavalcade of America documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds. This was consistent with DuPont's overall conservative philosophy and legacy as an American company dating back to 1802. The company's motto, "Maker of better things for better living through chemistry," was read at the beginning of each program, and the dramas emphasized humanitarian progress, particularly improvements in the lives of women, often through technological innovation.
Released : 1st-Oct-1952

Dr. Kildare

Dr. Norman Hackett - The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
Released : 27th-Sep-1961

City Detective

- Crime drama starring Rod Cameron as 43-year-old Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police lieutenant.
Released : 7th-Sep-1953

Coronado 9

- Dan Adams, former Naval Intelligence officer, works in San Diego as a private detective.
Released : 6th-Sep-1960

Frontier

- Frontier is an American Western anthology series that aired on NBC from September 1955, to September 1956. The series de-emphasizes gunplay and focuses on the hazards of the settlement of the American West. It was only the second anthology Western series in television history, having been preceded by Death Valley Days. Frontier aired premiered on September 25, 1955, and ran sporadically in its last five months. Walter Coy narrated the series and starred in occasional episodes, which are dramatizations based on actual events. The program was produced by Worthington Miner.
Released : 25th-Sep-1955

Mr. Adams and Eve

- Mr. Adams and Eve is a CBS sitcom starring Howard Duff and his then wife, Ida Lupino, as a fictitious acting couple, Howard and Eve Adams, residing in Beverly Hills, California. In the television series, Lupino is known professionally as Eve Drake. The program aired sixty-six episodes from January 4, 1957, to July 8, 1958, with rebroadcasts continuing until September 23, 1958. Lupino was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Best Actress in a Continuing Role" for both seasons of Mr. Adams and Eve.
Released : 4th-Jan-1957

Ghost Story

Newsman (uncredited) - Ghost Story is an American television anthology series that aired for one season on NBC from 1972 to 1973. Executive-produced by William Castle, it initially featured supernatural entities such as ghosts, vampires, and witches. By mid-season, low ratings led to a shift -- for the most part -- away from paranormal themes and a title change to Circle of Fear.
Released : 15th-Sep-1972

Mr. & Mrs. North

- Mr. & Mrs. North is an American comedy/mystery television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1952 to May 25, 1954. The series centers on Jerry North, a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good amateur detective, and his wife, Pamela, as they solve crimes in New York City.
Released : 3rd-Oct-1952

No Time for Sergeants

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Released : 14th-Sep-1964

Dr. Kildare

Bishop - The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.
Released : 27th-Sep-1961

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

- Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
Released : 5th-Oct-1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Albert Cook - Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
Released : 5th-Oct-1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Brian Levering - Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
Released : 5th-Oct-1951

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

John Whitlock - Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
Released : 5th-Oct-1951

I Dream of Jeannie

Dr. Bellows - While on a mission, American astronaut Captain Tony Nelson is forced to make an emergency landing that will forever change his life. On a deserted South Pacific island, Captain Nelson happens upon a bottle containing a beautiful two-thousand-year-old female genie named Jeannie. Rescuing her from the bottle nets Tony the requisite three wishes, and then some, when Jeannie pledges total devotion to her new "master".
Released : 18th-Sep-1965

Four Star Playhouse

Doctor - Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
Released : 25th-Sep-1952

Four Star Playhouse

Dr. Lawrence - Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine. Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino. The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
Released : 25th-Sep-1952

Perry Mason

Walter Caffrey - The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Released : 21st-Sep-1957

Perry Mason

Gage McKinney - The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.
Released : 21st-Sep-1957

The Love Boat

Mr. Humbertson - Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
Released : 24th-Sep-1977

Once an Eagle

Paul Sinclair - Once An Eagle is a 1976 nine-hour American television mini-series directed by Richard Michaels and E.W. Swackhamer. The picture was written by Peter S. Fischer and based on the 1968 Anton Myrer novel of the same name. The first and last installments of the seven-part series were each two-hour broadcasts, while the interim episodes were 60 minutes. The mini-series concerns the thirty year careers of two military men, from the outbreak of World War I to the aftermath of World War II.
Released : 2nd-Dec-1976

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Pocketful of Miracles

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.Released : 18th-Dec-1961

The Barefoot Executive

Suddenly, Love

Young lovers — she's a child of the ghetto, determined to escape her alcoholic, bickering parents; he's a socially prominent attorney with a long-standing health problem — attempt to defy every obstacle to their romance and ultimate marriage.Released : 4th-Dec-1978

Father's Little Dividend

Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.Released : 5th-Apr-1951

The Thrill of It All

A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.Released : 17th-Jul-1963

Project Moon Base

In the future (1970) the US sends a mission to the moon to investigate the building of a moon base.Released : 4th-Sep-1953

Midnight Lace

Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.Released : 13th-Oct-1960

Lucky Me

Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promising them stardom if it comes to fruition.Released : 9th-Apr-1954

Parrish

The Night Walker

A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire.Released : 30th-Dec-1964

The Robe

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

All That Heaven Allows

Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.Released : 25th-Dec-1955

Rope of Sand

Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.Released : 3rd-Aug-1949

Tammy Tell Me True

Spencer's Mountain

Above and Beyond

Double Crossbones

I Dream of Jeannie... Fifteen Years Later

South Sea Woman

Drum Beat

This Happy Feeling

Tip on a Dead Jockey

Broke and about to divorce his wife, a pilot joins a smuggling scheme in postwar Madrid.Released : 6th-Sep-1957

I'd Rather Be Rich

Starlift

To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.Released : 14th-Dec-1951

Wild Stallion

A young orphan grows into adulthood, all the while searhing for his beloved white horse that disappeared years earlier.Released : 27th-Apr-1952

A House Is Not a Home

Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.Released : 12th-Aug-1964

The Law and the Lady

A former housemaid now works as a confidence trickster, but her plans for a big job in California go awry.Released : 20th-Jul-1951

Francis Goes to the Races

A Stranger in My Arms

An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow.Released : 3rd-Mar-1959

The Restless Years

A pretty, sheltered teenager falls for a boy from the wrong side of town.Released : 1st-Dec-1958

The Eternal Sea

Biography of Admiral John Hoskins' efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury.Released : 19th-Apr-1955

Back Street

Confidentially Connie

This Is the Army

Inside Straight

A tycoon rises to the top in 19th-century San Francisco through greed and corruption.Released : 1st-Mar-1951

The Legend of Lizzie Borden

A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.Released : 10th-Feb-1975

Rogue's March

After being unjustly accused of spying, a British officer tries to redeem himself in India.Released : 13th-Feb-1953

The Story of Three Loves

Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.Released : 26th-Mar-1953

When Worlds Collide

The Girl Next Door

Meet the Governor

A backwoods lawyer's race for the governor's office is thwarted by mainstream opponents who dig up dirt from his past.Released : 5th-Oct-1955

An American in Paris

Pillow Talk

Lust for Gold

A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of the mine has lead her to double-cross her husband.Released : 10th-Jun-1949

Skirts Ahoy!

Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn't long marches or several weeks in a small boat, but their love life.Released : 28th-May-1952

Johnny Shiloh

Youngblood Hawke

An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.Released : 4th-Nov-1964

The Prince Who Was a Thief

An Arabian prince, kidnapped at birth and raised as a thief, plots to regain his throne from his evil uncle in this colorful costume adventure.Released : 17th-May-1951

A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.
Released : 18th-Dec-1961

Young lovers — she's a child of the ghetto, determined to escape her alcoholic, bickering parents; he's a socially prominent attorney with a long-standing health problem — attempt to defy every obstacle to their romance and ultimate marriage.
Released : 4th-Dec-1978

Newly married Kay Dunstan announces that she and her husband are having a baby, leaving her father to come to grips with the fact that he will soon be a granddad.
Released : 5th-Apr-1951

A housewife's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.
Released : 17th-Jul-1963

In the future (1970) the US sends a mission to the moon to investigate the building of a moon base.
Released : 4th-Sep-1953

Kit Preston begins to unravel when she receives threatening telephone calls informing her she's soon to be murdered.
Released : 13th-Oct-1960

Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promising them stardom if it comes to fruition.
Released : 9th-Apr-1954

A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire.
Released : 30th-Dec-1964

Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
Released : 25th-Dec-1955

Story of a South African diamond mine watched over by a sadistic policeman tasked with looking out for smugglers.
Released : 3rd-Aug-1949

Broke and about to divorce his wife, a pilot joins a smuggling scheme in postwar Madrid.
Released : 6th-Sep-1957

To impress a movie star, a U.S. Air Force crewman pretends he is soon to see combat. When his lie gets out, chaos ensues.
Released : 14th-Dec-1951

A young orphan grows into adulthood, all the while searhing for his beloved white horse that disappeared years earlier.
Released : 27th-Apr-1952

Story follows the life of Polly Adler, who grew to become one of New York's most successful bordello madams of the 1920s.
Released : 12th-Aug-1964

A former housemaid now works as a confidence trickster, but her plans for a big job in California go awry.
Released : 20th-Jul-1951

An Air Force pilot finds romance with his war buddy's widow.
Released : 3rd-Mar-1959

A pretty, sheltered teenager falls for a boy from the wrong side of town.
Released : 1st-Dec-1958

Biography of Admiral John Hoskins' efforts to retain active command despite WW2 injury.
Released : 19th-Apr-1955

A tycoon rises to the top in 19th-century San Francisco through greed and corruption.
Released : 1st-Mar-1951

A dramatization of the famous 1893 Massachusetts trial of the woman accused of murdering her father and stepmother with an ax.
Released : 10th-Feb-1975

After being unjustly accused of spying, a British officer tries to redeem himself in India.
Released : 13th-Feb-1953

Passengers on an ocean liner recall their greatest loves.
Released : 26th-Mar-1953

A backwoods lawyer's race for the governor's office is thwarted by mainstream opponents who dig up dirt from his past.
Released : 5th-Oct-1955

A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of the mine has lead her to double-cross her husband.
Released : 10th-Jun-1949

Three young ladies sign up for some kind of training at a naval base. However, their greatest trouble isn't long marches or several weeks in a small boat, but their love life.
Released : 28th-May-1952

An unknown Kentucky writer comes to New York and pursues fame and women.
Released : 4th-Nov-1964

An Arabian prince, kidnapped at birth and raised as a thief, plots to regain his throne from his evil uncle in this colorful costume adventure.
Released : 17th-May-1951