J.M. Kerrigan

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.

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

La storia di Rossella O'Hara, bellezza del sud che si ritrova a fare i conti con la guerra civile, il crollo del mondo in cui è cresciuta e varie disavventure amorose - il tutto con tenacia proverbiale.

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

Shirley Temple's Storybook is an American children's anthology series hosted and narrated by actress Shirley Temple. The series features adaptations of fairy tales like Mother Goose and other family-oriented stories performed by well-known actors, although one episode, an adaptation of The House of the Seven Gables, was meant for older youngsters. Temple's three children made their acting debuts in the last episode of the first season, "Mother Goose".

Un giovane gentiluomo conosce una fanciulla verso la quale si sente irresistibilmente attratto. Mentre stanno conversando amabilmente il loro discorso cade sui lupi mannari e sulla strana malattia chiamata licantropia. Una sera il giovane, la fanciulla e una loro amica decidono di recarsi in un campo nomadi per farsi predire il futuro. A un certo punto l'amica scompare e contemporaneamente i due sentono un urlo provenire dal bosco. Un lupo mannaro sta terrorizzando la città...

Un misterioso “mostro marino” affonda le navi che gli capitano a tiro e sembra invulnerabile ai loro colpi: il governo degli Stati Uniti assegna a tre uomini - Conseil, Ned Land e il professor Arronax - il compito di dargli la caccia. Dopo tre mesi di affannose ricerche, gli uomini che si trovano a bordo dell’“Abramo Lincoln” finalmente lo avvistano: ma la loro sorpresa è grande quando scoprono che si tratta di un sommergibile, il "Nautilus" comandato dal capitano Nemo...

L'affascinante pirata Geoffrey Thorpe saccheggia le navi spagnole per la regina Elisabetta I e si innamora di Donna Maria, una bellissima reale spagnola che cattura.