William Hopper

Perry Mason è uno dei migliori avvocati di Los Angeles e accetta solo clienti della cui innocenza è convinto. Spesso riesce a dimostrare l'innocenza del proprio assistito smascherando in aula il vero colpevole. Gli altri personaggi della serie sono la sua segretaria Della Street, l'investigatore privato Paul Drake, il procuratore distrettuale Hamilton Burger, con il quale si scontra in tribunale vincendo praticamente sempre, e il tenente di polizia Arthur Tragg.

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.

Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.

This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.

The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.

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.

I giovani Jim, Judy e Plato sono accusati di aver aggredito un uomo. Il giorno dopo, Buzz e i suoi sfidano Jim a una pericolosa gara detta “la corsa del coniglio”: correre in auto verso un precipizio e lanciarsi dalla macchina il più tardi possibile. È Buzz a morire, e Jim si rifugia in una casa isolata dove si trova anche Plato che, scosso e impaurito, spara verso i nemici. Nascostosi nel Planetarium, non ascolta nessuno tranne Jim, che riesce effettivamente a svuotargli il caricatore dell'arma. Plato, però, esce di corsa dall'edificio brandendo ancora la pistola e la polizia, accorsa nel frattempo, lo fredda lasciandolo cadavere sul prato antistante. Jim, disperato, copre il corpo dell'amico con il suo giubbotto rosso fiammante.

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.