Jane Darwell

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.

L'ora di Hitchcock (The Alfred Hitchcock Hour) è una serie televisiva statunitense creata da Alfred Hitchcock, andata in onda dal 1962 al 1965, che prese il posto della precedente Alfred Hitchcock presenta. La serie fu così chiamata poiché la durata di ciascun episodio era di cinquanta minuti anziché solo venticinque come nelle precedenti sette stagioni. La serie vanta autori quali Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, James Bridges, Ray Bradbury e registi come William Friedkin e Sydney Pollack. Tra i compositori si ricorda Bernard Herrmann, responsabile per le musiche nelle ultime due stagioni. Come nella serie precedente, ogni episodio è presentato da Hitchcock. In totale furono trasmessi 93 episodi. Gli episodi sono caratterizzati da elementi e soggetti tipici della letteratura di genere, con spunti a volte soprannaturali e comunque sempre incentrati sul mistero e l'imprevisto.

La serie tratta le avventure di un collie di nome Lassie che abita nei pressi di una fattoria insieme al suo compagno d'avventura di nome Jeff, un orfano di guerra che vive con la madre e il nonno a Calverton, (immaginaria località degli Stati Uniti), i quali si trasferiscono dopo la morte dell'anziano. La famiglia Martin, che acquista la fattoria, adotta inoltre Timmy, un bambino a cui Jeff lascia Lassie il giorno del trasloco. In seguito, i Martin emigrano in Australia e lasciano la cagna al loro vicino Cully, per evitarle la quarantena di sei mesi prevista dallo Stato australiano. Cully, causa attacchi di cuore, non può continuare ad occuparsi di Lassie, che viene presa in custodia da Corey e poi da altre due guardie. Dopo aver passato un sacco di tempo senza padrone, Lassie si stabilisce all'Holden Ranch, una fattoria sede di un centro per bambini in difficoltà. La caratteristica principale di Lassie è la sua intelligenza, difatti la cagna aiuterà e salverà tutti i suoi amici animali e tutte le persone che si troveranno in difficoltà, cercherà in qualsiasi modo di soccorrerle ed è proprio da quest'ultime che ne ricaverà affetto e riconoscenza.

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.

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.

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.

Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos Burke, millionaire captain of Los Angeles police homicide division, who was chauffeured around to solve crimes in his Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.