Billie Burke

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.

회오리 바람에 휩쓸려 오즈의 나라로 내던져진 도로시는 집으로 되돌아갈 수 있는 유일한 길이 위대한 오즈의 마법사를 만나는 것임을 알고 그를 찾아 긴 여정이 시작된다. 도로시는 애견 토토와 함께 노란 길을 따라 오즈의 마법사가 사는 에메랄드 시티로 향한다. 도중에 만난 세 명의 친구들, 지능을 얻고자 하는 허수아비와 심장을 원하는 양철 나뭇꾼, 용기를 가지고 싶어하는 겁장이 사자와 함께 오즈의 마법사에게 자신의 소원이 이루어지도록 부탁하기 위해 도로시와 함께 경쾌한 발걸음을 옮긴다. 그러나 도로시 일행을 방해하기 위해 뒤쫓아오는 서쪽 나라 마녀의 검은 그림자.

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.

Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the supernatural, predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. Versions of Lights Out aired on different networks, at various times, from January 1934 to the summer of 1947 and the series eventually made the transition to television. In 1946, NBC Television brought Lights Out to TV in a series of four specials, broadcast live and produced by Fred Coe, who also contributed three of the scripts. NBC asked Cooper to write the script for the premiere, "First Person Singular", which is told entirely from the point of view of an unseen murderer who kills his obnoxious wife and winds up being executed. Variety gave this first episode a rave review ("undoubtedly one of the best dramatic shows yet seen on a television screen"), but Lights Out did not become a regular NBC-TV series until 1949.

Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.

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.

야심찬 뉴욕의 사교계 여성이 호화로운 만찬을 계획하지만 사업가인 남편 올리버가 재정난에 시달리면서 부부 사이에 긴장감이 감돌기 시작한다. 한편, 까칠한 댄 패커드와 그의 섹시한 배우자 키티를 비롯한 상류층 친구들과 동료들은 서로 얽히고 설킨 관계로 엮여있다. 결국 많은 기대를 모았던 만찬에서 폭로가 이어지는데...

An unhappy, self-centered woman runs off with her sister's husband, wreaking havoc and ruining the lives of those around her.