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User Rating:
8.4/10   32 votes
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Writer:
William Dean Howells (novel)
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Seasons:
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Release Date:
27 October 1953 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Plot:
Live drama series that was one of the best TV shows ever shown. Over 200 live plays covering all aspects of society were shown.
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Awards:
Won 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 12 nominations more
User Comments:
An inside the studio homerun more (3 total)

Cast

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Richard Kiley ... Charlie Webb / ... (10 episodes, 1953-1961)
Betsy Palmer ... Anne Gaines / ... (9 episodes, 1954-1960)
Jeff Donnell ... Eva Dulaney / ... (7 episodes, 1954-1962)
Biff McGuire ... Gil Wayne / ... (7 episodes, 1956-1963)
Barry Morse ... Jeremy Penlove / ... (7 episodes, 1958-1961)
Mona Freeman ... Lucy Chalmers / ... (7 episodes, 1960-1962)

Jack Carson ... Enoch McCabe / ... (6 episodes, 1954-1962)
Hans Conried ... Arthur Bannister / ... (6 episodes, 1954-1961)
Edward Andrews ... Charlie Anders / ... (6 episodes, 1954-1959)
Cathleen Nesbitt ... Cissie Hampshire (6 episodes, 1956-1963)
Larry Blyden ... Doc Randolph / ... (6 episodes, 1958-1962)

Patty Duke ... Kathy / ... (6 episodes, 1958-1962)
Faye Emerson ... Dorothy Hilton / ... (5 episodes, 1953-1961)

Teresa Wright ... Allie Gulliver / ... (5 episodes, 1954-1962)
Diana Lynn ... Felicia / ... (5 episodes, 1954-1961)
June Lockhart ... Edith Sealey / ... (5 episodes, 1954-1959)
Lori March ... Billy / ... (5 episodes, 1954-1958)

Peter Mark Richman ... John West / ... (5 episodes, 1956-1962)
John McGovern ... Henry Powers / ... (5 episodes, 1956-1961)
Lisa Daniels ... Nancy / ... (5 episodes, 1956-1957)
Ruth White ... Sister St. Anne / ... (5 episodes, 1958-1963)

Robert Lansing ... Jim Walton / ... (5 episodes, 1959-1963)

Gene Hackman ... Ed / ... (5 episodes, 1959-1962)
Glenda Farrell ... Edna Huntington / ... (5 episodes, 1960-1963)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The U.S. Steel Hour (USA) (alternative title)
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Runtime:
USA:60 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
New York City, New York, USA
Company:
Theatre Guild more

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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "The Mike Wallace Interview: Rod Serling" (1959) more

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful.
An inside the studio homerun, 15 November 2002
Author: chriswgallagher from eastnorthport, ny

A fine live early TV version of Mark Harris' novel. Given the limitations of a television studio,and doing a show "live",this is a bona fide homerun! Newman is great as Henry "author" Wiggen's,star lefthanded pitcher for the NY Mammoths,who takes the teams dying 3rd string catcher under his wing. Newman does a great adlib at the programs opening when he tosses a scrap of paper towards a wastebasket and misses,saying: "Hell of a pitcher I am,I can't even hit the trash can!"

That scrap of paper is the ONLY miss in this fine dramatization of one of the great baseball novels ever written. Too bad nobody has ever filmed the other two novels in Harris' trilogy about Henry Wiggens!And Newman i

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