Producers' Showcase

- Season 2

(1955)

This Thornton Wilder play, the story of life on Earth from prehistoric times through World War II as lived by Mr. And Mrs. Antrobus, their two children, and their house maid, Sabina, is filled with biblical and mythological references.

Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors.

Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.

The Overseas Press Clubs salute to Freedom of the Press.

Tchaikovsky's ballet, with Margot Fonteyn in the title role, presented on TV in color. Only a black-and-white kinescope of this production seems to survive.

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A stage concert with 13 of world's top opera singers and musicians, each performing a single number.

Julius Caesar's advance into Egypt is halted when he meets Cleopatra, the sister of the boy pharaoh.

Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

The owner of an automobile manufacturing company succumbs to his vain wife's pressure for him to retire--which he really doesn't want to do--and for them to take a cruise to Europe. On the cruise he learns some truths about himself, his wife, and their marriage.

A musical set before Civil War that centers around Evalina Applegate, daughter of a hoop skirt manufacturer, who sides with her Aunt Dolly Bloomer, an avid suffragette, and falls in love with a handsome slave owner, Jefferson Calhoun.

A shy young Newark librarian is secretly in love with a handsome and dashing bank clerk. She hatches a scheme to meet him in a bar, but in her nervousness she has too much to drink and winds up plastered. However, four patrons in the bar take pity on her and resolve to help her catch the man of her dreams.

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