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Footlights Theater is a 30-minute American television anthology series that aired on CBS on Fridays in the summers of 1952 and 1953. There were a total of 22 episodes that were produced live in New York City and were directed by Fletcher Markle and Robert Stevenson (director). Some of its scripts were original and some were adapted from novels. The first season in 1952 was broadcast live, while the second season in 1953 was filmed rather than broadcast live.
Original Release
07/04/1952
US Release
07/04/1952
Cast
Name | Character |
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Eddy Waller | Clam-digger / Courtney |
Grandon Rhodes | Dr. Sam Olsen / Judge Walker |
Katherine Warren | Marjorie Charles / Mrs. Corey |
Robert Anderson | Coast Guardsman |
Ruth Hussey | Allison Scott |
Stephen McNally | John Malloy |
Barbara Hale | Katherine Charles |
Mark Stevens | Luke Talbot |
Virginia Grey | Madeleine Byron |
Walter Sande | Sam Jeffers |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | Life, Liberty and Orrin Dooley | Friday, 03 July 1953 |
2 | Change of Heart | Friday, 10 July 1953 |
3 | National Honeymoon | Friday, 17 July 1953 |
4 | Crossed and Double-Crossed | Friday, 24 July 1953 |
5 | Heart of Gold | Friday, 31 July 1953 |
6 | They Also Serve | Friday, 07 August 1953 |
7 | All's Fair in Love | Friday, 14 August 1953 |
8 | Adventure in Connecticut | Friday, 21 August 1953 |
9 | Margin for Fear | Friday, 28 August 1953 |
10 | This Is My Heart | Friday, 04 September 1953 |
11 | My Daughter's Husband | Friday, 11 September 1953 |
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Directors
Robert Stevenson, James Neilson, Edward Bernds, Laslo Benedek, Victor Stoloff, Richard Quine, Leigh Jason
Writers
Edward Hope, Elizabeth Reinhardt, Karen DeWolf, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Louella MacFarlane, Mortimer Braus, Lenore J. Coffee, Mary C. McCall Jr., Berne Giler, Albert Duffy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jerome Gruskin, William Bruckner, Sumner Arthur Long, Robert Riley Crutcher, William T. Tilden, Doris Peel, William Fuller
Cast
Name | Character |
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Eddy Waller | Clam-digger / Courtney |
Grandon Rhodes | Dr. Sam Olsen / Judge Walker |
Katherine Warren | Marjorie Charles / Mrs. Corey |
Robert Anderson | Coast Guardsman |
Ruth Hussey | Allison Scott |
Stephen McNally | John Malloy |
Barbara Hale | Katherine Charles |
Mark Stevens | Luke Talbot |
Virginia Grey | Madeleine Byron |
Walter Sande | Sam Jeffers |
Lowell Gilmore | Roger Weston |
Ann Doran | Sister Mary Greene |
Ralph Dumke | Mayor Holcomb |
Herbert Heyes | Dr. Tom Thatcher |
Will Wright | Wentworth |
Ralph Sanford | Chief Bates |
Kasia Orzazewski | Mrs. Katerina Betos |
Melody O'Connor | Joanie Scott |
Mary Alan Hokanson | Miss Simpson |
Frances Morris | Miss Carter |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Frederick Briskin | Executive Producer |
Jules Bricken | Producer |
Endre Bohem | Producer |
Irving Starr | Producer |