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Original Release
10/07/1956
US Release
10/07/1956
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Alistair Cooke | Self - Host |
| Bud Palmer | Narrator (segment "Skull Session") / Narrator (segment "Almost All about Horses") / Commentator (segment "The Fastest Game of All") |
| James Daly | Narrator (segment "The Fine Art of Murder") / General Robert E. Lee (segment) / (segment "My Heart's in the Highlands") |
| Bert Lahr | Narrator / Self - Performer (segment "The Big Wheel") / Androcles / (segment "Moliere's School for Wives") |
| Felix Munro | Edgar Allan Poe (segment "The Fine Art of Murder") / (segment "Androcles and the Lion") |
| Evelyn Ward | Singer (segment) / Self - Performer (segment "The Big Wheel") |
| Jerome Kilty | Lord Belomont / (segment "Androcles and the Lion") |
| John McGovern | (segment "The Man without a Country") / (segment "My Heart's in the Highlands") |
| Dorothy Lang | Singer (segment) / Self - Performer (segment "The Big Wheel") |
| Berry Kroeger | Solicitor General / (segment "Androcles and the Lion") |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The American Musical Comedy | Sunday, 07 October 1956 |
| 2 | Androcles and the Lion | Sunday, 14 October 1956 |
| 3 | The Last Day of Manolete | Sunday, 21 October 1956 |
| 4 | TV/Radio Workshop of the Ford Foundation | Sunday, 28 October 1956 |
| 5 | Let There Be Farce | Sunday, 04 November 1956 |
| 6 | Moliere's School for Wives | Sunday, 11 November 1956 |
| 7 | Plays of the Irish Renaissance | Sunday, 18 November 1956 |
| 8 | The Blue Hotel | Sunday, 25 November 1956 |
| 9 | The Man without a Country | Sunday, 02 December 1956 |
| 10 | The Fine Art of Murder | Sunday, 09 December 1956 |
| 11 | The Christmas Tie | Sunday, 16 December 1956 |
| 12 | Madeline Visits Omnibus | Sunday, 23 December 1956 |
| 13 | The Art of Choreography | Sunday, 30 December 1956 |
| 14 | Oedipus, the King | Sunday, 06 January 1957 |
| 15 | Introduction to Modern Music | Sunday, 13 January 1957 |
| 16 | Lee at Gettysburg | Sunday, 20 January 1957 |
| 17 | The Big Wheel - The Burlesque Entertainment of Yesterday | Sunday, 27 January 1957 |
| 18 | The Theatre Breaks Loose | Sunday, 03 March 1957 |
| 19 | The Trial of Captain Kidd | Sunday, 10 March 1957 |
| 20 | How the F-100 Got Its Tail | Sunday, 17 March 1957 |
| 21 | The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach | Sunday, 31 March 1957 |
| 25 | Lizzie Borden | Sunday, 24 March 1957 |
Directors
Charles S. Dubin, Delbert Mann, Jack Sameth, Hal Davis, David Greene, Wes Kenney, Richard Dunlap, Clark Jones, Andrew McCullough, Robert Sharpe, Lee Rothberg, Fred Carney, James Walsh, Daniel Petrie, Paul Bogart, Seymour Robbie, Richard Leacock
Writers
Joseph Hurley, Walter Kerr, Andy Lewis, Frank Duane, William Saroyan, Leonard Bernstein, John Millington Synge, J. Franklin Jones, Maurice Valency, Sean O'Casey, Sophocles, Ludwig Bemelmans, Lennox Robinson, Robert Sharpe, Alan Stern, Robert Hutchinson, Robert Fitzgerald, Dudley Fitts, Norman Walsh, Stephen Crane, Edward Everett Hale, Alvin Sapinsley, Paul Vincent Carroll, Sidney Carroll, James Agee, Molière, William Butler Yeats, S.J. Perelman, George S. Kaufman, George Bernard Shaw, Horton Foote, Leueen MacGrath
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Alistair Cooke | Self - Host |
| Bud Palmer | Narrator (segment "Skull Session") / Narrator (segment "Almost All about Horses") / Commentator (segment "The Fastest Game of All") |
| James Daly | Narrator (segment "The Fine Art of Murder") / General Robert E. Lee (segment) / (segment "My Heart's in the Highlands") |
| Bert Lahr | Narrator / Self - Performer (segment "The Big Wheel") / Androcles / (segment "Moliere's School for Wives") |
| Felix Munro | Edgar Allan Poe (segment "The Fine Art of Murder") / (segment "Androcles and the Lion") |
| Evelyn Ward | Singer (segment) / Self - Performer (segment "The Big Wheel") |
| Jerome Kilty | Lord Belomont / (segment "Androcles and the Lion") |
| John McGovern | (segment "The Man without a Country") / (segment "My Heart's in the Highlands") |
| Dorothy Lang | Singer (segment) / Self - Performer (segment "The Big Wheel") |
| Berry Kroeger | Solicitor General / (segment "Androcles and the Lion") |
| William Shatner | Palace Messenger (segment "Oedipus, the King") / (segment "Moliere's School for Wives") |
| Christopher Plummer | Oedipus (segment "Oedipus, the King") / (segment "The Trial of Lizzie Borden") |
| Leonard Bernstein | Self - Musician (segment) / Self - Conductor and Commentator (segment "Introduction to Modern Music") |
| Enid Markey | (segment "Let There Be Farce") / (segment "Drug Store, Sunday Noon") |
| Philip Abbott | (segment "The Man without a Country") / (segment "Drug Store, Sunday Noon") |
| Michael Strong | Darby Mullins / (segment "Moliere's School for Wives") |
| Diana Adams | Self - Dancer (segment "The Art of Choreography") / Mother (segment "The Fall River Legend") |
| Suzanne Lake | Singer (segment) |
| Urbie Green | Self - Trombonist (segment "Different Drummers") |
| Lucia Chase | Stepmother (segment "The Fall River Legend") |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Robert Saudek | Producer |
| Richard Dunlap | Producer |
| Paul Feigay | Producer |
| Bil Baird | Producer |
| Julien Bryan | Producer |
| Barnaby Conrad | Producer |
