Matinee Theater (1955)

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.

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2

Season 3

Season 3

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    Beginning now

  • 1x2

    Make believe mother

  • 1x3

    The persistent image

  • 1x4

    I'm straight with the world

  • 1x5

    Progress and minnie sweeney

  • 1x6

    The house on wildwood lane

  • 1x7

    Beyond a reasonable doubt

  • 1x8

    One for the road

  • 1x9

    An apple for miss myrtle

  • 1x10

    The man without a country

  • 1x11

    Jigsaw

  • 1x12

    She's the one with the funny face

  • 1x13

    All the hoffmeyers in the world

  • 1x14

    The aspern papers

  • 1x15

    Roman fever

  • 1x16

    Midsummer

  • 1x17

    The lady chooses

  • 1x18

    The courtship of miles standish

  • 1x19

    Dispossessed

  • 1x20

    One for the road

  • 1x21

    The touchstone

  • 1x22

    Wuthering heights

  • 1x23

    The brass ring

  • 1x24

    Jason

  • 1x25

    Arrowsmith

  • 1x26

    Passing strange

  • 1x27

    For these services

  • 1x28

    Cordially - with bombs

  • 1x29

    The white oaks

  • 1x30

    O'toole from moscow

  • 1x31

    The milwaukee rocket

  • 1x32

    This one is different

  • 1x33

    Sins of the fathers

  • 1x34

    See you on sunday

  • 1x35

    Coming of age

  • 1x36

    Technique

  • 1x37

    Gallin: all-american

  • 1x38

    Santa is no saint

  • 1x39

    The unwelcomed

  • 1x40

    The red sanders story

  • 1x41

    Class of '58

  • 1x42

    Horns of the dilemma

  • 1x43

    Little girls grow up

  • 1x44

    The shot

  • 1x45

    Mr. krane

  • 1x46

    Yesterday is gone

  • 1x47

    Double door

  • 1x48

    The happy rest

  • 1x49

    The gate

  • 1x50

    One left over

  • 1x51

    All the trees in the field

  • 1x52

    The century plant

  • 1x53

    Friday the 13th

  • 1x54

    The old maid

  • 1x55

    Mother was a bachelor

  • 1x56

    The bottom of the river

  • 1x57

    The carefree tree

  • 1x58

    Interlude

  • 1x59

    The big box

  • 1x60

    Sincerely yours, charlie fisher

  • 1x61

    Doc

  • 1x62

    The amateur

  • 1x63

    Light and shadow

  • 1x64

    Romney

  • 1x65

    O promise me

  • 1x66

    Hold my hand and run

  • 1x67

    Dark possession

  • 1x68

    The diamond

  • 1x69

    Susan and god

  • 1x70

    As young as you feel

  • 1x71

    The white knight

  • 1x72

    The anxious years

  • 1x73

    The heart of mary lincoln

  • 1x74

    The middle son

  • 1x75

    Valentine's day

  • 1x76

    Summer cannot last

  • 1x77

    The last battlefield

  • 1x78

    The catbird seat

  • 1x79

    Dream house

  • 1x80

    The runaways

  • 1x81

    The ledger

  • 1x82

    When the bough breaks

  • 1x83

    I want to march

  • 1x84

    Skylark

  • 1x85

    Tall, dark stranger

  • 1x86

    Anything but love

  • 1x87

    Robin daw

  • 1x88

    Letter to a stranger

  • 1x89

    Dinner at antoine's

  • 1x90

    The mating of watkins tottle

  • 1x91

    Her son's wife

  • 1x92

    The shining palace

  • 1x93

    The odd ones

  • 1x94

    A cowboy for chris

  • 1x95

    The rocking chair

  • 1x96

    The big guy

  • 1x97

    Statute of limitations

  • 1x98

    The baron and the banshees

  • 1x99

    Notebook warrior

  • 1x100

    Temptation for a king

  • 1x101

    The white knight

  • 1x102

    The anxious years

  • 1x103

    M is for the many

  • 1x104

    Silent partner

  • 1x105

    Winter in april

  • 1x106

    Bread upon the waters

  • 1x107

    The giant killer

  • 1x108

    The book of ruth

  • 1x109

    Singer in the valley

  • 1x110

    The heart of a husband

  • 1x111

    From the desk of margaret tydings

  • 1x112

    But you look like sisters

  • 1x113

    The house of seven gables

  • 1x114

    Fiddlin' man

  • 1x115

    The hollow woman

  • 1x116

    People in glass

  • 1x117

    One of the family

  • 1x118

    Young hands, young feet

  • 1x119

    The lark shall sing

  • 1x120

    In dread of winter

  • 1x121

    The babylonian heart

  • 1x122

    Ask me no questions

  • 1x123

    Whom death has joined together

  • 1x124

    The wedding

  • 1x125

    The reckoning

  • 1x126

    A woman named ruby

  • 1x127

    The bright boy

  • 1x128

    The carefree tree

  • 1x129

    Graybeards and witches

  • 1x130

    The legend of jenny lind

  • 1x131

    Daughter of the seventh day

  • 1x132

    Night must fall

  • 1x133

    The 25th hour

  • 1x134

    A man and his maid

  • 1x135

    Perspective

  • 1x136

    The catamaran

  • 1x137

    Johnny came marching home

  • 1x138

    A family affair

  • 1x139

    Blind date

  • 1x140

    To have and to hold

  • 1x141

    Edwina black

  • 1x142

    The spare room

  • 1x143

    The bottle imp

  • 1x144

    Brief music

  • 1x145

    The girl from boro park

  • 1x146

    To whom it may concern

  • 1x147

    Bachelor buttons

  • 1x148

    The children of papa juan

  • 1x149

    Herself alone

  • 1x150

    Three for the money

  • 1x151

    Taxi to the moon

  • 1x152

    The goodtime boys

  • 1x153

    The american

  • 1x154

    Cause for suspicion

  • 1x155

    Fight the whole world

  • 1x156

    Autumn crocus

  • 1x157

    George has a birthday

  • 1x158

    The serpent's tooth

  • 1x159

    Crime at blossom's

  • 1x160

    The luck of amos currie

  • 1x161

    Alison's house

  • 1x162

    Safe place

  • 1x163

    The guest cottage

  • 1x164

    Forsaking all others

  • 1x165

    Love, honor and o'day

  • 1x166

    The damask cheek

  • 1x167

    Moon over

  • 1x168

    But fear itself

  • 1x169

    The birthday present

  • 1x170

    The ghost of greenwich village

  • 1x171

    The young and the damned

  • 1x172

    There's always juliet

  • 1x173

    Seasoned timber

  • 1x174

    The declaration

  • 1x175

    High places

  • 1x176

    Black chiffon

  • 1x177

    Class of '58

  • 1x178

    Marriage by the millions

  • 1x179

    Backfire

  • 1x180

    The bishop misbehaves

  • 1x181

    Remittance

  • 1x182

    Beg, borrow or steal

  • 1x183

    Summer pavilion

  • 1x184

    The feast

  • 1x185

    A full, rich life

  • 1x186

    The reverberator

  • 1x187

    Woman at the window

  • 1x188

    Another sky

  • 1x189

    Letter of introduction

  • 1x190

    Home at seven

  • 1x191

    The cypress tree

  • 1x192

    Belong to me

  • 1x193

    Pygmalion jones

  • 1x194

    Gretel

  • 1x195

    Some man will want you

  • 1x196

    The fall of the house of usher

  • 1x197

    Cupid rode a horse

  • 1x198

    The old payola

  • 1x199

    The perfect alibi

Episodes season 2

  • 2x1

    The house off fifth avenue

  • 2x2

    Yankee doodler

  • 2x3

    The pink hippopotamus

  • 2x4

    September tide

  • 2x5

    Are you listening?

  • 2x6

    Ladies' maid bell

  • 2x7

    100 red convertibles

  • 2x8

    The ivy curtain

  • 2x9

    The gramercy ghost

  • 2x10

    Lovers

  • 2x11

    Reach for the stars

  • 2x12

    I like it here

  • 2x13

    A question of balance

  • 2x14

    The marriage royal

  • 2x15

    Mad money

  • 2x16

    A letter from johnny brock

  • 2x17

    Uncle harry

  • 2x18

    At mrs. leland's

  • 2x19

    The house next door

  • 2x20

    Alumni reunion

  • 2x21

    Sound of fear

  • 2x22

    Late date

  • 2x23

    Pride and prejudice

  • 2x24

    Pearls of sheba

  • 2x25

    The stamp caddy

  • 2x26

    The egotist

  • 2x27

    The family man

  • 2x28

    Sight unseen

  • 2x29

    The eye of the storm

  • 2x30

    The man in the seven league boots

  • 2x31

    The woman across the hall

  • 2x32

    And then there were three

  • 2x33

    Shake the stars down

  • 2x34

    Horse power

  • 2x35

    Without sanction

  • 2x36

    The outing

  • 2x37

    Thank you, edmondo

  • 2x38

    The tell-tale heart

  • 2x39

    Strangers on a honeymoon

  • 2x40

    A dram of poison

  • 2x41

    The shining hour

  • 2x42

    Love, marriage and five thousand dollars

  • 2x43

    Step into darkness

  • 2x44

    Candle in the dark

  • 2x45

    Savrola

  • 2x46

    Table set at night

  • 2x47

    Madame de treymes

  • 2x48

    The people vs. john tarr

  • 2x49

    The location of roycemore college

  • 2x50

    Dracula

  • 2x51

    Julie

  • 2x52

    The empty nest

  • 2x53

    Spare your pity

  • 2x54

    The last leaf

  • 2x55

    Therese

  • 2x56

    Julie

  • 2x57

    Refugee

  • 2x58

    Jenny kissed me

  • 2x59

    Miracle at carville

  • 2x60

    The upper hand

  • 2x61

    Love is a locksmith

  • 2x62

    Captain brassbound's conversion

  • 2x63

    The wisp end

  • 2x64

    Prominent citizens

  • 2x65

    Head of the family

  • 2x66

    Password

  • 2x67

    Late love

  • 2x68

    Eugenie grandet

  • 2x69

    Cold christmas

  • 2x70

    Little women

  • 2x71

    For sweetheart, wife or mother

  • 2x72

    Smilin' through

  • 2x73

    Strong medicine

  • 2x74

    Everything's relative

  • 2x75

    Miss morissa

  • 2x76

    The scandalous priest

  • 2x77

    Dark victory

  • 2x78

    The lonely look

  • 2x79

    The sudden truth

  • 2x80

    The man in the half-moon

  • 2x81

    The hex

  • 2x82

    If this be error

  • 2x83

    On the trail of the kingsfield

  • 2x84

    Here we are

  • 2x85

    Arms and the man

  • 2x86

    Home is the hunted

  • 2x87

    Madam ada

  • 2x88

    Night train

  • 2x89

    This language

  • 2x90

    The 13th crypt

  • 2x91

    Mr. pirn passes by

  • 2x92

    Anything for a laugh

  • 2x93

    Realms of gold

  • 2x94

    Deacon of oak ridge

  • 2x95

    Accent on youth

  • 2x96

    Three kids

  • 2x97

    Frankenstein

  • 2x98

    The most dangerous man

  • 2x99

    One

  • 2x100

    The importance of being earnest

  • 2x101

    The brat's house

  • 2x102

    Mr. todd

  • 2x103

    A case of pure fiction

  • 2x104

    The master builder

  • 2x105

    The others

  • 2x106

    The remarkable mr. jerome

  • 2x107

    Bobbie

  • 2x108

    The hickory limb

  • 2x109

    The bridge

  • 2x110

    The serpent's tooth

  • 2x111

    Voyage to mandok

  • 2x112

    The day before the wedding

  • 2x113

    Queen of spades

  • 2x114

    Shadow and substance

  • 2x115

    You touched me

  • 2x116

    The hemlock cup

  • 2x117

    Papa's wife

  • 2x118

    The prizewinner

  • 2x119

    Dr. jekyll and mr. hyde

  • 2x120

    Yesterday's magic

  • 2x121

    Tongue of silver

  • 2x122

    Peaceable kingdom

  • 2x123

    The 19th hole

  • 2x124

    Wedding in the family

  • 2x125

    The ways of courage

  • 2x126

    Journey into darkness

  • 2x127

    Barricade at the big black

  • 2x128

    The vicarious years

  • 2x129

    The first year

  • 2x130

    End of the rope

  • 2x131

    We won't be any trouble

  • 2x132

    The daughter of mata hari

  • 2x133

    Talk you of killing

  • 2x134

    The pursuit of happiness

  • 2x135

    Wuthering heights [restaged]

  • 2x136

    Long distance

  • 2x137

    The point of cleaning

  • 2x138

    The sport

  • 2x139

    The flashing stream

  • 2x140

    Thread that runs so true

  • 2x141

    Jamie picks a wife

  • 2x142

    Blind man's bluff

  • 2x143

    The story of joseph

  • 2x144

    Pushover

  • 2x145

    Ashes in the wind

  • 2x146

    A hat, a coat, a glove

  • 2x147

    The professional

  • 2x148

    Guardians of the temple

  • 2x149

    The short safari of b'wana ben

  • 2x150

    Church on monday

  • 2x151

    The gioconda smile

  • 2x152

    Show of strength

  • 2x153

    Make believe affair

  • 2x154

    Hymn to the dedicated

  • 2x155

    Thursday's child

  • 2x156

    Big-hearted herbert

  • 2x157

    The embattled maiden

  • 2x158

    The middle-aged freshman

  • 2x159

    Best friend in town

  • 2x160

    Jane eyre

  • 2x161

    Starmaster

  • 2x162

    Aftermath

  • 2x163

    Guest at the embassy

  • 2x164

    Second-hand lover

  • 2x165

    The avenging of anne leete

  • 2x166

    The lonesome husband

  • 2x167

    Puzzle in the stars

  • 2x168

    The gwendolyn harleth story

  • 2x169

    The girls named almaya

  • 2x170

    The dream that was fixed

  • 2x171

    A growing wonder

  • 2x172

    Bachelor father

  • 2x173

    The golden door

  • 2x174

    Rain in the morning

  • 2x175

    Eye of the storm

  • 2x176

    Rich man, poor man

  • 2x177

    The party dress

  • 2x178

    White-headed boy

  • 2x179

    Liza

  • 2x180

    Pigeons and people

  • 2x181

    Things hoped for

  • 2x182

    Mr. wendigo

  • 2x183

    Stopover

  • 2x184

    A light in the sky

  • 2x185

    The charmer

  • 2x186

    The brief candle

  • 2x187

    Too much johnson

  • 2x188

    Money in the bank

  • 2x189

    Trouble traine

  • 2x190

    The last voyage

  • 2x191

    The price of scandal

  • 2x192

    But when she was bad

  • 2x193

    The fable of harry

  • 2x194

    Portrait in mini

  • 2x195

    The cask of amontillado

  • 2x196

    The richest man in the world

  • 2x197

    The last hour

  • 2x198

    The first captain

  • 2x199

    Shuttered hearts

  • 2x200

    One for all

  • 2x201

    Call it a day

  • 2x202

    Ann veronica

  • 2x203

    Boys will be men

  • 2x204

    The forbidden search

  • 2x205

    The fawn with crooked teeth

  • 2x207

    The rose bush

  • 2x208

    Finley's fan club

  • 2x209

    Laugh a little tear

  • 2x210

    The invisible man

  • 2x211

    Where angels fear

  • 2x212

    First love

  • 2x213

    The last survivors

  • 2x214

    Time for action

  • 2x215

    Haven's end

  • 2x216

    Heed the falling sparrow

  • 2x217

    The president's child bride

  • 2x218

    Now or never

  • 2x219

    Awakening

  • 2x220

    Angel face

  • 2x221

    The star sapphire

  • 2x222

    Women have ways

  • 2x223

    Jewel boy

  • 2x224

    Molly morgan

  • 2x225

    Woman alone

  • 2x226

    Among strangers

  • 2x227

    The adjustable mr. willing

  • 2x228

    Freedom comes later

  • 2x229

    In the fog

  • 2x230

    Son of 37 fathers

  • 2x231

    Hand me down

  • 2x232

    Emma

  • 2x233

    Personal equation

  • 2x234

    Night cry

  • 2x235

    The mysterious disappearance

  • 2x236

    The impersonal touch

  • 2x237

    The story of sarah

  • 2x238

    The waiting swan

  • 2x239

    One mummy too many

  • 2x240

    Hearthstones

  • 2x241

    The reluctant heiress

Episodes season 3

  • 3x1

    Father come home

  • 3x2

    Villa of the angels

  • 3x3

    A tone of time

  • 3x4

    Almost any man will do

  • 3x5

    Sing for me

  • 3x6

    Run for the money

  • 3x7

    Lest we forget

  • 3x8

    The glass hill

  • 3x9

    Out of the frying pan

  • 3x10

    The last stop

  • 3x11

    The weak and the strong

  • 3x12

    Nine-finger jack

  • 3x13

    Elementals

  • 3x14

    Plummer in paradise

  • 3x15

    Something about a dollar

  • 3x16

    Return in winter

  • 3x17

    Grandmama and grandfather

  • 3x18

    Aesop and rhodope

  • 3x19

    All over the world

  • 3x20

    The ransom of sigmund freud

  • 3x21

    Iris

  • 3x22

    Remember me kindly

  • 3x23

    The embassy house

  • 3x24

    Witness to murder

  • 3x25

    The johnson house

  • 3x26

    Cadenza

  • 3x27

    Green shores

  • 3x28

    A question of balance

  • 3x29

    Daniel webster and the sea serpent

  • 3x30

    The conversation tables

  • 3x31

    Out of my darkness

  • 3x32

    The man that corrupted hadleyburg

  • 3x33

    The broom and the groom

  • 3x34

    A cloud for jeni

  • 3x35

    The consul

  • 3x36

    The old friend

  • 3x37

    Give me a wand

  • 3x38

    The sure thing

  • 3x39

    Dark of the moon

  • 3x40

    The giver and the gift

  • 3x41

    No time for comedy

  • 3x42

    Gentleman of fortune

  • 3x43

    The gentleman caller

  • 3x44

    Tender leaves

  • 3x45

    In 25 words or less

  • 3x46

    Sara crewe

  • 3x47

    Amahl and the night visitors

  • 3x48

    The little minister

  • 3x49

    Daughter of kings

  • 3x50

    The survival kit

  • 3x51

    The house with the golden street

  • 3x52

    The europeans

  • 3x53

    The collected letters of mr. sage

  • 3x54

    Two-picture deal

  • 3x55

    The great obstacle courtship

  • 3x56

    A chance to die

  • 3x57

    Home on the range

  • 3x58

    The makropoulos secret

  • 3x59

    More than a man

  • 3x60

    Something stolen, something new

  • 3x61

    Thunderbolt

  • 3x62

    Daisy mayne

  • 3x63

    The man who wanted to hate

  • 3x64

    The golden fleecing

  • 3x65

    Forever and ever

  • 3x66

    Decision

  • 3x67

    Solider's boy

  • 3x68

    The man with pointed toes

  • 3x69

    Love out of town

  • 3x70

    Cave-in

  • 3x71

    The iceman

  • 3x72

    The long, long laugh

  • 3x73

    Man without a country

  • 3x74

    The odd ones

  • 3x75

    Monsieur beaucaire

  • 3x76

    Life upon the wicked stage

  • 3x77

    Without fear or favor

  • 3x78

    The third person

  • 3x79

    Eden end

  • 3x80

    The 10th muse

  • 3x81

    Goodbye on thursday

  • 3x82

    Heart's desire

  • 3x83

    Marriage of convenience

  • 3x84

    The suicide club

  • 3x85

    The 65th floor

  • 3x86

    The hickory heart

  • 3x87

    The devil's violin

  • 3x88

    Wednesday's child

  • 3x89

    Vigilante

  • 3x90

    The prophet hosea

  • 3x91

    Mrs. moonlight

  • 3x92

    With love we live

  • 3x93

    You and i

  • 3x94

    Career angel

  • 3x95

    Contingent fire

  • 3x96

    Anxious night

  • 3x97

    On approval

  • 3x98

    Dandy dick

  • 3x99

    Hush, mahala, hush

  • 3x100

    O'rourke's house

  • 3x101

    The alleyway

  • 3x102

    The vagabond

  • 3x103

    The silver spider

  • 3x104

    Design for glory

  • 3x105

    The inspector general

  • 3x106

    The two mrs. carrolls

  • 3x107

    The velvet glove

  • 3x108

    Death takes a holiday

  • 3x109

    Man of the house

  • 3x110

    A case of fear

  • 3x111

    Walk in the sky

  • 3x112

    The canterville ghost

  • 3x113

    Found money

  • 3x114

    Washington whispers money

  • 3x115

    A boy grows up

  • 3x116

    Phony venus

  • 3x117

    Some blessed people

  • 3x118

    The quiet street

  • 3x119

    The quest of quesnay

  • 3x120

    Angel street

  • 3x121

    The cause

  • 3x122

    Much ado about nothing, part 1

  • 3x123

    Much ado about nothing, part 2

  • 3x124

    Day of discoveries

  • 3x125

    The young and the fair

  • 3x126

    The riddle of mary murray

  • 3x127

    Button button

  • 3x128

    The end of the season

  • 3x129

    Look out for john tucker

  • 3x130

    The road to recovery

  • 3x131

    The nightbird's crying

  • 3x132

    The story of marcia gordon

  • 3x133

    Town in turmoil

  • 3x134

    Washington square

  • 3x135

    Course for collision

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