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DuPont Show of the Month
Overview
DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour anthology drama series hosted by June Allyson, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including Oliver Twist, The Prince and the Pauper, Billy Budd, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo.
Seasons
Season 1 (1957)
No overview available.
10 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Crescendo
1957-09-29A visiting Englishman takes a dim view of American culture. To overcome his skepticism, he is introduced to a wide variety of American musical styles.
Runtime: 90 minEpisode 2: The Prince and the Pauper
1957-10-28A poor boy and a prince exchange identities and lives while the villainous Captain of the Guard plots to take advantage of this.
Runtime: 90 minEpisode 3: Beyond This Place
1957-11-25A young man returns to his birthplace for the first time since childhood and learns that the father he had believed dead is still alive — and in prison for murder.
Runtime: 90 minEpisode 4: Junior Miss
1957-12-20A musical version of the hit play.
Runtime: 90 minEpisode 5: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1958-01-21In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge.
Runtime: 90 minEpisode 6: Aladdin
1958-02-21Cole Porter's version of the story of Aladdin — his only musical written especially for television.
Runtime: 90 minEpisode 7: A Tale Of Two Cities
1958-03-27A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
Runtime: 90 minEpisode 8: The Red Mill
1958-04-19Episode 9: Wuthering Heights
1958-05-09Episode 10: The Member of the Wedding
1958-06-12Season 2 (1958)
No overview available.
9 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Harvey
1958-09-22Episode 2: The Count of Monte Cristo
1958-10-28Episode 3: The Winslow Boy
1958-11-13Episode 4: The Hasty Heart
1958-12-18Episode 5: What Every Woman Knows
1959-01-28Episode 6: Hamlet
1959-02-24Episode 7: The Human Comedy
1959-03-28Episode 8: The Browning Version
1959-04-23Episode 9: Billy Budd
1959-05-25Season 3 (1959)
No overview available.
8 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Body and Soul
1959-09-28Episode 2: The Fallen Idol
1959-10-14Episode 3: I, Don Quixote
1959-11-09Episode 4: Oliver Twist
1959-12-04Episode 5: Arrowsmith
1960-01-17Episode 6: Ethan Frome
1960-02-18Episode 7: Treasure Island
1960-03-05Episode 8: Years Ago
1960-04-21Season 4 (1960)
No overview available.
7 episodes
