Genres
NBC Sunday Showcase
Overview
NBC Sunday Showcase was a series of hour-long specials telecast in color on NBC during the 1959-60 season. The flexible anthology format varied weekly from comedies and science fiction to musicals and historical dramas. The recent introduction of videotape made repeats possible, and two 1959 dramas had repeats in 1960. On the heels of his Broadway hits The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, Richard Adler composed the opening Sunday Showcase theme music, titled "Sunday Drive".
Key Crew
Producer: Robert Alan Aurthur
Seasons
Season 1 (1959)
No overview available.
22 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: People Kill People Sometimes
1959-09-20Episode 2: What Makes Sammy Run?: Part 1
1959-09-29Episode 3: What Makes Sammy Run?: Part 2
1959-10-04Episode 4: A Tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt on Her Diamond Jubilee
1959-10-11Episode 5: Murder and the Android
1959-10-18Episode 6: Milton Berle Show
1959-10-25Episode 7: The Milton Berle Special
1959-11-01In this "lost" episode of 'I Love Lucy,' Milton Berle extends his engagement at a Las Vegas night club for an extra two weeks along with his bandleader Ricky Ricardo. When Milton's wife gets upset at him missing their anniversary, Ricky's wife, Lucy, assists Milton in a crazy scheme to help Milton's wife forgive him. In the process, they get mixed up with two mobsters as hilarity ensues.
Runtime: 54 minEpisode 8: The Light in the Dark
1959-11-15Episode 9: The Practical Dreamer
1959-11-22Episode 10: The Jimmy Durante Show
1959-12-06Episode 11: The Indestructible Mr. Gore
1959-12-13Episode 12: The Margaret Bourke White Story
1960-01-03Episode 13: One Loud Clear Voice
1960-01-17Episode 14: After Hours
1960-02-07A romantic comedy by Tony Webster starring Sally Ann Howes and Christopher Plummer. Also starring Paul McGrath and Natalie Schaefer. A young man poses as a psychiatrist to win the hand of a young girl who seeks counsel for her premarital jitters.
Runtime: 60 minEpisode 15: The Devil and Daniel Webster
1960-02-14New Englander Jabez Stone is about to lose the farm, in a fit he tells his wife that he'd sell his soul to the devil for just about two cents! And of course the devil takes him up on it. Contract in hand, he offers Jabez the customary irresistible terms, seven years of good fortune.
Runtime: 60 min
