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Season 3 Episode
- Season 3 Father Come Home
- Season 3 Villa of the Angels
- Season 3 A Tone of Time
- Season 3 Almost Any Man Will Do
- Season 3 Sing for Me
- Season 3 Run for the Money
- Season 3 Lest We Forget
- Season 3 The Glass Hill
- Season 3 Out of the Frying Pan
- Season 3 The Last Stop
- Season 3 The Weak and the Strong
- Season 3 Nine-Finger Jack
- Season 3 Elementals
- Season 3 Plummer in Paradise
- Season 3 Something About a Dollar
- Season 3 Return in Winter
- Season 3 Grandmama and Grandfather
- Season 3 Aesop and Rhodope
- Season 3 All Over the World
- Season 3 The Ransom of Sigmund Freud
- Season 3 Iris
- Season 3 Remember Me Kindly
- Season 3 The Embassy House
- Season 3 Witness to Murder
- Season 3 The Johnson House
- Season 3 Cadenza
- Season 3 Green Shores
- Season 3 A Question of Balance
- Season 3 Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent
- Season 3 The Conversation Tables
- Season 3 Out of My Darkness
- Season 3 The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
- Season 3 The Broom and the Groom
- Season 3 A Cloud for Jeni
- Season 3 The Consul
- Season 3 The Old Friend
- Season 3 Give Me a Wand
- Season 3 The Sure Thing
- Season 3 Dark of the Moon
- Season 3 The Giver and the Gift
- Season 3 No Time for Comedy
- Season 3 Gentleman of Fortune
- Season 3 The Gentleman Caller
- Season 3 Tender Leaves
- Season 3 In 25 Words or Less
- Season 3 Sara Crewe
- Season 3 Amahl and the Night Visitors
- Season 3 The Little Minister
- Season 3 Daughter of Kings
- Season 3 The Survival Kit
- Season 3 The House with the Golden Street
- Season 3 The Europeans
- Season 3 The Collected Letters of Mr. Sage
- Season 3 Two-Picture Deal
- Season 3 The Great Obstacle Courtship
- Season 3 A Chance to Die
- Season 3 Home on the Range
- Season 3 The Makropoulos Secret
- Season 3 More Than a Man
- Season 3 Something Stolen, Something New
- Season 3 Thunderbolt
- Season 3 Daisy Mayne
- Season 3 The Man Who Wanted to Hate
- Season 3 The Golden Fleecing
- Season 3 Forever and Ever
- Season 3 Decision
- Season 3 Solider's Boy
- Season 3 The Man with Pointed Toes
- Season 3 Love Out of Town
- Season 3 Cave-In
- Season 3 The Iceman
- Season 3 The Long, Long Laugh
- Season 3 Man Without a Country
- Season 3 The Odd Ones
- Season 3 Monsieur Beaucaire
- Season 3 Life Upon the Wicked Stage
- Season 3 Without Fear or Favor
- Season 3 The Third Person
- Season 3 Eden End
- Season 3 The 10th Muse
- Season 3 Goodbye on Thursday
- Season 3 Heart's Desire
- Season 3 Marriage of Convenience
- Season 3 The Suicide Club
- Season 3 The 65th Floor
- Season 3 The Hickory Heart
- Season 3 The Devil's Violin
- Season 3 Wednesday's Child
- Season 3 Vigilante
- Season 3 The Prophet Hosea
- Season 3 Mrs. Moonlight
- Season 3 With Love We Live
- Season 3 You and I
- Season 3 Career Angel
- Season 3 Contingent Fire
- Season 3 Anxious Night
- Season 3 On Approval
- Season 3 Dandy Dick
- Season 3 Hush, Mahala, Hush
- Season 3 O'Rourke's House
- Season 3 The Alleyway
- Season 3 The Vagabond
- Season 3 The Silver Spider
- Season 3 Design for Glory
- Season 3 The Inspector General
- Season 3 The Two Mrs. Carrolls
- Season 3 The Velvet Glove
- Season 3 Death Takes a Holiday
- Season 3 Man of the House
- Season 3 A Case of Fear
- Season 3 Walk in the Sky
- Season 3 The Canterville Ghost
- Season 3 Found Money
- Season 3 Washington Whispers Money
- Season 3 A Boy Grows Up
- Season 3 Phony Venus
- Season 3 Some Blessed People
- Season 3 The Quiet Street
- Season 3 The Quest of Quesnay
- Season 3 Angel Street
- Season 3 The Cause
- Season 3 Much Ado About Nothing, Part 1
- Season 3 Much Ado About Nothing, Part 2
- Season 3 Day of Discoveries
- Season 3 The Young and the Fair
- Season 3 The Riddle of Mary Murray
- Season 3 Button Button
- Season 3 The End of the Season
- Season 3 Look Out for John Tucker
- Season 3 The Road to Recovery
- Season 3 The Nightbird's Crying
- Season 3 The Story of Marcia Gordon
- Season 3 Town in Turmoil
- Season 3 Washington Square
- Season 3 Course for Collision
Matinee Theater
4.60 60 minutes 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.
