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- This omnibus release consists of three playlets filmed and aired during television's Golden Age, and starring some of the legends of film and television. The collection originally ran as a two-hour segment on December 14, 1959, on the anthology series The Play of the Week, broadcast locally in New York City via the independent radio station WNTA. Each "tale" in the anthology was adapted from a single tale by the inimitable Sholom Aleichem, regarded by many as the "Yiddish Mark Twain". Included are: "A Tale of Chelm" starring Zero Mostel and Nancy Walker in the story of a bookseller attempting to buy a goat; "Bontche Schweig" about a poor man (Jack Gilford) whose recent arrival in Heaven makes the angels cry; and "The High School" about a Jewish merchant (Morris Carnovsky) persuaded by his wife (Gertrude Berg) to let their son attend a particular high school despite the enforcement of quotas for Jewish students.
- During the Irish Civil War, a matriarch scolds her continually unemployed husband, worries about her brooding injured son, and hopes for her daughter's marriage and the prospect of a sudden inheritance.
- A Saturday morning kids show featuring a clown doing magic tricks.
- A 38-year-old truck driver and a weary cigarette girl from a nightclub who elope and discover they know very little about each other in Don Appell's bittersweet 1954 Broadway comedy. The mama's boy domineering mother gives them no peace or privacy on their honeymoon and soon the marriage turns into the eternal triangle -with his mother as the "other woman"
- In Hell, Don Juan debates with the Devil.
- The hottest young up-and-coming comedy talents from around the country perform their uncensored routines in front of a live audience.
- Lenny Bruce talks about how newspapers distort information and discusses his theory of comedy ("tragedy + time = comedy").
- The young wife of an aging man who is desperate for a child suspects that he is sterile. Because she loves him and wants to please him by bearing him a child, she becomes pregnant by his young assistant.
- Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
- A betrayed queen takes a terrible revenge.
- Several different accounts of the same incident tell quite different stories about what happened.