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- "My Fair Lady" star Rex Harrison portrays a visiting Englishman who takes a dim view of American culture. To overcome his skepticism, he is introduced to a wide variety of American musical styles. Highlights: Play it cool--dancers; The Mary had a little lamb cha-cha-cha--Channing; Go west, young man--Arnold, singers, dancers; Shine on, harvest moon, Baby bumblebee, Silvery moon--singers, dancers; Streets of Laredo--singers, dancers; Basin Street blues, Trouble I've seen--Armstrong; Blues in the night--Lee; Sit down, you're rockin' the boat--Kaye; Didn't it rain--Jackson; Bill Bailey--Miles, Murphy; The birth of the blues--Washington; blues sequence--Goodman, Carroll; jazz sequence--Goodmann, Armstrong.
- In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
- A 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.
- 1957–19611h 30m8.0 (12)TV EpisodeA poor boy and a prince exchange identities and lives while the villainous Captain of the Guard plots to take advantage of this.
- A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.
- 1957–19611h 30m5.6 (14)TV EpisodeAn Englishman vacationing in a Ruritarian kingdom is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king when the monarch is drugged and kidnapped.
- A musical version of the hit play.
- An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
- A 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.
- 1957–19611h 30m5.2 (17)TV EpisodeDuring the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin.
- 1957–19611h 30m7.2 (26)TV EpisodeIn 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.
- Young Jim Hawkins (Richard O'Sullivan) recounts his adventures that began when the old pirate Captain Billy Bones (Boris Karloff) took up lodgings at the Admiral Benbow Inn on the English coast near Bristol, run by Jim and his mother (Betty Sinclair). The Captain brought a seaman's chest with him, which he wouldn't allow anyone to touch. He told Jim that he would pay him a monthly allowance if Jim would let him know whenever any seafaring men showed up at the inn, especially a seafaring man with one leg. The Captain, though a gruff old salt, was clearly frightened of this unknown man, who he referred to as " the Devil incarnate." One night, when the Captain was drunk on rum, and forcing the inn's other customers to sing along with him, as he regaled them with wild tales of his adventures at sea, a seafaring man came to the inn and accosted the Captain, who clearly was not pleased to see him. He referred to this former shipmate as Black Dog (George Mathews). Black Dog tried to persuade Billy Bones to share something with him, but the Captain chased him from the inn with a drawn cutlass, as the other patrons screamed and dove for cover. The Captain suddenly collapsed, and Jim and his mother sent for Doctor Livesey (Michael Gough). The Doctor brought Billy Bones out of the worst of his sickness, but warned the old sailor that if he kept on drinking rum, it would kill him. The Captain scoffed at the idea and declared that " doctors is all swabs", and begged Jim to get him a glass of rum, as soon as Doctor Livesey had left the room. The Captain was feverish and very excited, as well as drunk, and tried to tell Jim something the boy could not understand, about a great treasure they would share between them, if Jim would help the Captain escape from his former shipmates, who were going to slip him the Black Spot. Jim tried to calm the Captain down, as meanwhile, Doctor Livesey asked Jim's mother about their lodger, and if he had ever said anything about his past. Jim's mother replied that the old salt was always spouting wild tales about adventures at sea, and sometimes had mentioned a Captain Flint. The Doctor warned her that she and Jim were in great danger, because Flint had been a notorious pirate leader, and the Captain's old shipmates were clearly after him, for some reason. The Doctor told Mrs. Hawkins to hide, while he went for help to Squire Trelawney (Douglas Campbell), and the King's revenue officers. Jim went downstairs and was suddenly grabbed by a sinister blind man, who had entered the inn unnoticed. The blind man threatened to break Jim's arm unless Jim led him to the Captain. When old Billy Bones saw the blind man, he was terrified; especially when the frightening creature forced Jim to hand a small black piece of paper to the Captain. He warned that he would be back soon with more of their old shipmates, and Billy Bones had only a short time to hand over the thing they wanted.Jim saw that the paper was in fact the very Black Spot that the Captain had spoken of. Billy Bones was weak and very ill, but he stood up and told Jim he had to get away immediately. Jim tried to help the Captain as best he could, but the old pirate suddenly collapsed and died, leaving Jim holding a map of some kind that he had taken from the sea chest.
- Due to his insistence that he has an invisible six-foot rabbit for a best friend, a whimsical middle-aged man is thought by his family to be insane - but he may be wiser than anyone knows.
- 1957–19611h 30m8.0 (38)TV EpisodeCole Porter's version of the story of Aladdin--his only musical written especially for television
- Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
- Billy is an innocent, naive seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
- An Old Vic production of Shakespeare's immortal play, brought to television directly after a limited run on Broadway with the same cast.
- The original TV play which evolved into the hit musical, "Man of La Mancha".
- Forced to retire from an English public school, a disliked professor must confront his utter failures as a teacher, a husband, and a man.
- An early TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
- Because of the wife's chronic illness, a farm couple need an extra hand to help around the house. The beautiful, spirited young woman joins them creates emotional conflicts that have devastating consequences.
- A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
- In the small Dutch village of Kattwyk-am-Zee, Mayor Van Borkem bemoans the fate of the town. Once a mecca for tourists because of the Red Mill, a landmark, the town now is neglected. The mayor informs Bertha, who operates a local inn, and her pretty niece Gretchen, that he has an offer from the Brussels World's Fair to buy the mill. Meanwhile, in a expensive car on route to the Brussels World's Fair, Hollywood movie stars Rod and Candy Carter and their friend and "producer" Johnny Shaw arrive and take an interest in the Mill.
- In Burma on the penultimate day of World War II, Cameron Highlander Lachlan 'Lachie' MacLachlan is seriously wounded and transported to a local military hospital. He seems to have recovered from his wounds but appearances can be deceiving. The hospital commander asks nursing Sister Margaret Parker and the five remaining soldiers in her ward to befriend Lachie as he is dying and has only a few weeks to live. Lachie, who is not aware of his prognosis, is a proud man who wants no help from anyone. Slowly however, relationships are formed and Lachie begins to appreciate friendship, something he has never had with anyone.
- In a small Georgia town, 12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams feels unconnected to the world, a fact troubling to her. Her unconventional views for a 12-year-old girl make her an outcast among her peers, which she in turn blames for her situation rather than anything of her own doing. Her only real friend is John Henry, her younger next-door neighbor, although she doesn't see him as a friend since she doesn't consider him a peer. As her widowed father is consumed with running his small business, Frankie is largely left to the care of their housekeeper, Berenice, who tries to provide as much true guidance to Frankie and what Frankie considers her problems, although Berenice has her own troubles looking after her wild foster brother, Honey Camden, her only surviving family. In addition, Frankie largely sees Berenice's advice as the rantings of a large, crazy Black woman. Frankie believes that she has finally found her place in life upon the return to town of her enlisted older brother Jarvis, who announces that he's about to marry a woman named Janice. Seeing the couple together, Frankie falls in love with "them" and believes she can be a "member" of "them" by leaving town with with immediately after the wedding, even wanting to change her name to Jasmine to feel even more connected to them. Two negative situations following the wedding could possibly put her on the right direction to truly finding her place in life.
- A boxer struggles against ruthless gangsters.
- A boxer is taken to the afterlife too early. When it proves impossible to return him to his body, he is allowed to inhabit the bodies of others until he finds one that matches his destiny.
- An idealistic doctor must make some hard choices between his dedication to the profession and his personal life.
- Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family, while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
- The story takes place in Scotland, where plain Maggie Wylie's family, fearing she may become a spinster, finances young John Shand's studies in return for his agreement to marry her in five years. Recognizing his ambitions, Maggie helps to guide his career without his realizing it. He honors his commitment, even though he does not feel real love for her as she does for him. Will he succumb to the wiles of young aristocratic beauty Sybil, or learn to appreciate Maggie's true worth? m>
- Despite being raised in a financially strapped family, a young woman tries to make her dream of being a respected actress come true.