The DuPont Show with June Allyson
| The DuPont Show with June Allyson | |
|---|---|
 Chuck Connors and Pippa Scott in the 1960 presentation Trial By Fear. | |
| Also known as | The June Allyson Show |
| Genre | Anthology |
| Directed by | Robert Butler Paul Dunlap Paul Henreid Arthur Hiller Lamont Johnson Don Medford James Neilson Jack Smight |
| Presented by | June Allyson |
| Composer | Herschel Burke Gilbert |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 57 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Peter Kortner Stephen Lord |
| Running time | 25 mins. (approx) |
| Original release | |
| Network | CBS |
| Release | September 21, 1959 – June 12, 1961 |
The DuPont Show with June Allyson (also known as The June Allyson Show) is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from September 21, 1959, to April 3, 1961, with rebroadcasts continuing until June 12, 1961. The series was hosted by actress June Allyson and was a Four Star-Pamric Production.
Overview
Allyson was the third woman in network history to host such a series, her predecessors having been Loretta Young and Jane Wyman. Like Young and Wyman, she not only hosted the series but starred in nearly two dozen of the fifty-seven produced episodes. Some of the best known actors appeared on the series, including then husband and studio boss Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Harpo Marx, Bette Davis, and Ronald Reagan.[1]
The Delaware-based DuPont Company also sponsored the DuPont Show of the Month, a 90-minute dramatic episodes which aired from 1957-1961. Allyson's series was filmed at Four Star Television Studios, a creation of Dick Powell as well as Ida Lupino, Charles Boyer, and David Niven.[2]
In the 1959-1960 season, The DuPont Show with June Allyson aired at 10:30 p.m. Eastern on Mondays after Jackie Cooper's sitcom, Hennesey, the story of a United States Navy physician. ABC aired Charles Bronson's Man with a Camera in this same time slot. NBC ran the second half of The Steve Allen Show, a variety program. In the second season, The DuPont Show with June Allyson ran at 10:30 p.m. on Thursday after Edward R. Murrow's Person to Person CBS interview program. There was little effective competition from the other networks in the Thursday slot. ABC aired Take a Good Look, a quiz program starring Ernie Kovacs, and NBC reverted the half-hour of time to the local stations.[3]
Episode guide
Season 1
| Episode # | Episode title | Original airdate | Guest stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1-1 | "Ruth and Naomi" | September 21, 1959 | Peter Mark Richman and Ann Harding |
| 1-2 | "Dark Morning" | September 28, 1959 | Bette Davis and Leif Erickson |
| 1-3 | "The Opening Door" | October 5, 1959 | Virginia Christine and Irene Dunne |
| 1-4 | "A Summer's Ending" | October 12, 1959 | Dick Powell |
| 1-5 | "The Tender Shoot" | October 19, 1959 | Ginger Rogers |
| 1-6 | "The Pledge" | October 26, 1959 | Mona Freeman and Don Keefer |
| 1-7 | "Love Is a Headache" | November 2, 1959 | Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez and Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. |
| 1-8 | "Child Lost" | November 16, 1959 | Steve Brodie and Ron Howard |
| 1-9 | "Night Out" | November 23, 1959 | Pat Carroll and Ann Sothern |
| 1-10 | "The Girl" | November 30, 1959 | James Coburn, Ellen Corby and Jane Powell |
| 1-11 | "The Wall Between" | December 7, 1959 | Kevin McCarthy |
| 1-12 | "The Crossing" | December 14, 1959 | Dolores Hart and Howard Petrie |
| 1-13 | "No Place to Hide" | December 21, 1959 | Robert Horton, Debra Paget and Don Rickles |
| 1-14 | "Suspected" | December 28, 1959 | Marjorie Bennett, Ann Blyth, and Gerald Mohr |
| 1-15 | "Edge of Fury" | January 4, 1960 | Dan O'Herlihy |
| 1-16 | "The Trench Coat" | January 11, 1960 | Phyllis Coates, David Niven, Ann McCrea, and Lyle Talbot |
| 1-17 | "The Way Home" | January 18, 1960 | Ronald Reagan |
| 1-18 | "Moment of Fear" | January 25, 1960 | Edgar Bergen and Stephen McNally |
| 1-19 | "So Dim the Light" | February 1, 1960 | Robert Culp and Ray Boyle |
| 1-20 | "Trial by Fear" | February 8, 1960 | Chuck Connors |
| 1-21 | "Threat of Evil" | February 15, 1960 | Pat Crowley |
| 1-22 | "Escape" | February 22, 1960 | Brian Donlevy, Frank Lovejoy, Margaret O'Brien, and Sylvia Sidney |
| 1-23 | "Piano Man" | February 29, 1960 | Vic Damone and Keenan Wynn |
| 1-24 | "Sister Mary Slugger" | March 14, 1960 | Rich Correll |
| 1-25 | "The Blue Goose" | March 21, 1960 | Joseph Cotten and Susan Oliver |
| 1-26 | "Once Upon a Knight" | March 28, 1960 | Jean Hagen and James Mason |
| 1-27 | "Slip of the Tongue" | April 11, 1960 | Virginia Grey and William Schallert |
| 1-28 | "Surprise Party" | April 18, 1960 | Mark Goddard and Myrna Loy |
| 1-29 | "The Doctor and the Redhead" | April 25, 1960 | Felicia Farr, Regis Toomey, and Mary Treen |
| 1-30 | "Intermission" | May 2, 1960 | Russell Johnson |
Season 2
| Episode # | Episode title | Original airdate | Guest stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2-1 | "The Lie" | September 29, 1960 | Mark Damon |
| 2-2 | "The Dance Man" | October 6, 1960 | Anne Baxter and Dean Stockwell |
| 2-3 | "Dark Fear" | October 13, 1960 | Joseph Cotten and Juanita Moore |
| 2-4 | "The Test" | October 20, 1960 | Eduard Franz and Robert Knapp |
| 2-5 | "Play Acting" | October 27, 1960 | Steve Allen and Rhys Williams |
| 2-6 | "The Women Who" | November 3, 1960 | Van Johnson |
| 2-7 | "I Hit and Ran" | November 10, 1960 | Stephen Talbot |
| 2-8 | "Love on Credit" | November 17, 1960 | James Best and Carolyn Jones |
| 2-9 | "The Visitor" | November 24, 1960 | Harry Townes |
| 2-10 | "A Thief or Two" | December 1, 1960 | Lew Ayres and David White |
| 2-11 | "Emergency" | December 8, 1960 | Robert Vaughn |
| 2-12 | "The Desperate Challenge" | December 15, 1960 | Russell Johnson |
| 2-13 | "A Silent Panic" | December 22, 1960 | Harpo Marx, Ernest Truex |
| 2-14 | "End of a Mission" | January 2, 1961 | Steve Forrest |
| 2-15 | "The Defense Is Restless" | January 9, 1961 | John Lasell |
| 2-16 | "The Guilty Heart" | January 16, 1961 | James Franciscus and Susan Kohner |
| 2-17 | "An Affair in Athens" | January 23, 1961 | Michael Davis |
| 2-18 | "School of the Soldier" | January 30, 1961 | Lee J. Cobb, Robert Easton, and Dick York |
| 2-19 | "Without Fear" | February 6, 1961 | Edward Binns |
| 2-20 | "A Great Day for a Scoundrel" | February 13, 1961 | John Abbot and Hans Conried |
| 2-21 | "The Old-Fashioned Way" | February 20, 1961 | Charles Lane, Dick Shawn, Rebecca Welles |
| 2-22 | "The Moth" | February 27, 1961 | Joe Maross |
| 2-23 | "The Haven" | March 6, 1961 | Ralph Bellamy and Patricia Breslin |
| 2-24 | "The Man Who Wanted Everything Perfect" | March 13, 1961 | Russell Nype |
| 2-25 | "The Secret Life of James Thurber" | March 20, 1961 | Orson Bean and Adolphe Menjou |
| 2-26 | "Our Man in Rome" | March 27, 1961 | Rossano Brazzi and Eugenie Leontovich |
| 2-27 | "Death of the Temple Bay" | April 3, 1961 | Lloyd Bridges |
References
- ^ "Biography of June Allyson". Juneallyson.com. Retrieved March 21, 2009.
- ^ Alex McNeil, Total Television, New York: Penguin Books, 1996, 4th ed., pp. 243, 422
- ^ Total Television, television schedule, appendix
External links
- 1950s American anthology television series
- 1960s American anthology television series
- 1959 American television series debuts
- 1961 American television series endings
- Black-and-white American television shows
- CBS original programming
- American drama television series
- Television series by Four Star Television
- Television series by 20th Century Fox Television
- DuPont