Matinee Theater

    Season 3 Episode 21

    Matinee Theater Season 3 Episode 21


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      60 min   1958   893245

    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 weekā€™s show. That was over 50 years ago, and Iā€™m trying to think; I believe the TV art director is his own set decorator ā€”yes, of course! It had to be, since one of McCleeryā€™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.
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    • First Air Date: October 31, 1955
    • Last Air date: June 13, 1958
    • Category: Drama
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    • Country: United States
    • Studio: NBC
    • John Conte
      John Conte

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