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Colgate Theatre is a 30-minute dramatic television anthology series telecast on NBC during 1949 and 1958 for a total of 50 episodes in two different formats.The first edition, a live television anthology, was telecast on Sunday nights at 8:30 p.m. ET through the summer of 1950.
The second series airing on Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m. ET consisted of filmed TV pilots of unsold series, and was a last-minute replacement for the quiz show Dotto, which ended August 12, 1958 due to accusations that it was rigged. Colgate Theatre served as a filler for the sponsor until The George Burns Show premiered on October 14, 1958. Bill Goodwin was host for the 1958 series.
Original Release
01/03/1949 on NBC
US Release
01/03/1949
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Marc Cavell | (as Butch Cavell) |
| Jean Alexander | (as Jean Pugsley) |
| Pierre Watkin | (as Pierre Watkins) |
| Al Hopson | (as Alfred Hopson) |
| William N. Neil | (as William Neil) |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Queen Bee | Sunday, 02 October 1949 |
| 2 | Something's Got to Give | Sunday, 09 October 1949 |
| 3 | Retaliation | Sunday, 16 October 1949 |
| 4 | Young Stacey | Sunday, 23 October 1949 |
| 5 | The Old Lady Shows Her Medals | Sunday, 30 October 1949 |
| 6 | Remember the Day | Sunday, 06 November 1949 |
| 7 | O'Brien | Sunday, 13 November 1949 |
| 8 | News Item | Sunday, 20 November 1949 |
| 9 | Daughters are Different | Sunday, 27 November 1949 |
| 10 | Company for Dinner | Sunday, 04 December 1949 |
| 11 | A Trip to Czardis | Sunday, 11 December 1949 |
| 12 | The Pearls | Sunday, 18 December 1949 |
| 13 | Blessed Are They | Sunday, 25 December 1949 |
| 14 | I'll Marry You Later | Sunday, 01 January 1950 |
| 15 | Second Generation | Sunday, 08 January 1950 |
| 16 | Bert's Wedding | Sunday, 15 January 1950 |
| 17 | Two for a Penny | Sunday, 22 January 1950 |
| 18 | Abby, Her Farm | Sunday, 29 January 1950 |
| 19 | The Trap | Sunday, 05 February 1950 |
| 20 | The Brave and Early Fallen | Sunday, 12 February 1950 |
| 21 | The Karpoldi Letter | Sunday, 19 February 1950 |
| 22 | The Long Young Dreams | Sunday, 26 February 1950 |
| 23 | Neither a Borrower | Sunday, 05 March 1950 |
| 24 | Always a Knife in the Back | Sunday, 12 March 1950 |
| 25 | Blackmail | Sunday, 19 March 1950 |
| 26 | The Green Bush | Sunday, 26 March 1950 |
| 27 | Burden of Guilt | Sunday, 02 April 1950 |
| 28 | Motive for Murder | Sunday, 09 April 1950 |
| 29 | Double Entry | Sunday, 16 April 1950 |
| 30 | The Witness to the Crime | Sunday, 23 April 1950 |
| 31 | The Lawbeaters | Sunday, 30 April 1950 |
| 32 | The Suitable Present | Sunday, 07 May 1950 |
| 33 | Revenge by Proxy | Sunday, 14 May 1950 |
| 34 | Change of Murder | Sunday, 21 May 1950 |
| 35 | South Wind | Sunday, 28 May 1950 |
| 36 | I Got What it Takes | Sunday, 04 June 1950 |
| 37 | The Hotel of the Three Kings | Sunday, 11 June 1950 |
| 38 | Hands of the Enemy | Sunday, 18 June 1950 |
| 39 | Satan's Waitin' | Sunday, 25 June 1950 |
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Directors
Writers
William Kendall Clarke, Jack Bentkover, William L. Stuart, John Hawkins, Ward Hawkins, George Fass, Gertrude Fass, John Colford, Richard Booth, Katherine Brush, Margaret Miller, Tom Everitt, Norbert L. Acker, James Hart, Alan Stern, Robert Wallsten, Elizabeth Hart, William Ford Manley, Theodore A. Tinsley, Florence Jan Soman, George Bradshaw, Verne Jay, William Brandon, Betty Hodgson, Olga Moore, Edwin Granberry, Carol Warner Gluck, Lynn Shubert, Doris Frankel, Mary Orr, Neil Brant, John G. Fuller, Cornell Woolrich, J.M. Barrie, Margaret Buell Wilder, Philip Wylie, Reginald Denham, True Boardman
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Marc Cavell | (as Butch Cavell) |
| Jean Alexander | (as Jean Pugsley) |
| Pierre Watkin | (as Pierre Watkins) |
| Al Hopson | (as Alfred Hopson) |
| William N. Neil | (as William Neil) |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Hal Keith | Producer |
| Viv McLeod | Producer |
