Fireside Theatre

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  • Genre(s):Drama
  • Release year: 1949
Fireside Theatre, a.k.a. Jane Wyman Presents, is an American anthology drama series that ran on NBC from 1949 to 1958, and was the first successful filmed series on American television. Productions were low budget and often based on public domain...read more

Fireside Theatre, a.k.a. Jane Wyman Presents, is an American anthology drama series that ran on NBC from 1949 to 1958, and was the first successful filmed series on American television. Productions were low budget and often based on public domain stories or written by freelance writers such as Rod Serling. While it was panned by critics, it remained in the top ten most popular shows for most of its run. It predated the other major pioneer of filmed TV in America, I Love Lucy, by two years. Jacques Tourneur has directed in 1956 three episodes, A Hero Return, Kirsti, and The Mirror.

Original Release

04/05/1949 on NBC

US Release

04/05/1949

Cast

(see additional cast & crew)
# Title Air Date
1 Crusade Without Conscience Tuesday, 07 September 1954
2 Smoke and Fire Tuesday, 14 September 1954
3 Second Elopement Tuesday, 21 September 1954
4 Afraid to Live Tuesday, 28 September 1954
5 Member of the Jury Tuesday, 05 October 1954
6 The Reign of Amelika Joe Tuesday, 12 October 1954
7 The Man Who Sold Himself Tuesday, 19 October 1954
8 The Wife Who Lived Twice Tuesday, 26 October 1954
9 Thank You, Dr. Russell Tuesday, 02 November 1954
10 Lost Perspective Tuesday, 09 November 1954
11 Girl Not Wanted Tuesday, 16 November 1954
12 The Last Hat Tuesday, 23 November 1954
13 Three Missions West Tuesday, 30 November 1954
14 His Father's Keeper Tuesday, 07 December 1954
15 The Mural Tuesday, 14 December 1954
16 Our Son Tuesday, 21 December 1954
17 A Mother's Duty Tuesday, 28 December 1954
18 The Indiscreet Mrs. Jarvis Tuesday, 04 January 1955
19 Sergeant Sullivan Speaking Tuesday, 11 January 1955
20 The Double Life of Barney Peters Tuesday, 18 January 1955
21 Not Captain Material Tuesday, 25 January 1955
22 Brian Tuesday, 01 February 1955
23 Mr. Onion Tuesday, 08 February 1955
24 No Place to Live Tuesday, 15 February 1955
25 Marked for Death Tuesday, 22 February 1955
26 Return in Triumph Tuesday, 01 March 1955
27 The Poachers Tuesday, 08 March 1955
28 No Time for Susan Tuesday, 15 March 1955
29 The Failure Tuesday, 22 March 1955
30 It's Easy to Get Ahead Tuesday, 29 March 1955
31 Not the Marrying Kind Tuesday, 05 April 1955
32 The Blessing of the Pets Tuesday, 12 April 1955
33 Luxurious Ladies Tuesday, 19 April 1955
34 Bitter Grapes Tuesday, 26 April 1955
35 The Innocent and the Guilty Tuesday, 03 May 1955
36 Cheese Champion Tuesday, 10 May 1955
37 Night of Terror Tuesday, 17 May 1955
38 A Dream for Jimmy Tuesday, 24 May 1955
39 The 99th Day Tuesday, 31 May 1955
40 Murderer's Wife Tuesday, 07 June 1955
41 The Man Who Liked to Kill Tuesday, 14 June 1955
42 A Ring for Nell Tuesday, 21 June 1955
43 An Argument with Death Tuesday, 28 June 1955
44 Argument with Death Tuesday, 28 June 1955
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Directors

Frank Wisbar, John Reinhardt, William Cameron Menzies, Charles Frank, Robert Angus, Laurence Schwab Jr., Jack Bernhard, Gordon Duff

Writers

David Victor, Herbert Little Jr., Margaret Buell Wilder, Bret Harte, Eugene Vale, Brenda Weisberg, Charles Bennett, Wells Root, John Francis Larkin, John Reinhardt, D.A. Jowitt, David Dortort, James Gunn, Thomas Haines, Brewster Morgan, John Sheppard, Frank Mitchell Dazey, Forrest Kleinman, Elwood Ullman, Michael Foster, Agnes Christine Johnston, Houston Branch, David Lord, Sam Rolfe, Lawrence L. Goldman, Gwen Bagni, Hagar Wilde, Nathaniel Curtis, Jack Natteford, F.M. Davison, Frank Wisbar, Merwin Gerard, Joyce Cook, Dana Burnet, Cyril Hume, John Bagni, Octavus Roy Cohen, Josef Mischel, Lindsay Hardy, Ray Vernon, Anne Homer Warner, Frank O'Rourke, Thomson Burtis, Margaret McDonell, Catherine Turney, Edith Martin, George Zuckerman, Leon Ware, Harry Gerstad, Wilkie Collins, William R. Cox, Malvin Wald, Joseph Cochran, Frederick Kohner, Marion Cooper, Anne Morrison Chapin, Arnold Lipp, Raphael Hayes, Seeleg Lester, John W. Vandercook, Spencer Raymond, Doris Jowitt, John Kneubuhl, Elizabeth Meehan, Charles Dickens, Ernest Kinoy, Harold Jack Bloom, Richard De Roy, Joseph Petracca, Curtis Kenyon, August Strindberg, Agatha Christie, Adele Comandini, Larry Williams, Norman Katkov, Alfred Lewis Levitt, Eleanore Griffin, Arthur St. Claire, Arnold Belgard, Sol Shor, William F. Leicester, Edgar Allan Poe, Leonard Lee, Shimon Wincelberg, Frank D. Gilroy, William Faulkner, Shirley Warde, Jean Becket, V.R. Shaw, G. Wallace Umphrey, Robert Harari, Edward Everett Hale, Paul Bracken, Ruby Wiley, Leonora Mattingly Weber, Harold Joyce, Catherine Barrett, William Ard, Roderick MacLeish, Fritz Falkenstein, Anne Wormser, Herbert Rosenfeld, Richard G. Hubler, Sophie Kerr, Charles Frank, Edward Thompson, David Swift, Edwin Lanham, Charles Mercer, Joe Pagano, Gabrielle Windsor, Jack Harvey, Byard Bowen, Jerry Anson, Jesse M. Watkins, Richard Heubler, Louis. L. Amour, Gilbert Thomas, Stephen Preston, Samuel Taylor, Catherine Burney, Frank Bentick, Hannah Smith, Edmund Ware, Roderick Lull, Everett Webber, Olga Webber, Madeline Thompson, Anne West, Margaret Craven, Susan Weyer, Thomas Holmes, Mark Hager, Frances Ensign Greene, Douglas Cox, Thelma Robinson, Herb Meadow, David Boehm, Stuart Palmer, Robert L. Richards, Geoffrey Chaucer, M.M. Musselman, Shirley Jackson, Gerry Day, H.C. Bunner, Jack Jacobs, Stuart Jerome, John Hawkins, Ward Hawkins, Don Tracy, Louis Paul, Bruce Marshall, Norman Jacob, Wilbur S. Peacock, Samuel R. Golding, Sol Stein, Jack Laird, Virginia M. Cooke, Lester Atwell, Susan Glaspell, Gertrude Atherton, David V. Robison, James Ronald, James Atlee Phillips, Jacland Marmur, Robert D. Neff, Ray Spencer, Philip Clark, Charles Bonner, Ferrin Fraser, William Hopson, Beatrice Joy Chute, Richard Harding Davis, Paul Horgan, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Leslie Urbach, Samuel B. Harrison, Anthony Trollope, Perceval Gibbon, MacGowan Cooke, James Edwards, Jack Bernhard, Curt Siodmak, Arch Oboler, Fred Freiberger, Bruce Lester, Ray Bradbury

Cast

Producers

Editors

Holbrook N. Todd, Roy V. Livingston, Herbert L. Strock

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