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Original Release
10/04/1953
US Release
10/04/1953
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Alistair Cooke | Self - Host |
| Karl Weber | Self - Introduction (segment "The Chemist") / Self - Introduction (segment "Consumer Research") |
| Jim Hawthorne | Prince (segment "Sleeping Beauty in the Woods") / Cocky Locky (segment "Chicken Little") |
| Jo Sullivan | Chicken Little (segment "Chicken Little") / Princess (segment "Sleeping Beauty in the Woods") |
| Mark Rydell | (segment "Village Incident - India") / Customer (segment "Glory in the Flower") |
| John Jay | Self - Cinematographer (segment "Skiing") / Self - Ski Lecturer (segment "John Jay and Skiing Films") |
| Peter Brook | Self - Film Producer (segment "Preview of King Lear") / Self - Director |
| John Qualen | Storekeeper J.P. (segment "Nobody's Fool") / (segment "The House") |
| Scott Douglas | Pat Garrett (segment "Billy the Kid") / Enrique (segment "The Capital of the World" 1) |
| Randy Stuart | (segment "Nothing So Monstrous") / (segment "Nobody's Fool") |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Glory in the Flower | Sunday, 04 October 1953 |
| 2 | The Battler | Sunday, 11 October 1953 |
| 3 | King Lear | Sunday, 18 October 1953 |
| 4 | The Gold Dress | Sunday, 25 October 1953 |
| 5 | The Man of Destiny | Sunday, 01 November 1953 |
| 6 | A Jury of Her Peers | Sunday, 08 November 1953 |
| 7 | The Raspberry Queen | Sunday, 15 November 1953 |
| 8 | Toine | Sunday, 22 November 1953 |
| 9 | The Horn Blows at Midnight | Sunday, 29 November 1953 |
| 10 | The Capital of the World | Sunday, 06 December 1953 |
| 11 | The Nature of the Beast | Sunday, 13 December 1953 |
| 12 | Mom and Leo | Sunday, 20 December 1953 |
| 13 | The Sojourner | Sunday, 27 December 1953 |
| 14 | Nobody's Fool | Sunday, 03 January 1954 |
| 15 | The Remarkable Case of Mr. Bruhl | Sunday, 10 January 1954 |
| 16 | The Duchess and the Smugs | Sunday, 17 January 1954 |
| 17 | Nothing So Monstrous | Sunday, 24 January 1954 |
| 18 | Sleeping Beauty in the Woods | Sunday, 31 January 1954 |
| 19 | Comedy in Music | Sunday, 07 February 1954 |
| 20 | The Confidential Clerk | Sunday, 14 February 1954 |
| 21 | A Time Out of War | Sunday, 21 February 1954 |
| 22 | Hilde and the Turnpike | Sunday, 28 February 1954 |
| 23 | The House | Sunday, 07 March 1954 |
| 24 | Three Sketches | Sunday, 14 March 1954 |
| 25 | Tell Me If It Hurts | Sunday, 21 March 1954 |
| 26 | The Apollo of Bellac | Sunday, 28 March 1954 |
Directors
Bob Banner, Andrew McCullough, Peter Glushanok, Robert Ellis Miller, Harry Horner, Don Hewitt, Paul Nickell, Herbert Hirschman, Arthur Zegart, Yul Brynner, Gene Milford, Byron Paul, David Epstein, Ralph Levy, Ralph Nelson, Delbert Mann, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Daniel Petrie
Writers
Arnold Schulman, David Epstein, Ernest Hemingway, Tad Mosel, John Steinbeck, Maurice Valency, James Thurber, Lawrence Ravitz, A.E. Hotchner, James Thomas Flexner, T.S. Eliot, Eugene Solow, Susan Glaspell, George Bellak, Howard Snyder, Leo Davis, Sidney Carroll, Ellen M. Violett, Stephen Vincent Benét, Jean Giraudoux, Guy de Maupassant, Mary Chase, Carson McCullers, Eugene Loring, Moss Hart, William Inge, Leonard Gershe, Hugh Wedlock Jr., James Maher, William Engvick, Shaemas O'Sheel, A.K. Lewis, Bob Cone, Chester Burger, Arnold Sundgaard, Pamela Frankau, Martin Quigley Jr., Alfred Sutro, Elizabeth Hart, Stanley Kunitz, Cyril Ritchard, Peter Brook, William Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas, Budd Schulberg, George Bernard Shaw, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Leo Salkin, Heywood Hale Broun
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Alistair Cooke | Self - Host |
| Karl Weber | Self - Introduction (segment "The Chemist") / Self - Introduction (segment "Consumer Research") |
| Jim Hawthorne | Prince (segment "Sleeping Beauty in the Woods") / Cocky Locky (segment "Chicken Little") |
| Jo Sullivan | Chicken Little (segment "Chicken Little") / Princess (segment "Sleeping Beauty in the Woods") |
| Mark Rydell | (segment "Village Incident - India") / Customer (segment "Glory in the Flower") |
| John Jay | Self - Cinematographer (segment "Skiing") / Self - Ski Lecturer (segment "John Jay and Skiing Films") |
| Peter Brook | Self - Film Producer (segment "Preview of King Lear") / Self - Director |
| John Qualen | Storekeeper J.P. (segment "Nobody's Fool") / (segment "The House") |
| Scott Douglas | Pat Garrett (segment "Billy the Kid") / Enrique (segment "The Capital of the World" 1) |
| Randy Stuart | (segment "Nothing So Monstrous") / (segment "Nobody's Fool") |
| Alan Badel | Napoleon (segment "The Man of Destiny") / Fool (segment) |
| Mel Ferrer | Jeff Talbot (segment "The Nature of the Beast") / Chairman of the Board (segment "The Apollo of Bellac") |
| Jacques-Yves Cousteau | Self - Oceanographer (segment "Undersea Research") / Self - "Underseas Archaeology" segment |
| George Irving | (segment "Sleeping Beauty in the Woods") / The Fox (segment "Chicken Little") |
| John Call | (segment "Nobody's Fool") / (segment "The House") |
| Lorne Greene | (segment "A Marriage Has Been Arranged") / Ed Bailey (segment "The Sojourner") |
| Carol Goodner | Mrs. Bradley (segment "The Duchess and the Smugs") / Olivia Talbot (segment "The Nature of the Beast") |
| Carmen Flores | Self - Singer (segment "Lola Flores and Her Flamenco Dancers") |
| Andre Charisse | Laurent (segment "The Duchess and the Smugs") |
| Maurice Tarplin | Narrator (segment "Treason, 1780") |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Robert Saudek | Executive Producer |
| Fred Rickey | Producer |
| Paul Feigay | Producer |
| Brewster Morgan | Producer |
| Eugene Solow | Producer |
| Mary V. Ahern | Producer |
| Sol S. Feuerman | Producer |
| Peter Brook | Producer |
| Jacques-Yves Cousteau | Producer |
