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Original Release
10/17/1954
US Release
10/17/1954
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Alistair Cooke | Self - Host |
| Eliot Noyes | Self (segment "Toys") / Self - Reporter (segment "Grand Central") / Self - Architect (segment "Balance") / Self - Architect (segment "Balance II") |
| Lee Richardson | Colonel Manly (segment "The Contrast") / Self - (segment "The Adams Family") |
| Jack Sydow | (segment "Your Cornered Grocer") / (segment "A House of Cards") |
| Carmen Mathews | Self - Host / (segment "John Quincy Adams") |
| Marian Seldes | (segment "Antigone") / (segment "Mr. Lincoln") |
| Nita Talbot | Letitia (segment "The Contrast") / (segment "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife") |
| James Daly | St. Clare (segment "Uncle Tom's Cabin") / (segment "Henry Adams") |
| Michael Higgins | Hector (segment) / (segment "The Trial of St. Joan") |
| Jessica Tandy | Self - Reader (segment "Children's Books") / Louisa Catherine Johnson (segment "John Quincy Adams") |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Treadmill to Oblivion | Sunday, 17 October 1954 |
| 2 | The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife | Sunday, 24 October 1954 |
| 3 | Young Man in Politics | Sunday, 31 October 1954 |
| 4 | Brewsie and Willie | Sunday, 07 November 1954 |
| 5 | Beethoven's Fifth Symphony | Sunday, 14 November 1954 |
| 6 | Antigone | Sunday, 21 November 1954 |
| 7 | The Virtuous Island | Sunday, 28 November 1954 |
| 8 | A Maine Lobsterman | Sunday, 05 December 1954 |
| 9 | The Contrast | Sunday, 12 December 1954 |
| 10 | The Second Shepherds' Play | Sunday, 19 December 1954 |
| 11 | The Merry Widow | Sunday, 26 December 1954 |
| 12 | The Trial of St. Joan | Sunday, 02 January 1955 |
| 13 | The Adams Family | Sunday, 09 January 1955 |
| 14 | H.M.S. Pinafore (I) | Sunday, 16 January 1955 |
| 15 | John Quincy Adams | Sunday, 23 January 1955 |
| 16 | Hamlet | Sunday, 30 January 1955 |
| 17 | Mr. Lincoln | Sunday, 06 February 1955 |
| 18 | The Turn of the Screw | Sunday, 13 February 1955 |
| 19 | The New World | Sunday, 20 February 1955 |
| 20 | The Lives of Henry Adams and Charles Francis Adams Jr. | Sunday, 27 February 1955 |
| 21 | The Mighty Casey | Sunday, 06 March 1955 |
| 22 | A Different Drummer | Sunday, 13 March 1955 |
| 23 | Henry Adams | Sunday, 20 March 1955 |
| 24 | The Four Flags of the Confederacy | Sunday, 27 March 1955 |
| 25 | Iliad | Sunday, 03 April 1955 |
| 26 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Sunday, 10 April 1955 |
Directors
Seymour Robbie, Tad Danielewski, Andrew McCullough, Don Hewitt, Roger Englander, Herbert Hirschman, Norman Lloyd, Irving Jacoby, Jeffrey Hayden, Astrid Henning-Jensen, Arthur J. Ornitz, Lana Rhoades, Fons Ianelli, Leo Seltzer, Michael Ritchie, Daniel Petrie, Cyril Ritchard, Sidney Lumet, Richard Leacock, Joseph Krumgold, Arthur Zegart, Bjarne Henning-Jensen
Writers
Allan Nevins, Chester Burger, Andy Lewis, Ellen M. Violett, Arnold Sundgaard, Gore Vidal, Margaret Lewerth, Irving Jacoby, Joel Sayre, Maurice Valency, Gertrude Stein, Sophocles, Homer, E.B. White, J.M. Barrie, Perry Wolff, Tapan Saha, John Pfeiffer, James Beach, Jeremy Gury, Edwin Way Teal, Harry B. Logan, Eugene McKinney, J.M.B. Churchill Jr., Alen Robin, Seymour S. Kety, Royall Tyler, Lisabeth Blake, Russell Lynes, Lawrence Ravitz, Tim Kennedy, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Lardner, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Richard Leacock, James Thomas Flexner, Joseph Krumgold, Anatole France, Jean Giraudoux, James Agee, Leonard Bernstein, Frank D. Gilroy, Ed Jurist, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Paul Tripp, Henry James, Fred Allen
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Alistair Cooke | Self - Host |
| Eliot Noyes | Self (segment "Toys") / Self - Reporter (segment "Grand Central") / Self - Architect (segment "Balance") / Self - Architect (segment "Balance II") |
| Lee Richardson | Colonel Manly (segment "The Contrast") / Self - (segment "The Adams Family") |
| Jack Sydow | (segment "Your Cornered Grocer") / (segment "A House of Cards") |
| Carmen Mathews | Self - Host / (segment "John Quincy Adams") |
| Marian Seldes | (segment "Antigone") / (segment "Mr. Lincoln") |
| Nita Talbot | Letitia (segment "The Contrast") / (segment "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife") |
| James Daly | St. Clare (segment "Uncle Tom's Cabin") / (segment "Henry Adams") |
| Michael Higgins | Hector (segment) / (segment "The Trial of St. Joan") |
| Jessica Tandy | Self - Reader (segment "Children's Books") / Louisa Catherine Johnson (segment "John Quincy Adams") |
| Martyn Green | (segment) / (segment "H.M.S. Pinafore") |
| William Windom | (segment "The Lives of Henry Adams and Charles Francis Adams Jr.") / (segment "Henry Adams") |
| Hume Cronyn | Self - Reader (segment "Children's Books") / John Quincy Adams (segment "John Quincy Adams") |
| Robert Preston | Self - (segment "The Adams Family") / (segment "Henry Adams") |
| Shepperd Strudwick | Charles Francis Adams (segment "The Lives of Henry Adams and Charles Francis Adams Jr.") / (segment "Antigone") |
| Barry Jones | (segment "The New World") / (segment "Antigone") |
| Burgess Meredith | (segment "The Virtuous Island") / (segment "The Sea of Winslow Homer") |
| Yehudi Menuhin | Self - Violinist (segment 2) / Self - Commentator (segment "Dances from India") |
| James Millhollin | Mr. Van Rough (segment "The Contrast") / (segment "The Story of Valentines") |
| Mort Marshall | (segment "The Story of Playing Cards") / (segment "The Mighty Casey") |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Robert Saudek | Executive Producer |
| Paul Feigay | Producer |
| Robert Saudek | Producer |
| Allen Funt | Producer |
| Richard De Rochemont | Producer |
| Joy Batchelor | Producer |
| John Halas | Producer |
Editors
Andrew McCullough, Ralph Rosenblum, Morrie Roizman, Richard Leacock
