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Original Release
10/09/1955
US Release
10/09/1955
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Alistair Cooke | Self - Host |
| Leonard Bernstein | Self - Musician (segment "The Jazz World") / Self - Conductor (segment) / Self - Conductor (segment "The Art of Conducting") / Self - Conductor (segment "Messiah") |
| Bud Palmer | Self - Introduction (segment "The Harlem Globetrotters") / Self - Introduction (segment "Sugar Ray Robinson Visits Stillman's Gym") / Self - Introduction (segment "Gymnastics") |
| Jessica Tandy | Blanche Du Bois (segment "Courtship") / (segment "The Better Half") / (segment "Minds over Manners") |
| Joseph N. Welch | Self - Presenter (segment) / Self - Presenter (segment "With Liberty and Justice for All") / Self - Presenter (segment "One Nation") |
| Hume Cronyn | Harold Mitchell (segment "Courtship") / (segment "The Better Half") / (segment "Minds over Manners") |
| Harry Townes | James Madison (segment "One Nation") / Edward Noyes (segment "The Great Forgery") / (segment "One Nation Indivisible") |
| Jack Lord | (segment "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell") / (segment "One Nation") |
| Bramwell Fletcher | Mr. Coade (segment) / (segment "One Nation") |
| Lilia Skala | Rosica Schwimmer (segment "One Nation") / (segment "With Liberty and Justice for All") |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Birth of Modern Times | Sunday, 09 October 1955 |
| 2 | The Jazz World | Sunday, 16 October 1955 |
| 3 | The Adams House | Sunday, 23 October 1955 |
| 4 | Advice to Bathers | Sunday, 30 October 1955 |
| 5 | Toby and the Tall Corn | Sunday, 06 November 1955 |
| 6 | American Boyhoods: Captain John M. Ellicott | Sunday, 13 November 1955 |
| 7 | She Stoops to Conquer | Sunday, 20 November 1955 |
| 8 | The Art of Conducting | Sunday, 04 December 1955 |
| 9 | The Royal Game | Sunday, 11 December 1955 |
| 10 | Salome | Sunday, 18 December 1955 |
| 11 | Messiah | Sunday, 25 December 1955 |
| 12 | The Best Year in the History of the Whole World | Sunday, 01 January 1956 |
| 13 | Dear Brutus | Sunday, 08 January 1956 |
| 14 | The Great Forgery | Sunday, 15 January 1956 |
| 15 | Episode #4.15 | Sunday, 22 January 1956 |
| 16 | Minds over Manners | Sunday, 29 January 1956 |
| 17 | One Nation | Sunday, 05 February 1956 |
| 18 | Mr Lincoln | Sunday, 12 February 1956 |
| 19 | One Nation Indivisible | Sunday, 19 February 1956 |
| 20 | The Art of Ballet | Sunday, 26 February 1956 |
| 21 | With Liberty and Justice for All | Sunday, 04 March 1956 |
| 22 | The Better Half | Sunday, 11 March 1956 |
| 23 | Harvard University Remote | Sunday, 25 March 1956 |
| 24 | The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell | Sunday, 01 April 1956 |
Directors
Lana Rhoades, Charles S. Dubin, Delbert Mann, Richard Dunlap, John Stix, Seymour Robbie, Lee Rothberg, Richard Leacock, David Swift, Roger Englander, Gene Milford, Rai Purdy, Elliot Silverstein, Willard Van Dyke
Writers
Andy Lewis, Richard Hofstadter, Maurice Valency, E.J. Kahn Jr., Ellen M. Violett, William Saroyan, David Swift, Helen Jerome, Oliver Goldsmith, Arnold Sundgaard, Rachel L. Carson, William Spier, Eric Knight, Ogden Nash, J.M. Barrie, Stefan Zweig, Alfred Harbage, Robert Noah, George Bidwell, Robert Coughlan, Russell Lynes, Lawrence Ravitz, Oscar Wilde, Leonard Bernstein, W.S. Gilbert, Walter Kerr, Noël Coward
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Alistair Cooke | Self - Host |
| Leonard Bernstein | Self - Musician (segment "The Jazz World") / Self - Conductor (segment) / Self - Conductor (segment "The Art of Conducting") / Self - Conductor (segment "Messiah") |
| Bud Palmer | Self - Introduction (segment "The Harlem Globetrotters") / Self - Introduction (segment "Sugar Ray Robinson Visits Stillman's Gym") / Self - Introduction (segment "Gymnastics") |
| Jessica Tandy | Blanche Du Bois (segment "Courtship") / (segment "The Better Half") / (segment "Minds over Manners") |
| Joseph N. Welch | Self - Presenter (segment) / Self - Presenter (segment "With Liberty and Justice for All") / Self - Presenter (segment "One Nation") |
| Hume Cronyn | Harold Mitchell (segment "Courtship") / (segment "The Better Half") / (segment "Minds over Manners") |
| Harry Townes | James Madison (segment "One Nation") / Edward Noyes (segment "The Great Forgery") / (segment "One Nation Indivisible") |
| Jack Lord | (segment "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell") / (segment "One Nation") |
| Bramwell Fletcher | Mr. Coade (segment) / (segment "One Nation") |
| Lilia Skala | Rosica Schwimmer (segment "One Nation") / (segment "With Liberty and Justice for All") |
| Sal Mineo | Senor Cortez (segment "Famous America Boyhoods") / Guard's Brother (segment "Salome") |
| James Daly | Colonel Billy Mitchell (segment "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell") / (segment) |
| Larry Gates | George Washington (segment "One Nation") / (segment "One Nation Indivisible") |
| Don Lutz | Secretary (segment "One Nation") |
| Jenny Workman | Self - Dancer (segment "The Art of Ballet") |
| Gemze De Lappe | Self - Dancer (segment "The Art of Ballet") |
| Lou Elliott | Self (segment "The Jazz World") |
| Edith Meiser | (segment "Minds over Manners") |
| Dickie Olsen | (segment "Jack Be Normal") |
| Carmen Matthews | (segment "The Royal Game") |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Robert Saudek | Producer |
| Paul Feigay | Producer |
| Willard Van Dyke | Producer |
