Undercurrent

1 9 5 5 – 1 9 5 8 (USA)
30 minute episodes

This CBS anthology series of dramatic plays was a summer replacement show for The Lineup (also known as San Francisco Beat).

The first two seasons featured up-and-coming actors in original dramas, while the 1957-1958 summer season re-ran episodes from The Web.

The debut episode, ‘Who’s Calling?’, starred Pat O’Brien and Virginia Bruce as newcomers to a Florida town whose happiness was shattered by a single phone call from New York.

Other episodes included ‘Easy Money’ in which a jewellery shop owner, after months of holding a sweepstakes ticket he bought from a petty grifter, tossed the ticket into a rubbish can only to learn later that it was worth $100,000, and ‘A Matter of Degree’, where a man who confessed to a self-defence homicide suddenly found himself supported by three strangers who provided him with a seemingly perfect alibi.