This short-lived CBS dramatic anthology series (a summer replacement for Person to Person) featured stories about people confronting real problems.
Episodes included:
‘The World Out There‘ with Mary Perry, Anthony Perkins and Joseph Perkins in a touching and fragile story (by Ray Bradbury) about an illiterate elderly country woman’s efforts to learn to read and write.
‘Rose’s Boy‘ with Judith Evelyn in a one-character play in which a woman attempts to work up the courage to tell a young boy about his mother’s death in a serious accident.
‘The Calliope Tree‘ with Henry Hull and Van Dyke Parks in a story about an ex-circus clown and his efforts to relive his past through the admiration of a young boy whose parents are divorced.
‘Domestic Dilemma‘ with Geraldine Page and Jason Robards Jr. in a story about how an alcoholic woman affects her family.
The series ran from 8 July to 26 August 1955.
Episodes
The Outing | Sub-Let | Rose’s Boy | The World Out There | The Love Letters of Smith | A Domestic Dilemma | The Language of the Roses | Arcade | The Calliope Tree
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