Broadway Television Theatre

Broadway Television Theatre is a one-hour syndicated television anthology series produced by WOR-TV in New York City. The series premiered April 14, 1952 and ran for 73 episodes through 1954.^[1]

Production background[]

All the episodes were abridged adaptations of Broadway shows and were shot on 35mm film.^[2] Its stars included Christopher Plummer, Veronica Lake, Sylvia Sidney, Signe Hasso, Roddy McDowall, Jack Warden, Ruth Warrick, Constance Bennett, Lee Grant, and Bonita Granville.

The list of shows adapted^[3] include:

• Angel Street, written by Patrick Hamilton (writer)
• Craig's Wife, written by George Kelly (playwright)
• Dark Victory
• The Front Page, written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
• Gramercy Ghost, written by John Cecil Holm
• The Hasty Heart, written by John Patrick (dramatist)
• Janie
• Kind Lady, written by Edward Chodorov
• The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, written by Frederick Lonsdale
• The Letter, written by W. Somerset Maugham
• Night Must Fall, written by Emlyn Williams
• Night of January 16th, written by Ayn Rand
• Reflected Glory, written by George Kelly (playwright)
• R.U.R., written by Karel Čapek
• Room Service
• The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood
• The Jazz Singer, written by Samson Raphaelson
• The Thirteenth Chair, written by Bayard Veiller
• Three Men on a Horse, written by George Abbott
• The Trial of Mary Dugan, written by Bayard Veiller
• Twentieth Century, written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
• Your Uncle Dudley, written by Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson

See also[]

• 1952–53 United States network television schedule
• 1953–54 United States network television schedule

References[]

External links[]

• Broadway Television Theatre at CVTA with episode list
• Broadway Television Theatre at IMDb

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