The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)
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| The Eleventh Hour | |
|---|---|
 Jack Ging (right) as Paul Graham with guest stars Keenan Wynn and Linda Evans. | |
| Genre | Medical drama |
| Starring | Wendell Corey Jack Ging Ralph Bellamy |
| Theme music composer | Cecil King Palmer Harry Sukman |
| Opening theme | "The Film Opens" |
| Composers | Harry Sukman Morton Stevens John Williams |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 62 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Norman Felton |
| Producer | Sam Rolfe |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 45–48 min |
| Production companies | Arena Productions MGM Television |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution Turner Entertainment Co (rights owner) |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Picture format | Black-and-white |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | October 3, 1962 – April 22, 1964 |
The Eleventh Hour is an American medical drama about psychiatry starring Wendell Corey, Jack Ging and Ralph Bellamy, which aired for 62 episodes on NBC from October 3, 1962, to April 22, 1964.
Cast[]
- Wendell Corey as Dr. Theodore Bassett (season 1)
- Ralph Bellamy as Dr. L. Richard Starke (season 2)
- Jack Ging as Dr. Paul Graham
Guest stars[]
- Philip Abbott
- Neile Adams
- Eddie Albert
- Lola Albright
- Frank Aletter
- Richard Anderson
- Edward Andrews
- Edward Asner
- Frankie Avalon
- Phyllis Avery
- Martin Balsam
- Joanna Barnes
- Herschel Bernardi
- Charles Bickford
- Bill Bixby
- Beau Bridges
- Lloyd Bridges
- Lloyd Bochner
- Richard Bull
- Paul Burke
- Red Buttons
- James T. Callahan
- Joseph Campanella
- Mary Grace Canfield
- Diahann Carroll
- Veronica Cartwright
- Linden Chiles
- James Coburn
- Michael Constantine
- Noreen Corcoran
- Patricia Crowley
- Kim Darby
- Colleen Dewhurst
- Bradford Dillman
- Elinor Donahue
- Tony Dow
- Howard Duff
- Dan Duryea
- Andrew Duggan
- Keir Dullea
- Jena Engstrom
- Linda Evans
- Shelley Fabares
- Fabian
- Norman Fell
- Anne Francis
- James Franciscus
- Beverly Garland
- Harold Gould
- Don Gordon
- Don Grady
- Dabbs Greer
- Virginia Gregg
- James Gregory
- Harry Guardino
- Eileen Heckart
- Anne Helm
- Peter Helm
- Steven Hill
- Cheryl Holdridge
- Celeste Holm
- Ron Howard
- Kim Hunter
- Diana Hyland
- David Janssen
- Henry Jones
- Katy Jurado
- Noah Keen
- Shirley Knight
- Ted Knight
- Harvey Korman
- Bert Lahr
- Elsa Lanchester
- Robert Lansing
- Angela Lansbury
- Piper Laurie
- Bethel Leslie
- Joanne Linville
- Robert Loggia
- Julie London
- Lynn Loring
- James MacArthur
- Roddy McDowall
- John McGiver
- Barbara McNair[1]
- Scott Marlowe
- Walter Matthau
- Jayne Meadows
- Burgess Meredith
- Dina Merrill
- Vera Miles
- Elizabeth Montgomery
- Bill Mumy
- Alan Napier
- Ed Nelson
- Lois Nettleton
- Leonard Nimoy
- Jeanette Nolan
- Edmond O'Brien
- Carroll O'Connor
- Jerry Paris
- Eleanor Parker
- Michael Parks
- Roger Perry
- Cliff Robertson
- Ruth Roman
- Marion Ross
- Barbara Rush
- Kurt Russell
- Robert Ryan
- Albert Salmi
- Telly Savalas
- George C. Scott
- Jacqueline Scott
- Sylvia Sidney
- Tom Simcox
- Jean Stapleton
- Inger Stevens
- Dean Stockwell
- Maxine Stuart
- Karl Swenson
- George Takei
- Roy Thinnes
- Joan Tompkins
- Franchot Tone
- Rip Torn
- Harry Townes
- Maxine Stuart
- Robert Wagner
- Robert Walker Jr.
- Tuesday Weld
- Fay Wray
- Keenan Wynn
Episodes[]
Season 1 (1962–63)[]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Ann Costigan: A Duel on a Field of White" | Fielder Cook | TBA | October 3, 1962 | 6701 |
| 2 | 2 | "There Are Dragons in This Forest" | Boris Sagal | TBA | October 10, 1962 | 6715 |
| 3 | 3 | "Make Me a Place" | Paul Wendkos | TBA | October 17, 1962 | 6716 |
| 4 | 4 | "I Don't Belong in a White-Painted House" | Don Medford | TBA | October 24, 1962 | 6719 |
| 5 | 5 | "The Seventh Day of Creation" | William Graham | TBA | October 31, 1962 | 6711 |
| 6 | 6 | "Of Roses and Nightingales and Other Lovely Things" | Walter Grauman | TBA | November 7, 1962 | 6724 |
| 7 | 7 | "Angie, You Made My Heart Stop" | Boris Sagal | TBA | November 14, 1962 | 6714 |
| 8 | 8 | "Hooray, Hooray the Circus is Coming to Town" | Lawrence Dobkin | TBA | November 21, 1962 | 6718 |
| 9 | 9 | "Cry a Little for Mary Too" | William Graham | TBA | November 28, 1962 | 6710 |
| 10 | 10 | "Eat Little Fishie Eat" | Walter Grauman | TBA | December 5, 1962 | |
| 11 | 11 | "The Blues My Baby Gave to Me" | William Graham | TBA | December 12, 1962 | 6721 |
| 12 | 12 | "Along About Late in the Afternoon" | Paul Nickell | TBA | December 26, 1962 | 6705 |
| 13 | 13 | "Which Man Will Die?" | Elliot Silverstein | TBA | January 2, 1963 | 6735 |
| 14 | 14 | "Where Have You Been, Lord Randall, My Son?" | Paul Nickell | TBA | January 9, 1963 | 6704 |
| 15 | 15 | "My Name is Judith, I'm Lost, You See" | Lawrence Dobkin | TBA | January 16, 1963 | 6725 |
| 16 | 16 | "Where Ignorant Armies Clash by Night" | Byron Paul | TBA | January 23, 1963 | 6734 |
| 17 | 17 | "Advice to the Lovelorn and Shopworn" | Richard Donner | Sam Ross | January 30, 1963 | 6732 |
| 18 | 18 | "Why Am I Grown So Cold?" | Byron Paul | TBA | February 6, 1963 | 6729 |
| 19 | 19 | "Like a Diamond in the Sky" | Jack Arnold | TBA | February 13, 1963 | 6733 |
| 20 | 20 | "Beauty Playing a Mandolin Underneath a Willow Tree" | Abner Biberman | TBA | February 20, 1963 | 6744 |
| 21 | 21 | "A Tumble from a High, White Horse" | William Graham | TBA | February 27, 1963 | 6739 |
| 22 | 22 | "Five Moments Out of Time" | Jack Smight | TBA | March 6, 1963 | 6737 |
| 23 | 23 | "The Wings of the Morning" | Jack Arnold | TBA | March 20, 1963 | 6748 |
| 24 | 24 | "Hang by One Hand" | Boris Sagal | TBA | March 27, 1963 | 6746 |
| 25 | 25 | "Something Crazy's Going on in the Back Room" | Robert Gist | TBA | April 3, 1963 | 6750 |
| 26 | 26 | "Everybody Knows You've Left Me" | Jack Arnold | TBA | April 10, 1963 | 6747 |
| 27 | 27 | "Try to Keep Alive Until Next Tuesday" | Don Medford | Theodore Apstein & Jerry De Bono | April 17, 1963 | 6740 |
| 28 | 28 | "I Feel Like a Rutabaga" | Richard Donner | TBA | April 24, 1963 | 6755 |
| 29 | 29 | "A Medicine Man in This Day and Age?" | John Peyser | S.S. Schweitzer | May 1, 1963 | 6726 |
| 30 | 30 | "The Man Who Came Home Late" | Don Medford | TBA | May 8, 1963 | 6745 |
| 31 | 31 | "Pressure Breakdown" | Alex March | TBA | May 15, 1963 | 6756 |
| 32 | 32 | "The Middle Child Gets All the Aches" | William Graham | TBA | May 22, 1963 | 6758 |
Season 2 (1963–64)[]
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 1 | "Cold Hands, Warm Heart" | John Newland | TBA | October 2, 1963 | 6776 |
| 34 | 2 | "The Silence of Good Men" | TBA | TBA | October 9, 1963 | 6779 |
| 35 | 3 | "Fear Begins at 40" | Leonard Horn | TBA | October 16, 1963 | 6760 |
| 36 | 4 | "And Man Created Vanity" | Alan Reisner | TBA | October 23, 1963 | 6778 |
| 37 | 5 | "Oh, You Shouldn't Have Done It" | Alan Crosland, Jr. | TBA | October 30, 1963 | 6751 |
| 38 | 6 | "The Bronze Locust" | Alan Crossland, Jr. | TBA | November 6, 1963 | 6770 |
| 39 | 7 | "What Did She Mean by Good Luck?" | Don Medford | TBA | November 13, 1963 | 6765 |
| 40 | 8 | "This Wonderful Madman Calls Me Beauty" | James Goldstone | TBA | November 20, 1963 | 6771 |
| 41 | 9 | "Four Feet in the Morning" | Jack Smight | Jerry De Bono | November 27, 1963 | 6775 |
| Part two of a crossover with Dr. Kildare | ||||||
| 42 | 10 | "The Bride Wore Pink" | Robert Gist | TBA | December 4, 1963 | 6731 |
| 43 | 11 | "There Should Be an Outfit Called Families Anonymous!" | Robert Gist | TBA | December 11, 1963 | 6765 |
| 44 | 12 | "La Belle Indifference" | Leonard Horn | Jerome B. Thomas & John D.F. Black | December 18, 1963 | 6764 |
| 45 | 13 | "Is Mr. Martian Coming Back?" | Richard Donner | TBA | December 25, 1963 | 6752 |
| 46 | 14 | "My Door is Locked and Bolted" | Alan Buckhantz | TBA | January 1, 1964 | 6741 |
| 47 | 15 | "Sunday Father" | Marc Daniels | TBA | January 8, 1964 | 6781 |
| 48 | 16 | "How Do I Say I Love You?" | Leonard Horn | TBA | January 15, 1964 | 6781 |
| 49 | 17 | "You're So Smart, Why Can't You Be Good?" | Marc Daniels | TBA | January 22, 1964 | 6788 |
| 50 | 18 | "Who Chopped Down the Cherry Tree?" | Alan Crosland, Jr. | TBA | January 29, 1964 | 6723 |
| 51 | 19 | "Cannibal Plants, They Eat You Alive" | Leon Benson | TBA | February 5, 1964 | 6767 |
| 52 | 20 | "The Only Remaining Copy is in the British Museum" | Alan Crosland, Jr. | TBA | February 12, 1964 | 6792 |
| 53 | 21 | "87 Different Kinds of Love" | Don Medford | TBA | February 19, 1964 | 6784 |
| 54 | 22 | "The Secret in the Stone" | Bernard Girard | TBA | February 26, 1964 | 6757 |
| 55 | 23 | "A Full Moon Every Night" | Alan Reisner | Robert Presnell, Jr. | March 4, 1964 | 7303 |
| 56 | 24 | "Who is to Say How the Battle is to Be Fought?" | Marc Daniels | TBA | March 11, 1964 | 7302 |
| 57 | 25 | "Prodigy" | John Newland | TBA | March 18, 1964 | 6774 |
| 58 | 26 | "Does My Mother Have to Know?: Part 1" | James Goldstone | TBA | March 25, 1964 | 6769 |
| 59 | 27 | "Does My Mother Have to Know?: Part 2" | James Goldstone | TBA | April 1, 1964 | 6793 |
| 60 | 28 | "A Pattern of Sundays" | Seymour Robbie | TBA | April 8, 1964 | 7308 |
| 61 | 29 | "To Love is to Live" | James Goldstone | Henry Misrock | April 15, 1964 | 7312 |
| 62 | 30 | "The Color of Sunset" | Leo Penn | TBA | April 22, 1964 | 7310 |
Scheduling[]
The Eleventh Hour aired on Wednesdays following Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall and Espionage.[2]
Home media[]
In June 2016, Warner Archive Collection released The Eleventh Hour- The Complete First Season on Region 1 DVD as a manufacture-on-demand (MOD) release.[3]
See also[]
- Breaking Point, a similar television series
References[]
- ^ Adams, Val. "2 Shows on Negroes", The New York Times, January 18, 1964, p.47 Retrieved October 27, 2018
- ^ 1962-1963; 1963-1964 American network television schedule; from appendix of Total Television
- ^ Jay, Robert (July 7, 2018). "June 2016: The Month in Home Media". Television Obscurities. Retrieved August 8, 2018.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1962 American television series debuts
- 1964 American television series endings
- 1960s American drama television series
- 1960s American medical television series
- Black-and-white American television shows
- NBC original programming
- English-language television shows
- Television series by MGM Television