Richard Basehart

Richard Basehart

Born: August 13, 1914
Died: September 17, 1984
in Zanesville, Ohio, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John Richard Basehart (August 31, 1914 – September 17, 1984) was an American actor. He starred in the 1960s television science fiction drama Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, in the role of Admiral Harriman Nelson.

One of his most notable film roles was the acrobat known as "the Fool" in the acclaimed Italian film La strada directed by Federico Fellini. He also appeared as the killer in the film noir classic He Walked by Night (1948), as a psychotic member of the Hatfield clan in Roseanna McCoy (1949), as Ishmael in Moby Dick (1956), and in the drama Decision Before Dawn (1951). He was married to Italian Academy Award-nominated actress Valentina Cortese, with whom he had one son before their divorce in 1960. Cortese and Basehart also costarred in Robert Wise's The House on Telegraph Hill (1951).

Basehart was also noted for his deep, distinctive voice and was prolific as a narrator of many television and movie projects ranging from features to documentaries. In 1980, Basehart narrated the mini-series written by Peter Arnett called Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War that covered Vietnam and its battles from the Japanese surrender on September 2, 1945 to the final American embassy evacuation on April 30, 1975. He appeared in the pilot episode of the television series Knight Rider as billionaire Wilton Knight. He is the narrator at the beginning of the show's credits.

In 1971, Basehart played "Captain Sligo", a comical Irishman with a pet buffalo who negotiates a flawed but legal cattle purchase and unconventionally courts a widow with two children, played by Salome Jens, in CBS's western series, Gunsmoke, with James Arness. Basehart appeared in an episode of The Twilight Zone, Hawaii Five-O, and as Hannibal Applewood, an abusive schoolteacher in Little House on the Prairie in 1976.

In 1972, he appeared in the Columbo episode Dagger of the Mind in which he and Honor Blackman played a husband-and-wife theatrical team who were loose parodies of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. In the feature realm, he played a supporting role as a doctor in Rage (1972), a theatrical feature starring and directed by George C. Scott. He made a few TV movies including Sole Survivor (1970) and The Birdmen (1971). Both were based on true stories during World War II.

He died at age 70 following a series of strokes. One month before his death, Basehart was an announcer for the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles Plays Itself
Title: Los Angeles Plays Itself
Character: Roy Morgan/Roy Martin in He Walked By Night (archive footage)
Released: July 28, 2004
Type: Movie
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it, and meticulously, judiciously revealing the real city that lives beneath.
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Title: The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Character: Cpl. Denno (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 2002
Type: Movie
Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.
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Knight Rider: Halloween Knight
Title: Knight Rider: Halloween Knight
Character: Narrator
Released: July 14, 1985
Type: Movie
Michael and K.I.T.T. investigate after Bonnie believes she witnessed a murder from her new apartment. The trouble is, Michael and Devon assume she's hallucinating due to a fever...
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Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
Title: Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
Character: Self
Released: December 25, 1982
Type: Movie
Through interviews, archival footage, photos and classic tunes, learn about the remarkable career and troubled life of legendary jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, who influenced countless musicians before alcoholism lead to his premature death. Close friends and associates such as Hoagy Carmichael, Charlie David and Louis Armstrong share their memories of Bix's abilities, playing style and personality.
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Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix
Title: Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix
Character: Wilton Knight
Released: September 26, 1982
Type: Movie
Feature length pilot for the TV Series Knight Rider
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Title: Knight Rider
Character: Wilton Knight
Released: September 26, 1982
Type: TV
Michael Long, an undercover police officer, is shot while investigating a case and left for dead by his assailants. He is rescued by Wilton Knight, a wealthy, dying millionaire and inventor who arranges life-saving surgery, including a new face and a new identity--that of Michael Knight. Michael is then given a special computerized and indestructible car called the Knight Industries Two Thousand (nicknamed KITT), and a mission: apprehend criminals who are beyond the reach of the law. The series depicts Michael's exploits as he and KITT battle the forces of evil on behalf of the Foundation for Law and Government.
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Egypt: Quest for Eternity
Title: Egypt: Quest for Eternity
Character: Narrator (Self)
Released: March 6, 1982
Type: Movie
Documentary about ancient Egypt, its temples, paintings and art, and how these old treasures are being endangered by modern civilization. Also shown are the Nile river, the Luxor and Karnak temples, the Sphynx, the Great Pyramids of Giza, the river path to the Land of the Dead, the pharaohs and queens' tombs, as well as egyptologysts' interpretation of Ancient Egypt mysteries.
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Title: Mr. Merlin
Released: October 7, 1981
Type: TV
Mr. Merlin is an American sitcom that ran for one season, from 1981 to 1982, about Merlin the wizard, who is immortal, living in modern-day San Francisco, and disguised as Max Merlin, a mechanic. Mr. Merlin was produced by Larry Rosen and Larry Tucker, working as the Larry Larry Company, in association with Columbia Pictures Television.
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Title: Masada
Character: Narrator
Released: April 5, 1981
Type: TV
A Roman general leads the epic 1st-century siege of Masada, the mountain fortress where more than 900 Jews made a heroic stand against 5,000 Roman soldiers.
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Marilyn: The Untold Story
Title: Marilyn: The Untold Story
Character: Johnny Hyde
Released: November 10, 1980
Type: Movie
The story of the life and times of the legendary Hollywood blonde bombshell, Marilyn Monroe, from her meteoric rise to stardom to her marriages and untimely death.
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Being There
Title: Being There
Character: Vladimir Skrapinov
Released: December 19, 1979
Type: Movie
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
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Land of Celtic Ghosts
Title: Land of Celtic Ghosts
Character: Himself
Released: October 15, 1979
Type: Movie
A collection of Irish legends and sightings, featuring eerie ruins of castles. A moody film, very well narrated by Richard Basehart. Rich in folklore and timeless legends, Ireland possesses a history of supernatural phenomena and in fact, may be the most haunted country in the world. This documentary traces the ghostly paths of the spirits that have roamed the Emerald Isle since the beginning of man. Filmed entirely on locations in Ireland, including the city of Dublin and at many other ghostly places such as Killakee House, St. Michan’s Church, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Carrickmines, Howth Castle, Malahide Castle, Aillwee Cave (Ballyvaughan), Cliffs of Moher, Kilfenora Cathedral, Glenfesk, Muckross Abbey, Kildemock Church, Castlegregory and many more.
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The Rebels
Title: The Rebels
Character: Duke of Kentland
Released: May 14, 1979
Type: Movie
This sequel to "The Bastard" continues the saga of Philip Kent, the illegitimate son of an English nobleman, who has renounced his patrician birthright to become a Colonial soldier fighting for America's independence, befriending a Southern aristocrat and his earthy buddy to help thwart a plot to assassinate George Washington. (Episodes 3 and 4 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
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Title: Tales of the Unexpected
Character: Slade
Released: March 24, 1979
Type: TV
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
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Planet Mars
Title: Planet Mars
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
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The Great Bank Hoax
Title: The Great Bank Hoax
Character: Manny Benchly
Released: November 1, 1978
Type: Movie
When the prominent citizens of a small town discover that the officers of the local bank have been embezzling money from it, they decide to rob the bank themselves.
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Title: Vega$
Released: September 20, 1978
Type: TV
Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC between 1978 and 1981. It was produced by Aaron Spelling. The series was filmed in its entirety in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is believed to be the first television series produced entirely in Las Vegas. The show stars Robert Urich as private detective Dan Tanna, who drove around the streets of Las Vegas in a red 1957 Ford Thunderbird solving crimes and making Las Vegas a better place for residents and tourists alike.
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Title: W.E.B.
Released: September 13, 1978
Type: TV
W.E.B. is an American TV series that aired for less than a month on NBC in 1978.
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Title: The Critical List
Character: Matt Kinsella
Released: September 11, 1978
Type: TV
A hospital director in line for a federal cabinet post discovers that his private life may jeopardize the opportunity and then finds himself in the middle of a scandal involving stolen federal health funds.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Character: King Arthur
Released: May 23, 1978
Type: Movie
A modern-day scientist gets teleported to Medieval England in King Arthur's Court! He has to adapt to the current times and tries to make improvements as they come.
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Title: The Love Boat
Character: Stan Ellis
Released: September 24, 1977
Type: TV
Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or mysterious countries, decide to pass their vacation aboard the "Love Boat", where Gopher, Dr. Bricker, Isaac, Julie, and Captain Stubing try their best to please them, and sometimes help them fall in love. Things are not always so easy, but in the end, love wins.
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
Title: The Island of Dr. Moreau
Character: Sayer of the Law
Released: July 13, 1977
Type: Movie
A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings.
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Flood!
Title: Flood!
Character: John Cutler
Released: June 5, 1977
Type: Movie
Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam.
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Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
Title: Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
Character: Elliott Osborn
Released: January 16, 1977
Type: Movie
A female private detective goes undercover as a porno actress to find a millionaire's missing daughter.
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21 Hours at Munich
Title: 21 Hours at Munich
Character: Willy Brandt
Released: December 25, 1976
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.
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Mansion of the Doomed
Title: Mansion of the Doomed
Character: Dr. Leonard Chaney
Released: October 1, 1976
Type: Movie
An insane surgeon finds himself up to his armpits in eyeballs after guilt prompts him to begin removing the eyes of abducted people in hopes of performing transplants on his daughter who lost her own in a car-accident he caused.
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Time Travelers
Title: Time Travelers
Character: Dr. Joshua Henderson (1871)
Released: March 19, 1976
Type: Movie
When a novel virus devastates the world in 1976, Dr. Earnshaw notices that it resembles a virus that a Dr. Henderson found a cure for in 1871 Chicago. However, the doctor perished and his notes were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire. Earnshaw is approached by a government agent, Jeffrey Adams, who informs him of a Top Secret time traveling technology and asks for his assistance in finding Dr. Henderson and his cure. But their adventure becomes a race against time when a glitch sends them back to the day before the fire instead of the planned four days.
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Valley Forge
Title: Valley Forge
Released: December 3, 1975
Type: Movie
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.
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Title: Joe Forrester
Released: September 9, 1975
Type: TV
Joe Forrester is an American Crime/Drama TV series, starring Lloyd Bridges.
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Title: Medical Story
Released: September 4, 1975
Type: TV
Medical Story is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from September 4, 1975 until January 8, 1976.
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Judgment: The Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley
Title: Judgment: The Court Martial of Lieutenant William Calley
Character: George Latimer
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: Movie
This docudrama follows the court-martial of the title character, the man held responsible for the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
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Title: Little House on the Prairie
Released: September 11, 1974
Type: TV
Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
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Maneater
Title: Maneater
Character: Carl Brenner
Released: December 9, 1973
Type: Movie
Two couples on a camping trip are hunted by two tigers set upon them by a crazed animal trainer.
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The Birdmen
Title: The Birdmen
Character: Schiller
Released: November 8, 1973
Type: Movie
During WWII an American soldier sent to Norway to help with the escape of a scientist working on the atomic bomb for the Germans. Before they can escape they are captured and sent to a POW prison camp in an alpine castle. Cook must find a way to escape with the scientist before the Gestapo discover the Norwegian's true identity and convinces the other prisoners to build a two person glider in which they plan to escape.
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...And Millions Die!
Title: ...And Millions Die!
Character: Dr Douglas Pruitt
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A former Nazi living in Hong Kong has developed a nerve gas that he's hidden in a sewer attached to a time bomb. Police race against time to find the stash before it's unleashed on the city.
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Rage
Title: Rage
Character: Dr. Roy Caldwell
Released: November 22, 1972
Type: Movie
An accidental nerve gas leak by the military kills not only a rancher's livestock, but also his son. When he tries to hold the military accountable for their actions, he runs up against a wall of silence.
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The Bounty Man
Title: The Bounty Man
Character: Angus Keough
Released: October 31, 1972
Type: Movie
Kinkaid is a rugged, hard-driving bounty hunter, determined to find outlaw Billy Riddle. He tracks Billy, takes him captive, and starts the long trek to justice. However, this journey may lead him to dire consequences... a gang of cut-throats headed by Angus Keough is pursuing them, after the bounty for themselves.
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Title: The Streets of San Francisco
Released: September 23, 1972
Type: TV
Two police officers, the older Lt. Stone and the young upstart Inspector Keller, investigate murders and other serious crimes in San Francisco. Stone would become a second father to Keller as he learned the rigors and procedures of detective work.
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Chato's Land
Title: Chato's Land
Character: Nye Buell
Released: May 25, 1972
Type: Movie
In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.
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Assignment: Munich
Title: Assignment: Munich
Character: Maj. Barney Caldwell
Released: April 30, 1972
Type: Movie
Undercover agent, using his bar as a front, battles three killers to find a stolen fortune.
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The Death of Me Yet
Title: The Death of Me Yet
Character: Robert Barnes
Released: October 26, 1971
Type: Movie
The editor of a small-town newspaper has his past unexpectedly catch up with him: he finds out that a Soviet agent who knew him when he was a spy has been sent to the U.S. to kill him.
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Title: Columbo
Character: Nicholas Framer
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
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City Beneath the Sea
Title: City Beneath the Sea
Character: The President
Released: July 16, 1971
Type: Movie
A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as a purely scientific installation, the U. S. government wants to stash all its gold reserves from Fort Knox there, along with a fantastic new radioactive element. The brother of Pacifica's returning former commander plans to steal the gold and on top of that, the city faces destruction by an asteroid from outer space!
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They've Killed President Lincoln!
Title: They've Killed President Lincoln!
Character: Host / Narrator
Released: February 12, 1971
Type: Movie
The events surrounding the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, dramatized using simulated documentary footage.
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The Andersonville Trial
Title: The Andersonville Trial
Character: Henry Wirz
Released: May 17, 1970
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.
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Sole Survivor
Title: Sole Survivor
Character: Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner
Released: January 9, 1970
Type: Movie
In 1960, the ruins of an American bomber were found in the Libyan desert, but the remains of the crew were never located. In Guerdon Trueblood's teleplay, the ghosts of a bomber crew hang around their derelict plane, awaiting the day that their bones will be recovered and given a decent burial. The sole survivor, navigator Russell Hamner, has in the intervening 25 years become a General. He joins an investigation team that has come across the wreckage, while the ghosts, headed by Major Devlin, plot to expose Hamner as a coward who deserted his post and left his crew mates to die.
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Hans Brinker
Title: Hans Brinker
Character: Dr. Boeker
Released: December 14, 1969
Type: Movie
Melodrama on ice
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Love Is a Funny Thing
Title: Love Is a Funny Thing
Character: Acteur
Released: December 12, 1969
Type: Movie
In America, two French expats, composer Henri and actress Françoise meet and fall in love with each other.
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Title: Marcus Welby, M.D.
Character: Professor Andrew Kirkcastle
Released: September 23, 1969
Type: TV
Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he often worked with, and was produced by David Victor and David J. O'Connell. The pilot, A Matter of Humanities, had aired as an ABC Movie of the Week on March 26, 1969.
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Title: Hawaii Five-O
Character: Murdock
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Title: The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Character: Narrator
Released: March 6, 1968
Type: Movie
This documentary showcases Hitler's strategy for conquering hearts and minds by exploiting people's capacity to hate, something as relevant in our time as it seems to have been in his. This is a lesson which is especially worth remembering at this point in history.
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Title: Ironside
Character: Noel Seymour
Released: March 28, 1967
Type: TV
When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.
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Title: National Geographic Specials
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 10, 1965
Type: TV
National Geographic Specials
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The Satan Bug
Title: The Satan Bug
Character: Dr. Gregor Hoffman
Released: March 26, 1965
Type: Movie
A US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The big fear is that a more virulent strain, named The Satan Bug because all life can be killed off by it should it escape, may have been stolen.
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Let My People Go: The Story of Israel
Title: Let My People Go: The Story of Israel
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Survey of Zionist history: Theodor Herzl's idea of creating a Jewish state; the return to Palestine; Allenby entering Jerusalem; Tel Aviv, 1933; the growth of Nazism in Europe and immigration to Mandatory Palestine; Arab riots in Mandatory Palestine; illegal immigration; Cyprus detention camps; Warsaw Ghetto; UNSCOP 1947; UN partition vote in 1947; the end of British mandate; Declaration and War of Independence 1948.
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Trial at Nuremberg
Title: Trial at Nuremberg
Character: Narrator
Released: December 9, 1964
Type: Movie
This 1964 film shows the capture of and preparation for the prosecution of the principal defendants at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. There is a rare scene of the Rudolf Hess, Walther Funk, and Erich Raeder at Spandau Prison after they received life sentencing. President Harry S Truman is seen appointing Justice Robert H. Jackson as The Chief American Prosecutor.
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Four Days In November
Title: Four Days In November
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: October 7, 1964
Type: Movie
1964 American documentary film about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
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Title: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Character: Adm. Harriman Nelson
Released: September 14, 1964
Type: TV
Join the crew of the Seaview aboard their super high-tech submarine, where no mission is too dangerous and no threat is too deadly, be it enemy agents, mad scientists, deadly sea creatures, or impending nuclear disaster.
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Kings of the Sun
Title: Kings of the Sun
Character: Ah Min
Released: December 18, 1963
Type: Movie
In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the United States. They build a home in the new land but come into conflict with a tribe of Native Americans led by their chief, Black Eagle, while both Balam and Black Eagle fall in love the beautiful Mayan princess Ixchel.
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The Yanks Are Coming
Title: The Yanks Are Coming
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 4, 1963
Type: Movie
The Yanks Are Coming is a 1963 documentary film produced by Marshall Flaum and narrated by Richard Basehart. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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Title: Arrest and Trial
Released: September 15, 1963
Type: TV
Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute American crime/legal drama series that ran during the 1963-1964 season on ABC, airing Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m. Eastern.
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Title: Combat!
Character: Capt. Steiner
Released: October 2, 1962
Type: TV
Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders.
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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: Philip Townsend
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: TV
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
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Title: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Character: Miles Crawford
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: TV
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.
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Hitler
Title: Hitler
Character: Adolf Hitler
Released: March 21, 1962
Type: Movie
Richard Basehart stars as one of the most influential and one of the most reviled men in history in this probing psychological study of a man who nearly gained dominance over the entire western world--at the cost of millions of lives--Hitler.
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The Savage Guns
Title: The Savage Guns
Character: Steve Fallon
Released: November 1, 1961
Type: Movie
This Western is set in the Mexican valley of Sonora not that far south of the state of Arizona. It's just after the American Civil War, and a former Confederate officer, Mike Summers has taken refuge in a small town in the valley. He has married and is hoping to live in peace the rest of his life. Instead, he and his wife and the rest of the town are suffering the depredations of a brutal gunman, Danny Pose, and his gang of outlaws. Summers holds off picking up a gun because of his personal vow of non-violence. But the situation deteriorates and a new ally comes into the picture, Steve Fallon, a wandering gunslinger who may not be able to handle the bad guys alone.
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Title: Ben Casey
Released: October 2, 1961
Type: TV
Ben Casey is an American medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. The show was known for its opening titles, which consisted of a hand drawing the symbols "♂, ♀, ✳, †, ∞" on a chalkboard, as cast member Sam Jaffe intoned, "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity." Neurosurgeon Joseph Ransohoff was a medical consultant for the show and may have influenced the personality of the title character.
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Visa to Canton
Title: Visa to Canton
Character: Don Benton
Released: December 26, 1960
Type: Movie
A former World War II pilot, now the owner of a travel agency in Hong Kong, gets involved in espionage trying to help a Chinese woman locate her son.
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Title: Route 66
Released: October 7, 1960
Type: TV
Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays on CBS from October 7, 1960 to March 20, 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for the first two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock. Maharis was ill for much of the third season, during which time Tod was shown traveling on his own. Tod met Lincoln Case, played by Glenn Corbett, late in the third season, and traveled with him until the end of the fourth and final season. Among the series more notable aspects were the featured Corvette convertible, and the program's instrumental theme song, which became a major pop hit.
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For the Love of Mike
Title: For the Love of Mike
Character: Father Phelan
Released: August 28, 1960
Type: Movie
An orphan trains a racehorse so he can win the money to build a new church.
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Portrait in Black
Title: Portrait in Black
Character: Howard Mason
Released: July 27, 1960
Type: Movie
A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman's rich husband.
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Five Branded Women
Title: Five Branded Women
Character: Eric Reinhardt
Released: March 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.
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The Ambitious One
Title: The Ambitious One
Character: George Rancourt
Released: October 14, 1959
Type: Movie
This Yves Allegret film is set in French Polynesia and stars Edmond O'Brien, Richard Basehart, Andrea Parisy, Nicole Berger and Reg Lye. Basehart is the black sheep of a wealthy family of mining financiers based in France. He dumps the family life style and heads to Tahiti to make it on his own. His wife, Andrea Parisy, is less than amused with Basehart's choice.
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Title: The Twilight Zone
Character: Adam Cook
Released: October 2, 1959
Type: TV
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Jons und Erdme
Title: Jons und Erdme
Character: Wittkuhn
Released: March 4, 1959
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's novel about the troubled relationship between the strong willed Erdme and her irascible husband Jons in the Lithunian moors.
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Title: Rawhide
Character: Tod Stone
Released: January 9, 1959
Type: TV
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.
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Love and Troubles
Title: Love and Troubles
Character: Paolo Martelli
Released: December 19, 1958
Type: Movie
Three vignettes about couples trying to get together and the problems that continue to keep them apart.
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Title: Naked City
Character: Lester Bergson
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: TV
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.
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The Brothers Karamazov
Title: The Brothers Karamazov
Character: Ivan Karamazov
Released: February 20, 1958
Type: Movie
Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father's mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri's jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story's conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.
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Time Limit
Title: Time Limit
Character: Maj. Harry Cargill
Released: October 23, 1957
Type: Movie
Military investigator Colonel Edwards is assigned a case involving Major Cargill, a Korean War POW who is accused of treason. Although Cargill admits his guilt and Edwards' superiors are impatiently pushing Edwards to move this case to court martial, Edwards becomes convinced of Cargill's innocence.
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Miracles of Thursday
Title: Miracles of Thursday
Character: Martino
Released: August 22, 1957
Type: Movie
In Fontecilla, a Spanish village in decline, the mayor and other illustrious citizens hatch a crazy plan to revitalize tourism.
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Title: Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Character: David Manning
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: TV
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theatre, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.
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Moby Dick
Title: Moby Dick
Character: Ishmael
Released: June 27, 1956
Type: Movie
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.
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Finger of Guilt
Title: Finger of Guilt
Character: Reginald 'Reggie' Wilson
Released: June 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Film producer Reggie Wilson is worried he may have a dual personality. Fleeing Hollywood, he finds himself in England and married to the studio boss's daughter after which he quickly rises through the studio ranks. Then the letters begin to appear from a lovesick American actress who wants to know why he has thrown her over.
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The Extra Day
Title: The Extra Day
Character: Joe Blake
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's currently shooting.
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The Swindle
Title: The Swindle
Character: Picasso
Released: October 7, 1955
Type: Movie
Aging small-time conman Augusto works with two younger men: Roberto, who desires to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Bruno, nicknamed Picasso. Through a series of mishaps and personal entanglements, things go badly for Augusto.
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The Golden Vein
Title: The Golden Vein
Character: Ing. Stefano Manfredi
Released: September 30, 1955
Type: Movie
Jealous of his widowed mother's new lover, a boy does everything to separate them. Then, after he realizes their profound feelings for each other, he tries to reunite them.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Captain Aron Sligo
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Cartouche
Title: Cartouche
Character: Il conte Jacques de Maudy
Released: July 1, 1955
Type: Movie
The son of an ailing nobleman returns to France to clear his name and prove where the true guilt lies.
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Canyon Crossroads
Title: Canyon Crossroads
Character: Larry Kendall
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A mining engineer, who is shunned by his peers for his unorthodox beliefs concerning the whereabouts of large uranium deposits, joins forces with a girl and her father to search for the mineral. When the father is hurt in an accident, daughter and engineer continue the project, aided by a Native American guide. Unbeknownst to the group, a reputable citizen of the town, really of low moral value, is shadowing them, his intention to jump their claim.
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La Strada
Title: La Strada
Character: Il 'Matto'
Released: September 23, 1954
Type: Movie
When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.
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Jailbirds
Title: Jailbirds
Character: Doctor Stefano Luprandi
Released: September 18, 1954
Type: Movie
Three jailbirds - a surgeon, a robber and a wrongly convicted man must adjust to their lives once released from prison.
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The Good Die Young
Title: The Good Die Young
Character: Joe Halsey
Released: March 2, 1954
Type: Movie
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
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The Stranger's Hand
Title: The Stranger's Hand
Character: Joe Hamstringer
Released: January 20, 1954
Type: Movie
Eight-year-old Roger Court is in Venice expecting to reunite with his father, British diplomat Major Court (Trevor Howard), whom he hasn't seen in three years. Roger lives with his Aunt Rose since his mother abandoned him.
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Titanic
Title: Titanic
Character: George S. Headley
Released: April 11, 1953
Type: Movie
Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: Conway
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Title: Hallmark Hall of Fame
Character: General Washington
Released: December 24, 1951
Type: TV
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
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Decision Before Dawn
Title: Decision Before Dawn
Character: Lt. Dick Rennick
Released: December 21, 1951
Type: Movie
WWII is entering its last phase: Germany is in ruins, but does not yield. The US army lacks crucial knowledge about the German units operating on the opposite side of the Rhine, and decides to send two German prisoners to gather information. The scheme is risky: the Gestapo retains a terribly efficient network to identify and capture spies and deserters. Moreover, it is not clear that "Tiger", who does not mind any dirty work as long as the price is right, and war-weary "Happy", who might be easily betrayed by his feelings, are dependable agents. After Tiger and another American agent are successfully infiltrated, Happy is parachuted in Bavaria. His duty: find out the whereabouts of a powerful German armored unit moving towards the western front.
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Fixed Bayonets!
Title: Fixed Bayonets!
Character: Cpl. Denno
Released: November 21, 1951
Type: Movie
The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one, Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsibility.
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The House on Telegraph Hill
Title: The House on Telegraph Hill
Character: Alan Spender
Released: May 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
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Fourteen Hours
Title: Fourteen Hours
Character: Robert Cosick
Released: April 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.
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Outside the Wall
Title: Outside the Wall
Character: Larry Nelson
Released: February 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Larry Nelson, paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, is determined to not fall into the clutches of the law again, and takes a quiet job at a country sanitarium. Thete, he meets and falls for a nurse, Charlotte Maynard, and he knows the only way to enter her web is to have a lot of money, for Miss Maynard is somewhat of a gold-digger.
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Tension
Title: Tension
Character: Warren Quimby
Released: November 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Warren Quimby manages a drugstore while trying to keep his volatile wife, Claire, happy. However, when Claire leaves him for a liquor store salesman, Warren can no longer bear it. He decides to assume a new identity in order to murder his wife's lover without leaving a trace. Along the way, his plans are complicated by an attractive neighbor, as well as a shocking discovery that opens up a new world of doubts and accusations.
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Reign of Terror
Title: Reign of Terror
Character: Maximilian Robespierre
Released: October 15, 1949
Type: Movie
The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who, after gaining supreme power and establishing a reign of terror ruled by death, now intends to become the dictator of France.
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Roseanna McCoy
Title: Roseanna McCoy
Character: Mounts Hatfield
Released: October 12, 1949
Type: Movie
It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance rekindles a long-standing feud between their respective families.
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He Walked by Night
Title: He Walked by Night
Character: Roy Martin / Roy Morgan
Released: February 6, 1949
Type: Movie
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
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Title: Studio One
Character: Matt Donovan
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Cry Wolf
Title: Cry Wolf
Character: James Caldwell Demarest
Released: August 19, 1947
Type: Movie
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family.
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Repeat Performance
Title: Repeat Performance
Character: William Williams
Released: May 22, 1947
Type: Movie
On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.