The Unexpected (TV series)
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The Unexpected, aka Time Square Playhouse is a 30-minute US television anthology series produced by Ziv Television Programs, Inc. [1] for first-run syndication. Thirty-nine episodes aired from March 5, 1952 to December 10, 1952.
Casts
[edit ]Herbert Marshall hosted the series.[2] Guest stars included Craig Stevens, Raymond Burr, Gale Storm, Bonita Granville, Marie Windsor, Kenneth Tobey, Marshall Thompson, Hans Conried, Tom Drake, Virginia Grey, Jim Davis (actor), and Coleen Gray.
Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence were writers for the series.[1]
Episode list
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| 1 | "Calculated Risk" | Eddie Davis | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | March 5, 1952 (1952年03月05日) | |
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A debt-ridden man considering suicide is offered a way out of his woes. | |||||
| 2 | "The Hitchhiker Was A Lady" | Eddie Davis | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | March 12, 1952 (1952年03月12日) | |
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A trucker is accused of murder because he gave a girl a lift unaware that she was dying from a bullet wound. | |||||
| 3 | "The Man From Yesterday" | Eddie Davis | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | March 19, 1952 (1952年03月19日) | |
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A magazine writer searches for the mysterious author of a best-selling novel. | |||||
| 4 | "Fury And Sound" | Sobey Martin | Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee, and Irving Reis | March 26, 1952 (1952年03月26日) | |
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When a megalomaniac radio program producer makes advances towards the beautiful wife of his downtrodden assistant director, the man decides to exact his revenge by putting a hidden microphone in the producer's apartment to project strange noises at all hours of the night. | |||||
| 5 | "The Slide Rule Blonde" | Eddie Davis | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | April 2, 1952 (1952年04月02日) | |
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A gambler tries to stop a girl who's out to break the bank at a Las Vegas casino. | |||||
| 6 | "Born Again" | Eddie Davis | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | April 9, 1952 (1952年04月09日) | |
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A man is tormented by a nightmare because he has been told that he is the reincarnation of another person. | |||||
| 7 | "Split Second" | Eddie Davis | Story by : Maurice Level Teleplay by : Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | April 16, 1952 (1952年04月16日) | |
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A man's life flashes before him as he jumps from a bridge to his death. | |||||
| 8 | "Mardi Gras" | Eddie Davis | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | April 23, 1952 (1952年04月23日) | |
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While Ellen Martin is exploring New Orleans, the boat she's traveling on completely changes and her aunt disappears. | |||||
| 9 | "Legal Tender" | Eddie Davis and Sobey Martin | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | April 30, 1952 (1952年04月30日) | |
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A girl is determined to avenge the murder of her fiance by bank robbers. | |||||
| 10 | "House Of Shadows" | Sobey Martin | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | May 7, 1952 (1952年05月07日) | |
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Two young lovers are falsely accused of murdering a man in an old mansion. | |||||
| 11 | "Eclipse" | Sobey Martin | Story by : Selma Lagerlöf Teleplay by : Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | May 14, 1952 (1952年05月14日) | |
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A tennis player accepts a bribe to lose a tournament and then pulls a double cross. | |||||
| 12 | "The Professional Touch" | Paul Landres | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | May 21, 1952 (1952年05月21日) | |
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A toxicologist, frustrated in love, plans a perfect crime as an emotional release. | |||||
| 13 | "The Witch Of The Eight Islands" | Eddie Davis | Story by : Robert Louis Stevenson Teleplay by : Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | May 28, 1952 (1952年05月28日) | |
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A seaman tries to dispose of a magic bottle that can bring him only harm. | |||||
| 14 | "The Eyeglasses" | Sobey Martin | Story by : Doris Gilbert Teleplay by : Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | June 4, 1952 (1952年06月04日) | |
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Elsa Carren finds a pair of eyeglasses through which she sees her husband planning to murder her. | |||||
| 15 | "Lifeline" | George Cahan | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | June 11, 1952 (1952年06月11日) | |
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A fortune teller predicts the advent of a tall, dark and handsome stranger in the life of a spinster school teacher. | |||||
| 16 | "False Colors" | Sobey Martin | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | June 18, 1952 (1952年06月18日) | |
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A 7-year-old orphan, believing that his foster parents do not want him, stows away on an airliner. | |||||
| 17 | "Leopards In Lightning" | Sobey Martin | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | June 25, 1952 (1952年06月25日) | |
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An American private detective tries to solve the mystery of a lost safari. | |||||
| 18 | "The Magnificent Lie" | Sobey Martin | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | July 2, 1952 (1952年07月02日) | |
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A doctor attending an aged alchemist pays his debts in gold. | |||||
| 19 | "The Perfectionists" | Eddie Davis | Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee, and Mindret Lord | July 16, 1952 (1952年07月16日) | |
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Two bank robbers are sheltered from the police by a woman who kills troublesome beaus. | |||||
| 20 | "Slightly Dead" | Unknown | Unknown | July 30, 1952 (1952年07月30日) | |
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An actor, thought to have committed suicide, shows up at his own funeral. | |||||
| 21 | "The Producer" | Unknown | Unknown | August 6, 1952 (1952年08月06日) | |
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Egotistical radio producer Kingsley Roacher browbeats his employees, especially assistant Charley Fowler, who plots a bizarre revenge. | |||||
| 22 | "The Emperor Of Nothing" | Sobey Martin | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | August 13, 1952 (1952年08月13日) | |
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A practical joke is played on an old man who calls himself the Emperor of Biarritz. | |||||
| 23 | "The Perfect Mrs.Clesney" | Unknown | Frank Burt and Robert Libott | August 20, 1952 (1952年08月20日) | |
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A woman who witnessed her husband's death is led to believe that he is still alive. | |||||
| 24 | "One For The Money" | Sobey Martin | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | August 27, 1952 (1952年08月27日) | |
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A girl devoted 25 years of her life caring for her invalid mother, foregoing love and marriage. | |||||
| 25 | "The Mask" | George Cahan | Story by : Robert W. Chambers Teleplay by : Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee, and Budd Lesser | April 3, 1952 (1952年04月03日) | |
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A jewelry-store engraver whose face is always bandaged commits a robbery but no one can identify him. | |||||
| 26 | "The Doctor Prescribes" | Eddie Davis | David Boehm | September 10, 1952 (1952年09月10日) | |
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A doctor is so busy with his medical work he has little time for his wife. | |||||
| 27 | "The Puppeteers" | Sobey Martin | Doris Gilbert | September 17, 1952 (1952年09月17日) | |
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A woman searches for her fiance, a night-club puppeteer who has mysteriously disappeared. | |||||
| 28 | "The Woman Who Left Herself" | Eddie Davis | Herb Meadow | September 24, 1952 (1952年09月24日) | |
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A woman who tries to escape from an unhappy marriage. | |||||
| 29 | "Blackmail" | Sobey Martin | Story by : Herman C. McNeile Teleplay by : Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee, and Edith Martin | October 1, 1952 (1952年10月01日) | |
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An actress is being blackmailed but she doesn't know by whom. | |||||
| 30 | "Mr.O" | Sobey Martin | Roy Hamilton | October 8, 1952 (1952年10月08日) | |
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Life gets complicated for an immigrant mechanic when he is discovered to be European royalty. | |||||
| 31 | "High Adventure" | Eddie Davis | Stuart Jerome | October 15, 1952 (1952年10月15日) | |
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A woman and her invalid son are menaced by a murderer at a remote mountain resort. | |||||
| 32 | "Bright Boy" | Eddie Davis | Jack Laird | October 22, 1952 (1952年10月22日) | |
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A young man double crosses his partners in crime and makes off with 28,000ドル in stolen loot. | |||||
| 33 | "Confidentially Yours" | Sobey Martin | Robert L. Richards | October 29, 1952 (1952年10月29日) | |
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A con man stranded in a small town, who decides to fleece the citizens. | |||||
| 34 | "Landscape In Black" | Sobey Martin | Hugh Brooke and Robert L. Richards | November 5, 1952 (1952年11月05日) | |
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A New York art dealer searches for an eccentric artist in a South American village. | |||||
| 35 | "Desert Honeymoon" | Eddie Davis and Sobey Martin | Story by : Sam Ross Teleplay by : Doris Gilbert | November 12, 1952 (1952年11月12日) | |
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Alan Liveright, spending his honeymoon at a Palm Springs resort, searches for his stolen watch, a wedding present from his bride. | |||||
| 36 | "The Numbers Games" | Eddie Davis and Sobey Martin | Hugh Brooke, Tom Gries, and Patrick Whyte | November 19, 1952 (1952年11月19日) | |
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An Army officer is haunted by the fear of death as he tries to capture an enemy position. | |||||
| 37 | "Beyond Belief" | Sobey Martin | Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee | November 26, 1952 (1952年11月26日) | |
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A psychology student assists a scientist in the creation of a mechanical mind that's capable of fantastic feats. | |||||
| 38 | "Escape To Nowhere" | Sobey Martin | Jack Laird | December 3, 1952 (1952年12月03日) | |
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An unhappily married couple, touring Mexico, are menaced by bandits. | |||||
| 39 | "Some Day They’ll Give Us Guns" | Sobey Martin | Story by : Paul W. Fairman Teleplay by : Tom Gries and Hal Smith | December 10, 1952 (1952年12月10日) | |
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A German youth counselor befriends three European children orphaned by the Nazis. | |||||
References
[edit ]- ^ a b Erickson, Hal (1989). Syndicated Television: The First Forty Years, 1947-1987. McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 73. ISBN 0-7864-1198-8.
- ^ Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010 (2nd ed.). Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. p. 1129. ISBN 978-0-7864-6477-7.
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