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This is a list of episodes for the television series Pulitzer Prize Playhouse .
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| This article needs a plot summary.(January 2019) |
This is a list of episodes for the television series Pulitzer Prize Playhouse .
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | ||||
| 1 | 39 | October 6, 1950 | 1952 | ||
| 2 | 13 | December 19, 1951 | June 4, 1952 | ||
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Cast | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "You Can't Take It with You" | Charles Coburn, Ella Raines | Alex Segal | Moss Hart (play) George S. Kaufman (play) | October 6, 1950 |
| 2 | 2 | "The Canton Story" | Royal Dano, Kurt Katch, Paul Mann | Lawrence Carra | Budd Schulberg (teleplay) | October 13, 1950 |
| 3 | 3 | "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" | Raymond Massey, Betty Field, Kevin McCarthy | Alex Segal | Robert E. Sherwood (play) | November 20, 1950 |
| 4 | 4 | "The Late Christopher Bean" | Helen Hayes, Charles Dingle, Elizabeth Patterson | Lawrence Carra | Sidney Howard (play) | October 27, 1950 |
| 5 | 5 | "The Magnificent Ambersons" | Melvyn Douglas, Florence Eldridge, Ruth Hussey | Lawrence Carra | Booth Tarkington (novel) | November 3, 1950 |
| 6 | 6 | "The Raven" | John Howard, Murvyn Vye, Anne Sargent | Lawrence Carra | Marquis James (story) | November 10, 1950 |
| 7 | 7 | "Knickerbocker Holiday" | John Raitt, Doretta Morrow, Dennis King | Lawrence Carra | Maxwell Anderson (book) Washington Irving (inspired by "Knickerbocker History of New York") | November 17, 1950 |
| 8 | 8 | "The End Game" | Barry Nelson, Richard Derr, Mary Sinclair | Lawrence Carra | J. P. Marquand (story) | November 24, 1950 |
| 9 | 9 | "Our Town" | Elizabeth Patterson, Charles Dingle, Edward Arnold | Lawrence Carra | Thornton Wilder (play) | December 1, 1950 |
| 10 | 10 | "The Ponzi Story" | Coleen Gray, Hume Cronyn, Jonathan Harris | Lawrence Carra | - | December 8, 1950 |
| 11 | 11 | "Bethel Merriday" | Barbara Bel Geddes, Phillip Reed, Betty Garde | Lawrence Carra | Sinclair Lewis (play) | December 15, 1950 |
| 12 | 12 | "The Pharmacist's Mate" | Gene Raymond, Darryl Hickman, Harold Lloyd Jr. | Lawrence Carra | Budd Schulberg (teleplay) George Weller (story) | December 22, 1950 |
| 13 | 13 | "Mrs. January and Mr. Ex" | Spring Byington, Penny Singleton, Douglas Fairbanks | Lawrence Carra | Zoe Akins (play) | December 29, 1950 |
| 14 | 14 | "Portrait of a President" | Walter Hampden, Fay Bainter, Harriet MacGibbon | Lawrence Carra | Marquis James (story) | January 5, 1951 |
| 15 | 15 | "Ned McCobb's Daughter" | Charles Dingle, Miriam Hopkins, Anthony Quinn | Lawrence Carra | Sidney Howard (play) | January 12, 1951 |
| 16 | 16 | "Light Up the Sky" | Patricia Morison, Lee Tracy, Tom Helmore | Lawrence Carra | Moss Hart (play) | January 19, 1951 |
| 17 | 17 | "The Silver Cord" | Judith Anderson, Joan Chandler, Joanne Dru | Lawrence Carra | Sidney Howard (play) | January 26, 1951 |
| 18 | 18 | "Alison's House" | Otto Kruger, Madge Evans, Cloris Leachman | Lawrence Carra | Susan Glaspell (play) | February 2, 1951 |
| 19 | 19 | "Broken Dishes" | Robert Stack, James Dunn, Marcia Henderson | Charles S. Dubin | Martin Flavin (play) | February 9, 1951 |
| 20 | 20 | "Mary of Scotland" | Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick, John Emery | Lawrence Carra | Maxwell Anderson (play) | February 16, 1951 |
| 21 | 21 | "Valley Forge" | Wright King, Victor Sutherland, Frank Thomas | Lawrence Carra | Maxwell Anderson (play) | February 23, 1951 |
| 22 | 22 | "The Wisdom Tooth" | Jean Parker, Howard Freeman, Jonathan Harris | Lawrence Carra | Marc Connelly (play) | March 2, 1951 |
| 23 | 23 | "The Haunted House" | Barbara Britton, Constance Dowling, Jack Lemmon | Lawrence Carra | Owen Davis (play) | March 1951 |
| 24 | 24 | "The Royal Family" | Florence Reed, Hugh Franklin, Olive Blakeney | Lawrence Carra | Edna Ferber (play) George S. Kaufman (play) | March 1951 |
| 25 | 25 | "Blockade" | Vanessa Brown, Robert Pastene, John Buckmaster | Lawrence Carra | J. P. Marquand (story) John Howard Lawson (teleplay) | March 1951 |
| 26 | 26 | "The Just and the Unjust" | Jan Sterling, Charles Dingle, Richard Kiley | Lawrence Carra | James Gould Cozzens (writer) | 1951 |
| 27 | 27 | "Night Over Taos" | Riza Royce, Murvyn Vye, Peggy Conklin | Lawrence Carra | Maxwell Anderson (play) | April 1951 |
| 28 | 28 | "Icebound" | Charles Dingle, Nina Foch, Edmond O'Brien | Lawrence Carra | Owen Davis (story) | April 1951 |
| 29 | 29 | "Rebellion in Jackson County" | Everett Sloane, Valerie Bettis, James Dunn | Lawrence Carra | Jeffrey Max Lalande (writer) | April 1951 |
| 30 | 30 | "Second Threshold" | Clive Brook, Hugh Reilly, Betsy von Furstenberg | Lawrence Carra | Philip Barry (play) | April 1951 |
| 31 | 31 | "The Happy Journey" | Jack Lemmon, Wanda Hendrix, Spring Byington | Lawrence Carra | Thornton Wilder (story) | May 1951 |
| 32 | 32 | "The Thousand Yard Look" | Biff McGuire, Edward Andrews, Richard Kiley | Lawrence Carra | Hal Boyle (writer) | May 1951 |
| 33 | 33 | "The Queen's Husband" | Roland Young, Barbara Baxley, William Redfield | Alex Segal | Felix Jackson (adaptation) Robert E. Sherwood (play) | May 1951 |
| 34 | 34 | "The Stolen City" | Wright King, Ruth Hammond, Robert P. Lieb | Lawrence Carra | - | May 1951 |
| 35 | 35 | "Detour" | Dorothy Gish, William Harrigan | Lawrence Carra | Owen Davis (story) | June 1951 |
| 36 | 36 | "Hostage" | Paul Porter, Donald Devlin, Scott Marlowe | Lawrence Carra | - | June 1951 |
| 37 | 37 | "The Buccaneer" | Brian Aherne, Nina Foch | Lawrence Carra | Maxwell Anderson (play) Laurence Stallings (play) | June 1951 |
| 38 | 38 | "(a) The Pen (b) You're Not the Type (c) The Weak Spot" | Edna Best, Sidney Blackmer, Edward Binns | Lawrence Carra | John Hersey (story) Edna Ferber (story) George Kelly (story) | June 1951 |
| 39 | 39 | "The Big Break" | Lynn Bari, James Dunn | Lawrence Carra | Moss Hart (play) | 1951 |
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Cast | Directed by | Written by | Original air date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 1 | "The Skin of Our Teeth" | Nina Foch, Thomas Mitchell, Mildred Natwick | Lawrence Carra | Thornton Wilder (story) | December 19, 1951 |
| 41 | 2 | "Alison's House" | Ruth Chatterton, Otto Kruger | Lawrence Carra | Susan Glaspell (story) | January 2, 1952 |
| 42 | 3 | "The Town" | John Forsythe, Joseph Hardy, Aline MacMahon | Lawrence Carra | Conrad Richter (novel) | January 16, 1952 |
| 43 | 4 | "Years of Grace" | Ann Harding, Lucile Watson, Joan Chandler | Lawrence Carra | Margaret Ayer Barnes (novel) | January 30, 1952 |
| 44 | 5 | "Hill 346: A Report on Korea" | Philip Bourneuf, Philip Coolidge, Vaughn Taylor | Lawrence Carra | Norman Lessing (story) | February 13, 1952 |
| 45 | 6 | "Melville Goodwin, U.S.A." | Margalo Gillmore, Paul Kelly, Jayne Meadows | Lawrence Carra | John P. Marquand (story) | February 27, 1952 |
| 46 | 7 | "Monsieur Beaucaire" | Anna Lee, Vincent Price, Audrey Meadows | Lawrence Carra | Booth Tarkington (story) | March 12, 1952 |
| 47 | 8 | "Robert E. Lee" | Robert Keith, Ilka Chase | Lawrence Carra | James A. Michener (story) | March 26, 1952 |
| 48 | 9 | "The Jungle" | Nina Foch, Hanna Landy, Robert Preston | Lawrence Carra | - | April 9, 1952 |
| 49 | 10 | "The Fascinating Stranger" | Thomas Mitchell, Polly Rowles | Lawrence Carra | Booth Tarkington (story) | April 23, 1952 |
| 50 | 11 | "The Return of Mr. Moto" | James Daly, Eva Gabor, Harold Vermilyea | Lawrence Carra | John P. Marquand (story) | May 7, 1952 |
| 51 | 12 | "The American Leonardo: The Life of Samuel F.B. Morse" | John Forsythe, Wanda Hendrix, Hanna Landy | Lawrence Carra | Carleton Mabee (story) | May 12, 1952 |
| 52 | 13 | "Daisy Mayme" | June Havoc, Hanna Landy, Shepperd Strudwick | Lawrence Carra | George Kelly (play) | June 4, 1952 |
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