You and Me and the Gatepost

"**You and Me and the Gatepost**"
"You and Me and the Gatepost"
Playwrights '56 episode
Episode no.	Season 1; Episode 15
Directed by	Delbert Mann
Written by	Sumner Locke Elliott
Original air date	April 15, 1956

Last updated March 04, 2025

"You and Me and the Gatepost" is a 1956 American television play by Sumner Locke Elliott.

Plot

A socialite has to "buy" friends.

Cast

Mary Astor as Georgina
John Emery as Binky Waldron
Arlene Francis
George Grizzard as Brad Taylor
Paula Laurence as Jane Widdy
Patricia Smith as Marie

Reception

Variety called the play "something of a mixture between melodrama and satire, with neither element coming into^ its own."^[1]

"Timing, direction and pace couldn't have been better," wrote the Boston Globe.^[2]

References

↑ "Tele Follow Up". Variety. 18 April 1956. p. 36.
↑ "Almost like Broadway". The Boston Globe. 11 April 1956. p. 11.

External links

"You and Me and the Gatepost" at IMDb

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[1] "Tele Follow Up". Variety. 18 April 1956. p. 36.

[2] "Almost like Broadway". The Boston Globe. 11 April 1956. p. 11.

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v t e Works of Sumner Locke Elliott
Novels	Careful, He Might Hear You (1963) Some Doves and Pythons (1966) Edens Lost (1969) The Man Who Got Away (1972) Going (1975) Water Under the Bridge (1977) Signs of Life (1981) About Tilly Beamis (1984) Waiting for Childhood (1987) Fairyland (1990) Radio Days (1993)
Plays	The Cow Jumped Over the Moon (1937) Interval (1939) The Little Sheep Run Fast (1940) Goodbye to the Music (1942) Your Obedient Servant (1943) The Invisible Circus (1946) Wicked Is the Vine (1948) Rusty Bugles (1948) Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1951) John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953)
TV scripts	Wicked Is the Vine (1949) The Crater (1949) Pengallen's Bell (1949) Of Human Bondage (1949) Jane Eyre (1949) The Willow Cabin (1950) The Passionate Pilgrim (1950) The Shadow of a Man (1950) Little Women (1950) The Rose Garden (1951) The Devil in Velvet (1952) The Thin Air (1952) Dusty Portrait (1952) Miss Hargreaves (1952) We Were Children (1952) Elegy (1953) Wish on the Moon (1953) Before I Wake (1953) The Shadow of a Man (1953) The Girl with the Stop Watch (1953) Moment of Panic (1954) Friday the 13th (1954) Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1954) The King and Mrs. Candle (1954) Time Bomb (1954) Run Girl Run (1954) The Women (1955) Beloved Stranger (1955) The King and Mrs. Candle (1955) Peter Pan (1955) Daisy, Daisy (1955) You and Me and the Gatepost (1956) Keyhole (1956) Company Manners (1956) Peter Pan (1956) Love at Fourth Sight (1957) Whereabouts Unknown (1957) Mrs. Gilling and the Skyscraper (1957) Babe in the Woods (1957) The Count of Monte Cristo (1958) The Winslow Boy (1958) We Haven't Seen Her Lately (1958) The Laughing Willow (1958) The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1959) (US) Peter Pan (1960) The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1960) (Aust) The Prisoner of Zenda (1961) Notorious (1961) Spellbound (1962)
Adaptations	Rusty Bugles (1965) Water Under the Bridge (1980) Rusty Bugles (1981) Careful, He Might Hear You (1983) Edens Lost (1989 TV mini series)
Radio	Crazy Family (1939) Tradesman's Entrance (1941) Jezebel's Daughter (1941) Grand City (1942) Girl of the Ballet (1942) The Man in the Dark (1944) The Army Hour (1944) Lily Parker (1947) Scarlet Rhapsody (1947) Wicked Is the Vine (1947) Ride a Cock Horse (1948) The Crater (1948) The Rose Garden (1950) Dusty Portrait (1953) The Thin Air (1954) We Were Children (1954) Friday the 13th (1955)

"You and Me and the Gatepost"
Playwrights '56 episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 15
Directed by	Delbert Mann
Written by	Sumner Locke Elliott
Original air date	April 15, 1956 (1956-04-15)