Family Theater — 1950
51 episodes broadcast in 1950.
When 'Peep' O'Day inherits forty thousand dollars, his ex-convict nephew schemes to have him declared incompetent and seize it, in an Old Judge Priest tale.
A dissolute lawyer redeems a wasted life at the guillotine as a far, far better thing, from Dickens. With Hans Conried.
Sir William, a diffident slayer of Rhinosodragons, goes in search of the courage he lacks.
Stevenson's portrait of poet-rogue Francois Villon on one bitter, perilous winter night.
York and Lancaster clash in the Wars of the Roses, from Stevenson's The Black Arrow.
Craving security, a man -- a part tailor-made for Jack Webb -- throws in with a crooked politician.
Parley Baer plays Judge Priest again in another of Irvin S. Cobb's homespun tales.
A Revolutionary War spy peddles his way behind enemy lines, honoring Washington's birthday, from Cooper.
Hard times and a hard choice divide two old friends in a Norwegian village, from Nobel laureate Bjornstjerne Bjornson.
Mark Twain's classic of a royal boy and a pauper who swap lives, learning that looks deceive and mercy befits a crown.
A romance set in a cursed German village that materializes just one day each century, a Brigadoon cousin.
Von Kleist's tale of an odd courtship gift from a long-nosed suitor.
March 29, 1950
The Fabulous P.t. Barnum
April 5, 1950
The Royal Road
A timid knight believes himself invincible so long as he remembers his magic word, from Heywood Broun. Hosted by Jane Wyatt.
A warm-hearted Irish taxi driver shows a spoiled young radio star what teamwork really means.
In the age of William the Conqueror, Lord Norfolk loses his heart to Lady Margaret of Hereford.
The life of the great French actress Sarah Bernhardt, from early triumph to final curtain, narrated by Don Ameche.
To settle a wager, a poor music teacher shuts himself away in solitary confinement for fifteen years, the week the show took a Peabody.
Bret Harte's mismatched exiles are stranded by a blizzard, with no rescue in sight.
When Billy Bones is handed the black spot, young Jim Hawkins sails into Stevenson's great pirate yarn.
Vacationing in Ruritania, an Englishman is talked into posing as the kingdom's drugged king before the coronation.
A man renounces his American citizenship in a fit of temper and lives to regret every word, from Edward Everett Hale.
The great-souled swordsman with the long nose and a hidden love, from Rostand. Featuring Hans Conried.
The legend of Gold Rush outlaw Joaquin Murrieta, whose exploits still cloak old California in mystery. Starring Ricardo Montalban.
A dragon is no obstacle to Sir Lancelot when Lady Elaine's love is the prize.
A baron's arranged wedding is thrown into confusion by a bridegroom who may be a ghost, from Washington Irving. Hosted by Joan Leslie.
The life of author Robert Louis Stevenson, told by those closest to him.
A romance of the old frontier, where romance itself was the scarcest prize of all.
Shakespeare's tragedy of the dictator's murder, boiled down, with Wendell Corey and Gene Raymond.
A young tulip grower helps the people of 1673 Holland resist tyranny, from Dumas. Starring Rod Cameron.
From Scott's ballad, a bold young Scotsman battles to carry off the bride he loves.
A store window-dresser's odd inheritance, five circus lions, prompts him to trade his day job for the big cage.
Once more in pursuit of Jules Verne's mysterious Captain Nemo beneath the waves.
A no-account ballplayer comes into the bat of a Babe Ruth-caliber legend and rides it to the World Series.
A middle-aged widower flees the matchmaking women in his life, only to wind up proposing marriage.
Lawman Jim Cutter hunts the notorious outlaw El Coyote across old California.
A grape grower learns from a failed first harvest that prayer and patience yield richer returns.
How Florence Nightingale, the lady with the lamp, turned nursing into a true profession; Claudette Colbert hosts.
The life of Stephen Foster, America's most beloved songwriter. Hosted by Gale Storm.
Feeling herself a failed writer, Louisa May Alcott finds love in Paris and the spark for Little Women.
Mr. Lattimer basks in praise as a radio scribe, though his son-in-law does the writing -- the pair voiced as Fibber McGee and Molly.
A governess loves the master of Thornfield but must flee when his secret comes to light, from Charlotte Bronte.
A test pilot lost in a crash returns in spirit to his family one last evening, after which Ann Blyth sings Ave Maria.
A contest for the silver skates unfolds beside a Dutch boy whose father lost his memory in a fall.
In 1733, printer John Peter Zenger takes on New York's tyrannical governor and wins the opening battle for a free press.
Remembered as the finest clown of his age, Dan Rice worked the Civil War years as a circus performer and minstrel showman.
A proud king is humbled to the rank of court jester by a power greater than his own, from Longfellow, with Raymond Burr.
Charles Tazewell's Christmas fantasy of a mute child living when Jesus was born, narrated by Roddy McDowall.
Having eaten a priest's chicken, Joppe works off his guilt peeling potatoes, then juggles his plates for the Virgin at Christmas.
A humble gift to the Bethlehem child from the smallest angel in heaven, narrated by Loretta Young, from Charles Tazewell.
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