Great Scenes from Great Plays — 1949

Walter Pidgeon in A. J. Cronin's novel. A young idealist arrives to doctor a Welsh mining town, finds the conditions his patients live in, and sets out to change them.

Eddie Albert and Margo on the Erie Canal. A boat driver who means to buy a farm and settle down baffles the cook of a rival boatman -- and wins her anyway.

Cornel Wilde in Owen Davis' Pulitzer winner. A cold Maine family gathers for the reading of the will and hears the farm and the money go to a distant cousin. The Army rebroadcast this one too.

Walter Abel in Lewis Beach's comedy: parents down to their last dollar mount a lavish homecoming for children too busy enjoying it to notice -- until their grandmother tells them.

Jessica Tandy and Les Tremayne in Sidney Kingsley's 1939 play, drawn from Millen Brand's novel.

John Payne in Kingsley's Depression drama of a Manhattan riverfront block where the tenements back straight onto the new luxury apartments. The stage version launched the Dead End Kids.

Ingrid Bergman and Brian Aherne in Ibsen. Petted and belittled by her husband, Nora is carrying one secret: she forged a signature to borrow the money that saved his life.

Madeleine Carroll in Reginald Berkeley's play about Florence Nightingale, fighting the British government for the right to take nurses into the hospitals of the Crimea. The last broadcast of the series.