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IMDb
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Trakt
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TMDb
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Network: CBS
Episode Runtime: 24 min.
Season Runtime: 1968 min.
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

Telephone Time (1956)

Season 1 (April 8, 1956, midnight)

Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John Nesbitt who hosted the first season. Frank C. Baxter hosted the 1957 and 1958 seasons. The program was directed by Arthur Hiller.

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Telephone Time (1956)

Season 1 (April 8, 1956, midnight)

Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John Nesbitt who hosted the first season. Frank C. Baxter hosted the 1957 and 1958 seasons. The program was directed by Arthur Hiller.

Genres: Drama

Keywords: tmdb.anthology, imdb.anthology, awards.emmy-award-nominated

Network: CBS

Country: United States
Languages: English

48
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IMDb
6.8
/257/
Trakt
10
/4/
TMDb
63
/3/
John Nesbitt
John Nesbitt
Hugo Haas
Hugo Haas
Beverly Washburn
Beverly Washburn
William Talman
William Talman
Nestor Paiva
Nestor Paiva
Michael Landon
Michael Landon
Harry Townes
Harry Townes
Steven Geray
Steven Geray

April 8, 1956, midnight 0.0

S1E1 - The Golden Junkman

True story of an Armenian immigrant who overcomes all odds to become a wealthy and educated man: after his wife's death, he rears his beloved sons in old-world simplicity, only to have them turn on him and call him an ignorant peddler. Hurt, but not discouraged, he begins to educate himself by studying the encyclopedia and ultimately returns to college to earn his degree and the respect of his children. A hardworking, old-world immigrant raises two sons by himself while becoming very succesfull in the junkyard business. His sons attend the best college, but to the father's dismay, they resent and are embarrassed by his crude style and mannerisms. Undaunted, the man sends himself to college and proves to be a brilliant student with an enclyclopedic mind. The family is lovingly reunited when the boys see their father for the kind, loving, generous, happy, well-liked man that he has become.
April 15, 1956, midnight 0.0

S1E2 - Man with a Beard

April 22, 1956, midnight 0.0

S1E3 - Captain from Kopenick

Based on a real scandal where a cobbler posing as a captain absconded with the treasury of a Berlin suburb in 1906.
April 29, 1956, midnight 0.0

S1E4 - Borders Away

The WW2 story of Captain Dan Gallery. He convinced his superiors he could capture a German U-boat. See the top secret preparation, the planning for booby traps, and the actual boarding and capturing of the U-505 German submarine. This harrowing feat led to the capture of the German code books which helped shorten the war.
May 6, 1956, midnight 0.0

S1E5 - The Mystery of Caspar Hauser

May 13, 1956, midnight 0.0

S1E6 - The Stepmother

May 20, 1956, midnight 0.0

S1E7 - Time Bomb

May 27, 1956, midnight 0.0

S1E8 - Emperor Norton's Bridge

June 3, 1956, midnight 0.0

S1E9 - The Man Who Believed in Fairy Tales

June 10, 1956, midnight 0.0

S1E10 - Harry in Search of Himself

June 17, 1956, midnight 0.0

S1E11 - Felix the Fourth

June 24, 1956, midnight 0.0

S1E12 - Smith of Ecuador

July 1, 1956, midnight 0.0

S1E13 - The Gingerbread Man

July 8, 1956, midnight 0.0

S1E14 - Joyful Lunatic

July 15, 1956, midnight 0.0

S1E15 - The Key

July 22, 1956, midnight 0.0

S1E16 - Grandpa Changes the World

Far more than courtroom drama, this TRUE STORY about how Alexander Hamilton, attorney to William Penn and the only colonial admitted to the English Bar, came out of retirement to defend a printer accused of libelling the Governor by printing the truth in his newspaper about his corrupt activities. The principals established in this case, as so eloquently argued by Hamilton, had a profound influence on the drafting of the Bill of Rights several years latter. ""Gentlemen, with an impartial, uncorrupted verdict we assure ourselves, our posterity, the right, the liberty of speaking and writing the truth."" As author and host, John Nesbitt says at the conclusion of this drama, ""The great footnote to this story, of course, lies in the Bill of Rights. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Old Andrew Hamilton that day in court was not so much defending his client with law that was already in existence, but was actually creating law that would not be clearly written down for generations to
July 29, 1956, midnight 0.0

S1E17 - Again the Stars

Network: CBS
Episode Runtime: 24 min.
Season Runtime: 1968 min.
Released: April 8, 1956
Last Air Date: April 1, 1958, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR

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