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- A live restaging of the 1955 TV production of the Broadway musical version.
- 3 short plays by Noel Coward: "Red Peppers," "Still Life," and "Shadow Play."
- This Thornton Wilder play, the story of life on Earth from prehistoric times through World War II as lived by Mr. And Mrs. Antrobus, their two children, and their house maid, Sabina, is filled with biblical and mythological references.
- Gabrielle Maple works in a dusty desert gas station-café, but yearns for the life of an artist in France, knowing there must be something finer than the provincial dead-end she is trapped in. A hitch-hiking writer, the disillusioned Alan Squier, appears and revitalizes her dreams of a better place, and finds his own sense of worth refreshed by this vital young girl. When Duke Mantee and his gang, wanted killers, show up and take hostages, Gabrielle falls in love with the poetic Alan, and Squier begins to see a way to give Gabby the life she deserves.
- Claire Boothe Luce's famous all-female play, about a woman whose husband leaves her, and how all her friends endlessly gossip about it and their own problems.
- A musical set before Civil War that centers around Evalina Applegate, daughter of a hoop skirt manufacturer, who sides with her Aunt Dolly Bloomer, an avid suffragette, and falls in love with a handsome slave owner, Jefferson Calhoun.
- Tchaikovsky's ballet, with Margot Fonteyn in the title role, presented on TV in color. Only a black-and-white kinescope of this production seems to survive.
- Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors.
- It's 1948 in Communist-controlled Prague, Czechoslovakia. A mind-reading act is commanded by the authorities to entertain at a private party. They discover what the authorities really want is for them to use their "powers" to expose spies and traitors to the regime. In addition, the anti-Communist Czech president has recently died a mysterious "suicide", and the officials want them to falsely swear in a statement that they knew the man and he was depressed and suicidal. Realizing the kind of trouble they're in for, they decide to escape using their best stage tricks.
- Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.
- The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense; a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing.
- Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.
- Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.
- In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
- English butler comes to the Wild West to work for newly rich hicks - finds it unbearable - but then comes to his senses.
- The story of US Army doctor Walter Reed and how he and his medical team helped to find the cause of yellow fever, which was responsible for the deaths of thousands every year, in Cuba after the Spanish-American war of 1898.
- Julius Caesar's advance into Egypt is halted when he meets Cleopatra, the sister of the boy pharaoh.
- During the Stalinist purges in Russia in the 1930s, a committed Bolshevik named Bubashov sits in prison, having been betrayed by the cause he fought for, and goes over his life via a series of flashbacks and coded conversations with other condemned prisoners in an adjoining cell.
- The owner of an automobile manufacturing company succumbs to his vain wife's pressure for him to retire--which he really doesn't want to do--and for them to take a cruise to Europe. On the cruise he learns some truths about himself, his wife, and their marriage.
- Adapted from the prize-winning Broadway play that featured two people and a four-poster bed, in which the couple enacts their marriage, from its day in 1897, until he dies, some time after she has died from cancer. It is a "love" that endured wars, an "other" woman, and the death of their favorite son.
- A shy young Newark librarian is secretly in love with a handsome and dashing bank clerk. She hatches a scheme to meet him in a bar, but in her nervousness she has too much to drink and winds up plastered. However, four patrons in the bar take pity on her and resolve to help her catch the man of her dreams.
- An original musical version of the classic children's tale.
- The King of Brandovia is overthrown and exiled. He winds up in America, where he gets a job as a dancing instructor. He falls in love with a commoner, Mrs. Candle, but he doesn't know that his former fiancé from Brandovia has also come to America, with a set of very valuable pearls that he gave her for safekeeping.
- An archduke who had been banished from Austria returns to Vienna for a reunion of his old fellow aristocrats and meets up with the former love of his life, who is now married to a psychoanalyst.
- A wealthy businessman is persuaded to run for U.S. President. He finds that he is constantly forced to compromise his principles in order to secure support and funding, and finally withdraws from the race. However, his experience has only made him more determined to reform the political system. ;
- The Overseas Press Clubs salute to Freedom of the Press.
- A stage concert with 13 of world's top opera singers and musicians, each performing a single number.
- 90 minutes of music performed by outstanding artists.
- A small-time traveling circus is stranded in a small Kansas town that has been devastated by a drought. The town government has subjected the circus to large fines in order to raise money to hire a rainmaker to alleviate the drought. The circus folk find a way to turn the tables on the town to raise their own money to enter the circus' trick horse in the county race.
- A tribute to the American reporter.
- A wonderful around the world look at the variety of talents and music performances.
- The story of the quest for freedom in Austria, with an emphasis on music. Highlights include scenes from Beethoven's opera "Fidelio".
- A ballet in three acts with music by Sergei Prokofiev, performed by the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company (n/k/a The Royal Ballet).
- Biography of Broadway impresario George M. Cohan.
- Hosted by Ernie Kovacs (who doubles as amateur magician whose acts fail miserably), a show that features world famous magicians from seven countries performing their best-known acts.