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Prudential Family Playhouse

Prudential Family Playhouse

★ 6.0/10•1950•1h 0m•Drama
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Prudential Family Playhouse is an American anthology drama series that aired on live CBS from October 1950 to March 1951.

StatusEnded
Runtime1h 0m
LanguageEN
First Air DateOct 10, 1950

Episodes

E160m

Biography

An attractive young magazine editor convinces a well know artist/playgirl to publish her memoirs. The resulting consternation of her former lover, now a respectably married politician, is balanced by the editor falling for the woman in spite of his disdain for that type of woman.

Oct 10, 1950

E260m

Dodsworth

The story of Midwest industrialist who lets his youth obsessed wife bully him into retirement and a grand European tour, eventually seeing through her, her promiscuity, and the pretensions of European society and leaving for a civilized widow.

Oct 24, 1950

E360m

Call It a Day

Comedy about a day in the life of the Hilton family on the first day of spring and the romantic complications that ensue when the brother of a friend mistakes Mrs. Hilton for his prospective bride while daughter Cath mourns the end of her relationship with a married artist.

Nov 7, 1950

E460m

Three Men on a Horse

Farce about a greeting card writer with a knack for choosing the winners at racetracks. A group of gamblers kidnap him and force him to pick the horses for their profit. Little do his captors know that when he attends the track, his talent is ineffective.

Nov 21, 1950

E560m

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Story about 19th century English poet Elizabeth Barrett, a semi-invalid, who finds romance with fellow poet Robert Browning, much to the dismay of her controlling father.

Dec 5, 1950

E660m

Over 21

Middle-aged couple's life is turned upside down when the husband enlists in the army during WWII.

Dec 19, 1950

E760m

Burlesque

Vaudevillians Skid and Bonny are partners onstage and off. When success comes to comedian Skid, he develops an oversized ego and a taste for booze. With help from friends, he gets back on the stage and reclaims his place in Bonny's act and in heart.

Jan 2, 1951

E860m

Skylark

Sophisticated romantic comedy about a neglected wife who decides to divorce her workaholic husband. She has an affair with a playboy that turns sour and decides to return to her husband.

Jan 16, 1951

E960m

Icebound

In Veazie, Maine where the people are cold, hard, and austere, live the Jordan family. The mother is a stern, sad old woman. Ben, the younger son, has more warmth in his nature than the rest of his family. His only real friend is a warm-hearted girl, Jane Crosby, a ward of his mother. When his mother is expected to die Ben returns. Ben's greedy, anxious relatives gather in the parlor of the Jordan home to await the death of the old lady and the reading of her will by the family lawyer. When the old woman leaves all her property to Jane, the family is more concerned at that than over her death. To win Ben back after he becomes enamoured of another girl Jane gives up the inheritance and Ben realizes that the two of them belong together.

Jan 30, 1951

E1060m

Berkeley Square

Fantasy time travel story about a man who is transported back to the 18th century while at his ancestral home in England. There he meets and falls in love with one of his ancestors, Helen a distant cousin. He can't tolerate the conditions of an earlier time so he returns to the present and finds out Helen died a maiden and he decides to remain unmarried and reunite with Helen in death.

Feb 13, 1951

E1160m

Ruggles of Red Gap

Condensed version of the classic tale of an English butler who is ""lost"" in a poker game by his noble English employer to a nouveau-riche couple from the American West. Once out west he charms the community and, ultimately, resigns from service to open a restaurant.

Feb 27, 1951

E1260m

One Sunday Afternoon

Biff Grimes, a dentist, marries Amy but thinks he should have married Virginia instead. When he meets Virginia a few years later she's become a materialistic social climber, married to a wealthy blowhard, and he realizes he made the right choice.

Mar 13, 1951

E1360m

The Bishop Misbehaves

Tale about a mystery reading, crime solving English cleric aided by his sister.

Mar 27, 1951

Actors

Jessica Tandy

Jessica Tandy

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