The DuPont Show with June Allyson

The DuPont Show with June Allyson (also known as The June Allyson Show) is an American anthology drama series which aired on CBS from September 21, 1959, to April 3, 1961, with rebroadcasts continuing until June 12, 1961. The series was hosted by actress June Allyson and was a Four Star-Pamric Production.

The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Chuck Connors and Pippa Scott in the 1960 presentation Trial By Fear.
Also known asThe June Allyson Show
GenreAnthology
Directed byRobert Butler
Paul Dunlap
Paul Henreid
Arthur Hiller
Lamont Johnson
Don Medford
James Neilson
Jack Smight
Presented byJune Allyson
ComposerHerschel Burke Gilbert
Country of originUSA
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes57
Production
ProducersPeter Kortner
Stephen Lord
Running time25 mins. (approx)
Release
Original networkCBS
Picture formatBlack-and-white
Audio formatMonaural
Original releaseSeptember 21, 1959 (1959-09-21) –
June 12, 1961 (1961-06-12)

Overview

Allyson was the third woman in network history to host such a series, her predecessors having been Loretta Young and Jane Wyman. Like Young and Wyman, she not only hosted the series but starred in nearly two dozen of the fifty-seven produced episodes. Some of the best known actors appeared on the series, including then husband and studio boss Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Harpo Marx, Bette Davis, and Ronald Reagan.[1]

The Delaware-based DuPont Company also sponsored the DuPont Show of the Month, a 90-minute dramatic episodes which aired from 1957-1961. Allyson's series was filmed at Four Star Television Studios, a creation of Dick Powell as well as Ida Lupino, Charles Boyer, and David Niven.[2]

In the 1959-1960 season, The DuPont Show with June Allyson aired at 10:30 p.m. Eastern on Mondays after Jackie Cooper's sitcom, Hennesey, the story of a United States Navy physician. ABC aired Charles Bronson's Man with a Camera in this same time slot. NBC ran the second half of The Steve Allen Show, a variety program. In the second season, The DuPont Show with June Allyson ran at 10:30 p.m. on Thursday after Edward R. Murrow's Person to Person CBS interview program. There was little effective competition from the other networks in the Thursday slot. ABC aired Take a Good Look, a quiz program starring Ernie Kovacs, and NBC reverted the half-hour of time to the local stations.[3]

Episode guide

Season 1
Episode # Episode title Original airdate Guest stars
1-1"Ruth and Naomi"September 21, 1959Peter Mark Richman and Ann Harding
1-2"Dark Morning"September 28, 1959Bette Davis and Leif Erickson
1-3"The Opening Door"October 5, 1959Virginia Christine and Irene Dunne
1-4"A Summer's Ending"October 12, 1959Dick Powell
1-5"The Tender Shoot"October 19, 1959Ginger Rogers
1-6"The Pledge"October 26, 1959Mona Freeman and Don Keefer
1-7"Love Is a Headache"November 2, 1959Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez and Rodolfo Hoyos Jr.
1-8"Child Lost"November 16, 1959Steve Brodie and Ron Howard
1-9"Night Out"November 23, 1959Pat Carroll and Ann Sothern
1-10"The Girl"November 30, 1959James Coburn, Ellen Corby and Jane Powell
1-11"The Wall Between"December 7, 1959Kevin McCarthy
1-12"The Crossing"December 14, 1959Dolores Hart and Howard Petrie
1-13"No Place to Hide"December 21, 1959Robert Horton, Debra Paget and Don Rickles
1-14"Suspected"December 28, 1959Marjorie Bennett, Ann Blyth, and Gerald Mohr
1-15"Edge of Fury"January 4, 1960Dan O'Herlihy
1-16"The Trench Coat"January 11, 1960Phyllis Coates, David Niven, Ann McCrea, and Lyle Talbot
1-17"The Way Home"January 18, 1960Ronald Reagan
1-18"Moment of Fear"January 25, 1960Edgar Bergen and Stephen McNally
1-19"So Dim the Light"February 1, 1960Robert Culp and Ray Boyle
1-20"Trial by Fear"February 8, 1960Chuck Connors
1-21"Threat of Evil"February 15, 1960Pat Crowley
1-22"Escape"February 22, 1960Brian Donlevy, Frank Lovejoy, Margaret O'Brien, and Sylvia Sidney
1-23"Piano Man"February 29, 1960Vic Damone and Keenan Wynn
1-24"Sister Mary Slugger"March 14, 1960Rich Correll
1-25"The Blue Goose"March 21, 1960Joseph Cotten and Susan Oliver
1-26"Once Upon a Knight"March 28, 1960Jean Hagen and James Mason
1-27"Slip of the Tongue"April 11, 1960Virginia Grey and William Schallert
1-28"Surprise Party"April 18, 1960Mark Goddard and Myrna Loy
1-29"The Doctor and the Redhead"April 25, 1960Felicia Farr, Regis Toomey, and Mary Treen
1-30"Intermission"May 2, 1960Russell Johnson

Season 2
Episode # Episode title Original airdate Guest stars
2-1"The Lie"September 29, 1960Mark Damon
2-2"The Dance Man"October 6, 1960Anne Baxter and Dean Stockwell
2-3"Dark Fear"October 13, 1960Joseph Cotten and Juanita Moore
2-4"The Test"October 20, 1960Eduard Franz and Robert Knapp
2-5"Play Acting"October 27, 1960Steve Allen and Rhys Williams
2-6"The Women Who"November 3, 1960Van Johnson
2-7"I Hit and Ran"November 10, 1960Stephen Talbot
2-8"Love on Credit"November 17, 1960James Best and Carolyn Jones
2-9"The Visitor"November 24, 1960Harry Townes
2-10"A Thief or Two"December 1, 1960Lew Ayres and David White
2-11"Emergency"December 8, 1960Robert Vaughn
2-12"The Desperate Challenge"December 15, 1960Russell Johnson
2-13"A Silent Panic"December 22, 1960Harpo Marx, Ernest Truex
2-14"End of a Mission"January 2, 1961Steve Forrest
2-15"The Defense Is Restless"January 9, 1961John Lasell
2-16"The Guilty Heart"January 16, 1961James Franciscus and Susan Kohner
2-17"An Affair in Athens"January 23, 1961Michael Davis
2-18"School of the Soldier"January 30, 1961Lee J. Cobb, Robert Easton, and Dick York
2-19"Without Fear"February 6, 1961Edward Binns
2-20"A Great Day for a Scoundrel"February 13, 1961John Abbot and Hans Conried
2-21"The Old-Fashioned Way"February 20, 1961Charles Lane, Dick Shawn, Rebecca Welles
2-22"The Moth"February 27, 1961Joe Maross
2-23"The Haven"March 6, 1961Ralph Bellamy and Patricia Breslin
2-24"The Man Who Wanted Everything Perfect"March 13, 1961Russell Nype
2-25"The Secret Life of James Thurber"March 20, 1961Orson Bean and Adolphe Menjou
2-26"Our Man in Rome"March 27, 1961Rossano Brazzi and Eugenie Leontovich
2-27"Death of the Temple Bay"April 3, 1961Lloyd Bridges

References
  1. "Biography of June Allyson". Juneallyson.com. Retrieved March 21, 2009.
  2. Alex McNeil, Total Television, New York: Penguin Books, 1996, 4th ed., pp. 243, 422
  3. Total Television, television schedule, appendix
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