This NBC series was heard from 07/30/48 to 02/14/51. For most of the run the program had a 60 format, but there were a few 30 minute broadcasts. Many well known stars appeared on this series. Among them were John Dehner, Brian Aherne, Angela Lansbury, Marvin Miller, Lou Krugman, Paul Frees, Herbert Marshall, Preston Foster, and David Niven.
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NBC University Theater Vol. 1
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08/06/48 # 2 A Farewell To Arms w/John Lund, Lurene Tuttle
08/13/48 # 3 Number One w/Barry Sullivan, Wally Maher
08/20/48 # 4 Noon Wine by Katherine Anne Porter w/Beulah
Bondi, John Beal
08/27/48 # 5 The Romantic Comedians w/Albert Dekker, Georgia
Backus
09/03/48 # 6 Candide w/Eddie Bracken
09/10/48 # 7 Peter Ibbertson w/Joseph Schieldkraut
09/17/48 # 8 The Purloined Letter w/Adolphe Menjou
09/24/48 # 9 Gulliver’s Travel’s by Jonathan Swift w/Henry
Hull
10/03/48 #10 Lord Jim w/Brian Aherne
10/10/48 #11 An American Tragedy w/George Montgomery
10/17/48 #12 The History Of Mr. Polly by H.G. Wells w/Boris
Karloff
10/24/48 #13 They Stooped To Folly w/Paul Frees, Jane Webb
10/31/48 #14 Justice w/Nigel Bruce
11/07/48 #15 Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis w/Van Heflin
11/14/48 #16 Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham w/Brian
Ahern
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11/21/48 #17 The Short, Happy Life Of Francis McComber w/Preston
Foster
11/28/48 #18 A Passage To India by E.M. Forster w/Joseph
Shieldkraus
12/05/48 #19 Three Soldiers w/Dane Clarke
12/12/48 #20 After Many A Summer Dies The Swan by Aldus Huxley
w/Paul Henried
12/26/48 #21 Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll w/Dinah
Shore
01/02/49 #22 Main Street w/Vanessa Brown, Leon Ames
01/09/49 #23 The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck w/Jane
Darwell
01/16/49 #24 All The King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren w/Wayne
Morris
01/23/49 #25 The Ministry Of Fear
02/06/49 #26 Gulliver’s Travel’s by Jonathan Swift w/Henry
Hull, Parley Baer
02/13/49 #27 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding w/Tom Conway
02/20/49 #28 Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen w/Angela
Landsbury
02/27/49 #29 The Heart Of Mid-Lothelian by Sir Walter Scott
w/Maureen O’Sullivan
03/06/49 #30 Tales Of Edgar Allen Poe
1. Noseology, 2. Cask Of Amontillado, 3. The Fall Of The House Of Usher
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03/13/49 #31 The Pickwick Papers w/Charles Coburn, Ramsey
Hill by Charles Dickens
03/20/49 #32 The Marble Fawn
03/27/49 #33 The History Of Henry Esmond
04/03/49 #34 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte w/Derba Kerr (sp)
04/10/49 #35 Moby Dick by Herman Melville w/Henry Hull
04/17/49 #36 The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
w/Dean
Stockwell, Parley Baer
04/24/49 #37 The Way Of All Flesh w/Tom Conway
05/01/49 #38 The Mayor Of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy w/Reginald
Gardner
05/08/49 #39 The Red Badge Of Courage w/John Agar
05/15/49 #40 The Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad w/Brian
Ahern
05/22/49 #41 The Age Of Innocence by Edith Warton w/John
Sutton
05/29/49 #42 The Ambassadors w/Henry Daniel
06/05/49 #43 The Short, Happy Life Of Francis McComber w/Preston
Foster
06/12/49 #44 A Passage To India by E.M. Forster w/Joseph
Shieldkraus
06/25/49 #46 Brighton Rock by Gram Greene w/Richard Stapley
07/02/49 #47 The Ides Of March w/Henry Hull
07/09/49 #48 Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton w/Herbert
Marshall
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07/16/49 #49 Point Of No Return w/Kent Smith
07/23/49 #50 How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
w/Donald Crisp
07/30/49 #51 This Side Of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
w/Guy Madison
08/06/49 #52 The Death Of The Heart
08/13/49 #53 The Big Sky by A.B. Guthrie w/Robert Hutton,
Parley Baer
08/20/49 #54 The Crusaders by Stephan Heym w/Cesar Romero
08/27/49 #55 1984 by George Orwell w/David Niven
09/03/49 #56 Precious Bane by Mary Webb
09/25/49 #57 Penrod by Booth Tarkington
10/02/49 #58 Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James
10/09/49 #59 The House Of Mirth by Edith Warton
10/16/49 #60 Sister Carrie
10/23/49 #61 The Romantic Comedian w/Steven Chase
10/30/49 #62 Dark Laughter by Sherwood Anderson w/Whitfield
Conner
11/06/49 #63 Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis w/Paul Frees
11/13/49 #64 Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald w/John
Dehner
11/20/49 #65 For Whom The Bells Toll by Ernest Hemingway
w/Louie Jean Heiht
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11/27/49 #66 Point Of No Return by (John) J.P. Marquand w/Larry
Dobkin
12/04/49 #67 The Wild Palms by William Faulkner w/Wally Mahr
12/18/49 #68 You Can’t Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe w/Marvin
Miller w/Parley Baer
01/01/50 #69 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens w/Terry
Kilburn
01/08/50 #70 Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passo w/Ann Diamond
01/15/50 #71 The Ides Of March by Thorton Wilder w/Whitfield
Connor (Repeat of 02/12/49)
01/22/50 #72 At Heaven’s Gate by Robert Penn Warren w/Ted
Van Eltz
01/29/50 #73 Flowering Judas & Pale Horse, Pale Rider
by Katherine Anne Porter
02/05/50 #74 The Track Of The Cat by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
w/John Dehner
02/12/50 #75 The Light That Failed
02/19/50 #76 Victory by Joseph Conrad
02/26/50 #77 The Patrician by John Galsworthy w/Ramsey Hill
03/05/50 #78 Tono Bungay by H.G. Wells w/Whitfield Connor
03/12/50 #79 There Is No Convention by Rebecca West w/Norma
Vardin
03/19/50 #80 Angel Pavement by J.B. Priestly w/Gilbert Fyre
03/26/50 #81 Howard’s End by E.M. Forrester w/Elma Laughton
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04/02/50 #82 Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf w/Marion Richmond
04/09/50 #83 The Nazarene by Sholem Asch w/Dean Whitman (Not
network broadcast)
04/23/50 #85 A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James
Joyce w/Tom Dillion
04/30/50 #86 Sons And Lovers by D.H. Lawrence w/Ramsey Hill
05/07/50 #87 England Made Me by Graham Greene
05/14/50 #88 Protter Violet by Christopher Issuewood
05/21/50 #89 The House In Paris by Elizabeth Bowen w/Anne
Whitfield
05/28/50 #90 Imperial Palace by Arnold Bennett
06/04/50 #91 Gallion’s Reach
06/11/50 #92 Monsieur Vincent by (Best foreign film
1948)
06/18/50 #93 The Wild Palms by William Faulkner
06/25/50 #94 The Doctor Is Spite Of Himself
07/02/50 #95 The Chips Are Down by Jean-Paul Sartre w/Theodore
Von Else
07/23/50 #98 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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07/30/50 #99 Trent’s Last Case by E.C. Bentley
08/06/50 #100 A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court
by Mark Twain
08/20/50 #102 A High Wind In Jamaica by Richard Hughes
08/27/50 #103 Hedda Gabbler by Henry Gibson
09/03/50 #104 The Crime Of Sylvester Bonard by Anatol France
09/10/50 #105 Lost Horizon by James Hilton w/Raymond Hill
09/17/50 #106 Portrait In The Mirror by Charles Morgan
09/24/50 #107 Don Quixote
10/01/50 #108 Jonathan Wilde by Henry Fielding (30 minutes)
10/08/50 #109 Candide by Voltair (30 minutes)
10/15/50 #110 North Anger Abby by Jane Austin w/Virginia McDowell
(30 minutes)
10/22/50 #111 Pere Goric by w/Stanley Wawman (30 minutes)
11/02/50 #112 The Red And The Black
12/27/50 #118 The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky w/Ramsey Hill
(30 minutes)
01/03/51 #119 The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoi w/Whitfield
Connor (30 minutes)