DuPont Show of the Month

1h 30min

Drama

Comedy

DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour anthology drama series hosted by June Allyson, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including Oliver Twist, The Prince and the Pauper, Billy Budd, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo.

Production Companies

Talent Associates

CBS Studios

Episodes

Cast

Crescendo

1. Crescendo

1h 30min

29th Sep 1957

A visiting Englishman takes a dim view of American culture. To overcome his skepticism, he is introduced to a wide variety of American musical styles.

The Prince and the Pauper

2. The Prince and the Pauper

1h 30min

28th Oct 1957

A poor boy and a prince exchange identities and lives while the villainous Captain of the Guard plots to take advantage of this.

Beyond This Place

3. Beyond This Place

1h 30min

25th Nov 1957

A young man returns to his birthplace for the first time since childhood and learns that the father he had believed dead is still alive — and in prison for murder.

Junior Miss

4. Junior Miss

1h 30min

20th Dec 1957

A musical version of the hit play.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

5. The Bridge of San Luis Rey

1h 30min

21st Jan 1958

In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge.

Aladdin

6. Aladdin

1h 30min

21st Feb 1958

Cole Porter's version of the story of Aladdin — his only musical written especially for television.

A Tale Of Two Cities

7. A Tale Of Two Cities

1h 30min

27th Mar 1958

A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.

The Red Mill

8. The Red Mill

1h 30min

19th Apr 1958

Wuthering Heights

9. Wuthering Heights

1h 30min

9th May 1958

The Member of the Wedding

10. The Member of the Wedding

1h 30min

12th Jun 1958

First air date

29th Sep 1957

Last air date

21st Mar 1961

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks