Showcase Productions, Inc. was the original packager/producer of much of the prime time, live, dramatic, color, 60 minute and 90 minute programming which appeared primarily on NBC during the period between September 1954 and September 1957.

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"DARKNESS AT NOON"

Directed By: Delbert Mann, Associate Director Dominick Dunne
Written By: Robert Alan Arthur from the stage play by Sidney Kingsley (Arthur Koestler novel)
Produced by: Fred Coe
Air Date: 5/2/55
Stars: Lee J. Cobb, Joseph Wiseman, Oscar Homolka, David Wayne, Keenan Wynn, Nehemiah Persoff, Mikhail Rasumny, Ruth Roman, Henry Silva
Show: Adapted by Robert Alan Arthur from the stage play by Sidney Kingsley (winner of Drama Critics Circle Award, 1951), from the Arthur Koestler novel; produced by Fred Coe, directed by Delbert Mann, Associate Director Dominick Dunne, music composition and direction by Harry Sosnick; set in Russian prison during purge trials of 1930s, with prisoner Rubashov, an old Bolshevik, reviewing his life in series of flashbacks and tapped conversations with prisoner in adjoining cell; starred Lee J. Cobb, Joseph Wiseman, Oscar Homolka, David Wayne, Keenan Wynn, Nehemiah Persoff, Mikhail Rasumny, Ruth Roman, Henry Silva

Notes: Program closes with 58-second film clip of praise by Vice President Richard M. Nixon.