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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"THE PETRIFIED FOREST"

Directed By: Delbert Mann
Written By: Robert E. Sherwood, adapted by Tad Mosel
Produced by: Fred Coe
Air Date: 5/30/55
Stars: Lauren Bacall, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Hartman, Natalie Schafer, Jack Warden, Richard Jaeckel, Jack Klugman
Show: television version of hit Broadway play by Robert E. Sherwood, adapted for television by Tad Mosel, produced by Fred Coe, directed by Delbert Mann; set in Black Mesa Bar-B-Q at desert crosswords, as a patrons, owner and his daughter Gaby Maple (Lauren Bacall), and an unfortunate hitchhiker Alan Squier (Henry Fonda) are held hostage by fleeing killer Duke Mantee (Humphrey Bogart reprising his Broadway role) and his henchmen, with Squier signing over his life insurance policy to Gaby to fund her dream of traveling to France to paint, and then persuading Mantee to kill him; with Paul Hartman, Natalie Schafer, Jack Warden, Richard Jaeckel, Jack Klugman

Notes: One of first programs to use helicopter shots.