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 LORD DON'T PLAY FAVORITES"

Directed By: Clark Jones
Written By: Jo Swerling and Hal Stanley adapting book from Patrick Malloy's short story
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Air Date: 9/17/56
Stars: Robert Stack, Kay Starr, Dick Haymes, Buster Keaton, Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong
Show: an original musical play, with Jo Swerling and Hal Stanley adapting book from Patrick Malloy's short story, with music by Hal Stanley and lyrics by Irving Taylor, directed by Clark Jones; story of small-time traveling circus stranded in a drought-stricken small Kansas town, subjected to huge fine by city fathers as a way of raising money to pay for a professional rain-maker, when the circus needed money to enter its trick horse in the county races, with circus duping yokels into paying the race fee to the circus ringmaster posing as the rain-maker; stars Robert Stack, Kay Starr, Dick Haymes, Buster Keaton, Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, large supporting cast.

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