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 GREAT SEBASTIANS"

Directed By: Franklin Schaffner
Written By: Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
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Air Date: 4/1/57
Stars: Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Akim Tamiroff, Lisa Ferrady, Simon Oakland, Arny Freeman, Stefan Schnabel, Eugenia Rawls, Boris Tumarin, Anne Francine, Alan Furlan, Rebecca Sand
Show: television version of comedy-melodrama Broadway play set in Communist Prague in 1948, by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, adapted by them, directed by Franklin Schaffner; set in Prague in 1948, comedy-melodrama of vaudeville mind-reading team commanded by Communist general to entertain at a private party to use their talents to ferret out traitors; they are asked to falsely swear that the patriot Masaryk was depressed, thus excusing his apparent murder; they refuse, and escape by using their stage tricks; stars Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne (original stars of the Broadway play), Akim Tamiroff, Lisa Ferrady, Simon Oakland, Arny Freeman, Stefan Schnabel, Eugenia Rawls, Boris Tumarin, Anne Francine, Alan Furlan, Rebecca Sand, and large supporting cast.

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