DuPont Show of the Month

6.8

1957•1h 30m

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

Seasons

10 Episodes • Premiered 1957

1. Crescendo

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.

2. The Prince and the Pauper

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

3. Beyond This Place

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.

4. Junior Miss

A musical version of the hit play.

5. The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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.

6. Aladdin

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

7. A Tale Of Two Cities

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.