The Barbara Stanwyck Show was a lavishly-produced anthology drama television series which ran on
NBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...
in 1960 and 1961.
Barbara StanwyckBarbara Stanwyck was an American actress, a star of film and television, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors such as Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra...
served as hostess, and starred in all but four of the half-hour productions. The four she did not star in were actually
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episodes of potential programs which never materialized. Stanwyck won the
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in 1961 for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series.
Three of the shows in which Stanwyck starred were an attempt at
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a dramatic series of her own, in which she appeared as an
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woman running an import-export shop in
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.
The Desilu Studios series was directed by
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.
The Barbara Stanwyck Show was a lavishly-produced anthology drama television series which ran on
NBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...
in 1960 and 1961.
Barbara StanwyckBarbara Stanwyck was an American actress, a star of film and television, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors such as Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra...
served as hostess, and starred in all but four of the half-hour productions. The four she did not star in were actually
pilotA television pilot is a test episode of an intended television series. It is an early step in the development of a television series, much like pilot lights or pilot studies serve as precursors to the start of larger activity, or pilot holes prepare the way for larger holes. Networks use pilots to...
episodes of potential programs which never materialized. Stanwyck won the
Emmy AwardThe Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards , Grammy Awards and Tony Awards .They are presented in various...
in 1961 for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series.
Three of the shows in which Stanwyck starred were an attempt at
spinning offMedia spin-off is the process of deriving new radio programs, television programs or video games or even novels from already existing ones. Spin-offs work with varying degrees of success...
a dramatic series of her own, in which she appeared as an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
woman running an import-export shop in
Hong KongHong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a highly autonomous territory of the People's Republic of China, facing Guangdong to the north and the South China Sea to the east, west and south...
.
The Desilu Studios series was directed by
Stuart RosenbergStuart Rosenberg was an American film and television director whose notable works included the movies Cool Hand Luke , Voyage of the Damned , The Amityville Horror , and The Pope of Greenwich Village .-Early life and career:Born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, Rosenberg studied Irish...
.
The Barbara Stanwyck Show lasted one season. It aired at 10 p.m. Eastern on Mondays opposite
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's military sitcom
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on CBS and the second half of
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's
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on
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.
Expected DVD Release:
E1 Entertainment, formerly known as Koch Vision, is working with The Archive of American Television to present the DVD release of The Barbara Stanwyck Show - Volume 1. The set is expected to contain episodes that have been restored and re-mastered. The release date for the series is 10/13/2009.
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- Dana Andrews
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- Michael Ansara
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- Lew Ayres
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- Ralph Bellamy
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- Milton Berle
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- James Best
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- Charles Bickford
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- Joan Blondell
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- Edgar Buchanan
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- Joseph Cotten
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- Yvonne Craig
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- Hume Cronyn
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- Robert Culp
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- Andy Devine
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- Dan Duryea
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- Richard Eastham
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- Buddy Ebsen
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- Ross Elliott
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- Peter Falk
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- William Fawcett
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- Eduard Franz
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- Bruce Gordon
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- Virginia Gregg
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- Dennis Hopper
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- Robert Horton
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- Julie London
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- Stephen McNally
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- Gerald Mohr
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- Vic Morrow
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- Jack Mullaney
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- Jack Nicholson
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- Lloyd Nolan
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- Susan Oliver
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- James Philbrook
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