6.2 /10 1 Votes
5/10 TV Original language(s) English Camera setup Single-camera First episode date 10 December 1950 Created by Jerry Fairbanks Cast James Dean | 7.3/10 IMDb Country of origin United States No. of episodes 27 (CBS)
15 (DuMont) Running time 25 mins. Final episode date 27 December 1951 Genre Anthology series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Also known as ''Bigelow-Sanford Theater
Hollywood Half Hour
Marquee Theater'' Networks CBS, DuMont Television Network Similar The Campbell Playhouse, The Stu Erwin Show, Treasury Men in Action, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars, Ford Theatre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Bigelow Theatre (also known as Bigelow-Sanford Theater and as Hollywood Half Hour and Marquee Theater in syndication) is an American anthology series originally broadcast on CBS Television and on the DuMont Television Network.
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This series is not to be confused with the similarly named The Bigelow Show, a musical variety program which aired on NBC and CBS in the late 1940s.
Broadcast history
The series aired on CBS on Sunday nights at 6pm EST from December 10, 1950 to June 3, 1951. There were no regularly featured actors on The Bigelow Theatre, but guest stars included James Dean, George C. Scott, Raymond Burr, Cesar Romero, Lloyd Bridges, Martin Milner, Gig Young, Ann Dvorak, Ruth Warrick, Gale Storm, and Chico Marx.
After the series ended on CBS, the show was retitled The Bigelow-Sanford Theatre and aired on DuMont on Thursdays at 10pm EST from September 6 through December 27, 1951. There were 27 episodes on CBS, and 15 on DuMont, however, some of the DuMont episodes were reruns of the CBS series.
Seventeen filmed episodes of the program were leased and run after having been shown originally on The Silver Theatre.
Episode status
Nine episodes are held by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, at least two of which (October 4 and the December 27 finale) aired on DuMont.
One CBS episode from February 11, 1951, "Agent From Scotland Yard", is held by the Library of Congress in the J. Fred MacDonald collection.