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4.7/10 TV Genre Anthology | 8.9/10 IMDb First episode date 1949 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Best Film Made For & Viewed On Television In 1949 Similar The Bigelow Theatre, The Kaiser Aluminum Hour, Ford Theatre, The Alan Young Show, Pulitzer Prize Playhouse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Silver Theatre is a television series that was broadcast on the CBS television network from 1949 to 1950. Hosted by Conrad Nagel, it was a liveanthology series consisting of dramatic teleplays about romance. It was sponsored by the International Silver Company. Per an episode on the Internet Archive the series ran 25 minutes excluding commercials. There were a total of thirty-nine episodes.
It was nominated for one Primetime Emmy Award in 1949 in the category Best Film Made for and Viewed on Television or episode The Guiding Star.
Among its guest stars were Hugh Beaumont, Ward Bond, Ann Dvorak, William Frawley, Eva Gabor, Margaret Hamilton, Marsha Hunt (actress), Kim Hunter, Paul Lukas, Diana Lynn, Burgess Meredith, John Payne (actor), George Reeves, and Gig Young.
Seventeen filmed episodes of the program were leased and rerun as episodes of The Bigelow Theatre.