DuPont Show of the Month

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.

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Seasons

1. Crescendo

Air Date: 1957-09-29

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

Air Date: 1957-10-28

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

Air Date: 1957-11-25

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

Air Date: 1957-12-20

A musical version of the hit play.

5. The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Air Date: 1958-01-21

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

Air Date: 1958-02-21

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

7. A Tale Of Two Cities

Air Date: 1958-03-27

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.

8. The Red Mill

Air Date: 1958-04-19

9. Wuthering Heights

Air Date: 1958-05-09

10. The Member of the Wedding

Air Date: 1958-06-12

1. Harvey

Air Date: 1958-09-22

2. The Count of Monte Cristo

Air Date: 1958-10-28

3. The Winslow Boy

Air Date: 1958-11-13

4. The Hasty Heart

Air Date: 1958-12-18

5. What Every Woman Knows

Air Date: 1959-01-28

6. Hamlet

Air Date: 1959-02-24

7. The Human Comedy

Air Date: 1959-03-28

8. The Browning Version

Air Date: 1959-04-23

9. Billy Budd

Air Date: 1959-05-25

1. Body and Soul

Air Date: 1959-09-28

2. The Fallen Idol

Air Date: 1959-10-14

3. I, Don Quixote

Air Date: 1959-11-09

4. Oliver Twist

Air Date: 1959-12-04

5. Arrowsmith

Air Date: 1960-01-17

6. Ethan Frome

Air Date: 1960-02-18

7. Treasure Island

Air Date: 1960-03-05

8. Years Ago

Air Date: 1960-04-21

1. Men in White

Air Date: 1960-09-30

2. Those Ragtime Years

Air Date: 1960-10-18

3. Heaven Can Wait

Air Date: 1960-11-16

4. The Scarlet Pimpernel

Air Date: 1960-12-18

5. The Prisoner of Zenda

Air Date: 1961-01-18

6. The Lincoln Murder Case

Air Date: 1961-02-18

7. The Night of the Storm

Air Date: 1961-03-21

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Rating

6.7/10

Release Date

1957-09-29

Episodes

34 (4 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Production Companies

Talent Associates

CBS Studios