The Best of Broadway

The Best of Broadway was a series of "Specials" that aired once a month (Wednesday night at 10 pm/9 Central) on CBS during the 1954-55 season. The shows were adaptations of classic Broadway plays and were broadcast live and in color. CBS made much of the fact that they were in color to promote their new color studio in New York. After one season of this show, and following Ford Star Jubilee, CBS backed off from color broadcasting in a big way until the mid 1960's. Pictured here the cast of the first program, The Royal Family (Nancy Olson, Fredric March, Helen Hayes, Claudette Colbert and Kent Smith), takes a bow.

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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 76493
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired September 15, 1954
  • Recent May 4, 1955
  • Network CBS
  • Average Runtime 45 minutes
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
  • Episode Screenshot Format 4:3 Screencap
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Season 1 September 1954 May 1955 9
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Name Number of Episodes Dates
Ronald Alexander 4 09/15/1954 - 02/02/1955
Gore Vidal 1 04/06/1955
Russell Crouse 1 01/05/1955
Howard Lindsay 1 01/05/1955
Philip Barry Jr. 1 12/08/1954
Felix Jackson 1 03/02/1955
Name Number of Episodes Dates
George S. Kaufman 3 09/15/1954 - 04/06/1955
David Alexander 3 10/13/1954 - 12/08/1954
Paul Nickell 2 09/15/1954 - 03/02/1955
Sidney Lumet 2 02/02/1955 - 04/06/1955
Philip Dunning 2 05/04/1955
Edna Ferber 2 09/15/1954 - 04/06/1955
Joseph Kesselring 1 01/05/1955
Howard Swope 1 01/05/1955
Franklin J. Schaffner 1 05/04/1955
George Kelly 1 02/02/1955
George Abbott 1 05/04/1955
Philip Barry 1 12/08/1954
B. G. DeSylva 1 11/10/1954
Moss Hart 1 10/13/1954
Herbert Fields 1 11/10/1954
Ferenc Molnar 1 03/02/1955

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