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The Adventures Of Long John Silver
$56.00A TV series about the Long John Silver character from Treasure Island. It was made in 1954 in colour in Australia for the American and British markets before the development of Australian television.
Long John Silver is the proud captain of his own ship and his own crew. He and his buccaneer cruise around the Caribbean and often stay on the side of the English and fight the French and Spanish.
After the long and dangerous adventures, he and his crew rest in the tavern of Miss Purity.
This series aired in the United States first on Syndicated basis in 1956, but not on a regular basis and completely random as part of another show. Several episodes were edited together and shown as movies in the cinemas under the titles: Under The Black Flag and South Sea Pirates.
After that it was sold to the ITV Network in the UK, and aired in 1957. In 1958 Australian ABC screened the series as part of Children’s TV Club show.
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Colt .45
$25.00 – $60.00Colt .45 is an American Western series which aired on ABC between October 1957 and September 1960.
The half-hour program is loosely based on the 1950 Warner Bros. film of the same name, starring Randolph Scott. Colt .45 was part of the William T. Orr-produced array of westerns which Warner produced for ABC in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Alcoa Theatre
$48.00Alcoa Theatre is a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on alternate Monday nights from October 7, 1957 to September 16, 1960. The program also aired under the title Turn of Fate, with the stories depicting the difficulties faced by individuals who are suddenly thrust into unexpected and perilous dangers. Alcoa Theatre was syndicated together with Goodyear Theatre as Award Theatre.
In 1955, The Alcoa Hour premiered in a one-hour format aired on Sunday nights, but it was reduced to 30 minutes, retitled Alcoa Theatre, and moved to Monday evening in 1957. The show employed an alternating rotating company of actors: David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell, Jack Lemmon and Charles Boyer. Each appeared in dramatic and light comedic roles through the first season.
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Blondie
$56.00Blondie is the first of two TV series based on the comic strip of the same name. It first aired on January 4, 1957, on NBC. Although Penny Singleton had starred in most of the Blondie movies, producers chose Pamela Britton for the title role, with Arthur Lake playing the role of Dagwood Bumstead as he had in the Blondie movie series.
A pilot episode was filmed in 1954 with Hal Le Roy as Dagwood opposite Britton’s Blondie. The DVD for the 1957 version of Blondie was later released but only includes the first three episodes.
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Dick and the Duchess
$56.00Dick and the Duchess is a rare 1950s CBS situation comedy filmed and set in London.
In the story line, Jane’s family had difficulty accepting Dick both as an American and a “commoner”. Jane often got involved in a comical vein in Dick’s insurance cases. Beatrice Varley appeared in a supporting role as Mathilda.
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The New Adventures of Charlie Chan
$56.00The New Adventures of Charlie Chan is a British-American crime drama series that aired in the United States in syndicated television from June 1957, to 1958. The first five episodes were made by Vision Productions in the United States, before production switched to the United Kingdom under ITC Entertainment and Television Programs of America.
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Trackdown
$48.00 – $56.00Trackdown is an American Western television series starring Robert Culp that aired on CBS between 1957 and 1959. More than seventy episodes of this series were produced by Dick Powell’s Four Star Television and filmed at the Desilu-Culver Studio. The series was itself a spin-off of Powell’s anthology series, Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theater.
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The Flute and the Arrow (1957)
$15.00The Flute and the Arrow (Swedish: En Djungelsaga) is a 1957 Swedish drama film directed by Arne Sucksdorff. It was entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.
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The Golden Age of Comedy (1957)
$15.00A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton, W.C. Fields and Harold Lloyd.
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The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
$15.00Classic dramatization of America’s best-known case of a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder, and her road to recovery.
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Albert Schweitzer (1957)
$15.00This biographical drama/part-time documentary, narrative written by Dr. Albert Schweitzer and spoken by Frederic March, traces the life of Dr. Schweitzer (with actors playing the characters), from his birth in France up to about the age of 30 when he makes the decision to go to French Equatorial Africa and build his jungle hospital. The latter half of the film encompasses a full day in the hospital-village following the 80s-plus Samaritan in his daily rounds.
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