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Summary
Alcoa 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.
Cast
David Niven
Jane Powell
Jack Carson
James Nolan
Paul E. Burns
Robert Ryan
John Eldredge
Edward Binns
Lawrence Dobkin
Harold J. Stone
Susan Gordon
Arthur O'Connell
Charles Herbert
Angie Dickinson
Whit Bissell
Jon Shepodd
Sam Flint
Kort Falkenberg
Stuart Whitman
Steven Geray
Paul Busch
John Stephenson
Charles Boyer
Judith Braun
Richard Hale
Nestor Paiva
Fredd Wayne
John Reach
Fran Keegan
Douglas Dick
Virginia Gregg
Harry Jackson
Edward Platt
Bill Schallert
David Janssen
James Flavin
Craig Duncan
Marjorie Bennett
John Cliff
Catherine McLeod
John Morley
Malcolm Atterbury
Thomas E. Jackson
Jack Lemmon
Doe Avedon
Lana Wood
Ross Elliott
John Gallaudet
Bruce MacFarlane
Sol Gorss
Barbara Lawrence
Richard Long
Keye Luke
Agnes Moorehead
Read Morgan
Eve McVeagh
Don Grady
Dale Van Sickel
George Maharis
Mason Curry
John Dehner
Whitney Blake
Kathryn Card
Gerald Mohr
Russ Conway
Richard Reeves
Henry Silva
Russell Thorson
Eugene Iglesias
Richard Jaeckel
Adam Williams
Joe Mantell
Marvin Kaplan
Irene Ryan
Dick York
Jeremy Slate
Willis Bouchey
Lillian Bronson
Frank Ferguson
Joseph Mell
Gayle Kellogg
Douglas Fowley
John Indrisano
Lester Dorr
Frances Rafferty
Ellen Corby
Byron Foulger
George Eldredge
Patrick Macnee
Robert Vaughn
Paul Bryar
Crew
Status:
Ended
Original Language:
English
Type:
Scripted
Networks:
Keywords
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