About this season
NBC Sunday Showcase was a series of hour-long specials telecast in color on NBC during the 1959-60 season. The flexible anthology format varied weekly from comedies and science fiction to musicals and historical dramas. The recent introduction of videotape made repeats possible, and two 1959 dramas had repeats in 1960. On the heels of his Broadway hits The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, Richard Adler composed the opening Sunday Showcase theme music, titled "Sunday Drive".
Episodes (22)
1. People Kill People Sometimes
Aired 20 September 1959 • 60 min
2. What Makes Sammy Run?: Part 1
Aired 29 September 1959 • 60 min
3. What Makes Sammy Run?: Part 2
Aired 4 October 1959 • 60 min
4. A Tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt on Her Diamond Jubilee
Aired 11 October 1959 • 60 min
5. Murder and the Android
Aired 18 October 1959 • 60 min
6. Milton Berle Show
Aired 25 October 1959 • 60 min
7. The Milton Berle Special
Aired 1 November 1959 • 54 min
In this "lost" episode of 'I Love Lucy,' Milton Berle extends his engagement at a Las Vegas night club for an extra two weeks along with his bandleader Ricky Ricardo. When Milton's wife gets upset at him missing their anniversary, Ricky's wife, Lucy, assists Milton in a crazy scheme to help Milton's wife forgive him. In the process, they get mixed up with two mobsters as hilarity ensues.
8. The Light in the Dark
Aired 15 November 1959 • 60 min
9. The Practical Dreamer
Aired 22 November 1959 • 60 min
10. The Jimmy Durante Show
Aired 6 December 1959 • 60 min
11. The Indestructible Mr. Gore
Aired 13 December 1959 • 60 min
12. The Margaret Bourke White Story
Aired 3 January 1960 • 60 min
13. One Loud Clear Voice
Aired 17 January 1960 • 60 min
14. After Hours
Aired 7 February 1960 • 60 min
A romantic comedy by Tony Webster starring Sally Ann Howes and Christopher Plummer. Also starring Paul McGrath and Natalie Schaefer. A young man poses as a psychiatrist to win the hand of a young girl who seeks counsel for her premarital jitters.
15. The Devil and Daniel Webster
7.0Aired 14 February 1960 • 60 min
New Englander Jabez Stone is about to lose the farm, in a fit he tells his wife that he'd sell his soul to the devil for just about two cents! And of course the devil takes him up on it. Contract in hand, he offers Jabez the customary irresistible terms, seven years of good fortune.
16. Our American Heritage: Shadow of a Soldier
Aired 21 February 1960 • 60 min
17. Turn the Key Deftly
Aired 6 March 1960 • 60 min
18. The American
Aired 27 March 1960 • 60 min
19. Hollywood Sings
Aired 3 April 1960 • 60 min
22. The Millionaire's Mite
Aired 10 April 1960 • 60 min
23. The Sacco-Vanzetti Story: Part 1
Aired 3 June 1960
24. The Sacco-Vanzetti Story: Part 2
Aired 12 June 1960