HALLMARK HALL OF FAME: THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (TV)
Summary
One in this series of dramas presented by Hallmark. This installment presents an updated version of the Kaufman and Hart comedy about Sheridan Whiteside, an irascible, witty, and demanding television personality, who is the unwelcome guest of an Ohio family while nursing his broken hip. Whiteside feels his lifestyle threatened when his secretary, Maggie, falls for a local journalist named Burt Jefferson. The celebrity uses all his wiles and his friends to separate the pair -- only to realize at last that he must reunite the lovers. Includes commercials.
("Hallmark Hall of Fame" aired on NBC from 1952 to 1978; network affiliation varies after 1978.)
(Beginning with the live telecast of the opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors" on December 24, 1951, Hallmark has sponsored a series of dramatic specials which since 1952 have been titled "Hallmark Hall of Fame." From 1952 to 1955 Hallmark also presented "Hallmark Hall of Fame," a weekly half-hour dramatic anthology series hosted by Sarah Churchill. The first program, "Dr. Serocold," was televised in January 1952 under the title "Hallmark Television Theatre." This series also ran under the title "Hallmark Summer Theatre" in July and August 1952.)
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: November 29, 1972 Wednesday 8:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:24:57
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T80:0541
- GENRE: Comedy
- SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1951-1978
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - Hallmark
CREDITS
- Duane C. Bogie … Executive Producer
- Frank O'Connor … Executive Producer
- Bill Persky … Producer, Adapted by
- Sam Denoff … Producer, Adapted by
- Buzz Kulik … Director
- George S. Kaufman … Based on the play by
- Moss Hart … Based on the play by
- Roy Budd … Music by
- Orson Welles … Cast, Sheridan Whiteside
- Lee Remick … Cast, Maggie Cutler
- Joan Collins … Cast, Lorraine Sheldon
- Peter Haskell … Cast, Burt Jefferson
- Edward Andrews … Cast, Ernest Stanley
- Mary Wickes … Cast, Miss Preen
- Marty Feldman … Cast, Banjo
- Don Knotts … Cast, Dr. Bradley
- Michael Gough … Cast, Beverly Carlton
- Marcella Markham … Cast, Mrs. Stanley
- Anita Sharp Bolster … Cast, Harriet Stanley
- Kim Braden … Cast, June Stanley
- Frank Singuineau … Cast, John
- Elisabeth Welch … Cast, Sarah
- George Pravda … Cast, Professor Metz
- Tutte Lemkow … Cast, Zoltan
- Betty McDowall … Cast, Mrs. McCutcheon
- Al Mancini … Cast, Westcott
- Hal Galili … Cast, Delivery Man