Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of doing a live TV drama just once and then forgetting about it, Broadway TV Theater repeats the same play on five consecutive nights over Manhattan's station WOR-TV. TV producers like the idea because it saves on sets, actors' salaries and programming. Actors like it because it gives them a chance to be seen night after night, just as in the theater, and eases the feverish pressures of TV acting...
...only imponderable was: Would televiewers like it? Last week WOR-TV announced the result of a research test by Pulse: Broadway TV Theater, in its first week on the air, drew a rating of 32.3, higher than that of any other New York TV dramatic show...
...with a surly reply or surly silence. Then suddenly he began popping up & down in his seat. "You people have been tormenting me!" he shouted to his passengers. "Now I'm going to torment you!" He stepped down on the gas pedal, ran past a red light at Broadway and 43rd Street, piled into a taxicab and a crush of other cars. In all, nine were injured (seven hospitalized), and nine vehicles damaged. Driver Bragg was unhurt, and the police let him go home. That night Bragg took sick, and three days later he died...
Musical Comedy Theater (Wed. 8 p.m., Mutual). Barkleys of Broadway, with Yvonne de Carlo, Alfred Drake...
...Chase (by Horton Foote) was Producer-Director-Actor José Ferrer's bid for five Broadway hits in a row.* But The Chase proves too much for him-or rather, too little. Laid in Texas, it tells of a violent killer who breaks out of the pen, and of a small-town sheriff's fierce efforts to recapture him without having to kill him or let the townspeople string him up. Since the desperado is almost more anxious to bump off the sheriff than to make a getaway, the situation is fairly knotty...