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DuPont Show of the Month Episode Guide
Crescendo
S1 Ep1
1.0
29th Sep 1957
A visiting Englishman takes a dim view of American culture. To overcome his skepticism, he is introduced to a wide variety of American musical styles.
The Prince and the Pauper
S1 Ep2
28th Oct 1957
A poor boy and a prince exchange identities and lives while the villainous Captain of the Guard plots to take advantage of this.
Beyond This Place
S1 Ep3
25th Nov 1957
A young man returns to his birthplace for the first time since childhood and learns that the father he had believed dead is still alive — and in prison for murder.
Junior Miss
S1 Ep4
20th Dec 1957
A musical version of the hit play.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
S1 Ep5
21st Jan 1958
In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge.
Aladdin
S1 Ep6
21st Feb 1958
Cole Porter's version of the story of Aladdin — his only musical written especially for television.
A Tale Of Two Cities
S1 Ep7
27th Mar 1958
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour anthology drama series hosted by June Allyson, The DuPont Show with June Allyson.
During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including Oliver Twist, The Prince and the Pauper, Billy Budd, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo.
The first episode of DuPont Show of the Month aired on September 29, 1957.
The last episode of DuPont Show of the Month aired on March 21, 1961.
There are 34 episodes of DuPont Show of the Month.
