DuPont Show of the Month(1957)

series - first aired/released 1957-09-29 - audience 7.4

Drama, Comedy

Directed by Alex Segal, Bill Colleran, Daniel Petrie, Delbert Mann, John Frankenheimer, Marc Daniels, Ralph Nelson, Robert Mulligan, Sidney Lumet, William A. Graham

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.