TV one-offs, specials, pilots, TV movies etc in my collection

In his first appearance on network television, Edgar Bergen hosts a Thanksgiving Day special featuring three of his partners in ventriloquism - Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd and the lesser known Podine Puffington (a life-size doll that Bergen would use as a comedy dancing partner). Orchestra leader Ray Noble becomes upset when Charlie tells him that Edgar has hired someone else as a pianist (who turns out to be the beautiful Diana Lynn) to perform a solo. In the last scene, Edgar and Charlie are the put on trial for witchcraft in Colonial Salem, Massachusetts and sentenced to be burned at the stake before escaping with the help of a fetching Indian maid.

Salesgirl Joanie tries to impress a handsome man by joining a fitness club.

Advance man Brass McGannon is nearly arrested for passing counterfeit money while promoting his circus' next stop. Returning to the circus, he learns that the Treasury Department suspects someone in the circus is responsible for the bogus dough appearing wherever the circus visits and suspicion falls on the show's newest employees. Meanwhile the alcoholic sideshow barker falls off the wagon when his beautiful daughter returns unexpectedly.

Beautiful young Dagmar is torn between getting married and supporting her family by signing to host a new television show. The putative program sponsor wants to meet Dagmar to determine if her character is suitable to market his product, but his efforts are hindered by Dagmar's father and her cousin who insists on acting as her agent.

A second television concert of Wagner music conducted by Toscanini, in which a few of the selections played in the first concert are repeated.

Included on the DVD release of "A Star is Born" (1954), this is a live television broadcast of the world premiere. Described by various participants as the biggest world premiere in memory, even bigger than the Academy Awards.

An unsold pilot about a clumsy, unemployed dopey guy with a wife living with his in-laws.

A man who works for a sporting-supply company mistakenly orders surfboards instead of surfballs and must find a way to sell them.

While traveling in enemy waters, Captain Fathom and his crew detect an anomalous reading of radioactivity. The submariners investigate and discover a huge bomb lying on the ocean bottom. While Fathom fastens an explosive to destroy the atomic device, his ship is attacked by an enemy submarine. He orders the vessel to flee leaving the Captain and his team of scuba divers behind with a dwindling supply of oxygen in their tanks.

A young boy uses his esp to control a robot created by his wheel chair bound Uncle, and together they combat the forces of evil.

Overwhelmed by rats, a medieval town hires a magical piper who can rid the town of the pest in exchange for gold but the crooked mayor has no intention of honoring the deal.

Dancer, Choreographer, and Teacher Martha Graham offers insight into her theories about dance while the members of her world famous troupe display a number of their dance techniques in performance.

When a massive Soviet battleship negotiates the treacherous Oslo harbor without a local pilot, American counterespionage agent David Harding suspects that the enemy has developed a secret navigational tool and orders his operatives to find a local frogman to take pictures of the vessel's hull when the ship makes a goodwill tour stop in England.

A filmed version of Aaron Copland's most famous ballet, with its original star, who also choreographed.

Gene Kelly's first TV special finds him dancing with three European ballerinas; performing with two youngsters, Liza Minnelli "For Me and My Gal" and Cherylene Lee from "Flower Drum Song;" and dancing to a Carl Sandburg's "A Poem to Dance To," written for this show. Nelson Riddle contributes an original composition called "Jam Session" which serves as a production number. Gene performs "Singin' in the Rain" for the finale.

In Primrose, Arizona, no self-respecting gunfighter wants to ruin his reputation by killing the town's sheriff who's not only a coward but the slowest draw in the West too.

Television series pilot for a proposed series that purported to show the circumstances behind a famous unsolved murder. The victim this time out is Martin 'Mugsy' Heidel, a West Coast underworld boss who loses all his Hollywood friends when he is accused of murdering a small-time bookie. He vows to create a fabulous hotel, casino and entertainment hot-spot just across the border in Nevada and make it so lavish that the men and women who snubbed him will crave his affection again. When Mugsy plows all the profits back into the hotel, his criminal bosses are not pleased and Heidel is 'retired' in a hail of bullets from an unknown assailant in revenge.

A dramatic retelling of the climactic scene from "Oedipus Rex" through interpretive dance and music.

Ben Cousins (Don DeFore) plays "Daddy-O," a hapless suburban father in a sitcom of that name. He's frustrated by the idiocy of his show and wants to quit--but the money is too good.

Bobby Darin is joined by singer Joanie Sommers (in one of her first television appearances) and veteran comedian Bob Hope in this musical-variety special.

Edie Adams performs songs like "My Ship'' and "When My Sweetie Walks Down the Street."