- Your Show Time
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Your Show Time " was a midseason replacementtelevision anthology series that debuted onNBC in January of 1949 and ran until late summer.Arthur Shields was the host and narrator.The show featured half-hour dramatizations of stories by renowned authors such as
Guy de Maupassant ,Charles Dickens ,Arthur Conan Doyle ,Victor Hugo ,Robert Louis Stevenson ,Frank Stockton andMark Twain . Other episodes were adapted from chapters of novels, such as "The Bishop's Experiment", an adaptation of the section featuring the bishop in Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables ".The show featured appearances by such actors as
Julie Adams ,Robert Alda ,Evelyn Ankers ,Morris Carnovsky ,Melville Cooper ,William Frawley ,Eva Gabor ,Hurd Hatfield ,Hugo Haas ,Sterling Holloway ,Alan Napier ,Dan O'Herlihy andSelena Royle .Awards
One episode, "
The Necklace ", from de Maupassant's short story, won anEmmy Award in 1950.External links
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