• Air date: 17 Oct '57 6 episodes
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  • List of Episodes (6)
    • 1. The Green Pastures

      17 Oct '57
    • 2. On Borrowed Time

      17 Nov '57
      Suggested by Roark Bradford's ""Ol' Man Adam an' his chillun,"" based on the novel of the same name by Lawrence Edward Watkin.
    • 3. Twelfth Night

      15 Dec '57
    • 4. Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates

      09 Feb '58
      The children's story of the boy who wants to win a skating cotest in order to pay for an operation for his blind father.
    • 5. Little Moon of Alban

      24 Mar '58
    • 6. Dial M for Murder

      25 Apr '58