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Matinee Theater

22 episodes · 1944–1945 · CBS · Drama

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A CBS half hour of romantic dramas from 1944 and 1945, adapted from novels, plays and films and starring Victor Jory, with Martin Gabel as narrator. RadioGOLDINdex says it was really the same series as Dangerously Yours under a new name.

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Episodes

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1944

• Wuthering Heights October 22, 1944 · CBS · 30 min
  The first show, presented as a continuation of "Dangerously Yours" under a new name. A romance on the moors.
• Beloved Enemy October 29, 1944 · CBS · 30 min
  Dennis Reardon, an Irish patriot in the 1921 uprising, falls in love with an Englishwoman.
• My Favorite Wife November 5, 1944 · CBS · 30 min
  A man's wife, shipwrecked and declared dead, comes home to find he has married again.
• Penny Serenade November 12, 1944 · CBS · 29 min
  A couple's marriage nearly breaks under the loss of their children.
• The Scarlet Pimpernel November 19, 1944 · CBS · 29 min
  The Scarlet Pimpernel goes on rescuing the innocent from the guillotine.
• Mr. and Mrs. Smith November 26, 1944 · CBS · 30 min
  A young couple learns that the course of true love never runs smooth.
• Jane Eyre December 3, 1944 · CBS · 30 min
  Rochester and Jane at last find happiness.
• Hold Back the Dawn December 10, 1944 · CBS · 30 min
  A European refugee charms a lonely schoolteacher to get into the United States.
• Elizabeth the Queen December 17, 1944 · CBS · 30 min
  Maxwell Anderson's drama of the love and wars of Elizabeth and Essex.
• A Stable in Bethlehem...Pennsylvania December 24, 1944 · CBS · 29 min
  A "modern miracle play" for Christmas Eve.

1945

• Random Harvest January 7, 1945 · CBS · 29 min
  A British veteran with amnesia finds a new life and romance as a writer.
• Smilin' Through January 14, 1945 · CBS · 29 min
  An Irish love story of years gone by.
• Rebecca January 21, 1945 · CBS · 29 min
  A new bride arrives at Mr. de Winter's estate and finds the mark of his first wife, Rebecca, on everything.
• Beautiful Dreamer January 28, 1945 · CBS · 30 min
  The life of Stephen Foster.
• Reap the Wild Wind February 11, 1945 · CBS · 30 min
  Salvage and passion in the Florida Keys in the 1800s.
• Intermezzo February 18, 1945 · CBS · 30 min
  A famous violinist falls in love with his accompanist, though he is married.
• The Highwayman February 25, 1945 · CBS · 30 min
  A dramatization of the famous poem about a highwayman and his love.
• Rendezvous at Mayerling March 11, 1945 · CBS · 29 min
  A royal romance in old Vienna with a tragic end.
• The Pirate of Orleans March 18, 1945 · CBS · 29 min
  The loves of Jean Lafitte, the pirate of old New Orleans.
• 'Til We Meet Again March 25, 1945 · CBS · 29 min
  A French nun is drawn into the fight against the Nazi occupiers.
• The Love Story of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning April 1, 1945 · CBS · 30 min
  The love story of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
• A Man Named Jones April 8, 1945 · CBS · 29 min
  The last show of the series: John Paul Jones and a beautiful woman at the court of Catherine the Great.