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The 20th Century Fox Hour (1955)

The 20th Century Fox Hour poster
Genre
anthology series, drama television series
Country
United States
Length
2 seasons, 37 episodes
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a TV anthology series that adapts stories from the 20th Century Fox movie library into hour-long episodes. Each installment presents a self-contained drama with different characters and settings.

classicmelodramatictheatricalnostalgicrestrainedformalepisodicmid-century

What happens

The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars (its title when the series was originally syndicated after 1957). The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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