The Best Episodes of DuPont Show of the Month Season 1
Every episode of DuPont Show of the Month Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of DuPont Show of the Month Season 1!
DuPont Show of the Month is an acclaimed 90-minute television anthology series that aired monthly on CBS from 1957 to 1961. The DuPont Company also sponsored a weekly half-hour anthology drama series hosted by June Allyson, The DuPont Show with June Allyson. During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including Oliver Twist, The Prince and the Pauper, Billy Budd, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo.
Season 1 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "DuPont Show of the Month" season 1 is "Crescendo", rated 7.8/10 from 9 user votes. It was directed by Bill Colleran and written by Leslie Stevens, Peter Ustinov. "Crescendo" aired on 9/29/1957 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Prince and the Pauper".
7.8/10 9 votes#1 - Crescendo
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/29/1957
A visiting Englishman takes a dim view of American culture. To overcome his skepticism, he is introduced to a wide variety of American musical styles.
Director: Bill Colleran
Writer: Leslie Stevens, Peter Ustinov
- 8.0/10 12 votes
#2 - The Prince and the Pauper
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/28/1957
A poor boy and a prince exchange identities and lives while the villainous Captain of the Guard plots to take advantage of this.
Director: Daniel Petrie
Writer: Leslie Slote
- 6.2/10 11 votes
#3 - Beyond This Place
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/25/1957
A young man returns to his birthplace for the first time since childhood and learns that the father he had believed dead is still alive — and in prison for murder.
Director: Sidney Lumet
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/10 15 votes
#4 - Junior Miss
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/20/1957
A musical version of the hit play.
Director: Ralph Nelson
Writer: Will Glickman, Joseph Stein
- 7.3/10 27 votes
#5 - The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/21/1958
In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge.
Director: Robert Mulligan
Writer: Ludi Claire
- 8.0/10 38 votes
#6 - Aladdin
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/21/1958
Cole Porter's version of the story of Aladdin — his only musical written especially for television.
Director: Ralph Nelson
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/10 17 votes
#7 - A Tale Of Two Cities
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/27/1958
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
Director: Robert Mulligan
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#8 - The Red Mill
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 4/19/1958
No description available
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10 109 votes
#9 - Wuthering Heights
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/9/1958
No description available
Director: Daniel Petrie
Writer: James Costigan
- NaN/10 0 votes
#10 - The Member of the Wedding
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 6/12/1958
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A