Startime (TV series)
Star Time, Star Time and Ford or Lincoln - Mercury Startime is an American television series that aired on the U.S. television channel NBC. The first episode of the weekly broadcast series ran on 6 October 1959, the last after a season on May 31, 1960. A total of 33 one-hour episodes were produced by Star Time.
Background
Star Time was a so-called Anthology, a series of episodes, each with completed actions. Characteristic of Star Time was that the individual effects of various genres, such as comedy, musical or drama originated. The individual episodes often had a musical focus, in addition to fictional materials from different genres show elements of a talent competition were in the series multiple integrated and example, individual stars such as Dean Martin presents its program, aligned or a classical concert under the direction of Leonard Bernstein sent.
Because Star Time was sponsored by the car company Ford or its subsidiaries Lincoln - Mercury, the series was known as Ford or Lincoln Mercury Startime Star Time.
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Actor
The following well-known actors, showbiz stars and other celebrities appeared among others in the series:
- Count Basie
- Ingrid Bergman
- Leonard Bernstein
- Cyd Charisse
- Maurice Chevalier
- Charles Coburn
- Tony Curtis
- Nat King Cole
- Joan Fontaine
- Rex Harrison
- Charles Laughton
- Jerry Lewis
- Dean Martin
- Vera Miles
- Richard Nixon
- Maureen O'Hara
- Andre Previn
- Tony Randall
- Ronald Reagan
- Mickey Rooney
- Frank Sinatra
- James Stewart
- Jane Wyman
Direction
- The result Incident at a Corner was staged by director Alfred Hitchcock, who also produced. Hitchcock had since 1955 a regular own television series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, which was called from 1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, but was shooting for two more series - Suspicion and Star Time - each a contribution.
- In each of a sequence of fictional action directors Franklin J. Schaffner, Delbert Mann and John Frankenheimer led Director, who began her career in television and film directors should do later as a career in Hollywood.
- Director of two sequences was Robert Stevens, a television director, who had turned, for example, a number of contributions for Alfred Hitchcock's TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.