| Alt Name: | Calling Scotland Yard |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Director: | Paul Dickson |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Num Seasons: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 13 |
| Executive Producer: | Edward J. Danziger Harry Lee Danziger |
| Company: | Danziger Productions, Ltd. |
| Channel: | NBC |
Adventure Theater is a dramatic anthology series that aired on NBC from June 16, 1956, through September 1, 1956. The series was produced in England in 1953, but was never broadcast there as a series.[1] It was also known as Calling Scotland Yard.
Actor Paul Douglas was the program's host[2] and introduced each of the two-act plays that composed the series. Each introduction involved a memento or souvenir that he had brought back from England. The story about the object led into that week's episode.
With the exception of Douglas, all of the featured cast members were British actors and included Hugh Latimer, Laurence Naismith, Anthony Nicholls, Derek Blomfield, Jack Watling, Maurice Denham, Robert Raglan, Hazel Court, Derek Bond and Kay Walsh.
Sponsored by the American Tobacco Company and Hudnut,[3] the series was broadcast in 1956 on Saturday evenings as a summer replacement for Your Hit Parade. The series returned in 1957 with repeats of the original 13 episodes.[4]
Some of the episodes were re-titled for broadcast in the United States.
| Tale of Three Women | |
| Producer: | Edward J. Danziger Harry Lee Danziger |
| Starring: | Gilbert Harding |
| Studio: | Danziger Productions |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
Two films were made from the series for release in UK theaters in 1954, each comprising three episodes from the series, linked by Gilbert Harding.
Featuring the episodes:
A man marries off his girlfriend to a wealthy diamond merchant then murders him.
A professional pickpocket makes his gift pay.
A jeweller robs himself and commits murder.