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((Infobox television
| director             = [[John Frankenheimer]]
| country              = United States
| network              = [[NBC]]
| first_aired          = ((Start date|1959|09|20))
| last_aired           = ((End date|1960))
))
[[Image:Samm2.jpg|right|thumb|300px|[[Barbara Rush]], [[John Forsythe]] and [[Larry Blyden]] in a scene from ''What Makes Sammy Run?'' on ''NBC Sunday Showcase'' (September 27 and October 4, 1959).]] 
'''''NBC Sunday Showcase''''' was a series of hour-long specials telecast in color on NBC during the 1959–60 season. The flexible anthology format varied weekly from comedies and science fiction to musicals and historical dramas. The recent introduction of videotape made repeats possible, and two 1959 dramas (''Murder and the Android'' and ''What Makes Sammy Run?'') had repeats in 1960.<ref name=glick>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140715092027/http://whatmakessammyrun.net/tv.htm "Sammy Glick on Television"]</ref>

On the heels of his Broadway hits ''[[The Pajama Game]]'' and ''[[Damn Yankees]]'', [[Richard Adler]] composed the opening ''Sunday Showcase'' theme music, titled "Sunday Drive" (a.k.a. "Sunday Showcase Theme").

==Premiere==
For the September 20, 1959 premiere, [[John Frankenheimer]] directed S. Lee Pogostin's ''People Kill People Sometimes'' with [[Zina Bethune]], [[Geraldine Page]], [[Jason Robards]] and [[George C. Scott]].

During the next two weeks, [[Larry Blyden]] had the title role in an adaptation of [[Budd Schulberg]]'s 1941 novel ''[[What Makes Sammy Run?]]''. The two-parter was directed by [[Delbert Mann]] with music by Irwin Bazelon.<ref>[http://whatmakessammyrun.net/NYTimes.htm Berger, Joseph. "Back to '59: Sammy Is Running Again." ''The New York Times'', April 6, 2005.]</ref> The   lost reel of this production was found in 2004:
:Originally presented on color videotape, the 1959 adaptation of ''What Makes Sammy Run?'' was rebroadcast the following year after which the tape was, presumably, reused or discarded. A black and white kinescope of the first hour has long been available for viewing at the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and Los Angeles, but the second half of the broadcast was, for many years, on the Museum's list of "lost treasures." In 2004, writer/director Robert Armin met with actress [[Dina Merrill]] to talk about the broadcast. When Ms Merrill, a Trustee of the Museum, learned that the second hour (in which she has her strongest scenes) could not be found, she contacted the Museum's curators, who then made locating the missing footage a priority. At their urging, the Library of Congress, which has a large collection of NBC footage, made a thorough search of its holdings and discovered eight film cans labeled ''Sunday Showcase'' which contained a complete kinescope of the entire two-hour broadcast. Now freshly restored, the New York branch of the Museum screened the teleplay before a packed house on April 6, 2005, with Dina Merrill and Budd Schulberg in attendance.  This is the first time the film has been viewed publicly since 1960.<ref name=glick/>

On October 11, 1959, [[Joan Crawford]], [[Helen Hayes]], [[Bob Hope]], [[Mary Martin]] and [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] were seen in ''A Tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt on Her Diamond Jubilee''.

==Science fiction==
For the October 18 telecast of ''Murder and the Android'', [[Alfred Bester]] scripted a teleplay adaptation of his cyber-crime story "Fondly Fahrenheit," first published in ''[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]]'' (August 1954).<ref>[http://www.philsp.com/homeville/msf/s16.htm#A584 Contento, William. ''Mystery Short Fiction: 1990–2006''.]</ref> The science fiction tale of a rampaging robot took place in the year 2359 amid futuristic sets designed by Ted Cooper. Produced by [[Robert Alan Aurthur]] with a cast of [[Kevin McCarthy (actor)|Kevin McCarthy]], [[Rip Torn]], [[Suzanne Pleshette]] and [[Telly Savalas]], the drama was reviewed by radio-television critic [[John Crosby (media critic)|John Crosby]] in his syndicated column:
:Despite the fact that the androids refer contemptuously to human beings as people who suffer from glandular disorders called emotions, Torn wants very much to suffer from these disorders himself. Eventually, he does. I have no intention of unraveling the whole plot which was not so much complicated as psychologically dense. If I understand him correctly, Mr. Bester is trying to say that having androids to free us of mundane preoccupations like work is by no means good for us. His humans are pretty close to being bums.<ref>Crosby, John. "Television Going Way, Way Out." November 11, 1959.</ref>
[[Image:Besterdeftly.jpg|right|thumb|250px|[[Julie Harris (American actress)|Julie Harris]] and [[Maximilian Schell]] in [[Alfred Bester]]'s ''Turn the Key Deftly'' on ''NBC Sunday Showcase'' March 5, 1960.]]
''Murder and the Android'' was nominated for a 1960 [[Hugo Award]] for Best Dramatic Presentation and was given a repeat on September 5, 1960, the Labor Day weekend in which that Hugo Award was presented (to ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'') at the World Science Fiction Convention in [[Pittsburgh]]. Bester returned to ''Sunday Showcase'' March 5, 1960 with an original teleplay, ''Turn the Key Deftly''. Set in a traveling circus, this mystery starred [[Julie Harris (American actress)|Julie Harris]], [[Maximilian Schell]] and [[Francis Lederer]].

==Awards presentation==
On November 29, 1959, ''Sunday Showcase'' presented ''The [[2nd Annual Grammy Awards]]'' with a stellar line-up of presenters and recipients that included [[Count Basie]], [[Meredith Willson]], [[Duke Ellington]], [[Frank Sinatra]], [[Ella Fitzgerald]], [[Van Cliburn]] and [[Stan Freberg]].

In June 1960, [[Sidney Lumet]] directed [[Reginald Rose]]'s two-part ''The Sacco-Vanzetti Story''. nominated for four [[Emmy Award]]s.

An episode of ''Sunday Showcase'' is available on a DVD from Shokus Video.

==References==
((reflist))

==External links==
*((imdb title|0052512))
*[http://www.classicthemes.com/50sTVThemes/themePages/sundayShowcase.html Classic Themes: ''Sunday Showcase'']
*[http://ctva.biz/US/Anthology/SundayShowcase.htm ''Sunday Showcase'' at CVTA with episode list]

[[Category:1950s American anthology television series]]
[[Category:1960s American anthology television series]]
[[Category:1959 American television series debuts]]
[[Category:1960 American television series endings]]
[[Category:NBC original programming]]

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