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'''''The Unexpected''''', aka '''''Time Square Playhouse''''' is a 30-minute [[US]] television anthology series  produced by [[Ziv Television Programs, Inc.]]<ref name=st>((cite book |last1=Erickson |first1=Hal |title=Syndicated Television: The First Forty Years, 1947-1987 |date=1989 |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |isbn=0-7864-1198-8 |page= 73))</ref> for [[first-run syndication]]. Thirty-nine episodes aired from March 5, 1952 to December 10, 1952.

== Casts ==
[[Herbert Marshall]] hosted the series.<ref name="etvs">((cite book|last1=Terrace|first1=Vincent|title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010|date=2011|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers|location=Jefferson, N.C.|isbn=978-0-7864-6477-7|page=1129|edition=2nd))</ref> Guest stars included [[Craig Stevens (actor)|Craig Stevens]], [[Raymond Burr]], [[Gale Storm]], [[Bonita Granville]], [[Marie Windsor]], [[Kenneth Tobey]], [[Marshall Thompson]], [[Hans Conried]], [[Tom Drake (actor)|Tom Drake]], [[Virginia Grey]], [[Jim Davis (actor)]], and [[Coleen Gray]].

Robert E. Lee and Jerome Lawrence were writers for the series.<ref name="st" />

==Episode list==
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 |Title=Calculated Risk
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 |Title=Fury And Sound
 |DirectedBy=[[Sobey Martin]]
 |WrittenBy=Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee, and [[Irving Reis]]
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|03|26))
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 |Title=The Slide Rule Blonde
 |DirectedBy=Eddie Davis
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 |ShortSummary=A gambler tries to stop a girl who's out to break the bank at a Las Vegas casino.
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((Episode list
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 |Title=Born Again
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 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|04|09))
 |ShortSummary=A man is tormented by a nightmare because he has been told that he is the reincarnation of another person.
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((Episode list
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 |Title=Split Second
 |DirectedBy=Eddie Davis
 |WrittenBy=((StoryTeleplay|s=[[Maurice Level]]|t=Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee))
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|04|16))
 |ShortSummary=A man's life flashes before him as he jumps from a bridge to his death.
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((Episode list
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 |Title=Mardi Gras
 |DirectedBy=Eddie Davis
 |WrittenBy=Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|04|23))
 |ShortSummary=While Ellen Martin is exploring New Orleans, the boat she's traveling on completely changes and her aunt disappears.
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((Episode list
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 |Title=Legal Tender
 |DirectedBy=Eddie Davis and Sobey Martin
 |WrittenBy=Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|04|30))
 |ShortSummary=A girl is determined to avenge the murder of her fiance by bank robbers.
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((Episode list
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 |Title=House Of Shadows
 |DirectedBy=Sobey Martin
 |WrittenBy=Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|05|07))
 |ShortSummary=Two young lovers are falsely accused of murdering a man in an old mansion.
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((Episode list
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 |Title=Eclipse
 |DirectedBy=Sobey Martin
 |WrittenBy=((StoryTeleplay|s=[[Selma Lagerlöf]]|t=Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee))
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|05|14))
 |ShortSummary=A tennis player accepts a bribe to lose a tournament and then pulls a double cross.
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((Episode list
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 |Title=The Professional Touch
 |DirectedBy=[[Paul Landres]]
 |WrittenBy=Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|05|21))
 |ShortSummary=A toxicologist, frustrated in love, plans a perfect crime as an emotional release.
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((Episode list
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 |Title=The Witch Of The Eight Islands
 |DirectedBy=Eddie Davis
 |WrittenBy=((StoryTeleplay|s=[[Robert Louis Stevenson]]|t=Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee))
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|05|28))
 |ShortSummary=A seaman tries to dispose of a magic bottle that can bring him only harm.
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((Episode list
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 |Title=The Eyeglasses
 |DirectedBy=Sobey Martin
 |WrittenBy=((StoryTeleplay|s=[[Doris Gilbert]]|t=Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee))
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|06|04))
 |ShortSummary=Elsa Carren finds a pair of eyeglasses through which she sees her husband planning to murder her.
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((Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=15
 |Title=Lifeline
 |DirectedBy=George Cahan
 |WrittenBy=Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|06|11))
 |ShortSummary=A fortune teller predicts the advent of a tall, dark and handsome stranger in the life of a spinster school teacher.
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((Episode list
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 |Title=False Colors
 |DirectedBy=Sobey Martin
 |WrittenBy=Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|06|18))
 |ShortSummary=A 7-year-old orphan, believing that his foster parents do not want him, stows away on an airliner.
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((Episode list
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 |Title=Leopards In Lightning
 |DirectedBy=Sobey Martin
 |WrittenBy=Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|06|25))
 |ShortSummary=An American private detective tries to solve the mystery of a lost safari.
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((Episode list
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 |Title=The Magnificent Lie
 |DirectedBy=Sobey Martin
 |WrittenBy=Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|07|02))
 |ShortSummary=A doctor attending an aged alchemist pays his debts in gold.
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((Episode list
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 |Title=The Perfectionists
 |DirectedBy=Eddie Davis
 |WrittenBy=Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee, and Mindret Lord
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|07|16))
 |ShortSummary=Two bank robbers are sheltered from the police by a woman who kills troublesome beaus.
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((Episode list
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 |Title=Slightly Dead
 |DirectedBy=
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 |ShortSummary=An actor, thought to have committed suicide, shows up at his own funeral.
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((Episode list
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 |Title=The Producer
 |DirectedBy=
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 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|08|06))
 |ShortSummary=Egotistical radio producer Kingsley Roacher browbeats his employees, especially assistant Charley Fowler, who plots a bizarre revenge.
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((Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=22
 |Title=The Emperor Of Nothing
 |DirectedBy=Sobey Martin
 |WrittenBy=Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|08|13))
 |ShortSummary=A practical joke is played on an old man who calls himself the Emperor of Biarritz.
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((Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=23
 |Title=The Perfect Mrs.Clesney
 |DirectedBy=
 |WrittenBy=[[Frank Burt (screenwriter)|Frank Burt]] and Robert Libott
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|08|20))
 |ShortSummary=A woman who witnessed her husband's death is led to believe that he is still alive.
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((Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=24
 |Title=One For The Money
 |DirectedBy=Sobey Martin
 |WrittenBy=Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|08|27))
 |ShortSummary=A girl devoted 25 years of her life caring for her invalid mother, foregoing love and marriage.
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((Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=25
 |Title=The Mask
 |DirectedBy=George Cahan
 |WrittenBy=((StoryTeleplay|s=[[Robert W. Chambers]]|t=Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee, and Budd Lesser))
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|04|03))
 |ShortSummary=A jewelry-store engraver whose face is always bandaged commits a robbery but no one can identify him.
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((Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=26
 |Title=The Doctor Prescribes
 |DirectedBy=Eddie Davis
 |WrittenBy=[[David Boehm]]
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|09|10))
 |ShortSummary=A doctor is so busy with his medical work he has little time for his wife.
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((Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=27
 |Title=The Puppeteers
 |DirectedBy=Sobey Martin
 |WrittenBy=Doris Gilbert
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|09|17))
 |ShortSummary=A woman searches for her fiance, a night-club puppeteer who has mysteriously disappeared.
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((Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=28
 |Title=The Woman Who Left Herself
 |DirectedBy=Eddie Davis
 |WrittenBy=[[Herb Meadow]]
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|09|24))
 |ShortSummary=A woman who tries to escape from an unhappy marriage.
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((Episode list
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 |Title=Blackmail
 |DirectedBy=Sobey Martin
 |WrittenBy=((StoryTeleplay|s=[[H. C. McNeile|Herman C. McNeile]]|t=Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee, and Edith Martin))
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|10|01))
 |ShortSummary=An actress is being blackmailed but she doesn't know by whom.
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((Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=30
 |Title=Mr.O
 |DirectedBy=Sobey Martin
 |WrittenBy=Roy Hamilton
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|10|08))
 |ShortSummary=Life gets complicated for an immigrant mechanic when he is discovered to be European royalty.
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((Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=31
 |Title=High Adventure
 |DirectedBy=Eddie Davis
 |WrittenBy=Stuart Jerome
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|10|15))
 |ShortSummary=A woman and her invalid son are menaced by a murderer at a remote mountain resort.
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((Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=32
 |Title=Bright Boy
 |DirectedBy=Eddie Davis
 |WrittenBy=[[Jack Laird]]
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|10|22))
 |ShortSummary=A young man double crosses his partners in crime and makes off with $28,000 in stolen loot.
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((Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=33
 |Title=Confidentially Yours
 |DirectedBy=Sobey Martin
 |WrittenBy=[[Robert L. Richards]]
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|10|29))
 |ShortSummary=A con man stranded in a small town, who decides to fleece the citizens.
 |LineColor=
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((Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=34
 |Title=Landscape In Black
 |DirectedBy=Sobey Martin
 |WrittenBy=Hugh Brooke and Robert L. Richards
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|11|05))
 |ShortSummary=A New York art dealer searches for an eccentric artist in a South American village.
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((Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=35
 |Title=Desert Honeymoon
 |DirectedBy=Eddie Davis and Sobey Martin
 |WrittenBy=((StoryTeleplay|s=Sam Ross|t=Doris Gilbert))
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|11|12))
 |ShortSummary=Alan Liveright, spending his honeymoon at a Palm Springs resort, searches for his stolen watch, a wedding present from his bride.
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((Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=36
 |Title=The Numbers Games
 |DirectedBy=Eddie Davis and Sobey Martin
 |WrittenBy=Hugh Brooke, [[Tom Gries]], and Patrick Whyte
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|11|19))
 |ShortSummary=An Army officer is haunted by the fear of death as he tries to capture an enemy position.
 |LineColor=
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((Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=37
 |Title=Beyond Belief
 |DirectedBy=Sobey Martin
 |WrittenBy=Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|11|26))
 |ShortSummary=A psychology student assists a scientist in the creation of a mechanical mind that's capable of fantastic feats.
 |LineColor=
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((Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=38
 |Title=Escape To Nowhere
 |DirectedBy=Sobey Martin
 |WrittenBy=[[Jack Laird]]
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|12|03))
 |ShortSummary=An unhappily married couple, touring Mexico, are menaced by bandits.
 |LineColor=
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((Episode list
 |EpisodeNumber=39
 |Title=Some Day They’ll Give Us Guns
 |DirectedBy=Sobey Martin
 |WrittenBy=((StoryTeleplay|s=[[Paul W. Fairman]]|t=Tom Gries and [[Harold Jacob Smith|Hal Smith]]))
 |OriginalAirDate=((Start date|1952|12|10))
 |ShortSummary=A German youth counselor befriends three European children orphaned by the Nazis.
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==References==
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==External links==
* ((IMDB title|id=tt0044301|title=The Unexpected))
*[http://ctva.biz/US/Anthology/Unexpected.htm ''The Unexpected'' at CVTA with episode list]

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