Adventure Theater is a dramatic anthology series that aired on NBC in 1956. The series was produced in England for broadcast in the United States.

Series structure

Actor Paul Douglas

Paul Douglas (actor)

Paul Douglas was an American actor, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as Paul Douglas Fleischer.-Career:...

 was the program host and introduced each of the two-act plays that comprised 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.

Cast

With the exception of Douglas, all of the featured cast members were British actors and included Hugh Latimer

Hugh Latimer (actor)

Hugh Alexander Forbes Latimer was an English actor and toy maker.He was educated at Oundle and Caius College, Cambridge, where he joined Footlights...

, Laurence Naismith

Laurence Naismith

Laurence Naismith was an English actor.Naismith appeared in films such as Carrington VC , Richard III , Sink the Bismarck! , Jason and the Argonauts , and Diamonds Are Forever . He also starred in a children's ghost film The Amazing Mr Blunden...

, Anthony Nicholls

Anthony Nicholls (actor)

Anthony Nicholls was an English film, television, and stage actor.-Life and career:Nicholls was born Sydney Horace Nicholls on 16 October 1902 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, the son of Florence and photojournalist Horace Nicholls. He served in the Royal Artillery...

, Derek Blomfield

Derek Blomfield

Derek Blomfield was a British actor who appeared in a number of film and television productions between 1935 and his death in 1964.-Career:...

, Jack Watling

Jack Watling

Jack Watling was a British actor.-Early life:Watling trained at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts as a child and made his stage debut in Where the Rainbow Ends at the Holborn Empire in 1936...

, Maurice Denham

Maurice Denham

Maurice Denham OBE was an English character actor who appeared in over 100 television programmes and films throughout his long career.-Life and career:...

, Robert Raglan

Robert Raglan

Robert Raglan was a British actor best known for his semi-regular role in Dad's Army, as Colonel Pritchard. He also starred in a number of other television series and films such as Fabian of the Yard and The Haunted House of Horror...

, Hazel Court

Hazel Court

Hazel Court was an English actress best known for her roles in horror films during the 1950s and early 1960s.-Early life:...

, Derek Bond

Derek Bond

Derek William Douglas Bond MC was a British actor.-Life and career:Derek Bond was born 26 January 1920 in Glasgow, Scotland. He attended Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in Hampstead, London. He saw active service with the Grenadier Guards in North Africa during the Second World War, for which he...

 and Kay Walsh

Kay Walsh

Kay Walsh was an English actress and dancer. She grew up in Pimlico, raised by her grandmother....

.

Broadcast history

The series was broadcast in 1956 on Saturday evenings as a summer replacement for Your Hit Parade

Your Hit Parade

Your Hit Parade, is an American radio and television music program that was broadcast from 1935 to 1955 on radio, and seen from 1950 to 1959 on television. It was sponsored by American Tobacco's Lucky Strike cigarettes. During this 24-year run, the show had 19 orchestra leaders and 52 singers or...

. The series returned in 1957 with repeats of the original 11 episodes.