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'''''Appointment with Adventure''''' is a half-hour adventure/dramatic anthology [[television]] series broadcast live on [[CBS]] from 1955 to 1956. The program has no host. It aired at 10 p.m. EST on the Sunday evening schedule between the better known ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' and ''What's My Line?'' quiz show. It ran opposite ''[[The Loretta Young Show]]'' on [[NBC]] and ''Life Begins at Eighty, a panel discussion series hosted by Jack Barry] on [[ABC]].<ref>Alex McNeil, ''Total Television'', 1955–1956 network television schedule, Appendix.</ref>
The series aired fifty-three episodes, having premiered on April 3, 1955, near the end of the regular 1954–1955 television season. It ran throughout the spring and summer of 1955 and began its fall run on October 2, 1955, and concluded the new segments on April 1, 1956.<ref name=imdb>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047713/episodes|title=Appointment with Adventure|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 21, 2019}}</ref>
Episodes centered upon wars in U. S. history as well as dramatizations from events from many places throughout the world, then and in the past. In the episode which aired on May 1, 1955, Polly Bergen, Dane Clark, and Hugh Reilly starred in "Rendezvous in Paris." Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, fifteen years prior to their television roles as Felix Unger and Oscar Madison, respectively, in ABC's ''The Odd Couple,'' appeared with Gena Rowlands, later on NBC's ''87th Precinct,'' in the September 4, 1955, episode entitled "The Pirate's House."<ref name=imdb/> Randall also appeared two months earlier in the ''Appointment with Adventure'' episode, "Caribbean Cruise."<ref name=imdb/>
John Cassavetes, the husband of Gena Rowlands, appeared with Elizabeth Montgomery, later the star of ABC's ''[[Bewitched]],'' and Tina Louise, later of CBS's ''[[Gilligan's Island]],'' in the segment "All Through the Night" on February 5, 1956. Montgomery had also appeared in the November 20, 1955, episode "Relative Stranger." John Ericson and Dorothy Malone, later of ''Peyton Place,'' appeared on the [[New Years Day]], 1956, episode "Mutiny". Jason Robards appeared with Christopher Plummer and Constance Ford in the March 18, 1956, episode entitled "A Thief There Was."<ref name=imdb/>
The plethora of guests included several other well-known names and some future stars who were beginning their show business, including Philip Abbott, Edie Adams, Gene Barry, Carl Betz, Neville Brand, Patricia Breslin, Geraldine Brooks . Macdonald Carey, James Daly ("A Touch of Christmas" on December 25, 1955), Gloria DeHaven ("The Snow People"), Eva Gabor, James Gregory]], Pat Hingle, Henry Hull, Kim Hunter, Henry Jones, Louis Jourdan, Don Keefer, Phyllis Kirk, June Lockhart, Jack Lord, Lin McCarthy (four episodes), Peggy McCay, Biff McGuire (episode entitled "Number Seven, Hangman's Row"), [Robert Middleton, Paul Newman, Patrick O'Neal, Patti Page (in "Paris Venture"), Betsy Palmer, Neva Patterson, Mala Powers, and Janice Rule.<ref name=imdb/>
Rod Serling, before his ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' series, wrote the episode "The Faithful Pilgrimage", which stars Theodore Bikel, having aired on April 17, 1955.<ref name=imdb/>
Forrest Tucker, later of ABC's ''F Troop'', appeared in the series finale with the unusually titled episode, "Two Falls for Satan".<ref name=imdb/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/appointment-with-adventure/show/4640/summary.html|title=''Appointment with Adventure': "Two Falls for Satan"|publisher=tv.com|accessdate=January 22, 2011}}</ref>
==References==
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The series aired fifty-three episodes, having premiered on April 3, 1955, near the end of the regular 1954–1955 television season. It ran throughout the spring and summer of 1955 and began its fall run on October 2, 1955, and concluded the new segments on April 1, 1956.<ref name=imdb>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047713/episodes|title=Appointment with Adventure|publisher=Internet Movie Data Base|accessdate=December 21, 2019}}</ref>
Episodes centered upon wars in U. S. history as well as dramatizations from events from many places throughout the world, then and in the past. In the episode which aired on May 1, 1955, Polly Bergen, Dane Clark, and Hugh Reilly starred in "Rendezvous in Paris." Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, fifteen years prior to their television roles as Felix Unger and Oscar Madison, respectively, in ABC's ''The Odd Couple,'' appeared with Gena Rowlands, later on NBC's ''87th Precinct,'' in the September 4, 1955, episode entitled "The Pirate's House."<ref name=imdb/> Randall also appeared two months earlier in the ''Appointment with Adventure'' episode, "Caribbean Cruise."<ref name=imdb/>
John Cassavetes, the husband of Gena Rowlands, appeared with Elizabeth Montgomery, later the star of ABC's ''[[Bewitched]],'' and Tina Louise, later of CBS's ''[[Gilligan's Island]],'' in the segment "All Through the Night" on February 5, 1956. Montgomery had also appeared in the November 20, 1955, episode "Relative Stranger." John Ericson and Dorothy Malone, later of ''Peyton Place,'' appeared on the [[New Years Day]], 1956, episode "Mutiny". Jason Robards appeared with Christopher Plummer and Constance Ford in the March 18, 1956, episode entitled "A Thief There Was."<ref name=imdb/>
The plethora of guests included several other well-known names and some future stars who were beginning their show business, including Philip Abbott, Edie Adams, Gene Barry, Carl Betz, Neville Brand, Patricia Breslin, Geraldine Brooks . Macdonald Carey, James Daly ("A Touch of Christmas" on December 25, 1955), Gloria DeHaven ("The Snow People"), Eva Gabor, James Gregory]], Pat Hingle, Henry Hull, Kim Hunter, Henry Jones, Louis Jourdan, Don Keefer, Phyllis Kirk, June Lockhart, Jack Lord, Lin McCarthy (four episodes), Peggy McCay, Biff McGuire (episode entitled "Number Seven, Hangman's Row"), [Robert Middleton, Paul Newman, Patrick O'Neal, Patti Page (in "Paris Venture"), Betsy Palmer, Neva Patterson, Mala Powers, and Janice Rule.<ref name=imdb/>
Rod Serling, before his ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' series, wrote the episode "The Faithful Pilgrimage", which stars Theodore Bikel, having aired on April 17, 1955.<ref name=imdb/>
Forrest Tucker, later of ABC's ''F Troop'', appeared in the series finale with the unusually titled episode, "Two Falls for Satan".<ref name=imdb/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/appointment-with-adventure/show/4640/summary.html|title=''Appointment with Adventure': "Two Falls for Satan"|publisher=tv.com|accessdate=January 22, 2011}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Appointment with Adventure}}
[[Category:Television]]
[[Category:Television Shows]]