Broadway Television Theatre

Broadway Television Theatre featured a new adaptation of a famous play each week "with a brand-new performance every night of the week".^[2] Christopher Plummer, who starred in two episodes, described the performances as "like doing summer stock with cameras".^[3]

The shows were performed live on WOR, and kinescope recordings were made for potential syndication to stations in other markets, with limited success.^[2]

Warren Wade created the program and was its producer.^[3] Ray Boyle directed the show.^[4]

Ann Dvorak starred in the title role in the premiere episode, The Trial of Mary Dugan.^[3]

The list of shows adapted^{[citation needed]} include:

• Angel Street, written by Patrick Hamilton (writer)
• Craig's Wife, written by George Kelly (playwright)
• Dark Victory
• The Front Page, written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
• Gramercy Ghost, written by John Cecil Holm
• The Hasty Heart, written by John Patrick (dramatist)
• Janie
• Kind Lady, written by Edward Chodorov
• The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, written by Frederick Lonsdale
• The Letter, written by W. Somerset Maugham
• Night Must Fall, written by Emlyn Williams
• Night of January 16th, written by Ayn Rand
• Reflected Glory, written by George Kelly (playwright)
• R.U.R., written by Karel Čapek
• Room Service
• Suspect by Reginald Denham
• The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood
• The Jazz Singer, written by Samson Raphaelson
• The Thirteenth Chair, written by Bayard Veiller
• Three Men on a Horse, written by George Abbott
• The Trial of Mary Dugan, written by Bayard Veiller
• Twentieth Century, written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
• Your Uncle Dudley, written by Howard Lindsay and Bertrand Robinson