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ABC Stage 67

★ 7.3 130 votes 1966–1967 1 seasons · 26 episodes Returning Series ABC
Starring
Lee GrantArthur KennedyAlan ArkinJohn HustonAnthony PerkinsJames Mason
Starring
Lee GrantArthur KennedyAlan ArkinJohn HustonAnthony PerkinsJames Mason
Ratings per Episode
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About

ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and original musicals. It premiered on American Broadcasting Company on September 14, 1966 with Murray Schisgal's The Love Song of Barney Kempinksi, directed by Stanley Prager and starring Alan Arkin as a man enjoying the sights and sounds of New York City in his last remaining hours of bachelorhood. Arkin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama and the program was nominated as Outstanding Dramatic Program. Future programs included appearances by Petula Clark, Bobby Darin, Sir Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Peter Sellers, David Frost, and Jack Paar. ABC's effort to bring culture to the masses was a noble but unsuccessful experiment. Scheduled first against I Spy on Wednesdays and then The Dean Martin Show on Thursdays, the show consistently received low ratings. Its last production, an adaptation of Jean Cocteau's one-woman play The Human Voice starring Ingrid Bergman, aired on May 4, 1967. "Stage 67" was not actually a part of the primary ABC facilities in Los Angeles. It was produced at the old Monogram Studios backlot that was later sold to KCET.

All Seasons

Season 11966
7.81K2613h 52m
EpTitleRatingVotesRuntime
1The Love Song of Barney Kempinski7.32260 min
2Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn?7.14350 min
3Where It's At
4The Kennedy Wit
5Olympus 7-000060 min
6The Confession
7The Canterville Ghost6.223
8The People Trap9.616
9Evening Primrose7.431260 min
10Noon Wine7.223251 min
11The Legend of Marilyn Monroe6.813
12On the Flip Side7.11460 min
13The Brave Rifles
14A Christmas Memory8.828951 min
15The Trap of Solid Gold8.7860 min
16Sex in the Sixties60 min
17General Eisenhower on the Military Churchill
18David Frost's Night Out in London
19The Light Fantastic, or How to Tell Your Past, Present and Maybe Your Future Through Social Dancing
20C'est La Vie
21Rodgers & Hart Today7.41260 min
22Trilogy: The American Boy - Skaterdater/The River Boy/Reflections
23I'm Getting Married60 min
24A Time for Laughter: A Look at Negro Humor in America8.21360 min
25The Wide Open Door90 min
26The Human Voice7.21850 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Lee Grant Laura, Ruth
Arthur Kennedy Lieutenant Hammond, Narrator
The Doodletown Pipers Themselves
Diahann Carroll Self
Alan Arkin Barney Kempinski
John Huston Narrator
Anthony Perkins Charles Snell
James Mason Otto Hoffman
Jason Robards Royal Earle Thompson
Donald O'Connor Hermes

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