The 20th Century Fox Hour

The 20th Century Fox Hour

1955
★★★☆☆ 5.4/10
📺 2 Seasons
🎬 37 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 60 min/episode
Drama
The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.

Seasons

Season 1
1955 • 18 Episodes
The story opens with the family patriarch marching off to the Boer war at the turn of the century, and ends thirty years later, with the now-aged principal characters coping with the Depression and the bleak days following Queen Victoria's death.
Season 2
1956 • 19 Episodes
After his wife suffers a miscarriage during an earthquake in Japan, he finds that a young Japanese girl is parentless and homeless and decides to take her in. Hoping of course that his wife will overcome her grief over the loss of their own child. He is reassigned to Honolulu and there he encounters problems with his superior who is extremely racist against his daughter and causes trouble for him and his outfit.

Network

CBS

Production

TCF Television Productions

Keywords

anthology