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31st episode of the 9th season of Studio One
"Babe in the Woods"
Studio One episode
Episode no.Season 9
Episode 31
Directed byTom Donovan
Written bySumner Locke Elliott
Original air dateMay 13, 1957 (1957-05-13)
Running time60 mins

"Babe in the Woods" is a 1957 American television play by Sumner Locke Elliott. It was the live television debut of Jody McCrea and one of the first television appearances from James Coburn.

Plot

A naive man arrives from New York.

Cast

Reception

The Des Moines Register said it was promising "but never really delivered."

Variety wrote "The comedy elements were fairly solid, a. lot of ’ them coming through the deliberate use of repetition. Of course, once the pattern was established, there could have been a tightening up toward the end of the show, and some other tangent Introduced. But the other elements of the* layout seemed to work out nicely."

The Montreal Star felt McCrea was "engaging but hardly up to the strain of soliloquy as well."

Another review declared it "had some wonderfully light moments before breaking down in the final stretch."

References

  1. "Jody McCrea, 22, film star's son, plays hick". The Buffalo News. 13 May 1957. p. 24.
  2. "TV's Betty Furness Out of Kitchen". The Des Moines Register. 14 May 1957. p. 7.
  3. "Studio One". Variety. 15 May 1957. p. 44.
  4. "Two tv quiz titans contrast composure". The Montreal Star. 14 May 1957. p. 26.
  5. Sokolsky, Robert L. (15 May 1957). "Looking and listening". Syracuse Herald-Journal. p. 30.

External links

Works of Sumner Locke Elliott
Novels
Plays
TV scripts
Adaptations
Radio
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