The Joseph Cotten Show
| The Joseph Cotten Show | |
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Philip Reed and Paulette Goddard in "The Ghost of Devil's Island", 1957.
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| Also known as | ''On Trial'' |
| Genre | Anthology |
| Directed by |
John Brahm Ida Lupino Robert Stevenson (director) Nicholas Ray |
| Presented by | Joseph Cotten |
| Starring | Joseph Cotten |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 31 |
| Production | |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Fordyce Enterprises Productions Revue Studios |
| Distributor | Studios USA Television |
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| Original network |
NBC CBS |
| Picture format | Black-and-white |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | September 14, 1956 – September 13, 1957 |
The Joseph Cotten Show (also known as On Trial) is an American anthology series hosted by and occasionally starring Joseph Cotten. The series, which first aired on NBC, aired 31 episodes from September 14, 1956, to September 13, 1957. Four other new episodes were broadcast on CBS in Summer 1959.
Cotten appeared in different roles in fifteen episodes, including the title character in the series premiere, "The Trial of Edward Pritchard", the story of a physician of questionable background in Glasgow, Scotland, who is accused of having poisoned his wife and mother-in-law and who claimed to have been a personal friend of the Italian revolutionary Garibaldi.
Virginia Gregg starred twice in historical roles, first as Mary Surratt, the woman hanged in the conspiracy case stemming from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, in the 1956 episode "The Mary Surratt Case", directed by Ida Lupino. Cotten appeared with Gregg in the role of Robert Westwood. Gregg also portrayed Frances Adeline Miller Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William Henry Seward, who was stabbed the same night that Lincoln was murdered. Cotten played Seward in this 1957 episode entitled "The Freeman Case". This episode is not about the attack on Seward but about a legal case that the attorney Seward handled on behalf of the African American Willie Freeman, who was found guilty but insane of the murders of a white farm family. The prosecutor in the trial was John Van Buren, son of former U.S. President Martin Van Buren.
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