Your Show Time

Your Show Time
Genre	Anthology Drama
Written by	Walter Doniger
Directed by	Sobey Martin
Presented by	Arthur Shields
Narrated by	Arthur Shields
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	26
Production
Producer(s)	Marshall Grant Stanley Rubin
Running time	26 mins. (approx)
Release
Original network	NBC Television
Picture format	Black-and-White
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	January 21 – July 15, 1949

Your Show Time is an American anthology drama series that debuted on NBC Television on the East Coast in September 1948 and then on both the East and West Coasts, as a network show, on January 21, 1949.

The show was produced by Marshall Grant (1910-1957) for Grant Productions and Stanley Rubin for Realm Productions. The series was hosted and narrated by Arthur Shields, aired on Friday evenings, and ran until July 15, 1949. The series was sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes, and was later syndicated as Film Drama in 1955 and Story Theater in 1956.

Filmed by Grant Productions at Hal Roach Studios, Your Show Time was American television's first dramatic series to be shot on film instead of being aired on live television or as a kinescope. The series Public Prosecutor was produced on film in 1947-48, for a planned September 1948 debut, but remained unaired until DuMont aired that series in 1951-52.

Your Show Time is also notable for being the first series to win an Emmy Award.

The show featured half-hour dramatizations of stories by renowned authors such as Guy de Maupassant, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Victor Hugo, Robert Louis Stevenson, , and Mark Twain. Other episodes were adapted from chapters of novels, such as The Bishop's Experiment, an adaptation of the section featuring the bishop in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables with Leif Erickson as Jean Valjean.

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