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Watching: Fireside Theater

7.2•1949-04-05•7 Seasons

Season 2

Episode 25

Seasons

Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Season 6 Season 7

Episodes

Smooth Fingers/Germelshausen

Vain Glory/Out of the River

The Spy/The Postmistress of Laurel Rim

Like Money in the Bank/Magic Skin

Scream in the Night/Troubled Harbor

Bandit, Banker and Blonde/The Wall

Heartbeat/Mardi Gras

Checkmate/Solange

The Night Owl/Another Road

Stagecoach Driver McLean/Cowboy's Lament

The Room/Epilogue

Sealed Orders/Battle Scene

The Pardoner's Tale

The Doll/The Bet

The Gambler/Threshold

Dinner for Three/The Vampire

The Devil's Due/Rendezvous

The Golden Ball/Just Three Words

Confession/Reprieve

Of Thee I Love/Double Jeopary

The Imp in the Bottle/The Stronger (restaged)

The Shot/The Red by the Window

Anniversary/Jungle Terror

A Terribly Strange Bed (restaged)/The Stronger (restaged)

Germelshausen (restaged)/Sealed Orders (restaged)

The General's Coat/Vain Glory (restaged)

The Tangled Web

No Strings Attached

Boys Will Be Men

Operation Mona Lisa

The Man Without a Country

The Human Touch/The Assassin

Dinner for Three (restaged)/The Devil's Due (restaged)

The Courting of Bell/Rendezvous (restaged)

Overview

Fireside Theater is an American anthology drama series that ran on NBC from 1949 to 1958, and was the first successful filmed series on American television. Stories were low budget and often based on public domain stories or written by freelance writers such as Rod Serling. While it was panned by critics, it remained in the top ten most popular shows for most of its run. It predated the other major pioneer of filmed TV in America, I Love Lucy, by two years.