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Your Show Time was an American dramatic anthology series broadcast by NBC in 1949. Hosted by Arthur Shields, it presented self-contained television adaptations of literary stories by writers including Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, and Arthur Conan Doyle. The series is notable in early television history because its dramas were filmed, rather than presented as live broadcasts or kinescopes, and it is primarily of interest to viewers studying classic television and literary adaptation.
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When was Your Show Time broadcast?
Your Show Time was an American dramatic anthology series broadcast by NBC in 1949. Each installment presented a self-contained television adaptation.
Who hosted Your Show Time?
The series was hosted by Arthur Shields. His hosting connected the separate literary stories presented in the anthology.
Which writers were adapted on Your Show Time?
The series adapted works associated with Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, and Arthur Conan Doyle. These stories were presented as individual television dramas.
Was Your Show Time a continuing single story?
No. It was an anthology series, so its episodes were self-contained adaptations rather than chapters in one ongoing plot.
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