Alcoa-Goodyear Theater - Small Bouquet

1959 · drama

16 Nov 1959 Director: Robert Ellis Miller Writers: Seton I. Miller, Arnold Peyser, Lois Peyser Howard Duff, Miiko Taka, Bibi Osterwald Reporter Joe Kane does a story on a recently deceased rock and roll singer, and finds a mysterious bouquet with a message in Japanese at his grave site. Investigating the source, he interviews people who knew him, including a studio executive and his agent, finally finding he had secretly married a Japanese girl in Tokyo. Alcoa Theatre was a half-hour American anthology series telecast on NBC at 9:30 pm on Monday nights from September 30, 1957 to May 23, 1960. For its first four months on the air, the title Turn of Fate was used as an umbrella title for Alcoa Theatre and its alternate-week counterpart, Goodyear Theatre.In 1955, The Alcoa Hour premiered in a one-hour format aired on Sunday nights, but it was reduced to 30 minutes, retitled Alcoa Theatre, and moved to Monday evening in 1957. The show employed an alternating rotating company of actors: David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell, Jack Lemmon and Charles Boyer during its initial season. They did not return in 1958, "and the program became a true anthology once again".