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Oboler Comedy Theatre: With Arch Oboler, Louis Merrill, Hans Conried, Olive Deering. A comedy anthology with a supernatural twist, inspired largely by Arch Obler's Lights Out radio drama, which featured tales of horror and suspense.
- Comedy
- 30
- 1949-09-23
- Arch Oboler, Louis Merrill, Hans Conried
Arch Oboler's Comedy Theater was an early American comedy television program. It aired on ABC for six episodes from September 23 to November 4, 1949. It was an anthology series of sorts, with each episode featuring a different set of characters.
While attending a professor's lecture on love, the attendees daydream their own fantasies. These fantasies are presented in mini-episodes: Love in the movies, Soldier in Paris on an 8-hour pass, love in songwriting, love over the phone, the secret wedding of an actor couple.
Love, Love, Love: Directed by Arch Oboler. With Florence Bates, Gloria Blondell, Nan Boardman, Hans Conried. While attending a professor's lecture on love, the attendees daydream their own fantasies.
- Arch Oboler
- 1949-10-07
- Comedy
- Florence Bates, Gloria Blondell, Nan Boardman
Nov 18, 2013 · There is nothing wrong with Oboler Comedy Theatre(1949), except that it is rarely funny and is almost unwatchable. Oboler basically films some of his comic radio plays without any eye towards adapting them to a visual medium, directing with a visual style so static that he makes Herschel Gordon Lewis look like Max Ophüls.
A comedy anthology with a supernatural twist, inspired largely by Arch Obler's Lights Out radio drama, which featured tales of horror and suspense.
On screen, O'Brian debuted as Sailor in William Beaudine 's drama Kidnapped (1948), while for television he made his debut in Arch Oboler 's anthology series Oboler's Comedy Theatre (1949).
