The Eleventh Hour (1962 TV series)

*The Eleventh Hour*
The Eleventh Hour
	Jack Ging (right) as Paul Graham with guest stars Keenan Wynn and Linda Evans.
Genre	Medical drama
Starring	Wendell Corey; Jack Ging; Ralph Bellamy
Theme music composer	Cecil King Palmer; Harry Sukman
Opening theme	"The Film Opens"
Composers	Harry Sukman; Morton Stevens; John Williams
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	62
Production
Executive producer	Norman Felton
Producer	Sam Rolfe
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	45–48 min
Production companies	Arena Productions; MGM Television
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	October 3, 1962 –; April 22, 1964

The Eleventh Hour is an American medical drama about psychiatry starring Wendell Corey, Jack Ging and Ralph Bellamy, which aired on NBC from October 3, 1962, to September 9, 1964.^[1]

Plot

The Eleventh Hour was about psychiatry, both as it helped individuals deal with their problems and as it helped law enforcement agencies. The first season focused on psychiatrists Theodore Bassett and Paul Graham as they worked with people. The show's title related to "patients who came to them 'in the eleventh hour' — on the verge of breakdown".^[2] In addition to Bassett's clinical practice, he advised the police department and the state's department of correction. Many episodes had him evaluating people charged with crimes with regard to their mental competency.^[2]

In the second season, Bassett was replaced by L. Richard Starke, and he and Graham became more directly involved in cases.^[2]

Cast

Wendell Corey as Dr. Theodore Bassett (season 1)
Ralph Bellamy as Dr. L. Richard Starke (season 2)
Jack Ging as Dr. Paul Graham

Guest stars

Episodes

Season 1 (1962–63)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code
1	1	"Ann Costigan: A Duel on a Field of White"	Fielder Cook	Harry Julian Fink	October 3, 1962 (1962-10-03)	6701
2	2	"There Are Dragons in This Forest"	Boris Sagal	Theodore Apstein	October 10, 1962 (1962-10-10)	6715
3	3	"Make Me a Place"	Paul Wendkos	Harry Fink & S.S. Schwietzer	October 17, 1962 (1962-10-17)	6716
4	4	"I Don't Belong in a White-Painted House"	Don Medford	Harry Fink & Mark Rodgers	October 24, 1962 (1962-10-24)	6719
5	5	"The Seventh Day of Creation"	William Graham	Harry Fink & Eric Stone	October 31, 1962 (1962-10-31)	6711
6	6	"Of Roses and Nightingales and Other Lovely Things"	Walter Grauman	Theodore Apstein	November 7, 1962 (1962-11-07)	6724
7	7	"Angie, You Made My Heart Stop"	Boris Sagal	Harry Fink & Oliver Crawford & Dick Nelson	November 14, 1962 (1962-11-14)	6714
8	8	"Hooray, Hooray the Circus is Coming to Town"	Lawrence Dobkin	Harry Fink & Gene L. Coon	November 21, 1962 (1962-11-21)	6718
9	9	"Cry a Little for Mary Too"	William Graham	Harry Fink & Sheldon Stark	November 28, 1962 (1962-11-28)	6710
10	10	"Eat Little Fishie Eat"	Walter Grauman	Harry Fink & Leonard Kanter	December 5, 1962 (1962-12-05)
11	11	"The Blues My Baby Gave to Me"	William Graham	Harry Fink & Alfred Brenner	December 12, 1962 (1962-12-12)	6721
12	12	"Along About Late in the Afternoon"	Paul Nickell	Harry Fink & Gene L. Coon	December 26, 1962 (1962-12-26)	6705
13	13	"Which Man Will Die?"	Elliot Silverstein	Harry Fink & Leonard Kantor & Dick Nelson	January 2, 1963 (1963-01-02)	6735
14	14	"Where Have You Been, Lord Randall, My Son?"	Paul Nickell	Harry Fink & Alfred Brenner & Jerome Ross	January 9, 1963 (1963-01-09)	6704
15	15	"My Name is Judith, I'm Lost, You See"	Lawrence Dobkin	Harry Fink & Pat Fielder	January 16, 1963 (1963-01-16)	6725
16	16	"Where Ignorant Armies Clash by Night"	Byron Paul	Harry Fink & Raphael Hayes	January 23, 1963 (1963-01-23)	6734
17	17	"Advice to the Lovelorn and Shopworn"	Richard Donner	Sam Ross	January 30, 1963 (1963-01-30)	6732
18	18	"Why Am I Grown So Cold?"	Byron Paul	Harry Fink & Robert Bloch & Dick Nelson	February 6, 1963 (1963-02-06)	6729
19	19	"Like a Diamond in the Sky"	Jack Arnold	Harry Fink & Alfred Brenner	February 13, 1963 (1963-02-13)	6733
20	20	"Beauty Playing a Mandolin Underneath a Willow Tree"	Abner Biberman	Harry Fink & Pat Fielder	February 20, 1963 (1963-02-20)	6744
21	21	"A Tumble from a High, White Horse"	William Graham	Jack Jacobs & Dick Nelson	February 27, 1963 (1963-02-27)	6739
22	22	"Five Moments Out of Time"	Jack Smight	Harry Fink & Jerry de Bono	March 6, 1963 (1963-03-06)	6737
23	23	"The Wings of the Morning"	Jack Arnold	Harry Fink & Ellis Marcus	March 20, 1963 (1963-03-20)	6748
24	24	"Hang by One Hand"	Boris Sagal	Harry Fink & Mort R. Lewis & Ellis Marcus	March 27, 1963 (1963-03-27)	6746
25	25	"Something Crazy's Going on in the Back Room"	Robert Gist	Harry Fink & Jerry de Bono	April 3, 1963 (1963-04-03)	6750
26	26	"Everybody Knows You've Left Me"	Jack Arnold	Harry Fink & Alfred Brenner	April 10, 1963 (1963-04-10)	6747
27	27	"Try to Keep Alive Until Next Tuesday"	Don Medford	Theodore Apstein & Jerry De Bono	April 17, 1963 (1963-04-17)	6740
28	28	"I Feel Like a Rutabaga"	Richard Donner	Harry Fink & Ellis Marcus	April 24, 1963 (1963-04-24)	6755
29	29	"A Medicine Man in This Day and Age?"	John Peyser	S.S. Schweitzer	May 1, 1963 (1963-05-01)	6726
30	30	"The Man Who Came Home Late"	Don Medford	Harry Fink & Dick Nelson	May 8, 1963 (1963-05-08)	6745
31	31	"Pressure Breakdown"	Alex March	Harry Fink & Howard Dimsdale	May 15, 1963 (1963-05-15)	6756
32	32	"The Middle Child Gets All the Aches"	William Graham	Harry Fink & Hilda Rolfe	May 22, 1963 (1963-05-22)	6758

Season 2 (1963–64)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code
33	1	"Cold Hands, Warm Heart"	John Newland	Theodore Apstein	October 2, 1963 (1963-10-02)	6776
34	2	"The Silence of Good Men"	Unknown	Unknown	October 9, 1963 (1963-10-09)	6779
35	3	"Fear Begins at 40"	Leonard Horn	Unknown	October 16, 1963 (1963-10-16)	6760
36	4	"And Man Created Vanity"	Alan Reisner	Unknown	October 23, 1963 (1963-10-23)	6778
37	5	"Oh, You Shouldn't Have Done It"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Unknown	October 30, 1963 (1963-10-30)	6751
38	6	"The Bronze Locust"	Alan Crossland, Jr.	Unknown	November 6, 1963 (1963-11-06)	6770
39	7	"What Did She Mean by Good Luck?"	Don Medford	Harry Fink & Ellis Marcus	November 13, 1963 (1963-11-13)	6765
40	8	"This Wonderful Madman Calls Me Beauty"	James Goldstone	Unknown	November 20, 1963 (1963-11-20)	6771
41	9	"Four Feet in the Morning"	Jack Smight	Jerry De Bono	November 27, 1963 (1963-11-27)	6775
Part two of a crossover with Dr. Kildare
42	10	"The Bride Wore Pink"	Robert Gist	Unknown	December 4, 1963 (1963-12-04)	6731
43	11	"There Should Be an Outfit Called Families Anonymous!"	Robert Gist	Unknown	December 11, 1963 (1963-12-11)	6765
44	12	"La Belle Indifference"	Leonard Horn	Jerome B. Thomas & John D.F. Black	December 18, 1963 (1963-12-18)	6764
45	13	"Is Mr. Martian Coming Back?"	Richard Donner	Unknown	December 25, 1963 (1963-12-25)	6752
46	14	"My Door is Locked and Bolted"	Alan Buckhantz	Unknown	January 1, 1964 (1964-01-01)	6741
47	15	"Sunday Father"	Marc Daniels	Alvin Boretz & Lee Erwin	January 8, 1964 (1964-01-08)	6781
48	16	"How Do I Say I Love You?"	Leonard Horn	Unknown	January 15, 1964 (1964-01-15)	6781
49	17	"You're So Smart, Why Can't You Be Good?"	Marc Daniels	Unknown	January 22, 1964 (1964-01-22)	6788
50	18	"Who Chopped Down the Cherry Tree?"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Unknown	January 29, 1964 (1964-01-29)	6723
51	19	"Cannibal Plants, They Eat You Alive"	Leon Benson	Unknown	February 5, 1964 (1964-02-05)	6767
52	20	"The Only Remaining Copy is in the British Museum"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Henry Misrock & Madeline Misrock	February 12, 1964 (1964-02-12)	6792
53	21	"87 Different Kinds of Love"	Don Medford	Unknown	February 19, 1964 (1964-02-19)	6784
54	22	"The Secret in the Stone"	Bernard Girard	Pat Fielder	February 26, 1964 (1964-02-26)	6757
55	23	"A Full Moon Every Night"	Alan Reisner	Robert Presnell, Jr.	March 4, 1964 (1964-03-04)	7303
56	24	"Who is to Say How the Battle is to Be Fought?"	Marc Daniels	Unknown	March 11, 1964 (1964-03-11)	7302
57	25	"Prodigy"	John Newland	Unknown	March 18, 1964 (1964-03-18)	6774
58	26	"Does My Mother Have to Know?: Part 1"	James Goldstone	Unknown	March 25, 1964 (1964-03-25)	6769
59	27	"Does My Mother Have to Know?: Part 2"	James Goldstone	Unknown	April 1, 1964 (1964-04-01)	6793
60	28	"A Pattern of Sundays"	Seymour Robbie	Unknown	April 8, 1964 (1964-04-08)	7308
61	29	"To Love is to Live"	James Goldstone	Henry Misrock	April 15, 1964 (1964-04-15)	7312
62	30	"The Color of Sunset"	Leo Penn	Unknown	April 22, 1964 (1964-04-22)	7310

Production

The executive producer was Norman Felton.^[1] Herbert Hirschman was the producer, Fielder Cook was the director, and Harry Julian Fink was the writer.^[8]

Release

Broadcast

The Eleventh Hour aired on Wednesdays from 10 to 11 p.m. Eastern Time,^[2] following Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall and Espionage.^[9]

Home media

In June 2016, Warner Archive Collection released The Eleventh Hour- The Complete First Season on Region 1 DVD as a manufacture-on-demand (MOD) release.^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b McNeil, Alex (1996). Total Television: the Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present (4th ed.). New York, New York: Penguin Books USA, Inc. p. 255. ISBN 0-14-02-4916-8.
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^ Peros, Mike (October 11, 2016). Dan Duryea: Heel with a Heart. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 204. ISBN 978-1-4968-0995-7. Retrieved November 18, 2023.
^ ^a ^b Wagner, Laura (August 12, 2011). Anne Francis: The Life and Career. McFarland. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-7864-8600-7. Retrieved November 18, 2023.
^ Adams, Val. "2 Shows on Negroes", The New York Times, January 18, 1964, p.47 Retrieved October 27, 2018
^ Napier, Alan; Bigwood, James (November 2, 2015). Not Just Batman's Butler: The Autobiography of Alan Napier. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-2289-7. Retrieved November 19, 2023.
^ Sculthorpe, Derek (June 21, 2022). Ruth Roman: A Career Portrait. McFarland. p. 183. ISBN 978-1-4766-8824-4. Retrieved November 18, 2023.
^ "The Eleventh Hour". Variety. October 10, 1962. p. 33. Retrieved November 19, 2023.
^ 1962-1963; 1963-1964 American network television schedule; from appendix of Total Television
^ Jay, Robert (July 7, 2018). "June 2016: The Month in Home Media". Television Obscurities. Retrieved August 8, 2018.