ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and original musicals. It premiered on American Broadcasting Company on September 14, 1966 with Murray Schisgal's The Love Song of Barney Kempinksi, directed by Stanley Prager and starring Alan Arkin as a man enjoying the sights and sounds of New York City in his last remaining hours of bachelorhood. Arkin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama and the program was nominated as Outstanding Dramatic Program. Future programs included appearances by Petula Clark, Bobby Darin, Sir Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Peter Sellers, David Frost, and Jack Paar. ABC's effort to bring culture to the masses was a noble but unsuccessful experiment. Scheduled first against I Spy on Wednesdays and then The Dean Martin Show on Thursdays, the show consistently received low ratings. Its last production, an adaptation of Jean Cocteau's one-woman play The Human Voice starring Ingrid Bergman, aired on May 4, 1967. "Stage 67" was not actually a part of the primary ABC facilities in Los Angeles. It was produced at the old Monogram Studios backlot that was later sold to KCET. |
Name | Character | Episodes |
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Diahann Carroll | Self | 2 |
Leonardo Cimino | Dino | 1 |
Laurence Olivier | Self | 1 |
Laurence Olivier | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
Dustin Hoffman | J.J. Semmons | 1 |
Alan Arkin | Barney Kempinski | 1 |
Anthony Perkins | Charles Snell | 1 |
Robert Gerringer | George Blessing | 1 |
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | Mr. Otis | 1 |
Robert Mitchum | Self | 1 |
Lee Grant | Laura | 1 |
Lee Grant | Ruth | 1 |
Anne Bancroft | Virginia | 1 |
Michael Rennie | 1 | |
Marilyn Monroe | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
Dana Elcar | Lou Coolidge | 1 |
Peter Sellers | Self | 1 |
Ingrid Bergman | A Woman | 1 |
L.Q. Jones | Deputy | 1 |
Carol Lynley | Self | 1 |
John Forsythe | Self | 1 |
Ben Johnson | Sheriff Barbee | 1 |
Robert Young | Self - Host | 1 |
Lauren Bacall | Self | 1 |
Lauren Bacall | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
Maurice Chevalier | Self | 1 |
Shelley Winters | Self | 1 |
J. Pat O'Malley | Buttle | 1 |
Albert Finney | Self | 1 |
Leon Ames | Gray | 1 |
Connie Stevens | Flame | 1 |
Hugh Griffith | Herr Hoffman | 1 |
John Gielgud | Rich Man | 1 |
Kenneth Mars | Dr. Pratt | 1 |
Arthur Kennedy | Lieutenant Hammond | 1 |
Reginald Gardiner | Uncle Andrew | 1 |
Harry Belafonte | Self | 1 |
Phil Harris | 1 | |
Theodore Bikel | Homer T. Hatch | 1 |
Alan King | Leo | 1 |
Olivia de Havilland | Ellie Thompson | 1 |
Mercedes McCambridge | 1 | |
Bernard Fox | Jack | 1 |
Bobby Darin | Self | 1 |
Larry Gates | Roscoe Potts | 1 |
Dina Merrill | Ginny Weldon | 1 |
Conrad Nagel | Mr. Mallory | 1 |
Joe Namath | Quarterback | 1 |
Katharine Houghton | Bonnie | 1 |
Michael Redgrave | Sir Simon Canterville / The Ghost | 1 |
Ronnie Corbett | Self | 1 |
Honor Blackman | Jane & Jill Marriott | 1 |
Brandon De Wilde | Carl Boyer | 1 |
James Mason | Otto Hoffman | 1 |
Vera Miles | Adele | 1 |
Tony Randall | Inspector Berry / Geoffrey Judge | 1 |
Ricky Nelson | Carlos O'Connor | 1 |
Cesar Romero | 1 | |
Stuart Whitman | Steve | 1 |
Barnard Hughes | Lathrop Hyde | 1 |
Donald O'Connor | Hermes | 1 |
Geraldine Page | 1 | |
Jason Robards | Royal Earle Thompson | 1 |
Fred Clark | Dean Severance | 1 |
Estelle Winwood | Sarah | 1 |
Ronnie Schell | Self | 1 |
Kenneth Connor | Self | 1 |
Jill Bennett | Frida Holmeier | 1 |
Dick Cavett | Self - Host | 1 |
Lew Ayres | Arthur | 1 |
Dick Shawn | Paul Benderhof | 1 |
Count Basie | Self | 1 |
Joanie Sommers | Angie | 1 |
Godfrey Cambridge | Self - Husband | 1 |
Per Oscarsson | Olaf Helton | 1 |
Arlene Golonka | Mary | 1 |
Charmian Carr | Ella Harkins | 1 |
Dick Gregory | Self - Civil Rights Marcher | 1 |
Richard Haydn | Whitey | 1 |
Diana Sands | Self - Wife | 1 |
Mort Sahl | 1 | |
Moms Mabley | Self - Maid | 1 |
James Broderick | Hal Crady | 1 |
Natalie Schafer | Mrs. Otis | 1 |
Robert Emhardt | Burleigh | 1 |
Phyllis Newman | Mary Severance | 1 |
Ruth White | Geraldine | 1 |
Redd Foxx | Self - Pool Hustler | 1 |
Hamilton Dyce | Koorp | 1 |
Joan Darling | Peg | 1 |
Carole Mathews | Kay Bartlett | 1 |
Ivan Bonar | Physician | 1 |
Peter Robbins | Herbert | 1 |
Maureen Pryor | Rebecca | 1 |
George Kirby | Self | 1 |
Kay Walsh | Greta | 1 |
Eddie Foy Jr. | Casey | 1 |
Danny La Rue | Self | 1 |
Hugh Franklin | Howard Boyer | 1 |
Jackie Robinson | 1 | |
Peter Noone | David, the Duke of Cheshire | 1 |
Larry Blyden | Todd Bronson | 1 |
Libby Morris | Self | 1 |
Petula Clark | Self | 1 |
Lou Jacobi | Comedian | 1 |
Tippy Walker | Virginia Otis | 1 |