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Variety t ^ Wednesday, March 21, 1956 82 The Joan Davis Show A brand-new comedy half hour.'with an old favorjte of TV audiences! Joan Davis plays the starring role, of course. But to make the package even more sure-fire, Joan produces the series, too. Each show will be on film . . . and, almost surely, on most TV screens next fall. n teries vou'll want to take a look at soonl Frontier Judge . ^ Half-Jbour CbertokjTV production starring veteran actor (Leon Ames. ’Plots revolve around the adventure^ of Judge. John Cooper as he rides a frontier circuit. A crack staff is backing up these productions! Chertok's successes include 180 "Lone Rangers/'* "Private Secretary/* "Sky King/* many "Du Pont Cavalcade Theaters.*' If R. F. D.-U.S.A. Half-hour documentor^ films,Jwritten and narrated by Carl Carmer, distinguished American folklorist. Produc- tions are on location, off the beaten track—in Tennessee bill country, a Utah bluff village (Pop. 50), a tiny island off the Florida cpast, a typical New Hampshire town. A "Window on America** series —real, heart-warming. Wire Service !\jo^ • rtfl/)t/ i An hour-long filmed adventure series based on news stories and the stories behind the news. Three stars C(Geprge Brent, Dennis Morgan, Dane Clarkrotate, lead performances as reporters. Robert Fiorey directs— he was winner of the Screen Directors Award for best television director last year, a nominee this year. Don ^Sharpe|and Warren Lewis are executive producers. r - •a Command Performance 90-minute filmed drgigM&J^hology, produced by Me¬ ridian Productiohs.4o.hn Gibbs/Meridian head, will use * three wide-ranging production companies—at Goldwyn studios, in Bermuda, Europe and other locales. Unusual scripts and all-film production will make available Holly¬ wood stars like Don Taylor, Raymond Burr and Sally Forrest—all in the first film. International Theater ^'■v. Produced in Europe by Sheldon Reynolds; this hour-long anthology features hard-hitting American stories, Ameri¬ can stars. Scripts will be outstanding originals, as well as adapts of classics by Scott Fitzgerald, E. Phillips Oppen- heim. Present plans include some comedy and romance os well as adventure. Sheldcm Reynolds is the series* permanent host. 0^ fa Publicity Girl Half-hour film comedies produced by v Cherto.k. w S (L eVh«s^ stars a lovely public-relations gal.v.Jan Sterling/Scripts revolve around the items she attempts to get printed— and those she tries to keep out of the papers. There's plenty of drama and romance (gal plays opposite no less than four leading men) as well as fast-paced com¬ edy. Locale is southern California. - /