THE BRILLIANT BARRYMORES

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, August 24, 1985

STORY OF DR. KILDARE (1950s) Lew Ayers stars as Dr. James Kildare and Lionel Barrymore stars as Dr. Leonard Gillespie. Cast includes Virginia Gregg, Georgia Ellis, Barton Yarborough, Barney Phillips. Kildare and Gillespie operate on a dangerous man shot by security guards. Syndicated. (12:32; 13:17)

HALLMARK PLAYHOUSE (9-23-48) “Captain January” starring Lionel Barrymore and Luana Patton. A salty sea captain tells the story of how he came to find and raise a young girl who had been shipwrecked and motherless. Hall­mark Cards, CBS. (16:15; 13:00)

TRIBUTE TO ETHEL BARRYMORE (8-15­49) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences pays tribute to actress Ethel Barry-more on her 70th birthday. Participating in the broadcast are Bing Crosby, Fanny Brice, Katharine Hepburn, Lionel Barrymore, Billie Burke, Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontaine, Tallulah Bankhead, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Gregory Peck, Cary Grant, Eleanor Roosevelt, Louis B. Mayer, Herbert Hoover, President Harry Truman, and others. Sustaining, ABC. (14:10; 15:45)

SUSPENSE (1-6-49) “To Find Help” starring Ethel Barrymore and Gene Kelly with William Conrad. An old lady hires a handyman who proves to be a mental case. Auto Lite, CBS. (10:04; 20:15)

SEALTEST SHOW (12-19-40) Rudy Vallee stars with John Barrymore to welcome guest Orson Welles. Welles presents “The Life of John Barrymore” and they do a scene from Julius Caesar. Sealtest Products, NBC. (9:18; 8 :35; 9 :05)

JOHN BARRYMORE AND SHAKESPEARE (8-30-50) “Macbeth,” a rebroadcast of a 1937 radio version of the classic drama starring John Barrymore. Sustaining, NBC. (30:10)