6.8
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Appointment with Adventure (1955)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.8
Overview
Appointment with Adventure is a half-hour adventure/dramatic anthology television series broadcast live on CBS from 1955-1956. The program has no host. It aired at 10 p.m. EST on the Sunday evening schedule between the better known Alfred Hitchcock Presents and What's My Line? It ran opposite The Loretta Young Show on NBC and Life Begins at Eighty, a panel discussion series hosted by Jack Barry on ABC. The series aired fifty-three episodes, having premiered on April 3, 1955, near the end of the regular 1954-1955 television season. It ran throughout the spring and summer of 1955 and began its fall run on October 2, 1955, concluding new segments on April 1, 1956. In effect, the series ran for a full year without the summer rebroadcast period standard for most programs. Episodes centered upon wars in U.S. history as well as dramatizations from events from many places throughout the world, then and in the past. In the episode which aired on May 1, 1955, Polly Bergen, Dane Clark, and Hugh Reilly starred in "Rendezvous in Paris." Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, fifteen years prior to their television roles as Felix Unger and Oscar Madison, respectively, in ABC's The Odd Couple, appeared with Gena Rowlands, later on NBC's 87th Precinct, in the September 4, 1955, episode entitled "The Pirate's House." Randall also appeared two months earlier in the Appointment with Adventure episode "Caribbean Cruise."
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Overview
Appointment with Adventure is a half-hour adventure/dramatic anthology television series broadcast live on CBS from 1955-1956. The program has no host. It aired at 10 p.m. EST on the Sunday evening schedule between the better known Alfred Hitchcock Presents and What's My Line? It ran opposite The Loretta Young Show on NBC and Life Begins at Eighty, a panel discussion series hosted by Jack Barry on ABC. The series aired fifty-three episodes, having premiered on April 3, 1955, near the end of the regular 1954-1955 television season. It ran throughout the spring and summer of 1955 and began its fall run on October 2, 1955, concluding new segments on April 1, 1956. In effect, the series ran for a full year without the summer rebroadcast period standard for most programs. Episodes centered upon wars in U.S. history as well as dramatizations from events from many places throughout the world, then and in the past. In the episode which aired on May 1, 1955, Polly Bergen, Dane Clark, and Hugh Reilly starred in "Rendezvous in Paris." Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, fifteen years prior to their television roles as Felix Unger and Oscar Madison, respectively, in ABC's The Odd Couple, appeared with Gena Rowlands, later on NBC's 87th Precinct, in the September 4, 1955, episode entitled "The Pirate's House." Randall also appeared two months earlier in the Appointment with Adventure episode "Caribbean Cruise."
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
As an episode from a 1950s anthology suspense series, the film's primary focus is on apolitical human interest stories and suspense, rather than promoting any explicit political ideology.
This 1950s anthology television series features traditional casting with no evident intentional race or gender swaps of established roles. Its narratives align with the societal norms of the era, presenting traditional identities in a neutral or positive light without explicit DEI critiques.
Secondary
The anthology series 'Appointment with Adventure' does not feature any discernible LGBTQ+ characters or themes. Based on available information and historical context, there is no evidence of queer representation within its episodes, leading to a net impact rating of N/A.
This anthology series from the 1950s does not feature any readily identifiable female characters who engage in and win close-quarters physical combat against male opponents. Available plot summaries and historical context do not indicate such portrayals.
Appointment with Adventure was an anthology series, meaning each episode featured new stories and characters. There is no evidence of a consistent set of legacy characters or specific adaptations where a character's established gender was altered.
Appointment with Adventure was an anthology series from 1955, featuring different stories and characters in each episode. There are no recurring legacy characters or widely established source materials with canonical racial depictions that could be subject to a race swap.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.1
6.5
Critic Ratings
N/A
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