 The 56 episodes were adaptations of plays, stories, etc. by famous authors, e.g., Tennessee Williams, James Thurber, H.G. Wells, Ring Lardner, Edgar Allen Poe, Maxim Gorky, Ben Hecht, Oscar Wilde, Irwin Shaw, Stephen Vincent Benet, Thomas Hardy, William Saroyan, Erskine Caldwell, Bret Harte, etc.