Bette Davis: TV Guest Appearances
by elijahmagallon | created - 11 Jun 2013 | updated - 11 Jun 2013 | PublicA list of TV shows where Bette Davis made a guest appearance. This list does not include films or TV movies or miniseries - these all appear on my 'Bette Davis' list. Also does not include appearances on talk shows, game shows, etc.
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1.
The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1955–1957)
Episode:
Crack-Up
(1956)
60 min | Drama
A one-hour television version of "Phone Call from a Stranger", with Bette Davis repeating her film role.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Virginia Grey
Votes: 216
2.
Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode:
The Case of Constant Doyle
(1963)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After the death of her husband and partner, Joe Doyle, Constant Doyle takes on a case involving a young man who knew her husband. Constant asks for Perry's help, and he suggests she hire the Paul Drake Detective Agency to aid in the case.
Director: Allen H. Miner | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman
Votes: 677
3.
All Star Revue (1950– )
Episode:
Putting on the Ritz
(1952)
Comedy
Stars: Jimmy Durante, Roy Bargy, Bette Davis, Eddie Jackson
Votes: 113
4.
Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)
Episode:
For Better, for Worse
(1957)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Walter Van Buren begins to suspect that his new wife is a compulsive liar.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Bette Davis, John Williams, Ray Stricklyn, Simon Scott
Votes: 250
5.
The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957)
Episode:
Footnote on a Doll
(1957)
30 min | Drama
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Director: James Neilson | Stars: Bette Davis, Natalie Schafer, John Hudson, Eleanor Audley
Votes: 232
6.
Telephone Time (1956–1958)
Episode:
Stranded
(1957)
30 min | Drama
A rural schoolteacher fights off a Minnesota blizzard.
Director: Allen H. Miner | Stars: Bette Davis, John Nesbitt, Tiger Fafara, Pamela Baird
Votes: 285
7.
Studio 57 (1954–1958)
Episode:
The Starmaker
(1958)
30 min | Drama, Family
The young client of a successful theatrical agent is gripped by fear on his opening night.
Director: Allen H. Miner | Stars: Jack Albertson, Joel Aldrich, Leonard Bremen, Robert Busch
Votes: 241
8.
General Electric Theater (1953–1962)
Episode:
With Malice Toward One
(1957)
TV-G | 30 min | Drama
An accountant by day and novelist by night, Miss Burrows has grown tired of rejection notices from publishers. Her latest submission is about an author who shoots an editor after his book is rejected.
Director: Jules Bricken | Stars: Bette Davis, Ronald Reagan, John Baragrey, Frances Bavier
Votes: 260
9.
General Electric Theater (1953–1962)
Episode:
The Cold Touch
(1958)
TV-G | 30 min | Drama
Todays theme is The Cold Touch.
Director: Don Weis | Stars: Bette Davis, Ronald Reagan, Aki Aleong, Judy Dan
Votes: 247
10.
Suspicion (1957–1958)
Episode:
Fraction of a Second
(1958)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After spending the weekend with her daughter, Mrs. Ellis takes her child to the bus depot. When she returns home, she finds her furniture rearranged and three strangers insisting that they own the house.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Bette Davis, Barry Atwater, Marian Seldes, Judson Pratt
Votes: 331
11.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Out There - Darkness
(1959)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Miss Fox is a rich old widow who falsely identifies one of the building's employees as the guy who robbed her, and later she wants to help him but it may be too late.
Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Bette Davis, James Congdon, Frank Albertson
Votes: 923
12.
The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959–1961)
Episode:
Dark Morning
(1959)
30 min | Drama
A woman takes in her niece who is suspected of murdering her parents. Although she fights her neighbors' attempts to shun the girl, she has to admit she believes their suspicions are true.
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Bette Davis, Leif Erickson, Sandy Descher, Gail Bonney
Votes: 265
13.
Wagon Train (1957–1965)
Episode:
The Bettina May Story
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Bettina May leads three generations of her family across the plains. Other members of the wagon train as well as some family members become concerned with her over-bearing nature and the level of control she exerts on the family.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: John McIntire, Robert Horton, Bette Davis, Frank McGrath
Votes: 318
14.
Wagon Train (1957–1965)
Episode:
The Elizabeth McQueeny Story
(1959)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Elizabeth McQueeny is traveling with her girls, heading to a finishing school in the West. When her real purpose becomes known, all the females want her gone but her worth to all shows itself before that can happen.
Director: Allen H. Miner | Stars: Ward Bond, Robert Horton, Bette Davis, Robert Strauss
Votes: 351
15.
Wagon Train (1957–1965)
Episode:
The Ella Lindstrom Story
(1959)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Ella Lindstrom loses her husband on the wagon train ride west from Boston. With her seven children she decides to stay the course against the wishes of Major Adams. It gets more complicated when she thinks she is expecting number eight.
Director: Allen H. Miner | Stars: Ward Bond, Robert Horton, Bette Davis, Frank McGrath
Votes: 379
16.
The Virginian (1962–1971)
Episode:
The Accomplice
(1962)
TV-PG | 75 min | Western
An old maid bank teller who decides it is time to provide for herself identifies Trampas as a bank robber and murderer in order to extort $10,000 from the actual thief. The Virginian is the only thing between Trampas and the hangman's noose.
Director: Maurice Geraghty | Stars: Lee J. Cobb, Doug McClure, Gary Clarke, James Drury
Votes: 442
17.
Gunsmoke (1955–1975)
Episode:
The Jailer
(1966)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Etta Stone is a very bitter, older, woman who has Kitty and Matt captured, and thrown into a homemade jail, and now she plans on hanging Matt for the execution of her husband 6 years before.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: James Arness, Milburn Stone, Amanda Blake, Ken Curtis
Votes: 656
18.
It Takes a Thief (1968–1970)
Episode:
Touch of Magic
(1970)
TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Al's old Friend, Bessie, has fallen on hard times, Al helps her recover her belief in herself as a thief.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Robert Wagner, Bette Davis, Edward Binns, Maurice Marsac
Votes: 306
19.
Laugh-In (1977–1978)
Episode:
Episode #1.6
(1978)
Comedy
Director: Don Mischer | Stars: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bea Arthur, Antoinette Atell, Ed Bluestone
Votes: 206
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