| Encounter | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Anthology |
| Country of origin | Canada and United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 5 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Picture format | Black-and-white |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original run | October 5, 1958 – November 2, 1958 |
Encounter is a five-week anthology television series aired from Toronto, Canada, and carried by both the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and ABC from October 5 to November 2, 1958.[1]
The one-hour dramas were either romance, adventure, or mystery stories. Patrick Macnee, later on ABC's The Avengers, a Cold War British adventure series, and Barry Morse, subsequently the relentless police detective, Officer Girard, on the ABC series, The Fugitive, starring David Janssen, were among those who appeared on Encounter..[2]
In the United States, Encounter followed the western series Colt .45, starring Wayde Preston. The program faced competition on CBS from The Alfred Hitchcock Show and The $64,000 Question. NBC at the time aired part of The Dinah Shore Chevy Show.[3]
It is not known what program succeeded Encounter in the 9:30 Eastern time slot beginning on Sunday, November 9, 1958. The following season The Alaskans, an adventure program set in Alaska and starring Roger Moore, Dorothy Provine, and Jeff York, aired on ABC in that time period.[4]
Encounter is not the shortest-running series on an American television network. In the fall of 1966, The Tammy Grimes Show, a situation comedy starring Tammy Grimes, ran only four episodes on ABC before it was cancelled.[5]100 Grand, an ABC quiz show, lasted for only three episodes after its debut in the fall of 1963 on the Sunday evening schedule. A program called Digby Wolfe, promoted as a sophisticated answer to NBC's Laugh In, was cancelled on the air during its first and only episode in the latter part of the 1960s.[6]