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Made by Grant Productions at [[Hal Roach|Hal Roach Studios]], this series was American television's first dramatic series to be shot on film instead of broadcast live. The series ''[[Public Prosecutor (TV series)|Public Prosecutor]]'' was produced on film in 1948, but remained unaired until NBC and [[DuMont Television Network|DuMont]] aired that series in 1951.<ref>Stanley Rubin, "[http://journals.dartmouth.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Journals.woa/2/xmlpage/4/article/312 A (Very) Personal History of the First Sponsored Film Series on National Television]", ''E-Media Studies'', vol. 1, issue 1 (2008). The filmed series ''[[Public Prosecutor (TV series)|Public Prosecutor]]'' was produced earlier, but broadcast on DuMont later.</ref> The program is also notable for being the first series to win an [[Emmy Award]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present|year=2003|publisher=Ballantine Books|isbn=0-345-45542-8|pages=1345}}</ref>

The show featured half-hour dramatizations of stories by renowned authors such as [[Guy de Maupassant]], [[Charles Dickens]], [[Arthur Conan Doyle]], [[Victor Hugo]], [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], [[Frank Stockton]], and [[Mark Twain]]. Other episodes were adapted from chapters of novels, such as ''The Bishop's Experiment'', an adaptation of the section featuring the bishop in Victor Hugo's ''[[Les Miserables]]'' with [[Leif Erickson]] as Jean Valjean.