West Point

West Point

1956
West Point
West Point

West Point

7.2 | en | Drama

The West Point Story is a dramatic anthology television series shown in the United States by Columbia Broadcasting System during the 1956-57 season and by ABC during the 1957-58 season. The West Point Story, produced with the full cooperation of the United States Department of Defense and the United States Military Academy, was said to be based on actual files documenting many of the real-life dramatic occurrences at West Point over the years. Names and dates were altered in order to protect the privacy of the real people portrayed, however. The program was at first hosted by a fictional cadet, Charles C. Thompson, but this device was discontinued prior to the end of 1956. During its second season on ABC, The West Point Story was in competition with NBC's The Californians, set in San Francisco during the gold rush of the 1850s, and with The $64,000 Question quiz series on CBS. The West Point Story was replaced on the summer schedule in 1958 by Jack Wyatt's Confession, which continued to air during the first half of the 1958-1959 season in the 10 p.m. Tuesday evening time slot. At the time that The West Point Story was broadcast, four other military dramas aired either through syndication or on the major networks: Harbor Command, Navy Log, The Silent Service, and Men of Annapolis.

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EP39  Pressure
Jun. 28,1957
Pressure

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EP38  The Deep End
Jun. 21,1957
The Deep End

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EP37  Dragoon Patrol
Jun. 14,1957
Dragoon Patrol

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EP36  Fight Back
Jun. 07,1957
Fight Back

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EP35  Courageous Decision
May. 31,2007
Courageous Decision

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EP34  The Drowning of the Gun
May. 24,1957
The Drowning of the Gun

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EP33  The Harder Right
May. 17,1957
The Harder Right

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EP32  M-24
May. 10,1957
M-24

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EP31  Flareup
May. 03,1957
Flareup

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EP30  Backfire
Apr. 26,1957
Backfire

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EP29  The Contact
Apr. 19,1957
The Contact

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EP28  Cold Peril
Apr. 12,1957
Cold Peril

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EP27  McKinley's Challenge
Apr. 05,1957
McKinley's Challenge

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EP26  The Manhunt
Mar. 29,1957
The Manhunt

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EP25  Dangerous Area
Mar. 22,1957
Dangerous Area

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EP24  The Only Witness
Mar. 15,1957
The Only Witness

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EP23  Ambush
Mar. 08,1957
Ambush

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EP22  White Fury
Mar. 01,1957
White Fury

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EP21  The Command
Feb. 22,1957
The Command

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EP20  Combat Proof
Feb. 15,1957
Combat Proof

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EP19  Jet Flight
Feb. 08,1957
Jet Flight

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EP18  Operation Survival
Feb. 01,1957
Operation Survival

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EP17  Wrong Fight
Jan. 25,1957
Wrong Fight

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EP16  Start Running
Jan. 18,1957
Start Running

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EP15  The Army-Navy Game
Jan. 11,1957
The Army-Navy Game

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EP14  The Hard Task
Jan. 04,1957
The Hard Task

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EP13  Double Reverse
Dec. 28,1956
Double Reverse

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EP12  Christmas Present
Dec. 21,1956
Christmas Present

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EP11  Heat of Anger
Dec. 14,1956
Heat of Anger

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EP10  Man of Action
Dec. 07,1956
Man of Action

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EP9  His Highness and the Halfback
Nov. 30,1956
His Highness and the Halfback

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EP8  Decision
Nov. 23,1956
Decision

A cadet who shows great talent is put in a position of choosing if he'll stay in the academy or pursue an art career. He stays too long at his socialite girl friend's house and must race back to West Point to make curfew.

EP7  His Brother's Fist
Nov. 16,1956
His Brother's Fist

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EP6  The Right to Choose
Nov. 09,1956
The Right to Choose

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EP5  Thicker Than Water
Nov. 02,1956
Thicker Than Water

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EP4  The Honor Code
Oct. 26,1956
The Honor Code

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EP3  Officer's Wife
Oct. 19,1956
Officer's Wife

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EP2  The Operator and the Martinet
Oct. 12,1956
The Operator and the Martinet

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EP1  The Mystery of Cadet Layton
Oct. 05,1956
The Mystery of Cadet Layton

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Synopsis

The West Point Story is a dramatic anthology television series shown in the United States by Columbia Broadcasting System during the 1956-57 season and by ABC during the 1957-58 season. The West Point Story, produced with the full cooperation of the United States Department of Defense and the United States Military Academy, was said to be based on actual files documenting many of the real-life dramatic occurrences at West Point over the years. Names and dates were altered in order to protect the privacy of the real people portrayed, however. The program was at first hosted by a fictional cadet, Charles C. Thompson, but this device was discontinued prior to the end of 1956. During its second season on ABC, The West Point Story was in competition with NBC's The Californians, set in San Francisco during the gold rush of the 1850s, and with The $64,000 Question quiz series on CBS. The West Point Story was replaced on the summer schedule in 1958 by Jack Wyatt's Confession, which continued to air during the first half of the 1958-1959 season in the 10 p.m. Tuesday evening time slot. At the time that The West Point Story was broadcast, four other military dramas aired either through syndication or on the major networks: Harbor Command, Navy Log, The Silent Service, and Men of Annapolis.

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Reviews

John T. Ryan BEING THAT OUR participating in and ultimately winning World War II was just a scant 10 or 12 years prior to this series bowing on CBS, it was more a matter of trend than originality. Television series with the military as its subject were quite popular in the 1950's and '60's. ONE NEED ONLY look at listings from those days to find titles such as: NAVY LOG, CITIZEN SOLDIER, THE SILENT SERVICE, TH FLYING TIGERS, COMBAT! and the documentaries such as VICTORY AT SEA & CRUSADE I EUROPE. Even the comedies were so inclined with entries such as THE PHIL SILVERS SHOW (aka YOU'LL NEVER GET RICH) and McHALE'S NAVY.(OH YEAH, BEFORE we proceed any further, let us say in regard to our Allied victory in WWII, "Way to go Greatest Generation!") WITH THE COMING of this series to our evening tube watching, the service series genre branched out to yet another area of stories in dramatizing the lives and studies, the trials and tribulations encountered by the Corps of Cadets enrolled at the United States Military Academy at West Point.ALTHOUGH WE HAVEN'T seen any of these episodes for over a half century now, we suspect that at least some were based on fact and on the young men who would be our country's future Eisenhowers, MacArthurs and Pattons.THE SERIES WAS originally broadcast by the CBS Television and was a production of ZIV Television; whose domain was much more that of the Syndicated half hour show.
willekge In the West Point series,one program dealt with a "flush in", in which the cadets coordinated an activity that had everyone flush simultaneously, creating a major hydraulic problem in the water system at the academy. In the campus demonstrations on the Vietnam War a decade later, at least one school, Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio, replicated this as a symbol of protest. At a specified time, students all over campus flushed toilets and opened faucets, precipitating a major decline in water pressure. If there had been a fire in town, there would have been a real crisis, as there wasn't enough water to fight a fire. This incident was a factor in closing the university for a time, although it reopened before the end of the term, allowing for graduation, and a confused class situation. Some students suffered sanctions for this and other actions deemed detrimental to the university.