What Might've Been: ABC Stage 67 (1966)

 ABC tried an anthology series in 1966, treating it like it was prestige theatre on the order of their movie nights.

ABC Stage 67 got 26 weeks, and no more.

I was but a toddler when this came along, and it was past my bedtime, so no rating.

Anyway, it was an eclectic collection of original plays and adaptations, among the latter being a musical adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost, starring Michael Redgrave, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Natalie Schaefer (Gilligan's Island), and, in his acting debut, Herman's Hermits frontman Peter Noone.

What ABC was striving for was their answer to Hallmark Hall of Fame, which, at the time, was a series of less frequent specials airing on NBC. Hubbell Robinson had one other series on the ABC schedule that year, having moved his tack from Revue/Universal to Screen Gems, but Hawk, with Burt Reynolds, was also cancelled.