Miss Fontaine appeared in over 35 television shows. Listed below are a few of them.
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOUR "Stranger in the Night"
This is a retelling of "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
60 minutes, b & w, October 17, 1956.
THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR "The Paragon"
Alice Pemberton (Joan Fontaine) is a generous woman who meddles in her friends' and
families' affairs and dominates her husband.
60 minutes, b & w, February 8, 1963.
CANNON "The Star"
Thelma Cain (Joan Fontaine) is a former movie star whose son disappears. She hires
Cannon to find him and is in for a few surprises regarding the case.
120 minutes, color, December 10, 1975.
CHECKMATE "Voyage into Fear"
Patricia Felton (Joan Fontaine) fears for her life on a voyage
as she believes her husband has hired a hit-man to kill her.
60 minutes, b & w, November 10, 1960.
DICK POWELL SHOW "The Clocks"
A young widow (Joan Fontaine) believes that her late husband's ghost is haunting her
because she plans to remarry. Charles Drake co-stars.
60 minutes, b & w, March 27, 1962.
FORD STARTIME "The Closed Set"
Julie Forbes (Joan Fontaine) is a fading movie star who hires an innovative director for
her newest film.
60 minutes, b & w, February 16, 1960.
FOUR STAR PLAYHOUSE "The Girl on the Park Bench"
A young woman (Joan Fontaine) moves into a public park to protest her landlord's rent increase.
30 minutes, b & w. December 3, 1953.
FOUR STAR PLAYHOUSE "Trudy"
Trudy (Joan Fontaine) believes she can get anything she wants by wishing strongly for it.
She tells the townspeople that she will be married at midnight, but is this just a wish or reality?
30 minutes, b & w, May 26, 1955.
GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER "A Possibility of Oil"
A beautiful woman (Joan Fontaine) is desperate to become a member of the glamorous society world.
30 minutes, b & w, February 19, 1961.
GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER "At Miss Miner's"
A woman (Joan Fontaine) spends a suspenseful evening with a recluse and receives
a phone call that warns her of impeding trouble with the old woman.
30 minutes, b & w, October 26, 1958.
GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER "Summer Promise"
Set during WW I, Miss Fontaine plays a woman who returns to her Ohio hometown and
falls in love with a younger man.
30 minutes, b & w, January 29, 1956.
THE LOVE BOAT "Chef's Special/Kleinschmidt/Beginning Anew"
Jennifer Langley (Joan Fontaine) plays a woman who is going blind. On the cruise, she meets a
former lover who is embittered by the turn of events in his life. Jennifer helps him overcome his
bitterness and the two marry on board ship.
60 minutes, color, November 7, 1981.
ONE STEP BEYOND "The Visitor"
A husband (Warren Beatty) and wife (Joan Fontaine) break up after a long marriage.
When the husband has a serious accident, the wife who is a reformed alcoholic, is visited
by an image of her husband twenty years before.
30 minutes, b & w, May 10, 1960.
STAR STAGE "The Shadowy Third"
Miss Fontaine plays a nurse who finds herself in the middle of a conflict between
one of her psychopathic patients and the woman's psychiatrist husband.
30 minutes, b & w, April 30, 1956.
DARK MANSIONS
In this Made-for-Television Movie, Margaret Drake (Joan Fontaine) is the powerful
Drake family matriarch. Her two sons become embroiled in a fight to see who takes over
the family shipbuilding business after the death of Margaret's husband.
120 minutes, color, August 23, 1986.
GOOD KING WENCESLAS
In this Made-for-Television Movie,Queen Ludmilla (Joan Fontaine) is the grandmother
of young Prince Wenceslas. Queen Ludmilla encourages and advises her grandson
who is determined to become the good King despite his evil stepmother's attempts to deny
him his rightful place.
120 minutes, color, November 24, 1994.
WESTINGHOUSE DESILU PLAYHOUSE "Perilous"
Miss Fontaine plays a Pre-WWII British spy who poses as a librarian.
She falls in love with a German spy and both try to escape Nazi Germany.
60 minutes, b & w, June 22, 1959.
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