Tales of Tomorrow

I watched an old '50s sci fi series on Hulu. It was called Tales of Tomorrow a live sci fi TV show from the early '50s. I only saw one episode, and it starred Rod Steiger, or co-starred Rod Steiger. The woman playing his wife got top billing.

You'd think they could have named the full cast since there were only three people in the episode.

Watching episodes of A Bit of Fry and Laurie, I'd watch these sketches, almost all with a cast of two, and they worked pretty well somehow.

Takes it a step or two beyond the old Dark Shadows after school soap opera. In Dark Shadows, the script seemed to consist of a series of conversations between two people at a time. Once in a while, there would be a three-way. But in general, it was two at a time.

And there was Tales from the Dark Side, an anthology series. I haven't seen that many episodes, but none seemed to have more than five actors.