Family Theater: Don Quixote

Family Theater presents Roddy McDowell, Ted Osman, Jane Novello and Peggy Weber. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater Incorporated brings you Ted Osman in an incident in the life of Don Quixote, with Jane Novello and Peggy Weber.

To introduce the drama, your host, Roddy McDowell. Thank you, Gene Baker. I guess we've all heard about people who go tilting at windmills. Well, this week we bring you the classical story of the man who did it first, the famed Don Quixote.

In the imagination of his author, Don Quixote was a character of all the knights of old. A funny man, but a tragic one too. We think you'll laugh at him and feel sorry for him, as millions of readers have done for the last three centuries.

Herewith, the story of a man obsessed with a delusion. His name was Alonso Quiano, known by those who knew him best as Alonso Quiano the good. He had been born into a family important to 16th century Spain, had lived the usual busy life of a man of the world, and finally had retired to the mansion on one of his estates in La Mancha.

There he lived the life of a gentleman farmer, his family consisting of a niece Antonio Guiano, and his household staff made up of a husband and wife from Italy, Sancho and Theresa Panza. As our story begins, we find Theresa visually at work in the kitchen, scrubbing some parts, the remnants of the evening meal.

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