Your Favorite Story

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| alt_name = Your Favorite Story
(Your Favorite Playhouse)

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| genre = Anthology

| creator =

| director = Lewis Allen
Eddie Davis
Robert Florey
Leslie Goodwins
Tom Gries
John Guillermin
Phil Karlson
Lew Landers
Christian Nyby
Ted Post

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| starring = Robert Blake
Raymond Burr
Mae Clark
Suzanne Flon
DeForest Kelley
Anita Louise
Adolphe Menjou
Ralph Morgan
Kenneth Tobey

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| narrated = Adolphe Menjou

| presenter = Adolphe Menjou

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| country = United States

| language = English

| num_seasons = 1

| num_episodes = 25

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| runtime = 25 mins.

| network = NBC

| first_aired = {{start date|1953|1|11}}

| last_aired = {{end date|1955}}

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Your Favorite Story is a syndicated TV anthology series{{cite book |last1=Terrace |first1=Vincent |title=Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010, 2d ed. |date=10 January 2014 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-8641-0 |page=1208 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YX_daEhlnbsC&q=%22Your+Favorite+Story%22+Menjou&pg=PA1208 |access-date=November 20, 2020 |language=en}} that was broadcast in the United States from 1953 to 1955. The program was also known as My Favorite Story.{{cite book|last1=McNeil|first1=Alex|title=Total Television|date=1996|publisher=Penguin Books USA, Inc.|location=New York, New York|isbn=0-14-02-4916-8|page= 578|edition=4th}} It was premiered in December 1954 with the title Your Favorite Playhouse.

This program was adapted from the radio show Favorite Story which ran from 1946 to 1949.{{cite book |last1=Fusco |first1=Joseph |title=Beyond Dead End: The Solo Careers of The Dead End Kids |date=December 2012 |publisher=BearManor Media |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zl1ADwAAQBAJ&q=%22Your+Favorite+Story%22+Menjou&pg=PT167 |access-date=November 20, 2020 |language=en}} The program's 25 episodes were hosted and narrated by Adolphe Menjou, who also acted in several episodes.{{cite book |last1=Olsson |first1=Jan |title=Hitchcock à la Carte |date=25 April 2015 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-7602-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z0J5CAAAQBAJ&q=%22Your+Favorite+Story%22+Menjou&pg=PT110 |access-date=November 20, 2020 |language=en}} It featured episodes originally written by Leonard St. Clair, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mary Roberts Rinehart and Frank R. Stockton.

The show was produced by Ziv Television Programs.{{cite magazine |title=D. Fairbanks Noses Out 'Favorite Story' |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zxoEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22My+Favorite+Story%22+Menjou&pg=PA8 |access-date=November 20, 2020 |magazine=Billboard |date=July 31, 1954 |page=8}} John Guillermin directed some episodes.{{cite magazine|magazine=Filmink|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|title=John Guillermin: Action Man|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/john-guillermin-action-man/|date=17 November 2020}}

The program's initial episode was an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need?", directed by Eddie Davis and starring Raymond Burr.{{cite news |last1=Gould |first1=Jack |title=Radio and Television |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/112673492 |access-date=November 20, 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=January 14, 1953 |page=37|id={{ProQuest|112673492}} |via = ProQuest}}