Jackie Robinson on Cavalcade Of Stars. African-American major league baseball player Jackie Robinson on the 50''''s TV series "Cavalcade of Stars", With clips shown of his new movie "The Jackie Robinson Story" (Also in Public Domain). "Cavalcade of Stars" ran on the short-lived DuMont Television Network, and it''''s believed most of the episodes were destroyed in the mid-70''''s. [Note: This clip is incomplete, Hence why it starts suddenly. The story is that a fathers disabled son is depressed, So his father decides to get Jackie Robinson, but believes he has failed, so is surprised when he appears. The Father is played by Jerry Lester, A popular actor).