"Playhouse 90" (1956)TV series 1956-1961

Directors:

Tony Barr
Karl Genus

Writers:

Robert Alan Aurthur (writer) (2 episodes)
Gwen Bagni (writer)

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Release Date:

4 October 1956 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance

Plot Keywords:

Family Relationships | Male Female Relationship | Husband Wife Relationship | Anthology | Number In Title

Awards:

Won Golden Globe. Another 12 wins & 29 nominations

Cast

Richard Joy

...

Himself, Announcer / ... (38 episodes, 1956-1957)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color (broadcast of "The Nutcracker")

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Arizona, USA

Company:

CBS Television

Trivia:

The show began in 1956 broadcasting all live 90-minute plays, with only a sub-par kinescope film (film camera aimed at the live broadcast on the TV monitor) as an archive. The second year they began to film maybe every second or third episode (as a "made-for-TV-movie"), then in the last two years began videotaping many of the episodes. The tape technique was harder to spot because the broadcasts still appeared live, but there are at least partial tapes (of excellent, pristine, quality) in the CBS vaults of P90 episodes of "Days of Wine and Roses (1958)," "The Old Man (1958)," "Judgment At Nuremberg (1959)," "Alas, Babylon (1960)," and the final 'Playhouse 90' from 1960, "In The Prescence of Mine Enemies." Clips of these actual tapes were featured in the 2002 CBS special "50 Years of Television City in Hollywood.".

Movie Connections:

Featured in Influences: From Yesterday to Today (1999) (TV)

Soundtrack:

Song for a Summer Night

"The TIME OF YOUR LIFE" William Saroyan's 1939 came to TV's 90 minute Playhouse in the '50s.

The exception to Playhouse 90's being exclusively a Hollywood production was "The TIME Of YOUR LIFE", which came out of CBS TV's New York Studio. It starred JACKIE GLEASON in his finest, dramatic TV performance. The production's "humble" Casting Director/Assoc.Producer is proud to point out that it introduced, revealingly that the Eastern seaboard's socialite DINA MERRILL was and is a remarkably talented Actress.