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Playhouse 90. Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology drama series that aired on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. The show was produced at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s usually were hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to ...
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Playhouse 90: With Richard Joy, Paul Lambert, Helen Kleeb, Charles Bickford. Of the many anthology series, this is considered the most ambitious with outstanding talent in front of the camera.
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S2.E27 ∙ The Male Animal. Thu, Mar 13, 1958. The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen ...
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Playhouse 90. Considered by many to be the most ambitious of the anthology dramas to emerge during the "Golden Age of Television," Playhouse 90, according to historian William Boddy, was voted the greatest television series of all time in a 1970 Variety poll of television editors. Appearing Thursday evenings on CBS from 1956 to 1959, the ...
Mar 17, 2014 · Teleplays would fetch $7,500, and top directors who had been earning $400 a week could command $10,000 for a single Playhouse 90 segment. The showu0019’s widely publicized, $100,000-per-episode ...
A relative latecomer to the group of live anthology dramas, Playhouse 90 was broadcast on CBS between the fall of 1956 and 1961. Its status as a "live" drama was short lived in any case, since the difficulties in mounting a ninety-minute production on a weekly basis required the adoption of the recently developed videotape technology, which was used to pre-record entire shows from 1957 onward.
