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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.
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- October 4, 1956 –, May 18, 1960
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- CBS
Playhouse 90 was a TV series that aired from 1956 to 1961, featuring live or filmed ninety-minute plays with famous actors and directors. The series won 13 Primetime Emmys and showcased diverse genres such as comedy, crime, drama, mystery, romance and war.
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Browse the episodes of Playhouse 90, a TV series that aired from 1956 to 1961 and featured live dramas based on novels, plays, and original scripts. See the titles, ratings, summaries, and cast of each episode for 1958.
Highlights. Who talked about this show. From the Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Television originally published 1997. A relative latecomer to the group of live anthology dramas, Playhouse 90 was broadcast on CBS between the fall of 1956 and 1961.
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.
Sep 14, 2016 · Playhouse 90 (CBS, 1956-1960) was one of the most celebrated examples of the midcentury phenomenon called the anthology drama. Beginning in radio and moving to television, anthologies were comprised of individual, self-contained plays with different settings, characters, and scenarios each week.
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Mar 17, 2014 · More than any other series, Playhouse 90 has come to represent the legacy of live anthology drama. Although most of its 134 episodes are frustratingly out of circulation, three of them have...
