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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 ...
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.
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 ...
S1.E12 ∙ The Family Nobody Wanted. Thu, Dec 20, 1956. A true story, it follows a pastor and his wife through forties beginning with one biological child, Donny. But the upheaval of the war years results in a number of mixed raced children that the Doss family adopt until they have 12 children. Rate.
Sep 14, 2016 · Playhouse 90, a rare look at the landmark television series on its 60th anniversary. This free event takes place October 1, 2 and 16 at the Billy Wilder Theater with Matthew Weiner and Robert Butler in person. Guest writer Molly A. Schneider delves into the history of the “Golden Age” anthology drama. Schneider is a television historian and ...
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.
Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s were usually hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual, a weekly series of hour-and-a-half dramas ...
