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Playwrights '56. Ethel Waters and Lillian Gish in the presentation of The Sound and the Fury, 1955. Playwrights '56, a.k.a. The Playwright Hour, is a 60-minute live American dramatic anthology series produced by Fred Coe [1] for Showtime Productions. Twenty episodes aired [citation needed] on NBC from October 4, 1955, to June 19, 1956.
Playwrights '56: With Gene Saks, Steven Hill, Nina Foch, John McGiver.
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- 1955-10-04
- Comedy, Drama
- 60
S1.E1 ∙ The Answer. Tue, Oct 4, 1955. A nuclear test in the Pacific results in the death of an angel. The philosophical questions regarding the angel's message are explored by an army general who witnesses and believes in the incident. Rate.
The Battler: Directed by Arthur Penn. With Richard Collier, Marty Green, Phyllis Kirk, Dewey Martin. Wandering around America, young Nick Adams encounters a washed-up punch-drunk boxer known as "The Battler".
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- Comedy, Drama
- Arthur Penn
- 1955-10-18
Playwrights '56, a.k.a. The Playwright Hour, is a 60-minute live American dramatic anthology series produced by Fred Coe for Showtime Productions. Twenty episodes aired on NBC from October 4, 1955, to June 19, 1956.
Playwrights ’56 was perhaps the show that most fully embodied what has been described as the ethos of the Golden Age: small-scale dramas, often set in small towns or working-class city neighborhoods. Contributors of scripts included some of the would-be members of Playwrights ’54 but also such celebrated figures as Gore Vidal, Sumner Locke ...
