Goodyear Television Playhouse (1951)
Goodyear Television Playhouse (1951)
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Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.
Fred Coe
Producer
Robert Alan Aurthur
Producer
Walter Matthau
Julian / Major Hunter
Herbert Brodkin
Producer
David White
Debataz / Dr. Tallman / Martin Ramsey
Constance Ford
Laura / Magda Owens
Gene Lyons
Ben / Cole Newton
Kim Stanley
Kay
Philip Abbott
Eddie / Edward Sterling / Husband
E.G. Marshall
Michael Riordan / Upton
Betsy Palmer
Paula Ferris
Katherine Squire
Lola Swanson / Mollie
Addison Powell
Chester Wilson
Delbert Mann
Director
Sidney Lumet
Director
Jack Smight
Director
Paul Stanley
Director
Norman Felton
Director
Arthur Penn
Director
Vincent J. Donehue
Director
Robert Mulligan
Director
Herbert Hirschman
Director
Paddy Chayefsky
Writer
David Swift
Writer
J.P. Miller
Writer
Sumner Locke Elliott
Writer
Ernest Kinoy
Writer
Reginald Rose
Writer
Horton Foote
Writer
Agatha Christie
Novel
John Gay
Writer
William Templeton
Teleplay
Gore Vidal
Writer
Jerome Ross
Writer
Louis S. Peterson
Teleplay
Anthony Perkins
Joey
George Mitchell
Pop
Ruth White
Ma
Josephine Brown
Miss Murgatroyd
Gracie Fields
Miss Jane Marple
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This TV Show Is About.
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Goodyear Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was telecast live on NBC from 1951 to 1957 during the first Golden Age of Television.
Sponsored by Goodyear, Goodyear alternated sponsorship with Philco, and the Philco Television Playhouse was seen on alternate weeks. In October 1955, Alcoa took over alternating sponsorship from Philco, the title was shortened to The Goodyear Playhouse and it aired on alternate weeks with The Alcoa Hour.
Producer Fred Coe nurtured and encouraged a group of young, mostly unknown writers that included Robert Alan Aurthur, George Baxt, Paddy Chayefsky, Horton Foote, Howard Richardson, Tad Mosel and Gore Vidal. Notable productions included Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet (1955), Richardson's Ark of Safety and Chayefsky's The Catered Affair.
From 1957 to 1960, it became a taped, half-hour series titled Goodyear Theater, seen on Mondays at 9:30 p.m.
Goodyear Television Playhouse finished #16 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1951–1952 season, #15 for 1952–1953 and #22 for 1953–1954.