Vacation Playhouse (1963)
Vacation Playhouse (1963)
Plot.
The concept of the series was the showing of unaired and unsold television pilots that did not make the television lineup for CBS. The show was successful during its first few seasons due to the fact that the show's concept, airing unsold and unaired television pilots, was a popular concept in the 1960s. But during its last two seasons on the air, the series did find some trouble due to the fact that the series were running out of pilots to air and, in their 4th season, they began airing repeats from the three seasons prior. During its 1966 summer run, the series aired eights new pilots and two repeats and during its last year airing five new pilots and four repeats.
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Cast & Crew.

Dwayne Hickman
Joe Hannon

Jerry Van Dyke
Bill Wallace

Ned Glass
Professor

Sid Gould
Angelo

Richard Michaels
Writer

Don Taylor
Director

Richard Whorf
Director

Hy Averback
Director

Gene Nelson
Director

Bud Yorkin
Director

Gene Kelly
Director

Douglas Heyes
Director

Rod Amateau
Director

Don Weis
Director

William Asher
Director

Ralph Levy
Director

Claudio Guzmán
Director

Jerry Hopper
Director

Montgomery Pittman
Director

Theodore J. Flicker
Director

Arthur Hiller
Director

Robert Douglas
Director

Bob Sweeney
Director

Howard Morris
Director

Charles R. Rondeau
Director

Paul Stanley
Director

Barry Shear
Director

Vincent Sherman
Director

Richard Crenna
Director

Hal Kanter
Director

Gene Reynolds
Director

Edgar Buchanan
Luke

Tisha Sterling
Elsie Stanhope

Keith Andes
Keith Granville

Mickey Shaughnessy
Coach Mickey Brennan

Ellen Burstyn
Ellen

Judy Canova
Tillie Meeks

Joanna Moore
Marge Cameron

Tony Randall
Willie Coogan

Cesare Danova
Mario Cellini

Ruby Keeler
Ruby

Michael Burns
Col. Rod Ryan

Ethel Merman
Maggie Brown

Jay C. Flippen
Cappy Skidmore

Wally Cox
Alfred

Dan Dailey
Sergeant Mike Parker

Derek Bond
George Andrews

Wallace Ford
Lester Tinney

Ross Martin
Clint Hightower

Brenda Vaccaro
Jenny Penny

James Dunn
P.J. Cunningham

Sara Haden
Emma Madison

Ted Eccles
Googie

Barbara Nichols
Barbara Adams

Barry McGuire
Buster Krause

Julie Gregg
Barbara Piper

Jody McCrea
Julius Sweetley

Charles Bronson
John Wesley Hardin

Alvy Moore
Otis Platt

Beau Bridges
Brandon Drood

Jerome Cowan
Brainsley Gordon

Glynis Johns
Glynis Granville

Joan Blondell
Miss Zilke

Barbara Bostock
Dina Martin

Andy Devine
Andy

Ann Jillian
Bev Ferguson

Don Porter
Battersea, The Housekeeper

Gale Gordon
Warren Packard

John Fiedler
Argey Tanner

Ruth Hussey
Nurse Edie Ramsey

Richard Benjamin
Ted Penny

Frank Aletter
Lester Belstrip

Stefanie Powers
Linda Craig

Soupy Sales
Fireman Smokey / Fred Brady

Barbara Stuart
Nancy Gifford

Reta Shaw
Mrs. Foley / Aunt Josie

Pat Crowley
Elizabeth Williams / Joan

Eve Arden
Claudia Cooper

Pat Buttram
Hardy Madison

Sheila Bromley
Martha Sweetley

Larry Keating
Albert Murdock

Ginger Rogers
Elizabeth Harcourt / Margaret Harcourt

Cliff Norton
Phil

Bill Mumy
Chris Williams

Dave Willock
Carl Ryan

Russ Brown
Captain Gibson

Cindy Carol
Marsha Cooper

Robert Middleton
Homer Ferguson

Bruce Hyde
Binkie Stubbs

Sherry Jackson
Alice Watson

Kay Medford
Mrs. Piper

Joel Grey
Freddy Rockefeller

Joyce Jameson
Vanda Renee

Yvonne Craig
Abby Young

Jaye P. Morgan
Maggie Feeney

Bobby Rydell
Skooby-Doo

Willard Waterman
Coach Walter Biddle

George N. Neise
Seymour

Darryl Hickman
Schuyler 'Sky' Young / Rok / Joe Hannon

Peter Robbins
Richard

Donald O'Connor
Donald Dugan

Dean Jones
Alec Tate

Herschel Bernardi
Jerome P. Baggley

Jackie Coogan
Finnegan

Lee Meriwether
Doris

Luana Anders
Sybil Rockefeller

Mary Jane Croft
Helen

Art Metrano
Big D

Nick Adams
Richard Martin

Shirley Mitchell
Shirley Biddle

John Litel
Albert P. Leviathan

Bea Benaderet
Sybil Murdock

Patsy Kelly
Miss Primrose

Andrew Prine
Ernie Watson

Larry Storch
Commodore

Diane McBain
Sherry

Roger Perry
Ben Duncan

Elvia Allman
Miss Whipple

Barry Livingston
Roger

Robyn Millan
Bunny Tate
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Vacation Playhouse is an American anthology television series that was broadcast on CBS during the summer months from 1963 through 1967.