Goodyear Television Playhouse
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First Air DateOct 14, 1951
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ProductionShowcase Productions
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Rotten tomato47%
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Original titleGoodyear Television Playhouse
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ReleaseOct 14, 1951
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Overview
The Goodyear Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was telecast live on NBC from 1951 to 1957 during the "Golden Age of Television". Sponsored by Goodyear, Goodyear alternated sponsorship with Philco, and the Philco Television Playhouse was seen on alternate weeks. In 1955, the title was shortened to The Goodyear Playhouse and it aired on alternate weeks with The Alcoa Hour. The three series were essentially the same, with the only real difference being the name of the sponsor. 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 Chayefsky's Marty starring Rod Steiger, Chayefsky's The Bachelor Party, Vidal's Visit to a Small Planet, Richardson's Ark of Safety and Foote's The Trip to Bountiful. From 1957 to 1960, it became a taped, half-hour series titled Goodyear Theater, seen on Mondays at 9:30pm.
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Music Supervisor
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Fred Coe, Herbert Brodkin, Robert Alan Aurthur
Producer
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Casts
Season 1 ( 1951-10-14)
October Story
The Copper
Flight To Freedom
The Eleventh Ward
Money To Burn
I Was Stalin's Prisoner
A Softness In The Wind
Raymond Schindler, Case One
Tour Of Duty
Crown Of Shadows
Treasure Chest
Three Letters
Tigers Don't Sing
The Medea Cup
The Travelers
The Twenty-Third Mission
The Lantern Copy
Four Meetings
It's A Small World
Leaf Out Of A Book
The Trial Of Steven Kent
The Dusty Drawer
The Witness
Roman Fever
Season 2 ( 1952-09-14)
Holiday Song
The Room
O Romany
Better than Walking
The Darkness Below
The Old Beginning
The Search
Mr. Quimby's Christmas Hats
A Medal in the Family
Wings On My Feet
The Rumor
The Gesture
Wish on the Moon
The Long Way Home
Printer's Measure
The Accident
The Oil Well
Marty
Before I Wake
Her Prince Charming
Catch A Falling Star
Nothing to Sneeze At
The Young and Fair
Ernie Barger is Fifty
Hollywood Tandem a. Fade Out and b. The New Process
Season 3 ( 1953-10-04)
The Happy Rest
Other People's Houses
The Haven
John Turner
Madame Aphrodite
Wings Over Barriers
Moment of Panic
Here's Father
The Brownstone
The Huntress
Buy Me Blue Ribbons
The Inward Eye
Native Dancer
Spring Reunion
Old Tasselfoot
Miss Look-Alike
The Lawn Party
Somebody Special
Write Me Out Forever
Suitable for Framing
Dear Harriet Heart -Throb
The Arena
Recoil
The Power of Suggestion
The Big Man on Campus
Season 4 ( 1954-09-26)
Guilty Is the Stranger
The Personal Touch
Flight Report
Thunder of Silence
Last Boat From Messina
Class of '58
A Case of Pure Fiction
Doing Her Bit
The Way Things Happen
The Rabbit Trap
Backfire
My Lost Saints
The Chivington Raid
Beloved Stranger
Do It Yourself
Visit to a Small Planet
The Catered Affair
Mr. Dorothy Allen
End of the Mission
The Prizewinner
Man on Spikes
Tangled Web
The Takers
Season 5 ( 1955-09-11)
Suit Yourself
The Merry-Go-Round
The Expendable House
A Business Proposition
The Mechanical Heart
One Mummy Too Many
The Trees
Christmas 'til Closing
Rise Up and Walk
This Land Is Mine
Starlet
Kyria Katina
The Terrorists
Conspiracy of Hearts
Joey
Footlight Frenzy
Career Girl
The Sentry
In the Days of Our Youth
The Primary Colors
Sound the Pipes of Pan
The Film Maker
County Fair Time
Pencil Sketch
Proud Passage
Grow Up
Ark of Safety
Season 6 ( 1956-09-23)
Maestro
Missouri Legend
All Summer Long
Stardust II
A Murder Is Announced
Nobody's Town
The Princess Back Home
First Love
The Money Killer
The Gene Austin Story
A Will to Live
The Treasure Hunters
Your Every Wish
The Legacy
Backwoods Cinderella
Rumblin' Galleries
Weekend in Vermont
The Dark Side of the Moon
The House