Summer Playhouse is a 30-minute NBC summer anthology television series broadcast in the summers of 1954 and 1957. It consisted of reruns of episodes previously aired on other anthology series.[1]
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
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Running time | 30 minutes |
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Network | NBC |
Release | July 6, 1954 September 17, 1957 | –
Summer Playhouse is unrelated to a CBS series of the same name that aired during the summers of 1964 and 1965.[2]
Broadcast history
editSummer Playhouse premiered on July 6, 1954,[1] and ran until August 24, 1954,[1][3] airing on Tuesdays from 9:00 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time.[1] It returned three summers later in July 1957,[1] premiering on July 2[4] and airing from 9:30 to 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time.[1] Its final episode was broadcast on September 17, 1957.[1][5]
Cast
editNelson Case was the host in 1954.[1][6] Jane Wyman hosted in 1957.[1]
References
editCitations
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i Brooks & Marsh, p. 994.
- ^ "UNSOLD PILOTS ON TELEVISION, 1956–1966". tvobscurities.com. Television Obscurities. 15 August 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
- ^ Schenectady Gazette, August 24, 1957, p. 10.
- ^ Schenectady Gazette, July 2, 1957, p. 31.
- ^ Schenectady Gazette, September 17, 1957, p. 11.
- ^ Alicoate, Jack, Ed. (1955). The 1955 Radio and Television Yearbook. Radio Daily Corp. P. 1173.
Bibliography
edit- Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle (1995). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present (Sixth ed.). New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-39736-3.
External links
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