Goodyear Television Playhouse

For six years from the fall of 1951 through the fall of 1957, Goodyear Television Playhouse presented full hour live dramas, originating from New York, on Sunday evenings. The series ran on alternate weeks with Philco Television Playhouse. In the fall of 1955 the title was shortened to Goodyear Playhouse and a new sponsor took the alternate Sundays with The Alcoa Hour. A young playwright by the name of Paddy Chayefsky wrote several original dramas for this series. Two of them were made into award winning motion pictures, they are "The Catered Affair" and "Marty". In 1957 the overall title for the changed to "A Turn of Fate" a designation that swas soon dropped. Initially there was to be a rotating roster of regular stars (David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell, Jack Lemmon, and Charles Boyer) but that concept petered out by the end of the first season.

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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 76409
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired October 14, 1951
  • Recent September 29, 1957
  • Network NBC
  • Average Runtime 45 minutes
  • Genres Drama
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
  • TV Type or Format Story-based Drama
  • On Other Sites IMDB
  • Episode Screenshot Format 4:3 Screencap
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Season From To Episodes
All Seasons
Specials 1
Season 1 October 1951 August 1952 24
Season 2 September 1952 August 1953 25
Season 3 August 1953 September 1954 25
Season 4 September 1954 August 1955 23
Season 5 May 1955 September 1956 27
Season 6 September 1956 September 1957 20
Unassigned Episodes 0
Season From To Episodes
Unassigned Episodes 145
Absolute ordering places all episodes in a single ordered season. This is generally used for anime.
Season From To Episodes
Season 1 0
Unassigned Episodes 145

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Name Number of Episodes Dates
Delbert Mann 37 10/14/1951 - 03/27/1955
Jack Smight 2 05/08/1955 - 07/03/1955
Robert Mulligan 1 06/16/1957
Geoffrey Kean 1 09/28/1952
Herbert Hirschman 1 08/11/1957
Vincent J. Donohue 1 03/28/1954
William Corrigan 1 08/30/1953
Sidney Lumet 1 05/06/1956
Gordon Duff 1 08/09/1953
Henry James 1 06/08/1952
Norman Felton 1 10/09/1955
Arthur Penn 1 05/23/1954
Name Number of Episodes Dates
David Shaw (II) 5 05/25/1952 - 08/29/1954
Tad Mosel 4 08/09/1953 - 05/23/1954
Thomas W. Phipps 3 10/26/1952 - 06/28/1953
William Kendall Clarke 3 04/13/1952 - 10/12/1952
Paddy Chayefsky 3 09/14/1952 - 05/24/1953
David Swift 3 10/14/1951 - 12/23/1951
Robert Alan Aurthur 2 06/14/1953 - 07/18/1954
Sumner Locke Elliott 2 03/29/1953 - 08/23/1953
Hoffman R. Hays 2 11/25/1951 - 02/22/1953
J.P. Miller 2 06/06/1954 - 02/13/1955
Harry Muheim 2 12/21/1952 - 07/04/1954
David Shaw 1 03/28/1954
Reginald Rose 1 10/09/1955
Charles K. Peck Jr. 1 03/27/1955
Lionel Shapiro 1 05/11/1952
Jerome Ross 1 07/03/1955
John T. Chapman 1 06/08/1952
Eliot Asinof 1 07/17/1955
Stephen de Baun 1 11/11/1951
Abby Mann 1 07/29/1956
John Gay 1 05/06/1956
Robert Lewis Shayon 1 12/20/1953
Horton Foote 1 04/27/1952
William Mendrek 1 12/09/1951
Walter Black 1 12/09/1951
George Baxt 1 10/10/1954
Gore Vidal 1 05/08/1955
Joseph Liss 1 03/14/1954
Jerome Coopersmith 1 02/26/1956
Clifford Goldsmith 1 06/16/1957
Ernest Kinoy 1 08/11/1957

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