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Goodyear Television Playhouse

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.

Genre: Drama,

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Country: United States of America,

Type: tv

Season: 6

Episode: N/A

Duration: 60 minutes

Release: 1951-10-14

Rating: 4.7

1"October Story"

1951-10-14

A young girl from Brooklyn causes a stir with television executives when she announces she has invented a portable TV that can be built for $2.14.

2"The Copper"

1951-10-28

A backwards young man who wants to be a policeman goes to a psychologist for help when strange things happen to him during his daily duties.

3"Flight To Freedom"

1951-11-11

4"The Eleventh Ward"

1951-11-25

5"Money To Burn"

1951-12-09

6"I Was Stalin's Prisoner"

1951-12-23

7"A Softness In The Wind"

1952-01-06

8"Raymond Schindler, Case One"

1952-01-20

1952-02-03

1952-02-17

1952-03-02

1952-03-16

13"Tigers Don't Sing"

1952-03-30

14"The Medea Cup"

1952-04-13

15"The Travelers"

1952-04-27

16"The Twenty-Third Mission"

1952-05-11

17"The Lantern Copy"

1952-05-25

18"Four Meetings"

1952-06-08

19"It's A Small World"

1952-06-22

20"Leaf Out Of A Book"

1952-07-06

21"The Trial Of Steven Kent"

1952-07-20

1952-08-03

1952-08-17

1952-08-31

1952-09-14

1952-09-28

The Room symbolizes the barrier built by a small girl against her father whom she believed responsible for her mother's death.

3"O Romany"

1952-10-12

4"Better than Walking"

1952-10-26

5"The Darkness Below"

1952-11-09

6"The Old Beginning"

1952-11-23

7"The Search"

1952-12-07

8"Mr. Quimby's Christmas Hats"

1952-12-21

9"A Medal in the Family"

1953-02-01

1953-02-22

1953-03-08

1953-03-15

1953-03-29

WISH ON THE MOON is a chronicle of two women-friends whose lives take unexpected turns. One musters all her effort to become a famous actress, but instead ends up married. The other, who lacks motivation except to find a husband, inadvertently becomes a stage and screen star. Both feel unfulfilled and secretly envy what the other has gained.

14"The Long Way Home"

1953-04-12

15"Printer's Measure"

1953-04-26

16"The Accident"

1953-05-03

17"The Oil Well"

1953-05-17

18"Marty"

1953-05-24

Marty, a lonely homely butcher from the Bronx is in search of a wife. He finally meets a lonely girl in a dance hall with whom he can communicate.

19"Before I Wake"

1953-05-31

20"Her Prince Charming"

1953-06-14

21"Catch A Falling Star"

1953-06-28

22"Nothing to Sneeze At"

1953-07-12

23"The Young and Fair"

1953-07-26

24"Ernie Barger is Fifty"

1953-08-09

This drama examines several concurrent crises in the life of middle-aged Ernie Barger (Begley).

25"Hollywood Tandem a. Fade Out and b. The New Process"

1953-08-23

1"The Happy Rest"

1953-10-04

2"Other People's Houses"

1953-08-30

A senile old man causes headaches and heartaches for his two daughters and his son-in-law.

3"The Haven"

1953-11-01

4"John Turner"

1953-11-15

5"Madame Aphrodite"

1953-12-06

6"Wings Over Barriers"

1953-12-20

True story about pilot Chuck Yeager and his sound breaking flight.

1954-01-03

1954-01-17

1954-01-31

1954-02-14

11"Buy Me Blue Ribbons"

1954-02-28

12"The Inward Eye"

1954-03-14

A semi-documentary about a blind girl's training with a dog at the seeing eye school at Morristown, New Jersey.

1954-03-28

1954-04-11

1954-04-25

1954-05-09

1954-05-23

1954-06-06

19"Write Me Out Forever"

1954-06-20

20"Suitable for Framing"

1954-07-04

A high-pressure public relations man takes a job as a publicist for a new art gallery. But the gallery owner has his own plans for hitting the front pages, far more artful than the publicist could suggest.

21"Dear Harriet Heart -Throb"

1954-07-18

22"The Arena"

1954-08-01

23"Recoil"

1954-08-15

24"The Power of Suggestion"

1954-08-29

25"The Big Man on Campus"

1954-09-12

1"Guilty Is the Stranger"

1954-09-26

2"The Personal Touch"

1954-10-10

3"Flight Report"

1954-11-07

4"Thunder of Silence"

1954-11-21

5"Last Boat From Messina"

1954-12-05

6"Class of '58"

1954-12-19

7"A Case of Pure Fiction"

1955-01-02

8"Doing Her Bit"

1955-01-16

9"The Way Things Happen"

1955-01-30

10"The Rabbit Trap"

1955-02-13

While on vacation, a father and son set a rabbit trap. They are to return the next day to free the rabbit, a prospective pet for the boy. But the family is forced to return to the city after a rush call from the father's demanding boss.

11"Backfire"

1955-02-27

12"My Lost Saints"

1955-03-13

13"The Chivington Raid"

1955-03-27

14"Beloved Stranger"

1955-04-10

15"Do It Yourself"

1955-04-24

16"Visit to a Small Planet"

1955-05-08

17"The Catered Affair"

1955-05-22

18"Mr. Dorothy Allen"

1955-06-05

19"End of the Mission"

1955-06-19

1955-07-03

1955-07-17

1955-07-31

1955-08-14

1955-09-11

2"The Merry-Go-Round"

1955-09-25

3"The Expendable House"

1955-10-09

4"A Business Proposition"

1955-10-23

5"The Mechanical Heart"

1955-11-06

6"One Mummy Too Many"

1955-11-20

7"The Trees"

1955-12-04

8"Christmas 'til Closing"

1955-12-18

9"Rise Up and Walk"

1956-01-01

10"This Land Is Mine"

1956-01-15

11"Starlet"

1956-01-29

12"Kyria Katina"

1956-02-12

13"The Terrorists"

1956-02-26

14"Conspiracy of Hearts"

1956-03-11

15"Joey"

1956-03-25

Joey, a dishwasher by trade, who is under the watchful eye of his overprotective mother, meets Kay, an ex-stripper who works as an assistant dishwasher, who thinks he has some endearing qualities.

16"Footlight Frenzy"

1956-04-08

17"Career Girl"

1956-04-22

18"The Sentry"

1956-05-06

19"In the Days of Our Youth"

1955-05-20

20"The Primary Colors"

1956-06-03

21"Sound the Pipes of Pan"

1956-06-17

1956-07-01

1956-07-15

1956-07-29

1956-08-12

1956-08-26

1956-09-09

1956-09-23

1956-10-07

1956-10-28

In the midwest the torrential rains have not subsided. Young Willie is panicked when he sees the river threaten the very walls of his home. But even as the house begins to cumble, Willie can't arouse anyone else in the family to the danger.

4"Stardust II"

1956-11-11

5"A Murder Is Announced"

1956-12-30

In a small town's newspaper, there is an unusual listing that announces an upcoming murder.

6"Nobody's Town"

1957-01-27

7"The Princess Back Home"

1957-02-24

8"First Love"

1957-03-24

9"The Money Killer"