Summer Playhouse (1954 TV series) explained
| Runtime: | 30 minutes |
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| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Network: | NBC |
| Num Seasons: | 2 |
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.
Summer Playhouse is unrelated to a CBS series of the same name that aired during the summers of 1964 and 1965.[1]
Broadcast history
Summer Playhouse premiered on July 6, 1954, and ran until August 24, 1954,[2] airing on Tuesdays from 9:00 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time. It returned three summers later in July 1957, premiering on July 2[3] and airing from 9:30 to 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Its final episode was broadcast on September 17, 1957.[4]
Cast
Nelson Case was the host in 1954.[5] Jane Wyman hosted in 1957.
References
Bibliography
- Book: Brooks . Tim . Marsh . Earle . 1995 . The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present . Sixth . New York . Ballantine Books . 0-345-39736-3.
Notes and References
- Web site: UNSOLD PILOTS ON TELEVISION, 1956–1966 . . 15 August 2019 . tvobscurities.com . Television Obscurities . 3 June 2024.
- https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=ziW8EwMpto0C&dat=19570702&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Schenectady Gazette, August 24, 1957, p. 10.
- https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=ziW8EwMpto0C&dat=19570702&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Schenectady Gazette, July 2, 1957, p. 31.
- https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=ziW8EwMpto0C&dat=19570917&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Schenectady Gazette, September 17, 1957, p. 11.
- Alicoate, Jack, Ed. (1955). The 1955 Radio and Television Yearbook. Radio Daily Corp. P. 1173.
