Goodyear Television Playhouse: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

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.

Series details

• Title: Goodyear Television Playhouse
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama
• Premiere date: 1951-10-14
• Final broadcast date listed: 1957-09-29
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: NBC
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 35128
• IMDb ID: tt0043204
• TVDB ID: 76409

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1951-10-14; final listed air date 1952-08-31; episode order: 24.
• Season 2: premiered 1952-09-14; final listed air date 1953-08-23; episode order: 25.
• Season 3: premiered 1953-08-30; final listed air date 1954-09-12; episode order: 25.
• Season 4: premiered 1954-09-26; final listed air date 1955-08-14; episode order: 23.
• Season 5: premiered 1955-05-20; final listed air date 1956-09-09; episode order: 27.
• Season 6: premiered 1956-09-23; final listed air date 1957-09-29; episode order: 20.

Source and licence

Adapted from Goodyear Television Playhouse on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.