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.
Seasons
1. October Story
Air Date: 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
Air Date: 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
Air Date: 1951-11-11
4. The Eleventh Ward
Air Date: 1951-11-25
5. Money To Burn
Air Date: 1951-12-09
6. I Was Stalin's Prisoner
Air Date: 1951-12-23
7. A Softness In The Wind
Air Date: 1952-01-06
8. Raymond Schindler, Case One
Air Date: 1952-01-20
9. Tour Of Duty
Air Date: 1952-02-03
10. Crown Of Shadows
Air Date: 1952-02-17
11. Treasure Chest
Air Date: 1952-03-02
12. Three Letters
Air Date: 1952-03-16
13. Tigers Don't Sing
Air Date: 1952-03-30
14. The Medea Cup
Air Date: 1952-04-13
15. The Travelers
Air Date: 1952-04-27
16. The Twenty-Third Mission
Air Date: 1952-05-11
17. The Lantern Copy
Air Date: 1952-05-25
18. Four Meetings
Air Date: 1952-06-08
19. It's A Small World
Air Date: 1952-06-22
20. Leaf Out Of A Book
Air Date: 1952-07-06
21. The Trial Of Steven Kent
Air Date: 1952-07-20
22. The Dusty Drawer
Air Date: 1952-08-03
23. The Witness
Air Date: 1952-08-17
24. Roman Fever
Air Date: 1952-08-31
1. Holiday Song
Air Date: 1952-09-14
2. The Room
Air Date: 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
Air Date: 1952-10-12
4. Better than Walking
Air Date: 1952-10-26
5. The Darkness Below
Air Date: 1952-11-09
6. The Old Beginning
Air Date: 1952-11-23
7. The Search
Air Date: 1952-12-07
8. Mr. Quimby's Christmas Hats
Air Date: 1952-12-21
9. A Medal in the Family
Air Date: 1953-02-01
10. Wings On My Feet
Air Date: 1953-02-22
11. The Rumor
Air Date: 1953-03-08
12. The Gesture
Air Date: 1953-03-15
13. Wish on the Moon
Air Date: 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
Air Date: 1953-04-12
15. Printer's Measure
Air Date: 1953-04-26
16. The Accident
Air Date: 1953-05-03
17. The Oil Well
Air Date: 1953-05-17
18. Marty
Air Date: 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
Air Date: 1953-05-31
20. Her Prince Charming
Air Date: 1953-06-14
21. Catch A Falling Star
Air Date: 1953-06-28
22. Nothing to Sneeze At
Air Date: 1953-07-12
23. The Young and Fair
Air Date: 1953-07-26
24. Ernie Barger is Fifty
Air Date: 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
Air Date: 1953-08-23
1. The Happy Rest
Air Date: 1953-10-04
2. Other People's Houses
Air Date: 1953-08-30
A senile old man causes headaches and heartaches for his two daughters and his son-in-law.
3. The Haven
Air Date: 1953-11-01
4. John Turner
Air Date: 1953-11-15
5. Madame Aphrodite
Air Date: 1953-12-06
6. Wings Over Barriers
Air Date: 1953-12-20
True story about pilot Chuck Yeager and his sound breaking flight.
7. Moment of Panic
Air Date: 1954-01-03
8. Here's Father
Air Date: 1954-01-17
9. The Brownstone
Air Date: 1954-01-31
10. The Huntress
Air Date: 1954-02-14
11. Buy Me Blue Ribbons
Air Date: 1954-02-28
12. The Inward Eye
Air Date: 1954-03-14
A semi-documentary about a blind girl's training with a dog at the seeing eye school at Morristown, New Jersey.
13. Native Dancer
Air Date: 1954-03-28
14. Spring Reunion
Air Date: 1954-04-11
15. Old Tasselfoot
Air Date: 1954-04-25
16. Miss Look-Alike
Air Date: 1954-05-09
17. The Lawn Party
Air Date: 1954-05-23
18. Somebody Special
Air Date: 1954-06-06
19. Write Me Out Forever
Air Date: 1954-06-20
20. Suitable for Framing
Air Date: 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
Air Date: 1954-07-18
22. The Arena
Air Date: 1954-08-01
23. Recoil
Air Date: 1954-08-15
24. The Power of Suggestion
Air Date: 1954-08-29
25. The Big Man on Campus
Air Date: 1954-09-12
1. Guilty Is the Stranger
Air Date: 1954-09-26
2. The Personal Touch
Air Date: 1954-10-10
3. Flight Report
Air Date: 1954-11-07
4. Thunder of Silence
Air Date: 1954-11-21
5. Last Boat From Messina
Air Date: 1954-12-05
6. Class of '58
Air Date: 1954-12-19
7. A Case of Pure Fiction
Air Date: 1955-01-02
8. Doing Her Bit
Air Date: 1955-01-16
9. The Way Things Happen
Air Date: 1955-01-30
10. The Rabbit Trap
Air Date: 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
Air Date: 1955-02-27
12. My Lost Saints
Air Date: 1955-03-13
13. The Chivington Raid
Air Date: 1955-03-27
14. Beloved Stranger
Air Date: 1955-04-10
15. Do It Yourself
Air Date: 1955-04-24
16. Visit to a Small Planet
Air Date: 1955-05-08
17. The Catered Affair
Air Date: 1955-05-22
18. Mr. Dorothy Allen
Air Date: 1955-06-05
19. End of the Mission
Air Date: 1955-06-19
20. The Prizewinner
Air Date: 1955-07-03
21. Man on Spikes
Air Date: 1955-07-17
22. Tangled Web
Air Date: 1955-07-31
23. The Takers
Air Date: 1955-08-14
1. Suit Yourself
Air Date: 1955-09-11
2. The Merry-Go-Round
Air Date: 1955-09-25
3. The Expendable House
Air Date: 1955-10-09
4. A Business Proposition
Air Date: 1955-10-23
5. The Mechanical Heart
Air Date: 1955-11-06
6. One Mummy Too Many
Air Date: 1955-11-20
7. The Trees
Air Date: 1955-12-04
8. Christmas 'til Closing
Air Date: 1955-12-18
9. Rise Up and Walk
Air Date: 1956-01-01
10. This Land Is Mine
Air Date: 1956-01-15
11. Starlet
Air Date: 1956-01-29
12. Kyria Katina
Air Date: 1956-02-12
13. The Terrorists
Air Date: 1956-02-26
14. Conspiracy of Hearts
Air Date: 1956-03-11
15. Joey
Air Date: 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
Air Date: 1956-04-08
17. Career Girl
Air Date: 1956-04-22
18. The Sentry
Air Date: 1956-05-06
19. In the Days of Our Youth
Air Date: 1955-05-20
20. The Primary Colors
Air Date: 1956-06-03
21. Sound the Pipes of Pan
Air Date: 1956-06-17
22. The Film Maker
Air Date: 1956-07-01
23. County Fair Time
Air Date: 1956-07-15
24. Pencil Sketch
Air Date: 1956-07-29
25. Proud Passage
Air Date: 1956-08-12
26. Grow Up
Air Date: 1956-08-26
27. Ark of Safety
Air Date: 1956-09-09
1. Maestro
Air Date: 1956-09-23
2. Missouri Legend
Air Date: 1956-10-07
3. All Summer Long
Air Date: 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
Air Date: 1956-11-11
5. A Murder Is Announced
Air Date: 1956-12-30
In a small town's newspaper, there is an unusual listing that announces an upcoming murder.
6. Nobody's Town
Air Date: 1957-01-27
7. The Princess Back Home
Air Date: 1957-02-24
8. First Love
Air Date: 1957-03-24
9. The Money Killer
Air Date: 1957-04-07
10. The Gene Austin Story
Air Date: 1957-04-21
11. A Will to Live
Air Date: 1957-05-12
12. The Treasure Hunters
Air Date: 1957-05-26
13. Your Every Wish
Air Date: 1957-06-16
14. The Legacy
Air Date: 1957-06-30
15. Backwoods Cinderella
Air Date: 1957-07-14
16. Rumblin' Galleries
Air Date: 1957-07-28
17. Weekend in Vermont
Air Date: 1957-08-11
18. The Dark Side of the Moon
Air Date: 1957-08-18
19. The House
Air Date: 1957-09-08
20. The Best Wine
Air Date: 1957-09-29
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Rating
4.7/10
Release Date
1951-10-14
Episodes
144 (6 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Production Companies
Showcase Productions