Goodyear Television Playhouse

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.

Drama

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

The Lantern Copy

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

The Young and Fair

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

Somebody Special

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