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  1. Playhouse 90: With Richard Joy, Paul Lambert, Helen Kleeb, Charles Bickford. Of the many anthology series, this is considered the most ambitious with outstanding talent in front of the camera.

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    • 1956-10-04
    • Comedy, Crime, Drama
    • 90
  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Playhouse_90Playhouse 90 - Wikipedia

    Playhouse 90 received many Emmy Award nominations, and it later ranked #33 on the TV Guide 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 1997, the acclaimed Requiem for a Heavyweight was ranked #30 on the TV Guide 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. [1] In 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked Playhouse 90 #65 on their list of the 101 Best Written TV ...

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  3. The Lawless Years is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from April 16 1959, to September 22, 1961. The series is the first of its kind set set during the Roaring 20s, having predated ...

  4. S2.E27 ∙ The Male Animal. Wed, Mar 12, 1958. The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen ...

  5. Sep 2, 2002 · The list of names associated with “Playhouse 90” both behind and before the cameras was about as auspicious as a list can get, starting with the show’s first producer, Martin Manulis, and ...

  6. A relative latecomer to the group of live anthology dramas, Playhouse 90 was broadcast on CBS between the fall of 1956 and 1961. Its status as a "live" drama was short lived in any case, since the difficulties in mounting a ninety-minute production on a weekly basis required the adoption of the recently developed videotape technology, which was used to pre-record entire shows from 1957 onward.

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  8. The most ambitious and acclaimed of all the anthology series', Playhouse 90 was in a league of its own. "Requiem of a Heavyweight," written by Rod Serling, garnered numerous Emmys and remains one of the best live dramas. Each week the series aired a complete 90 minute live drama. The list of talents is amazing: John Frankenheimer, Arthur Hiller, John Brahm, Arthur Penn were a few of the ...

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