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Summer Playhouse (1954 TV series)

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Summer Playhouse
Presented by
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
Production
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkNBC
ReleaseJuly 6, 1954 (1954-07-06) –
September 17, 1957 (1957-09-17)

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.[1]

Summer Playhouse is unrelated to a CBS series of the same name that aired during the summers of 1964 and 1965.[2]

Broadcast history

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Summer Playhouse premiered on July 6, 1954,[1] and ran until August 24, 1954,[1][3] airing on Tuesdays from 9:00 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time.[1] It returned three summers later in July 1957,[1] premiering on July 2[4] and airing from 9:30 to 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time.[1] Its final episode was broadcast on September 17, 1957.[1][5]

Cast

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Nelson Case was the host in 1954.[1][6] Jane Wyman hosted in 1957.[1]

References

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Citations

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Brooks & Marsh, p. 994.
  2. ^ "UNSOLD PILOTS ON TELEVISION, 1956–1966". tvobscurities.com. Television Obscurities. 15 August 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
  3. ^ Schenectady Gazette, August 24, 1957, p. 10.
  4. ^ Schenectady Gazette, July 2, 1957, p. 31.
  5. ^ Schenectady Gazette, September 17, 1957, p. 11.
  6. ^ Alicoate, Jack, Ed. (1955). The 1955 Radio and Television Yearbook. Radio Daily Corp. P. 1173.

Bibliography

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  • Brooks, Tim; Marsh, Earle (1995). The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present (Sixth ed.). New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-39736-3.
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