{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox television | alt_name = Goodyear Playhouse | image = | caption = | genre = Anthology | creator = | writer = | director = Sidney Lumet<br>Delbert Mann<br>Vincent J. Donehue<br>Robert Mulligan<br>Arthur Penn<br>Daniel Petrie<br>Jack Smight | presenter = | starring = | theme_music_composer = | open_theme = | composer = | country = United States | language = English | num_seasons = 6 | num_episodes = 143 | list_episodes = | executive_producer = | producer = Robert Alan Aurthur<br />Fred Coe<br />Gordon Duff<br />David Susskind | editor = | cinematography = | camera = Multi-camera | runtime = 48–50 minutes | company = Showcase Productions | channel = NBC | first_aired = {{start date|1951|10|14}} | last_aired = {{end date|1957|09|29}} | related = ''The Philco Television Playhouse''<br />''The Alcoa Hour'' }}
'''''Goodyear Television Playhouse''''' is an American anthology series that was telecast live on NBC from 1951 to 1957 during the first Golden Age of Television.
Goodyear alternated sponsorship with Philco, and ''The Philco Television Playhouse'' was seen on alternate weeks. In October 1955, Alcoa took over alternating sponsorship from Philco, the title was shortened to '''''The Goodyear Playhouse''''' and it aired on alternate weeks with ''The Alcoa Hour''.
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 Vidal's ''Visit to a Small Planet'' (1955), Richardson's ''Ark of Safety'' and Chayefsky's ''The Catered Affair''.
From 1957 to 1960, it became a taped, half-hour series titled '''''Goodyear Theater''''', seen on Mondays at 9:30 p.m.
''Goodyear Television Playhouse'' finished #16 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1951–1952 season, #15 for 1952–1953 and #22 for 1953–1954.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://classictvguide.com/tvratings/index.htm|title=TV Ratings|website=Classic TV Hits|access-date=March 11, 2020}}</ref>
==Episodes==
===Season 1 (1951–52)===
{{Episode table |overall= |season= |title= |airdate= |episodes= {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 1 | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = October Story | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1951|10|14}} | ShortSummary = A chance human interest interview reveals a girl has created a television that would only cost a few dollars. NBC executives become interested and hire a young man to help the girl complete her plans at her home. }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 2 | EpisodeNumber2 = 2 | Title = The Copper | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1951|10|28}} | ShortSummary = A wimpy, accident prone little man aspires to marry a tough police sergeant's daughter, and becomes a rookie cop. He's given an undercover assignment, posing as a convict in a prison to learn more about his inmates. }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 3 | EpisodeNumber2 = 3 | Title = Flight to Freedom | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1951|11|11}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 4 | EpisodeNumber2 = 4 | Title = The Eleventh Ward | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1951|11|25}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 5 | EpisodeNumber2 = 5 | Title = Money to Burn | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1951|12|9}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 6 | EpisodeNumber2 = 6 | Title = I Was Stalin's Prisoner | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1951|12|23}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 7 | EpisodeNumber2 = 7 | Title = A Softness in the Wind | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|1|6}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 8 | EpisodeNumber2 = 8 | Title = Raymond Schindler, Case One | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|1|20}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 9 | EpisodeNumber2 = 9 | Title = Tour of Duty | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|2|3}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 10 | EpisodeNumber2 = 10 | Title = Crown of Shadows | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|2|17}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 11 | EpisodeNumber2 = 11 | Title = Treasure Chest | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|3|2}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 12 | EpisodeNumber2 = 12 | Title = Three Letters | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|3|16}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 13 | EpisodeNumber2 = 13 | Title = Tigers Don't Sing | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|3|30}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 14 | EpisodeNumber2 = 14 | Title = The Madea Cup | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|4|13}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 15 | EpisodeNumber2 = 15 | Title = The Travellers | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|4|27}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 16 | EpisodeNumber2 = 16 | Title = The Twenty-Third Mission | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|5|11}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 17 | EpisodeNumber2 = 17 | Title = The Lantern Copy | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|5|25}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 18 | EpisodeNumber2 = 18 | Title = Four Meetings | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|6|8}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 19 | EpisodeNumber2 = 19 | Title = It's a Small World | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|6|22}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 20 | EpisodeNumber2 = 20 | Title = Leaf Out of a Book | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|7|6}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 21 | EpisodeNumber2 = 21 | Title = The Trial of Steve Kent | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|7|20}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 22 | EpisodeNumber2 = 22 | Title = The Duty Drawer | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|8|3}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 23 | EpisodeNumber2 = 23 | Title = The Witness | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|8|17}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 24 | EpisodeNumber2 = 24 | Title = Roman Fever | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|8|31}} }} }}
===Season 2 (1952–53)===
{{Episode table |overall= |season= |title= |airdate= |episodes= {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 25 | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = Holiday Song | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|9|14}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 26 | EpisodeNumber2 = 2 | Title = The Room | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|9|28}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 27 | EpisodeNumber2 = 3 | Title = O Romany | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|10|12}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 28 | EpisodeNumber2 = 4 | Title = Better Than Walking | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|10|26}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 29 | EpisodeNumber2 = 5 | Title = The Darkness Below | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|11|9}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 30 | EpisodeNumber2 = 6 | Title = The Old Beginning | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|11|23}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 31 | EpisodeNumber2 = 7 | Title = The Search | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|12|7}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 31 | EpisodeNumber2 = 8 | Title = Mr. Quimby's Christmas Hats | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1952|12|21}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 32 | EpisodeNumber2 = 9 | Title = A Medal in the Family | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|2|1}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 33 | EpisodeNumber2 = 10 | Title = Wings On My Feet | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|2|22}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 34 | EpisodeNumber2 = 11 | Title = The Rumor | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|3|8}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 35 | EpisodeNumber2 = 12 | Title = The Gesture | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|3|15}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 36 | EpisodeNumber2 = 13 | Title = Wish on the Moon | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|3|29}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 37 | EpisodeNumber2 = 14 | Title = The Long Way Home | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|4|19}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 38 | EpisodeNumber2 = 15 | Title = Printer's Measure | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|4|26}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 39 | EpisodeNumber2 = 16 | Title = The Accident | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|5|3}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 40 | EpisodeNumber2 = 17 | Title = The Oil Well | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|5|17}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 41 | EpisodeNumber2 = 18 | Title = Before I Wake | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|5|31}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 42 | EpisodeNumber2 = 19 | Title = Her Prince Charming | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|6|14}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 43 | EpisodeNumber2 = 20 | Title = Catch a Falling Star | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|6|28}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 44 | EpisodeNumber2 = 21 | Title = Nothing to Sneeze At | OriginalAirDate ={{Start date|1953|7|12}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 45 | EpisodeNumber2 = 22 | Title = The Young and the Fair | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|7|26}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 46 | EpisodeNumber2 = 23 | Title = Ernie Barger Is Fifty | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|8|9}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 47 | EpisodeNumber2 = 24 | Title = Hollywood Tandem | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|8|23}} }} }}
===Season 3 (1953–54)===
{{Episode table |overall= |season= |title= |airdate= |episodes= {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 48 | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = Other People's Houses | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|8|30}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 49 | EpisodeNumber2 = 2 | Title = The Happy Rest | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|10|4}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 50 | EpisodeNumber2 = 3 | Title = The Heaven | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|11|1}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 51 | EpisodeNumber2 = 4 | Title = John Turner | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|11|15}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 52 | EpisodeNumber2 = 5 | Title = Madame Aphrodite | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|12|6}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 53 | EpisodeNumber2 = 6 | Title = Wings Over Barriers | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1953|12|20}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 54 | EpisodeNumber2 = 7 | Title = Moment of Panic | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|1|3}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 55 | EpisodeNumber2 = 8 | Title = Here's Father | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|1|17}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 56 | EpisodeNumber2 = 9 | Title = Brownstone | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|1|31}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 57 | EpisodeNumber2 = 10 | Title = The Game of Hide and Seek | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|2|7}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 58 | EpisodeNumber2 = 11 | Title = The Huntress | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|2|14}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 59 | EpisodeNumber2 = 12 | Title = Buy Me Blue Ribbons | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|2|28}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 60 | EpisodeNumber2 = 13 | Title = The Inward Eye | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|3|14}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 61 | EpisodeNumber2 = 14 | Title = Native Dancer | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|3|28}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 62 | EpisodeNumber2 = 15 | Title = Spring Reunion | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|4|11}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 63 | EpisodeNumber2 = 16 | Title = Old Tasselfoot | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|4|25}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 64 | EpisodeNumber2 = 17 | Title = And Crown Thy Good | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|5|16}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 65 | EpisodeNumber2 = 18 | Title = The Lawn Party | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|5|23}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 66 | EpisodeNumber2 = 19 | Title = Write Me Out Forever | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|6|20}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 67 | EpisodeNumber2 = 20 | Title = Suitable for Farming | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|7|4}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber =68 | EpisodeNumber2 = 21 | Title = Dear Harriet Heart-Throb | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|7|18}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 69 | EpisodeNumber2 = 22 | Title = The Arena | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|8|1}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber =70 | EpisodeNumber2 = 23 | Title = Recoil | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|8|15}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 71 | EpisodeNumber2 = 24 | Title = Star in the Summer Night | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|8|22}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 72 | EpisodeNumber2 = 25 | Title = The Power of Suggestion | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|8|29}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 73 | EpisodeNumber2 = 26 | Title = The Big Man on Campus | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|9|12}} }} }}
===Season 4 (1954–55)===
{{Episode table |overall= |season= |title= |airdate= |episodes= {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 74 | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = Guilty is the Stranger | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|9|26}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 75 | EpisodeNumber2 = 2 | Title = The Personal Touch | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|10|10}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 76 | EpisodeNumber2 = 3 | Title = Flight Report | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|11|7}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 77 | EpisodeNumber2 = 4 | Title = Thunder of Silence | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|11|21}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 78 | EpisodeNumber2 = 5 | Title = Last Boat from Messina | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|12|5}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 79 | EpisodeNumber2 = 6 | Title = Class of '58 | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1954|12|19}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 80 | EpisodeNumber2 = 7 | Title = A Case of Pure Fiction | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|1|2}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 81 | EpisodeNumber2 = 8 | Title = Doing Her Bit | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|1|16}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 82 | EpisodeNumber2 = 9 | Title = The Way Things Happen | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|1|30}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 83 | EpisodeNumber2 = 10 | Title = The Rabbit Trap | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|2|13}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 84 | EpisodeNumber2 = 11 | Title = Backfire | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|2|27}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 85 | EpisodeNumber2 = 12 | Title = My Lost Saints | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|3|13}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 86 | EpisodeNumber2 = 13 | Title = The Chivington Raid | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|3|27}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 87 | EpisodeNumber2 = 14 | Title = Beloved Stranger | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|4|10}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 88 | EpisodeNumber2 = 15 | Title = Do it Yourself | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|4|24}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 89 | EpisodeNumber2 = 16 | Title = Visit to a Small Planet | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|5|8}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 90 | EpisodeNumber2 = 17 | Title = The Catered Affair | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|5|22}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 91 | EpisodeNumber2 = 18 | Title = Mr. Dorothy Allen | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|6|5}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 92 | EpisodeNumber2 = 19 | Title = End of the Mission | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|6|19}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 93 | EpisodeNumber2 = 20 | Title = Tangled Web | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|7|3}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber =94 | EpisodeNumber2 = 21 | Title = Man on Spikes | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|7|17}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 95 | EpisodeNumber2 = 22 | Title = The Prize Winner | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|7|31}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 96 | EpisodeNumber2 = 23 | Title = The Takers | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|8|14}} }} }}
===Season 5 (1955–56)===
{{Episode table |overall= |season= |title= |airdate= |episodes= {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 97 | EpisodeNumber2 = 1 | Title = Suit Yourself | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|9|11}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 98 | EpisodeNumber2 = 2 | Title = The Merry-Go-Round | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|9|25}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 99 | EpisodeNumber2 = 3 | Title = The Expendable House | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|10|9}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 100 | EpisodeNumber2 = 4 | Title = A Patch of Faith | OriginalAirDate = TBD }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 101 | EpisodeNumber2 = 5 | Title = The Mechanical Heart | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|11|6}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 102 | EpisodeNumber2 = 6 | Title = One Mummy to Many | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|11|20}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 103 | EpisodeNumber2 = 7 | Title = The Trees | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1955|12|4}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 104 | EpisodeNumber2 = 8 | Title = TBD | OriginalAirDate = TBD }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 105 | EpisodeNumber2 = 9 | Title = Rise Up and Walk | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956|1|1}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 106 | EpisodeNumber2 = 10 | Title = This Land is Mine | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956|1|15}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 107 | EpisodeNumber2 = 11 | Title = Starlet | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956|1|29}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 108 | EpisodeNumber2 = 12 | Title = Kyria Katina | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956|2|12}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 109 | EpisodeNumber2 = 13 | Title = The Terrorists | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956|2|26}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 110 | EpisodeNumber2 = 14 | Title = Conspiracy of Hearts | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956|3|11}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 111 | EpisodeNumber2 = 15 | Title = Joey | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956|3|25}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 112 | EpisodeNumber2 = 16 | Title = Footlight Frenzy | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956|4|8}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 113 | EpisodeNumber2 = 17 | Title = Career Girl | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956|4|22}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 114 | EpisodeNumber2 = 18 | Title = The Sentry | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956|5|6}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 115 | EpisodeNumber2 = 19 | Title = In the Days of Our Youth | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956|5|20}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 116 | EpisodeNumber2 = 20 | Title = The Primary Colors | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956|6|3}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 117 | EpisodeNumber2 = 21 | Title = The Pipes of Pan | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956|6|17}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 118 | EpisodeNumber2 = 22 | Title = The Film Maker | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956|7|1}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 119 | EpisodeNumber2 = 23 | Title = Country Fair Time | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956|7|15}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 120 | EpisodeNumber2 = 24 | Title = Pencil Sketch | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956|7|29}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 121 | EpisodeNumber2 = 25 | Title = Proud Passage | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956|8|12}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 122 | EpisodeNumber2 = 26 | Title = Grow Up | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956|8|26}} }} {{Episode list | EpisodeNumber = 123 | EpisodeNumber2 = 27 | Title = Ark of Safety | OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1956|9|9}} }} }}
==Notable guest stars== {{div col|colwidth=22em}} *Philip Abbott<ref name="t">{{cite news |last1=Adams |first1=Val |title=Mutual Extends Pact to Winchell: Contract for Commentator to Appear Only on Radio Awaits His Signature |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1955/08/18/archives/mutual-extends-pact-to-winchell-contract-for-commentator-to-appear.html?searchResultPosition=1 |access-date=August 1, 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=August 18, 1955 |page=47|url-access=subscription}}</ref> *Eddie Albert *Don Ameche *Jean-Pierre Aumont *Ed Begly *Ralph Bellamy *William Bendix *Shelley Berman *Theodore Bikel *Claire Bloom *Beulah Bondi *Ernest Borgnine *Eddie Bracken *Lloyd Bridges *Pat Carroll (actress) *John Cassavetes *Lee J. Cobb *Hume Cronyn *Don DeFore *Melvyn Douglas *Mildred Dunnock *Bill Erwin *Gracie Fields *Geraldine Fitzgerald *John Forsythe *Anthony Franciosa *Eva Gabor *Larry Hagman *Margaret Hamilton *Julie Harris *Eileen Heckart<ref name=nytrev/> *Judy Holliday *Celeste Holm *Grace Kelly *Phyllis Kirk *Jack Klugman *Veronica Lake *Viveca Lindfors *June Lockhart *Jack Lord *Kathleen Maguire<ref name=t/> *E. G. Marshall *Nan Martin *Raymond Massey *Walter Matthau *Roddy McDowell *Steve McQueen *Sal Mineo *Mildred Natwick *Patricia Neal *Paul Newman *Leslie Nielsen *Anthony Perkins *Robert Preston (actor) *Tony Randall *Thelma Ritter *Jason Robards *Gena Rowlands *Eva Marie Saint *Martha Scott *William Shatner *Lilia Skala *Kim Stanley *Maureen Stapleton *Rod Steiger *Susan Strasberg *Elaine Stritch *Jessica Tandy *Eli Wallach *Tuesday Weld *Joanne Woodward *Dick York {{div col end}}
==Production== ''Goodyear Television Playhouse'' was a production of Showcase Productions, Incorporated.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Adams |first1=Val |title=Showcase to Sign Segal to TV Pact: Agreement for His Exclusive Services Would Provide for at Least Five Programs |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1956/05/31/archives/showcase-to-sign-segal-to-tv-pact-agreement-for-his-exclusive.html?searchResultPosition=1 |access-date=August 1, 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=May 31, 1956 |page=49|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Herbert Brodkin was the producer. During his 12-week vacation in 1956, associate producer Philip Barry Jr. produced the series.<ref>{{cite news |title=Barry to serve as TV prdducer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1956/05/30/archives/barry-to-serve-as-tv-producer-aide-of-goodyear-playhouse-and-alcoa.html |access-date=April 30, 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=May 30, 1956 |page=39|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Other producers included Gordon Duff. Directors included Arthur Penn.<ref name="nytrev" />
==Critical response== A review in ''The New York Times'' praised Heckart's performance in "My Lost Saints" (1955), saying, "Miss Heckart's brilliant work overshadowed the deficiencies in script construction."<ref name="nytrev">{{cite news |last1=Shanley |first1=J. P. |title=TV: Eileen Heckart: Appears in 'My Lost Saints' on N. B. C. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1955/03/16/archives/tv-eileen-heckart-appears-in-my-lost-saints-on-n-b-c.html?searchResultPosition=1 |access-date=August 1, 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=March 16, 1955 |page=48|url-access=subscription}}</ref> The review said that the episode might not have exceeded soap-opera status had it not been for Heckart's acting, but she created "a moving and entirely believable characterization" of a housekeeper who faced a crisis.<ref name="nytrev" /> It concluded, "She raised what was basically an ordinary drama to a level of distinction."<ref name="nytrev" />
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://ctva.biz/US/Anthology/GoodyearTVPlayhouse.htm ''Goodyear Television Playhouse'' at CVTA with episode list] *{{IMDb title|0043204}}
{{Goodyear Company}}
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