Your Play Time

{{Short description|American television series}} {{italic title}} {{more citations needed|date=October 2014}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} '''''Your Play Time''''' is a 30-minute American television anthology series that ran as a summer replacement show in 1953, 1954, and 1955.<ref name=tt>{{cite book|last1=McNeil|first1=Alex|title=Total Television|date=1996|publisher=Penguin Books USA, Inc.|location=New York, New York|isbn=0-14-02-4916-8|page= 937|edition=4th}}</ref>

The first two seasons contained live and filmed dramas, often with foreign settings. The 1955 season had comedic and dramatic episodes, all on film and all set in America. In seasons one and two (1953–54) it was the summer replacement for Ann Sothern's ''Private Secretary'' and ''The Jack Benny Program''.<ref name=brooks/> In 1954, episodes were "re-runs of films from various series".<ref>{{cite news |title=Other Network Changes & Additions |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-TV-Index/1954/TV-Index-1954-09-13.pdf#page=5 |access-date=March 19, 2021 |work=Ross Reports on Television |date=September 12, 1954 |page=155}}</ref> In the third season it replaced ''Your Hit Parade''.<ref name="brooks">{{cite book|last1=Brooks|first1=Tim|last2=Marsh|first2=Earle|title=The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present|date=1999|publisher=The Ballentine Publishing Group|location=New York|isbn=0-345-42923-0|page=1144|edition=7th}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=This Week -- Network Debuts & Highlights |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-TV-Index/1955/TV-Index-1955-06-13.pdf#page=1 |access-date=March 19, 2021 |work=Ross Reports on Television |date=June 12, 1955 |page=60}}</ref>

Guest stars that included Hillary Brooke, Peter Graves, Jack Haley, George Nader, Tommy Rettig, and Ruth Warrick.<ref name="brooks" />

Episodes were broadcast from June 14, 1953, to September 6, 1953; June 13, 1954, to September 5, 1954; and June 18, 1955, to September 3, 1955.<ref name="tt" /> In 1954, the sponsor was American Tobacco Company.<ref>{{cite news |title=Network New Business |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1954/1954-06-07-BC.pdf#page=33 |access-date=March 19, 2021 |work=Broadcasting |date=June 7, 1954 |page=33}}</ref>

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0045460|title=Your Play Time}} *[http://ctva.biz/US/Anthology/YourPlayTime.htm ''Your Play Time'' at CVTA with list of episodes]

Category:1950s American anthology television series Category:1953 American television series debuts Category:1955 American television series endings Category:Black-and-white American television shows Category:CBS television dramas