Producers' Showcase
| Producers' Showcase | |
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| Genre | Anthology |
| Directed by |
Kirk Browning Vincent J. Donehue Clark Jones Anatole Litvak Delbert Mann Arthur Penn Alex Segal |
| Composer(s) |
Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen Moose Charlap Harry Sosnik |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 37 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Fred Coe Alvin Cooperman |
| Producer(s) | John Bloch Fred Coe Alvin Cooperman Sol Hurok Edwin Lester Anatole Litvak Fred Rickey Alex Segal Henry Solomon Herbert Sussan Robert Whitehead |
| Running time | 90 mins. |
| Production company(s) | Showcase Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | NBC |
| Picture format | Compatible color |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | October 18, 1954 – May 27, 1957 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Producers' Showcase is an American anthology television series that was telecast live during the 1950s in compatible color by NBC. With top talent, the 90-minute episodes, covering a wide variety of genres, aired under the title every fourth Monday at 8 pm ET for three seasons, beginning October 18, 1954. The final episode, the last of 37, was broadcast May 27, 1957.
Showcase Productions, Inc., packaged and produced the series, which received seven Emmy Awards, including the 1956 award for Best Dramatic Series.
In 1953, stage producer Leland Hayward had the idea to create a 90-minute TV series, a series of color spectaculars to be broadcast monthly on NBC. Hayward was represented by Saul Jaffe of the Madison Avenue law firm Jaffe & Jaffe; Henry Jaffe, the firm's senior partner, was national counsel for the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, an organization he helped found. When illness forced Hayward to withdraw from the project, NBC partnered with Showcase Productions, an independent production company created by Henry and Saul Jaffe to produce the series. Producers' Showcase went on the air October 18, 1954.
The ambitious series presented a total of 37 live color programs, which included original musicals or plays, restaging of Broadway productions, great concert artists, and tribute programs. Producers' Showcase presented the first international show with live remote locations (Wide Wide World), and the first full-length Broadway production on color television (Peter Pan).
"Producers' Showcase has undoubtedly been a tremendous prestige presentation by the network with elaborate and worthy cultural productions," The New York Times published in 1957, the series' final year.
Producers' Showcase received seven Emmy Awards, including the 1956 award for Best Dramatic Series.
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