Sadbird was a television play broadcast as part of the CBS Playhouse series. The play was a coming-of-age drama about a young man finding his own in the toy business after years of rejecting the corporate lifestyle.
Sadbird aired in December 1969, was nominated for an Emmy award for writer George Bellak, and starred such noteworthy actors and actresses as Ed Asner, Tyne Daly, and Jack Albertson.