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Schlitz Playhouse of the Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Dan O'Herlihy Peggy Creel Schlitz Playhouse of Stars 1955.JPG
Dan O'Herlihy and Peggy Creel in "Log the Man Innocent", 1955
Also known as ''Schlitz Playhouse''
Genre Anthology
Directed by Robert Aldrich
John Brahm
David Butler (director)
Robert Florey
Paul Henreid
Arthur Hiller
Delbert Mann
Lewis Milestone
Ray Milland
James Neilson (director)
Christian Nyby
Ted Post
Robert Stevenson (director)
Jacques Tourneur
Don Weis
Richard Whorf
Composer(s) Melvyn Lenard
Paul Dunlap
Stanley Wilson
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 8
No. of episodes 347
Production
Executive producer(s) Nat Holt
Producer(s) William Self
Frank P. Rosenberg
Jules Bricken
Location(s) Revue Studios
Cinematography George T. Clemens
Russell Harlan
Editor(s) Joseph Gluck
Richard Belding
Sam Gold
George Amy
Robert B. Warwick, Jr.
Camera setup Single-camera
Running time 50 mins.
Production company(s) Meridian Productions
Revue Studios
Distributor CBS Television Distribution
Mill Creek Entertainment
NBCUniversal Television Distribution
Release
Original network CBS
Picture format Black-and-white
Audio format Monaural
Original release October 5, 1951 (1951-10-05) – March 27, 1959 (1959-03-27)

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.

Initially, the show was broadcast live, but starting in the summer of 1953, some episodes were filmed in advance. Beginning with the 1956-1957 season, all of the shows were filmed.

Between October 1951 and March 1952, the hour-long show was aired at 9 pm. In April 1952, the running time was reduced from an hour to 30 minutes. The series moved to 9:30 pm in the 1955 fall season.

Two episodes served as pilots for later NBC Western series: The Restless Gun with John Payne (March 29, 1957 pilot) and Tales of Wells Fargo with Dale Robertson. The Restless Gun pilot was based on the radio series The Six Shooter, and Payne's character had the same name, Britt Ponset, as the radio character; that name was changed to Vint Bonner when the actual series began, possibly to prevent confusion with Bret Maverick in Maverick, which debuted in 1957.

For the 1958-1959 season, the series alternated weeks with the Lux Playhouse.

Guest stars included the child actress Beverly Washburn, later on The New Loretta Young Show, who appeared in "The Closed Door" (1953) and "One Left Over" (1957).

Child actor Michael Winkelman, later of The Real McCoys, also appeared twice, as Joey Harlow in the 1955 episode "Fast Break" and as Jimmy Quinlin in the 1956 segment "Weapon of Courage."


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