Summer Playhouse is a 30-minute NBC summer anthology television series broadcast in the summers of 1954 and 1957. It consisted of reruns of episodes previously aired on other anthology series.
Summer Playhouse is unrelated to a CBS series of the same name that aired during the summers of 1964 and 1965.
Broadcast history Summer Playhouse premiered on July 6, 1954, and ran until August 24, 1954,Schenectady Gazette, August 24, 1957, p. 10. airing on Tuesdays from 9:00 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time. It returned three summers later in July 1957, premiering on July 2Schenectady Gazette, July 2, 1957, p. 31. and airing on Tuesdays from 9:30 to 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Its final episode was broadcast on September 17, 1957.Schenectady Gazette, September 17, 1957, p. 11.
The premiere episode in 1954 was "The Seven Graces".
Cast Nelson Case was the host in 1954.Alicoate, Jack, Ed. (1955). The 1955 Radio and Television Yearbook. Radio Daily Corp. P. 1173. Jane Wyman hosted in 1957.
References Citations
Bibliography Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–Present, Ninth edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 2007)
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