Gruen Playhouse
Gruen Playhouse | |
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Also known as | Gruen Guild Playhouse |
Starring | Raymond Burr Bruce Cabot Dane Clark Ann Dvorak Buddy Ebsen Bonita Granville Peter Graves (actor) Carolyn Jones Shirley Jones Cameron Mitchell (actor) Vincent Price Marjorie Reynolds Ann Rutherford Ruth Warrick |
Country of origin | USA |
Production | |
Producer | Leon Fromkess |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | ABC (1951) DuMont (1952) |
Picture format | Black-and-white |
Audio format | Monaural |
Original release | September 27 January 17, 1952 (DuMont) – December 20, 1951 (ABC) August 7, 1952 (DuMont) | (ABC)
Gruen Playhouse (also known as Gruen Guild Playhouse) is a dramatic anthology series that aired on ABC and the now-defunct DuMont Television Network.
Sponsored by the Gruen Watch Company, the series aired on ABC on Thursdays at 9:30pm ET, and on DuMont on Thursdays at 9pm ET. From January to March 1952, Gruen Playhouse alternated with Shadow of the Cloak on DuMont.
The 30-minute dramas featured actors such as Carolyn Jones (in her TV debut), Raymond Burr (in his TV debut), and Bonita Granville.[1][2] An early episode was written by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.
Episode status[]
Two DuMont episodes are held in the collection of the UCLA Film and Television Archive, along with a single ABC episode.
See also[]
- List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
- List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
- 1951-52 United States network television schedule
References[]
- ^ IMDB entry
- ^ DuMont historical website Archived 2009-02-16 at the Wayback Machine
Bibliography[]
- David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) ISBN 1-59213-245-6
- Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) ISBN 0-14-024916-8
- Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964) ISBN 0-345-31864-1
External links[]
Categories:
- 1951 American television series debuts
- 1952 American television series endings
- 1950s American anthology television series
- American Broadcasting Company original programming
- 1950s American drama television series
- Black-and-white American television shows
- DuMont Television Network original programming
- English-language television shows