PLAYHOUSE 90

Playhouse 90 was an anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960. 
It originated from Hollywood, California and most of the shows were broadcast live. 
Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s were usually hour-long shows, 
the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual, a weekly 
series of hour-and-a-half dramas rather than 60-minute plays.

Playhouse 90 received many Emmy Award nominations. Here now are 15 of 
those surviving shows. The quality of most of the shows is 7.5/8 - keep in mind that 
some were done live and the only recording available back then was old kinescopes. 
A couple of shows are missing opening credits but again -this is just a couple of shows 
but the stories are otherwise complete. As an added bonus most of these shows 
include the original network commercials for cigarettes, automobiles and appliances.


DVD 1)
THE DUNGEON - Starring Paul Douglas, Agnes Moorhead, Thomas Gomez,
Dennis Weaver, Patty McCormack. Patrick McVey, Werner Klemperer and
Johnny Crawford

NO TIME AT ALL - starring William Lundigan, Betsy Palmer, Keenan Wynn,
Reginald Gariner, James Gleason, Jay C Flippen, Cliff Edwards, Jack Haley.
Buster Keaton, Chico Marx, Sylvia Sidney, Regis Toomey, Charles Bronson
& Richard Crane

ELOISE - starring Ethel Barrtymore, Hans Conried, Conrad Hilton, Louis Jordan, 
Mildred Natwick, "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom, Kay Tompson, Charlie Ruggles, 
Monty Woolely, Evelyn Rudie and Inger Stevens



DVD 2)
WITHOUT INCIDENT starring Errol Flynn, John Ireland, Ann Sheridan and
Julie London - Captain Russell Bidlack

To SOON TO DIE starring Richard Basehart, Anne Bancroft & Sebastian Cabot

THE PLOT TO KILL STALIN starring Melvyn Douglas, Eli Wallach, E.G. Marshall 
and Tomas Gomez


DVD 3)
THE KILLERS OF MUSSOLINI starring Michael Ansara, John Dehner

DEATH OF A MANOLETE directed by John Frankenheimer

HOMEWARD BOUND starring Richard Kiley & Linda Darnell - A drama of a
refugee orphan, who was both wanted and unwanted in the family of a returning
war hero.


DVD 4)
AIN'T NO TIME FOR GLORY starring Barry Sullivan, Gene Barry and John Barrymore Jr. 
A World War II drama about a self-styled American C.O. and his dedicated troops, who 
used their minds, rather than their weapons, to take over a strategic Nazi outpost at 
Normandy.

THE COMEDIAN - starring Mickey Rooney, Edmond O'Brien, Kim Hunter & Mel Torme 
Sammy Hogarth has reached the top of his profession as a TV comedian. But though 
his audience loves him, his co-workers hate him.

CHARLIE'S AUNT - starring Art Carney, Orsen Bean, Richard Haydn, Tom Tryon, 
Jackie Coogan, Janette MacDonald & Gene Raymond. Fancourt must pose as the 
elderly aunt of his roommate. This of course causes problems when the real Auntie 
shows 


DVD 5)
BOMBERS MOON - starring Cliff Robertson, Robert Cummings, Rip Thorn & Martin Balsam. After a mission in which one of Culver's best pilots was shot down, the overwrought colonel singles out a young flier and publicly accuses him of cowardice. 

THE DAYS OF WINE & ROSES starring Cliff Robertson, Charles Bickford & Piper Laurie 
Joe Clay

VELVET ALLEY - starring Art Carney, Leslie Nielsen, Jack Klugman, Diane Cannon, 
Burt Reynolds

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