Screen Directors Playhouse 1955 - 1956

The television version, produced and filmed at Hal Roach Studios, was broadcast for one season of 35 half-hour episodes on NBC, under the sponsorship of Eastman Kodak, airing from October 5, 1955 to June 27, 1956. The final seven episodes aired   on ABC from July 4 to September 26.

All 35 Episodes  5 DVD's Plus Bonus: 2 CDS of 120 Screen Directors Playhouse Old Time Radio Shows in MP3

This is a Great collection from Broadcast... 8 of 10


Disc 1

Tom and Jerry (Peter Lawford)
Rookie of the Year (John Wayne)
Lincoln's Doctor's Dog (Robert Ryan)
The Silent Partner (Buster Keaton)
No 5 Checked Out (Teresa Wright, Peter Lorre)
Prima Donna (Jeanette MacDonald)
Sword of Villon (Errol Flynn)
Markheim (Ray Milland, Rod STeiger)


Disc 2

Day is Done (Rory Calhoun)
Life of Vernon Hathaway (Alan Young)
Want Ad Wedding (Sally Forrest)
The Final Tribute (Laraine Day)
The Brush Roper (Walter Brennan)
The Titanic Incident (Leo Genn)
Claire (George Montgomery, Angela Lansbury)


Disc 3

It's Always Sunday (Dennis O'Keefe)
A Midsummer Daydream (Kim Hunter)
Meet the Governor (Herb Shriner, Barbara Hale)
Arroyo (Jack Carson)
Apples on the Lilac Tree (MacDonald Carey)
The Bitter Waters (George Sanders)
The Day I Met Caruso


Disc 4

One Against MAn (Lew Ayres)
It's a Most Unusual Day (Fred MacMurray)
A Ticket for Thaddeus (Edmond O'Brien)
Hot Cargo (Rory Calhoun, Yvonne De Carlo)
Cry Justice (MacDonald Carey, Dick Haymes)
Affair in Sumatra (Ralph Bellamy)
The Carroll Formula (Michael Wilding)


Disc 5

The Dream (George Sanders)
What Day Is It? (Marge and Gower Champion)
Every Man Has Two Wives (Barry Nelson)
Partners (Casey Tibbs, Brand De Wilde)
White Corridors (Linda Darnell)
High Air (Dennis Hopper)


But there was one difference between the two versions of the program: while the radio program
had presented only condensed versions of well-known plays and films, the television version
presented mostly original dramas.

Joan Crawford in a production of Flamingo Road on the 1950 radio version of
Screen Directors Playhouse

The radio version ran for 122 episodes and aired on NBC from January 9, 1949 to September 28, 1951 under several different titles: NBC Theater, Screen Directors Guild Assignment, Screen Directors Assignment and, as of July 1, 1949, Screen Directors Playhouse.

Actors on the radio series included Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Boyer, Claudette Colbert,
Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Kirk Douglas, Irene Dunne,
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Henry Fonda, Cary Grant, William Holden, Burt Lancaster, James Mason, Ray Milland,
Gregory Peck, William Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Norma Shearer, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, John Wayne, & Loretta Young.