CBS Playhouse is an American anthology drama television series that aired on CBS from 1967 to 1970. Airing twelve plays over the course of its run, the series won ten Primetime Emmy Awards and featured many noteworthy actors and playwrights.
6-458: The CBS Playhouse series was announced in 1966, with CBS announcing a $ 500,000 outlay for new scripts to film. CBS was specifically looking to "encourage authors to write original and significant dramas for television," and offered $ 25,000 per optioned script. This occurred shortly after ABC announced its dramatic arts program ABC Stage 67 , along with many CBS dramas. Playhouse ultimately commissioned thirteen playwrights to write scripts for
12-476: A man enjoying the sights and sounds of New York City in his last remaining hours of bachelorhood. Arkin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama and the program was nominated as Outstanding Dramatic Program. Later programs included appearances by Petula Clark , Bobby Darin , Sir Laurence Olivier , Albert Finney , Peter Sellers , David Frost and Jack Paar . Ultimately, ABC's effort to revive
18-650: A number of awards over the course of its run. In total, the dramatic series was nominated for twenty-eight Primetime Emmy Awards , including ten wins, and seven Directors Guild of America awards, including three wins. CBS Playhouse was also honored with a Peabody Award in 1967. ABC Stage 67 ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly American television shows that included dramas, variety shows , documentaries and original musicals. It premiered on ABC on September 14, 1966, with Murray Schisgal 's The Love Song of Barney Kempinski , directed by Stanley Prager and starring Alan Arkin as
24-612: The early drama series Playhouse 90 that broadcast in the late 1950s. CBS broadcast twelve teleplays over the three television seasons between 1967 and 1970. The broadcasts have been preserved in a variety of archives, with all twelve broadcasts archived between the Paley Center for Media , the UCLA film archive, and the Peabody Awards Collection . The CBS Playhouse series of broadcasts were nominated for
30-465: The popular anthology series format from the 1950s failed. Scheduled first against I Spy on Wednesdays and then The Dean Martin Show on Thursdays, the show consistently received low ratings. Its last production, an adaptation of Jean Cocteau 's one-woman play The Human Voice starring Ingrid Bergman , was shown on May 4, 1967. A behind the scenes documentary of a May 1966 British concert tour by
36-531: The series. The first program aired in 1967, called The Final War of Olly Winter starring Ivan Dixon and written by noted playwright Ronald Ribman . According to CBS, over 30 million people watched the broadcast, making it a popular hit for the time. Twelve broadcasts ultimately occurred before production stopped due to lack of sponsorship funding. CBS would later revive the genre in CBS Playhouse 90 , which would refer back to both CBS Playhouse and
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