Goodyear Theatre
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Golden Years of Television
Robert Florey
Tay Garnett
Peter Godfrey
Walter Grauman
David Greene
Paul Henreid
Arthur Hiller
Lamont Johnson
Sidney Lanfield
Ray Milland
Robert Ellis Miller
Boris Sagal
Don Taylor
| Goodyear Theatre | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Award Theatre Golden Years of Television |
| Genre | Anthology |
| Directed by | Lewis Allen Robert Florey Tay Garnett Peter Godfrey Walter Grauman David Greene Paul Henreid Arthur Hiller Lamont Johnson Sidney Lanfield Ray Milland Robert Ellis Miller Boris Sagal Don Taylor |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 114 |
| Production | |
| Producers | James Fonda Jules Goldstone Winston O'Keefe William Sackheim |
| Running time | 30 mins. |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | September 30, 1957 – May 23, 1960 |
| Related | |
| Goodyear Television Playhouse | |
Goodyear Theatre (also known as Award Theatre[1] and Golden Years of Television)[citation needed] is a 30-minute dramatic television anthology series telecast on NBC from October 14, 1957, to September 12, 1960.[2]
Actors appearing in the series included:
- Parley Baer (2 episodes, 1958-1959)
- Felicia Montealegre Bernstein (1 episode, 1952)
- Charles Boyer (unknown episodes, 1957-1958)
- Russ Conway (2 episodes, 1958)
- Pat Crowley (2 episodes, 1959-1960)
- John Doucette (2 episodes, 1958)
- Paul Douglas[3] (2 episodes, 1958-1959)
- Errol Flynn
- Virginia Gregg[4] (3 episodes, 1957-1959)
- Vivi Janiss (2 episodes, 1958-1960)
- Richard Kiley[5]
- Michael Landon
- John Larch
- Peter Leeds (3 episodes, 1958)
- Jack Lemmon (4 episodes, 1957-1958)[2]
- Dayton Lummis (2 episodes, 1958-1959)
- James Mason
- James McCallion (2 episodes, 1958-1959)
- Patty McCormack[3]
- Ray Milland
- Cameron Mitchell
- David Niven (4 episodes, 1957-1958)
- Jane Powell (4 episodes, 1957-1958)
- Judson Pratt as Colonel Holt in "Point of Impact" (1959)
- Tony Randall (2 episodes, 1959)
- Edward G. Robinson[6]
- Robert Ryan[4] (5 episodes, 1957-1958)
- Willard Sage (2 episodes, 1958-1960)
- Jacqueline Scott (2 episodes, 1959-1960)
- Barbara Stanwyck
- Chet Stratton (2 episodes, 1959-1960)
- Rod Taylor
- Lurene Tuttle (2 episodes, 1959-1960)
- Eli Wallach
- Gig Young
Episodes
| Date | Episode |
|---|---|
| October 14, 1957 | "Lost and Found"[2] |
| November 11, 1957 | "Voice in the Fog"[2] |
| January 6, 1958 | "The Victim"[2] |
| February 17, 1958 | "White Flag"[4] |
| March 17, 1958 | "The Seventh Letter"[4] |
| April 28, 1958 | "The Giant Step"[4] |
| June 9, 1958 | "Disappearance"[2] |
| September 29, 1958 | "The Chain and the River"[3] |
| November 24, 1958 | "Guy in Ward 4"[5] |
| March 2, 1959 | "A Good Name"[6] |
| April 17, 1959 | "I Remember Cavair"[7] |
| September 29, 1959 | "Hello, Charlie"[8] |
| April 11, 1960 | "Author at Work"[9] |
Production
Fifty-five episodes were made. The live show was directed by many notable directors, including Don Taylor, Arthur Hiller (3 episodes, 1958–59) and Robert Ellis Miller (3 episodes, 1958–59). It followed Goodyear Television Playhouse (1951).[citation needed] Dayton Productions, a subsidiary of Four Star Productions, produced the show,[10] which alternated with Alcoa Theatre.[2]
Critical response
Episodes of Goodyear Theatre reviewed in The New York Times included the following:
- September 29, 1958: The episode was called "an unconvincing story", and the review said, "It made for a drab and pointless thirty minutes of television."[3]
- November 24, 1958: The review said that "a facile and unsatisfactory conclusion" marred what might otherwise have been "an interesting drama".[5]
- April 11, 1960: The review summarized the episode as "an unsubstantial and only faintly amusing suspense story".[9]
