Playhouse 90 : Episode List
Of the many anthology series, this is considered the most ambitious with outstanding talent in front of the camera. Attracting top ranked directors and scripts, it was often filmed live including the entire first season.
Seasons: 3, Episodes: 7
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Forbidden Area (1956)
- Season 1, Episode 1
Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will anyone believe him (imdb)
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Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956)
- Season 1, Episode 2
A punch-drunk prizefighter (Jack Palance) is forced to face life outside the ring in Rod Serling's searing indictment of the professional boxing underworld. Costarring father and son Ed and Keenan Wynn, the former in his dramatic debut, and directed by Ralph Nelson, the Emmy Award-winning Requiem for a Heavyweight is a moving portrait of a would-be champion. (Criterion.com)
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The Comedian (1957)
- Season 1, Episode 20
Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than he is. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, who Sammy has hired as his assistant but who really uses him as his whipping boy. (imdb)
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