Friday the 13th (The Philco Television Playhouse)

"Friday the 13th"
The Philco Television Playhouse episode
Episode no.Season 6
Episode 21
Directed byArthur Penn
Written bySumner Locke Elliott
Original air dateJune 27, 1954 (1954-06-27)
Running time60 mins
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"Friday the 13th" is a 1954 American television play by Sumner Locke Elliott. It originally aired as an episode of The Philco Television Playhouse produced by Fred Coe and directed by Arthur Penn.[1]

Elliott originally wrote the script for television but then adapted it for radio and sent it back to Harry Dearthin Australia. He arranged a broadcast of the play on Australian radio in 1955 as an episode of Harry Dearth's Playhouse starring Gordon Glenwright and Charles Tingwell.[2]

The script was filmed again for television for NBC Matinee Theater in 1956.

  1. ^ "Friday the 13th on Playhouse". The Times-Mail. 26 June 1954. p. 10.
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