Playhouse 90

Playhouse 90
GenreAnthology
Written byRobert Alan Aurthur
James P. Cavanagh
Horton Foote
John Gay
William Gibson
Frank D. Gilroy
Arthur Hailey
A.E. Hotchner
Ernest Kinoy
Loring Mandel
Don M. Mankiewicz
Abby Mann
J. P. Miller
Paul Monash
Tad Mosel
Reginald Rose
Rod Serling
David Shaw
Aaron Spelling
Leslie Stevens
Malvin Wald
Directed byJohn Brahm
James B. Clark
Fielder Cook
Vincent J. Donehue
John Frankenheimer
David Greene
George Roy Hill
Arthur Hiller
Herbert Hirschman
Buzz Kulik
Delbert Mann
Burgess Meredith
Robert Mulligan
James Neilson
Ralph Nelson
Arthur Penn
David Lowell Rich
Oscar Rudolph
Boris Sagal
Franklin J. Schaffner
Alex Segal
Stewart Stern
Robert Stevens
David Swift
Charles Marquis Warren
Paul Wendkos
Theme music composerAlex North
ComposersJerry Goldsmith
Robert Allen
John Williams
Robert Drasnin
Fred Steiner
Bernard Herrmann
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons4
No. of episodes134
Production
Executive producerPeter Kortner
ProducersJulian Claman
Martin Manulis
Herbert Brodkin
CinematographyGert Andersen
Albert Kurland
EditorsHenry Batista
Robert L. Swanson
Sam Gold
Richard K. Brockway
Running time72–78 minutes
Production companiesCBS Productions
Filmaster Productions
Screen Gems
Original release
NetworkCBS
ReleaseOctober 4, 1956 (1956-10-04) –
May 18, 1960 (1960-05-18)
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Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology drama series that aired on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. The show was produced at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s usually were hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual: a weekly series of hour-and-a-half-long dramas rather than 60-minute plays.