NET Playhouse

NET Playhouse
Genre	Anthology
Written by	William Alfred Maxwell Anderson Arthur Barron Lewis Carroll Christopher Fry Henrik Ibsen Milard Lampell Robert Lowell Archibald MacLeish Loring Mandel Arthur Miller Clifford Odets Ronald Ribman Jack Richardson (writer) Carl Sandburg George Bernard Shaw Jean Shepherd David Silver Lane Slate Gertrude Stein Igor Stravinsky Megan Terry Victor Ullman John Wheatcroft Oscar Wilde Thornton Wilder Tennessee Williams Lanford Wilson Paul Zindel
Directed by	Arthur Barron Fred Barzyk Paul Bogart Marc Daniels Glenn Jordan Nathan Kroll Jack Landau (director) Arthur Allan Seidelman Paul Sills Lane Slate
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	228
Production
Executive producer(s)	Curtis W. Davis Jac Venza
Cinematography	Boyd Estus
Release
Original network	NET (1966-1970) PBS (1970-1972)
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	October 10, 1966 – January 5, 1972
External links
Website

NET Playhouse was an American dramatic television anthology series produced by National Educational Television (NET). NET subsequently merged with WNDT Newark, New Jersey to form WNET and was superseded by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), though the NET part in the title did survive the changeover. In addition to episodes produced in the US, the series also aired others that were originally produced and broadcast in the UK, as well occasional feature films such as L'Avventura and Knife in the Water.^[1]

Selected American Episodes list

1. Ten Blocks on the Camino Real, starring Martin Sheen, Carrie Nye, Janet Margolin (October 7, 1966)
2. The Journey of the Fifth Horse, starring Dustin Hoffman, Orson Bean, and Marian Seldes (October 14, 1966)
3. An Enemy of the People, starring James Daly (actor), Philip Bosco, and Kate Reid (December 2, 1966)
4. A Sleep of Prisoners, starring Barry Morse, and Jon Voight (December 9, 1966)
5. Ofoeti, starring René Auberjonois (December 16, 1966)
6. The Amorous Flea, starring Lew Parker (January 6, 1967)
7. La Mama Playwrights (January 20, 1967)
8. The World of Carl Sandburg, starring Uta Hagen and Fritz Weaver (January 27, 1967)
9. The Importance of Being Earnest, starring Susannah York and Patrick Macnee (February 17, 1967)
10. The World of Kurt Weill, starring Lotte Leyna (February 24, 1967)
11. The Old Glory: Benito Cereno, starring Roscoe Lee Brown and Frank Langella (March 24, 1967)
12. Misalliance, starring Richard Dysart (April 7, 1967)
13. A Mother for Janek, starring members of the American Conservatory of Theater (May 5, 1967)
14. The Irregular Verb To Love, starring Cornelia Otis Skinner and Cyril Ritchard (May 20, 1967)^[2]
15. Duke Ellington - A Concert of Sacred Music (June 16, 1967)
16. An Evening Journey to Conway Massachusetts, starring John Beal (actor) and Gary Burghoff (November 3, 1967)
17. Infancy and Childhood, starring Eileen Brennan and Frances Sternhagen (December 15, 1967)
18. Home, starring Irene Dailey and Roger Davis (January 19, 1968)
19. Trumpets of the Lord, starring James Earl Jones (May 10, 1968)
20. The Soldier's Tale, starring Svetlana Beriosova and Robert Helpmann (October 18, 1968)
21. A Celebration of William Jennings Bryant, starring Roy Schneider and Barry Primus (December 6, 1968)
22. The National Theatre of the Deaf (January 17, 1969)
23. The Blood Knot (January 31, 1969)
24. The Prodigal, starring Kim Hunter and Peter Galman (May 2, 1969)
25. Let Me Hear You Whisper, starring Ruth White (actress) and Elizabeth Wilson (actress) (May 23, 1969)
26. Theatre America: Story Theatre, starring Mildred Dunnock and David Clennon (November 27, 1969)
27. Thoughts of the Artist on Leaving the Sixties (January 1, 1970)
28. Trail of Tears, starring Johnny Cash and Jack Palance (April 30, 1970)
29. El Tenlro Campesino (June 4, 1970)
30. The Ceremony of Innocence, starring Richard Kiley (June 4, 1970)
31. Helen Hayes Remembers (October 8, 1970)
32. The Sand Castle (November 19, 1970)
33. The Tape Recorder, starring Inga Swenson and Michael Tolan (November 19, 1970)
34. Dragon Country, starring Kim Stanley and Lois Smith (December 13, 1970)
35. A Memory of Two Mondays, starring Jack Warden and Estelle Parsons (January 28, 1971)
36. Hard Travelin', starring Ralph Meeker (February 4, 1971)
37. Paradise Lost Pt. 1, starring Eli Wallach and Jo Van Fleet (February 18, 1971)
38. Paradise Lost Pt. 2, starring Eli Wallach and Jo Van Fleet (February 25, 1971)
39. Sam and John Adams, starring Laurence Luckinbill (May 13, 1971)
40. The Wright Brothers, starring Stacy Keach and James Keach (June 24, 1971)
41. Hogan's Goat, starring Faye Dunaway, Robert Foxworth, and Rue McLanahan (October 11, 1971)
42. Lorraine Hansberry: To Be Young Gifted and Black, starring Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil and Al Freeman Jr (January 20, 1972)
43. Harriet, starring Kitty Winn, Richard Dysart, and Madeline Sherwood (February 3, 1972)
44. George Washington - Portrait of the Hero as a Young Man, starring Rene Auberjonois (April 13, 1972)
45. Particular Men, starring Stacy Keach, Verna Bloom, and Lois Smith (May 8, 1972)
46. The Last G.I.'s (May 25, 1972)

References

1. • NET Playhouse at CVTA with episode list
2. "N.E.T. Playhouse" listing, Pasadena Independent Star-News, May 14, 1967, TV Week section p. 22.

External links

• NET Playhouse at the Internet Movie Database
• NET Playhouse at CVTA with episode list