Playhouse 90 open - No Time At All

[morrisrooney]

That's quite an impressive cast! Chico Marx, Parkyakarkas ( not long before he died from a heart attack duirng a dinner for Lucy & Desi at the Beverly Hills Friars Club ), the great James Gleason ( he died a short time later, too ), Reginal Gardiner...and oh yes -- Jane Greer still looked fanstastic some ten years after "Out of the Past!"

[Reduxalicious]

Man these commercials are so strange at least to me. It's cool to see how they used to be though.

[sjbosch56]

What does seem to be missing is characters who are intelligent but are in situations that threaten to overwhelm them unless they find some way to cope and are changed by the struggle.

[creolelady182]

This was television in its infancy and I must say this was television at its best. Most of these people came from the theatre. great writers and actors. Not like the trash of today!

[albear972]

Dangit! why doesn't my 2009 gas stove burner not have a brain, 2:50 and they did in 1958?

[tomservo56954]

@albear972 The stove had a brain, but not the Association...they were the ones that demanded the words "gas ovens" be censored from the show's original teleplay version of JUDGMENT AT NUREMBURG.

[aijinita60]

Bryd 59 can put up "No Time At All " in it's entirety?

[eternallyoung]

Chico Marx WAS in the clip - - - without his Italian hairdo and make-up !!!

[TIPTON340]

It's nice to see this after years of hearing about it.. oh, wait.. I saw an episode of this years and years ago on video. It starred

Bob Cummings.

[GiantRatSumatra]

Hello,

Does anyone know where you can download this full episode? If it is in the public domain, I thought you might be able to get it online somewhere? Anyone know?

Many thanks in advance.

[Hetoreyn]

Jeez .. You'd kill yourself having to listen to all the commercial crap! Makes me think that we Brits were spoiled with the BBC. No bleedin' adverts once the shows start. And starring everything but the kitchen sink it seems :D .. still .. interesting to see.

[fromthesidelines]

That's correct, 'mca'- in fact, Columbia Pictures Television {"Screen Gems"} offered a "package" of 13 filmed "PLAYHOUSE 90" episodes of they produced for CBS between 1956and '58, for syndication in the '80s...no takers.

[MissHarpoMarx]

What the crap!!!

Chico was named off..but he wasnt even in the clip!

I got jiped!

lol

[epicentrobotamico]

where is Chico Marx???

[MissHarpoMarx]

He was standing next to Silvia Sydney or what ever her name is...he was out of costume..lol

[nostromo38]

Have a REAL Cigarette...have a CAMEL

[tomservo56954]

@nostromo38 I never knew Allstate and R.J. Reynolds also advertised on the show...Renault later joined the Gas Association as co-sponsor (at the time it was the #2 import car in America, after VW).

[Creolelady281]

Great to these old television shows. When this broadcast I was about 5 years old and I still remember them. THanks

[fromthesidelines]

The "PLAYHOUSE 90" theme was written especially for CBS by Alex North, 'Yitz'. One of his most stirring pieces of music, indeed!

[davemock]

I love the piano-violin stinger as each performer is introduced. It gets the point across without overkill.

[mca1218]

So do I. Several anthology series had that kind of 'mood' music. Even the introduction of the evening's play had a air suspense about it from the stirring theme music.

[fromthesidelines]

I know Dick Joy because he was "SAM SPADE"'s long-time announcer (for Wildroot) on CBS Radio in the late '40s, and continued as a CBS staff announcer until the '60s. I'm glad you knew him, 'Leuchtenberg'.

[YitzO]

Worth it just to listen to the best introductory song ever done on TV.I still hum it after all these years.

[antoniod]

How many people are aware that Buster Keaton and Chico Marx were once in the same show?(And Harry Einstein-Parkyakarkus-Albert Brooks' father).People forget that Keaton had a kind of comeback in the 50s.

[byrd56]

And let's not forget Buster's appearance in the "Twilight Zone" episode "Once Upon a Time" in the early 1960's.

[fromthesidelines]

This was a 1958 summer repeat, as "PLAYHOUSE 90" repeated their FILMED dramas between July and September- yes, there were occasional filmed episodes because of the logistics of staging a live 90 minute drama every week; Screen Gems/Columbia and CBS produced these "canned" episodes.

[mca1218]

I understood it to be roughly every third or fourth week they filmed an episode to give the live studio crew a breather. Then, beginning with the 1959 season they began to alternate live broadcasts with videotape-- and the taped broadcasts are the ones I'd kill to see, as they still exist in the CBS vaults!!

[byrd56]

Either they were "canned", or, considering that this was "Playhouse 90", they may have been a forerunner of the "made-for-TV movie".

[byrd59]

Thanks! Your clips are fascinating, too. The stars of that era had such class.

[creamofcardstv]

Your video clip is great and I've rated it as awesome. I've done another clip on some old cigarette cards of 1930's movie stars: Regis Toomey , Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Clarke Gable, Fay Wray from King Kong, Bing Crosby, Kay Francis and many more.

[oconnorcd]

Kennan and Ed Wynn have always made me laugh. All of these actors are fabulous. God these were good times.