Playhouse 90 open - The Velvet Alley (1-22-59) clip 1 of 8

[BeatlesMonkees]

Where is two?

[BeatlesMonkees]

Micky :D

[Juliaflo]

Written by the charismatic and intellectually gifted Rod Serling.

[samsullithegenius]

R.I.P. Leslie Nielsen. You are missed forever, buddy.

[friscolobo]

I agree with creolelady. Now there is trash on tv and "the culture of our once great nation". Playhouse is great. The 50's were a better time in America. Sad it is gone.

[creolelady182]

I will purchasing this on DVD . God knows I have to resort to past television shows for my entertainment because Americans TV these days has been reduced to trash

[RichieEastside]

@creolelady182 Unfortunately you're correct, but it's not better elsewhere in the world either. i live in Chile and all we get here are shows where women lounge around 90% naked talking about celebrity gossip and advertising beer or cheesy comedies where some guy dresses up like a doll and pretends to be drunk while making sex jokes and another 90% naked woman walks around advertising beer. When those aren't on we get the American shows, which are just as bad pretty much. The gold age is gone

[creolelady182]

@RichieEast

Entertainment has been reduced for the lowest common denominator!

[LazlosPlane]

Unbelievable cast. 

[ipmoic]

This is magnificent!

I can't thank you enough for posting this byrd59

Some of us are so very grateful.

[angelsart]

Love the old commercials, too!!

[AlbertPaysonTerhune]

The selections chosen do not have Alexander Scourby. What was his part and why was it cut?

[thechaz83]

Now as a writer I can relate to all of this stuff- the good, the bad and the ugly.

[tomkes100]

PLAYHOUSE 90 one of the most revered beloved respected television series ever. i lived those years 1956-61 ITS COMING OUT ON DVD I heard. Thank God. This is television at its best folks. Mr ed is tv Playhouse 90 and anything with Alistair Cook is television. this tv film historian knows his stuff here. ***** all the way. PLAYHOUSE 90 forever. TOMK

[albear972]

Oh man, I wanted to see Leslie Nielsen.

[sickfixxreturns]

I'm currently reading Rod Serling: A Life of Dreams and Nightmares in the Twilight Zone, and it goes over all of Serling's early successes, such as Patterns, Requiem for a Heavyweight, this, and also his failures, such as The Loner and A Happy Place.

[jsbach15]

Thank you byrd59, for giving us back some time when TV viewing meant something to behold, and learn from. Rod Serling was a huge talent, never the likes to be seen or heard from again, in my lifetime. THIS is so very special!

[Juliaflo]

Alaska had just been admitted to the union.

[MustafaJackson]

You have excellent taste byrd59.

[MustafaJackson]

The Golden Age.

[mca1218]

I bought this online on VHS as a kinescope dub...but what I want to know is whether or not it was originally on videotape. It was my understanding that by 1959 many of the P90's were broadcast on 2-inch videotape, if not outright live. A tape, of course, looks more like the live broadcast and I understand  that a lot of early broadcasts were taped and kinescoped simultaneously, just in case one technology malfunctioned over the other. Can re-mastering be far behind? Thanks, byrd59.

[margotdarby]

Where is Alexander Scourby? He's smoking around the rehearsal room table in the opening credits, but his character seems to be edited out.

[jess4metoo]

Wow! A rare piece of TV history.  Thank you!

[soulstice99]

thanks, was looking for this all over. you rock.

[torgman]

could you mark these clips in order, so it would be easier to watch?

[fromthesidelines]

"The Velvet Alley" was based on Serling's own experiences as a struggling TV writer in the early '50s. In fact, Kimberly-Clark became the alternate sponsor of the first season of "THE TWILIGHT ZONE"- and pulled out in the summer of 1960 after deciding the show wasn't "conventional" enough to continue their sponsorship.