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

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

Oh man, I wanted to see  Leslie Nielsen.

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.

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!

Alaska had just been admitted to the union.

You have excellent taste byrd59.

The Golden Age.

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.

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

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