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Goodyear Television Playhouse

  • 1951-1957
  • 6 seasons
  • NBC
  • Drama

The show featured original plays plus plays adapted from works.

Season 3 Episode Guide

26 Episodes 1953 - 1954

Episode 1

The Happy Rest

Sun, Oct 4, 1953 60 mins

Episode 2

Other People's Houses

Sun, Aug 30, 1953 60 mins

Episode 3

The Haven

Sun, Nov 1, 1953 60 mins

Feeling that he's in a rut, a man can't bear to spend another summer in his cottage by the lake. Although his wife and kids are disappointed, he wants to sell the house and use the money for a long trip.

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Episode 4

John Turner

Sun, Nov 15, 1953

A childless couple befriend a boy who has been deserted by his aunt and uncle.

Episode 5

Madame Aphrodite

Sun, Dec 6, 1953

Episode 6

Wings Over Barriers

Sun, Dec 20, 1953

Episode 7

Moment of Panic

Sun, Jan 3, 1954

A man is tortured by guilt after failing to report a hit-and-run accident.

Episode 8

Here's Father

Sun, Jan 17, 1954

A famous producer-director-actor spends a week with his young son, which is the one week the divorce courts have granted him for each year.

Episode 9

The Brownstone

Sun, Jan 31, 1954

Episode 10

Game of Hide and Seek

Sun, Feb 7, 1954

Episode 11

The Huntress

Sun, Feb 14, 1954

A working girl takes her life savings to Las Vegas in search of a rich husband.

Episode 12

Buy Me Blue Ribbons

Sun, Feb 28, 1954

Episode 13

The Inward Eye

Sun, Mar 14, 1954 60 mins

Semi-documentary about a blind girl's training with a dog at the Seeing Eye school at Morristown, N.J.

Episode 14

Native Dancer

Sun, Mar 28, 1954

Episode 15

Spring Reunion

Sun, Apr 11, 1954

A 32 year old woman who never married falls for a man who was voted most likely to succeed but didn't. They fall in love, but she has a hard time separating from her overprotective father.

Episode 16

Old Tasselfoot

Sun, Apr 25, 1954

Episode 17

And Crown Thy Good

Sun, May 16, 1954

Episode 18

The Lawn Party

Sun, May 23, 1954

According to Life magazine (25OCT 1954): "a middle-aged, small town woman gains insight into her family and friends as a result of trying to give a garden party. "

Episode 19

Write Me Out Forever

Sun, Jun 20, 1954

Episode 20

Suitable for Framing

Sun, Jul 4, 1954

A high-pressure public relations man takes a job as a publicist for a new art gallery. But the gallery owner has his own plans for hitting the front pages, far more artful than the publicist could suggest.

Episode 21

Dear Harriet Heart-Throb

Sun, Jul 18, 1954

A bachelor journalist writes an advice to the lovelorn column.

Episode 22

The Arena

Sun, Aug 1, 1954 60 mins

Episode 23

Recoil

Sun, Aug 15, 1954

Episode 24

Star in the Summer Night

Sun, Aug 22, 1954

International singing star Adeline Girard is all but forgotten, then she meets a young couple who do not want to get married.

Episode 25

The Power of Suggestion

Sun, Aug 29, 1954 60 mins

Comedy about two couples at a summer resort who falsely believe that each are in love with the other's spouse.

Episode 26

The Big Man on Campus

Sun, Sep 12, 1954

An ex-football hero, who can't forget the past, stays on the campus to run the college supply store and work on his doctorate. Ten years have passed since graduation and his work hasn't neared completion.

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