
Goodyear Television Playhouse
The show featured original plays plus plays adapted from works.
- 1951-1957
- 6 seasons
- NBC
- Drama
The show featured original plays plus plays adapted from works.
Season 5 Episode Guide
27 Episodes 1955 - 1956
Episode 1
Suit Yourself
Sun, Sep 11, 1955
A man tired of following a rigid dress code seeks help from a psychiatrist.
Episode 2
The Merry-Go-Round
Sun, Sep 25, 1955
A possessive girl loses two men before she changes her tactics to entrap a third.
Episode 3
The Expendable House
Sun, Oct 9, 1955 60 mins
An expendable house is built for an upcoming atomic test.
Episode 4
A Patch of Faith
Sun, Jan 22, 1956
Episode 5
The Mechanical Heart
Sun, Nov 6, 1955
Episode 6
One Mummy to Many
Sun, Nov 20, 1955
Episode 7
The Trees
Sun, Dec 4, 1955
In a run down street in a once nice section of town, a little girl plants the tree that she brought back with her from fresh-air camp. To the poor people of the neighborhood, this tree symbolizes the beauty their lives have lost or never known.
Episode 8
Christmas 'til Closing
Sun, Dec 18, 1955
A poor family tries to make the best out of Christmas with little income.
Episode 9
Rise Up and Walk
Sun, Jan 1, 1956
Episode 10
This Land Is Mine
Sun, Jan 15, 1956
A rancher's fanatic love for the land brings him into conflict not only with the farmers, but with his son as well.
Episode 11
Starlet
Sun, Jan 29, 1956
Episode 12
Kyria Katina
Sun, Feb 12, 1956
Episode 13
The Terrorists
Sun, Feb 26, 1956 60 mins
During the Irish Rebellion of 1921, a young patriot joins a group of terrorists and becomes an ardent worshiper of its leader. While on a raid the boy becomes suspicious of his idol and determines to learn the truth.
Episode 14
Conspiracy of Hearts
Sun, Mar 11, 1956
In wartime Italy, nuns join in the fight against the Nazis and the Fascists.
Episode 15
Joey
Sun, Mar 25, 1956
Joey, a dishwasher by trade, has spent all of his young life under the guardian eyes of his mother, who feels she is protecting him from his own stupidity. But he has other, more endearing qualities, or so thinks Kay, an ex-stripper who recently became the assistant dishwasher.
Episode 16
Footlight Frenzy
Sun, Apr 8, 1956
Kate Douglas is a very active member of the local community-theater group. Her husband Tom is not only inactive, he is definitely against the whole idea, not only because he thinks it's ridiculous, but because it takes up most of his wife's time.
Episode 17
Career Girl
Sun, Apr 22, 1956
The head of a department store seeking a wife for her weak-willed son pursues an ambitious, new secretary.
Episode 18
The Sentry
Sun, May 6, 1956
A Civil War drama about three rebel soldiers who sneak across union lines in order to destroy a train trestle and prevent supplies from reaching union troops. To reach the trestle, they must kill a sentry standing guard. Later it is revealed the sentry was the younger brother of one of the rebel commandos.
Episode 19
In the Days of Our Youth
Sun, May 20, 1956
Episode 20
The Primary Colors
Sun, Jun 3, 1956
Episode 21
Sound the Pipes of Pan
Sun, Jun 17, 1956
Episode 22
The Film Maker
Sun, Jul 1, 1956
Hank Patten, head of Crown Films, is disturbed by a visit from the chairman of the board, who brings him plans for reorganizing the studio. Patten is not in favor of the proposed changes, and refuses to compromise. The conflict grows as Patten fights to maintain the status quo.
Episode 23
Country Fair Time
Sun, Jul 15, 1956
When a country fair comes to a small Missouri town a young woman falls for a handsome traveling salesman causing her to forget her older fiance.
Episode 24
Pencil Sketch
Sun, Jul 29, 1956
A New England widower engaged to a young woman decides to delay the wedding until he can tell his daughter, studying art abroad in Italy, the news personally. This entails a trip to Rome where he meets Eleanora, a classmate of his daughter, with whom he falls in love.
Episode 25
Proud Passage
Sun, Aug 12, 1956
Episode 26
Grow Up
Sun, Aug 26, 1956
A 16-year-old boy finds that advice from friends, family, and teachers is no substitute for winning the battle for maturity by himself.
Episode 27
Ark of Safety
Sun, Sep 9, 1956