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Season
2 (NBC) (1952-53)
Episode Guide
compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Tom Alger, Rina Fox
references:
TV Guide /
Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive
############ Goodyear TV Playhouse ###########
############## season 2 1952-53 ##############
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NBC Sundays 9:00-10:00pm Eastern -
Alternating with "Philco
Television Playhouse"
Ep 2.01 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: HOLIDAY SONG
14Sep1952
written by Paddy Chayefsky
directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
Joseph Buloff
Herbert Berghof
Anne Hegira
Werner Klemperer
David Opatoshu
Irja Jensen
Frances Charney
Dora Weissman
David Kerman
Ann Dere
Martin Green.
*Note this episode was restaged in September 53 with a slightly different cast.
Ep 2.02 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: THE ROOM
28Sep1952
written by William Kendall Clarke
story by Geoffrey Kean
directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
Edmon Ryan
Carmen Mathews
Haila Stoddard
Frank Overton
Penny Hays
Ep 2.03 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: O ROMANY
12Oct1952
written by William Kendall Clarke
directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
Olive Deering
Luis Van Rooten
Anatol Winogradoff
Adia Kuznetzoff
Boris Marshalov
Ep 2.04 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: BETTER THAN WALKING
26Oct1952
written by Thomas W. Phipps
directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
Veronica Lake ....... Judy 'Leni' Howard
Darren McGavin
Jonathan Harris
Marcel Hillaire
Dorothee Long
Jack Creley
Ep 2.05 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: THE DARKNESS BELOW
09Nov1952
guest stars
Ralph Meeker
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Synopsis:
A mining disaster leaves two miners fighting for their lives. [RF]
Ep 2.06 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: THE OLD BEGINNING
23Nov1952
guest stars
Frances Helm
Carmen Mathews
Ep 2.07 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: THE SEARCH
07Dec1952
written by David Shaw
directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
Gene Lyons
Anthony Ross
Everett Chambers
Addison Powell
James Gregory
Frank Sutton
Charles Aidman
William Smithers
Ep 2.08 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: MR. QUIMBY'S CHRISTMAS HATS
21Dec1952
written by Harry Muheim
directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
Parker Fennelly
Ernest Truex
Sylvia Field
David White
Geoffrey Lumb
Harry Sheppard
Ep 2.09 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: A MEDAL IN THE FAMILY
01Feb1953
guest stars
James Dunn
Ep 2.10 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: WINGS ON MY FEET
22Feb1953
written by Hoffman R. Hays
directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
Valerie Bettis
Tom Helmore
Leslie Barrett
Dan Tobin
Peter Turgeon
Ep 2.11 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: THE RUMOR
08Mar1953
written by Thomas W. Phipps
directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
Patricia Collinge
Addison Richards
Joan Lorring
Leslie Nielsen
Nelson Olmsted
Joseph Boland
Ep 2.12[--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: THE GESTURE
15Mar1953
written by Ira Avery
guest stars
Eva Gabor
Gene Lyons
Ep 2.13 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: WISH ON THE MOON
29Mar1953
written by Sumner Locke Elliott
directed by Delbert Mann
producer Frederick Coe
guest stars
Eva Marie Saint ....... Frances Barclay
Richard Carlyle
Phyllis Kirk
Frank Corsaro
Rita Vale
Julia Meade
Allen Nourse
Synopsis:
WISH ON THE MOON is a chronicle of two women-friends whose lives take
unexpected turns. One musters all her effort to become a famous actress,
but instead ends up married. The other, who lacks motivation except to find a husband,
inadvertently becomes a stage and screen star. Both feel unfulfilled and secretly
envy what the other has gained. [RF]
Ep 2.14 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: THE LONG WAY HOME
12Apr1953
written by Robert Alan Aurthur
guest stars
Lloyd Bridges
Gaby Rodgers
Ep 2.15[--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: PRINTER'S MEASURE
26Apr1953
written by Paddy Chayefsky
directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
Peg Hillias
Martin Newman
J. Pat O'Malley
Joe Mantell
Joseph Boland
Wyrley Birch
Ep 2.16 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: THE ACCIDENT
03May53
Producer Fred Coe
Written by Paul Peters
Directed by Vincent Donohue
guest stars
Jeffrey Lynn
Maureen Stapleton
Clifford Tatum
Joe De Santis
Lee Graham
Helen Ray
Peter Hobbs
Angel Adamides
Synopsis:
A horrible accident leaves one family destroyed. [RF]
Ep 2.17 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: THE OIL WELL
17May53
guest stars
Dorothy Gish
E.G. Marshall
Ep 2.18 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: BEFORE I WAKE
31May53
Producer Fred Coe
Teleplay by Sumner Elliott
Directed by Gordon Duff
guest stars
Vicki Cummings
Betty Field
Muriel Williams
Cynthia Latham
Ep 2.19 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: HER PRINCE CHARMING
14Jun1953
written by Robert Alan Arthur
directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
James Dunn
Sylvia Field
Ernest Truex
Lin McCarthy
Carol Wheeler
Synopsis:
A lonely old woman who spends all her time going to radio and TV
quiz shows wins a weekend as the guest of an old movie star.
Ep 2.20 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: CATCH A FALLING STAR
28Jun1953
written by Thomas Phipps
directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
Faye Emerson
Susan Strasberg (as Susie Strasberg)
Nancy Coleman
Synopsis:
A conservative banker thinks that his world is being marred by scandal
until he is awakened by his young daughter. [TA]
Ep 2.21 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT
12Jul1953
written by David Shaw
guest stars
Walter Matthau
Elaine Stritch
Maxine Stuart
Lydia Reed
Robert Fortier
Synopsis:
A married couple with four children have never had a vacation when suddenly
they win a week at a resort hotel in a lottery. [RF]
Ep 2.22 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: THE YOUNG AND THE FAIR
26Jul1953
written by N. Richard Nash
guest stars
Mildred Dunnock
Joanne Woodward
Louisa Horton
Jenny Egan
Ep 2.23 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: ERNIE BARGER IS FIFTY
09Aug1953
Producer Gordon Duff
Written by Tad Mosel
Directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
Ed Begley ........... Ernie Barger
Carmen Mathews ...... Mariella
Howard St. John ..... Abbot
John Connel ......... Roy Barger
Joseph Sweeney ...... Father Barger
Addison Powell ...... Chester Wilson
Richard Davalos ..... Tom
Al Thaler
Patricia Fay
Norton Bloom
Robert Baird
Marilyn Mohr
Gladys Klark
Ep 2.24 [--] Goodyear TV Playhouse: HOLLYWOOD TANDEM
a. Fade Out and b. The New Process
23Aug1953
written by Sumner Locke Elliott & David Shaw
directed by Delbert Mann
guest stars
Hedda Hopper .... Hostess
Sidney Blackmer
Jessie Royce Landis
David White
Walter Matthau
Geoffrey Lumb
Carole Mathews
Ernest Truex
############ Goodyear TV Playhouse
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############### end of season 2 ##############
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