Screen Directors Playhouse
Screen Directors Playhouse (sometimes written as Screen Directors' Playhouse) is an American radio and television anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to the NBC microphones beginning in 1949. The radio program broadcast adaptations of films, with original directors of the films sometimes involved in the productions, although their participation was usually limited to introducing the radio adaptations and taking a brief "curtain call" with the cast and host at the end of the program. During the 1955–56 season, the series was seen on television, focusing on original teleplays and several adaptations of famous short stories (such as Robert Louis Stevenson's "Markheim").
Other names
NBC Theater
Screen Directors Guild Assignment
Screen Directors Assignment
30 minutes (radio episodes 1–8 and 10–75) and all television episodes
1 hour (radio episodes 9 and 76–122)
radio hosts: Frank Barton (announcer)
Hal Gibney
Jimmy Wallington (1949–51)
Each radio and television episode used predominantly top-tier personalities
radio scripts: Richard Alan Simmons, Milton Geiger, Jack Rubin, Nat Wolf
radio: Bill Karn, Warren Lewis
radio: Howard Wylie
January 9, 1949 (radio version)/October 5, 1955 (television version) –
September 28, 1951 (radio version)/September 26, 1956 (television version)
122
Monaural sound