Screen Director's Playhouse is a popular 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, and original directors of the films were sometimes involved in the productions, although their participation was usually limited to introducing the radio adaptations, and a brief "curtain call" with the cast and host at the end of the program. The series later had a brief run on television, focusing on original teleplays and several adaptations of famous short stories.
The television version, produced and filmed at Hal Roach Studios, was broadcast for one season of 35 half-hour episodes on NBC, under the sponsorship of Eastman Kodak, airing from October 5, 1955 to June 27, 1956. The final seven episodes aired on ABC from July 4 to September 26. Top-billed stars on the television series are: Lee Aaker, Lola Albright, Leon Ames, Lew Ayres, Lynn Bari, Ralph Bellamy, William Bendix, John Bentley, Charles Bickford, Janet Blair, Ward Bond, Neville Brand, Walter Brennan, Hillary Brooke, Joe E. Brown, Edgar Buchanan, Rory Calhoun, Macdonald Carey, Jack Carson, Joan Caulfield, Gower Champion, Marge Champion, Fred Clark, Constance Cummings, Linda Darnell, Laraine Day, Yvonne De Carlo, Brandon De Wilde, Bobby Driscoll, James Dunn, Leo Durocher, Buddy Ebsen, Marilyn Erskine, Frank Fay, Errol Flynn, Scott Forbes, Wallace Ford, Sally Forrest, Rita Gam, Nancy Gates, Leo Genn, Greta Granstedt, Barbara Hale, Don Hanmer, Dick Haymes, Dennis Hopper, Kim Hunter, Buster Keaton, Angela Lansbury, Peter Lawford, Cloris Leachman, Peter Lorre, James Lydon, Jeanette MacDonald, Jimmy McHugh, Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, Ray Milland, Sal Mineo, Thomas Mitchell, George Montgomery, Patricia Morison, Barry Nelson, Edmond O'Brien, Dan O'Herlihy, Dennis O'Keefe, Zasu Pitts, Basil Rathbone, Phillip Reed, Robert Ryan, George Sanders, Herb Shriner, Mary Sinclair, Rod Steiger, William Talman, Casey Tibbs, June Vincent, John Wayne, Pat Wayne, Michael Wilding, Fay Wray, Teresa Wright, Keenan Wynn, May Wynn and Alan Young. But there was one difference between the two versions of the program: while the radio program had presented only condensed versions of well-known plays and films, the television version presented mostly original dramas.
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