| Summer Playhouse | |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | July 6, 1954 – September 17, 1957 |
Summer Playhouse is a 30-minute NBC summer anthology television series broadcast in the summers of 1954 and 1957. It consisted of reruns of episodes previously aired on other anthology series. [1]
Summer Playhouse is unrelated to a CBS series of the same name that aired during the summers of 1964 and 1965. [2]
Summer Playhouse premiered on July 6, 1954, [1] and ran until August 24, 1954, [3] airing on Tuesdays from 9:00 to 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time. [1] It returned three summers later in July 1957, [1] premiering on July 2 [4] and airing on Tuesdays from 9:30 to 10:00 p.m. Eastern Time. [1] Its final episode was broadcast on September 17, 1957. [5]
Nelson Case was the host in 1954. [1] [6] Jane Wyman hosted in 1957. [1]