His half-brother was Charles Einstein ( 1926 – 2007 ), a writer for such television programs as Playhouse 90 and Lou Grant.

In 1959, she played Tula Marsh in the episode " The Second Happiest Day " of the CBS anthology series Playhouse 90.

The CBS television anthology Playhouse 90 aired a 90-minute loose adaptation in 1958.

" Its first realization was the 1957 Playhouse 90 teleplay of that title by William Gibson.

Throughout the 1950s he directed over 140 episodes of shows like Playhouse 90, Climax !, and Danger, including The Comedian, written by Rod Serling and starring Mickey Rooney as a ragingly vicious television comedian.

She also guest starred on Robert Montgomery Presents, Playhouse 90, and Zane Grey Theater.

* A television adaptation, directed by John Frankenheimer, was broadcast in two parts on CBS's Playhouse 90 in 1956, starring Jason Robards and Maria Schell as Robert Jordan and Maria, with Nehemiah Persoff as Pablo, Maureen Stapleton as Pilar, and Eli Wallach as the gypsy Rafael.

For many viewers, this was equivalent to seeing live theater in their living rooms, an effect enhanced when television plays expanded from 60-minute time slots to a 90-minute series with the introduction of Playhouse 90 in the late 1950s.

* Playhouse 90 ( 1956-1961 )

An earlier adaptation had been broadcast as a television episode of Playhouse 90.

* Playhouse 90 ( 1 episode, 1957 )

Serling then wrote Requiem for a Heavyweight for the Playhouse 90 TV series in 1956, again gaining praise from critics.

A New York Times television reviewer added this editorial note at the end of a glowing review for A Town Has Turned to Dust, a show about racism and bigotry in a small Southwestern town: "' Playhouse 90 ' and Mr. Serling had to fight executive interference ... before getting their play on the air last night.

In an interview, Serling said the show's science fiction format would not be controversial with sponsors, network executives or the general public and would escape censorship, unlike the earlier Playhouse 90.

We're not talking Playhouse 90 here, after all.

An adaptation of Alas, Babylon was broadcast on April 3, 1960 as the 131st episode of the Playhouse 90 dramatic television series.

* Playhouse 90: The Time of Your Life ( October 9, 1958 ) TV Movie

This was adapted for the Playhouse 90 episode The Long March in 1958.

Total savings on editing and cinematography amounted to around $ 30, 000 for all six entries, not enough to justify the loss of depth of visual perspective, which made the shows look like stagebound live TV dramas ( e. g. Playhouse 90, also produced at CBS ).

There would be fewer camera movements and no exteriors, making the episodes seem more akin to soap operas ( and Playhouse 90 ), with the videotaped image effectively narrowing and flattening perspective.

* Starring Art Carney as Henry Corwin Twilight Zone appearance, but previously starred in Rod Serling's " The Velvet Alley " on Playhouse 90 — see " Episode notes "

This was Carney's only Twilight Zone appearance but, nearly two years earlier, on January 22, 1959, he starred in Rod Serling's semi-autobiographical story, " The Velvet Alley ", the eighth of ten Serling teleplays featured on Playhouse 90, the most prestigious of the many live drama anthology series from the Golden Age of Television.

There would be fewer camera movements and no exteriors, making the episodes more akin to soap operas ( and the network's Playhouse 90 anthology ), with the videotaped image effectively narrowing and flattening perspective.

In 1959, he appeared as Hans Rolfe, the defense attorney, in a live Playhouse 90 television production of Judgment at Nuremberg.

She also played the lead role in the first production in English of Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, at the ANTA Playhouse in New York in 1951, and a BBC production of Lorca's Blood wedding ( Bodas de sangre ), broadcast on June 2, 1959.

In 1965, he was cast as Alf Garnett in a play for the BBC Comedy Playhouse series, broadcast on 22 July 1965.

The flood of publicity after the broadcast had two effects: an FCC ban on faux news bulletins within dramatic programming, and sponsorship for The Mercury Theatre on the Air — the former sustaining program became The Campbell Playhouse to sell soup.

Orson Welles ' radio series Campbell Playhouse broadcast a one-hour adaptation on 7January 1940 featuring Helen Hayes and Agnes Moorehead.

Another radio adaptation starring Herbert Marshall was broadcast on December 30, 1948 on Hallmark Playhouse.

The Sevenfold Crown was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 17 January 1998 as part of its Playhouse strand.

was first broadcast on 8 September 1972 on the BBC, in the form of a pilot for the series Comedy Playhouse.

In 1958, he portrayed Joe Clay in the very first broadcast of Playhouse 90s Days of Wine and Roses, in what some critics cite as a superior version of this story about alcoholism.

The pilot episode, titled " The Bed ", was first broadcast in series three of Comedy Playhouse on 28 December 1963.

Herrmann used large sections of his score for the inaugural broadcast of The Campbell Playhouse, an adaptation of Rebecca, for the feature film Jane Eyre ( 1943 ), the third film in which Welles starred.

The first two radio series, based on A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back, were produced and broadcast by National Public Radio as part of NPR Playhouse.

Father and son appeared in three productions, the first of which was the 1956 Playhouse 90 broadcast of Rod Serling's play Requiem for a Heavyweight.

NBC broadcast a one-hour radio adaptation of the film on Screen Directors Playhouse on November 16, 1950.

Other programmes broadcast on YTV's opening day included the first edition of its regional news programme Calendar, the station's first networked production-the ' Playhouse ' drama Daddy Kiss it Better-and a light entertainment special, First Night, hosted by Bob Monkhouse.

When the first episode was broadcast in 1995, the show was known as Your Radio Playhouse.

The Ten Percenters ( also known as The 10 % ers ) was a British television comedy series, broadcast on ITV, which began as a pilot in 1993 ( shown as part of a season entitled Carlton Playhouse ), and was followed by two series which were shown in 1994 and 1996.

* The American television series Playhouse 90 broadcast " Massacre at Sand Creek " on December 27, 1956.

An earlier television version, recorded on videotape, and starring Shirley Booth, was broadcast on December 8, 1966 as part of CBS Playhouse.

The Mercury Theatre on the Air made its last broadcast December 4, 1938, and The Campbell Playhouse began December 9, 1938.

The Campbell Playhouse returned to radio November 29, 1940, as a 30-minute weekly CBS series that was last broadcast June 13, 1941.

He appeared extensively in television, including the 1957 live 90-minute broadcast on Playhouse 90 of The Comedian, a drama written by Rod Serling and directed by John Frankenheimer in which Mickey Rooney portrays a television comedian while O ' Brien plays a writer driven to the brink of insanity.