CBS Playhouse

Season 31966

CBS Playhouse is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS from 1967 to 1970. Airing twelve plays over the course of its run, the series was nominated for a number of awards and featured many noteworthy actors and playwrights.

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6 Episodes

E01 The Glass Menagerie

Story about an African American soldier in Vietnam. It focuses on the past and present of a war-weary GI who, after 20 years of professional soldiering, begins a quest for life. Master Sergeant Olly Winter, winding up a long career, is serving as an advisor in Vietnam. When his platoon is ambushed by the Viet Cong, Olly, the only survivor, sets out on the long trek back to safety. Along the way he picks up company, a young Vietnamese girl, her dog, and an orphaned baby. The girl doesn't understand English, but Olly talks to her--and himself about the wars he's seen, his family, and the life he plans to lead 'If I get out of here alive.'

December 8, 1966

E02 The Final War of Olly Winter

When carpenter Peter Schermann needed a home, he built it with his own hands. And the house, like Peter, was strong; solid as a tree. But now he's old, too old. His children have no room for him. Peter winds up in a rest home--where he angrily rebels. He resents being treated as if he were senile or crippled. And he is offended by the empty atmosphere of waiting for death. Loring Mandel's compassionate drama follows Peter's lonely, courageous struggle to find a life in a world that has shut him out.

January 29, 1967

E03 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

After 15 years of marriage, Michael and Lois Graves have decided to pack it in. No bitterness or tears; just a divorce. Their friends think it's childish. They invite the couple to dinner, where blind to their personal motives, they hope to talk Mike and Lois out of splitting up. What they ultimately do to themselves is quite another story.

October 17, 1967

E04 Dear Friends

Ned, a New York magazine editor, tries to escape the responsibilities of his rocky marriage, the neediness of his two teen daughters and especially the agony of putting his autistic son into an institution by thinking back on his boyhood in Massachusetts. As he returns to that life as an adultâ€”walking into scenes of the 1940s with his parents as an adultâ€”he realizes that life always was a challenging proposition. The boomeranging back and forth in time presented Schaefer and Gene Hackman, in his most outstanding TV performance, with enormous demands.

December 6, 1967

E05 My Father and My Mother

After 21 years, Doris Gray learns that her husband holds a secret. She knows Bryan has nothing to hide, but fear and circumstance urge her to panicky speculations that wedge them apart. (90 mins)

February 13, 1968

E06 Secrets

May 15, 1968

CBS Playhouse

E01 The Glass Menagerie

E02 The Final War of Olly Winter

E03 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

E04 Dear Friends

E05 My Father and My Mother

E06 Secrets

The Heirs

Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha

Healer

Start-Up

100 Days My Prince

Navillera

She Was Pretty

Money Heist

The Glory

My First First Love

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid

Goblin

Soy tu dueña

Celebrity

Fallout

On My Block

LoveLive! Superstar!!

When the Phone Rings

Another Miss Oh

Love Is in the Air

E01 The Glass Menagerie

E02 The Final War of Olly Winter

E03 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

E04 Dear Friends

E05 My Father and My Mother

E06 Secrets