For six years from the fall of 1951 through the fall of 1957, Goodyear Television Playhouse presented full hour live dramas, originating from New York, on Sunday evenings. The series ran on alternate weeks with Philco Television Playhouse. In the fall of 1955 the title was shortened to Goodyear Playhouse and a new sponsor took the alternate Sundays with The Alcoa Hour. A young playwright by the name of Paddy Chayefsky wrote several original dramas for this series. Two of them were made into award winning motion pictures, they are "The Catered Affair" and "Marty". In 1957 the overall title for the changed to "A Turn of Fate" a designation that swas soon dropped. Initially there was to be a rotating roster of regular stars (David Niven, Robert Ryan, Jane Powell, Jack Lemmon, and Charles Boyer) but that concept petered out by the end of the first season.
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Seasons | |||
| Specials | 1 | ||
| Season 1 | October 1951 | August 1952 | 24 |
| Season 2 | September 1952 | August 1953 | 25 |
| Season 3 | August 1953 | September 1954 | 25 |
| Season 4 | September 1954 | August 1955 | 23 |
| Season 5 | May 1955 | September 1956 | 27 |
| Season 6 | September 1956 | September 1957 | 20 |
| Unassigned Episodes | 0 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unassigned Episodes | 145 |
| Season | From | To | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 0 | ||
| Unassigned Episodes | 145 |
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| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delbert Mann | 37 | 10/14/1951 - 03/27/1955 | |
| Jack Smight | 2 | 05/08/1955 - 07/03/1955 | |
| Vincent J. Donohue | 1 | 03/28/1954 | |
| William Corrigan | 1 | 08/30/1953 | |
| Sidney Lumet | 1 | 05/06/1956 | |
| Gordon Duff | 1 | 08/09/1953 | |
| Henry James | 1 | 06/08/1952 | |
| Norman Felton | 1 | 10/09/1955 | |
| Arthur Penn | 1 | 05/23/1954 | |
| Robert Mulligan | 1 | 06/16/1957 | |
| Geoffrey Kean | 1 | 09/28/1952 | |
| Herbert Hirschman | 1 | 08/11/1957 |
| Name | Number of Episodes | Dates | |
|---|---|---|---|
| David Shaw (II) | 5 | 05/25/1952 - 08/29/1954 | |
| Tad Mosel | 4 | 08/09/1953 - 05/23/1954 | |
| Paddy Chayefsky | 3 | 09/14/1952 - 05/24/1953 | |
| David Swift | 3 | 10/14/1951 - 12/23/1951 | |
| Thomas W. Phipps | 3 | 10/26/1952 - 06/28/1953 | |
| William Kendall Clarke | 3 | 04/13/1952 - 10/12/1952 | |
| Robert Alan Aurthur | 2 | 06/14/1953 - 07/18/1954 | |
| Sumner Locke Elliott | 2 | 03/29/1953 - 08/23/1953 | |
| Hoffman R. Hays | 2 | 11/25/1951 - 02/22/1953 | |
| J.P. Miller | 2 | 06/06/1954 - 02/13/1955 | |
| Harry Muheim | 2 | 12/21/1952 - 07/04/1954 | |
| John T. Chapman | 1 | 06/08/1952 | |
| Eliot Asinof | 1 | 07/17/1955 | |
| Stephen de Baun | 1 | 11/11/1951 | |
| Abby Mann | 1 | 07/29/1956 | |
| John Gay | 1 | 05/06/1956 | |
| Robert Lewis Shayon | 1 | 12/20/1953 | |
| Horton Foote | 1 | 04/27/1952 | |
| William Mendrek | 1 | 12/09/1951 | |
| Walter Black | 1 | 12/09/1951 | |
| George Baxt | 1 | 10/10/1954 | |
| Joseph Liss | 1 | 03/14/1954 | |
| Gore Vidal | 1 | 05/08/1955 | |
| Jerome Coopersmith | 1 | 02/26/1956 | |
| Clifford Goldsmith | 1 | 06/16/1957 | |
| Ernest Kinoy | 1 | 08/11/1957 | |
| David Shaw | 1 | 03/28/1954 | |
| Reginald Rose | 1 | 10/09/1955 | |
| Charles K. Peck Jr. | 1 | 03/27/1955 | |
| Lionel Shapiro | 1 | 05/11/1952 | |
| Jerome Ross | 1 | 07/03/1955 |
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