Originally broadcast on NBC, 30 August 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The run
- Network
- NBC
- Years active
- 1949–1951
- Surviving broadcasts
- 119
- Genre
- theatre
Screen Directors' 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 broadcasts adaptations of films with the original directors of the films sometimes involved in the production although their participation was usually li
1951 · 391950 · 6
Restoration quality — measured from the surviving files
Clean transfer · 45 of 45
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
Every broadcast below carries its own provenance sheet — transfer quality, file source and rights.Archive record: OTRR_Screen_Directors_Playhouse_Singles
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
11 dated broadcasts across 3 years on the air, with 1 year where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
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1949
1950
1951
Clean transferListenableRough but complete No surviving recording
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from 1950, in original transmission order.
- 1. Cluny Brown · 23 Nov 1950
- 2. Mrs Mike · 30 Nov 1950
- 3. My Favorite Wife · 7 Dec 1950
Waterloo Bridge
28 Sep 1951 · 59 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 28 September 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
No Man Of Her Own
21 Sep 1951 · 59 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 21 September 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Raffles
14 Sep 1951 · 59 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 14 September 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Broken Arrow
7 Sep 1951 · 59 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 7 September 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Mother Is a Freshman
30 Aug 1951 · 59 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 30 August 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Velvet Touch
23 Aug 1951 · 59 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 23 August 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
The Ghost and Mrs Muir
16 Aug 1951 · 59 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 16 August 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Wuthering Heights
9 Aug 1951 · 59 min
Originally broadcast on NBC, 9 August 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Same night on the air
30 Aug 1951
Everything else the archive still holds from the night of 30 Aug 1951.
Originally broadcast on Syndicated, 30 August 1951. Restored from the Old Time Radio archives.
Also on NBC
NBC in 1949–1951
Other series the network carried while Screen Directors Playhouse was on the air.
Same seasons
theatre on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
Theatre of the mind
Full-cast drama with a live orchestra and a studio full of sound effects. Lux Radio Theater and the CBS Radio Workshop are the direct ancestors of scripted podcast fiction.
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Descendants
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