Your Play Time

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is an American anthology series that aired as a summer replacement in the 1950s. Each episode presented a standalone story, sometimes a drama with foreign settings or a comedic piece set in America. It featured guest stars but did not have a single ongoing plot or characters.

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What happens

Your Play Time is a 30-minute American television anthology series that ran as a summer replacement show in 1953, 1954, and 1955. The first two seasons contained live and filmed dramas, often with foreign settings. The 1955 season had comedic and dramatic episodes, all on film and all set in America. In seasons one and two (1953–54) it was the summer replacement for Ann Sothern's Private Secretary and The Jack Benny Program. In 1954, episodes were "re-runs of films from various series". In the third season it replaced Your Hit Parade. Guest stars that included Hillary Brooke, Peter Graves, Jack Haley, George Nader, Tommy Rettig, and Ruth Warrick. Episodes were broadcast from June 14, 1953, to September 6, 1953; June 13, 1954, to September 5, 1954; and June 18, 1955, to September 3, 1955. In 1954, the sponsor was American Tobacco Company. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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