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No. of seasons 1 First episode date 3 October 1952 Genre Anthology | 3.9/10 IMDb Original language(s) English Final episode date 11 September 1953 Number of seasons 1 Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Original release October 3, 1952 – September 11, 1953 Similar The Philco Television Playhouse, The Alcoa Hour, DuPont Show of the Month, Climax!, Kraft Television Theatre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gulf Playhouse, also known as Gulf Playhouse: 1st Person and First Person Playhouse, was an American anthology series that aired on Friday nights from 1952–53 on NBC. Originally conceived as a standard live dramatic anthology series, it was later redeveloped as a summer replacements series whose anthology stories were now told as seen through the "eye" of the camera. The actors in each episode would talk to the camera as if it were a person, animal or object.
The series ran for twenty-four episodes with stars that included Rod Steiger, Tony Randall, Kim Stanley, Eddie Bracken, Ward Bond, Wendell Corey, and Kim Hunter. The show's sponsor was Gulf Oil, and it was produced and directed by Frank Telford. Among its other directors was Arthur Penn.