The Play of the Week

Ambitious undertaking

Episodes

Season 1 (1959–60)

Season 2 (1960–61)

• Henry IV by William Shakespeare; in the cast: Donald Davis as Henry IV, Stephen Joyce as Prince Hal, Donald Madden as Hotspur, Eric Berry as Falstaff and Nan Martin as Lady Percy
• The Dybbuk adapted by Joseph Liss; directed by Sidney Lumet; in the cast: Ludwig Donath, Carol Lawrence, Michael Tolan, Theodore Bikel and Vincent Gardenia
• Legend of Lovers by Jean Anouilh; adapted by Kitty Black; directed by Ralph Nelson; cast: Piper Laurie, Robert Loggia, Sam Jaffe, Michael Constantine and Polly Rowles
• The Velvet Glove by Rosemary Casey; in the cast: Helen Hayes, Robert Morse, Arthur Shields, Larry Gates and Collin Wilcox
• Duet for Two Hands by Mary Hayley Bell; cast: Signe Hasso, Eric Portman, Patrick Horgan and Lois Nettleton
• Seven Times Monday by Ernest Pendrell; directed by Wes Kenney; in the cast: Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Rosetta LeNoire, William Windom and Warren Berlinger
• Two by Saroyan—"Once Around the Block" and "My Heart's in the Highlands" by William Saroyan; in the cast: Walter Matthau, Orson Bean, Myron McCormick, Larry Hagman and Eddie Hodges
• The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill; directed by Sidney Lumet; introduced by Brooks Atkinson; in the cast: Jason Robards as Hickey, Farrell Pelly as Harry Hope, Robert Redford as Don Parritt, Myron McCormick as Larry Slade and Julie Bovasso as Pearl
• The Iceman Cometh
• Highlights of New Faces by Leonard Sillman; in the cast: Robert Clary, Alice Ghostley, Ronny Graham, Paul Lynde and Inga Swenson
• Uncle Harry by Thomas Job; in the cast: Ray Walston, Betty Field, Jeff Donnell, Sylvia Miles and John Zacherle
• Rashomon – December 12, 1960
• Emmanuel – December 19, 1960
• A Clearing in the Woods – January 2, 1961
• The Potting Shed – January 9, 1961
• Black Monday – January 16, 1961
• New York Scrapbook – January 23, 1961
• He Who Gets Slapped – January 20, 1961
• Four by Tennessee – February 6, 1961
• The Sound of Murder – February 13, 1961
• Night of the Auk – February 20, 1961
• No Exit and The Indifferent Lover – February 27, 1961
• The Old Foolishness – March 6, 1961
• Thérèse Raquin – March 13, 1961
• The Wooden Dish – March 20, 1961
• A Cool Wind Over the Living – March 27, 1961
• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett; in the cast: Zero Mostel as Estragon and Burgess Meredith as Vladimir
• In a Garden – April 10, 1961
• The Wingless Victory – April 17, 1961
• Close Quarters – April 24, 1961
• All Summer Long – May 1, 1961