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Martin Manulis, a stage, television and film producer best known for launching “Playhouse 90,” the live dramatic anthology series that became a television classic, has died.
Sept. 30, 2007
PBS PROGRAMS--After a lackluster fall, the Public Broadcasting Service launches its midterm schedule this week with the season premieres of “American Playhouse” and “Frontline” and the debut of a new series, “Planet Earth.”
Jan. 19, 1986
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James Winston O’Keefe, 81, a theatrical and television producer whose career ranged from the Emmy-winning “Alcoa Theatre” through “Playhouse 90” and into such lighter pursuits as “Dennis the Menace.”
Aug. 8, 1991
Herbert Brodkin, the craggy-faced, fiercely independent producer who opted to remain in New York when most of the television industry moved West and who was responsible for some of the finest programming in TV history, is dead.
Nov. 1, 1990
Rita Lynn, 74, television actress and pioneer in using acting as therapy for psychiatric patients.
Jan. 24, 1996
Many who worked on the legendary ‘Playhouse 90’ series will be reunited on its 40th anniversary as the kickoff of museum’s TV festival.
Oct. 3, 1996
Richard Joy, a radio and television announcer known to audiences over four decades as Dick Joy, died Thursday at his home in Talent, Ore.
Nov. 4, 1991
Television and “A Streetcar Named Desire” have a grand thing going.
Oct. 27, 1995
Say hello to Sam Harris, song-and-dance man.
May 2, 1992
‘The Golden Age of Television’
Nov. 28, 2009