The Golden Age of Television (2009)

The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend Combining elements of theater radio and filmmaking they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic These astonishingly choreographed brilliantly acted and socially progressive teleplays constituted an artistic high for the medium bringing Broadwayquality drama to all of America The awardwinning programs included in this box setoriginally curated for PBS in the early 1980s as the series The Golden Age of Television featuring recollections from key cast and crew memberswere conceived by such upandcomers as Rod Serling and John Frankenheimer and star the likes of Paul Newman Mickey Rooney Rod Steiger Julie Harris and Piper Laurie