''Summer Playhouse'' is a 30-minute

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television anthology series. It was a summer replacement series made up of unsold pilots for projected regular series, airing sporadically from 1964 to 1967. It was produced by

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, and among its notable stars were

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, and

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was the announcer.Alicoate, Jack, Ed. (1955). ''The 1955 Radio and Television Yearbook''. Radio Daily Corp. P. 1173.

References

External links

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''Summer Playhouse'' at CVTA with list of episodes
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