About this season
CBS Playhouse is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS from 1967 to 1970. Airing twelve plays over the course of its run, the series was nominated for a number of awards and featured many noteworthy actors and playwrights.
Episodes (6)
1. The Glass Menagerie
Aired 8 December 1966 • 104 min
An aging Southern Belle complicates life for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her own warped views of what life should be.
2. The Final War of Olly Winter
Aired 29 January 1967 • 90 min
Olly Winter, an African-American Master Sergeant in the Vietnam War, is walking back to allied-controlled land following a battle with the Viet Cong. Along the way, he meets a Vietnamese girl, an orphaned infant, and a dog.
3. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Aired 17 October 1967 • 74 min
Follows a carpenter who has built his own home, but is now too old and infirm to live on his own, and is sent to live in an old age home against his desires.
4. Dear Friends
Aired 6 December 1967 • 90 min
After 15 years together, Michael and Lois Graves contemplate divorce. Their friends—three other couples—try to repair their relationship, and ultimately observe the connections that they themselves have.
5. My Father and My Mother
Aired 13 February 1968 • 90 min
Ned, a New York editor struggling as a husband and parent, looks back and learns about the difficulties his own parents faced in life.
6. Secrets
Aired 15 May 1968 • 90 min
Following a chance encounter that brings him face to face with his past, conservative businessman Bryan Gray goes in search of Janet Ferguson, an actress with whom he had a relationship many years before. His unwillingness to share private aspects arouses the suspicion of wife Doris, who is determined to know all of his secrets and the motivations behind them.