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{{Infobox television
| image = Vacation playhouse.jpg
| caption =
| alt_name =
| runtime = 30 minutes▼
| creator = [[Richard Michaels]]
| director = {{Plainlist|
* [[Hy Averback]]
| executive_producer = Warren Lewis <br> [[William Dozier]]▼
* [[Richard Crenna]]
* [[Claudio Guzmán]]
| editor = Bill Heath <br> Robert L. Swanson▼
* [[Jerry Hopper]]
* [[Fletcher Markle]]
* [[Norman Z. McLeod]]
* [[Gene Reynolds]]
* [[Barry Shear]]
* [[Don Taylor (American actor and director)|Don Taylor]]
* [[Richard Whorf]]
* [[Don Weis]]
}}
| voices =
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| theme_music_composer =
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| composer = [[Jerry Fielding]]
| country = United States
| language = English
| num_seasons = 5▼
| num_episodes = 47▼
* Warren Lewis
* [[William Dozier]]
}}
| producer = {{Plainlist|
* [[Hal Kanter]]
* [[Arthur Julian]]
* [[Jack Donohue (director)|Jack Donohue]]
* Stanley Shpetner
* [[Edward H. Feldman]]
* Jim McGinn
}}
| location = {{Plainlist|
* [[Desilu Studios]]
* [[CBS Television City]]
}}
* Bill Heath
* Robert L. Swanson
}}
▲| runtime = 30 minutes
| company = {{Plainlist|
* Bing Crosby Productions
* [[Desilu Productions]]
* [[Four Star Television]]
* [[Universal Television]]
}}
| network = [[Columbia Broadcasting System|CBS]]
| first_aired = {{Start date|1963|7|22}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1967|8|28}}
▲| num_series =
▲| num_episodes = 47
▲| num_seasons = 5
▲| list_episodes =
}}
'''''Vacation Playhouse''''' is an American [[Anthology series|anthology]]
==
The practice of television executives of ordering dozens of pilots for proposed television series each year – far more than their networks could possibly broadcast as series – created a sizable body of unsold pilots that had never aired.<ref name=tvobsecurities19561967>{{cite web |url=https://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/unsold_pilots_on_television_56_66/ |title=UNSOLD PILOTS ON TELEVISION, 1956–1966 |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=15 August 2019 |website=tvobscurities.com |publisher=Television Obscurities |access-date= 3 June 2024}}</ref> Packaging these unsold pilots in [[anthology series]] and airing them during the summer provided television networks with a way of both providing fresh programming during the summer rerun season and recouping at least some of the expense of producing them.<ref name=tvobsecurities19561967/> ''Vacation Playhouse'' was one such series, aired by [[CBS]] each summer from 1963 through 1967.<ref name=tvobsecurities19561967/>
''Vacation Playhouse'' premiered on July 22, 1963,<ref name="brooks" /><ref name=tvobsecurities19561967/> airing as a summer replacement for the [[Sitcom|situation comedy]] ''[[The Lucy Show]]''; a voiceover introduced each episode with "While Lucy's on vacation . . . it's ''Vacation Playhouse''."<ref name="lb">{{cite book |last1=Monush |first1=Barry |title=Lucille Ball FAQ: Everything Left to Know About America's Favorite Redhead |date=2011-06-01 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-55783-940-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nNCGDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Vacation+Playhouse%22&pg=PT277 |access-date=May 27, 2021 |language=en}}</ref> In 1963, it consisted of unsold pilots for situation comedies. When it returned in 1964, again replacing ''The Lucy Show'', it mostly aired previously unseen situation comedy pilots,<ref name=tvobsecurities19561967/> but also included the pilot for a musical-comedy variety show<ref name=tvobsecurities19561967/> and repeats of comedic episodes of ''[[General Electric Theater]]''. In 1965, it replaced ''[[Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.]]'', and that summer it aired dramatic adventure and mystery episodes<ref name="brooks" /><ref name="lb" /> in addition to situation comedies.<ref name=tvobsecurities19561967/> It again replaced ''The Lucy Show'' in 1966 and 1967 and returned to its earlier format of presenting situation comedy pilots, during each of those summers consisting of previously unaired pilots and repeats of episodes that it had aired in previous years.<ref name="brooks" /><ref name=tvobsecurities19561967/>
Among episode directors were [[Richard Crenna]], [[Jack Donohue (director)|Jack Donohue]],<ref name=etp/> [[Don Taylor (American actor and director)|Don Taylor]], {{Citation needed |date=August 2023}}, and [[Bud Yorkin]].<ref name=pph/> Producers included Donohue,<ref name=etp/> [[Hal Kanter]], Arthur Julian,{{Citation needed |date=August 2023}} and [[Norman Lear]]. Other directors included [[Bud Yorkin]].<ref name=pph/> Studios involved in the production of pilots aired on ''Vacation Playhouse'' included Bing Crosby Productions, [[Desilu Productions]], [[Desilu Studios]], [[Filmways]], [[Four Star Television]], [[CBS Television City|Television City]], and [[Universal Television]].{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} Stars appearing in episodes of the series included [[Eve Arden]], [[Orson Bean]], [[Richard Benjamin]], [[Charles Bronson]], [[Edgar Buchanan]], [[Wally Cox]], [[James Franciscus]], [[Ethel Merman]], [[Barry Nelson]], [[Suzanne Pleshette]], [[Ginger Rogers]], [[Soupy Sales]], [[Brenda Vaccaro]], [[Jerry Van Dyke]], and [[Ed Wynn]].<ref name=tvobsecurities19561967/>
▲==Production notes==
Two episodes of ''Vacation Playhouse'' aired twice on the series, two others aired three times, and the series also included a few repeats of episodes of other anthology series. Nonetheless, by the time ''Vacation Playhouse'' aired for the last time in August 1967, it had broadcast 47 unsold pilots since its 1963 premiere.<ref name=tvobsecurities19561967/> Its five-season run made it the longest-lived series of unsold television pilots.<ref name=tvobsecurities19561967/>
==Broadcast history==
During 1963, ''Vacation Playhouse'' aired on Mondays from 8:30 to 9:00 p.m. [[Eastern Time
==Episodes==
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| style="text-align:center;" | {{Start date|1964|6|15}}
| style="text-align:center;" | {{End date|1964|9|14}}
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| style="text-align:center;" | 12
| style="text-align:center;" | {{Start date|1965|6|25}}
| style="text-align:center;" | {{End date|1965|9|10}}
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| style="text-align:center;" | {{Start date|1966|7|4}}
| style="text-align:center;" | {{End date|1966|9|5}}
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| style="text-align:center;" | 9
| style="text-align:center;" | {{Start date|1967|7|3}}
| style="text-align:center;" | {{End date|1967|8|28}}
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Season 4's nine episodes included two repeats of previously aired episodes.<ref name=tvobsecurities19561967/> Season 5's nine episodes included four repeats of previously aired episodes.<ref name=tvobsecurities19561967/>
===Season 1 (1963)===
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| WrittenBy = [[Valentine Davies]] & {{nowrap|Norman Z. McLeod}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|7|22}}
| ShortSummary = A suitor falls for identical twin sisters
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|7|29}}
| ShortSummary = A pretty young woman finds herself in possession of a magic lamp that has transported a 1,000-year-old [[genie]] to the present. Starring [[Diane Jergens]], [[Gustavo Rojo]], [[Wallace Ford]], and [[George Grizzard]].<ref name=tvobsecurities19561967/><ref name=tvobsecuritiesstatus/
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| WrittenBy = [[Howard Leeds]]
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1963|8|26}}
| ShortSummary = A rock band seeking its big break that travels around the
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| ShortSummary = A young couple that live on a [[houseboat]] and drive a
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| ShortSummary = A small-town
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| ShortSummary = A woman who owns a [[nightclub]] in the South [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] patronized by sailors must keep 3,000 of them away from her daughter
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| ShortSummary = On his hectic first day on the job as the only male member of the teaching staff of an
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| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|7|27}}
| ShortSummary = A French dancer is determined to marry a handsome
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| WrittenBy = [[Cynthia Lindsay]]
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|8|3}}
| ShortSummary = An American tries to open a tourist service in
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| WrittenBy = [[William R. Cox]] & {{nowrap|[[William Faulkner]]}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1964|8|10}}
| ShortSummary = When a slick and lecherous city boy who works as a traveling photographer takes his camera into a rural area in the [[Tennessee]] hills to photograph a high school graduation, a beautiful country girl in need of a graduation dress captivates him, and he stirs up excitement when he tries to trade a dress for some favors.<ref name=tvobsecuritiesstatus/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ebay.com/itm/183751251418 |title=1960 TV AD~G.E. THEATER 'GRADUATION DRESS' by WILLIAM FAULKNER~STELLA STEVENS |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=October 30, 1960 |website= |publisher= |access-date=June 17, 2024 }}</ref><ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=gL9scSG3K_gC&dat=19640810&printsec=frontpage&hl=en "TV Key Previews," ''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', August 10, 1964, p. 31.]</ref><ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=ziW8EwMpto0C&dat=19640810&printsec=frontpage&hl=en "Television Highlights," ''Schenectady Gazette'', August 10, 1964, p. 18.]</ref> Starring [[Hugh O'Brian]], [[Stella Stevens]], [[Ellen Corby]], [[Buddy Ebsen]], [[Tom Nolan (actor)|Tommy Nolan]], and [[Susanne Sidney|Suzanne Sydney]]. A repeat of an episode which aired originially on ''[[General Electric Theater]]'' on October 30,
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| ShortSummary = Alternative titles "Starr" and "Starr of the Yankees." A rookie
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| ShortSummary = An expatriate American who operates a [[casino]] in
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| Title = Coogan's Reward
| DirectedBy = [[Don Taylor (American filmmaker)|Don Taylor]]
| WrittenBy = {{nowrap|Story: [[Richard Donovan (writer)|Richard Donovan]]}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|8|20}}<ref name=tvobsecuritiesstatus/>
| ShortSummary = An arrogant, conniving, and philandering [[war correspondent]] covering [[World War II]] in
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| ShortSummary = At the reading of a will, two women who are distant cousins learn that they will inherit money, a [[townhouse]] in
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| WrittenBy = [[Milt Josefsberg]]
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1965|9|10}}<ref name=tvobsecuritiesstatus/>
| ShortSummary = After a soldier is discharged from the [[United States Army]] and returns to his home town to become the [[Newspaper editor|editor]] of a
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| ShortSummary = A woman who owns a [[nightclub]] in the South [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] patronized by sailors must keep 3,000 of them away from her daughter
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| ShortSummary = The adventures of all-American hero [[Frank Merriwell]], a [[Yale University]] student at the turn of the
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| ShortSummary = A small-town [[fire chief]]'s brother-in-law is an eager but ineffectual [[Firefighter|fireman]] who shares a home with the chief and the chief's wife, although the chief always is trying to get him move out of the house. The chief has a perfect record of fire safety and control until his brother-in-law unconsciously
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| ShortSummary = Eager to join the war effort during [[World War II]], a 16-year-old boy who looks older than he is joins the [[United States Army Air Forces]] and quickly rises to the rank of [[Colonel (United States)|colonel]]. Placed in command of a small air base in
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| ShortSummary = A sweet old college professor invents a rejuvenation pill that makes anyone who takes it look 10 years younger, but only for a short time. He lets a pretty housewife try it, leading to an encounter with her errant husband in a [[nightclub]] and a teenage beach party
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| ShortSummary = Two couples spend a hectic two days guarding [[United States dollar|$]]15,000 in cash. Starring [[Richard Benjamin]] and [[Brenda Vaccaro]].<ref name=tvobsecurities19561967/><ref name=tvobsecuritiesstatus/><ref name=schenectadygazette19660808/> A repeat of the episode<ref name=tvobsecurities19561967/> previously aired on August 8,
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==External links==
*
* [https://ctva.biz/US/Comedy/VacationPlayhouse.htm Episode list at CTVA – The Classic TV Archive]▼
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6PyCGMFHB4 ''Vacation Playhouse'' episode "My Boy Goggle"] on
▲*[https://ctva.biz/US/Comedy/VacationPlayhouse.htm Episode list at CTVA – The Classic TV Archive]
▲*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6PyCGMFHB4 ''Vacation Playhouse'' episode "My Boy Goggle"] on [[YouTube]]
[[Category:1963 American television series debuts]]
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[[Category:1960s American comedy-drama television series]]
[[Category:1960s American anthology television series]]
[[Category:Black-and-white American television shows]]
[[Category:CBS original programming]]
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