Rod Serling

Playhouse 90 is a television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from
Thursday October 4, 1956 to May 18, 1960 for a total of 133 hour-and-a-half
episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, Ca. The first  
show featured Rod Serling’s  Forbidden Area, an adaptation of  a novel by 
Pat Frank.  

Opening for the premiere of the second season

Mickey Rooney (on table) in a scene from Rod Serling’s “The Comedian”, a 
Playhouse 90 production in February of 1957.