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.

  
                   
                     (October 4, 1923 – April 5, 2008)

Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter) was a legendary actor of film,
theater and television. His most well known roles include such films as The
Ten Commandments (1956), Planet of the Apes (1968), classis epic Ben-Hur
(1959) for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He was president
of the National Rifle Association (NRA) from 1998 to 2003.

Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments

NRA president Charlton Heston

 

Alfred Hitchcock Presents is a anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. It
premiered on Sunday October 2, 1955 and ran till May 10, 1965 on the CBS
television network. Time magazine named the show one of “The 100 Best TV
Shows of All-Time”.

Alfred Hitchcock on the set during an opening segment of the show

Actress Angie Dickinson has appeared in more than fifty films, including
Rio Bravo (1959), Ocean’s Eleven (1960), Dressed to Kill (1980), and
Pay It Forward (2000). She also starred as Sergeant Suzanne “ Pepper”
Anderson in the NBC-TV crime series Police Woman, from September
13, 1974 to March 29, 1978. She won a Golden Globe Award for Best
Actress-Drama Series for the show in 1975 and received Emmy Award
nominations in 1975, 1976, and 1977 for the series.   

Angie Dickinson with Dean Martin on the set of Rio Bravo

Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on the CBS television
network from Wednesday September 24, 1969 to September 6, 1976. The
lives of both doctors and patients at a fictitious university hospital in Los
Angeles were showcased each week.

Filming an episode of Medical Center

Chad Everett turned 75 on June 11