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Four Star Playhouse is a radio dramatic anthology series in the United States. The 30-minute program was broadcast on NBC beginning in July 1949 and was sustaining. It lasted only three months.Four Star Playhouse was one of "at least 10" new programs developed for that summer by NBC's [West] Coast programming department. A story in the July 2, 1949, issue of The Billboard reported that NBC "is now keyed to the recent programming drive, launched to offset Columbia Broadcasting System's (CBS) talent raids, and is anxious to use summer hiatus periods to develop shows worthy of fall bankrolling. Hence, the new raft of airers will not be treated as fill-in shows, but produced with an eye to long-term web tenancy."

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rdfs:label	Four Star Playhouse (radio program) (en)
rdfs:comment	Four Star Playhouse is a radio dramatic anthology series in the United States. The 30-minute program was broadcast on NBC beginning in July 1949 and was sustaining. It lasted only three months.Four Star Playhouse was one of "at least 10" new programs developed for that summer by NBC's [West] Coast programming department. A story in the July 2, 1949, issue of The Billboard reported that NBC "is now keyed to the recent programming drive, launched to offset Columbia Broadcasting System's (CBS) talent raids, and is anxious to use summer hiatus periods to develop shows worthy of fall bankrolling. Hence, the new raft of airers will not be treated as fill-in shows, but produced with an eye to long-term web tenancy." (en)
foaf:name	Four Star Playhouse (en)
dct:subject	1940s American radio programs NBC radio programs American radio dramas Anthology radio series Radio programs adapted into television shows
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Wikipage revision ID	1068368235 (xsd:integer)
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Rosalind Russell Jeff Chandler (actor) Anthology series Paul Frees Richard Diamond, Private Detective Robert Cummings Elliott Lewis (radio) Cosmopolitan (magazine) Sustaining program Frank Lovejoy Frank Nelson (actor) Fred MacMurray George N. Neise NBC Loretta Young Lurene Tuttle Shirley Mitchell 1940s American radio programs NBC radio programs CBS Will Wright (actor) Willard Waterman William Conrad Dan O'Herlihy Four Star Playhouse Dragnet (series) American radio dramas Anthology radio series Janet Waldo Jeanne Bates Radio programs adapted into television shows Ken Christy Lawrence Dobkin Herb Butterfield Mary Jane Croft Radio broadcasting Screen Directors Playhouse Shepard Menken
Link from a Wikipage to an external page	https://archive.org/details/FourStarPlayhouse
sameAs	Four Star Playhouse (radio program) Four Star Playhouse (radio program) Four Star Playhouse (radio program) Four Star Playhouse (radio program)
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show name	Four Star Playhouse (en)
syndicates	NBC
country	United States (en)
first aired	1949-07-03 (xsd:date)
format	Dramatic anthology (en)
language	English (en)
last aired	1949-09-18 (xsd:date)
num episodes	12 (xsd:integer)
runtime	1800.0 (second)
starring	Rosalind Russell Robert Cummings Fred MacMurray Loretta Young
writer	Milton Geiger (en)
television	Four Star Playhouse
has abstract	Four Star Playhouse is a radio dramatic anthology series in the United States. The 30-minute program was broadcast on NBC beginning in July 1949 and was sustaining. It lasted only three months.Four Star Playhouse was one of "at least 10" new programs developed for that summer by NBC's [West] Coast programming department. A story in the July 2, 1949, issue of The Billboard reported that NBC "is now keyed to the recent programming drive, launched to offset Columbia Broadcasting System's (CBS) talent raids, and is anxious to use summer hiatus periods to develop shows worthy of fall bankrolling. Hence, the new raft of airers will not be treated as fill-in shows, but produced with an eye to long-term web tenancy." Radio historian John Dunning put the production surge in context: The Four Star Playhouse was a 1949 NBC effort ... quickly put together as part of the network's barrage against CBS. During the previous summer, CBS had raided the top of NBC's comedy line, luring Jack Benny, "Amos and Andy," and others into a network jump. NBC's reaction was almost frantic: a battery of new shows like this one, featuring glamor and lots of big names. Other NBC shows developed as a part of that effort included Hollywood Calling, Screen Directors Playhouse, Dragnet, Richard Diamond and Trouble with the Truitts. Despite the star power of the show's four featured artists, Dunning noted, "the new NBC lineup just couldn't compete against the old, which CBS stacked into the same time slots on Sunday. Most of the new shows vanished from the air within months, and The Four Star Playhouse was one of them."Three years after Four Star Playhouse's demise on radio, the same format was used -- with different stars -- for a TV version that ran for four years. See Four Star Playhouse. (en)
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starring	Rosalind Russell Robert Cummings Fred MacMurray

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