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The Catered Affair (Goodyear Television Playhouse)

"The Catered Affair"
Goodyear Television Playhouse episode
Episode no.Season 4
Episode 17
Directed byRobert Mulligan
Written byPaddy Chayefsky
Production codeShowcase Productions
Original air date22 May 1955 (1955-05-22)
Guest appearances
Thelma Ritter
Pat Henning

"The Catered Affair" is a television play episode from the television series Goodyear Television Playhouse. "The Catered Affair" was written by Paddy Chayefsky and was first shown on May 22, 1955. The cast included Pat Henning, Thelma Ritter, and J. Pat O'Malley.[1]

The play was adapted into a 1956 feature film and 2008 stage musical.

It was the last original TV play Chayefsky wrote.[2] A subsequent TV play, The Great American Hoax, was based on an early Chayefsky story.

  1. ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0886035/ Internet Movie database [user-generated source]
  2. ^ "THE TV SCENE--: Television's Old Grads Hit Top" Smith, Cecil. Los Angeles Times 28 Feb 1958: A8.

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