The play concerns efforts to thwart a massive, Christmastime nuclear attack from a fleet of Russian submarines. Charlton Heston, Tab Hunter, Diana Lynn, and Charles Bickford starred. The show was voted the greatest television series of all time by the editors of the New York New York Post and the Los Angeles Times.
About Forbidden Area (Playhouse 90) in brief
The play concerns efforts to thwart a massive, Christmastime nuclear attack from a fleet of Russian submarines located off the coast of the United States. Rod Serling wrote the screenplay, and John Frankenheimer directed. Charlton Heston, Tab Hunter, Diana Lynn, and Charles Bickford starred. The production opened with host Jack Palance announcing that it was the first episode of a new series of 90-minute dramas. The New York Times, in a 1970 poll of television editors, wrote that the production ‘ran the gamut of hokum and hush-hush dramaturgy in every cliche in the video cliche book of elementary dramaturgical art’ The play was broadcast live on October 4, 1956, as part of the CBS television series, Playhouse 90.
It was the premier episode of the series and was produced by Martin Manulis, producer of the Climax! series. The show was voted the greatest television series of all time by the editors of the New York New York Post and the Los Angeles Times in a poll of TV editors in 1970.
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