Play of the Week / East Side/West Side

June 19, 2015 - 7:30 pm

Billy Wilder Theater

In-person:

Lynn Stalmaster.

Play of the Week: "Black Monday"

Syndicated, 1/16/1961

In this first original television play produced for the ambitious anthology series, Play of the Week (1959-61), Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Reginald Rose (12 Angry Men) unflinchingly tackles the issue of integration. As an African American child enters a white school in the Deep South for the first time, the tense drama unfolds from three different perspectives, including that of a Black family.

Talent Associates. Executive Producer: Worthington Miner. Producer: David Susskind. Director: Ralph Nelson. An Original Play by: Reginald Rose. Cast: Pat Hingle, Robert Redford, Ruby Dee, Ivan Dixon, Ossie Davis, Edward Asner, Charles Grodin. DigiBeta, b/w, 110 min.

East Side/West Side: "Who Do You Kill?"

CBS, 11/4/1963

In this controversial episode of the critically acclaimed, short-lived East Side/West Side television series, the issues of racism and Black poverty are uncompromisingly addressed when an African American couple’s infant is attacked by a rat in her crib in their Harlem tenement. Some Southern stations refused to air the episode, which went on to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Drama.

Listen to the Kenyon Hopkins jazz theme on YouTube.

Talent Associates. Executive Producer: Arnold Perl. Director: Tom Gries. Writer: Arnold Perl. Cast: George C. Scott, James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Diana Sands. 16mm print, b/w, 56 min.

Part of:

Archive Television Treasures—50th Anniversary

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Play of the Week / East Side/West Side

Play of the Week: "Black Monday"

East Side/West Side: "Who Do You Kill?"

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