The Country Husband (Playhouse 90)

"**The Country Husband**"
"The Country Husband"
Playhouse 90 episode
	Kerwin Mathews and Felicia Farr in "The Country Husband"
Episode no.	Season 1; Episode 5
Directed by	James Neilson
Written by	Paul Monash (teleplay), John Cheever (short story)
Original air date	November 1, 1956
Guest appearances
	Frank Lovejoy as William Wiley; Barbara Hale as Julia Wiley; Felicia Farr as Anne Murchison;
Episode chronology
← Previous; "Rendezvous in Black"	Next →; "The Big Slide"

"The Country Husband" was an American television movie broadcast on November 1, 1956, as part of the CBS television series, Playhouse 90.

Plot[edit]

After a car crash and the arrival of a beautiful babysitter, a young businessman, William Wiley, considers leaving his wife for the babysitter.

Cast[edit]

Frank Lovejoy as William Wiley
Barbara Hale as Julia Wiley
Felicia Farr as Anne Murchison
Kerwin Mathews as Clay Farrell
Herbert Rudley as Farrell Sr.
Jeanne Cooper as Shirl
John Zaremba as Mr. Murchison
Hugh Sanders as Robert Guinness
S. John Launer as Passenger

Red Skelton hosted the program.

Production[edit]

The film was produced by Screen Gems beginning in June 1956. Eva Wolas was the producer and James Neilson the director. Paul Monash wrote the teleplay based on a short story ("The Country Husband") by John Cheever.^[1]^[2]

References[edit]

^ Oscar Godbout (May 28, 1956). "90-Minute Series of TV Movies Due: Filming of 8 Feature-Length Shows for 'Playhouse 90' Will Begin on June 11". The New York Times. p. 51.
^ "'Country Husband' 90-Minute Show". The Racine Journal-Times. June 24, 1956.

[1] Oscar Godbout (May 28, 1956). "90-Minute Series of TV Movies Due: Filming of 8 Feature-Length Shows for 'Playhouse 90' Will Begin on June 11". The New York Times. p. 51.

[2] "'Country Husband' 90-Minute Show". The Racine Journal-Times. June 24, 1956.

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v t e Playhouse 90
People	John Frankenheimer Martin Manulis Franklin J. Schaffner Rod Serling
Season 1	"Forbidden Area" "Requiem for a Heavyweight" "Sizeman and Son" "Rendezvous in Black" "The Country Husband" "The Big Slide" "Heritage of Anger" "Eloise" "Confession" "Made in Heaven" "Sincerely, Willis Wade" "The Family Nobody Wanted" "Massacre at Sand Creek" "Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses" "The Ninth Day" "So Soon To Die" "The Star Wagon" "So Soon To Die" "The Greer Case" "The Miracle Worker" "The Comedian" "The Coat of White" "The Blackwell Story" "Invitation to a Gunfighter" "The Last Tycoon" "The Hostess with the Mostes'" "Charley's Aunt" "Clipper Ship" "If You Know Elizabeth" "Three Men on a Horse" "Four Women in Black" "Child of Trouble" "Homeward Borne" "Helen Morgan" "Winter Dreams" "Circle of the Day" "Without Incident" "Clash by Night" "Ain't No Time for Glory" "The Fabulous Irishman"
Season 2	"The Death of Manolete" "The Dark Side of the Earth" "Topaze" "A Sound of Different Drummers" "The Playroom" "Around the World in 90 Minutes" "The Mystery of Thirteen" "The Edge of Innocence" "The Clouded Image" "The Jet Propelled Couch" "The Troublemakers" "Panic Button" "Galvanized Yankee" "The Thundering Wave" "For I Have Loved Strangers" "The Lone Woman" "Reunion" "The Last Man" "The 80 Yard Run" "Before I Die" "The Gentleman From Seventh Avenue" "The Violent Heart" "No Time at All" "Point of No Return" "Portrait of a Murderer" "The Last Clear Chance" "The Male Animal" "The Right Hand Man" "Turn Left at Mount Everest" "The Dungeon" "Verdict of Three" "Rumors of Evening" "Not the Glory" "Nightmare at Ground Zero" "Bomber's Moon" "Natchez" "The Innocent Sleep" "A Town Has Turned to Dust" "The Great Gatsby" "A Bitter Heritage"
Season 3	"The Plot to Kill Stalin" "Days of Wine and Roses" "The Time of Your Life" "The Long March" "Shadows Tremble" "Word From a Sealed-Off Box" "Heart of Darkness" "Old Man" "The Return of Ansel Gibbs" "Free Weekend" "Seven Against the Wall" "The Nutcracker" "Face of a Hero" "The Wings of the Dove" "The Blue Men" "The Velvet Alley" "A Quiet Game of Cards" "Child of Our Time" "The Second Man" "The Raider" "The Dingaling Girl" "Made in Japan" "For Whom the Bell Tolls" "A Trip to Paradise" "In Lonely Expectation" "The Day Before Atlanta" "Judgment at Nuremberg" "A Corner of the Garden" "Dark December" "Diary of a Nurse" "A Marriage of Strangers" "Out of Dust" "The Rank and File" "The Killers of Mussolini" "Project Immortality" "Dark as the Night" "The Second Happiest Day"
Season 4	"Target for Three" "The Sounds of Eden" "Misalliance" "The Hidden Image" "The Grey Nurse Said Nothing" "The Tunnel" "The Silver Whistle" "A Dream of Treason" "To the Sound of Trumpets" "The Cruel Day" "Tomorrow" "The Hiding Place" "Alas, Babylon" "Journey to the Day" "The Shape of the River" "In the Presence of Mine Enemies"
Revivals	CBS Playhouse CBS Playhouse 90

v t e John Cheever
Novels	The Wapshot Chronicle (1957) The Wapshot Scandal (1964) Bullet Park (1969) Falconer (1977) Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982)
Short story collections	The Way Some People Live (1943) The Enormous Radio and Other Stories (1953) The Housebreaker of Shady Hill and Other Stories (1958) Some People, Places, and Things That Will Not Appear in My Next Novel (1961) The Brigadier and the Golf Widow (1964) The World of Apples (1973) The Stories of John Cheever (1978) Thirteen Uncollected Stories by John Cheever (1994)
Short stories	"Expelled" (1930) "Fall River" (1931) "Late Gathering" (1931) "The Brothers" (1937) "Publick House" (1941) "The Enormous Radio" (1947) "Torch Song" (1947) "The Hartleys" (1949) "Goodbye, My Brother" (1951) "O Youth and Beauty!" (1953) "The Five-Forty-Eight" (1954) "The Day the Pig Fell Into the Well" (1954) "The Country Husband" (1954) "The Wrysons" (1958) "The Scarlet Moving Van" (1959) "The Music Teacher" (1959) "The Seaside Houses" (1961) "Reunion" (1962) "The Swimmer" (1964) "The Geometry of Love" (1966) "The World of Apples" (1966) "The Fourth Alarm (1970) "Artemis, the Honest Well-Digger" (1972)
Adaptations	"The Country Husband" (Playhouse 90) (1956) The Swimmer (1968) The Five Forty-Eight (1979) Parc (2008)