October 4th, 1956- May 18th, 1960 (CBS) 

CBS anthology series considered to be the most ambitious of all the early day TV anthology series with top talent performing. During it's first three seasons, Playhouse '90 presented ninety-minute dramas. It was broadcast as a series of specials during the 1959-60 season. Reruns were aired in 1961.
More than 100 plays were presented, many of them live, featuring top ranked directors and excellent scripts.   

This episode features "The Helen Morgan Story." 

Helen Morgan is a Broadway legend. Her story told by her mother from her early start in speakeasies to star of top-rated shows and owning her own club. Her fatal descent into alcoholism is also covered. Polly Bergen stars as Helen Morgan.                                      

October 4, 1956 - May 18, 1960

Most television historians and critics of the medium would agree that PLAYHOUSE 90 was the most ambitious of TV's dramatic anthology series which was a genre that thrived and predominated in the 1950's. PLAYHOUSE 90 presented a ninety-minute dream each Thursday evening, mostly LIVE during its first two year run. It was broadcast as a series of specials during the 1959-1960 season, and reruns were aired in 1961. More than 100 plays were presented during the series four seasons on television. 


A mild-mannered schoolteacher gradually abandons all his principles  and finds the success which has always hitherto eluded him.   

An epic political drama about the US Congress and Champ Donahue, a Democratic Congressman from New York expertly portrayed by Academy Award winning actor Van Heflin and his former aide, Robbie Conroy, played by Peter Fonda.
Donahue is accused of engaging in graft and exposed by his 28- year-old protege Conroy. 
A superb cast was rounded up for this TV drama. It included veteran character actor Pat Hingle who portrayed Donahue's attorney, Alexandra Isles, and Will Geer. It was taped in NBC's color studio in Brooklyn, NY. 

This excellent political drama is now missing and believed lost. It survives as audio in the archives of Archival Television Audio, Inc. 
This was the first of five "On Stage" dramas presented by NBC for the 1968-1969 television season.This was David Wolper Productions first TV drama.

Written by Rod Serling.  

NOTE:

At the beginning this television presentation, the  announcer states: 
" And now from New York, on video tape, Act 1 of "Certain Honorable Men." This video tape appears to have been wiped as so many television Quad tapes during the 1960's and 1970's which were then reused for another production.

The movie aired Sept. 12, 1968, on NBC and promptly vanished from the cultural landscape. Despite its pedigree, CERTAIN HONORABLE MEN has essentially been lost to the sands of time. It has never been  released on video, or as a DVD. It is also difficult to even locate more than a single photo or the original art work advertising this fascinating presentation adaptation to TV.