

Season 2 • Episode 16
LatestWestinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.
Production
Desilu's factory-floor approach to prestige anthology drama.
Direction
Arnaz shepherding Rod Serling toward immortality.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rod Serling's 'The Time Element' aired November 1958; CBS initially rejected Twilight Zone as too weird for sponsors. Desi Arnaz personally championed it.
This series embodies the moment when television stopped being 'radio with pictures' and started becoming cinema for the living room—sponsored by your friendly Westinghouse appliances.