"Screen Directors Playhouse (sometimes written as Screen Directors' Playhouse) is an American radio and television anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to the NBC microphones beginning in 1949. The radio program broadcast adaptations of films, with original directors of the films sometimes involved in the productions, although their participation was usually limited to introducing the radio adaptations and taking a brief "curtain call" with the cast and host at the end of the program. During the 1955–56 season, the series was seen on television, focusing on original teleplays and several adaptations of famous short stories (such as Robert Louis Stevenson's "Markheim").
The radio version ran for 122 episodes and aired on NBC from January 9, 1949, to September 28, 1951, under several different titles: NBC Theater, Screen Directors Guild Assignment, Screen Directors Assignment and, as of July 1, 1949, Screen Directors Playhouse.
Actors on the radio series included Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Boyer, Claudette Colbert, Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Kirk Douglas, Irene Dunne, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Henry Fonda, Cary Grant, William Holden, Burt Lancaster, James Mason, Ray Milland, Gregory Peck, William Powell, Edward G. Robinson, Norma Shearer, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, John Wayne, and Loretta Young."
From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Directors_Playhouse
Shows in Volume 3:
50-03-31 The Dark Mirror (Olivia deHaviland, Francis X. Bushman, John Dehner)
50-04-07 The Fighting O'Flynn wDouglas Fairbanks, Jr, Raymond Burr, Paul Frees)
50-04-14 It Happens Every Spring (Ray Milland, Parley Baer, Lloyd Bacon)
50-04-21 A Kiss In The Dark (Jane Wyman, Hans Conried, Delmar Daves)
50-04-28 Rope Of Sand (Burt Lancaster, Frank Barton, Corinne Calvert)
50-05-05 When My Baby Smiles At Me (Betty Grable, Hy Averback, Frank Barton)
50-05-12 Butch Minds The Baby (Broderick Crawford, Frank Barton, Gail Bonney)
50-05-19 Miss Grant Takes Richmond (Lucille Ball, Lloyd Bacon, Frank Barton)
50-05-26 Flamingo Road (Joan Crawford, David Brian, Michael Curtiz)
50-06-02 She Wouldn't Say Yes (Rosalind Russell, Hy Averback)
50-06-09 Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (Repeat) (Cary Grant, Betsy Drake)
50-06-23 The Strange Love Of Martha Ivers (Barbara Stanwyck, Eleanor Audley, Gerald Mohr)
50-11-09 Shadow Of A Doubt (Cary Grant)
50-11-16 Life Boat (Tallulah Bankhead, Jeff Chandler, Ann Diamond)
50-11-23 Cluney Brown (Dorothy McGuire, Charles Boyer, Joseph Mankiewicz)
50-11-30 Mrs. Mike (Evelyn Keyes, Joseph Cotten, Michael Ann Barrett)
50-12-07 My Favorite Wife (Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Leo McCarey, Frank Nelson)
50-12-14 The Lady Gambles (Barbara Stanwyck, Stephen McNally, John Dehner)
50-12-21 Miracle On 34th Street (Edmund Gwenn, Gail Bonney, William Conrad)
50-12-28 Alias Nick Beal (Ray Milland, Nancy Olson, Tony Barrett, Raymond Burr)
51-01-04 The Prince Of Foxes (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lynn Allen, Raymond Burr)
51-01-11 Ivy (Joan Fontaine, Eleanor Audley, Ken Christy, Gerald Mohr)
51-01-18 The Big Lift (Edmond O'Brien, Paul Douglas, Tony Barrett)
51-01-25 Spellbound (Joseph Cotten, Mercedes McCambridge, John Blyforce)
51-02-01 Take A Letter, Darling (Rosalind Russell, Alan Ladd, Bob Hope)
51-02-08 Lucky Jordon (Alan Ladd, Paul DuBov, Verna Felton)
51-02-15 Dark Victory (Tallulah Bankhead, David Brian, Lynn Allen)
51-02-22 No Minor Vices (Louis Jordan, Dana Andrews, Jim Backus)
51-03-01 A Foreign Affair (Marlene Dietrich, Lucille Ball, John Lund)
51-03-08 Bachelor Mother (Lucille Ball, Robert Cummings, Frank Nelson)
