Holiday Song

"**Holiday Song**"
"Holiday Song"
Goodyear Playhouse episode
Episode no.	Season 2; Episode 1
Directed by	Gordon Duff ; Delbert Mann ;
Written by	Paddy Chayefsky
Production code	Showcase Productions
Original air date	September 14, 1952
Guest appearances
	Joseph Buloff ; Herbert Berghof ; Frances Chaney ;

Last updated September 17, 2025

"Holiday Song" is the second season premiere of the TV anthology series Goodyear Playhouse . It was written by Paddy Chayefsky and helped establish his reputation in TV drama.^[1]

The episode was based on a story which had appeared in Reader's Digest .^[2]

References

↑ Paddy Chayefsky Archived September 23, 2016, at the Wayback Machine at Museum of TV
↑ TAD MOSEL (December 10, 1989). "In Search of the Untouched Moments of Life: Paddy Chayefsky knew that while the stage demands excitement, TV calls for smaller stories. Untouched Moments Chayefsky worked alone with a dictionary for company". New York Times. p. H7.

External links

"Holiday Song" at IMDb

This article about a television episode is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.

[1] Paddy Chayefsky Archived September 23, 2016, at the Wayback Machine at Museum of TV

[2] TAD MOSEL (December 10, 1989). "In Search of the Untouched Moments of Life: Paddy Chayefsky knew that while the stage demands excitement, TV calls for smaller stories. Untouched Moments Chayefsky worked alone with a dictionary for company". New York Times. p. H7.

[1]

[2]

v t e Works by Paddy Chayefsky
Films written	The True Glory (1945) As Young as You Feel (1951) Marty (1955) The Bachelor Party (1957) The Goddess (1958) Middle of the Night (1959) The Americanization of Emily (1964) Paint Your Wagon (1969) The Hospital (1971) Network (1976) Altered States (1980)
Television plays	"Holiday Song" (1952) "Printer's Measure" (1953) "Marty" (1953) "The Bachelor Party" (1953) "The Sixth Year" (1953) "The Mother" (1954) "The Catered Affair" (1955) "The Great American Hoax" (1956)
Plays	The Tenth Man (1959) Gideon (1961) The Passion of Josef D. (1964) The Latent Heterosexual (1968)

"Holiday Song"
Goodyear Playhouse episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 1
Directed by	Gordon Duff Delbert Mann
Written by	Paddy Chayefsky
Production code	Showcase Productions
Original air date	September 14, 1952 (1952-09-14)
Guest appearances
Joseph Buloff Herbert Berghof Frances Chaney