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"Friday the 13th"
The Philco Television Playhouse episode
Episode no.	Season 6 Episode 21
Directed by	Arthur Penn
Written by	Sumner Locke Elliott
Original air date	June 27, 1954 (1954-06-27)
Running time	60 mins
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"Friday the 13th" is a 1954 American television play by Sumner Locke Elliott. It originally aired as an episode of The Philco Television Playhouse produced by Fred Coe and directed by Arthur Penn.^[1]

Elliott originally wrote the script for television but then adapted it for radio and sent it back to Harry Dearthin Australia. He arranged a broadcast of the play on Australian radio in 1955 as an episode of Harry Dearth's Playhouse starring Gordon Glenwright and Charles Tingwell.^[2]

The script was filmed again for television for NBC Matinee Theater in 1956.

Premise

According to a description of the radio adaptation it is "The tense and dramatic story of three women involved in a car accident-a skillful combination of suspense and human interest-it is, in fact, an omnibus play for it tells three stories in one."^[3]

A longer description was provided by ABC Weekly which said "When the car containing Trilby Harris, Barbara Mack and Elaine Prescott skids off a wet road, crashes through a fence and careers over a cliff edge, one of the occupants is killed. But the husbands of the three women are not told which one. As they wait at the cliff top a single question drums in the mind of each man: “Was it my wife?”"^[2]

References

^ "Friday the 13th on Playhouse". The Times-Mail. 26 June 1954. p. 10.
^ ^a ^b "Commercial", ABC Weekly, vol. 17, no. 6, Sydney: ABC, 5 February 1955, nla.obj-1698497561, retrieved 20 November 2023 – via Trove
^ "WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9". The Sunday Times. No. 2931. Western Australia. 6 February 1955. p. 19. Retrieved 20 November 2023 – via National Library of Australia.

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v t e Works of Sumner Locke Elliott
Novels	Careful, He Might Hear You (1963) Some Doves and Pythons (1966) Edens Lost (1969) The Man Who Got Away (1972) Going (1975) Water Under the Bridge (1977) Signs of Life (1981) About Tilly Beamis (1984) Waiting for Childhood (1987) Fairyland (1990) Radio Days (1993)
Plays	The Cow Jumped Over the Moon (1937) Interval (1939) The Little Sheep Run Fast (1940) Goodbye to the Music (1942) Your Obedient Servant (1943) The Invisible Circus (1946) Wicked Is the Vine (1948) Rusty Bugles (1948) Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1951) John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953)
TV scripts	Wicked Is the Vine (1949) The Crater (1949) Pengallen's Bell (1949) Of Human Bondage (1949) Jane Eyre (1949) The Willow Cabin (1950) The Passionate Pilgrim (1950) The Shadow of a Man (1950) Little Women (1950) The Rose Garden (1951) The Devil in Velvet (1952) The Thin Air (1952) Dusty Portrait (1952) Miss Hargreaves (1952) We Were Children (1952) Elegy (1953) Wish on the Moon (1953) Before I Wake (1953) The Shadow of a Man (1953) The Girl with the Stop Watch (1953) Moment of Panic (1954) Friday the 13th (1954) Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1954) The King and Mrs. Candle (1954) Time Bomb (1954) Run Girl Run (1954) The Women (1955) Beloved Stranger (1955) The King and Mrs. Candle (1955) Peter Pan (1955) Daisy, Daisy (1955) You and Me and the Gatepost (1956) Keyhole (1956) Company Manners (1956) Peter Pan (1956) Love at Fourth Sight (1957) Whereabouts Unknown (1957) Mrs. Gilling and the Skyscraper (1957) Babe in the Woods (1957) The Count of Monte Cristo (1958) The Winslow Boy (1958) We Haven't Seen Her Lately (1958) The Laughing Willow (1958) The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1959) (US) Peter Pan (1960) The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1960) (Aust) The Prisoner of Zenda (1961) Notorious (1961) Spellbound (1962)
Adaptations	Rusty Bugles (1965) Water Under the Bridge (1980) Rusty Bugles (1981) Careful, He Might Hear You (1983) Edens Lost (1989 TV mini series)
Radio	Crazy Family (1939) Tradesman's Entrance (1941) Jezebel's Daughter (1941) Grand City (1942) Girl of the Ballet (1942) The Man in the Dark (1944) The Army Hour (1944) Lily Parker (1947) Scarlet Rhapsody (1947) Wicked Is the Vine (1947) Ride a Cock Horse (1948) The Crater (1948) The Rose Garden (1950) Dusty Portrait (1953) The Thin Air (1954) We Were Children (1954) Friday the 13th (1955)

v t e Films directed by Arthur Penn
Feature films	The Left Handed Gun (1958) The Miracle Worker (1962) Mickey One (1965) The Chase (1966) Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Alice's Restaurant (1969) Little Big Man (1970) Visions of Eight (1973) Night Moves (1975) The Missouri Breaks (1976) Four Friends (1981) Target (1985) Dead of Winter (1987) Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989)
Television	The Girl with the Stop Watch (1953) Friday the 13th (1954) The King and Mrs. Candle (1954) Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1954) The King and Mrs. Candle (1955) Invitation to a Gunfighter (1957) Portrait of a Murderer (1958) Flesh and Blood (1968) The Portrait (1993) Inside (1996)

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