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2 unusual facts about Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse


Bert Granet

Granet worked with Desilu Productions and was instrumental in getting Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone on the air in the late 1950s when he produced his successful pilot pitch The Time Element for Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse.

Carol Thurston

Thurston had other guest roles in the 1950s on such series as Sky King, Soldiers of Fortune, The Rough Riders, 26 Men, Behind Closed Doors, Highway Patrol, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, and The Man and the Challenge.


Lalo Ríos

Since 1966, Ríos was focused in his work in TV, where he already had started to work since 1958 (participating in some TV series episodes as Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (his first appearance in an American TV series, in 1958), The Untouchables (1961) or Gunsmoke (1961)).


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