Best Television Plays
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Overview:
- Title: Best Television Plays
- Author: Gore Vidal
- Year: 1963
- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- Price: $0.35
- Pages: 250
- Binding: Paperback
- Type: Anthology
- Title Reference: Visit to a Small Planet
- Notes:
- Stated sixth printing on the copyright page.
- Anthology of eight television plays that were televised 1953-1955 on general fiction television shows.
- Cover is a photograph from the televised version of Reginald Rose's play "Thunder on Sycamore Street".
- Only genre content is listed.
- Anthology also contains content by Paddy Chayefsky, Rod Serling and J. P. Miller who also have genre content on this site.
- First Ballantine printing: September 1956.
- {{LCCN|56-9581}}.
- States "This is an original collection—not a reprint" on the back cover, although this is the sixth printing.
- Ballantine Book #550.
- "Visit to a Small Planet" has also been made into a motion picture.