The Sixth Year

"The Sixth Year"
The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse episode
Episode no.	Season 6 Episode 6
Directed by	Arthur Penn
Written by	Paddy Chayefsky
Produced by	Fred Coe
Original air date	29 November 1953
Guest actors
Kim Stanley Warren Stevens Kathleen Comegys

The Sixth Year is an episode of the TV anthology series The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse. It was written by Paddy Chayefsky, directed by Arthur Penn and stars Kim Stanley.^[1]

Plot

A wife becomes exasperated with her husband who seems to have lost the will to work. She takes their child and leaves. He finds a menial job and asks her to come home. She seeks advice on the situation from her mother and father.^[2]

Reception

The TV critic from the Christian Science Monitor wrote that "Mr Chayefsky's humanity operates to assist an understanding of even the unsympathetic mother. Kim Stanley portrayed the young wife with the subtle responsiveness and controlled emotional power that assist intimacy in television acting."^[1]

References

1 2 Chayefsky and Video Drama: Radio-TV By Rod Nordell. The Christian Science Monitor (1908-Current file) [Boston, Mass] 22 Dec 1953: 7.
↑ Other 51 -- No Title Chicago Daily Tribune (1923-1963) [Chicago, Ill] 28 Nov 1953: b4.

External links

The Sixth Year at IMDB

Works by Paddy Chayefsky

Films	The True Glory (1945) As Young as You Feel (1951) Marty (1955) The Catered Affair (1956) 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)

TV Plays	Holiday Song (1952) The Reluctant Citizen (1952) Printer's Measure (1953) Marty (1953) The Big Deal (1953) The Bachelor Party (1953) The Sixth Year (1953) Catch My Boy On Sunday (1953) The Mother (1954) The Middle of the Night (1954) The Catered Affair (1955) The Great American Hoax (1956)

Plays	No T.O. for Love (1945) Middle of the Night (1956) The Tenth Man (1959) Gideon (1961) The Passion of Josef D. (1964) The Latent Heterosexual (1968)

Novels	Altered States (1978)

Films directed by Arthur Penn

The Left Handed Gun (1958)
The Miracle Worker (1962)
Mickey One (1965)
The Chase (1966)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Flesh and Blood (1968)
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)
The Portrait (1993)
Inside (1996)

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