Short answers, pulled from the story.
Studio One aired its final live drama recreation of Orson Welles's radio broadcast on the 9th of September 1957. This production featured Alexander Scourby and Warren Beatty in one of his earliest roles.
Kraft Television Theatre launched on the 7th of May 1947 as the first hour-long anthology drama series. The show brought high culture to commercial network television throughout the 1950s alongside Westinghouse Studio One.
Gorgeous George Wagner made his first television appearance on the 11th of November 1947. His in-ring character became the biggest drawing card the sport had ever known and changed the course of the industry forever.
Sylvester Pat Weaver got fired in 1956 after his strategy of programming spectacular productions proved to be ratings failures. Rural sitcoms and Westerns boomed while perplexing even the writers of the shows during this period.
The quiz show scandals of 1958 hastened the end of the golden age alongside a writer's strike in March 1960. Playhouse 90 aired its final episode in May 1960 marking the conclusion of live drama anthologies.