A general decline in quality had been noticed as early as 1958, as the Peabody Award committee, in issuing an award to "The Steve Allen Show" that year, lamented that television was "conspicuously lacking (...) genuine humor and frank experiments." As filmed series such as "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and "The Twilight Zone" began to dominate during the mid-1950s and early 1960s, the period of live TV dramas was viewed as the Golden Age. Although producer David Susskind, in a 1960s roundtable discussion with leading 1950s TV dramatists, defined TV's Golden Age as 1938 to 1954, the quiz show scandals of 1958, a writer's strike in March 1960, the final show of "Playhouse 90" (which debuted October 4, 1956) on May 18, 1960 and the departure of leading director John Frankenheimer brought the era to an end. Indeed, the 1960–61 television season was noted by "Time" magazine as being the worst season in television up to that point, a sentiment echoed by Newton Minow, the head of the Federal Communications Commission, who lambasted the television networks for creating a "vast wasteland" of inferior programming in his speech "Television and the Public Interest." ("The United States Steel Hour" would survive until 1963.)