Overview of 'Schlitz Playhouse of Stars' Season 5

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)

Drama
Comedy

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.

Writing:

Paul Monash

Stars:

Release Date: 1951-10-05
Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

7.0/10

Country: US
Language: English
Runtime: 60

Season 5 Episode List

Episode 1 - The Last Out
Release Date: 1955-09-30
A once promising baseball player is now grounds keeper for a minor league team. His deep knowledge of the game is more than the team's manager can handle.
Episode 2 - Bandit's Hide-Out
Release Date: 1955-10-07
The wife of a gentle Spanish shepherd is discontented with the quiet life they lead. He returns home one night to find his wife and sheep are gone.
Episode 3 - Two-Bit Gangster
Release Date: 1955-10-14
A newsman travels to a small town to cover what appears to be a routine robbery, in which a masked thief killed an ex-con who interfered with his getaway. But, the reporter's investigation begins to reveal the ex-con in the role of a hero.
Episode 4 - The Girl Who Scared Men Off
Release Date: 1955-10-21
A country schoolmarm bitterly resents it when the community imports a tweedy, pipe-smoking exchange teacher from England to add culture to the school. It takes a fire at the school picnic to set things right and clear up the problem.
Episode 5 - Nothing to Do Till Next Fall
Release Date: 1955-10-28
A college football coach is faced with a difficult decision for the big home coming game.
Episode 6 - A Gift of Life
Release Date: 1955-11-04
A big time salesman is too busy getting ahead to make friends. Then he finds himself in a hospital bed in need of a transfusion. A portrait of a tragic character.
Episode 7 - No Trial by Jury
Release Date: 1955-11-11
After a valuable horse drowns in a well, a homesteader faces ruin. The law of the range makes him liable because of negligence in not covering or fencing the well.
Episode 8 - Night of the Big Swamp
Release Date: 1955-11-18
Reno Cromwell, a hunting guide obliged to aid the law in hunting down his best friend, a killer. Reno's girlfriend is actually still in love with the killer, but her pleas to Reno not to help in the pursuit are in vain.
Episode 9 - The Careless Cadet
Release Date: 1955-11-25
Sgt. Ben Destry receives an appointment to West Point as a reward for valor in the Korean War. But he scoffs at the Academy's traditions and finds the orders of his juniors hard to take.
Episode 10 - Moment of Triumph
Release Date: 1955-12-02
A business tycoon is able to right the wrong done twenty years ago to his professor who refused to give a passing grade to a rich man's son when he didn't deserve it.
Episode 11 - On the Nose
Release Date: 1955-12-09
An air force pilot is assigned to carry an atomic scientist to the site of a bomb experiment. To the pilot's dismay, the ship's navigator becomes ill before takeoff and is replaced by a woefully inexperience substitute.
Episode 12 - The Baited Hook
Release Date: 1955-12-16
In a Florida swamp, Sheriff Ames is marooned with killer, Link Bradford.
Episode 13 - Christmas Guest
Release Date: 1955-12-23
A professor's modest salary doesn't permit much spending for Christmas gifts, so when his wife's brother arrives laden with expensive gifts a bitter argument ensues. Out of that, comes a better understanding of Christmas.
Episode 14 - Well of Anger
Release Date: 1955-12-30
In the Old West, Ed Sawyer is trying to set up a modest homestead. But a big rancher, Luke Gans, uses violence to keep Sawyer away from the water supply.
Episode 15 - Fool Proof
Release Date: 1956-01-06
When Mary Hunter became a teacher of blind children she never dreamed the lessons she taught might one day save her life not until that fateful evening in the parking lot.
Episode 16 - Dealer's Choice
Release Date: 1956-01-13
The owner of a pearling ship loses it in a poker game. Convinced that the winner cheated, he signs on with him for the next voyage, suspecting that the new owner will soon be anxious to sell the ship back to him.
Episode 17 - The Big Payday
Release Date: 1956-01-20
A former fighter always wanted to be champ, but never made it. He's a manager now, and hopes his heavyweight contender will make it.
Episode 18 - The Day I Died
Release Date: 1956-01-27
A ruthless business tycoon is convinced he owes all his success to himself alone. But a strange thing happens to him on a hospital operating table.
Episode 19 - The Gentle Stranger
Release Date: 1956-02-03
A mail-order bride finds life on a ranch not to her liking. A range war decides her future.
Episode 20 - Top Man
Release Date: 1956-02-10
A mountain climber is fiercely determined to conquer the man-killing Himalayan peak, Calpurtha.
Episode 21 - On a Dark Night
Release Date: 1956-02-17
A college professor tries to rescue a girl who turns out to be a gangster's moll.
Episode 22 - Ordeal
Release Date: 1956-02-24
No one believes a man when he insists he saw a murder committed.
Episode 23 - Showdown at Painted Rock
Release Date: 1956-03-02
A sheriff risks his life by insisting on hanging a murderer in the lawless old West.
Episode 24 - Web of Circumstance
Release Date: 1956-03-09
A bank teller has been stealing pennies and stashing away dollars taken from his wife's grocery budget for years. His goal: to make a break from his shrewish spouse and sail for an island paradise in the Pacific.
Episode 25 - The Young and the Brave
Release Date: 1956-03-16
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Episode 26 - The Waiting House
Release Date: 1956-03-23
The honeymoon house in Bermuda, which a couple has chosen, has been the scene of accidents to a good many tenants before them.
Episode 27 - The Finger of God
Release Date: 1956-03-30
An escaping Boer prisoner of war breaks into an apparently deserted house and gets the surprise of his life.
Episode 28 - Angels in the Sky
Release Date: 1956-04-06
A transport plane carrying wounded men from the South Pacific faces disaster.
Episode 29 - The Bitter Land
Release Date: 1956-04-13
A man arrives in the West to seek the murderer of his son and is faced with the dilemma of saving the murderer's own son when outlaws set out to get the boy.
Episode 30 - The Mysterious Cargo
Release Date: 1956-04-20
After being slugged, robbed and having his ship sail without him, Mr. Gallup heads for the States on another ship. Tension mounts when he realizes the cargo doesn't correspond to the manifest.
Episode 31 - Step Right Up and Die
Release Date: 1956-04-27
When an amusement park operator finds a body in the Fun House, he is afraid to tell the police, having once spent three years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. He gets rid of the corpse, but is trapped just the same and faces death.
Episode 32 - Formosa Patrol
Release Date: 1956-05-04
The story of the destroyer USS DeHaven and a persistent rain that turned into the third worst storm in the history of the coastal Southern California.
Episode 33 - Plague Ship
Release Date: 1956-05-11
A captain finds that his ship is threatened by bubonic plague.
Episode 34 - Officer Needs Help
Release Date: 1956-05-18
Dan Grabow is given a 90-day tryout as chief of police in a small beach town. His discovers that none of the members of his force have received adequate police training.
Episode 35 - Date for Tomorrow
Release Date: 1956-05-25
After breaking out of prison, Eddie Markham decides to use a girl he meets as at an amusement park as a decoy in a holdup.
Episode 36 - The Roustabout
Release Date: 1956-06-08
A saddle bum is pushed into the middle of a fight between some ranchers and a storekeeper who has been selling barbed wire to the squatters.
Episode 37 - Pattern for Pursuit
Release Date: 1956-06-15
Mountie Sgt. Douglas Renfrew is sent back to the Northwest Territory to reopen a murder investigation. The gun which killed a man has turned up, and its owner is the key suspect. Renfrew is nursed back to health following a mountain lion attack by the daughter of the murdered man. She claims the man he's seeking is no longer alive.
Episode 38 - Witness to Condemn
Release Date: 1956-06-22
The only witness to a murder loses her sight as a result of an attack by the killers.
Episode 39 - Weapon of Courage
Release Date: 1956-06-29
A disabled war veteran who has taken a job as a bank teller feels that his disability has made him useless.
Episode 40 - The Mechanical Cook
Release Date: 1956-07-06
Sgt. Childs wants to be a cook in the Air Force, but he keeps getting assigned duties like Hangar Chief. He gets himself assigned to a general's flight so he can show off his kitchen skills, but the general's dietitian has other ideas.
Episode 41 - The Happy Sun
Release Date: 1956-07-13
When all of an aging Finnish lumberjack's family is wiped out in one night, he turns his devotion toward a horse that was responsible for the accident, because he needs someone to love.
Episode 42 - The Bankmouse
Release Date: 1956-07-20
An aging Finnish lumberjack who with his whole family wiped out in one night, turns his devotion toward a horse that was responsible for the accident since he needs someone to love.
Episode 43 - Dara
Release Date: 1956-07-27
An actress is informed that her husband was killed in a plane crash, but he suddenly returns. And when he does, he accuses her of sabotaging the plane.
Episode 44 - Flowers for Jenny
Release Date: 1956-08-03
A woman tells her man she'll marry him, if he can prove that he cares more for her than for fighting. But as he sets out to pick up the wedding bouquet, he becomes involved with train robbers.
Episode 45 - Repercussion
Release Date: 1956-08-10
A hard-hitting crime reporter discovers that his wife once worked for a gambling ring.
Episode 46 - Boling Point
Release Date: 1956-08-17
A hard-hitting crime reporter discovers that his wife once worked for a gambling ring.
Episode 47 - Strange Defense
Release Date: 1956-08-24
A man must decide whether a woman who is accused of murder is his supposedly deceased wife or her twin sister.
Episode 48 - I'll Wait for You
Release Date: 1956-08-31
A fight over his girlfriend results in a jail term for Joe Santorelli. When he is released, after a year's imprisonment, he is filled with hate for the whole human race.
Episode 49 - The Press Agent
Release Date: 1956-09-07
Show biz agent Danny Scott is taking a bigger cut from his client then he should.
Episode 50 - Midnight Kill
Release Date: 1956-09-14
Joe Benson, policeman turner lawyer, is running for the city council. When a policeman is killed, Joe thinks local gangsters planned the murder.
Episode 51 - Top Secret
Release Date: 1956-09-21
A man comes under close scrutiny after documents of value disappear