Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
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.
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Episode 1 - Three Dollar Bill
Release Date: 1957-09-13Eddie Martin is making lots of money at his job, and he's happy. Not so his wife, who thinks Eddie should work behind a desk and wear a gray-flannel suit. In an effort to help her husband get ahead, she throws a dinner party for the boss.
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Episode 2 - One Way Out
Release Date: 1957-09-20A man serving a long sentence finds his only ticket out is through parole and good behavior.
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Episode 3 - Smarty
Release Date: 1957-10-11On a boat headed for Panama, a brash, overdressed girl tries desperately to make friends with other passengers. But her outlandish appearance and loud voice make her an object of ridicule.
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Episode 4 - High Barrier
Release Date: 1957-10-18A wealthy, domineering wife schemes her husband's death.
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Episode 5 - Bitter Parting
Release Date: 1957-10-25After Prof. Rhys Lorenz is blinded in an accident, he becomes bitter at the world.
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Episode 6 - Dual Control
Release Date: 1957-11-01An American flier's plane crashes in the Chinese jungle. A lovely Eurasian girl joins the flier in an attempt to escape the Communists.
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Episode 7 - The Hole Card
Release Date: 1957-11-08A widow with a gambling problem owes everyone money, including the landlord who's wanting to evict her. She desperately wants to buy a pricey birthday gift for for her young son, who lives with disapproving relatives. If only she could have a little luck.
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Episode 8 - The Lonely Wizard
Release Date: 1957-11-15The true story of electrical engineer Charles Steinmetz. Even as a child in Germany, Charles was lonely, preferring to devise inventions rather than play with other children. As he grows to young manhood, Steinmetz applies his brilliant mind to problems of electrical engineering.
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Episode 9 - No Second Helping
Release Date: 1957-11-22A wife finds a letter in the pocket of her suave husband and learns he's been seeing a young woman. She suspects he's been cheating, but he says she's the daughter of a friend and simply reminds him of his youth. The wife decides to get to the bottom of it all by having the "chick" join them for dinner.
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Episode 10 - Outlaw's Boots
Release Date: 1957-11-29A reformed outlaw has trouble going straight.
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Episode 11 - Neighbors
Release Date: 1957-12-06A home-loving man's marriage has become a dull routine until he becomes interested in a young widow who moves next door.
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Episode 12 - French Provincial
Release Date: 1957-12-13In Paris, columnist Mary Andrews runs into an old friend, Dutch Morgan. She agrees to play the role of Dutch's wife, from whom he's separated, when he visits a family that helped him when he was shot down in World War 2.
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Episode 13 - Rich Man, Poor Man
Release Date: 1957-12-20A humble peasant is simple and naive - until he illegally sells a horde of antique statuettes to an unscrupulous dealer. The new found wealth complicates his life and nearly destroys his marriage.
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Episode 14 - Pattern for Death
Release Date: 1957-12-27Bill Carter suspects that his present wife is still in love with her first husband. He allows his jealousy to threaten his marriage and ruin his life.
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Episode 15 - Guys Like O'Malley
Release Date: 1958-01-10Battle-hardened Sgt. O'Malley dedicates himself to the task of making a seasoned soldier out of an irresponsible private.
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Episode 16 - Home Again
Release Date: 1958-01-17A trio of jewel thieves, two men and a woman, take refuge from the police in a small town where the girl was raised. Tension mounts as the three strive to remain undetected while their attitude toward each other begins to change.
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Episode 17 - No Boat for Four Months
Release Date: 1958-01-31Arriving on the lonely French Island of Tuamotu in the South Pacific in the late summer of 1939, an Army doctor discovers his medical school classmate and finds that he must help him conquer his addiction to morphine.
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Episode 18 - Heroes Never Group Up
Release Date: 1958-02-07After he is presented with a citation for saving a child's life, Frankie Nevada is impressed with his role of hero. When he becomes more concerned with his press clippings than with finding a job, his girlfriend as well as his friends turn against him.
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Episode 19 - East of the Moon
Release Date: 1958-02-14A trip to Japan by a businessman becomes a complicated love affair when his boss asks him to visit his Japanese wife and child whom he had left behind.
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Episode 20 - Man on a Rack
Release Date: 1958-02-21A clothing salesman lets a lady friend talk him out of using his customary high-pressure sales techniques. But his sales drop, and the boss is forced to take him off the road.
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Episode 21 - Two Lives Have I
Release Date: 1958-02-28After years as a hen-pecked husband, Hully Brown decides to leave his overbearing wife and make a new life for himself.
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Episode 22 - Night of the Stranger
Release Date: 1958-03-07A psychiatrist takes refuge in the home of a stranger when one of her patients tries to run over her with his car. (He didn't take the news that he was going to be committed very well.) After stalking the house and terrorizing the pair for hours, the patient finally leaves. The doctor and homeowner attempt to escape, but the deranged man returns, more desperate than before to break into the house.
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Episode 23 - The Honor System
Release Date: 1958-03-14An ex-con tries to force his son's acceptance to an elite college by attempting to blackmail the man who must approve the entrants.
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Episode 24 - Bluebeard's Seventh Wife
Release Date: 1958-03-21A disappointed suitor is accused of playing cop when he voices doubts about a former girlfriend's choice of a husband.
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Episode 25 - I Shot a Prowler
Release Date: 1958-03-28While her husband is away on a business trip, a lonely housewife becomes infatuated with another man. When he threatens her with exposure unless she gives him a large sum of money, she searches frantically for a solution to her problem.
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Episode 26 - Papa Said No
Release Date: 1958-04-04Photographer Calvin is interested in pretty Suzanne only as a model, but she thinks of Calvin as a prospective husband. Only when Suzanne's irate father visits the studio does Calvin realize her intentions.
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Episode 27 - Secrets of the Old Bailey
Release Date: 1958-04-11A Detective Superintendent of Scotland Yard is assigned the task of solving a baffling murder of an attractive London model
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Episode 28 - A Contest of Ladies
Release Date: 1958-04-18A British movie star finds himself in a miserable situation: All he wants to do is rest, but he's forced to judge a beauty contest, and the participants don't give him a moment's peace.
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Episode 29 - The Kind Mr. Smith
Release Date: 1958-04-25A poor Frenchman (Vincent Price) is mistaken upon his arrival in England for another man from France expected to arrive at that time. He is brought to the home of Mr. Smith, an apparently wealthy art connoisseur, and his lovely daughter (Valerie French). He soon finds out that both Mr. Smith and the expected Frenchman (Jonathan Harris) are involved in a scheme to sell a fake Corot painting.
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Episode 30 - Penny Wise
Release Date: 1958-05-02A poor working girl fears she will not be accepted by her husband's socially prominent family. On her way to a first meeting with her in-laws, she has a series of wacky daydreams about them.
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Episode 31 - The Town That Slept With the Lights On
Release Date: 1958-05-16A New York City reporter arrives in a small town where two recent murders have the locals terrified. Vigilantes have decided that a man from the wrong side of the tracks is the killer. The police chief, however, believes there's a big secret in the town that points to the guilty party.
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Episode 32 - Lottery for Revenge
Release Date: 1958-05-30Revolutionists under the heel of a dictator are aided by an American newsman who becomes involved and lends a hand to help make the revolution a success.
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Episode 33 - Way of the West
Release Date: 1958-06-06Dr. John Carter, a rather starchy young physician from Boston, is on his way to San Francisco. When a frontier town is stricken by a smallpox epidemic, the doctor reluctantly joins forces with the lawless Belle Starr to rush aid to the stricken people.
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Episode 34 - Long Distance
Release Date: 1958-06-13A wife tries to make a last-ditch phone call to save her husband from the electric chair.
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Episode 35 - You'll Have to Die Now
Release Date: 1958-06-20A young man follows his father's footsteps and becomes a police officer. He learns that one of his Dad's old buddies who's still of the force is on the make. The rookie offers the lieutenant a chance to "go straight" if he'll help him get evidence against the mob. That's when he learns that it could be deadly to expose the corruption.
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Episode 36 - Curfew at Midnight
Release Date: 1958-06-27George Slattery is being ridden hard by his parole officer since getting out of jail for murder. He's fallen for a nice woman in the neighborhood, but a small-time gangster thinks she belongs with him. The constant harassment by the thug and his goons is testing George's ability to keep his fists in check and himself out of prison.
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Episode 37 - False Alarm
Release Date: 1958-08-15A honest cab driver who has fallen on hard times joins a gang planning to commit an armored car robbery.