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 - A Thing to Fight For
Release Date: 1958-09-26A peace-loving Civil War veteran seeks refuge from the violence of war as overseer on a Florida plantation.
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Episode 2 - The Best House in the Valley
Release Date: 1958-10-03 -
Episode 3 - The Hasty Hanging
Release Date: 1958-10-10A man and his wife are sentenced to hang without a trial.
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Episode 4 - The Four
Release Date: 1958-10-17 -
Episode 5 - The Trouble With Ruth
Release Date: 1958-10-24Not even her husband knows that Ruth Elliot is a kleptomaniac. But hoodlum Joseph Libo finds out about her illness and threatens to tell her husband unless she helps him carry out a robbery.
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Episode 6 - The Connoisseur
Release Date: 1958-10-31 -
Episode 7 - False Impression
Release Date: 1958-11-07A crippled dental technician falls in love with a pretty girl who refuses to have anything to do with him. He decides to steal a fortune in jewels in order to force the girl to overlook his physical handicap and marry him.
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Episode 8 - A Game of Hate
Release Date: 1958-11-14 -
Episode 9 - Last Edition
Release Date: 1958-11-21Newspaper editor Sheldon Black is being shoved aside for the publisher's slimy protégé, Dean Lowell, who passed Black's ideas off as his own. Before exiting, Black orders Lowell to cover the execution of a condemned man that Lowell was friends with in the war. If the reptile Lowell had been willing to soil his "war hero" reputation and testify, he could have saved the man from the electric chair. Instead, he remains quiet and turns in quite a news story.
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Episode 10 - Coney Island Winter
Release Date: 1958-11-28 -
Episode 11 - Third Son
Release Date: 1958-12-05The youngest brother is torn between whether to follow in the footsteps of his brother who is a frontier marshal or the other one who is a dashing gambler.
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Episode 12 - Drive a Desert Road
Release Date: 1958-12-12 -
Episode 13 - No Answer
Release Date: 1958-12-19A swindler who's known for separating rich widows from their money is the lead suspect in the murder of this latest "pigeon." His alibi seems pretty air tight: he was with the investigating cop when the murder supposedly took place.
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Episode 14 - Small Wonder
Release Date: 1958-12-26 -
Episode 15 - A Fistful of Love
Release Date: 1959-01-02Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.
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Episode 16 - The Deadly Guest
Release Date: 1959-01-09 -
Episode 17 - You Can't Win 'Em All
Release Date: 1959-01-16A professional football player refuses to admit that his playing days are over.
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Episode 18 - And Practically Strangers
Release Date: 1959-01-30From childhood Alan Mitchell has always felt his abilities and achievements overshadowed by those of his younger brother Hugh. When Hugh requisitions Alan to work with him on a nuclear bomb project it puts an additional strain on their already tense relationship.
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Episode 19 - Death Trap
Release Date: 1959-02-06 -
Episode 20 - The Man Who Had No Friends
Release Date: 1959-02-13Champion Barry Brannon retires from a successful career as a fighter and goes into the restaurant business with his long-time manager, Charlie. When Barry proposes to his girl, he finds that she is in love with Charlie.
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Episode 21 - Various Temptations
Release Date: 1959-02-20 -
Episode 22 - On the Brink
Release Date: 1959-02-27Story of an intense hatred between father and son.
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Episode 23 - Stand-In for Murder
Release Date: 1959-03-06 -
Episode 24 - Ivy League
Release Date: 1959-03-13After 30 years in the Marine Corps, Bull Mitchell retires and enrolls as a college freshman.
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Episode 25 - Frederick
Release Date: 1959-03-20 -
Episode 26 - The Salted Mine
Release Date: 1959-03-27In the Old West, a beautiful mine owner hires a detective to discover if she has been swindled when she bought a mine.
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Episode 27 - The Dreamer
Release Date: 1959-04-03 -
Episode 28 - This Will Do Nicely
Release Date: 1959-04-17 -
Episode 29 - The Case of the Two Sisters
Release Date: 1959-05-01 -
Episode 30 - Boy on a Fence
Release Date: 1959-05-15 -
Episode 31 - Mirror, Mirror
Release Date: 1959-05-29 -
Episode 32 - The Rumor
Release Date: 1959-06-05The guys of the billing department at Brittanica Insurance heard that one of them is about to be let go. After breaking up with his girlfriend-of-the-week, office playboy Eddie shoots off his mouth and says he's gonna quit and leave town. Of course, he reconsiders as soon as he meets another woman.
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Episode 33 - The Miss and the Missiles
Release Date: 1959-06-12 -
Episode 34 - Hostage
Release Date: 1959-06-19A motorcycle cop becomes hostage to a cold-blooded slayer who plans to use him to escape police roadblocks.
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Episode 35 - Cowboy Five Seven
Release Date: 1959-07-17This dramatization was about a typical day in the lives of the men of SAC, was made by Stewart, a reserve officer in the air force, at Westover (Mass.) Air Base. No professional actors are used; officers and enlisted men and their families portray themselves.
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Episode 36 - A Ballad to Die By
Release Date: 1959-07-31Rancher Anna Carrick hires singing cowboy Johnny Guitar to play at her wedding. Johnny soon learns that Anna is to marry a killer against her will.