Playhouse 90 (1956)
Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s were usually hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual, a weekly series of hour-and-a-half dramas rather than 60-minute plays. Playhouse 90 began as a pitch by Frank Stanton—the formidable, forward-thinking right-hand man to CBS chairman William S. Paley—during a brainstorming session for program ideas. The project was ultimately developed by Hubbell Robinson, a CBS vice president who received no screen credit on Playhouse 90 but is often described as its creator.
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Episode 1 - Target for Three
Release Date: 1959-10-01Three conspirators plan the death of a South American head of state.
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Episode 2 - The Sounds of Eden
Release Date: 1959-10-15Three different viewpoints of the same story - a kidnapping and its aftermath.
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Episode 3 - Misalliance
Release Date: 1959-10-29A group of people gathered at a wealthy man's country home on a summer weekend engage in an exploration of their varied romantic entanglements.
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Episode 4 - The Hidden Image
Release Date: 1959-11-12A journalist out to expose political corruption finds his family is in danger.
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Episode 5 - The Grey Nurse Said Nothing
Release Date: 1959-11-26In Australia, a landowner is arrested for murder - but where's the body?
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Episode 6 - The Tunnel
Release Date: 1959-12-10In the Civil War, a tunnel is dug under Confederate lines, and filled with explosives.
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Episode 7 - The Silver Whistle
Release Date: 1959-12-24The old people's home is a pretty miserable place - until the arrival of the mysterious Mr. Erwenter.
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Episode 8 - John Brown's Raid
Release Date: 1960-01-14The story of abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.
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Episode 9 - A Dream of Treason
Release Date: 1960-01-21A State Department official is required to leak a confidential document - which may have terrible repercussions.
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Episode 10 - To the Sound of Trumpets
Release Date: 1960-02-10In Paris, a former soldier is alarmed when the girl he has fallen in love with demonstrates a rather naïve and romanticized attitude to war.
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Episode 11 - The Cruel Day
Release Date: 1960-02-24A French army officer arrives at a remote fort in Algeria and discovers that atrocities against the local population are commonplace
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Episode 12 - Tomorrow
Release Date: 1960-03-07Slow witted, and tired, Fentry leads a lonely life of grinding poverty in his sharecropper's shack until a sick, pregnant woman escaping her abusive husband comes there. He takes her in and cares for her, eventually falling in love with her.
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Episode 13 - The Hiding Place
Release Date: 1960-03-22In the last days of World War II, two English airmen are captured by an ordinary German citizen, who, instead of handing them over to the authorities, keeps them prisoner in his cellar, neglecting to tell them when the war ends.
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Episode 14 - Alas, Babylon
Release Date: 1960-04-03Americans try to cope with the aftermath of a nuclear catastrophe.
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Episode 15 - Journey to the Day
Release Date: 1960-04-22Patients at a mental hospital meet for a group therapy session.
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Episode 16 - The Shape of the River
Release Date: 1960-05-02Determined to pay off his debts, Mark Twain sets off on a lecture tour.
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Episode 17 - In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Release Date: 1960-05-16In the Warsaw ghetto, a Jewish man seeks revenge for the rape of his sister by a German soldier.