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CBS Playhouse Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 1968 - 1969
Episode 1
The People Next Door
Tue, Oct 15, 196890 mins
Comfortable New York suburbanites Arthur and Gerrie Mason discover one night that their seemingly perfect 16-year old daughter, Maxie has been tripping on LSD. Arthur, a smug, bullying braggart, immediately suspects his 17-year old (long-haired) son, Artie of supplying the drug to his sister, and immediately kicks him out of the house. Whereupon a confused Gerrie runs next door to seek advice from high school principal David Hoffman whose wife, Tina is an alcoholic, and whose son Sandy has his own problems. Very sensibly, he advises love and understanding on the part of the parents, which all but goes out the window when Maxie confesses she has been tripping for quite a while now, is also sexually active and on the pill.
Episode 2
Saturday Adoption
Wed, Dec 4, 196890 mins
Rich Meridan is white, well-to-do and off to law school so he can make more money. Macy Stander is black, a cut above poverty and young enough to dream and hope for a better life. Both youths are stifled one has too much and the other has too little.
Episode 3
The Experiment
Tue, Feb 25, 196990 mins
A liberal young scientist turns his back on his ideals and accepts a lucrative job offer with a sinister chemical company.
Episode 4
Shadow Game
Wed, May 7, 1969120 mins
Workers in a high-powered New York business office are stranded on the 50th floor when the power fails during the East Coast blackout of 1965. A small party is begun, and truths about the career and personal ambitions of the employees begin to emerge. Saul Novick confirms his suspicions that go-getter Peter Hoyt is stealing his clients. Another worker, Jerry Arnst, disappears, and Saul goes out looking for him. Saul gets mugged, and finding the rest of the staff in a restaurant, announces his resignation.
