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CBS Summer Playhouse Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

19 Episodes 1987 - 1987

Episode 1

The Saint in Manhattan

Fri, Jun 12, 198760 mins

Simon Templar returns to New York via Concorde and is feeling restless, until a note from an old flame, a ballerina performing at the Lincoln Center, arouses his interest, especially when he discovers she is being threatened.

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Episode 2

Kung Fu: The Next Generation

Fri, Jun 19, 198760 mins

A modern-day descendant of Caine hopes to turn his estranged son away from a life of crime.

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Episode 3

Changing Patterns

Fri, Jun 26, 198730 mins

Two housewives trying to enter the fashion industry can't find a store willing to buy their designs.

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Episode 4

Mickey and Nora

Fri, Jun 26, 198730 mins

An ex-CIA agent can't convince anyone that he's no longer a spy.

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Episode 5

Puppetman

Fri, Jul 3, 198730 mins

A children's show puppeteer is torn between spending time with his visiting 6-year-old son and saving his show.

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Episode 6

Sawdust

Fri, Jul 3, 198730 mins

A bored accountant buys a run-down circus and has a go at running it himself, much to the displeasure of his wife and children.

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Episode 7

Barrington

Thu, Jul 9, 1987

Small-town New England police chief is assigned to keep his eye on a Government-protected witness whose cover may have been blown.

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Episode 8

Doctors Wilde

Fri, Jul 17, 198760 mins

Life's a zoo for husband-and-wife veterinarians who treat wild animals in their home.

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Episode 9

Mabel and Max

Fri, Jul 31, 198730 mins

New York actress Mabel, who has not worked since a heart attack, opens her home to an aspiring young actress and becomes her acting coach.

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Episode 10

King of the Building

Fri, Jul 31, 198730 mins

Doorman on New York Park Avenue gets involved in the lives of his tenants.

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Episode 11

The Time of Their Lives

Fri, Aug 7, 1987

A recent widower asks his ex-vaudevillian father to help him raise his four daughters.

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Episode 12

Infiltrator

Fri, Aug 14, 198760 mins

A scientist experimenting with teleporter technology manages to merge himself "The Fly"-style with an experimental probe that is designed to adapt automatically to any threat. The scientist is then recruited by a secret government agency to go on missions. In his first mission, the scientist has to deal with a rogue scientist who has rigged his island fortress with death traps. As the probe technology adapts itself to higher and higher threat levels, the scientist becomes less and less human.

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Episode 13

Reno and Yolanda

Fri, Aug 28, 198730 mins

Comedy about a ballroom-dance couple who teach in an Atlantic City hotel.

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Episode 14

Day to Day

Fri, Aug 28, 198730 mins

While planning their parents' anniversary party, three sisters catch up on their lives.

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Episode 15

Sirens

Fri, Sep 4, 198730 mins

Comedy about two female police officers.

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Episode 16

In the Lion's Den

Fri, Sep 4, 198730 mins

A former game-show producer finds herself producing a kiddie puppet show.

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Episode 17

Travelin' Man

Fri, Sep 11, 1987

Burned-out Boston surgeon decides to hit the road and reconnect with his father and daughter. Both of whom he has been estranged from.

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Episode 18

Kingpins

Fri, Sep 18, 198730 mins

Comedy pilot about a father and daughter who runs a bowling alley.

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Episode 19

Sons of Gunz

Fri, Sep 18, 198730 mins

Comedy about a New Jersey auto dealer and his four sons.

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