Playhouse 90 Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Forbidden Area

Thu, Oct 4, 195690 mins

Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will anyone believe him?

Episode 2

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Thu, Oct 11, 195673 mins

An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is exploited by his manager, despite the efforts of a compassionate young woman who tries to help him recover his self-respect.

Episode 3

Sizeman and Son

Thu, Oct 18, 195690 mins

Morris Sizeman is a successful garment manufacturer in New York City. His son, Harold Sizeman, returns from the Korean War with new ideas about human rights, believing that the quest for wealth is the cause of the world's difficulties.

Episode 4

Rendezvous in Black

Thu, Oct 25, 195690 mins

Johnny Marr's fiancee is killed by a whiskey bottle thrown from an airplane. Marr seeks revenge by killing the loved ones of the passengers on the flight.

Episode 5

The Country Husband

Thu, Nov 1, 195690 mins

After a car crash and the arrival of a beautiful babysitter, a young businessman, William Wiley, considers leaving his wife for the babysitter.

Episode 6

The Big Slide

Thu, Nov 8, 195690 mins

A down-and-out vaudeville comedian, Buddy McCoy, becomes a successful silent movie star, but experiences tragedy in his personal life. May Marley is an alcoholic friend who Buddy tries to help.

Episode 7

Heritage of Anger

Thu, Nov 15, 195690 mins

Industrialist Eddie Hanneman learns that his sons do not wish to take over the business that he has built. Son Johnny aspires to be a jet pilot. However, his sales manager, Paul Fletcher, does wish to take over the business.

Episode 8

Eloise

Thu, Nov 22, 195690 mins

It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.

Episode 9

Confession

Thu, Nov 29, 195690 mins

When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.

Episode 10

Made in Heaven

Thu, Dec 6, 195690 mins

When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.

Episode 11

Sincerely, Willis Wade

Thu, Dec 13, 195690 mins

A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.

Episode 12

The Family Nobody Wanted

Thu, Dec 20, 195690 mins

A true story, it follows a pastor and his wife through forties beginning with one biological child, Donny. But the upheaval of the war years results in a number of mixed raced children that the Doss family adopt until they have 12 children.

Episode 13

Massacre at Sand Creek

Thu, Dec 27, 195673 mins

In the final months of the American Civil War, Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes live peacefully on large areas of Colorado, on land given to them by Treaty by the U.S. Government. However, U.S. Cavalry Col. John Templeton, who commands a fort in the region, intends to forcibly move the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes to another area. Col. Templeton is a hate-filled, bitter man who resents his isolated posting. He is bitter for having failed to distinguish himself and garner any glory during the Civil War battles. He sees a chance for himself to win praise from his superiors by removing the Indians from their fertile lands and settling them in a bad area known as Sand Creek. The vacated fertile lands can then be allotted to white settlers and farmers. The visiting Indian Agent from the U.S. Government's Indian Bureau advises against such a move, fearing revolt among the Indian tribes. But Col. Templeton insists that his intentions are meant to prevent an Indian War. He claims to have reliable reports of increased Cheyenne and Arapaho raids into areas settled by whites. He insists that by moving the tribes to Sand Creek he can better watch them to prevent future mischief. Unconvinced by these arguments, the Indian Agent tells Col. Templeton that the Indians will remain where they are and are not to be attacked unless they go on the warpath. The Indian Agent suspects Col. Templeton of future political ambitions and reminds him that it's not up to him to move Indian tribes but only to police the region and protect white settlements. Begrudgingly, Col. Templeton agrees but warns the Indian Agent that he will move against the Indians at the first sign of armed hostility from their part. At the fort, a new officer reports for duty. Lt. Norman Tucker is a graduate of West Point military academy and a fair honest man. Col. Templeton senses a chance to provoke the Indians and claim they have gone on the warpath. He orders the inexperienced Lt. Tucker to go to the main Cheyenne encampment and forcibly fetch the two main Cheyenne chiefs for a conference with the colonel at the fort. Col. Templeton knows that such important chiefs can't be forced to comply with the summons but he doesn't enlighten the inexperienced officer about it. Col. Templeton hopes to send Lt. Tucker into a death trap, thus giving Col. Templeton a reasonable excuse to attack the Cheyenne and Arapaho villages in force. Col. Templeton eventually decides to move the Cheyenne at Sand Creek anyway. A few days later, a few cavalrymen steal five Cheyenne horses claiming they found them roaming around. This act puts them in direct conflict with the Cheyenne braves guarding those horses. Outnumbered and outgunned, the Cheyenne relinquish their horses but they sneak into the fort at night and steal the horses back. Unfortunately, they kill a fort sentry, giving Col. Templeton the excuse he needs to send his whole regiment against the Indians at Sand Creek.

Episode 14

Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses

Thu, Jan 3, 195790 mins

Some racetrack Johnnies are talking between races when one wonders if you can hynotize a horse into thinking it's a champion. The idea sets in motion a series of hilarious events.

Episode 15

The Ninth Day

Thu, Jan 10, 195790 mins

After World War III a small group of people live in the desert. A young man tries to run away, hoping to find other communities of survivors, but is told by the elders that he must stay and marry the group's only young woman.

Episode 16

So Soon to Die

Thu, Jan 17, 195767 mins

An unemployed actor, Lionel Amblin, is hired to kill a young girl before she reaches her 25th birthday. He becomes curious to know why someone would want her dead, and begins an investigation of the girl and her friends.

Episode 17

The Star Wagon

Thu, Jan 24, 195790 mins

An inventor, pondering on how he might differently have arranged his life, invents a time machine and decides to make a few changes.

Episode 18

The Greer Case

Thu, Jan 31, 195790 mins

When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

Episode 19

The Miracle Worker

Thu, Feb 7, 195790 mins

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

Episode 20

The Comedian

Thu, Feb 14, 195790 mins

Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than his. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, whom Sammy has hired as his assistant but whom he really uses as his whipping boy.

Episode 21

One Coat of White

Thu, Feb 21, 195790 mins

A newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.

Episode 22

The Blackwell Story

Thu, Feb 28, 195774 mins

In the 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell determines to become a doctor.

Episode 23

Invitation to a Gunfighter

Thu, Mar 7, 195790 mins

A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter to drive him out of town. The townsfolk thought they had it bad until they handed the reigns over to the new terror. Pooling their money again, this time to hire Jeffers to get rid of Dancer.

Episode 24

The Last Tycoon

Thu, Mar 14, 195790 mins

A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.

Episode 25

The Hostess with the Mostes'

Thu, Mar 21, 195790 mins

Mrs. Mesta's biography, from her lonely childhood in the oil patch, to her term as Truman's ambassador to Luxembourg. Along the way, we see her marriage to Steel magnate George Mesta, her accident-prone first party in Washington, and an incident where she tries to help a boy refugee from East Berlin.

Episode 26

Where's Charley?

Thu, Mar 28, 195790 mins

Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".

Episode 27

Clipper Ship

Thu, Apr 4, 195790 mins

A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shipping magnate, and her growing love for a handsome young political prisoner who is scheduled to be put to death when the vessel reaches its destination.

Episode 28

If You Knew Elizabeth

Thu, Apr 11, 195790 mins

Episode 29

Three Men on a Horse

Thu, Apr 18, 195790 mins

A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.

Episode 30

Four Women in Black

Thu, Apr 25, 195790 mins

Four nuns, led by Sister Teresa, begin a treacherous journey across the Arizona desert in 1870. Their faith enables them to deal with the challenges of nature and the hostility of their fellow mankind.

Episode 31

Child of Trouble

Thu, May 2, 195790 mins

Episode 32

Homeward Borne

Thu, May 9, 195782 mins

Just after World War Two ends, an American woman takes in a Polish war orphan boy, a concentration camp survivor. But conflict arises when her husband, a returning Air Force bomber pilot,hates the boy and his psychological baggage.

Episode 33

The Helen Morgan Story

Thu, May 16, 195773 mins

Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star of top rated shows and owning her own club. Also seen is her poor choices,such as her affair with a married man, her short marriage to a much younger man, a court fight over an adopted baby and her fatal descent into booze addiction.

Episode 34

Winter Dreams

Thu, May 23, 195790 mins

A successful young man announces his recent engagement, only to be forced to reconsider his future following the sudden reappearance of a girl he has loved for years.

Episode 35

Circle of the Day

Thu, May 30, 195790 mins

On her tenth wedding anniversary (which is also her daughter's birthday), a wife begins to suspect her husband of unfaithfulness.

Episode 36

Without Incident

Thu, Jun 6, 195790 mins

The captain of a U.S. Cavalry unit rescues two wives of slain traders who were being held hostage by hostile Native Americans but then is faced with a mutiny among his own men.

Episode 37

Clash by Night

Thu, Jun 13, 195790 mins

Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.

Episode 38

Ain't No Time for Glory

Thu, Jun 20, 195790 mins

American soldiers must use stealth to take over a German command post in Normandy.

Episode 39

The Fabulous Irishman

Thu, Jun 27, 195790 mins

Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.