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Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
38 Episodes 1958 - 1959
Episode 1
The Plot to Kill Stalin
Thu, Sep 25, 195890 mins
In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with antisemitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.
Episode 2
Days of Wine and Roses
Thu, Oct 2, 195890 mins
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
Episode 3
The Time of Your Life
Thu, Oct 9, 195890 mins
William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the characters drift in and out of the bar and each other's lives, giving voice to Saroyan's philosophies as they randomly comment about the impending world war, the beauty of art, and traditional notions of good and evil. At least one of the relationships stands a chance of enduring: a brawny innocent named Tom is falling in love with a vulnerable young prostitute named Kitty.
Episode 4
The Long March
Thu, Oct 16, 195890 mins
Lt. Col. Rocky Thompson orders a group of Marines on a 36-mile march after a training mission.
Episode 5
Shadows Tremble
Thu, Oct 23, 195890 mins
An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.
Episode 6
Word from a Sealed-Off Box
Thu, Oct 30, 195890 mins
A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.
Episode 7
Heart of Darkness
Thu, Nov 6, 195890 mins
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
Episode 8
Old Man
Thu, Nov 20, 195890 mins
In the South, convicts get a temporary release to help during a flood.
Episode 9
The Return of Ansel Gibbs
Thu, Nov 27, 195890 mins
After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.
Episode 10
Free Weekend
Thu, Dec 4, 195890 mins
During "parents' weekend" at Camp Mojave, parents maneuver to aid their children in winning the camp's awards.
Episode 11
Seven Against the Wall
Thu, Dec 11, 195890 mins
The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.
Episode 12
The Nutcracker
Thu, Dec 25, 195890 mins
This telecast of George Balanchine's famous production was broadcast only four years after it was premiered by the New York City Ballet.
Episode 13
Face of a Hero
Thu, Jan 1, 195990 mins
Drama of a prosecuting attorney whose cowardice results in a death for which an innocent man is blamed.
Episode 14
The Wings of the Dove
Thu, Jan 8, 195990 mins
An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.
Episode 15
The Blue Men
Thu, Jan 15, 195990 mins
The career of veteran New York police detective Roy Brenner is put on a departmental trial after he refuses to file charges against a boy accused of theft and an influential businessman questions his integrity.
Episode 16
The Velvet Alley
Thu, Jan 22, 195990 mins
Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.
Episode 17
A Quiet Game of Cards
Thu, Jan 29, 195990 mins
A few friends meet each weekend for a quiet game of cards. But they're bored with poker and, in trying to find another diversion, gradually find themselves plotting a hypothetical murder. It is hypothetical, isn't it?
Episode 18
Child of Our Time
Thu, Feb 5, 195990 mins
A young Spanish boy, Tanguy, is deprived of childhood by World War II. He is left in France when his mother returns to Spain to oppose the Franco regime.
Episode 19
The Second Man
Thu, Feb 12, 195990 mins
A woman barrister at a prestigious London chambers tries to save a young man accused of murdering his wealthy aunt.
Episode 20
The Raider
Thu, Feb 19, 195990 mins
A corporate raider plans a hostile takeover. To stall him, pressure is put on a scientist to rush through a new type of engine before all necessary tests have been completed.
Episode 21
The Ding-A-Ling Girl
Thu, Feb 26, 195990 mins
A housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her.
Episode 22
Made in Japan
Thu, Mar 5, 195990 mins
A young soldier in occupied Japan after World War II falls in love with a lovely Japanese girl, but is horrified about what his prejudiced family in Philadelphia will think if he takes her home with him.
Episode 23
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1
Thu, Mar 12, 195990 mins
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
Episode 24
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2
Thu, Mar 19, 195990 mins
The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.
Episode 25
A Trip to Paradise
Thu, Mar 26, 195990 mins
A troubled teenage boy, Raymond Austin, meets a Ellie, a provocative teenage beauty who introduces him to delinquents and youthful "beatniks".
Episode 26
In Lonely Expectation
Thu, Apr 2, 195990 mins
A woman converts a house into a home for unwed mothers and tries to help a teenage girl decide whether to keep her child or agree to an adoption.
Episode 27
The Day Before Atlanta
Thu, Apr 9, 195990 mins
During the American Civil War, a Union scouting party kills a man and his teenage son as they attempt to defend their plantation. A soldier discovers a young girl hiding inside the mansion.
Episode 28
Judgment at Nuremberg
Thu, Apr 16, 195990 mins
In the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice.
Episode 29
A Corner of the Garden
Thu, Apr 23, 195990 mins
After the death of her mother, a teenage girl, Barbara, moves in with Dorothy, her mother's best friend, and Louis, Dorothy's weak and beaten husband.
Episode 30
Dark December
Thu, Apr 30, 195990 mins
During World War II, an army doctor struggles to convert a Franciscan monastery into a field hospital.
Episode 31
Diary of a Nurse
Thu, May 7, 195990 mins
The daily emergencies and stresses of a major city's hospital ward as seen through the eyes of nurse Gail Lucas.
Episode 32
A Marriage of Strangers
Thu, May 14, 195990 mins
Jerry and Louise are two shy types who meet and wed through a lonely hearts club. They soon learn that being a married couple is not like the movies or romance novels.
Episode 33
Out of Dust
Thu, May 21, 195990 mins
On a cattle drive across the prairie, the sons of a wealthy cattle baron plot his death.
Episode 34
The Rank and File
Thu, May 28, 195990 mins
An alcoholic factory worker becomes the president of the local union, rises to national prominence, and becomes involved in corruption and racketeering. He is called to testify before the U.S. Senate where he tells his story.
Episode 35
The Killers of Mussolini
Thu, Jun 4, 195990 mins
As the Salo Republic crumbles around him, Mussolini, along with his mistress and several of his ministers flee with retreating Nazi soldiers, but are caught at the town of Dongo by red partisans. All are brutally executed without trial.
Episode 36
Project Immortality
Thu, Jun 11, 195990 mins
Key defense scientist Doner has cancer. Schramm is assigned to code Doner's thinking into a computer. He gets to know him as a friend, a husband and father. The project is successful, but he now knows identity is not programmable.
Episode 37
Dark as the Night
Thu, Jun 18, 195990 mins
A British politician finds himself open to blackmail because of the indiscretion of his American wife.
Episode 38
The Second Happiest Day
Thu, Jun 25, 195990 mins
A man about to be married recalls the day his life changed permanently.