Schlitz Playhouse
Originally billed as "Playhouse of the Stars" this long running anthology series was originally presented live from New York City. Irene Dunne was briefly the hostess in 1952, and the show frequently used Broadway performers in classic stories.
- 1951-1959
- 8 seasons
- CBS
- Comedy, Drama
Originally billed as "Playhouse of the Stars" this long running anthology series was originally presented live from New York City. Irene Dunne was briefly the hostess in 1952, and the show frequently used Broadway performers in classic stories.
Season 8 Episode Guide
18 Episodes 1958 - 1959
Episode 1
A Thing to Fight For
Fri, Sep 26, 1958 30 mins
A peace-loving Civil War veteran seeks refuge from the violence of war as overseer on a Florida plantation.
Episode 2
The Hasty Hanging
Fri, Oct 10, 1958 30 mins
A man and his wife are sentenced to hang without a trial.
Episode 3
The Trouble with Ruth
Fri, Oct 24, 1958 30 mins
Not even her husband knows that Ruth Elliot is a kleptomaniac. But hoodlum Joseph Libo finds out about her illness and threatens to tell her husband unless she helps him carry out a robbery.
Episode 4
False Impression
Fri, Nov 7, 1958 30 mins
A crippled dental technician falls in love with a pretty girl who refuses to have anything to do with him. He decides to steal a fortune in jewels in order to force the girl to overlook his physical handicap and marry him.
Episode 5
Last Edition
Fri, Nov 21, 1958 30 mins
Newspaper editor Sheldon Black is being shoved aside for the publisher's slimy protégé, Dean Lowell, who passed Black's ideas off as his own. Before exiting, Black orders Lowell to cover the execution of a condemned man that Lowell was friends with in the war. If the reptile Lowell had been willing to soil his "war hero" reputation and testify, he could have saved the man from the electric chair. Instead, he remains quiet and turns in quite a news story
Episode 6
Third Son
Fri, Dec 5, 1958 30 mins
The youngest brother is torn between whether to follow in the footsteps of his brother who is a frontier marshal or the other one who is a dashing gambler.
Episode 7
No Answer
Fri, Dec 19, 1958 30 mins
A swindler who's known for separating rich widows from their money is the lead suspect in the murder of this latest "pigeon." His alibi seems pretty air tight: he was with the investigating cop when the murder supposedly took place.
Episode 8
A Fistful of Love
Fri, Jan 2, 1959 30 mins
Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.
Episode 9
You Can't Win 'Em All
Fri, Jan 16, 1959 30 mins
A professional football player refuses to admit that his playing days are over.
Episode 10
And Practically Strangers
Fri, Jan 30, 1959 30 mins
From childhood Alan Mitchell has always felt his abilities and achievements overshadowed by those of his younger brother Hugh. When Hugh requisitions Alan to work with him on a nuclear bomb project it puts an additional strain on their already tense relationship.
Episode 11
The Man Who Had No Friends
Fri, Feb 13, 1959 30 mins
Champion Barry Brannon retires from a successful career as a fighter and goes into the restaurant business with his long-time manager, Charlie. When Barry proposes to his girl, he finds that she is in love with Charlie.
Episode 12
On the Brink
Fri, Feb 27, 1959 30 mins
Story of an intense hatred between father and son.
Episode 13
Ivy League
Fri, Mar 13, 1959 30 mins
After 30 years in the Marine Corps, Bull Mitchell retires and enrolls as a college freshman.
Episode 14
The Salted Mine
Fri, Mar 27, 1959 30 mins
In the Old West, a beautiful mine owner hires a detective to discover if she has been swindled when she bought a mine.
Episode 15
The Rumor
Fri, Jun 5, 1959 30 mins
The guys of the billing department at Brittanica Insurance heard that one of them is about to be let go. After breaking up with his girlfriend-of-the-week, office playboy Eddie shoots off his mouth and says he's gonna quit and leave town. Of course, he reconsiders as soon as he meets another woman.
Episode 16
Hostage
Fri, Jun 19, 1959 30 mins
A motorcycle cop becomes hostage to a cold-blooded slayer who plans to use him to escape police roadblocks.
Episode 17
Cowboy Five Seven
Fri, Jul 17, 1959 30 mins
This dramatization was about a typical day in the lives of the men of SAC, was made by Stewart, a reserve officer in the air force, at Westover (Mass.) Air Base. No professional actors are used; officers and enlisted men and their families portray themselves.
Episode 18
Ballad to Die For
Fri, Jul 31, 1959 30 mins
Rancher Anna Carrick hires singing cowboy Johnny Guitar to play at her wedding. Johnny soon learns that Anna is to marry a killer against her will.