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Schlitz Playhouse Season 2 Episodes

52 Episodes 1952 - 1953

Episode 1

Homecoming

Fri, Sep 5, 195230 mins

An ex-athlete can't face his own aging until he meets a woman who refuses to change.

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Episode 2

The Marriage of Lit-Lit

Fri, Sep 12, 195230 mins

A general store manager at a Canadian outpost marries an Indian girl named Lit-Lit. Her conniving father, in an attempt to shake down his new son-in-law, tries to get his daughter to leave her new husband until he comes through with more supplies and loot. The old man's plans go awry because the girl has fallen in love.

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Episode 3

I Want to Be a Movie Star

Fri, Sep 19, 195230 mins

A father complains about his daughter's movie magazines -- until he's discovered by a talent scout.

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Episode 4

The Trail

Fri, Sep 26, 195230 mins

A gold miner's greed makes him murder his partners.

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Episode 5

Come What May

Fri, Oct 3, 195230 mins

A man learns too late that a gun is a poor problem solver.

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Episode 6

Trouble in Pier Twelve

Fri, Oct 10, 195230 mins

When Captain Torras is accused of double murder and his life is threatened, he hires professional bodyguard Mike Grover to protect him.

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Episode 7

This Plane for Hire

Fri, Sep 19, 195230 mins

The adventure-romance of a Mexican Al Capone.

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Episode 8

Drawing Room A

Fri, Oct 24, 195230 mins

An attractive lady find herself on a train with a case of amnesia. A psychiatrist, also traveling, agrees to assist the woman with her memory loss and determine the cause.

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Episode 9

Enchanted Evening

Fri, Oct 31, 195230 mins

A family's happy life gets complicated when the kids have lost theater tickets that belonged to their dad's boss.

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Episode 10

Tango

Fri, Nov 7, 195230 mins

A night club affair winds up in intrigue and mystery.

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Episode 11

The House of Pride

Fri, Nov 14, 195230 mins

A young bride learns that not everything in the tropics is paradise.

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Episode 12

The Pussyfootin' Rocks

Fri, Nov 21, 195230 mins

A masked band of desperadoes smuggles illegal aliens into the U.S. Each carries a piece of camouflage-painted tarp to crouch under when threatened with discovery. The Ripplehissians dispatch the gullible aliens into a deep well, A lawman has to thwart the gang, led by his identical twin brother.

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Episode 13

Barrow Street

Fri, Nov 28, 195230 mins

A jilted girl settles an old score in an unusual and poignant fashion.

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Episode 14

Mr. Thayer

Fri, Dec 5, 195230 mins

On her first job, a girl meets a seedy and serene gentleman to whom the ordinary rules mean nothing.

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Episode 15

The White Cream Pitcher

Fri, Dec 12, 195230 mins

After 20 years of marriage, a couple bent on divorce turn to their pastor to help them divide their possessions.

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Episode 16

The Playwright

Fri, Dec 19, 195230 mins

A man juggles his life in pursuit of the things he wants to do.

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Episode 17

A String of Beads

Fri, Dec 26, 195230 mins

A governess for a wealthy family becomes the object of affection from elderly Count Borselli.

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Episode 18

Jenny

Fri, Jan 2, 195330 mins

A single mother, bored with her life, takes part in a play where she meets a widower.

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Episode 19

The Unopened Letter

Fri, Jan 9, 195330 mins

A woman receives a letter from the man she loves but does not open it for thirty-five years.

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Episode 20

High on the Gallows

Fri, Jan 16, 1953

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Episode 21

Guardian of the Clock

Fri, Jan 23, 195330 mins

Jonathan Bigby, an elderly clock keeper, is forcibly retired by his company. Bigby decides to exact an unusual revenge but then finds himself the victim of a larcenous criminal.

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Episode 22

Point of Honor

Fri, Jan 30, 195330 mins

After a revolution sweeps his country, a police officer finds himself belonging to the wrong party.

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Episode 23

Manhattan Robin Hood

Fri, Feb 6, 195330 mins

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Episode 24

Mr. Greentree and Friend

Fri, Feb 13, 195330 mins

A lonely college professor strikes up a friendship with Jackie, a lion who has run away from the circus.

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Episode 25

The Devil's Other Name

Fri, Feb 20, 195330 mins

Steve Jordan kills his wife, Marietta and it looks like the perfect crime to pave the way for him to wed wealthy Helen but Steve doesn't count on Marietta's brother, Russ.

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Episode 26

Girl of My Dreams

Fri, Feb 27, 195330 mins

A married man falls in love with another woman at first glance.

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Episode 27

Big Jim's Boy

Fri, Mar 6, 195330 mins

A man returning from military service wants to become a doctor. He needs money for his education, and as much as he hates to enter into his father's field of expertise as a boxer he finds himself entering the ring.

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Episode 28

Nineteen Rue Marie

Fri, Mar 13, 195330 mins

An American finds himself in the Paris home of a doctor, unaware of who he is or how he got there. His one daily visitor is Celeste who, he's told, he once loved. Armed with only the address of the bakery that makes the cakes Celeste brings him, he escapes the doctor's home and goes out to try and remember his life.

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Episode 29

Parents' Week-End

Fri, Mar 20, 195330 mins

A woman finds out that the key to youth is to act her age.

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Episode 30

Happy Ending

Fri, Mar 27, 195330 mins

An author lives in Copenhagen with his wife and daughter. He refuses to alter his stories to happily-ever-after endings.

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Episode 31

The Governess

Fri, Apr 3, 195330 mins

Quite sentimental story of an old woman looking back on her life as a governess. Though now she's seemingly been forgotten by her past charges, the deep feelings this woman felt for her "children" never will.

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Episode 32

The Mirror

Fri, Apr 10, 195330 mins

When a man's past is revealed his self-assurance is broken.

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Episode 33

Papa Goes to the Ball

Fri, Apr 17, 195330 mins

A man takes his daughter to a school dance and puts on an exhibition that makes him the "beau" of the ball.

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Episode 34

Allen of Harper

Fri, Apr 24, 195330 mins

A professor is saved from early retirement by a group of students.

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Episode 35

Medicine Woman

Fri, May 1, 195330 mins

Smug Sam Bentley, a builder of high rise construction projects, is inconvenienced by a doctor's parked car. He decides to give him a piece of his mind, only to find the doctor is a lady. Instead of an argument, they get romantic. Things go well until one of her patients is hurt at one of his work sites.

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Episode 36

The Copper Ring

Fri, May 8, 195330 mins

Dr. Gunther is growing old and irritable, but one evening he dreams of an Egyptian copper ring which brings happiness to all who wear it. And he slips it on.

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Episode 37

Vacation for Ginny

Fri, May 15, 195330 mins

A mousy clerk at a travel agency wins a vacation and finds herself being pursued by no less than two suitors.

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Episode 38

Pursuit

Fri, May 22, 195330 mins

A talented musician loses an arm in a hunting accident.

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Episode 39

The Girl That I Married

Fri, May 29, 195330 mins

An Army major falls for a French woman and a Red Cross Worker.

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Episode 40

Twenty-two Sycamore Road

Fri, Jun 5, 195330 mins

A woman feels she is being taken for granted by her construction worker husband.

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Episode 41

The Widow Makes Three

Fri, Jun 12, 195330 mins

A crime commission looks for three missing witnesses who can put the finger on a waterfront racketeer.

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Episode 42

Operation Riviera

Fri, Jun 19, 195330 mins

Comedy about a GI on a ten day furlough on the isle of Capri.

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Episode 43

The Ledge

Fri, Jun 26, 195330 mins

A young artist who's come to the big city loses heart when he experiences vision problems. Despite reassurance from his doctor that his eyes will improve, he becomes disheartened and climbs out onto a window ledge. The doctor, a cop, and a young woman who knows his case all work to coax him back inside.

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Episode 44

Richard and the Lion

Fri, Jul 3, 195330 mins

A young husband feels neglected because his wife pays too much attention to her pets, so he gets one of this own - a lion.

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Episode 45

Storm Warnings

Fri, Jul 10, 195330 mins

Wanda is married to one of the operators of a small Alaskan cargo airline. She sends a note to her husband's partner, Vic, suggesting a rendezvous. When the letter goes missing, Vic is convinced his partner knows about their affair and feeding him deadly landing instructions via radio during a storm.

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Episode 46

The Journey

Fri, Jul 17, 195330 mins

A woman who is considerably younger than her husband is bored with their uneventful like in Costa Rica.

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Episode 47

Knave of Hearts

Fri, Jul 24, 195330 mins

Gambler Steve Dexter returns to marry Laura Warren only to find she is to marry homesteader, Johnny Scovile. Laura's father disapproves of both men and with hired gun Lee Dineen, aims to eliminate both.

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Episode 48

The Doctor Comes Home

Fri, Jul 31, 195330 mins

A high society doctor finds great happiness in treating the poor.

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Episode 49

Simplon Express

Fri, Aug 7, 195330 mins

An incompetent detective bumbles his way thru danger and intrigue.

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Episode 50

Miracle in the Night

Fri, Aug 14, 195330 mins

A wealthy woman is afraid to go out alone.

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Episode 51

Sheila

Fri, Aug 21, 195330 mins

A man's attempts to collect his aunt's inheritance are foiled by a cat named Sheila.

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Episode 52

Two Loves Have I

Fri, Aug 28, 195330 mins

After the death of her husband in the early years of World War II, a newspaper reporter throws herself into helping refugees from the Nazi invasion in wartime Lisbon.

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