Schlitz Playhouse Season 5 Episodes

Episode 1

The Last Out

Fri, Sep 30, 195530 mins

A once promising baseball player is now grounds keeper for a minor league team. His deep knowledge of the game is more than the team's manager can handle.

Episode 2

Bandit's Hide-Out

Fri, Oct 7, 195530 mins

The wife of a gentle Spanish shepherd is discontented with the quiet life they lead. He returns home one night to find his wife and sheep are gone.

Episode 3

Two-Bit Gangster

Fri, Oct 14, 195530 mins

A newsman travels to a small town to cover what appears to be a routine robbery, in which a masked thief killed an ex-con who interfered with his getaway. But, the reporter's investigation begins to reveal the ex-con in the role of a hero.

Episode 4

The Girl Who Scared Men Off

Fri, Oct 21, 195530 mins

A country schoolmarm bitterly resents it when the community imports a tweedy, pipe-smoking exchange teacher from England to add culture to the school. It takes a fire at the school picnic to set things right and clear up the problem.

Episode 5

Nothing to Do Till Next Fall

Fri, Oct 28, 195530 mins

A college football coach is faced with a difficult decision for the big home coming game.

Episode 6

A Gift of Life

Fri, Nov 4, 195530 mins

A big time salesman is too busy getting ahead to make friends. Then he finds himself in a hospital bed in need of a transfusion. A portrait of a tragic character.

Episode 7

No Trial by Jury

Fri, Nov 11, 195530 mins

After a valuable horse drowns in a well, a homesteader faces ruin. The law of the range makes him liable because of negligence in not covering or fencing the well.

Episode 8

Night of the Big Swamp

Fri, Nov 18, 195530 mins

Episode 9

The Careless Cadet

Fri, Nov 25, 195530 mins

Sgt. Ben Destry receives an appointment to West Point as a reward for valor in the Korean War. But he scoffs at the Academy's traditions and finds the orders of his juniors hard to take.

Episode 10

Moment of Triumph

Fri, Dec 2, 195530 mins

A business tycoon is able to right the wrong done twenty years ago to his professor who refused to give a passing grade to a rich man's son when he didn't deserve it.

Episode 11

On the Nose

Fri, Dec 9, 195530 mins

An air force pilot is assigned to carry an atomic scientist to the site of a bomb experiment. To the pilot's dismay, the ship's navigator becomes ill before takeoff and is replaced by a woefully inexperience substitute.

Episode 12

The Baited Hook

Fri, Dec 16, 195530 mins

In a Florida swamp, Sheriff Ames is marooned with killer, Link Bradford.

Episode 13

Christmas Guest

Fri, Dec 23, 195530 mins

A professor's modest salary doesn't permit much spending for Christmas gifts, so when his wife's brother arrives laden with expensive gifts a bitter argument ensues. Out of that, comes a better understanding of Christmas.

Episode 14

Well of Anger

Fri, Dec 30, 195530 mins

In the Old West, Ed Sawyer is trying to set up a modest homestead. But a big rancher, Luke Gans, uses violence to keep Sawyer away from the water supply.

Episode 15

Fool Proof

Fri, Jan 6, 195630 mins

When Mary Hunter became a teacher of blind children she never dreamed the lessons she taught might one day save her life not until that fateful evening in the parking lot.

Episode 16

Dealer's Choice

Fri, Jan 13, 195630 mins

The owner of a pearling ship loses it in a poker game. Convinced that the winner cheated, he signs on with him for the next voyage, suspecting that the new owner will soon be anxious to sell the ship back to him.

Episode 17

The Big Payday

Fri, Jan 20, 195630 mins

A former fighter always wanted to be champ, but never made it. He's a manager now, and hopes his heavyweight contender will make it.

Episode 18

The Day I Died

Fri, Jan 27, 195630 mins

A ruthless business tycoon is convinced he owes all his success to himself alone. But a strange thing happens to him on a hospital operating table.

Episode 19

The Gentle Stranger

Fri, Feb 3, 195630 mins

A mail-order bride finds life on a ranch not to her liking. A range war decides her future.

Episode 20

Top Man

Fri, Feb 10, 195630 mins

A mountain climber is fiercely determined to conquer the man-killing Himalayan peak, Calpurtha.

Episode 21

On a Dark Night

Fri, Feb 17, 195630 mins

A college professor tries to rescue a girl who turns out to be a gangster's moll.

Episode 22

Ordeal

Fri, Feb 24, 195630 mins

No one believes a man when he insists he saw a murder committed.

Episode 23

Showdown at Painted Rock

Fri, Mar 2, 195630 mins

A sheriff risks his life by insisting on hanging a murderer in the lawless old West.

Episode 24

Web of Circumstance

Fri, Mar 9, 195630 mins

A bank teller has been stealing pennies and stashing away dollars taken from his wife's grocery budget for years. His goal: to make a break from his shrewish spouse and sail for an island paradise in the Pacific.

Episode 25

The Young and the Brave

Fri, Mar 16, 195630 mins

Total Toys TV reviews the Build-A-Minion Pirate/Cro-Minion figure pack made by Thinkway.

Episode 26

The Waiting House

Fri, Mar 23, 195630 mins

The honeymoon house in Bermuda, which a couple has chosen, has been the scene of accidents to a good many tenants before them.

Episode 27

The Finger of God

Fri, Mar 30, 195630 mins

An escaping Boer prisoner of war breaks into an apparently deserted house and gets the surprise of his life.

Episode 28

Angels in the Sky

Fri, Apr 6, 195630 mins

A transport plane carrying wounded men from the South Pacific faces disaster.

Episode 29

The Bitter Land

Fri, Apr 13, 195630 mins

A man arrives in the West to seek the murderer of his son and is faced with the dilemma of saving the murderer's own son when outlaws set out to get the boy.

Episode 30

The Mysterious Cargo

Fri, Apr 20, 195630 mins

After being slugged, robbed and having his ship sail without him, Mr. Gallup heads for the States on another ship. Tension mounts when he realizes the cargo doesn't correspond to the manifest.

Episode 31

Step Right Up and Die

Fri, Apr 27, 195630 mins

When an amusement park operator finds a body in the Fun House, he is afraid to tell the police, having once spent three years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. He gets rid of the corpse, but is trapped just the same and faces death.

Episode 32

Formosa Patrol

Fri, May 4, 195630 mins

The story of the destroyer USS DeHaven and a persistent rain that turned into the third worst storm in the history of the coastal Southern California.

Episode 33

Plague Ship

Fri, May 11, 195630 mins

A captain finds that his ship is threatened by bubonic plague.

Episode 34

Officer Needs Help

Fri, May 18, 195630 mins

Dan Grabow is given a 90-day tryout as chief of police in a small beach town. His discovers that none of the members of his force have received adequate police training.

Episode 35

Date for Tomorrow

Fri, May 25, 195630 mins

After breaking out of prison, Eddie Markham decides to use a girl he meets as at an amusement park as a decoy in a holdup.

Episode 36

The Roustabout

Fri, Jun 8, 195630 mins

A saddle bum is pushed into the middle of a fight between some ranchers and a storekeeper who has been selling barbed wire to the squatters.

Episode 37

Pattern for Pursuit

Fri, Jun 15, 195630 mins

Mountie Sgt. Douglas Renfrew is sent back to the Northwest Territory to reopen a murder investigation. The gun which killed a man has turned up, and its owner is the key suspect. Renfrew is nursed back to health following a mountain lion attack by the daughter of the murdered man. She claims the man he's seeking is no longer alive.

Episode 38

Witness to Condemn

Fri, Jun 22, 195630 mins

The only witness to a murder loses her sight as a result of an attack by the killers.

Episode 39

Weapon of Courage

Fri, Jun 29, 195630 mins

A disabled war veteran who has taken a job as a bank teller feels that his disability has made him useless.

Episode 40

The Mechanical Cook

Fri, Jul 6, 195630 mins

Sgt. Childs wants to be a cook in the Air Force, but he keeps getting assigned duties like Hangar Chief. He gets himself assigned to a general's flight so he can show off his kitchen skills, but the general's dietitian has other ideas.

Episode 41

The Happy Sun

Fri, Jul 13, 195630 mins

When all of an aging Finnish lumberjack's family is wiped out in one night, he turns his devotion toward a horse that was responsible for the accident, because he needs someone to love.

Episode 42

The Bankmouse

Fri, Jul 20, 195630 mins

Known as "the Mouse" to her co-workers, a young, Scottish girl working in a bank sets her sights on the son of the president of the bank, even though he is already spoken for.

Episode 43

Dara

Fri, Jul 27, 195630 mins

An actress is informed that her husband was killed in a plane crash, but he suddenly returns. And when he does, he accuses her of sabotaging the plane.

Episode 44

Flowers for Jenny

Fri, Aug 3, 195630 mins

A woman tells her man she'll marry him, if he can prove that he cares more for her than for fighting. But as he sets out to pick up the wedding bouquet, he becomes involved with train robbers.

Episode 46

Repercussion

Fri, Aug 10, 195630 mins

A hard-hitting crime reporter discovers that his wife once worked for a gambling ring.

Episode 47

Boiling Point

Fri, Aug 17, 1956

A hard-hitting crime reporter discovers that his wife once worked for a gambling ring.

Episode 48

Strange Defense

Fri, Aug 24, 195630 mins

A man must decide whether a woman who is accused of murder is his supposedly deceased wife or her twin sister.

Episode 49

I'll Wait for You

Fri, Aug 31, 195630 mins

A fight over his girlfriend results in a jail term for Joe Santorelli. When he is released, after a year's imprisonment, he is filled with hate for the whole human race.

Episode 50

The Press Agent

Fri, Sep 7, 195630 mins

Show biz agent Danny Scott is taking a bigger cut from his client then he should.

Episode 51

Midnight Kill

Fri, Sep 14, 195630 mins

Joe Benson, policeman turner lawyer, is running for the city council. When a policeman is killed, Joe thinks local gangsters planned the murder.

Episode 52

Top Secret

Fri, Sep 21, 195630 mins

A man comes under close scrutiny after documents of value disappear