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Schlitz Playhouse Season 8 Episodes

18 Episodes 1958 - 1959

Episode 1

A Thing to Fight For

Fri, Sep 26, 195830 mins

A peace-loving Civil War veteran seeks refuge from the violence of war as overseer on a Florida plantation.

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Episode 2

The Hasty Hanging

Fri, Oct 10, 195830 mins

A man and his wife are sentenced to hang without a trial.

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Episode 3

The Trouble with Ruth

Fri, Oct 24, 195830 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.

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Episode 4

False Impression

Fri, Nov 7, 195830 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.

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Episode 5

Last Edition

Fri, Nov 21, 195830 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

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Episode 6

Third Son

Fri, Dec 5, 195830 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.

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Episode 7

No Answer

Fri, Dec 19, 195830 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.

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Episode 8

A Fistful of Love

Fri, Jan 2, 195930 mins

Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.

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Episode 9

You Can't Win 'Em All

Fri, Jan 16, 195930 mins

A professional football player refuses to admit that his playing days are over.

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Episode 10

And Practically Strangers

Fri, Jan 30, 195930 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.

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Episode 11

The Man Who Had No Friends

Fri, Feb 13, 195930 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.

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Episode 12

On the Brink

Fri, Feb 27, 195930 mins

Story of an intense hatred between father and son.

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Episode 13

Ivy League

Fri, Mar 13, 195930 mins

After 30 years in the Marine Corps, Bull Mitchell retires and enrolls as a college freshman.

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Episode 14

The Salted Mine

Fri, Mar 27, 195930 mins

In the Old West, a beautiful mine owner hires a detective to discover if she has been swindled when she bought a mine.

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Episode 15

The Rumor

Fri, Jun 5, 195930 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.

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Episode 16

Hostage

Fri, Jun 19, 195930 mins

A motorcycle cop becomes hostage to a cold-blooded slayer who plans to use him to escape police roadblocks.

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Episode 17

Cowboy Five Seven

Fri, Jul 17, 195930 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.

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Episode 18

Ballad to Die For

Fri, Jul 31, 195930 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.

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