Playhouse 90 Season 1

(1956) October - June | # of Episodes : 39

Ratings

7.5

Series Details

Seasons: 4

Total Episodes: 134

Creators: Frank Stanton , Hubbell Robinson

Networks: CBS

Status: Ended

First Air Date: Oct 4, 1956

Recent Air Date: May 16, 1960

Run Time: m

In Production: No

Original Language: English

Age Rating: NR

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Episodes

Episode 1

04 October 1956 - Forbidden Area

Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will anyone believe him?

Episode 2

11 October 1956 - Requiem for a Heavyweight

An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is exploited by his manager, despite the efforts of a compassionate young woman who tries to help him recover his self-respect.

Episode 3

18 October 1956 - Sizeman and Son

The happy atmosphere in Mr. Sizeman's factory is disrupted by an argumentative newcomer - his son.

Episode 4

25 October 1956 - Rendezvous in Black

A woman is inexplicably killed on a street-corner. What has this to do with other deaths around the city?

Episode 5

01 November 1956 - The Country Husband

After a near-death experience, a businessman starts to re-think his life, and wonders about leaving his wife.

Episode 6

08 November 1956 - The Big Slide

A vaudeville comic becomes a silent film star.

Episode 7

15 November 1956 - Heritage of Anger

A wealthy industrialist has trouble with his sons.

Episode 8

22 November 1956 - Eloise

It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.

Episode 9

29 November 1956 - Confession

When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.

Episode 10

06 December 1956 - Made in Heaven

When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.

Episode 11

13 December 1956 - Sincerely, Willis Wade

A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.

Episode 12

20 December 1956 - The Family Nobody Wanted

A true story, it follows a pastor and his wife through forties beginning with one biological child, Donny. But the upheaval of the war years results in a number of mixed raced children that the Doss family adopt until they have 12 children.

Episode 13

27 December 1956 - Massacre at Sand Creek

An investigation into a massacre of Native Americans.

Episode 14

03 January 1957 - Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses

Some racetrack Johnnies are talking between races when one wonders if you can hypnotize a horse into thinking it's a champion. The idea sets in motion a series of hilarious events.

Episode 15

10 January 1957 - The Ninth Day

Events in the aftermath of World War Three.

Episode 16

17 January 1957 - So Soon to Die

Down on his luck, war hero Lionel Amblin contemplates committing a murder.

Episode 17

24 January 1957 - The Star Wagon

An inventor, pondering on how he might differently have arranged his life, invents a time machine and decides to make a few changes.

Episode 18

31 January 1957 - The Greer Case

When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

Episode 19

07 February 1957 - The Miracle Worker

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

Episode 20

14 February 1957 - The Comedian

Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than his. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, whom Sammy has hired as his assistant but whom he really uses as his whipping boy.

Episode 21

21 February 1957 - One Coat of White

A newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.

Episode 22

28 February 1957 - The Blackwell Story

In the 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell determines to become a doctor.

Episode 23

07 March 1957 - Invitation to a Gunfighter

A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter to drive him out of town. The townsfolk thought they had it bad until they handed the reigns over to the new terror. Pooling their money again, this time to hire Jeffers to get rid of Dancer.

Episode 24

14 March 1957 - The Last Tycoon

A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.

Episode 25

21 March 1957 - The Hostess with the Mostes'

The story of Perle Mesta, who became, first, a renowned society hostess, and then an ambassadress.

Episode 26

28 March 1957 - Where's Charley?

Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".

Episode 27

04 April 1957 - Clipper Ship

A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shipping magnate, and her growing love for a handsome young political prisoner who was scheduled to be put to death when the vessel reached its destination. Though unyielding at first, the ship's stern captain eventually helped the woman to make a clean getaway, with the condemned man in tow.

Episode 28

11 April 1957 - If You Knew Elizabeth

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 29

18 April 1957 - Three Men on a Horse

A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.

Episode 30

25 April 1957 - Four Women in Black

Four nuns, led by Sister Teresa, begin a treacherous journey across the Arizona desert in 1870. Their faith enables them to deal with the challenges of nature and the hostility of their fellow mankind.

Episode 31

02 May 1957 - Child of Trouble

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 32

09 May 1957 - Homeward Borne

Just after World War Two ends, an American woman takes in a Polish war orphan boy, a concentration camp survivor. But conflict arises when her husband, a returning Air Force bomber pilot, hates the boy and his psychological baggage.

Episode 33

16 May 1957 - The Helen Morgan Story

Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star of top rated shows and owning her own club. Also seen is her poor choices, such as her affair with a married man, her short marriage to a much younger man, a court fight over an adopted baby and her fatal descent into booze addiction.

Episode 34

23 May 1957 - Winter Dreams

No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.

Episode 35

30 May 1957 - Circle of the Day

On her tenth wedding anniversary (which is also her daughter's birthday), a wife begins to suspect her husband of unfaithfulness.

Episode 36

06 June 1957 - Without Incident

Captain Russell Bidlack, commander of a U.S. Cavalry unit in 1870, determines to complete a rescue mission through dangerous Indian territory. In the course of the mission, he rescues the wives of two slain traders and captures the Indian chief accused of the murders. When he returns to the fort, he's faced with a revolt among his own men.

Episode 37

13 June 1957 - Clash by Night

Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.

Episode 38

20 June 1957 - Ain't No Time for Glory

American soldiers must use stealth to take over a German command post in Normandy.

Episode 39

27 June 1957 - The Fabulous Irishman

Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.

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