Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Season 5

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.

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51 Episodes

  • The Last Out
    E1
    The Last OutA 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.
  • Bandit's Hide-Out
    E2
    Bandit's Hide-OutThe 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.
  • Two-Bit Gangster
    E3
    Two-Bit GangsterA 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.
  • The Girl Who Scared Men Off
    E4
    The Girl Who Scared Men OffA 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.
  • Nothing to Do Till Next Fall
    E5
    Nothing to Do Till Next FallA college football coach is faced with a difficult decision for the big home coming game.
  • A Gift of Life
    E6
    A Gift of LifeA 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.
  • No Trial by Jury
    E7
    No Trial by JuryAfter 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.
  • Night of the Big Swamp
    E8
    Night of the Big SwampReno Cromwell, a hunting guide obliged to aid the law in hunting down his best friend, a killer. Reno's girlfriend is actually still in love with the killer, but her pleas to Reno not to help in the pursuit are in vain.
  • The Careless Cadet
    E9
    The Careless CadetSgt. 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.
  • Moment of Triumph
    E10
    Moment of TriumphA 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.
  • On the Nose
    E11
    On the NoseAn 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.
  • The Baited Hook
    E12
    The Baited HookIn a Florida swamp, Sheriff Ames is marooned with killer, Link Bradford.
  • Christmas Guest
    E13
    Christmas GuestA 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.
  • Well of Anger
    E14
    Well of AngerIn 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.
  • Fool Proof
    E15
    Fool ProofWhen 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.
  • Dealer's Choice
    E16
    Dealer's ChoiceThe 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.
  • The Big Payday
    E17
    The Big PaydayA former fighter always wanted to be champ, but never made it. He's a manager now, and hopes his heavyweight contender will make it.
  • The Day I Died
    E18
    The Day I DiedA 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.
  • The Gentle Stranger
    E19
    The Gentle StrangerA mail-order bride finds life on a ranch not to her liking. A range war decides her future.
  • Top Man
    E20
    Top ManA mountain climber is fiercely determined to conquer the man-killing Himalayan peak, Calpurtha.
  • On a Dark Night
    E21
    On a Dark NightA college professor tries to rescue a girl who turns out to be a gangster's moll.
  • Ordeal
    E22
    OrdealNo one believes a man when he insists he saw a murder committed.
  • Showdown at Painted Rock
    E23
    Showdown at Painted RockA sheriff risks his life by insisting on hanging a murderer in the lawless old West.
  • Web of Circumstance
    E24
    Web of CircumstanceA 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.
  • The Young and the Brave
    E25
    The Young and the BraveTotal Toys TV reviews the Build-A-Minion Pirate/Cro-Minion figure pack made by Thinkway.
  • The Waiting House
    E26
    The Waiting HouseThe honeymoon house in Bermuda, which a couple has chosen, has been the scene of accidents to a good many tenants before them.
  • The Finger of God
    E27
    The Finger of GodAn escaping Boer prisoner of war breaks into an apparently deserted house and gets the surprise of his life.
  • Angels in the Sky
    E28
    Angels in the SkyA transport plane carrying wounded men from the South Pacific faces disaster.
  • The Bitter Land
    E29
    The Bitter LandA 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.
  • The Mysterious Cargo
    E30
    The Mysterious CargoAfter 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.
  • Step Right Up and Die
    E31
    Step Right Up and DieWhen 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.
  • Formosa Patrol
    E32
    Formosa PatrolThe 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.
  • Plague Ship
    E33
    Plague ShipA captain finds that his ship is threatened by bubonic plague.
  • Officer Needs Help
    E34
    Officer Needs HelpDan 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.
  • Date for Tomorrow
    E35
    Date for TomorrowAfter breaking out of prison, Eddie Markham decides to use a girl he meets as at an amusement park as a decoy in a holdup.
  • The Roustabout
    E36
    The RoustaboutA 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.
  • Pattern for Pursuit
    E37
    Pattern for PursuitMountie 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.
  • Witness to Condemn
    E38
    Witness to CondemnThe only witness to a murder loses her sight as a result of an attack by the killers.
  • Weapon of Courage
    E39
    Weapon of CourageA disabled war veteran who has taken a job as a bank teller feels that his disability has made him useless.
  • The Mechanical Cook
    E40
    The Mechanical CookSgt. 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.
  • The Happy Sun
    E41
    The Happy SunWhen 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.
  • The Bankmouse
    E42
    The BankmouseAn aging Finnish lumberjack who with his whole family wiped out in one night, turns his devotion toward a horse that was responsible for the accident since he needs someone to love.
  • Dara
    E43
    DaraAn 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.
  • Flowers for Jenny
    E44
    Flowers for JennyA 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.
  • Repercussion
    E45
    RepercussionA hard-hitting crime reporter discovers that his wife once worked for a gambling ring.
  • Boling Point
    E46
    Boling PointA hard-hitting crime reporter discovers that his wife once worked for a gambling ring.
  • Strange Defense
    E47
    Strange DefenseA man must decide whether a woman who is accused of murder is his supposedly deceased wife or her twin sister.
  • I'll Wait for You
    E48
    I'll Wait for YouA 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.
  • The Press Agent
    E49
    The Press AgentShow biz agent Danny Scott is taking a bigger cut from his client then he should.
  • Midnight Kill
    E50
    Midnight KillJoe Benson, policeman turner lawyer, is running for the city council. When a policeman is killed, Joe thinks local gangsters planned the murder.
  • Top Secret
    E51
    Top SecretA man comes under close scrutiny after documents of value disappear

Cast of Schlitz Playhouse of Stars • Season 5

  • Paul MonashWriter
  • William SelfProducer

 

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