Playhouse 90

Season 3

Of the many anthology series, this is considered the most ambitious with outstanding talent in front of the camera. Attracting top ranked directors and scripts, it was often filmed live including the entire first season.

Where to Watch Season 3

38 Episodes

  • The Plot to Kill Stalin
    E1
    The Plot to Kill StalinIn late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with anti-Semitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.
  • Days of Wine and Roses
    E2
    Days of Wine and RosesAn alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
  • The Time of Your Life
    E3
    The Time of Your LifeWilliam Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the characters drift in and out of the bar and each other's lives, giving voice to Saroyan's philosophies as they randomly comment about the impending world war, the beauty of art, and traditional notions of good and evil.
  • The Long March
    E4
    The Long March
  • Shadows Tremble
    E5
    Shadows TrembleAn elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.
  • Word from a Sealed-Off Box
    E6
    Word from a Sealed-Off BoxA courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.
  • Heart of Darkness
    E7
    Heart of DarknessA trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
  • Old Man
    E8
    Old ManTo fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts.
  • The Return of Ansel Gibbs
    E9
    The Return of Ansel GibbsAfter years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.
  • Free Weekend
    E10
    Free Weekend
  • Seven Against the Wall
    E11
    Seven Against the WallThe story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.
  • The Nutcracker
    E12
    The NutcrackerThis telecast of George Balanchine's famous production was broadcast only four years after it was premiered by the New York City Ballet. This was the only episode of the series televised in color.
  • Face of a Hero
    E13
    Face of a Hero
  • The Wings of the Dove
    E14
    The Wings of the DoveAn impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.
  • The Blue Men
    E15
    The Blue Men
  • The Velvet Alley
    E16
    The Velvet AlleyErnie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.
  • A Quiet Game of Cards
    E17
    A Quiet Game of CardsA few friends meet each weekend for a quiet game of cards. But they're bored with poker and, in trying to find another diversion, gradually find themselves plotting a hypothetical murder. It is hypothetical, isn't it?
  • Child of Our Time
    E18
    Child of Our TimeWar deprives Tanguy of his childhood. When his mother returns to Spain to oppose the Franco regime, he is left in Nazi-occupied Marseilles, France.
  • The Second Man
    E19
    The Second Man
  • The Raider
    E20
    The RaiderA corporate raider plans a hostile takeover. To stall him, pressure is put on a scientist to rush through a new type of engine before all necessary tests have been completed.
  • The Ding-A-Ling Girl
    E21
    The Ding-A-Ling GirlA housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her.
  • Made in Japan
    E22
    Made in JapanA young soldier in occupied Japan after World War II falls in love with a lovely Japanese girl, but is horrified about what his prejudiced family in Philadelphia will think if he takes her home with him.
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1
    E23
    For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2
    E24
    For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.
  • A Trip to Paradise
    E25
    A Trip to Paradise
  • In Lonely Expectation
    E26
    In Lonely Expectation
  • The Day Before Atlanta
    E27
    The Day Before Atlanta
  • Judgment at Nuremberg
    E28
    Judgment at NurembergIn the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice.
  • A Corner of the Garden
    E29
    A Corner of the Garden
  • Dark December
    E30
    Dark DecemberDuring World War II, an army doctor struggles to convert a Franciscan monastery into a field hospital.
  • Diary of a Nurse
    E31
    Diary of a NurseThe daily emergencies and stresses of a major city's hospital ward as seen through the eyes of nurse Gail Lucas.
  • A Marriage of Strangers
    E32
    A Marriage of StrangersMarry in haste, repent at leisure? Well, maybe.
  • Out of Dust
    E33
    Out of DustOn a cattle drive across the prairie, the sons of a wealthy cattle baron plot his death.
  • The Rank and File
    E34
    The Rank and FileA powerful union leader is interrogated by a Senate committee. Testifying before a Senate, William Kilcoyne tells the story of his career. He began as a factory worker and his shrewdness and ambition carried him up through the ranks to his present position as head of a large union.
  • The Killers of Mussolini
    E35
    The Killers of MussoliniAs the Salo Republic crumbles around him, Mussolini, along with his mistress and several of his ministers flee with retreating Nazi soldiers, but are caught at the town of Dongo by red partisans. All are brutally executed without trial.
  • Project Immortality
    E36
    Project ImmortalityKey defense scientist Doner has cancer. Schramm is assigned to code Doner's thinking into a computer. He gets to know him as a friend, a husband and father. The project is successful, but he now knows identity is not programmable.
  • Dark as the Night
    E37
    Dark as the NightA British politician finds himself open to blackmail because of the indiscretion of his American wife.
  • The Second Happiest Day
    E38
    The Second Happiest DayA man about to be married recalls the day his life changed permanently.

 

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