The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse

Season 1

An anthology series with episodes split between comedy and drama. Anita Colby and Arlene Dahl shared hosting duties the first season that was originally filmed live but switched to film. Polly Bergen took over as hostess in the next year.

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52 Episodes

  • When A Lovely Woman
    E1
    When A Lovely WomanA woman dreams of a first love affair.
  • Wait For Me Downstairs
    E2
    Wait For Me Downstairs
  • The Night Light At Vorden's
    E3
    The Night Light At Vorden'sA possessive mother uses every possible ruse to keep her only daughter from marrying.
  • Death Has A System
    E4
    Death Has A SystemA man's desire to avenge the murder of his brother is fulfilled at a cost.
  • The Ragged Stranger
    E5
    The Ragged StrangerA middle-aged man heading home talks a hitch-hiker into helping him regain his wife's affection. All the traveler has to do is come into the house and pretend to rob them, and the husband will disarm him and look the hero. The young man discovers after it's too late that he's been set up to commit a murder.
  • Melody In Black
    E6
    Melody In BlackThe town is gossiping about a local murder. Her continued piano lessons and a $1000 note implicate a young girl in the crime.
  • The House Nobody Wanted
    E7
    The House Nobody WantedNewlyweds move into a house that recently saw a woman's murder for a still lost fortune, and the killer's escape. Slowly, through coincidences and ideas from a gossipy neighbor, the young bride begins to question her husband's identity.
  • Claire
    E8
    ClaireA woman working hard to support her ill husband is put on the spot by the nurse.
  • Frozen Escape
    E9
    Frozen EscapeAlaska prospector Jeff claims he didn't kill fellow gold hunter Arthur; he simply found the body. Fearing he'd be charged with the murder, he and his wife attempt a fast getaway, but are forced by a blizzard into the cabin of blind Tom. Tom has heard about the murder on the radio and goes to work pitting his visitors against each other.
  • Vacation Wife
    E10
    Vacation WifeA young wife takes a vacation alone at a mountain resort and meets another man.
  • The Motive Goes Round And Round
    E11
    The Motive Goes Round And Round
  • Death Makes A Pass
    E12
    Death Makes A Pass
  • Who Is Sylvia?
    E13
    Who Is Sylvia?
  • Miss Darkness
    E14
    Miss DarknessA girl recognizes a bank robber, and, afraid to tell the police, seeks refuge in a boarding house.
  • The Gold Thumb
    E15
    The Gold ThumbA ruthless sister plots murder in order to get a large inheritance.
  • Account Closed
    E16
    Account ClosedBill is infatuated with his sexy blonde co-worker Alice, but she remains cool to his advances. Hoping he can control her, Bill confronts Alice with his knowledge of her embezzling, but she also has proof of his questionable bookkeeping. Bill's obsession leads him to investigates her background and he comes to believe she's the dame wanted for the murder of a Chicago mobster.
  • Farewell Performance
    E17
    Farewell PerformanceA ventriloquist, popular on the vaudeville stage, murders his unfaithful, nagging wife in a fit of jealous rage, but feigns innocence to the police. His dummy, however, has seen all, and keeps no secrets.
  • Too Gloomy For Private Puskin
    E18
    Too Gloomy For Private PuskinPrivate Pushkin and his Sergeant volunteer to recon a ruined Italian castle because they see it as an opportunity to just loaf around. However, Pushkin is creeped out by the gloomy edifice - with good reason, as it turns out.
  • The Psychophonic Nurse
    E19
    The Psychophonic NurseA couple of new parents are unable to keep a nanny because none will follow the clinical rules in a new child-rearing book. John, head of an electronics company, has his staff develop a robotic nurse to care for the baby. The humanoid seems perfect, except for its inability to use judgment or give love.
  • A Far, Far Better Thing
    E20
    A Far, Far Better ThingPosing as brother and sister, a blackmail team plots against a married couple.
  • Live A Little
    E21
    Live A LittleA devoted husband becomes involved with another woman in a life of crime.
  • His Brother's Girl
    E22
    His Brother's GirlA college professor loses a chance at a promotion because of his brother's involvement in a cafe brawl over a girl.
  • Taps For A Hoofer
    E23
    Taps For A HooferA fading dancing star uses the remnant of glamour that still clings to his name to lure unwary maidens into his clutches.
  • Don't You Remember?
    E24
    Don't You Remember?A lonely man returns to his boyhood village to find his former sweetheart still young and beautiful.
  • Open Season
    E25
    Open SeasonA man suspects his wife of being unfaithful and arranges a showdown at a duck hunt with the other man.
  • The Silence
    E26
    The SilenceA woman frightens the construction workers in the jungles of India when they believe she is the "kiss of death".
  • The Grey And Gold Dress
    E27
    The Grey And Gold DressA supposedly exclusive dress design alters the lives of three women.
  • Borrow My Car
    E28
    Borrow My CarTwo garage mechanics become involved with an attractive woman and a store robbery.
  • Hollywood, Home Sweet Home
    E29
    Hollywood, Home Sweet HomeA former matinee idol rents his Hollywood home to a couple from Iowa.
  • The Sound Of Silence
    E30
    The Sound Of Silence
  • And The Beasts Were There
    E31
    And The Beasts Were ThereA hunter in the Burmese jungle is clawed to death by a tiger when he is locked in the cage by a hidden hand. Investigation into his death reveals his long-standing sadism toward animals, and a surprising insight into the hand that locked him in the cage.
  • Girl On The Drum
    E32
    Girl On The DrumWhen a dancer from Havana causes a New Orleans representative for a New York firm to desert his business interests, an investigator from the home office arrives and discovers many things.
  • The Black Purse
    E33
    The Black PurseThe honesty of penniless Jeff Miller leads him into intrigue when he finds a purse and seeks to return it to its owner, but is told by everyone that the owner does not exist.
  • Fie, Fie, Fifi
    E34
    Fie, Fie, FifiFifi, the owner of a matrimonial business, involves a poor, middle-aged couple in her schemes. Complications mount as they try to match the right man to the right woman.
  • Grenadine
    E35
    GrenadineA con artist's plan for taking advantage of a young woman is fouled up by a dog named Grenadine.
  • Unfair Game
    E36
    Unfair GameA long-married couple travels from sophisticated life in Sydney, Australia, into the rugged life of the wilds of that country. There the couple meets a beautiful girl who has designs on the husband.
  • Terror Train
    E37
    Terror TrainA scientist and his wife are riding on a train that holds more danger than they expected.
  • Doubled In Danger
    E38
    Doubled In DangerA recently released convict vows revenge on the man that unjustly set him up. He meets a stranger who also has murder on his mind. They agree to kill each other's intended victims, so they can have perfect alibis.
  • When The Police Arrive
    E39
    When The Police ArriveA couple try to figure out just how to behave when the police arrives after elderly Aunt Mildred dies.
  • Dear Little Fool
    E40
    Dear Little FoolNurse Carroll doesn't follow the book in to attending to the old men under her care. She realizes that they need reasons to want to get better. Dr. McNaughton, however, is a rigid man who's frustrated trying to get her to follow the rules.
  • Uncle Charlie
    E41
    Uncle Charlie
  • The Whistling Room
    E42
    The Whistling RoomA Londoner, with his father, moves to a castle in Ireland to be near his fiancee. All three are tormented nightly by eerie wailing sounds coming from a cottage on the grounds. The woman is convinced that the noises are from Irish spirits upset that she's marrying a "foreigner." Enter professional "ghost finder" Dr. Carnacki who is sure he can shush the spirits.
  • Bachelor's Week-end
    E43
    Bachelor's Week-endA bachelor is nearly connived out of getting married by his friends during a weekend party.
  • Annual Honeymoon
    E44
    Annual HoneymoonThe story revolves around a slave-driver boss and how he becomes the well-liked person he imagines himself to be.
  • Long, Long Ago
    E45
    Long, Long AgoDuring a stormy night at an old, isolated house in England, a lonely couple a visited by a strange little boy who seems dazed and uncommunicative, yet knows where things are in the house, and ghostly strains of "Long Long ago" can be heard.
  • Mungahana
    E46
    Mungahana
  • The Perfect Gentleman
    E47
    The Perfect GentlemanA business owner's fiancee breaks up with him because of his unorthodox business methods and attitude, saying he's "not a gentleman." After some thought, he talks his secretary into coaching him in how to be a "Perfect Gentleman".
  • Playmates
    E48
    PlaymatesMonica is a lonely young girl who is schooled at home by her Uncle Stephen and his housekeeper. When Monica talks about her new playmates Mary and Elsie, her Uncle believes she is just imagining things. He grows more concerned when he himself begins to hear Monica's playmates throughout the house.
  • Adopted Son
    E49
    Adopted SonA mother tries to remake the athletic boy she has adopted to the image of her musically inclined son who passed away.
  • A Mansion for Jimmy
    E50
    A Mansion for JimmyJimmy's new friends come from a higher income bracket than he does, so he does not want them to see his humble abode.
  • One Thing Leads To Another
    E51
    One Thing Leads To AnotherAn impoverished lawyer persists in offering free advice.
  • Portrait of Tobey
    E52
    Portrait of TobeyA drama about a man who spent his life savings for his own likeness.

Cast of Season 1

  • Anita ColbySelf - Hostess
  • Arlene DahlSelf - Hostess

 

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