Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Season 2

52 episodes · Sep 5, 1952

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  • S2E1

    Homecoming

    Sep 5, 1952

    An ex-athlete can't face his own aging until he meets a woman who refuses to change.

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  • S2E2

    Marriage of Lit-Lit

    Sep 12, 1952

    A general store manager at a Canadian outpost marries an Indian girl named Lit-Lit. Her conniving father, in an attempt to shake down his new son-in-law, tries to get his daughter to leave her new husband until he comes through with more supplies and loot. The old man's plans go awry because the girl has fallen in love.

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  • S2E3

    I Want to be a Movie Star

    Sep 19, 1952

    A father complains about his daughter's movie magazines -- until he's discovered by a talent scout.

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  • S2E4

    The Trial

    Sep 26, 1952

    A gold miner's greed makes him murder his partners.

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  • S2E5

    Come What May

    Oct 3, 1952

    A man learns too late that a gun is a poor problem solver.

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  • S2E6

    Trouble on Pier 12

    Oct 10, 1952

    When Captain Torras is accused of double murder and his life is threatened, he hires professional bodyguard Mike Grover to protect him.

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  • S2E7

    This Plane for Hire

    Oct 17, 1952

    The adventure-romance of a Mexican Al Capone.

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  • S2E8

    Drawing Room A

    Oct 24, 1952

    An attractive lady find herself on a train with a case of amnesia. A psychiatrist, also traveling, agrees to assist the woman with her memory loss and determine the cause.

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  • S2E9

    Enchanted Evening

    Oct 31, 1952

    A family's happy life gets complicated when the kids have lost theater tickets that belonged to their dad's boss.

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  • S2E10

    Tango

    Nov 7, 1952

    A night club affair winds up in intrigue and mystery.

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  • S2E11

    The House of Pride

    Nov 14, 1952

    A young bride learns that not everything in the tropics is paradise.

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  • S2E12

    Pussyfootin' Rocks

    Nov 21, 1952

    A masked band of desperadoes smuggles illegal aliens into the U.S. Each carries a piece of camouflage-painted tarp to crouch under when threatened with discovery. The Ripplehissians dispatch the gullible aliens into a deep well, A lawman has to thwart the gang, led by his identical twin brother.

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  • S2E13

    Barrow Street

    Nov 28, 1952

    A jilted girl settles an old score in an unusual and poignant fashion.

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  • S2E14

    Mr. Thayer

    Dec 5, 1952

    On her first job, a girl meets a seedy and serene gentleman to whom the ordinary rules mean nothing.

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  • S2E15

    The White Cream Pitcher

    Dec 12, 1952

    After 20 years of marriage, a couple bent on divorce turn to their pastor to help them divide their possessions.

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  • S2E16

    The Playwright

    Dec 19, 1952

    A man juggles his life in pursuit of the things he wants to do.

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  • S2E17

    A String of Beads

    Dec 26, 1952

    A governess for a wealthy family becomes the object of affection from elderly Count Borselli.

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  • S2E18

    Jenny

    Jan 2, 1953

    A single mother, bored with her life, takes part in a play where she meets a widower.

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  • S2E19

    The Unopened Letter

    Jan 9, 1953

    A woman receives a letter from the man she loves but does not open it for thirty-five years.

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  • S2E20

    High on the Gallows

    Jan 16, 1953

    A Hollywood movie producer falls for an ambitious starlet and almost wrecks his career.

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  • S2E21

    Guardians of the Clock

    Jan 23, 1953

    Jonathan Bigby, an elderly clock keeper, is forcibly retired by his company. Bigby decides to exact an unusual revenge but then finds himself the victim of a larcenous criminal.

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  • S2E22

    Point of Honor

    Jan 30, 1953

    After a revolution sweeps his country, a police officer finds himself belonging to the wrong party.

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  • S2E23

    Manhattan Robin Hood

    Feb 6, 1953

    A reporter investigates by posing as a high-school basketball coach to stop a raffle gambling racket and finds a judge also on the take.

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  • S2E24

    Mr. Greentree and Friend

    Feb 13, 1953

    A lonely college professor strikes up a friendship with Jackie, a lion who has run away from the circus.

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  • S2E25

    The Devil's Other Name

    Feb 20, 1953

    Steve Jordan kills his wife, Marietta and it looks like the perfect crime to pave the way for him to wed wealthy Helen but Steve doesn't count on Marietta's brother, Russ.

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  • S2E26

    Girl of My Dreams

    Feb 27, 1953

    A married man falls in love with another woman at first glance.

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  • S2E27

    Big Jim's Boy

    Mar 6, 1953

    A man returning from military service wants to become a doctor. He needs money for his education, and as much as he hates to enter into his father's field of expertise as a boxer he finds himself entering the ring.

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  • S2E28

    Nineteen Rue Marie

    Mar 13, 1953

    An American finds himself in the Paris home of a doctor, unaware of who he is or how he got there. His one daily visitor is Celeste who, he's told, he once loved. Armed with only the address of the bakery that makes the cakes Celeste brings him, he escapes the doctor's home and goes out to try and remember his life.

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  • S2E29

    Parent's Weekend

    Mar 20, 1953

    A woman finds out that the key to youth is to act her age.

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  • S2E30

    Happy Ending

    Mar 27, 1953

    An author lives in Copenhagen with his wife and daughter. He refuses to alter his stories to happily-ever-after endings.

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  • S2E31

    The Governess

    Apr 3, 1953

    Quite sentimental story of an old woman looking back on her life as a governess. Though now she's seemingly been forgotten by her past charges, the deep feelings this woman felt for her "children" never will.

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  • S2E32

    The Mirror

    Apr 10, 1953

    When a man's past is revealed his self-assurance is broken.

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  • S2E33

    Papa Goes to the Ball

    Apr 17, 1963

    A man takes his daughter to a school dance and puts on an exhibition that makes him the "beau" of the ball.

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  • S2E34

    Allen of Harper

    Apr 24, 1953

    A professor is saved from early retirement by a group of students.

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  • S2E35

    Medicine Woman

    May 1, 1953

    Smug Sam Bentley, a builder of high rise construction projects, is inconvenienced by a doctor's parked car. He decides to give him a piece of his mind, only to find the doctor is a lady. Instead of an argument, they get romantic. Things go well until one of her patients is hurt at one of his work sites.

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  • S2E36

    The Copper Ring

    May 8, 1953

    Dr. Gunther is growing old and irritable, but one evening he dreams of an Egyptian copper ring which brings happiness to all who wear it. And he slips it on.

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  • S2E37

    Vacation for Ginny

    May 15, 1953

    A mousy clerk at a travel agency wins a vacation and finds herself being pursued by no less than two suitors.

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  • S2E38

    Pursuit

    May 22, 1953

    A talented musician loses an arm in a hunting accident.

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  • S2E39

    The Girl that I Married

    May 29, 1953

    An Army major falls for a French woman and a Red Cross Worker.

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  • S2E40

    Twenty-Two Sycamore Road

    Jun 5, 1953

    A woman feels she is being taken for granted by her construction worker husband.

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  • S2E41

    The Widow Makes Three

    Jun 12, 1953

    A crime commission looks for three missing witnesses who can put the finger on a waterfront racketeer.

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  • S2E42

    Operation Riviera

    Jun 19, 1953

    Comedy about a GI on a ten day furlough on the isle of Capri.

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  • S2E43

    The Ledge

    Jun 26, 1953

    A young artist who's come to the big city loses heart when he experiences vision problems. Despite reassurance from his doctor that his eyes will improve, he becomes disheartened and climbs out onto a window ledge. The doctor, a cop, and a young woman who knows his case all work to coax him back inside.

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  • S2E44

    Richard and the Lion

    Jul 3, 1953

    A young husband feels neglected because his wife pays too much attention to her pets, so he gets one of this own - a lion.

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  • S2E45

    Storm Warnings

    Jul 10, 1953

    Wanda is married to one of the operators of a small Alaskan cargo airline. She sends a note to her husband's partner, Vic, suggesting a rendezvous. When the letter goes missing, Vic is convinced his partner knows about their affair and feeding him deadly landing instructions via radio during a storm.

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  • S2E46

    The Journey

    Jul 17, 1953

    A woman who is considerably younger than her husband is bored with their uneventful like in Costa Rica.

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  • S2E47

    Knave of Hearts

    Jul 24, 1953

    Gambler Steve returns to marry Laura only to find she is to marry homesteader, Johnny. Laura's father, rancher Warren, disapproves of both men and, with hired gun Dineen, aims to eliminate both.

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  • S2E48

    The Doctor Goes Home

    Jul 31, 1953

    A high society doctor finds great happiness in treating the poor.

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  • S2E49

    Simplon Express

    Aug 7, 1953

    An incompetent detective bumbles his way thru danger and intrigue

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  • S2E50

    Miracle in the Night

    Aug 14, 1953

    A wealthy woman is afraid to go out alone.

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  • S2E51

    Sheila

    Aug 21, 1953

    A man's attempts to collect his aunt's inheritance are foiled by a cat named Sheila.

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  • S2E52

    Two Loves Have I

    Aug 28, 1953

    After the death of her husband in the early years of World War II, a newspaper reporter throws herself into helping refugees from the Nazi invasion in wartime Lisbon.

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