Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Season 4

55 episodes · Sep 10, 1954

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  • S4E1

    The Secret

    Sep 10, 1954

    A Hollywood columnist solves the mysterious disappearance of a silent film star.

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  • S4E2

    Reunion at Steepler's Hill

    Sep 17, 1954

    Returning to his home town, a gunman (John Ireland) betrays an outlaw buddy to obtain reward money.

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  • S4E3

    The Pipe

    Sep 24, 1954

    A suspect in a diamond robbery cleverly outwits thieves who think he has the store.

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  • S4E4

    The Viking

    Oct 1, 1954

    This Travel Oz features the Boondooma Balladeers and Heritage Muster, a 5 day gathering of bush balladeers, musicians and poets, in a festival known appropriately as, the "spirit of the bush". The Two Tims take us to the Blue Mountains for a winter magic festival. Then celebrations to mark the discovery of Australia by white settlers. Travel to the Town of 1770 in Queensland.

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  • S4E5

    The Net Draws Tight

    Oct 8, 1954

    The honest proprietor of a roadside cafe tries to help both a wayward boy and his own brother, an escaped killer.

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  • S4E6

    Square Shootin'

    Oct 15, 1954

    A comedy about a tenderfoot in the Old West.

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  • S4E7

    The Best of Everything

    Oct 22, 1954

    A young man, greedy for wealth, resorts to murder to get it.

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  • S4E8

    The Sensation Club

    Oct 29, 1954

    The Sensation Club worships the unusual and the bizarre. What better thing for Garman to bring before his fellow sensation-seekers than a man he believes is being sought for murder by the police?

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  • S4E9

    No Rescue

    Nov 5, 1954

    A wanted Latin American jeopardizes his life to aid fellow passengers in a plane crash.

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  • S4E10

    Midnight Haul

    Nov 12, 1954

    A driver tries to find out why his trucks are being stolen

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  • S4E11

    The Long Trail

    Nov 19, 1954

    Texas Ranger Walden accepts the hospitality of an Oregon sheriff and his daughter while on the trail of a man wanted for murder. He learns his quarry, Sam Gates, is nearby and the sheriff agrees to help him fulfill the order of the law. Several locals ask the ranger to reconsider arresting Gates because he was only acting in self defense. Plus, he's now a family man, married to the sheriff's daughter.

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  • S4E12

    Mystery of Murder

    Nov 26, 1954

    On a second honeymoon with his wife, a judge gets a chance to test his theory that there is a criminal type that will not kill under any circumstances.

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  • S4E13

    Volturio Investigates

    Dec 3, 1954

    A debonair jewel thief discovers there's no honor among thieves.

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  • S4E14

    Spangal Island

    Dec 10, 1954

    A man in a small New England town is suspected of having something to do with the disappearance of his rival.

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  • S4E15

    Woman Expert

    Dec 17, 1954

    A detective uses his masculine charm to solve his cases. His method is to befriend the suspected murderer's sweetheart and gain her confidence.

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  • S4E16

    Day of Good News

    Dec 24, 1954

    A man moves from the big city to a small town and works for the local newspaper which only covers good news.

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  • S4E17

    The Dumbest Man in the Army

    Dec 31, 1954

    An Army misfit is ridiculed by his fellow soldiers when a prank backfires.

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  • S4E18

    The Cool One

    Jan 7, 1955

    Tom Novak (Stephen McNally) journeys to the Dakotas to find a wife and a ranch site. Although he finds them, another man asserts prior claim to both.

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  • S4E19

    Man Out of the Rain

    Jan 14, 1955

    Floods followed by a landslide find Mona Tyrrel trapped in her home with Zakka - a young man who is a complete stranger to her.

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  • S4E20

    Underground

    Jan 21, 1955

    Joe Tierney has had years of experience with the telephone company and its underground cable system. Some hoods decide to kidnap him and learn the location of a bank alarm.

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  • S4E21

    Murder In Paradise

    Jan 28, 1955

    A couple's quiet South Seas island paradise life is disrupted by strangers with a tale of a man lost at sea.

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  • S4E22

    The Last Pilot Schooner

    Feb 4, 1955

    A rookie reporter is assigned to cover the final voyage of a schooner and gets caught up in the drama when the ship begins to sink.

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  • S4E23

    The Schoolmarm

    Feb 11, 1955

    A Civil War veteran is eager to teach the ways of peace and democracy to the frontiersmen of the new state of Oregon.

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  • S4E24

    The Way to Freedom

    Feb 18, 1955

    An embezzler gets the chance to impersonate a Scotland Yard Officer. As such, he is assigned to search for a murderer.

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  • S4E25

    Fast Break

    Feb 25, 1955

    A former basketball player, once jailed for accepting a bribe, must move from one city to another as his reputation catches up with him.

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  • S4E26

    Fedar

    Mar 4, 1955

    In ancient Sicily, a sculptor is sentenced to be a galley slave for insulting a tyrant who rules the island.

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  • S4E27

    Visitor in the Night

    Mar 11, 1955

    An ambitious mayor has a tough time trying to explain what he was doing in the company of a gorgeous blonde on election eve, when his wife was away.

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  • S4E28

    Ride to the West

    Mar 18, 1955

    A gunslinger and his brother confront a crazed killer in a spooky Western ghost town.

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  • S4E29

    Log the Man Innocent

    Mar 25, 1955

    When a sea captain refuses to toss a man overboard because he is ill, the crew causes a mutiny and tosses both captain and sick man adrift in a boat.

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  • S4E30

    Tourists - Overnight

    Apr 1, 1955

    A niece is the traveling companion for her wealthy aunt and they stay overnight at a tourists' home and find themselves among gangsters.

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  • S4E31

    Mr. Ears

    Apr 8, 1955

    An elderly storekeeper keeps his young friend enthralled with tales of his days as an Indian fighter.

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  • S4E32

    O'Brien

    Apr 15, 1955

    Federal agent Sam Ireland is assigned to a lawless border town. Sam takes a room in a boarding house suspected of being the center of a human smuggling. The agent finds himself distracted by the fairer sex.

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  • S4E33

    Who's the Blonde?

    Apr 22, 1955

    Dollars disappear when a mysterious blonde appears at closing time in a bank. The teller is hard pressed to explain the discrepancy in the day's receipts.

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  • S4E34

    The Brute Next Door

    Apr 29, 1955

    A mild-mannered architect harbors a secret love of the more violent forms of sport. He gets his big chance when a boxer in need of a manager moves next door.

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  • S4E35

    The Unlighted Road

    May 6, 1955

    Young Jeff Latham stops at a roadside diner and ends up working there. After meeting a nice local girl, everything seems to be going his way. Things get complicated when he unwittingly gets involved with criminals working out of the diner.

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  • S4E36

    Too Many Nelsons

    May 13, 1955

    A western town is dominated by one family. When one of them is murdered, a stranger in town finds himself the object of a lynch mob.

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  • S4E37

    Sentence of Death

    May 20, 1955

    A girl witnesses the shooting of a druggist. But she doesn't go along with the identification of a suspect made by other witnesses.

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  • S4E38

    The Argonauts

    May 27, 1955

    After nearly 30 years of dull routine, a shipping clerk signs on with a ship as a sailor. But on the eve of embarkation, he meets up with more exciting fare in port.

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  • S4E39

    Visa for X

    Jun 3, 1955

    A member of the British Civil Service whose job it is to produce identity cards for the War Office, is tempted to use his skills for illegitimate purposes when his son becomes a fugitive.

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  • S4E40

    O'Connor and the Blue-Eyed Felon

    Jun 10, 1955

    A guest finally finds her way to O'Connor's insolvent fishing lodge in the High Sierras. But her car is flashy, her purse empty and her only luggage a revolver.

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  • S4E41

    A Mule for Santa Fe

    Jun 17, 1955

    A father and son need another mule so they can join the wagon train. But they come across criminals who want more than they can offer for the transaction.

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  • S4E42

    Splendid with Swords

    Jun 24, 1955

    The last of a line of famous fencers falls in love with a girl who scoffs at fencing.

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  • S4E43

    The Ordeal of Dr. Sutton

    Jul 1, 1955

    The romance of a nurse suffers a setback when a doctor turns down a chance to establish a private practice.

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  • S4E44

    Ambitious Cop

    Jul 8, 1955

    A policeman who wants to be a district attorney kills an old friend in a gun duel. He now has to reckon not only with the public, which thinks of him as a killer, but with angry mobsters.

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  • S4E45

    Meet Mr. Justice

    Jul 15, 1955

    A small town postmaster, storekeeper and justice of the peace has his hands full when a young eloping couple attempts to "borrow" gasoline from his locked pump.

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  • S4E46

    Visibility Zero

    Jul 22, 1955

    An aging senior airline pilot is about to be promoted to operations chief, but feels he is being "grounded" due to his age. When he makes his farewell flight he learns that things are changing.

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  • S4E47

    The Direct Approach

    Jul 29, 1955

    A large state-decreed construction project overwhelms a small rural town that is dominated by a gruff but soft-hearted old soldier. His niece is young and craves romance, and finds it in the construction foreman, who's very much at odds with the townsfolk and especially a man that fancies himself as her boyfriend.

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  • S4E48

    Too Late to Run

    Aug 5, 1955

    The owner of a roadside diner is falling for his new waitress, but his young assistant is suspicious of her. The report that a dangerous killer is in the vicinity changes the picture.

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  • S4E49

    On Leave

    Aug 12, 1955

    Pvt. Henri Baptiste, decorated French soldier of World War I, obtains a leave and visits his home village, only to find it devastated.

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  • S4E50

    Jury of One

    Aug 19, 1955

    A lawyer goes to a small Wyoming town in search of the heir to a strange legacy. Two claimants show up, each with verbal proof of his rightful claim, and this puts the lawyer in the role of a Solomon to decide which is the heir.

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  • S4E51

    The Case for the State

    Aug 26, 1955

    A young assistant district attorney suspects a trap has been baited for an indigent artist accused of stealing money from an art gallery.

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  • S4E52

    Three Months to Remember

    Sep 2, 1955

    An ex-GI suffering from amnesia returns to his home town in an attempt to regain both his memory and an inheritance.

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  • S4E53

    The Uninhibited Female

    Sep 9, 1955

    An efficiency expert on his first assignment and an outspoken secretary lock horns over how things are done.

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  • S4E54

    Wild Call

    Sep 16, 1955

    After working in a department store for forty years, a man decides to go on a sea voyage.

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  • S4E55

    The Quitter

    Sep 23, 1955

    Trainer Bradley Taylor enlists the aid of a mule to train a frisky harness-race horse.

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