Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Season 5

51 episodes · Sep 30, 1955

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  • S5E1

    The Last Out

    Sep 30, 1955

    A 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.

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  • S5E2

    Bandit's Hide-Out

    Oct 7, 1955

    The 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.

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  • S5E3

    Two-Bit Gangster

    Oct 14, 1955

    A 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.

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  • S5E4

    The Girl Who Scared Men Off

    Oct 21, 1955

    A 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.

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  • S5E5

    Nothing to Do Till Next Fall

    Oct 28, 1955

    A college football coach is faced with a difficult decision for the big home coming game.

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  • S5E6

    A Gift of Life

    Nov 4, 1955

    A 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.

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  • S5E7

    No Trial by Jury

    Nov 11, 1955

    After 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.

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  • S5E8

    Night of the Big Swamp

    Nov 18, 1955

    Reno 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.

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  • S5E9

    The Careless Cadet

    Nov 25, 1955

    Sgt. 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.

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  • S5E10

    Moment of Triumph

    Dec 2, 1955

    A 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.

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  • S5E11

    On the Nose

    Dec 9, 1955

    An 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.

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  • S5E12

    The Baited Hook

    Dec 16, 1955

    In a Florida swamp, Sheriff Ames is marooned with killer, Link Bradford.

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  • S5E13

    Christmas Guest

    Dec 23, 1955

    A 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.

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  • S5E14

    Well of Anger

    Dec 30, 1955

    In 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.

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  • S5E15

    Fool Proof

    Jan 6, 1956

    When 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.

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  • S5E16

    Dealer's Choice

    Jan 13, 1956

    The 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.

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  • S5E17

    The Big Payday

    Jan 20, 1956

    A former fighter always wanted to be champ, but never made it. He's a manager now, and hopes his heavyweight contender will make it.

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  • S5E18

    The Day I Died

    Jan 27, 1956

    A 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.

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  • S5E19

    The Gentle Stranger

    Feb 3, 1956

    A mail-order bride finds life on a ranch not to her liking. A range war decides her future.

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  • S5E20

    Top Man

    Feb 10, 1956

    A mountain climber is fiercely determined to conquer the man-killing Himalayan peak, Calpurtha.

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  • S5E21

    On a Dark Night

    Feb 17, 1956

    A college professor tries to rescue a girl who turns out to be a gangster's moll.

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  • S5E22

    Ordeal

    Feb 24, 1956

    No one believes a man when he insists he saw a murder committed.

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  • S5E23

    Showdown at Painted Rock

    Mar 2, 1956

    A sheriff risks his life by insisting on hanging a murderer in the lawless old West.

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  • S5E24

    Web of Circumstance

    Mar 9, 1956

    A 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.

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  • S5E25

    The Young and the Brave

    Mar 16, 1956

    Total Toys TV reviews the Build-A-Minion Pirate/Cro-Minion figure pack made by Thinkway.

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  • S5E26

    The Waiting House

    Mar 23, 1956

    The honeymoon house in Bermuda, which a couple has chosen, has been the scene of accidents to a good many tenants before them.

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  • S5E27

    The Finger of God

    Mar 30, 1956

    An escaping Boer prisoner of war breaks into an apparently deserted house and gets the surprise of his life.

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  • S5E28

    Angels in the Sky

    Apr 6, 1956

    A transport plane carrying wounded men from the South Pacific faces disaster.

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  • S5E29

    The Bitter Land

    Apr 13, 1956

    A 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.

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  • S5E30

    The Mysterious Cargo

    Apr 20, 1956

    After 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.

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  • S5E31

    Step Right Up and Die

    Apr 27, 1956

    When 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.

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  • S5E32

    Formosa Patrol

    May 4, 1956

    The 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.

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  • S5E33

    Plague Ship

    May 11, 1956

    A captain finds that his ship is threatened by bubonic plague.

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  • S5E34

    Officer Needs Help

    May 18, 1956

    Dan 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.

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  • S5E35

    Date for Tomorrow

    May 25, 1956

    After breaking out of prison, Eddie Markham decides to use a girl he meets as at an amusement park as a decoy in a holdup.

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  • S5E36

    The Roustabout

    Jun 8, 1956

    A 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.

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  • S5E37

    Pattern for Pursuit

    Jun 15, 1956

    Mountie 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.

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  • S5E38

    Witness to Condemn

    Jun 22, 1956

    The only witness to a murder loses her sight as a result of an attack by the killers.

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  • S5E39

    Weapon of Courage

    Jun 29, 1956

    A disabled war veteran who has taken a job as a bank teller feels that his disability has made him useless.

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  • S5E40

    The Mechanical Cook

    Jul 6, 1956

    Sgt. 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.

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  • S5E41

    The Happy Sun

    Jul 13, 1956

    When 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.

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  • S5E42

    The Bankmouse

    Jul 20, 1956

    An 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.

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  • S5E43

    Dara

    Jul 27, 1956

    An 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.

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  • S5E44

    Flowers for Jenny

    Aug 3, 1956

    A 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.

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  • S5E45

    Repercussion

    Aug 10, 1956

    A hard-hitting crime reporter discovers that his wife once worked for a gambling ring.

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  • S5E46

    Boling Point

    Aug 17, 1956

    A hard-hitting crime reporter discovers that his wife once worked for a gambling ring.

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  • S5E47

    Strange Defense

    Aug 24, 1956

    A man must decide whether a woman who is accused of murder is his supposedly deceased wife or her twin sister.

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  • S5E48

    I'll Wait for You

    Aug 31, 1956

    A 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.

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  • S5E49

    The Press Agent

    Sep 7, 1956

    Show biz agent Danny Scott is taking a bigger cut from his client then he should.

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  • S5E50

    Midnight Kill

    Sep 14, 1956

    Joe Benson, policeman turner lawyer, is running for the city council. When a policeman is killed, Joe thinks local gangsters planned the murder.

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  • S5E51

    Top Secret

    Sep 21, 1956

    A man comes under close scrutiny after documents of value disappear

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