Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Season 6

44 episodes · Sep 28, 1956

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  • S6E1

    Moment of Vengeance

    Sep 28, 1956

    When a $20-a-month ranch hand elopes with the daughter of a cattle baron, the father gets his dander up and figures the young man is after his money.

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  • S6E2

    The House That Jackson Built

    Oct 5, 1956

    A woman who has devoted herself to her career decides she is never to wed. She proceeds to buy a house and build a life that doesn't involve having a family. But she is pleasantly surprised about what happens next.

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  • S6E3

    The Trophy

    Oct 12, 1956

    A self-made man uses his money to offset his crudeness. His wife is constantly humiliated by his bad taste.

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  • S6E4

    Enoch Prentiss

    Oct 19, 1956

    A hard man in business is on the receiving end of the squeeze play when his daughter is threatened by a blackmailer who wants $25,000 in exchange for her reputation.

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  • S6E5

    Always the Best Man

    Oct 26, 1956

    A bachelor talks his best friend into breaking his engagement. But after he meets the man's ex-fiance, he begins to fall in love with her himself.

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  • S6E6

    The Night They Won the Oscar

    Nov 9, 1956

    A dedicated director has had the loving support and understanding of his wife during the years in which he mastered his craft. After he wins an Oscar for a picture he directed, they find they are rapidly drifting apart.

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  • S6E7

    Explosion

    Nov 16, 1956

    An American secret agent fighting to get control of a South American oil well poses an Englishman to thwart enemy agents.

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  • S6E8

    The Letter

    Nov 23, 1956

    A Southern girl discovers that Confederate soldiers are not receiving letters from home. She therefore decides to deliver letters from her neighbors to their sons and sweethearts.

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  • S6E9

    Once Upon a Time

    Nov 30, 1956

    A small girl teaches a thief about honesty after she sees him commit a crime.

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  • S6E10

    Washington Incident

    Dec 7, 1956

    During the trying days of 1862, Abraham Lincoln overhears a disturbing conversation.

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  • S6E11

    A Tale of Wells Fargo

    Dec 14, 1956

    After a series of train robberies and stagecoach hold-ups, the Wells Fargo Company assigns special agent Jim Hardie to capture the outlaws.

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  • S6E12

    A Light in the Desert

    Dec 21, 1956

    A doctor saves a mother, dying in childbirth, and restores his own soul in the process.

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  • S6E13

    The Big Payoff

    Dec 28, 1956

    Joe McQuade is a respected and honest detective, who is in line for a promotion. His daughter needs an operation and a racketeer offers him money.

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  • S6E14

    The Lady Was a Flop

    Jan 4, 1957

    Red McGivney, a former jockey who now works as an exercise boy, is sure that a race horse named Lady has the makings of a champion. After everyone else has given up, Red buys her to train and race himself.

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  • S6E15

    Tower Room 14-A

    Jan 11, 1957

    A house detective believes all women to be unfaithful until he meets a certain beautiful young lady.

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  • S6E16

    Terror in the Streets

    Jan 18, 1957

    The story of an artist who moves into a cheap tenement apartment to decide whether or not to marry, but instead of peace of mind finds herself in the middle of terror.

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  • S6E17

    The Enchanted

    Jan 25, 1957

    A man brings a young girl into his house with the intention of training her to be his wife.

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  • S6E18

    One Left Over

    Feb 1, 1957

    An auto accident takes the lives of a man's wife and his two sons, and he must find the courage to live for his daughter.

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  • S6E19

    Sometimes You Break Even

    Feb 8, 1957

    An Army doctor and nurse have two critical patients and lock horns over how to deal with the lack of resources.

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  • S6E20

    Night Drive

    Feb 15, 1957

    A drive with an old lady over a lonely road turns out to be a nightmare for a young woman when the old lady proves to be a man with a gun.

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  • S6E21

    The Wedding Present

    Feb 22, 1957

    A lonely woman, tired of her reputation as a respectable spinster, takes a drifter in as a boarder and discovers he's wanted for murder.

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  • S6E22

    The Life You Save

    Mar 1, 1957

    Marriage is the furthest thing from the mind of one-armed tramp, Tom Triplet -- then he sees Lucy Nell Crater, a deaf-mute girl with angelic innocence.

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  • S6E23

    Carriage from Britain

    Mar 8, 1957

    A young mother's desire to keep ahead of the Joneses leads her to import a baby buggy like the one Prince Charles had.

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  • S6E24

    The Girl in the Grass

    Mar 15, 1957

    Harry Carstairs wakes up feeling young and adventurous. His wife, however, doesn't share his romantic mood, so Harry wanders off to the park. He intends to read the financial page, but finds himself being stared at by a beautiful girl.

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  • S6E25

    For Better, For Worse

    Mar 22, 1957

    Walter Van Buren begins to suspect that his new wife is a compulsive liar.

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  • S6E26

    The Restless Gun

    Mar 29, 1957

    On the trail to visit his old friend Dan, former gunfighter Britt Ponset meets an escaped murderer nursing a grudge and plotting to kill Dan. Britt's job now is to warn Dan and help him prepare for the inevitable showdown.

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  • S6E27

    Clothes Make the Man

    Apr 5, 1957

    A mousy little button salesman gets thrown out of his hotel when it is taken over by a new chain, because he wore outlandish clothes.

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  • S6E28

    The Blue Hotel

    Apr 12, 1957

    Strangers stranded in a hotel by a blizzard pass the time by playing poker. Tensions rise when one of them accuses another of cheating.

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  • S6E29

    Girl With a Glow

    Apr 19, 1957

    An attractive, charming librarian is smitten with the movie director who's been hanging around the library. He enlists her help in tracking down a stunning woman he'd seen there days before; he describes her as having "a glow." Though she's glad to help, she hates that she hasn't captured his attention like the future movie star has.

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  • S6E30

    Hey, Mac

    Apr 26, 1957

    A beautiful divorcee and her spoiled teenage son destroy the peace of a widower and his pretty teenage daughter.

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  • S6E31

    The Traveling Corpse

    May 3, 1957

    Professor Stephen Bolt, a teacher of criminology, hears a strange story from a guest lecturer: a man dies suddenly. While his wife is arranging the burial, the corpse disappears

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  • S6E32

    The Dead are Silent

    May 10, 1957
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  • S6E33

    Switch Station

    May 17, 1957

    A drifter takes a temporary job at a stagecoach station but refuse a permanent one from manager Henry Maguire. As he's ready to move on bandits arrive threatening Henry and daughter Bess. The cowboy makes a crucial choice.

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  • S6E34

    Sister Louise Goes to Town

    May 24, 1957

    A nun is bothered by the cloister's leaky roof, so, after learning she has come into an inheritance, she decides to do something about it.

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  • S6E35

    The Sword

    May 31, 1957

    Cyrano de Bergerac is saved from the executioner's axe only by the adroit swordsmanship of de la Force.

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  • S6E36

    An Old Spanish Custom

    Jun 7, 1957

    A temperamental movie star believes she can issue orders to everyone - even people she's just met.

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  • S6E37

    Storm Over Rapallo

    Jun 14, 1957

    Pietro and Francesca live in a little Italian village on the Mediterranean. She's the cook in a ramshackle hotel and he's the waiter, but he rebels at spending his life picking up crumbs and plots big business deals at the waterfront. His association with Rubio, an evil fisherman frightens Francesca, but she is powerless to dissuade Pietro from entering into a scheme with Rubio to rob a pair of American tourists.

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  • S6E38

    Fifty Beautiful Girls

    Jun 21, 1957

    A dancer repeatedly receives death threats by mail and phone calls.

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  • S6E39

    Sporting Chance

    Jun 28, 1957

    A jealous man turns a duck hunting expedition into a manhunt.

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  • S6E40

    Easy Going Man

    Aug 2, 1957

    A boy plays cupid for his widowed mother and her old flame.

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  • S6E41

    Hands of the Enemy

    Aug 9, 1957

    A defense attorney is met with antagonism when he arrives in a small town to help a boy already convicted by public opinion of stealing $8,000.

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  • S6E42

    The Face of a Killer

    Aug 16, 1957

    A gangster pursued by the police convinces a crooked plastic surgeon to alter his face to look like a respected banker so the thug can kill and assume the identity of the respected citizen

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  • S6E43

    Goodbye, Joe

    Aug 22, 1957
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  • S6E44

    Always Open and Shut

    Aug 29, 1957

    Two policeman who are partners on a dangerous beat vie for the love of the same woman.

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