Four Star Playhouse

Season 3

38 episodes · Sep 30, 1954

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  • S3E1

    Man in the Cellar

    Sep 30, 195430m

    A little girl who regularly talks to imaginary friends grows frustrated when her parents refuse to believe that there is a real man in the cellar.

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  • S3E2

    Never Explain

    Oct 7, 195430m

    A novice social worker is dispatched to the home of a widower who refuses to send his children to school.

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  • S3E3

    Interlude

    Oct 14, 195430m

    A young woman from a wealthy family is graduating from an exclusive school with neither her parents nor close friends attending. In her lonliness, she becomes infatuated with an older man, a divorced newspaper reporter.

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  • S3E4

    The Wallet

    Oct 21, 195430m

    A French waiter with more pride than money will not stand for his sickly wife to be admitted to a free public hospital. When a wealthy customer leaves behind a wallet containing thousands of dollars, the server takes it to upgrade his wife's medical care. Their son also becomes a thief to pay the bills.

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  • S3E5

    The Adolescent

    Oct 28, 195430m

    A school teacher on the disciplinery board, finds herself investigating her nephew's misconduct.

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  • S3E6

    The Contest

    Nov 4, 195430m

    The head of detectives runs into problems when he suspect his fiancé has committed murder.

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  • S3E7

    Vote Of Confidence

    Nov 11, 195430m

    A con man, recently released from prison, attempts to recoup his fortunes by convincing an heiress' secretary that he needs funds to run an orphanage.

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  • S3E8

    My Own Dear Dragon

    Nov 18, 195430m

    A successful playwright does his best to avoid reading the script written by his young new wife. She can't understand why he refuses to encourage her. At a party celebrating his 25th year in the theatre, he reveals the incident from his past that causes him to discourage her writing.

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  • S3E9

    Marked Down

    Nov 25, 195430m

    A woman who works at a fancy dress shop is determined to meet and marry the millionaire whose office is next door. Once she is asked out, she realizes that money doesn't make a person. Meanwhile, a young boy is buying a dress on layaway for his mother's birthday, but there's more to his story.

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  • S3E10

    Meet A Lonely Man

    Dec 2, 195430m

    An attractive young lady mistakes a lonely hotel desk clerk for a Texas oil millionaire she'd once met. Loving the attention she's lavishing on him, he plays along...until his big spending catches up with him.

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  • S3E11

    Bourbon Street

    Dec 9, 195430m

    A musician returns to New Orleans after breaking into the bigtime. Though his ex-wife deserted him, he is bent on revenge after receiving an anonymous letter telling him she committed suicide after being mistreated by her lover.

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  • S3E12

    A Championship Affair

    Dec 16, 195430m

    A renowned professional bridge champion (Boyer) returns to (openly) woo his long lost, but married, love (Miles). In circuitous fashion, his unselfish love leads him to (secretly) help her bridge-addicted husband (Ross Elliott) choose to finally gain success in life.

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  • S3E13

    The Answer

    Dec 23, 195430m

    A cynical Hollywood writer returns to his hometown. At a bar he meets a drunken, disillusioned playwright. The writer challenges the playwright to relate his play, which he does, holding the audience rapt in his gripping recital.

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  • S3E14

    Go Ahead And Jump

    Dec 30, 195430m

    Eddie, a cab driver, picks up a sad looking fare and brings him to a hotel where he witnesses the man being humiliated by his ex-wife. When the man asks to be taken to the middle of the biggest bridge, Eddie uses some every day, hard-nosed psychology, and a little lie, to make the man see that life is worth living.

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  • S3E15

    A Bag Of Oranges

    Jan 6, 195530m

    Believing her husband innocent of the crime he is to be executed for, his wife takes up a vigil the night of the scheduled execution at a nearby café. A curious reporter wonders about the bag of oranges she carries with her.

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  • S3E16

    Stuffed Shirt

    Jan 11, 195530m

    A seemingly cuckolded working-class husband (Boyer), in tropical setting, must resort to a life-risking ruse (in court) to rid himself of his bigamous, greedy and potentially blackmailing wife who would not otherwise reveal her own lack of virtuosity.

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  • S3E17

    Breakfast in Bed

    Jan 20, 195530m

    An artist is enticed away from his lucrative commercial advertising contracts by a young model who shows obvious disappointment that he is not striving to achieve his potential as a creative artist.

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  • S3E18

    The Good Sister

    Jan 27, 195530m

    A nun in German orphanage during World War II will is determined to marry her oldest orphan to an American serviceman in order to secure a future for her.

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  • S3E19

    A Kiss for Mr. Lincoln

    Feb 3, 195530m

    A young woman teaches her timid husband some things about love when he tries to show her the importance of supporting Abraham Lincoln for the Presidency.

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  • S3E20

    Fair Trial

    Feb 10, 195530m

    Chicago television newsman Dave Sheridan (Dick Powell) arrives in a small Ohio town, Hadenville, where Richard Fulton has just been lynched. The chief of police (Edward R. Platt) tells Sheridan he confessed to killing sweet old Mrs. Winslow and the town went wild. Sheridan plans on doing a piece exposing how sick the town is. Hotel clerk Carol (Jean Howell) wants him to give the town a "fair trial".

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  • S3E21

    The Wild Bunch

    Feb 17, 195530m

    After a charmer sweeps a pretty widow off her feet and marries her in haste, she confesses that she has money and three children. He has no problem with the money, but the thought of instant fatherhood gives him pause.

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  • S3E22

    Tusitala

    Feb 24, 195530m

    The true story of Robert Louis Stevenson's stay on the island of Tahiti. The islanders have come to revere him as Tusitala-Teller of Tales. They believe he is magical and powerful. When the two opposing chiefs of the island plan war against one another out of petty jealousy, Tusitala uses his wits to convince both chiefs to make peace and save the tranquility of the island.

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  • S3E23

    The Returning

    Mar 3, 195530m

    An American professor in Japan falls in love with a half-breed former student in 1941. He is fired for violating school policy, so he returns to America, resolved to bring his intended to America once settled. World War II intervenes.

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  • S3E24

    Eddie`s Place

    Mar 10, 195530m

    Ellen is released from a punitive work farm without means, but Eddie befriends her and gives her a job at his restaurant. She wants to go straight, but Eddie pressures her to cover for some of his own shady activities.

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  • S3E25

    Henry And The Psychopathic Horse

    Mar 17, 195530m

    After falling for a medical student, a New York City psychiatrist travels to her family ranch to announce their engagement. Her father hates city slickers and expect her to marry a rancher to run the estate. To win his woman's hand, Henry's challenged to ride an unbroken stallion known as a "killer." He puts his professional skills to work on the horse.

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  • S3E26

    Night At Lark Cottage

    Mar 24, 1955

    A woman with no companion other than her young daughter knows that an escaped convict is on his way to kill her.

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  • S3E27

    The Girl On The Bridge

    Mar 31, 195530m

    After drawing and painting an unknown young woman he met on a bridge near his vacation retreat, an artist (Dick Powell) is desperate to find her again when the painting begins calling to him.

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  • S3E28

    The Collar

    Apr 7, 195530m

    The night before the military plans to massacre a warring tribe of Blackfoot Indians, an imprisoned and tortured priest comes out from the tribe to ask for mercy.

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  • S3E29

    Madeira, Madeira

    Apr 14, 195530m

    The untimely death of his artist friend causes a failing writer to visit the widow to pay his condolences and pursue suspicions about her. When he arrives, the cheerful widow presents him with an offer he finds both puzzling and attractive. His acceptance leads him to the discovery of the fate of his friend.

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  • S3E30

    With All My Heart

    Apr 21, 195530m

    An overweight woman watches her doctor boyfriend marry someone else.

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  • S3E31

    The House Always Wins

    Apr 28, 195530m

    Willie Dante, the tough but suave owner of a nightclub and illegal back room casino. One evening, Willie sees an old flame with a man and another couple, The woman, still caring for Willie, tells him that the people she's with are planning to rob his casino. Willie outwits them and keeps his former love from being arrested.

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  • S3E32

    Uncle Fred Flits By

    May 5, 195530m

    Uncle Fred descends upon a suburban home, completely disrupts the lives of the family by his eccentric behaviour, and brings two young lovers together. His unwilling accomplice, and a horrified spectator of this chaos, is his nephew, Pongo.

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  • S3E33

    Alias Mr. Hepp

    May 12, 195530m

    Frank Hepp has made his career charming rich, unhappy women out of their fortunes. His parole officer orders him avoid all women, but he can't help himself when a single wealthy woman moves in next door. Mr. Hepp's plan to fleece his new victim runs afoul when he actually falls for her.

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  • S3E34

    Trudy

    May 26, 195530m

    A young woman is planning her wedding to a groom whom no one believes exists outside her own wishful dreams.

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  • S3E35

    Broken Journey

    Jun 2, 195530m

    Two cops transporting prisoner Cookie decide on a layover in the city of Westover, temporarily placing Cookie in the local jail while they freshen up elsewhere. Cookie devises a plot to snooker the locals into releasing him.

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  • S3E36

    The Executioner

    Jun 9, 195530m

    A complex web of deception is revealed during the investigation of the assassination of a police official. In a foreign country during the Cold War, an American doctor is accused to being a spy and targeted for murder, but the wrong man is killed. But, perhaps, the right man died after all.

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  • S3E37

    The Frightened Woman

    Jun 23, 195530m

    A woman's loneliness leads her to re-experience her long repressed (20-year old) pain-associated memories (albeit benign themselves). The mystery: is she (Oberon) insane (hallucinations or phantasms?), will her busy businessman husband (Stevens) rediscover his more nurturing side (in other words will he ever finally land the account), and will a therapist (Beaumont) help bring it all together for the better and for us to make good sense of it?

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  • S3E38

    Award

    Jun 30, 195530m

    Valerie is a world famous movie actress who just bombed on her first attempt at live acting on Broadway. She goes to Ben, renowned acting instructor, to teach her how to be a live actress. He refuses unless she can succeed at a challenge.

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