Four Star Playhouse

Season 4

41 episodes · Oct 6, 1955

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  • S4E1

    The Firing Squad

    Oct 6, 195530m

    A WWII captain must oversee an execution he doesn't want to happen.

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  • S4E2

    The Face of Danger

    Oct 13, 195530m

    A 100-year-old woman who recalls her romance with a desperado during the days of the old West.

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  • S4E3

    Let the Chips Fall

    Oct 20, 195530m

    A reformed card sharp is recruited to unmask a suspected poker cheat among a group of wealthy gamblers. He finds it difficult to be impartial when the suspect enthusiastically befriends him.

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  • S4E4

    Full Circle

    Oct 27, 195530m

    A particularly bad review causes a Broadway actress to scheme to humiliate the drama critic.

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  • A Spray of Bullets
    S4E5

    A Spray of Bullets

    Nov 3, 195530m

    A former sheriff, Will Sonnett, known for his fast draw shows up in Mesa to see an optometrist; he's become nearsighted and badly needs glasses. Also in town is a punk gunfighter who wants to make a name for himself. Knowing Sonnett has vision problems, he challenges the lawman to a duel.

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  • S4E6

    The Devil to Pay

    Nov 10, 195530m

    In Hell, the administrating office is hopelessly out of date and incompetent, so Satan enlists the help of an exceptionally aggressive and heartless businessman to modernize the place. He installs an IBM system and soon it's the picture of efficiency, much, it turns out, to the businessman's regret.

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  • S4E7

    Here Comes the Suit

    Nov 17, 195530m

    A milquetoast employee at a novelty company is overlooked by everyone from his boss to the woman he crushes on. But after being suckered by a shady tailor into getting a shockingly garish suit, he's whistled at by woman and mistaken for a gangster. His newly found self-confidence fits him well.

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  • S4E8

    Looking Glass House

    Nov 24, 195530m

    A woman is surprised when her fiancé turns out to have been married before.

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  • S4E9

    Something Very Special

    Dec 1, 195530m

    Alan moves to America when his wife dies, leaving his young daughter with her grandmother in Paris. When he returns after five years, his daughter has difficulty believing that he loves her.

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  • S4E10

    A Place Full of Strangers

    Dec 8, 195530m

    Industrialist Fleet Mason, a workaholic who doesn't realize how many lives he effects with his stressed-out working habits. When he thinks his loving wife has hung up on him in disgust, he re-evaluates his life by taking an imaginary bus trip to Meadville"". The trip is to nowhere and is full of psychological imagery. In a smoke shrouded bus terminal he meets all the people in his life as total strangers. When he meets his wife and realizes she doesn't recognize him, he becomes despondent. Only when his father appears and guides him to the exit does he realize how he must alter his life.

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  • S4E11

    One Way Out

    Dec 15, 195530m

    A wealthy woman separates from her fortune-hunting husband. She rents a swanky New York penthouse in a building so new that she is the only one living there. When she awakens from a nap, she finds herself trapped in the apartment. Her estranged husband and his girlfriend are after her money and are hoping this will drive her crazy.

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  • S4E12

    Dark Meeting

    Jan 5, 195630m

    When her long-time pin-boy retires, bowling proprietress hires the one guy who answers her want-ad right away. He turns out to be an escaped committed psychotic who, lonely and always lacking in the social skills, never received the nurturing of a friend [you think]. We know it but it takes some time before she becomes aware. While waiting for the police to come to apprehend him, she lets him walk her home through the park while lending him her sympathetic ear. Dealing with a psychotic might take some finesse. How will HE take it? And how will he take IT?

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  • S4E13

    Magic Night

    Jan 12, 195630m

    Upset that his 25 years of service for the company are unappreciated, Henri treats himself to an expensive night on the town, on the company's dime. He then comes to his senses, distraught that his embezzlement will be discovered.

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  • S4E14

    Tunnel of Fear

    Jan 19, 195630m

    While traveling alone in a train compartment, an elderly, wealthy, wheelchair-bound man (Cedric Hardwicke) is confronted by a younger man (David Niven), whom he had double-crossed over twenty years ago. The younger man, now bent on revenge, tells the elderly man that he intends to kill him when the train passes through an upcoming tunnel. A battle of wits ensues.

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  • S4E15

    High Stakes

    Jan 26, 195630m

    An employee catches attractive Mrs. Raymond making a pass at Willie, then Mr. Raymond comes to the club with a gun to get even. Willie shoots him in self defense, but Willie is framed when Mr. Raymond's gun disappears.

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  • S4E16

    The Listener

    Feb 2, 195630m

    Sheila and her brother engineer a gas leak to kill her husband so they can split the insurance money. Overhearing the plot is the husband's invalid father, but it's no concern because he can't speak or write. Sheila doesn't realize he is able to communicate with his nurse through his eyes.

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  • S4E17

    Safe Keeping

    Feb 9, 195630m

    The chancellor of a foreign university gives newspaperman Frank Carstairs a document to smuggle out of the country. He anticipates being charged with treason by the totalitarian government and he wants the free world to know he did not willingly join their side. Meanwhile, Frank carries on an affair with a sexy foreign spy who seems to be playing both sides of the fence.

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  • S4E18

    No Limit

    Feb 16, 195630m

    Suave restaurateur-gambler Willie Dante rebuffs the attempt of racketeers to cash in on his gambling activities. He appears to change his mind, however, due to the influence of a beautiful woman.

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  • S4E19

    Command

    Feb 23, 195630m

    The first mate on a merchant ship has been waiting for years to take command of the ship. When the elderly captain makes a mistake at a time when the ship is in danger the first mate sees his chance.

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  • S4E20

    Once to Every Woman

    Mar 1, 195630m

    At a particularly vulnerable time in her life, Carol is wooed by charming David. They fall in love, but Carol then learns that David is married. He says that he will get divorced for her, but Carol is visited by David's wife.

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  • S4E21

    Red Wine

    Mar 8, 195630m

    A police detective travels to Borneo looking for an American who murdered his wife for a huge insurance payoff. There are only three Americans there, all on a rubber plantation, but none fits the physical description. Once his cover is blown, the detective comes clean and tells the men he thinks none of them are his man. But he knows the killer is a wine connoisseur and he uses that to set a trap.

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  • S4E22

    To Die at Midnight

    Mar 15, 195630m

    The conflict of a prison warden who discovers exculpatory evidence on the eve of an execution.

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  • S4E23

    Desert Encounter

    Mar 22, 195630m

    A famous author gets embroiled in an unusual situation when he offers to drive a young Mexican girl to her ranch.

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  • S4E24

    The Case of Emily Cameron

    Mar 29, 195630m

    Emily is an invalid who needs a caretaker. Her husband leaves her home alone one day, and she begins to stew over the low regard that he has for her. He, on the other hand, resents the opportunities that he's missed because of Emily.

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  • S4E25

    The Rites of Spring

    Apr 5, 195630m

    An older husband tests the marital fidelity of his amorous young wife by anonymously sending her flowers from "a secret admirer".

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  • S4E26

    Autumn Carousel

    Apr 12, 195630m

    A TV writer finds inspiration from a little girl travelling to Los Angeles.

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  • S4E27

    Wall of Bamboo

    Apr 19, 195630m

    An undercover agent is dispatched to the anti-communist underground to search for an important contact. But when he's caught by the red Chinese, he's tortured in various ways for important information by a mysterious renegade white man who leads them known by the nom de guerre "Sampan Joe".

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  • S4E28

    Touch and Go

    Apr 26, 195630m

    Ted attacks old enemy Walter in a fit of rage. Stunned at the realization that Walter is dead, he hears a woman on the phone who overheard their conversation. Ted needs to find this woman and keep her from telling the police anything.

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  • S4E29

    A Long Way From Texas

    May 3, 195630m

    Two con men target a naive young oilman from Texas. They visit Willie's gambling hall, and the con men threaten Willie. He decides to get revenge, and teach a lesson to the oilman.

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  • S4E30

    That Woman

    May 10, 195630m

    A young widow, who is in denial that her husband has died, moves in with her brother-in-law's family down on the farm. Her city ways and manners clash with the simple, pious life of the farmers.

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  • S4E31

    The Other Room

    May 17, 195630m

    A teacher wanting to leave his unfulfilling job needs money to write the book he's dreamed of. A stranger enters and makes an unusual offer: $10,000 to take a physical for a dying man so he can get life insurance to take care of his widow when he passes on.

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  • S4E32

    One Forty-Two

    May 24, 195630m

    Ruthless dictator Mendoza summons a priest when 300,000 people in his country announce that they will pray for him to die at 1:42 that day.

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  • S4E33

    Beneath the Surface

    May 31, 195630m

    In an effort to escape her past, a woman takes a job in a plant.

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  • S4E34

    Watch the Sunset

    Jun 7, 195630m

    Philip Benton is entertaining thoughts of moving on from his wife, who has been in a sanitarium for five years. Just as he is starting a new relationship with his secretary, he receives news that his wife is better and will be released.

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  • S4E35

    Second Chance

    Jun 14, 195630m

    An experienced writer is in the middle of a professional slump when he is inspired by the story of an old long lost friend. While his career is reviving, he seems to be hindering the acting prospects of his novice young girlfriend.

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  • S4E36

    Woman Afraid

    Jun 21, 195630m

    While her husband is laid up in a farm house with a broken leg, Nina sees a prowling burglar. She calls for help, but the hired hand that she calls for is the burglar - and he's also a murderer.

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  • S4E37

    The Stacked Deck

    Jun 28, 195630m

    Fresh out of prison, blackmailer Gus Anderson intends to use Willie's casino to launder his victims' money. To insure his cooperation, Gus' thugs are holding one of Willie's waiters hostage. Glamorous singer Betty Maxwell shows up at Dante's, as scheduled, to lose at blackjack and avoid having a risqué photo of her mailed to the tabloids. Knowing that Lt. Waldo will but his casino yet again, Willie invites to cop over to watch Gus violate his parole.

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  • S4E38

    Distinguished Service

    Jul 5, 195630m

    More interested in his career than in his duty as a physician, a noted doctor intentionally misdiagnoses a patient in an Asian city so he could get back to the U.S. and accept a major award. When his wife realizes that he abandoned a town needing his help to fight a Plague outbreak, she demands a divorce.

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  • S4E39

    Yellowbelly

    Jul 12, 195630m

    A military hero becomes circumspect as his wife expects their first child. In battle, he jumps into a protective hole instead of forging to the front of the line. His company nicknames him Yellowbelly, and he loses the respect of his men.

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  • S4E40

    The Stand-In

    Jul 19, 195630m

    An aspiring actress has spent 20 years in Hollywood, not gaining fame as she had hoped, but as a stand-in for a well-known actress. Her ambition turns to despair, and her affection to bitterness.

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  • S4E41

    Success Story

    Jul 26, 195630m

    A man is assigned to force a small-town newspaper out of existence.

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