
Playhouse 90
Season 3
195838 episodes
Episodes
- E1
The Plot to Kill Stalin
1958-09-25 · 90m
In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with anti-Semitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.
- E2
Days of Wine and Roses
1958-10-02 · 90m
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
- E3
The Time of Your Life
1958-10-09 · 90m
William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the characters drift in and out of the bar and each other's lives, giving voice to Saroyan's philosophies as they randomly comment about the impending world war, the beauty of art, and traditional notions of good and evil.
- E4
The Long March
1958-10-16 · 90m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E5
Shadows Tremble
1958-10-23 · 90m
An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.
- E6
Word from a Sealed-Off Box
1958-10-30 · 90m
A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.
- E7
Heart of Darkness
1958-11-06 · 90m
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
- E8
Old Man
1958-11-20 · 90m
To fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts.
- E9
The Return of Ansel Gibbs
1958-11-27 · 90m
After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.
- E10
Free Weekend
1958-12-04 · 90m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E11
Seven Against the Wall
1958-12-11 · 90m
The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.
- E12
The Nutcracker
1958-12-25 · 90m
This telecast of George Balanchine's famous production was broadcast only four years after it was premiered by the New York City Ballet. This was the only episode of the series televised in color.
- E13
Face of a Hero
1959-01-01 · 90m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E14
The Wings of the Dove
1959-01-08 · 90m
An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.
- E15
The Blue Men
1959-01-15 · 90m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E16
The Velvet Alley
1959-01-22 · 90m
Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.
- E17
A Quiet Game of Cards
1959-01-29 · 90m
A few friends meet each weekend for a quiet game of cards. But they're bored with poker and, in trying to find another diversion, gradually find themselves plotting a hypothetical murder. It is hypothetical, isn't it?
- E18
Child of Our Time
1959-02-05 · 90m
War deprives Tanguy of his childhood. When his mother returns to Spain to oppose the Franco regime, he is left in Nazi-occupied Marseilles, France.
- E19
The Second Man
1959-02-12 · 90m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E20
The Raider
1959-02-19 · 90m
A corporate raider plans a hostile takeover. To stall him, pressure is put on a scientist to rush through a new type of engine before all necessary tests have been completed.
- E21
The Ding-A-Ling Girl
1959-02-26 · 90m
A housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her.
- E22
Made in Japan
1959-03-05 · 90m
A young soldier in occupied Japan after World War II falls in love with a lovely Japanese girl, but is horrified about what his prejudiced family in Philadelphia will think if he takes her home with him.
- E23
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1
1959-03-12 · 90m
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
- E24
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2
1959-03-19 · 90m
The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.
- E25
A Trip to Paradise
1959-03-26 · 90m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E26
In Lonely Expectation
1959-04-02 · 90m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E27
The Day Before Atlanta
1959-04-09 · 90m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E28
Judgment at Nuremberg
1959-04-16 · 90m
In the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice.
- E29
A Corner of the Garden
1959-04-23 · 90m
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E30
Dark December
1959-04-30 · 90m
During World War II, an army doctor struggles to convert a Franciscan monastery into a field hospital.
- E31
Diary of a Nurse
1959-05-07 · 90m
The daily emergencies and stresses of a major city's hospital ward as seen through the eyes of nurse Gail Lucas.
- E32
A Marriage of Strangers
1959-05-14 · 90m
Marry in haste, repent at leisure? Well, maybe.
- E33
Out of Dust
1959-05-21 · 90m
On a cattle drive across the prairie, the sons of a wealthy cattle baron plot his death.
- E34
The Rank and File
9.01959-05-28 · 90m
A powerful union leader is interrogated by a Senate committee. Testifying before a Senate, William Kilcoyne tells the story of his career. He began as a factory worker and his shrewdness and ambition carried him up through the ranks to his present position as head of a large union.
- E35
The Killers of Mussolini
1959-06-04 · 90m
As the Salo Republic crumbles around him, Mussolini, along with his mistress and several of his ministers flee with retreating Nazi soldiers, but are caught at the town of Dongo by red partisans. All are brutally executed without trial.
- E36
Project Immortality
1959-06-11 · 90m
Key defense scientist Doner has cancer. Schramm is assigned to code Doner's thinking into a computer. He gets to know him as a friend, a husband and father. The project is successful, but he now knows identity is not programmable.
- E37
Dark as the Night
1959-06-18 · 90m
A British politician finds himself open to blackmail because of the indiscretion of his American wife.
- E38
The Second Happiest Day
1959-06-25 · 90m
A man about to be married recalls the day his life changed permanently.
