Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
Season 8
195836 episodes
Episodes
- E1
A Thing to Fight For
1958-09-26
A peace-loving Civil War veteran seeks refuge from the violence of war as overseer on a Florida plantation.
- E2
The Best House in the Valley
1958-10-03
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E3
The Hasty Hanging
1958-10-10
A man and his wife are sentenced to hang without a trial.
- E4
The Four
1958-10-17
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E5
The Trouble With Ruth
1958-10-24
Not even her husband knows that Ruth Elliot is a kleptomaniac. But hoodlum Joseph Libo finds out about her illness and threatens to tell her husband unless she helps him carry out a robbery.
- E6
The Connoisseur
1958-10-31
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E7
False Impression
1958-11-07
A crippled dental technician falls in love with a pretty girl who refuses to have anything to do with him. He decides to steal a fortune in jewels in order to force the girl to overlook his physical handicap and marry him.
- E8
A Game of Hate
1958-11-14
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E9
Last Edition
1958-11-21
Newspaper editor Sheldon Black is being shoved aside for the publisher's slimy protégé, Dean Lowell, who passed Black's ideas off as his own. Before exiting, Black orders Lowell to cover the execution of a condemned man that Lowell was friends with in the war. If the reptile Lowell had been willing to soil his "war hero" reputation and testify, he could have saved the man from the electric chair. Instead, he remains quiet and turns in quite a news story.
- E10
Coney Island Winter
1958-11-28
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E11
Third Son
1958-12-05
The youngest brother is torn between whether to follow in the footsteps of his brother who is a frontier marshal or the other one who is a dashing gambler.
- E12
Drive a Desert Road
1958-12-12
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E13
No Answer
1958-12-19
A swindler who's known for separating rich widows from their money is the lead suspect in the murder of this latest "pigeon." His alibi seems pretty air tight: he was with the investigating cop when the murder supposedly took place.
- E14
Small Wonder
1958-12-26
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E15
A Fistful of Love
1959-01-02
Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.
- E16
The Deadly Guest
1959-01-09
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E17
You Can't Win 'Em All
1959-01-16
A professional football player refuses to admit that his playing days are over.
- E18
And Practically Strangers
1959-01-30
From childhood Alan Mitchell has always felt his abilities and achievements overshadowed by those of his younger brother Hugh. When Hugh requisitions Alan to work with him on a nuclear bomb project it puts an additional strain on their already tense relationship.
- E19
Death Trap
1959-02-06
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E20
The Man Who Had No Friends
1959-02-13
Champion Barry Brannon retires from a successful career as a fighter and goes into the restaurant business with his long-time manager, Charlie. When Barry proposes to his girl, he finds that she is in love with Charlie.
- E21
Various Temptations
1959-02-20
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E22
On the Brink
1959-02-27
Story of an intense hatred between father and son.
- E23
Stand-In for Murder
1959-03-06
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E24
Ivy League
1959-03-13
After 30 years in the Marine Corps, Bull Mitchell retires and enrolls as a college freshman.
- E25
Frederick
1959-03-20
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E26
The Salted Mine
1959-03-27
In the Old West, a beautiful mine owner hires a detective to discover if she has been swindled when she bought a mine.
- E27
The Dreamer
1959-04-03
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E28
This Will Do Nicely
1959-04-17
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E29
The Case of the Two Sisters
1959-05-01
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E30
Boy on a Fence
1959-05-15
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E31
Mirror, Mirror
1959-05-29
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E32
The Rumor
1959-06-05
The guys of the billing department at Brittanica Insurance heard that one of them is about to be let go. After breaking up with his girlfriend-of-the-week, office playboy Eddie shoots off his mouth and says he's gonna quit and leave town. Of course, he reconsiders as soon as he meets another woman.
- E33
The Miss and the Missiles
1959-06-12
No episode synopsis available yet.
- E34
Hostage
1959-06-19
A motorcycle cop becomes hostage to a cold-blooded slayer who plans to use him to escape police roadblocks.
- E35
Cowboy Five Seven
1959-07-17
This dramatization was about a typical day in the lives of the men of SAC, was made by Stewart, a reserve officer in the air force, at Westover (Mass.) Air Base. No professional actors are used; officers and enlisted men and their families portray themselves.
- E36
A Ballad to Die By
1959-07-31
Rancher Anna Carrick hires singing cowboy Johnny Guitar to play at her wedding. Johnny soon learns that Anna is to marry a killer against her will.