Ted Post
Director
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
Season 2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
Released Oct. 5, 1951
Episode 60 min
None+
Keywords: tmdb.anthology, tmdb.playhouse, awards.emmy-award-winner, awards.emmy-award-nominated, imdb.anthology-series, imdb.all-star-cast, imdb.ensemble-cast
Network: CBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Homecoming
An ex-athlete can't face his own aging until he meets a woman who refuses to change.
Sept. 5, 1952, midnight
S2E2 - Marriage of Lit-Lit
A general store manager at a Canadian outpost marries an Indian girl named Lit-Lit. Her conniving father, in an attempt to shake down his new son-in-law, tries to get his daughter to leave her new husband until he comes through with more supplies and loot. The old man's plans go awry because the girl has fallen in love.
Sept. 12, 1952, midnight
S2E3 - I Want to be a Movie Star
A father complains about his daughter's movie magazines -- until he's discovered by a talent scout.
Sept. 19, 1952, midnight
S2E4 - The Trial
A gold miner's greed makes him murder his partners.
Sept. 26, 1952, midnight
S2E5 - Come What May
A man learns too late that a gun is a poor problem solver.
Oct. 3, 1952, midnight
S2E6 - Trouble on Pier 12
When Captain Torras is accused of double murder and his life is threatened, he hires professional bodyguard Mike Grover to protect him.
Oct. 10, 1952, midnight
S2E7 - This Plane for Hire
The adventure-romance of a Mexican Al Capone.
Oct. 17, 1952, midnight
S2E8 - Drawing Room A
An attractive lady find herself on a train with a case of amnesia. A psychiatrist, also traveling, agrees to assist the woman with her memory loss and determine the cause.
Oct. 24, 1952, midnight
S2E9 - Enchanted Evening
A family's happy life gets complicated when the kids have lost theater tickets that belonged to their dad's boss.
Oct. 31, 1952, midnight
S2E10 - Tango
A night club affair winds up in intrigue and mystery.
Nov. 7, 1952, midnight
S2E11 - The House of Pride
A young bride learns that not everything in the tropics is paradise.
Nov. 14, 1952, midnight
S2E12 - Pussyfootin' Rocks
A masked band of desperadoes smuggles illegal aliens into the U.S. Each carries a piece of camouflage-painted tarp to crouch under when threatened with discovery. The Ripplehissians dispatch the gullible aliens into a deep well, A lawman has to thwart the gang, led by his identical twin brother.
Nov. 21, 1952, midnight
S2E13 - Barrow Street
A jilted girl settles an old score in an unusual and poignant fashion.
Nov. 28, 1952, midnight
S2E14 - Mr. Thayer
On her first job, a girl meets a seedy and serene gentleman to whom the ordinary rules mean nothing.
Dec. 5, 1952, midnight
S2E15 - The White Cream Pitcher
After 20 years of marriage, a couple bent on divorce turn to their pastor to help them divide their possessions.
Dec. 12, 1952, midnight
S2E16 - The Playwright
A man juggles his life in pursuit of the things he wants to do.
Dec. 19, 1952, midnight
S2E17 - A String of Beads
A governess for a wealthy family becomes the object of affection from elderly Count Borselli.
Dec. 26, 1952, midnight
S2E18 - Jenny
A single mother, bored with her life, takes part in a play where she meets a widower.
Jan. 2, 1953, midnight
S2E19 - The Unopened Letter
A woman receives a letter from the man she loves but does not open it for thirty-five years.
Jan. 9, 1953, midnight
S2E20 - High on the Gallows
A Hollywood movie producer falls for an ambitious starlet and almost wrecks his career.
Jan. 16, 1953, midnight
S2E21 - Guardians of the Clock
Jonathan Bigby, an elderly clock keeper, is forcibly retired by his company. Bigby decides to exact an unusual revenge but then finds himself the victim of a larcenous criminal.
Jan. 23, 1953, midnight
S2E22 - Point of Honor
After a revolution sweeps his country, a police officer finds himself belonging to the wrong party.
Jan. 30, 1953, midnight
S2E23 - Manhattan Robin Hood
A reporter investigates by posing as a high-school basketball coach to stop a raffle gambling racket and finds a judge also on the take.
Feb. 6, 1953, midnight
S2E24 - Mr. Greentree and Friend
A lonely college professor strikes up a friendship with Jackie, a lion who has run away from the circus.
Feb. 13, 1953, midnight
S2E25 - The Devil's Other Name
Steve Jordan kills his wife, Marietta and it looks like the perfect crime to pave the way for him to wed wealthy Helen but Steve doesn't count on Marietta's brother, Russ.
Feb. 20, 1953, midnight
S2E26 - Girl of My Dreams
A married man falls in love with another woman at first glance.
Feb. 27, 1953, midnight
S2E27 - Big Jim's Boy
A man returning from military service wants to become a doctor. He needs money for his education, and as much as he hates to enter into his father's field of expertise as a boxer he finds himself entering the ring.
March 6, 1953, midnight
S2E28 - Nineteen Rue Marie
An American finds himself in the Paris home of a doctor, unaware of who he is or how he got there. His one daily visitor is Celeste who, he's told, he once loved. Armed with only the address of the bakery that makes the cakes Celeste brings him, he escapes the doctor's home and goes out to try and remember his life.
March 13, 1953, midnight
S2E29 - Parent's Weekend
A woman finds out that the key to youth is to act her age.
March 20, 1953, midnight
S2E30 - Happy Ending
An author lives in Copenhagen with his wife and daughter. He refuses to alter his stories to happily-ever-after endings.
March 27, 1953, midnight
S2E31 - The Governess
Quite sentimental story of an old woman looking back on her life as a governess. Though now she's seemingly been forgotten by her past charges, the deep feelings this woman felt for her "children" never will.
April 3, 1953, midnight
S2E32 - The Mirror
When a man's past is revealed his self-assurance is broken.
April 10, 1953, midnight
S2E33 - Papa Goes to the Ball
A man takes his daughter to a school dance and puts on an exhibition that makes him the "beau" of the ball.
April 17, 1963, midnight
S2E34 - Allen of Harper
A professor is saved from early retirement by a group of students.
April 24, 1953, midnight
S2E35 - Medicine Woman
Smug Sam Bentley, a builder of high rise construction projects, is inconvenienced by a doctor's parked car. He decides to give him a piece of his mind, only to find the doctor is a lady. Instead of an argument, they get romantic. Things go well until one of her patients is hurt at one of his work sites.
May 1, 1953, midnight
S2E36 - The Copper Ring
Dr. Gunther is growing old and irritable, but one evening he dreams of an Egyptian copper ring which brings happiness to all who wear it. And he slips it on.
May 8, 1953, midnight
S2E37 - Vacation for Ginny
A mousy clerk at a travel agency wins a vacation and finds herself being pursued by no less than two suitors.
May 15, 1953, midnight
S2E38 - Pursuit
A talented musician loses an arm in a hunting accident.
May 22, 1953, midnight
S2E39 - The Girl that I Married
An Army major falls for a French woman and a Red Cross Worker.
May 29, 1953, midnight
S2E40 - Twenty-Two Sycamore Road
A woman feels she is being taken for granted by her construction worker husband.
June 5, 1953, midnight
S2E41 - The Widow Makes Three
A crime commission looks for three missing witnesses who can put the finger on a waterfront racketeer.
June 12, 1953, midnight
S2E42 - Operation Riviera
Comedy about a GI on a ten day furlough on the isle of Capri.
June 19, 1953, midnight
S2E43 - The Ledge
A young artist who's come to the big city loses heart when he experiences vision problems. Despite reassurance from his doctor that his eyes will improve, he becomes disheartened and climbs out onto a window ledge. The doctor, a cop, and a young woman who knows his case all work to coax him back inside.
June 26, 1953, midnight
S2E44 - Richard and the Lion
A young husband feels neglected because his wife pays too much attention to her pets, so he gets one of this own - a lion.
July 3, 1953, midnight
S2E45 - Storm Warnings
Wanda is married to one of the operators of a small Alaskan cargo airline. She sends a note to her husband's partner, Vic, suggesting a rendezvous. When the letter goes missing, Vic is convinced his partner knows about their affair and feeding him deadly landing instructions via radio during a storm.
July 10, 1953, midnight
S2E46 - The Journey
A woman who is considerably younger than her husband is bored with their uneventful like in Costa Rica.
July 17, 1953, midnight
S2E47 - Knave of Hearts
Gambler Steve returns to marry Laura only to find she is to marry homesteader, Johnny. Laura's father, rancher Warren, disapproves of both men and, with hired gun Dineen, aims to eliminate both.
July 24, 1953, midnight
S2E48 - The Doctor Goes Home
A high society doctor finds great happiness in treating the poor.
July 31, 1953, midnight
S2E49 - Simplon Express
An incompetent detective bumbles his way thru danger and intrigue
Aug. 7, 1953, midnight
S2E50 - Miracle in the Night
A wealthy woman is afraid to go out alone.
Aug. 14, 1953, midnight
S2E51 - Sheila
A man's attempts to collect his aunt's inheritance are foiled by a cat named Sheila.
Aug. 21, 1953, midnight
S2E52 - Two Loves Have I
After the death of her husband in the early years of World War II, a newspaper reporter throws herself into helping refugees from the Nazi invasion in wartime Lisbon.
Aug. 28, 1953, midnight
Network: CBS
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 22560 min.
Released: Oct. 5, 1951
Last Air Date: April 17, 1963, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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