Ted Post
Director
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
Season 5
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
S5E1 - The Last Out
A once promising baseball player is now grounds keeper for a minor league team. His deep knowledge of the game is more than the team's manager can handle.
Sept. 30, 1955, midnight
S5E2 - Bandit's Hide-Out
The wife of a gentle Spanish shepherd is discontented with the quiet life they lead. He returns home one night to find his wife and sheep are gone.
Oct. 7, 1955, midnight
S5E3 - Two-Bit Gangster
A newsman travels to a small town to cover what appears to be a routine robbery, in which a masked thief killed an ex-con who interfered with his getaway. But, the reporter's investigation begins to reveal the ex-con in the role of a hero.
Oct. 14, 1955, midnight
S5E4 - The Girl Who Scared Men Off
A country schoolmarm bitterly resents it when the community imports a tweedy, pipe-smoking exchange teacher from England to add culture to the school. It takes a fire at the school picnic to set things right and clear up the problem.
Oct. 21, 1955, midnight
S5E5 - Nothing to Do Till Next Fall
A college football coach is faced with a difficult decision for the big home coming game.
Oct. 28, 1955, midnight
S5E6 - A Gift of Life
A big time salesman is too busy getting ahead to make friends. Then he finds himself in a hospital bed in need of a transfusion. A portrait of a tragic character.
Nov. 4, 1955, midnight
S5E7 - No Trial by Jury
After a valuable horse drowns in a well, a homesteader faces ruin. The law of the range makes him liable because of negligence in not covering or fencing the well.
Nov. 11, 1955, midnight
S5E8 - Night of the Big Swamp
Reno Cromwell, a hunting guide obliged to aid the law in hunting down his best friend, a killer. Reno's girlfriend is actually still in love with the killer, but her pleas to Reno not to help in the pursuit are in vain.
Nov. 18, 1955, midnight
S5E9 - The Careless Cadet
Sgt. Ben Destry receives an appointment to West Point as a reward for valor in the Korean War. But he scoffs at the Academy's traditions and finds the orders of his juniors hard to take.
Nov. 25, 1955, midnight
S5E10 - Moment of Triumph
A business tycoon is able to right the wrong done twenty years ago to his professor who refused to give a passing grade to a rich man's son when he didn't deserve it.
Dec. 2, 1955, midnight
S5E11 - On the Nose
An air force pilot is assigned to carry an atomic scientist to the site of a bomb experiment. To the pilot's dismay, the ship's navigator becomes ill before takeoff and is replaced by a woefully inexperience substitute.
Dec. 9, 1955, midnight
S5E12 - The Baited Hook
In a Florida swamp, Sheriff Ames is marooned with killer, Link Bradford.
Dec. 16, 1955, midnight
S5E13 - Christmas Guest
A professor's modest salary doesn't permit much spending for Christmas gifts, so when his wife's brother arrives laden with expensive gifts a bitter argument ensues. Out of that, comes a better understanding of Christmas.
Dec. 23, 1955, midnight
S5E14 - Well of Anger
In the Old West, Ed Sawyer is trying to set up a modest homestead. But a big rancher, Luke Gans, uses violence to keep Sawyer away from the water supply.
Dec. 30, 1955, midnight
S5E15 - Fool Proof
When Mary Hunter became a teacher of blind children she never dreamed the lessons she taught might one day save her life not until that fateful evening in the parking lot.
Jan. 6, 1956, midnight
S5E16 - Dealer's Choice
The owner of a pearling ship loses it in a poker game. Convinced that the winner cheated, he signs on with him for the next voyage, suspecting that the new owner will soon be anxious to sell the ship back to him.
Jan. 13, 1956, midnight
S5E17 - The Big Payday
A former fighter always wanted to be champ, but never made it. He's a manager now, and hopes his heavyweight contender will make it.
Jan. 20, 1956, midnight
S5E18 - The Day I Died
A ruthless business tycoon is convinced he owes all his success to himself alone. But a strange thing happens to him on a hospital operating table.
Jan. 27, 1956, midnight
S5E19 - The Gentle Stranger
A mail-order bride finds life on a ranch not to her liking. A range war decides her future.
Feb. 3, 1956, midnight
S5E20 - Top Man
A mountain climber is fiercely determined to conquer the man-killing Himalayan peak, Calpurtha.
Feb. 10, 1956, midnight
S5E21 - On a Dark Night
A college professor tries to rescue a girl who turns out to be a gangster's moll.
Feb. 17, 1956, midnight
S5E22 - Ordeal
No one believes a man when he insists he saw a murder committed.
Feb. 24, 1956, midnight
S5E23 - Showdown at Painted Rock
A sheriff risks his life by insisting on hanging a murderer in the lawless old West.
March 2, 1956, midnight
S5E24 - Web of Circumstance
A bank teller has been stealing pennies and stashing away dollars taken from his wife's grocery budget for years. His goal: to make a break from his shrewish spouse and sail for an island paradise in the Pacific.
March 9, 1956, midnight
S5E25 - The Young and the Brave
Total Toys TV reviews the Build-A-Minion Pirate/Cro-Minion figure pack made by Thinkway.
March 16, 1956, midnight
S5E26 - The Waiting House
The honeymoon house in Bermuda, which a couple has chosen, has been the scene of accidents to a good many tenants before them.
March 23, 1956, midnight
S5E27 - The Finger of God
An escaping Boer prisoner of war breaks into an apparently deserted house and gets the surprise of his life.
March 30, 1956, midnight
S5E28 - Angels in the Sky
A transport plane carrying wounded men from the South Pacific faces disaster.
April 6, 1956, midnight
S5E29 - The Bitter Land
A man arrives in the West to seek the murderer of his son and is faced with the dilemma of saving the murderer's own son when outlaws set out to get the boy.
April 13, 1956, midnight
S5E30 - The Mysterious Cargo
After being slugged, robbed and having his ship sail without him, Mr. Gallup heads for the States on another ship. Tension mounts when he realizes the cargo doesn't correspond to the manifest.
April 20, 1956, midnight
S5E31 - Step Right Up and Die
When an amusement park operator finds a body in the Fun House, he is afraid to tell the police, having once spent three years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. He gets rid of the corpse, but is trapped just the same and faces death.
April 27, 1956, midnight
S5E32 - Formosa Patrol
The story of the destroyer USS DeHaven and a persistent rain that turned into the third worst storm in the history of the coastal Southern California.
May 4, 1956, midnight
S5E33 - Plague Ship
A captain finds that his ship is threatened by bubonic plague.
May 11, 1956, midnight
S5E34 - Officer Needs Help
Dan Grabow is given a 90-day tryout as chief of police in a small beach town. His discovers that none of the members of his force have received adequate police training.
May 18, 1956, midnight
S5E35 - Date for Tomorrow
After breaking out of prison, Eddie Markham decides to use a girl he meets as at an amusement park as a decoy in a holdup.
May 25, 1956, midnight
S5E36 - The Roustabout
A saddle bum is pushed into the middle of a fight between some ranchers and a storekeeper who has been selling barbed wire to the squatters.
June 8, 1956, midnight
S5E37 - Pattern for Pursuit
Mountie Sgt. Douglas Renfrew is sent back to the Northwest Territory to reopen a murder investigation. The gun which killed a man has turned up, and its owner is the key suspect. Renfrew is nursed back to health following a mountain lion attack by the daughter of the murdered man. She claims the man he's seeking is no longer alive.
June 15, 1956, midnight
S5E38 - Witness to Condemn
The only witness to a murder loses her sight as a result of an attack by the killers.
June 22, 1956, midnight
S5E39 - Weapon of Courage
A disabled war veteran who has taken a job as a bank teller feels that his disability has made him useless.
June 29, 1956, midnight
S5E40 - The Mechanical Cook
Sgt. Childs wants to be a cook in the Air Force, but he keeps getting assigned duties like Hangar Chief. He gets himself assigned to a general's flight so he can show off his kitchen skills, but the general's dietitian has other ideas.
July 6, 1956, midnight
S5E41 - The Happy Sun
When all of an aging Finnish lumberjack's family is wiped out in one night, he turns his devotion toward a horse that was responsible for the accident, because he needs someone to love.
July 13, 1956, midnight
S5E42 - The Bankmouse
An aging Finnish lumberjack who with his whole family wiped out in one night, turns his devotion toward a horse that was responsible for the accident since he needs someone to love.
July 20, 1956, midnight
S5E43 - Dara
An actress is informed that her husband was killed in a plane crash, but he suddenly returns. And when he does, he accuses her of sabotaging the plane.
July 27, 1956, midnight
S5E44 - Flowers for Jenny
A woman tells her man she'll marry him, if he can prove that he cares more for her than for fighting. But as he sets out to pick up the wedding bouquet, he becomes involved with train robbers.
Aug. 3, 1956, midnight
S5E45 - Repercussion
A hard-hitting crime reporter discovers that his wife once worked for a gambling ring.
Aug. 10, 1956, midnight
S5E46 - Boling Point
A hard-hitting crime reporter discovers that his wife once worked for a gambling ring.
Aug. 17, 1956, midnight
S5E47 - Strange Defense
A man must decide whether a woman who is accused of murder is his supposedly deceased wife or her twin sister.
Aug. 24, 1956, midnight
S5E48 - I'll Wait for You
A fight over his girlfriend results in a jail term for Joe Santorelli. When he is released, after a year's imprisonment, he is filled with hate for the whole human race.
Aug. 31, 1956, midnight
S5E49 - The Press Agent
Show biz agent Danny Scott is taking a bigger cut from his client then he should.
Sept. 7, 1956, midnight
S5E50 - Midnight Kill
Joe Benson, policeman turner lawyer, is running for the city council. When a policeman is killed, Joe thinks local gangsters planned the murder.
Sept. 14, 1956, midnight
S5E51 - Top Secret
A man comes under close scrutiny after documents of value disappear
Sept. 21, 1956, midnight
CBS
60 min/ep
22560 min
Oct. 5, 1951
April 17, 1963, midnight
Ended
NR
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