Ted Post
Director
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
Season 8
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
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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
S8E1 - A Thing to Fight For
A peace-loving Civil War veteran seeks refuge from the violence of war as overseer on a Florida plantation.
Sept. 26, 1958, midnight
S8E2 - The Best House in the Valley
None
Oct. 3, 1958, midnight
S8E3 - The Hasty Hanging
A man and his wife are sentenced to hang without a trial.
Oct. 10, 1958, midnight
S8E4 - The Four
None
Oct. 17, 1958, midnight
S8E5 - The Trouble With Ruth
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.
Oct. 24, 1958, midnight
S8E6 - The Connoisseur
None
Oct. 31, 1958, midnight
S8E7 - False Impression
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.
Nov. 7, 1958, midnight
S8E8 - A Game of Hate
None
Nov. 14, 1958, midnight
S8E9 - Last Edition
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.
Nov. 21, 1958, midnight
S8E10 - Coney Island Winter
None
Nov. 28, 1958, midnight
S8E11 - Third Son
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.
Dec. 5, 1958, midnight
S8E12 - Drive a Desert Road
None
Dec. 12, 1958, midnight
S8E13 - No Answer
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.
Dec. 19, 1958, midnight
S8E14 - Small Wonder
None
Dec. 26, 1958, midnight
S8E15 - A Fistful of Love
Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.
Jan. 2, 1959, midnight
S8E16 - The Deadly Guest
None
Jan. 9, 1959, midnight
S8E17 - You Can't Win 'Em All
A professional football player refuses to admit that his playing days are over.
Jan. 16, 1959, midnight
S8E18 - And Practically Strangers
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.
Jan. 30, 1959, midnight
S8E19 - Death Trap
None
Feb. 6, 1959, midnight
S8E20 - The Man Who Had No Friends
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.
Feb. 13, 1959, midnight
S8E21 - Various Temptations
None
Feb. 20, 1959, midnight
S8E22 - On the Brink
Story of an intense hatred between father and son.
Feb. 27, 1959, midnight
S8E23 - Stand-In for Murder
None
March 6, 1959, midnight
S8E24 - Ivy League
After 30 years in the Marine Corps, Bull Mitchell retires and enrolls as a college freshman.
March 13, 1959, midnight
S8E25 - Frederick
None
March 20, 1959, midnight
S8E26 - The Salted Mine
In the Old West, a beautiful mine owner hires a detective to discover if she has been swindled when she bought a mine.
March 27, 1959, midnight
S8E27 - The Dreamer
None
April 3, 1959, midnight
S8E28 - This Will Do Nicely
None
April 17, 1959, midnight
S8E29 - The Case of the Two Sisters
None
May 1, 1959, midnight
S8E30 - Boy on a Fence
None
May 15, 1959, midnight
S8E31 - Mirror, Mirror
None
May 29, 1959, midnight
S8E32 - The Rumor
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.
June 5, 1959, midnight
S8E33 - The Miss and the Missiles
None
June 12, 1959, midnight
S8E34 - Hostage
A motorcycle cop becomes hostage to a cold-blooded slayer who plans to use him to escape police roadblocks.
June 19, 1959, midnight
S8E35 - Cowboy Five Seven
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.
July 17, 1959, midnight
S8E36 - A Ballad to Die By
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.
July 31, 1959, 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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