Frank Stanton
Director
Playhouse 90 (1956)
Season 3
Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s were usually hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual, a weekly series of hour-and-a-half dramas rather than 60-minute plays. Playhouse 90 began as a pitch by Frank Stanton—the formidable, forward-thinking right-hand man to CBS chairman William S. Paley—during a brainstorming session for program ideas. The project was ultimately developed by Hubbell Robinson, a CBS vice president who received no screen credit on Playhouse 90 but is often described as its creator.
Released Oct. 4, 1956
Episode 90 min
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Network: CBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S3E1 - The Plot to Kill Stalin
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.
Sept. 25, 1958, midnight
S3E2 - Days of Wine and Roses
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.
Oct. 2, 1958, midnight
S3E3 - The Time of Your Life
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.
Oct. 9, 1958, midnight
S3E4 - The Long March
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Oct. 16, 1958, midnight
S3E5 - Shadows Tremble
An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.
Oct. 23, 1958, midnight
S3E6 - Word from a Sealed-Off Box
A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.
Oct. 30, 1958, midnight
S3E7 - Heart of Darkness
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.
Nov. 6, 1958, midnight
S3E8 - Old Man
To fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts.
Nov. 20, 1958, midnight
S3E9 - The Return of Ansel Gibbs
After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.
Nov. 27, 1958, midnight
S3E10 - Free Weekend
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Dec. 4, 1958, midnight
S3E11 - Seven Against the Wall
The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.
Dec. 11, 1958, midnight
S3E12 - The Nutcracker
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.
Dec. 25, 1958, midnight
S3E13 - Face of a Hero
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Jan. 1, 1959, midnight
S3E14 - The Wings of the Dove
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.
Jan. 8, 1959, midnight
S3E15 - The Blue Men
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Jan. 15, 1959, midnight
S3E16 - The Velvet Alley
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.
Jan. 22, 1959, midnight
S3E17 - A Quiet Game of Cards
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?
Jan. 29, 1959, midnight
S3E18 - Child of Our Time
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.
Feb. 5, 1959, midnight
S3E19 - The Second Man
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Feb. 12, 1959, midnight
S3E20 - The Raider
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.
Feb. 19, 1959, midnight
S3E21 - The Ding-A-Ling Girl
A housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her.
Feb. 26, 1959, midnight
S3E22 - Made in Japan
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.
March 5, 1959, midnight
S3E23 - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
March 12, 1959, midnight
S3E24 - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2
The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.
March 19, 1959, midnight
S3E25 - A Trip to Paradise
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March 26, 1959, midnight
S3E26 - In Lonely Expectation
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April 2, 1959, midnight
S3E27 - The Day Before Atlanta
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April 9, 1959, midnight
S3E28 - Judgment at Nuremberg
In the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice.
April 16, 1959, midnight
S3E29 - A Corner of the Garden
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April 23, 1959, midnight
S3E30 - Dark December
During World War II, an army doctor struggles to convert a Franciscan monastery into a field hospital.
April 30, 1959, midnight
S3E31 - Diary of a Nurse
The daily emergencies and stresses of a major city's hospital ward as seen through the eyes of nurse Gail Lucas.
May 7, 1959, midnight
S3E32 - A Marriage of Strangers
Marry in haste, repent at leisure? Well, maybe.
May 14, 1959, midnight
S3E33 - Out of Dust
On a cattle drive across the prairie, the sons of a wealthy cattle baron plot his death.
May 21, 1959, midnight
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S3E34 - The Rank and File
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.
May 28, 1959, midnight
S3E35 - The Killers of Mussolini
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.
June 4, 1959, midnight
S3E36 - Project Immortality
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.
June 11, 1959, midnight
S3E37 - Dark as the Night
A British politician finds himself open to blackmail because of the indiscretion of his American wife.
June 18, 1959, midnight
S3E38 - The Second Happiest Day
A man about to be married recalls the day his life changed permanently.
June 25, 1959, midnight
Network: CBS
Episode Runtime: 90 min.
Season Runtime: 12060 min.
Released: Oct. 4, 1956
Last Air Date: May 16, 1960, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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