Frank Stanton
Director
Playhouse 90 (1956)
Season 4
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
S4E1 - Target for Three
Three conspirators plan the death of a South American head of state.
Oct. 1, 1959, midnight
S4E2 - The Sounds of Eden
Three different viewpoints of the same story - a kidnapping and its aftermath.
Oct. 15, 1959, midnight
S4E3 - Misalliance
A group of people gathered at a wealthy man's country home on a summer weekend engage in an exploration of their varied romantic entanglements.
Oct. 29, 1959, midnight
S4E4 - The Hidden Image
A journalist out to expose political corruption finds his family is in danger.
Nov. 12, 1959, midnight
S4E5 - The Grey Nurse Said Nothing
In Australia, a landowner is arrested for murder - but where's the body?
Nov. 26, 1959, midnight
S4E6 - The Tunnel
In the Civil War, a tunnel is dug under Confederate lines, and filled with explosives.
Dec. 10, 1959, midnight
S4E7 - The Silver Whistle
The old people's home is a pretty miserable place - until the arrival of the mysterious Mr. Erwenter.
Dec. 24, 1959, midnight
S4E8 - John Brown's Raid
The story of abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.
Jan. 14, 1960, midnight
S4E9 - A Dream of Treason
A State Department official is required to leak a confidential document - which may have terrible repercussions.
Jan. 21, 1960, midnight
S4E10 - To the Sound of Trumpets
In Paris, a former soldier is alarmed when the girl he has fallen in love with demonstrates a rather naïve and romanticized attitude to war.
Feb. 10, 1960, midnight
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S4E11 - The Cruel Day
Synopsis 1:
Violence and brutality greet a French Army captain when he arrives in Algeria
to assume command of a remote outpost. He is appalled by the savage massacre
of an Algerian family by the Rebels. When the French take a prisoner who knows the
names of Rebel leaders, the captain is told that torture is the only way to make him talk.
Then the captain meets the prisoner - a handsome, intelligent teenage boy. Synopsis 2:
A French officer in the Algerian civil war faces a dilemma of conscience when it seems he must order the torture of a handsome, intelligent teenage boy in order to obtain information about the rebels who slaughtered an Algerian family.
Feb. 24, 1960, midnight
S4E12 - Tomorrow
Slow witted, and tired, Fentry leads a lonely life of grinding poverty in his sharecropper's shack until a sick, pregnant woman escaping her abusive husband comes there. He takes her in and cares for her, eventually falling in love with her.
March 7, 1960, midnight
S4E13 - The Hiding Place
In the last days of World War II, two English airmen are captured by an ordinary German citizen, who, instead of handing them over to the authorities, keeps them prisoner in his cellar, neglecting to tell them when the war ends.
March 22, 1960, midnight
S4E14 - Alas, Babylon
Americans try to cope with the aftermath of a nuclear catastrophe.
April 3, 1960, midnight
S4E15 - Journey to the Day
Patients at a mental hospital meet for a group therapy session.
April 22, 1960, midnight
S4E16 - The Shape of the River
Determined to pay off his debts, Mark Twain sets off on a lecture tour.
May 2, 1960, midnight
S4E17 - In the Presence of Mine Enemies
In the Warsaw ghetto, a Jewish man seeks revenge for the rape of his sister by a German soldier.
May 16, 1960, 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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