Episodes
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1. The Plot to Kill Stalin
25 Sept 1958 · 90 min
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.
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2. Days of Wine and Roses
2 Oct 1958 · 90 min
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.
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3. The Time of Your Life
9 Oct 1958 · 90 min
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.
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4. The Long March
16 Oct 1958 · 90 min
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5. Shadows Tremble
23 Oct 1958 · 90 min
An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.
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6. Word from a Sealed-Off Box
30 Oct 1958 · 90 min
A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.
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7. Heart of Darkness
6 Nov 1958 · 90 min
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.
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8. Old Man
20 Nov 1958 · 90 min
To fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts.
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9. The Return of Ansel Gibbs
27 Nov 1958 · 90 min
After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.
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10. Free Weekend
4 Dec 1958 · 90 min
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11. Seven Against the Wall
11 Dec 1958 · 90 min
The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.
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12. The Nutcracker
25 Dec 1958 · 90 min
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.
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13. Face of a Hero
1 Jan 1959 · 90 min
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14. The Wings of the Dove
8 Jan 1959 · 90 min
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.
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15. The Blue Men
15 Jan 1959 · 90 min
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16. The Velvet Alley
22 Jan 1959 · 90 min
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.
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17. A Quiet Game of Cards
29 Jan 1959 · 90 min
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?
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18. Child of Our Time
5 Feb 1959 · 90 min
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.
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19. The Second Man
12 Feb 1959 · 90 min
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20. The Raider
19 Feb 1959 · 90 min
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.
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21. The Ding-A-Ling Girl
26 Feb 1959 · 90 min
A housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her.
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22. Made in Japan
5 Mar 1959 · 90 min
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.
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23. For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1
12 Mar 1959 · 90 min
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
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24. For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2
19 Mar 1959 · 90 min
The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.
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25. A Trip to Paradise
26 Mar 1959 · 90 min
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26. In Lonely Expectation
2 Apr 1959 · 90 min
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27. The Day Before Atlanta
9 Apr 1959 · 90 min
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28. Judgment at Nuremberg
16 Apr 1959 · 90 min
In the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice.
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29. A Corner of the Garden
23 Apr 1959 · 90 min
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30. Dark December
30 Apr 1959 · 90 min
During World War II, an army doctor struggles to convert a Franciscan monastery into a field hospital.
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31. Diary of a Nurse
7 May 1959 · 90 min
The daily emergencies and stresses of a major city's hospital ward as seen through the eyes of nurse Gail Lucas.
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32. A Marriage of Strangers
14 May 1959 · 90 min
Marry in haste, repent at leisure? Well, maybe.
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33. Out of Dust
21 May 1959 · 90 min
On a cattle drive across the prairie, the sons of a wealthy cattle baron plot his death.
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34. The Rank and File
28 May 1959 · 90 min · 9.0/10
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.
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35. The Killers of Mussolini
4 Jun 1959 · 90 min
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.
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36. Project Immortality
11 Jun 1959 · 90 min
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.
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37. Dark as the Night
18 Jun 1959 · 90 min
A British politician finds himself open to blackmail because of the indiscretion of his American wife.
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38. The Second Happiest Day
25 Jun 1959 · 90 min
A man about to be married recalls the day his life changed permanently.
Playhouse 90 Season 3: quick answers
How many episodes are in Playhouse 90 Season 3?
Season 3 of Playhouse 90 has 38 episodes, about 57 hours in total.
When did Playhouse 90 Season 3 come out?
Season 3 premiered on 25 Sept 1958.