Episodes
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1. Homecoming
5 Sept 1952
An ex-athlete can't face his own aging until he meets a woman who refuses to change.
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2. Marriage of Lit-Lit
12 Sept 1952
A general store manager at a Canadian outpost marries an Indian girl named Lit-Lit. Her conniving father, in an attempt to shake down his new son-in-law, tries to get his daughter to leave her new husband until he comes through with more supplies and loot. The old man's plans go awry because the girl has fallen in love.
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3. I Want to be a Movie Star
19 Sept 1952
A father complains about his daughter's movie magazines -- until he's discovered by a talent scout.
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4. The Trial
26 Sept 1952
A gold miner's greed makes him murder his partners.
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5. Come What May
3 Oct 1952
A man learns too late that a gun is a poor problem solver.
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6. Trouble on Pier 12
10 Oct 1952
When Captain Torras is accused of double murder and his life is threatened, he hires professional bodyguard Mike Grover to protect him.
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7. This Plane for Hire
17 Oct 1952
The adventure-romance of a Mexican Al Capone.
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8. Drawing Room A
24 Oct 1952
An attractive lady find herself on a train with a case of amnesia. A psychiatrist, also traveling, agrees to assist the woman with her memory loss and determine the cause.
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9. Enchanted Evening
31 Oct 1952
A family's happy life gets complicated when the kids have lost theater tickets that belonged to their dad's boss.
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10. Tango
7 Nov 1952
A night club affair winds up in intrigue and mystery.
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11. The House of Pride
14 Nov 1952
A young bride learns that not everything in the tropics is paradise.
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12. Pussyfootin' Rocks
21 Nov 1952
A masked band of desperadoes smuggles illegal aliens into the U.S. Each carries a piece of camouflage-painted tarp to crouch under when threatened with discovery. The Ripplehissians dispatch the gullible aliens into a deep well, A lawman has to thwart the gang, led by his identical twin brother.
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13. Barrow Street
28 Nov 1952
A jilted girl settles an old score in an unusual and poignant fashion.
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14. Mr. Thayer
5 Dec 1952
On her first job, a girl meets a seedy and serene gentleman to whom the ordinary rules mean nothing.
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15. The White Cream Pitcher
12 Dec 1952
After 20 years of marriage, a couple bent on divorce turn to their pastor to help them divide their possessions.
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16. The Playwright
19 Dec 1952
A man juggles his life in pursuit of the things he wants to do.
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17. A String of Beads
26 Dec 1952
A governess for a wealthy family becomes the object of affection from elderly Count Borselli.
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18. Jenny
2 Jan 1953
A single mother, bored with her life, takes part in a play where she meets a widower.
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19. The Unopened Letter
9 Jan 1953
A woman receives a letter from the man she loves but does not open it for thirty-five years.
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20. High on the Gallows
16 Jan 1953
A Hollywood movie producer falls for an ambitious starlet and almost wrecks his career.
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21. Guardians of the Clock
23 Jan 1953
Jonathan Bigby, an elderly clock keeper, is forcibly retired by his company. Bigby decides to exact an unusual revenge but then finds himself the victim of a larcenous criminal.
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22. Point of Honor
30 Jan 1953
After a revolution sweeps his country, a police officer finds himself belonging to the wrong party.
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23. Manhattan Robin Hood
6 Feb 1953
A reporter investigates by posing as a high-school basketball coach to stop a raffle gambling racket and finds a judge also on the take.
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24. Mr. Greentree and Friend
13 Feb 1953
A lonely college professor strikes up a friendship with Jackie, a lion who has run away from the circus.
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25. The Devil's Other Name
20 Feb 1953
Steve Jordan kills his wife, Marietta and it looks like the perfect crime to pave the way for him to wed wealthy Helen but Steve doesn't count on Marietta's brother, Russ.
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26. Girl of My Dreams
27 Feb 1953
A married man falls in love with another woman at first glance.
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27. Big Jim's Boy
6 Mar 1953
A man returning from military service wants to become a doctor. He needs money for his education, and as much as he hates to enter into his father's field of expertise as a boxer he finds himself entering the ring.
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28. Nineteen Rue Marie
13 Mar 1953
An American finds himself in the Paris home of a doctor, unaware of who he is or how he got there. His one daily visitor is Celeste who, he's told, he once loved. Armed with only the address of the bakery that makes the cakes Celeste brings him, he escapes the doctor's home and goes out to try and remember his life.
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29. Parent's Weekend
20 Mar 1953
A woman finds out that the key to youth is to act her age.
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30. Happy Ending
27 Mar 1953
An author lives in Copenhagen with his wife and daughter. He refuses to alter his stories to happily-ever-after endings.
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31. The Governess
3 Apr 1953
Quite sentimental story of an old woman looking back on her life as a governess. Though now she's seemingly been forgotten by her past charges, the deep feelings this woman felt for her "children" never will.
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32. The Mirror
10 Apr 1953
When a man's past is revealed his self-assurance is broken.
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33. Papa Goes to the Ball
17 Apr 1963
A man takes his daughter to a school dance and puts on an exhibition that makes him the "beau" of the ball.
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34. Allen of Harper
24 Apr 1953
A professor is saved from early retirement by a group of students.
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35. Medicine Woman
1 May 1953
Smug Sam Bentley, a builder of high rise construction projects, is inconvenienced by a doctor's parked car. He decides to give him a piece of his mind, only to find the doctor is a lady. Instead of an argument, they get romantic. Things go well until one of her patients is hurt at one of his work sites.
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36. The Copper Ring
8 May 1953
Dr. Gunther is growing old and irritable, but one evening he dreams of an Egyptian copper ring which brings happiness to all who wear it. And he slips it on.
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37. Vacation for Ginny
15 May 1953
A mousy clerk at a travel agency wins a vacation and finds herself being pursued by no less than two suitors.
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38. Pursuit
22 May 1953
A talented musician loses an arm in a hunting accident.
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39. The Girl that I Married
29 May 1953
An Army major falls for a French woman and a Red Cross Worker.
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40. Twenty-Two Sycamore Road
5 Jun 1953
A woman feels she is being taken for granted by her construction worker husband.
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41. The Widow Makes Three
12 Jun 1953
A crime commission looks for three missing witnesses who can put the finger on a waterfront racketeer.
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42. Operation Riviera
19 Jun 1953
Comedy about a GI on a ten day furlough on the isle of Capri.
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43. The Ledge
26 Jun 1953
A young artist who's come to the big city loses heart when he experiences vision problems. Despite reassurance from his doctor that his eyes will improve, he becomes disheartened and climbs out onto a window ledge. The doctor, a cop, and a young woman who knows his case all work to coax him back inside.
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44. Richard and the Lion
3 Jul 1953
A young husband feels neglected because his wife pays too much attention to her pets, so he gets one of this own - a lion.
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45. Storm Warnings
10 Jul 1953
Wanda is married to one of the operators of a small Alaskan cargo airline. She sends a note to her husband's partner, Vic, suggesting a rendezvous. When the letter goes missing, Vic is convinced his partner knows about their affair and feeding him deadly landing instructions via radio during a storm.
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46. The Journey
17 Jul 1953
A woman who is considerably younger than her husband is bored with their uneventful like in Costa Rica.
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47. Knave of Hearts
24 Jul 1953
Gambler Steve returns to marry Laura only to find she is to marry homesteader, Johnny. Laura's father, rancher Warren, disapproves of both men and, with hired gun Dineen, aims to eliminate both.
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48. The Doctor Goes Home
31 Jul 1953
A high society doctor finds great happiness in treating the poor.
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49. Simplon Express
7 Aug 1953
An incompetent detective bumbles his way thru danger and intrigue
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50. Miracle in the Night
14 Aug 1953
A wealthy woman is afraid to go out alone.
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51. Sheila
21 Aug 1953
A man's attempts to collect his aunt's inheritance are foiled by a cat named Sheila.
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52. Two Loves Have I
28 Aug 1953
After the death of her husband in the early years of World War II, a newspaper reporter throws herself into helping refugees from the Nazi invasion in wartime Lisbon.
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Season 2: quick answers
How many episodes are in Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Season 2?
Season 2 of Schlitz Playhouse of Stars has 52 episodes.
When did Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Season 2 come out?
Season 2 premiered on 5 Sept 1952.