Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Season 8

1958 · 36 episodes

Episodes

1. 1

   1. A Thing to Fight For

   26 Sept 1958

   A peace-loving Civil War veteran seeks refuge from the violence of war as overseer on a Florida plantation.

2. 2

   2. The Best House in the Valley

   3 Oct 1958

3. 3

   3. The Hasty Hanging

   10 Oct 1958

   A man and his wife are sentenced to hang without a trial.

4. 4

   4. The Four

   17 Oct 1958

5. 5

   5. The Trouble With Ruth

   24 Oct 1958

   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.

6. 6

   6. The Connoisseur

   31 Oct 1958

7. 7

   7. False Impression

   7 Nov 1958

   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.

8. 8

   8. A Game of Hate

   14 Nov 1958

9. 9

   9. Last Edition

   21 Nov 1958

   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.

10. 10

    10. Coney Island Winter

    28 Nov 1958

11. 11

    11. Third Son

    5 Dec 1958

    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.

12. 12

    12. Drive a Desert Road

    12 Dec 1958

13. 13

    13. No Answer

    19 Dec 1958

    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.

14. 14

    14. Small Wonder

    26 Dec 1958

15. 15

    15. A Fistful of Love

    2 Jan 1959

    Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.

16. 16

    16. The Deadly Guest

    9 Jan 1959

17. 17

    17. You Can't Win 'Em All

    16 Jan 1959

    A professional football player refuses to admit that his playing days are over.

18. 18

    18. And Practically Strangers

    30 Jan 1959

    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.

19. 19

    19. Death Trap

    6 Feb 1959

20. 20

    20. The Man Who Had No Friends

    13 Feb 1959

    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.

21. 21

    21. Various Temptations

    20 Feb 1959

22. 22

    22. On the Brink

    27 Feb 1959

    Story of an intense hatred between father and son.

23. 23

    23. Stand-In for Murder

    6 Mar 1959

24. 24

    24. Ivy League

    13 Mar 1959

    After 30 years in the Marine Corps, Bull Mitchell retires and enrolls as a college freshman.

25. 25

    25. Frederick

    20 Mar 1959

26. 26

    26. The Salted Mine

    27 Mar 1959

    In the Old West, a beautiful mine owner hires a detective to discover if she has been swindled when she bought a mine.

27. 27

    27. The Dreamer

    3 Apr 1959

28. 28

    28. This Will Do Nicely

    17 Apr 1959

29. 29

    29. The Case of the Two Sisters

    1 May 1959

30. 30

    30. Boy on a Fence

    15 May 1959

31. 31

    31. Mirror, Mirror

    29 May 1959

32. 32

    32. The Rumor

    5 Jun 1959

    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.

33. 33

    33. The Miss and the Missiles

    12 Jun 1959

34. 34

    34. Hostage

    19 Jun 1959

    A motorcycle cop becomes hostage to a cold-blooded slayer who plans to use him to escape police roadblocks.

35. 35

    35. Cowboy Five Seven

    17 Jul 1959

    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.

36. 36

    36. A Ballad to Die By

    31 Jul 1959

    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.