Playhouse 90
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.
Episodes
39 episodes. Playback and audio depend on the available source.
0190 minS1:E1 Forbidden Area
Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will anyone believe him?
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0290 minS1:E2 Requiem for a Heavyweight
An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is exploited by his manager, despite the efforts of a compassionate young woman who tries to help him recover his self-respect.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E3 Sizeman and Son
The happy atmosphere in Mr. Sizeman's factory is disrupted by an argumentative newcomer - his son.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E4 Rendezvous in Black
A woman is inexplicably killed on a street-corner. What has this to do with other deaths around the city?
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E5 The Country Husband
After a near-death experience, a businessman starts to re-think his life, and wonders about leaving his wife.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E6 The Big Slide
A vaudeville comic becomes a silent film star.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E7 Heritage of Anger
A wealthy industrialist has trouble with his sons.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E8 Eloise
It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E9 Confession
When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E10 Made in Heaven
When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E11 Sincerely, Willis Wade
A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E12 The Family Nobody Wanted
A true story, it follows a pastor and his wife through forties beginning with one biological child, Donny. But the upheaval of the war years results in a number of mixed raced children that the Doss family adopt until they have 12 children.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E13 Massacre at Sand Creek
An investigation into a massacre of Native Americans.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E14 Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses
Some racetrack Johnnies are talking between races when one wonders if you can hypnotize a horse into thinking it's a champion. The idea sets in motion a series of hilarious events.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E15 The Ninth Day
Events in the aftermath of World War Three.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E16 So Soon to Die
Down on his luck, war hero Lionel Amblin contemplates committing a murder.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E17 The Star Wagon
An inventor, pondering on how he might differently have arranged his life, invents a time machine and decides to make a few changes.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E18 The Greer Case
When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E19 The Miracle Worker
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E20 The Comedian
Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than his. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, whom Sammy has hired as his assistant but whom he really uses as his whipping boy.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E21 One Coat of White
A newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E22 The Blackwell Story
In the 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell determines to become a doctor.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E23 Invitation to a Gunfighter
A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter to drive him out of town. The townsfolk thought they had it bad until they handed the reigns over to the new terror. Pooling their money again, this time to hire Jeffers to get rid of Dancer.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E24 The Last Tycoon
A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E25 The Hostess with the Mostes'
The story of Perle Mesta, who became, first, a renowned society hostess, and then an ambassadress.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E26 Where's Charley?
Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E27 Clipper Ship
A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shipping magnate, and her growing love for a handsome young political prisoner who was scheduled to be put to death when the vessel reached its destination. Though unyielding at first, the ship's stern captain eventually helped the woman to make a clean getaway, with the condemned man in tow.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E28 If You Knew Elizabeth
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E29 Three Men on a Horse
A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E30 Four Women in Black
Four nuns, led by Sister Teresa, begin a treacherous journey across the Arizona desert in 1870. Their faith enables them to deal with the challenges of nature and the hostility of their fellow mankind.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E31 Child of Trouble
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E32 Homeward Borne
Just after World War Two ends, an American woman takes in a Polish war orphan boy, a concentration camp survivor. But conflict arises when her husband, a returning Air Force bomber pilot, hates the boy and his psychological baggage.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E33 The Helen Morgan Story
Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star of top rated shows and owning her own club. Also seen is her poor choices, such as her affair with a married man, her short marriage to a much younger man, a court fight over an adopted baby and her fatal descent into booze addiction.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E34 Winter Dreams
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E35 Circle of the Day
On her tenth wedding anniversary (which is also her daughter's birthday), a wife begins to suspect her husband of unfaithfulness.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E36 Without Incident
Captain Russell Bidlack, commander of a U.S. Cavalry unit in 1870, determines to complete a rescue mission through dangerous Indian territory. In the course of the mission, he rescues the wives of two slain traders and captures the Indian chief accused of the murders. When he returns to the fort, he's faced with a revolt among his own men.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E37 Clash by Night
Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E38 Ain't No Time for Glory
American soldiers must use stealth to take over a German command post in Normandy.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E39 The Fabulous Irishman
Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.
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