Four Star Playhouse - Season 3
Season 3
Network
DatesSep 30, 1954 - Jun 30, 1955
Episodes
Season 3Episode 130 min
Man in the Cellar
A little girl who regularly talks to imaginary friends grows frustrated when her parents refuse to believe that there is a real man in the cellar.
Sep 30, 1954
Season 3Episode 230 min
Never Explain
A novice social worker is dispatched to the home of a widower who refuses to send his children to school.
Oct 7, 1954
Season 3Episode 330 min
Interlude
A young woman from a wealthy family is graduating from an exclusive school with neither her parents nor close friends attending. In her lonliness, she becomes infatuated with an older man, a divorced newspaper reporter.
Oct 14, 1954
Season 3Episode 430 min
The Wallet
A French waiter with more pride than money will not stand for his sickly wife to be admitted to a free public hospital. When a wealthy customer leaves behind a wallet containing thousands of dollars, the server takes it to upgrade his wife's medical care. Their son also becomes a thief to pay the bills.
Oct 21, 1954
Season 3Episode 530 min
The Adolescent
A school teacher on the disciplinery board, finds herself investigating her nephew's misconduct.
Oct 28, 1954
Season 3Episode 630 min
The Contest
Dick Powell portrays a detective whose fiancée and brother are the chief suspects in a murder case he's investigating, in "The Contest," presented on "Parker Four Star Playhouse" at 9:30 p.m. Both the detective's fiancée, played by Marguerite Chapman, and his brother, played by Douglas Dick, have strong motives for committing the murder. Powell finds his fiancée's glove at the scene of the murder and realizes she had been there. Witnesses saw a woman leave the scene immediately after the shots were fired. The detective knows his fiancée either committed the murder or saw the person who did it.
Nov 4, 1954
Season 3Episode 730 min
Vote Of Confidence
A con man, recently released from prison, attempts to recoup his fortunes by convincing an heiress' secretary that he needs funds to run an orphanage.
Nov 11, 1954
Season 3Episode 830 min
My Own Dear Dragon
A successful playwright does his best to avoid reading the script written by his young new wife. She can't understand why he refuses to encourage her. At a party celebrating his 25th year in the theatre, he reveals the incident from his past that causes him to discourage her writing.
Nov 18, 1954
Season 3Episode 930 min
Marked Down
A woman who works at a fancy dress shop is determined to meet and marry the millionaire whose office is next door. Once she is asked out, she realizes that money doesn't make a person. Meanwhile, a young boy is buying a dress on layaway for his mother's birthday, but there's more to his story.
Nov 25, 1954
Season 3Episode 1030 min
Meet A Lonely Man
An attractive young lady mistakes a lonely hotel desk clerk for a Texas oil millionaire she'd once met. Loving the attention she's lavishing on him, he plays along...until his big spending catches up with him.
Dec 2, 1954
Season 3Episode 1130 min
Bourbon Street
A musician returns to New Orleans after breaking into the bigtime. Though his ex-wife deserted him, he is bent on revenge after receiving an anonymous letter telling him she committed suicide after being mistreated by her lover.
Dec 9, 1954
Season 3Episode 1230 min
A Championship Affair
A renowned professional bridge champion (Boyer) returns to (openly) woo his long lost, but married, love (Miles). In circuitous fashion, his unselfish love leads him to (secretly) help her bridge-addicted husband (Ross Elliott) choose to finally gain success in life.
Dec 16, 1954
Season 3Episode 1330 min
The Answer
A cynical Hollywood writer returns to his hometown. At a bar he meets a drunken, disillusioned playwright. The writer challenges the playwright to relate his play, which he does, holding the audience rapt in his gripping recital.
Dec 23, 1954
Season 3Episode 1430 min
Go Ahead And Jump
Eddie, a cab driver, picks up a sad looking fare and brings him to a hotel where he witnesses the man being humiliated by his ex-wife. When the man asks to be taken to the middle of the biggest bridge, Eddie uses some every day, hard-nosed psychology, and a little lie, to make the man see that life is worth living.
Dec 30, 1954
Season 3Episode 1530 min
A Bag Of Oranges
Believing her husband innocent of the crime he is to be executed for, his wife takes up a vigil the night of the scheduled execution at a nearby café. A curious reporter wonders about the bag of oranges she carries with her.
Jan 6, 1955
Season 3Episode 1630 min
Stuffed Shirt
A seemingly cuckolded working-class husband (Boyer), in tropical setting, must resort to a life-risking ruse (in court) to rid himself of his bigamous, greedy and potentially blackmailing wife who would not otherwise reveal her own lack of virtuosity.
Jan 11, 1955
Season 3Episode 1730 min
Breakfast in Bed
An artist is enticed away from his lucrative commercial advertising contracts by a young model who shows obvious disappointment that he is not striving to achieve his potential as a creative artist.
Jan 20, 1955
Season 3Episode 1830 min
The Good Sister
A nun in German orphanage during World War II will is determined to marry her oldest orphan to an American serviceman in order to secure a future for her.
Jan 27, 1955
Season 3Episode 1930 min
A Kiss for Mr. Lincoln
A young woman teaches her timid husband some things about love when he tries to show her the importance of supporting Abraham Lincoln for the Presidency.
Feb 3, 1955
Season 3Episode 2030 min
Fair Trial
Chicago television newsman Dave Sheridan (Dick Powell) arrives in a small Ohio town, Hadenville, where Richard Fulton has just been lynched. The chief of police (Edward R. Platt) tells Sheridan he confessed to killing sweet old Mrs. Winslow and the town went wild. Sheridan plans on doing a piece exposing how sick the town is. Hotel clerk Carol (Jean Howell) wants him to give the town a "fair trial".
Feb 10, 1955
Season 3Episode 2130 min
The Wild Bunch
After a charmer sweeps a pretty widow off her feet and marries her in haste, she confesses that she has money and three children. He has no problem with the money, but the thought of instant fatherhood gives him pause.
Feb 17, 1955
Season 3Episode 2230 min
Tusitala
The true story of Robert Louis Stevenson's stay on the island of Tahiti. The islanders have come to revere him as Tusitala-Teller of Tales. They believe he is magical and powerful. When the two opposing chiefs of the island plan war against one another out of petty jealousy, Tusitala uses his wits to convince both chiefs to make peace and save the tranquility of the island.
Feb 24, 1955
Season 3Episode 2330 min
The Returning
An American professor in Japan falls in love with a half-breed former student in 1941. He is fired for violating school policy, so he returns to America, resolved to bring his intended to America once settled. World War II intervenes.
Mar 3, 1955
Season 3Episode 2430 min
Eddie`s Place
Ellen is released from a punitive work farm without means, but Eddie befriends her and gives her a job at his restaurant. She wants to go straight, but Eddie pressures her to cover for some of his own shady activities.
Mar 10, 1955
Season 3Episode 2530 min
Henry And The Psychopathic Horse
After falling for a medical student, a New York City psychiatrist travels to her family ranch to announce their engagement. Her father hates city slickers and expect her to marry a rancher to run the estate. To win his woman's hand, Henry's challenged to ride an unbroken stallion known as a "killer." He puts his professional skills to work on the horse.
Mar 17, 1955
Season 3Episode 2630 min
Night At Lark Cottage
A woman with no companion other than her young daughter knows that an escaped convict is on his way to kill her.
Mar 24, 1955
Season 3Episode 2730 min
The Girl On The Bridge
After drawing and painting an unknown young woman he met on a bridge near his vacation retreat, an artist (Dick Powell) is desperate to find her again when the painting begins calling to him.
Mar 31, 1955
Season 3Episode 2830 min
The Collar
The night before the military plans to massacre a warring tribe of Blackfoot Indians, an imprisoned and tortured priest comes out from the tribe to ask for mercy.
Apr 7, 1955
Season 3Episode 2930 min
Madeira, Madeira
The untimely death of his artist friend causes a failing writer to visit the widow to pay his condolences and pursue suspicions about her. When he arrives, the cheerful widow presents him with an offer he finds both puzzling and attractive. His acceptance leads him to the discovery of the fate of his friend.
Apr 14, 1955
Season 3Episode 3030 min
With All My Heart
An overweight woman watches her doctor boyfriend marry someone else.
Apr 21, 1955
Season 3Episode 3130 min
The House Always Wins
Willie Dante, the tough but suave owner of a nightclub and illegal back room casino. One evening, Willie sees an old flame with a man and another couple, The woman, still caring for Willie, tells him that the people she's with are planning to rob his casino. Willie outwits them and keeps his former love from being arrested.
Apr 28, 1955
Season 3Episode 3230 min
Uncle Fred Flits By
Uncle Fred descends upon a suburban home, completely disrupts the lives of the family by his eccentric behaviour, and brings two young lovers together. His unwilling accomplice, and a horrified spectator of this chaos, is his nephew, Pongo.
May 5, 1955
Season 3Episode 3330 min
Alias Mr. Hepp
Frank Hepp has made his career charming rich, unhappy women out of their fortunes. His parole officer orders him avoid all women, but he can't help himself when a single wealthy woman moves in next door. Mr. Hepp's plan to fleece his new victim runs afoul when he actually falls for her.
May 12, 1955
Season 3Episode 3430 min
Trudy
A young woman is planning her wedding to a groom whom no one believes exists outside her own wishful dreams.
May 26, 1955
Season 3Episode 3530 min
Broken Journey
Two cops transporting prisoner Cookie decide on a layover in the city of Westover, temporarily placing Cookie in the local jail while they freshen up elsewhere. Cookie devises a plot to snooker the locals into releasing him.
Jun 2, 1955
Season 3Episode 3630 min
The Executioner
A complex web of deception is revealed during the investigation of the assassination of a police official. In a foreign country during the Cold War, an American doctor is accused to being a spy and targeted for murder, but the wrong man is killed. But, perhaps, the right man died after all.
Jun 9, 1955
Season 3Episode 3730 min
The Frightened Woman
A woman's loneliness leads her to re-experience her long repressed (20-year old) pain-associated memories (albeit benign themselves). The mystery: is she (Oberon) insane (hallucinations or phantasms?), will her busy businessman husband (Stevens) rediscover his more nurturing side (in other words will he ever finally land the account), and will a therapist (Beaumont) help bring it all together for the better and for us to make good sense of it?
Jun 23, 1955
Season 3Episode 3830 min
Award
Valerie is a world famous movie actress who just bombed on her first attempt at live acting on Broadway. She goes to Ben, renowned acting instructor, to teach her how to be a live actress. He refuses unless she can succeed at a challenge.
Jun 30, 1955
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