Playhouse 90 - Season 1

Playhouse 90 - Season 1

Season 1

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DatesOct 4, 1956 - Jun 27, 1957
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Episodes

Forbidden Area
Season 1Episode 190 min

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?
Oct 4, 1956
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Season 1Episode 290 min

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.
Oct 11, 1956
Sizeman and Son
Season 1Episode 390 min

Sizeman and Son

The happy atmosphere in Mr. Sizeman's factory is disrupted by an argumentative newcomer - his son.
Oct 18, 1956
Rendezvous in Black
Season 1Episode 490 min

Rendezvous in Black

A woman is inexplicably killed on a street-corner. What has this to do with other deaths around the city?
Oct 25, 1956
The Country Husband
Season 1Episode 590 min

The Country Husband

After a near-death experience, a businessman starts to re-think his life, and wonders about leaving his wife.
Nov 1, 1956
The Big Slide
Season 1Episode 690 min

The Big Slide

A vaudeville comic becomes a silent film star.
Nov 8, 1956
Heritage of Anger
Season 1Episode 790 min

Heritage of Anger

A wealthy industrialist has trouble with his sons.
Nov 15, 1956
Eloise
Season 1Episode 890 min

Eloise

It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.
Nov 22, 1956
Confession
Season 1Episode 990 min

Confession

When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.
Nov 29, 1956
Made in Heaven
Season 1Episode 1090 min

Made in Heaven

When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.
Dec 6, 1956
Sincerely, Willis Wade
Season 1Episode 1190 min

Sincerely, Willis Wade

A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.
Dec 13, 1956
The Family Nobody Wanted
Season 1Episode 1290 min

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.
Dec 20, 1956
Massacre at Sand Creek
Season 1Episode 1390 min

Massacre at Sand Creek

An investigation into a massacre of Native Americans.
Dec 27, 1956
Snowshoes. A Comedy of People and Horses.
Season 1Episode 1490 min

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.
Jan 3, 1957
The Ninth Day
Season 1Episode 1590 min

The Ninth Day

Events in the aftermath of World War Three.
Jan 10, 1957
So Soon to Die
Season 1Episode 1690 min

So Soon to Die

Down on his luck, war hero Lionel Amblin contemplates committing a murder.
Jan 17, 1957
The Star Wagon
Season 1Episode 1790 min

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.
Jan 24, 1957
The Greer Case
Season 1Episode 1890 min

The Greer Case

When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.
Jan 31, 1957
The Miracle Worker
Season 1Episode 1990 min

The Miracle Worker

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
Feb 7, 1957
The Comedian
Season 1Episode 2090 min

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.
Feb 14, 1957
One Coat of White
Season 1Episode 2190 min

One Coat of White

A newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.
Feb 21, 1957
The Blackwell Story
Season 1Episode 2290 min

The Blackwell Story

In the 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell determines to become a doctor.
Feb 28, 1957
Invitation to a Gunfighter
Season 1Episode 2390 min

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.
Mar 7, 1957
The Last Tycoon
Season 1Episode 2490 min

The Last Tycoon

A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.
Mar 14, 1957
The Hostess with the Mostest
Season 1Episode 2590 min

The Hostess with the Mostest

The story of Perle Mesta, who became, first, a renowned society hostess, and then an ambassadress.
Mar 21, 1957
Charley's Aunt
Season 1Episode 2690 min

Charley's Aunt

Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".
Mar 28, 1957
Clipper Ship
Season 1Episode 2790 min

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.
Apr 4, 1957
If You Knew Elizabeth
Season 1Episode 2890 min

If You Knew Elizabeth

Apr 11, 1957
Three Men on a Horse
Season 1Episode 2990 min

Three Men on a Horse

A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
Apr 18, 1957
Four Women in Black
Season 1Episode 3090 min

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.
Apr 25, 1957
Child of Trouble
Season 1Episode 3190 min

Child of Trouble

May 2, 1957
Homeward Borne
Season 1Episode 3290 min

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.
May 9, 1957
The Helen Morgan Story
Season 1Episode 3390 min

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.
May 16, 1957
Winter Dreams
Season 1Episode 3490 min

Winter Dreams

May 23, 1957
Circle of the Day
Season 1Episode 3590 min

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.
May 30, 1957
Without Incident
Season 1Episode 3690 min

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.
Jun 6, 1957
Clash by Night
Season 1Episode 3790 min

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.
Jun 13, 1957
Ain't No Time for Glory
Season 1Episode 3890 min

Ain't No Time for Glory

American soldiers must use stealth to take over a German command post in Normandy.
Jun 20, 1957
The Fabulous Irishman
Season 1Episode 3990 min

The Fabulous Irishman

Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.
Jun 27, 1957

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