Schlitz Playhouse of Stars - Season 2
Season 2
Network
Episodes52
DatesSep 5, 1952 - Aug 28, 1953
Episodes
Season 2Episode 130 min
Homecoming
An ex-athlete can't face his own aging until he meets a woman who refuses to change.
Sep 5, 1952
Season 2Episode 230 min
The Marriage of Lit-Lit
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.
Sep 12, 1952
Season 2Episode 330 min
I Want to Be a Movie Star
A father complains about his daughter's movie magazines -- until he's discovered by a talent scout.
Sep 19, 1952
Season 2Episode 430 min
The Trial
A gold miner's greed makes him murder his partners.
Sep 26, 1952
Season 2Episode 530 min
Come What May
A man learns too late that a gun is a poor problem solver.
Oct 23, 1952
Season 2Episode 630 min
Trouble on Pier 12
When Captain Torras is accused of double murder and his life is threatened, he hires professional bodyguard Mike Grover to protect him.
Oct 10, 1952
Season 2Episode 730 min
This Plane for Hire
The adventure-romance of a Mexican Al Capone.
Oct 17, 1952
Season 2Episode 830 min
A Drawing Room
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.
Oct 24, 1952
Season 2Episode 930 min
Enchanted Evening
A family's happy life gets complicated when the kids have lost theater tickets that belonged to their dad's boss.
Oct 31, 1952
Season 2Episode 1030 min
Tango
A night club affair winds up in intrigue and mystery.
Nov 7, 1952
Season 2Episode 1130 min
The House of Pride
A young bride learns that not everything in the tropics is paradise.
Nov 14, 1952
Season 2Episode 1230 min
Pussyfootin' Rocks
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.
Nov 21, 1952
Season 2Episode 1330 min
Barrow Street
A jilted girl settles an old score in an unusual and poignant fashion.
Nov 28, 1952
Season 2Episode 1430 min
Mr. Thayer
On her first job, a girl meets a seedy and serene gentleman to whom the ordinary rules mean nothing.
Dec 5, 1952
Season 2Episode 1530 min
The White Cream Pitcher
After 20 years of marriage, a couple bent on divorce turn to their pastor to help them divide their possessions.
Dec 12, 1952
Season 2Episode 1630 min
The Playwright
A man juggles his life in pursuit of the things he wants to do.
Dec 19, 1952
Season 2Episode 1730 min
A String of Beads
A governess for a wealthy family becomes the object of affection from elderly Count Borselli.
Dec 26, 1952
Season 2Episode 1830 min
Jenny
A single mother, bored with her life, takes part in a play where she meets a widower.
Jan 22, 1953
Season 2Episode 1930 min
The Unopened Letter
A woman receives a letter from the man she loves but does not open it for thirty-five years.
Jan 9, 1953
Season 2Episode 2030 min
High on the Gallows
A Hollywood movie producer falls for an ambitious starlet and almost wrecks his career.
Jan 16, 1953
Season 2Episode 2130 min
Guardians of the Clock
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.
Jan 23, 1953
Season 2Episode 2230 min
Point of Honor
After a revolution sweeps his country, a police officer finds himself belonging to the wrong party.
Jan 30, 1953
Season 2Episode 2330 min
Manhattan Robin Hood
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.
Feb 6, 1953
Season 2Episode 2430 min
Mr. Greentree and Friend
A lonely college professor strikes up a friendship with Jackie, a lion who has run away from the circus.
Feb 13, 1953
Season 2Episode 2530 min
The Devil's Other Name
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.
Feb 20, 1953
Season 2Episode 2630 min
Girl of My Dreams
A married man falls in love with another woman at first glance.
Feb 27, 1953
Season 2Episode 2730 min
Big Jim's Boy
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.
Mar 6, 1953
Season 2Episode 2830 min
Nineteen Rue Marie
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.
Mar 13, 1953
Season 2Episode 2930 min
Parent's Weekend
A woman finds out that the key to youth is to act her age.
Mar 20, 1953
Season 2Episode 3030 min
Happy Ending
An author lives in Copenhagen with his wife and daughter. He refuses to alter his stories to happily-ever-after endings.
Mar 27, 1953
Season 2Episode 3130 min
The Governess
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.
Apr 3, 1953
Season 2Episode 3230 min
The Mirror
When a man's past is revealed his self-assurance is broken.
Apr 10, 1953
Season 2Episode 3330 min
Papa Goes to the Ball
A man takes his daughter to a school dance and puts on an exhibition that makes him the "beau" of the ball.
Apr 17, 1963
Season 2Episode 3430 min
Allen of Harper
A professor is saved from early retirement by a group of students.
Apr 24, 1953
Season 2Episode 3530 min
Medicine Woman
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.
May 1, 1953
Season 2Episode 3630 min
The Copper Ring
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.
May 8, 1953
Season 2Episode 3730 min
Vacation for Ginny
A mousy clerk at a travel agency wins a vacation and finds herself being pursued by no less than two suitors.
May 15, 1953
Season 2Episode 3830 min
Pursuit
A talented musician loses an arm in a hunting accident.
May 22, 1953
Season 2Episode 3930 min
The Girl That I Married
An Army major falls for a French woman and a Red Cross Worker.
May 29, 1953
Season 2Episode 4030 min
Twenty-Two Sycamore Road
A woman feels she is being taken for granted by her construction worker husband.
Jun 5, 1953
Season 2Episode 4130 min
The Widow Makes Three
A crime commission looks for three missing witnesses who can put the finger on a waterfront racketeer.
Jun 12, 1953
Season 2Episode 4230 min
Operation Riviera
Comedy about a GI on a ten day furlough on the isle of Capri.
Jun 19, 1953
Season 2Episode 4330 min
The Ledge
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.
Jun 26, 1953
Season 2Episode 4430 min
Richard and the Lion
A young husband feels neglected because his wife pays too much attention to her pets, so he gets one of this own - a lion.
Jul 3, 1953
Season 2Episode 4530 min
Storm Warnings
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.
Jul 10, 1953
Season 2Episode 4630 min
The Journey
A woman who is considerably younger than her husband is bored with their uneventful like in Costa Rica.
Jul 17, 1953
Season 2Episode 4730 min
Knave of Hearts
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.
Jul 24, 1953
Season 2Episode 4830 min
The Doctor Goes Home
A high society doctor finds great happiness in treating the poor.
Jul 31, 1953
Season 2Episode 4930 min
Simplon Express
An incompetent detective bumbles his way thru danger and intrigue
Aug 7, 1953
Season 2Episode 5030 min
Miracle in the Night
A wealthy woman is afraid to go out alone.
Aug 14, 1953
Season 2Episode 5130 min
Sheila
A man's attempts to collect his aunt's inheritance are foiled by a cat named Sheila.
Aug 21, 1953
Season 2Episode 5230 min
Two Lives Have I
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.
Aug 28, 1953
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