Schlitz Playhouse of Stars - Season 8

Season 8

Episodes

Portrait of a Legend
A veteran detective teams with a young plainclothesman to hunt down a psycho killer.

Kinsman
The story of a man's desperate search for his only child, a young son, now thirteen, he hasn't seen for ten years.
He returns from prison to find that his wife left their son at a mission when she remarried.

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

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

The Trouble with Ruth
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.

False Impression
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 and so force the girl to overlook his physical handicap and marry him.

The Last Edition
Sheldon Black is training Dean Lowell for the position of managing editor of the Morning Chronicle. He learns that a wartime friend of Lowell's is condemned to die, but that Lowell has turned a deaf ear to the man's pleas for help. Puzzled, Black orders Lowell to write a story about the condemned man.

Third Son
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.

No Answer
Once again panic-stricken Maggie Athenson calls the police for protection from Cassidy, a suave swindler who she says has threatened her life.
Even though Maggie's previous pleas had been false alarms, policemen Howell and Brophy decide to follow through.

A Fistful of Love
A prizefighter knows no other trade and is given his most merciless beating. The people he meets in a nightmarish night are as bewildered as he but unaware of his inner emotional struggle regarding his young son.

You Can't Win 'em All
A professional football player refuses to admit that his playing days are over.

And Practically Strangers
Alan Mitchell is assigned to work with his brother Hugh on a nuclear bomb project for the Army, but there is hostility between the two because of Alan's feeling that he always had to take a back seat to his younger brother.

The Man Who Had No Friends
Champion Barry Brannon retires from a successful career as a fighter and goes into the restaurant business with his long-time manager, Charlie Spendlove. When Barry proposes to his girl, he finds that she is in love with Charlie.

On the Brink
Story of an intense hatred between father and son.

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

The Salted Mine
Alice Batson hires Slade, a private detective to determine whether she has been swindled in her purchase of a worthless mine.

The Rumor
A group of office workers hears that one of them has to be fired, Eddie decides to make the noble sacrifice and quit.

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

Cowboy Five Seven
Early one morning, Major Gerald McKay of the Strategic Air Command says goodbye to his wife and four children as he prepares to begin a routine day's work as part of America's air-defense system. He promises his wife that he will be home in time to attend his daughter's piano recital.

A Balled to Die by
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.
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