Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

October. 05,1951      
Rating:
7.7
Trailer Synopsis

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.

Seasons & Episode

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Seasons 8 : 1958

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Episode 1 - A Thing to Fight For
September. 26,1958

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

Episode 2 - The Best House in the Valley
October. 03,1958

Episode 3 - The Hasty Hanging
October. 10,1958

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

Episode 4 - The Four
October. 17,1958

Episode 5 - The Trouble With Ruth
October. 24,1958

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.

Episode 6 - The Connoisseur
October. 31,1958

Episode 7 - False Impression
November. 07,1958

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 in order to force the girl to overlook his physical handicap and marry him.

Episode 8 - A Game of Hate
November. 14,1958

Episode 9 - Last Edition
November. 21,1958

Newspaper editor Sheldon Black is being shoved aside for the publisher's slimy protégé, Dean Lowell, who passed Black's ideas off as his own. Before exiting, Black orders Lowell to cover the execution of a condemned man that Lowell was friends with in the war. If the reptile Lowell had been willing to soil his "war hero" reputation and testify, he could have saved the man from the electric chair. Instead, he remains quiet and turns in quite a news story.

Episode 10 - Coney Island Winter
November. 28,1958

Episode 11 - Third Son
December. 05,1958

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.

Episode 12 - Drive a Desert Road
December. 12,1958

Episode 13 - No Answer
December. 19,1958

A swindler who's known for separating rich widows from their money is the lead suspect in the murder of this latest "pigeon." His alibi seems pretty air tight: he was with the investigating cop when the murder supposedly took place.

Episode 14 - Small Wonder
December. 26,1958

Episode 15 - A Fistful of Love
January. 02,1959

Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.

Episode 16 - The Deadly Guest
January. 09,1959

Episode 17 - You Can't Win 'Em All
January. 16,1959

A professional football player refuses to admit that his playing days are over.

Episode 18 - And Practically Strangers
January. 30,1959

From childhood Alan Mitchell has always felt his abilities and achievements overshadowed by those of his younger brother Hugh. When Hugh requisitions Alan to work with him on a nuclear bomb project it puts an additional strain on their already tense relationship.

Episode 19 - Death Trap
February. 06,1959

Episode 20 - The Man Who Had No Friends
February. 13,1959

Champion Barry Brannon retires from a successful career as a fighter and goes into the restaurant business with his long-time manager, Charlie. When Barry proposes to his girl, he finds that she is in love with Charlie.

Episode 21 - Various Temptations
February. 20,1959

Episode 22 - On the Brink
February. 27,1959

Story of an intense hatred between father and son.

Episode 23 - Stand-In for Murder
March. 06,1959

Episode 24 - Ivy League
March. 13,1959

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

Episode 25 - Frederick
March. 20,1959

Episode 26 - The Salted Mine
March. 27,1959

In the Old West, a beautiful mine owner hires a detective to discover if she has been swindled when she bought a mine.

Episode 27 - The Dreamer
April. 03,1959

Episode 28 - This Will Do Nicely
April. 17,1959

Episode 29 - The Case of the Two Sisters
May. 01,1959

Episode 30 - Boy on a Fence
May. 15,1959

Episode 31 - Mirror, Mirror
May. 29,1959

Episode 32 - The Rumor
June. 05,1959

The guys of the billing department at Brittanica Insurance heard that one of them is about to be let go. After breaking up with his girlfriend-of-the-week, office playboy Eddie shoots off his mouth and says he's gonna quit and leave town. Of course, he reconsiders as soon as he meets another woman.

Episode 33 - The Miss and the Missiles
June. 12,1959

Episode 34 - Hostage
June. 19,1959

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

Episode 35 - Cowboy Five Seven
July. 17,1959

This dramatization was about a typical day in the lives of the men of SAC, was made by Stewart, a reserve officer in the air force, at Westover (Mass.) Air Base. No professional actors are used; officers and enlisted men and their families portray themselves.

Episode 36 - A Ballad to Die By
July. 31,1959

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.

Seasons 7 : 1957

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37 Episode

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Seasons 6 : 1956

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44 Episode

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Seasons 5 : 1955

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51 Episode

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Seasons 4 : 1954

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55 Episode

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Seasons 3 : 1953

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53 Episode

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Seasons 2 : 1952

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52 Episode

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Seasons 1 : 1951

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48 Episode

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