• 1956
  • 1h 30m
Playhouse 90

Summary Of the many anthology series, this is considered the most ambitious with outstanding talent in front of the camera. Attracting top ranked directors and scripts, it was often filmed live including the entire first season. View more details

  • 1956
  • 1h 30m

Playhouse 90

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Charles Bickford Paul Lambert Richard Joy Helen Kleeb

All cast & crew

8.3

Details

Genres : Comedy Mystery Crime Drama Romance War

Release date : Oct 3, 1956

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : CBS Television City - 7800 Beverly Boulevard, Fairfax, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : CBS Screen Gems Television Filmaster Productions

Summary Of the many anthology series, this is considered the most ambitious with outstanding talent in front of the camera. Attracting top ranked directors and scripts, it was often filmed live including the entire first season. View more details

Details

Genres : Comedy Mystery Crime Drama Romance War

Release date : Oct 3, 1956

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : CBS Television City - 7800 Beverly Boulevard, Fairfax, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : CBS Screen Gems Television Filmaster Productions

Photos

Hope Lange and Don Murray in Playhouse 90 (1956) Jackie Coogan in Playhouse 90 (1956) Phyllis Thaxter in Playhouse 90 (1956) Charlton Heston and Hope Lange in Playhouse 90 (1956) Victor Jory in Playhouse 90 (1956) Barbara Rush at an event for Playhouse 90 (1956) Barbara Rush at an event for Playhouse 90 (1956)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 03, 1956
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?
Episode 2 • Oct 10, 1956
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.
Episode 3 • Oct 17, 1956
Sizeman and Son
Morris Sizeman is a successful garment manufacturer in New York City. His son, Harold Sizeman, returns from the Korean War with new ideas about human rights, believing that the quest for wealth is the cause of the world's difficulties.
Episode 4 • Oct 24, 1956
Rendezvous in Black
Johnny Marr's fiancee is killed by a whiskey bottle thrown from an airplane. Marr seeks revenge by killing the loved ones of the passengers on the flight.
Episode 5 • Oct 31, 1956
The Country Husband
After a car crash and the arrival of a beautiful babysitter, a young businessman, William Wiley, considers leaving his wife for the babysitter.
Episode 6 • Nov 07, 1956
The Big Slide
A down-and-out vaudeville comedian, Buddy McCoy, becomes a successful silent movie star, but experiences tragedy in his personal life. May Marley is an alcoholic friend who Buddy tries to help.
Episode 7 • Nov 14, 1956
Heritage of Anger
Industrialist Eddie Hanneman learns that his sons do not wish to take over the business that he has built. Son Johnny aspires to be a jet pilot. However, his sales manager, Paul Fletcher, does wish to take over the business.
Episode 8 • Nov 21, 1956
Eloise
It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.
Episode 9 • Nov 28, 1956
Confession
When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.
Episode 10 • Dec 05, 1956
Made in Heaven
When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.
Episode 11 • Dec 12, 1956
Sincerely, Willis Wade
A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.
Episode 12 • Dec 19, 1956
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.
Episode 13 • Dec 26, 1956
Massacre at Sand Creek
The story of the Sand Creek massacre, an 1864 massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army.
Episode 14 • Jan 02, 1957
Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses
Some racetrack Johnnies are talking between races when one wonders if you can hynotize a horse into thinking it's a champion. The idea sets in motion a series of hilarious events.
Episode 15 • Jan 09, 1957
The Ninth Day
After World War III a small group of people live in the desert. A young man tries to run away, hoping to find other communities of survivors, but is told by the elders that he must stay and marry the group's only young woman.
Episode 16 • Jan 16, 1957
So Soon to Die
An unemployed actor, Lionel Amblin, is hired to kill a young girl before she reaches her 25th birthday. He becomes curious to know why someone would want her dead, and begins an investigation of the girl and her friends.
Episode 17 • Jan 23, 1957
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.
Episode 18 • Jan 30, 1957
The Greer Case
When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.
Episode 19 • Feb 06, 1957
The Miracle Worker
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
Episode 20 • Feb 13, 1957
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.
Episode 21 • Feb 20, 1957
One Coat of White
A newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.
Episode 22 • Feb 27, 1957
The Blackwell Story
In the 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell determines to become a doctor.
Episode 23 • Mar 06, 1957
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.
Episode 24 • Mar 13, 1957
The Last Tycoon
A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.
Episode 25 • Mar 20, 1957
The Hostess with the Mostes'
The story of Perle Mesta, who became, first, a renowned society hostess, and then an ambassadress.
Episode 26 • Mar 27, 1957
Where's Charley?
Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".
Episode 27 • Apr 03, 1957
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 is scheduled to be put to death when the vessel reaches its destination.
Episode 28 • Apr 10, 1957
If You Knew Elizabeth
Episode 29 • Apr 17, 1957
Three Men on a Horse
A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
Episode 30 • Apr 24, 1957
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.
Episode 31 • May 01, 1957
Child of Trouble
Episode 32 • May 08, 1957
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.
Episode 33 • May 15, 1957
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.
Episode 34 • May 22, 1957
Winter Dreams
A successful young man announces his recent engagement, only to be forced to reconsider his future following the sudden reappearance of a girl he has loved for years.
Episode 35 • May 29, 1957
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.
Episode 36 • Jun 05, 1957
Without Incident
The captain of a U.S. Cavalry unit rescues two wives of slain traders who were being held hostage by hostile Native Americans but then is faced with a mutiny among his own men.
Episode 37 • Jun 12, 1957
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.
Episode 38 • Jun 19, 1957
Ain't No Time for Glory
American soldiers must use stealth to take over a German command post in Normandy.
Episode 39 • Jun 26, 1957
The Fabulous Irishman
Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.

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