CBS Playhouse: Season 2

4 episodes Premiered Oct 15, 1968

Previously on CBS Playhouse

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of CBS Playhouse Season 1.
⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.

Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (2): Crucial lore & season climaxes

Core (2): Character development & subplots

Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler

S2·E1 Mytharc

The People Next Door

Oct 15, 1968

Comfortable New York suburbanites Arthur and Gerrie Mason discover one night that their seemingly perfect 16-year-old daughter Maxie has been using LSD. Arthur immediately suspects

S2·E2 Core

Saturday Adoption

Dec 4, 1968

Rich Meridan is white, well-to-do and off to law school so he can make more money. Macy Stander is Black, a cut above poverty and young enough to dream and hope for a better life.

S2·E3 Core

The Experiment

Feb 25, 1969

Wilson Evans is a free-spirited young scientist who compromises his liberal views to accept a lucrative job with a high-tech chemical corporation.

S2·E4 Mytharc

Shadow Game

May 7, 1969

The employees in a high-powered New York business office are stranded on the 50th floor when the power fails during the 1965 East Coast blackout. A small party is begun, and truths