CBS Playhouse: Season 3

3 episodes Premiered Oct 7, 1969

Previously on CBS Playhouse

Season 3 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 2.
⚡ 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 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (2): Crucial lore & season climaxes

Core (1): Character development & subplots

Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler

S3·E1 Mytharc

Appalacian Autumn

Oct 7, 1969

In the Appalachian town of Harper's Gap, West Virginia, the mines are closed, the community on welfare, but not for the Harper family. Rome steals coal from the closed, dangerous m

S3·E2 Core

Sadbird

Dec 1, 1969

Alex Miller, perilously close to 30, has the kind of square respectability he's always shunned. Due to the fizzure of an underground-art scheme, Alex is in debt to a loan shark to

S3·E3 Mytharc

The Day Before Sunday

Feb 10, 1970

Annamae Whiteley is a brash and fortyish department-store executive from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She's flying East to her niece's prep school graduation and a reunion with her family. On