Playhouse 90: Season 1
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
Forbidden Area
Oct 4, 1956 · 90 min
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?
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Oct 11, 1956 · 90 min
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 wh
Sizeman and Son
Oct 18, 1956 · 90 min
The happy atmosphere in Mr. Sizeman's factory is disrupted by an argumentative newcomer - his son.
Rendezvous in Black
Oct 25, 1956 · 90 min
A woman is inexplicably killed on a street-corner. What has this to do with other deaths around the city?
The Country Husband
Nov 1, 1956 · 90 min
After a near-death experience, a businessman starts to re-think his life, and wonders about leaving his wife.
Heritage of Anger
Nov 15, 1956 · 90 min
A wealthy industrialist has trouble with his sons.
Eloise
Nov 22, 1956 · 90 min
It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.
Confession
Nov 29, 1956 · 90 min
When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.
Made in Heaven
Dec 6, 1956 · 90 min
When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.
Sincerely, Willis Wade
Dec 13, 1956 · 90 min
A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.
The Family Nobody Wanted
Dec 20, 1956 · 90 min
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 chil
Massacre at Sand Creek
Dec 27, 1956 · 90 min
An investigation into a massacre of Native Americans.
Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses
Jan 3, 1957 · 90 min
Some racetrack Johnnies are talking between races when one wonders if you can hypnotize a horse into thinking it's a champion. The idea sets in motion a series of hilarious events.
So Soon to Die
Jan 17, 1957 · 90 min
Down on his luck, war hero Lionel Amblin contemplates committing a murder.
The Star Wagon
Jan 24, 1957 · 90 min
An inventor, pondering on how he might differently have arranged his life, invents a time machine and decides to make a few changes.
The Greer Case
Jan 31, 1957 · 90 min
When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.
The Miracle Worker
Feb 7, 1957 · 90 min
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
The Comedian
Feb 14, 1957 · 90 min
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
One Coat of White
Feb 21, 1957 · 90 min
A newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.
The Blackwell Story
Feb 28, 1957 · 90 min
In the 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell determines to become a doctor.
Invitation to a Gunfighter
Mar 7, 1957 · 90 min
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
The Last Tycoon
Mar 14, 1957 · 90 min
A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.
The Hostess with the Mostes'
Mar 21, 1957 · 90 min
The story of Perle Mesta, who became, first, a renowned society hostess, and then an ambassadress.
Where's Charley?
Mar 28, 1957 · 90 min
Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".
Clipper Ship
Apr 4, 1957 · 90 min
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 was scheduled to be put to deat
Three Men on a Horse
Apr 18, 1957 · 90 min
A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
Four Women in Black
Apr 25, 1957 · 90 min
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
Homeward Borne
May 9, 1957 · 90 min
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
The Helen Morgan Story
May 16, 1957 · 90 min
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 poo
Circle of the Day
May 30, 1957 · 90 min
On her tenth wedding anniversary (which is also her daughter's birthday), a wife begins to suspect her husband of unfaithfulness.
Without Incident
Jun 6, 1957 · 90 min
Captain Russell Bidlack, commander of a U.S. Cavalry unit in 1870, determines to complete a rescue mission through dangerous Indian territory. In the course of the mission, he resc
Clash by Night
Jun 13, 1957 · 90 min
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
Ain't No Time for Glory
Jun 20, 1957 · 90 min
American soldiers must use stealth to take over a German command post in Normandy.
The Fabulous Irishman
Jun 27, 1957 · 90 min
Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.