Playhouse 90: Season 4
Season 4 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 Playhouse 90 Season 3.
- 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.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Target for Three
Oct 1, 1959
Three conspirators plan the death of a South American head of state.
The Sounds of Eden
Oct 15, 1959
Three different viewpoints of the same story - a kidnapping and its aftermath.
Misalliance
Oct 29, 1959
A group of people gathered at a wealthy man's country home on a summer weekend engage in an exploration of their varied romantic entanglements.
The Hidden Image
Nov 12, 1959
A journalist out to expose political corruption finds his family is in danger.
The Grey Nurse Said Nothing
Nov 26, 1959
In Australia, a landowner is arrested for murder - but where's the body?
The Tunnel
Dec 10, 1959
In the Civil War, a tunnel is dug under Confederate lines, and filled with explosives.
The Silver Whistle
Dec 24, 1959
The old people's home is a pretty miserable place - until the arrival of the mysterious Mr. Erwenter.
John Brown's Raid
Jan 14, 1960
The story of abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.
A Dream of Treason
Jan 21, 1960
A State Department official is required to leak a confidential document - which may have terrible repercussions.
To the Sound of Trumpets
Feb 10, 1960
In Paris, a former soldier is alarmed when the girl he has fallen in love with demonstrates a rather naïve and romanticized attitude to war.
The Cruel Day
Feb 24, 1960
Violence and brutality greet a French Army captain when he arrives in Algeria to assume command of a remote outpost. He is appalled by the savage massacre of an Algerian family by
Tomorrow
Mar 7, 1960
Slow witted, and tired, Fentry leads a lonely life of grinding poverty in his sharecropper's shack until a sick, pregnant woman escaping her abusive husband comes there. He takes h
The Hiding Place
Mar 22, 1960
In the last days of World War II, two English airmen are captured by an ordinary German citizen, who, instead of handing them over to the authorities, keeps them prisoner in his ce
Alas, Babylon
Apr 3, 1960
Americans try to cope with the aftermath of a nuclear catastrophe.
Journey to the Day
Apr 22, 1960
Patients at a mental hospital meet for a group therapy session.
The Shape of the River
May 2, 1960
Determined to pay off his debts, Mark Twain sets off on a lecture tour.
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
May 16, 1960
In the Warsaw ghetto, a Jewish man seeks revenge for the rape of his sister by a German soldier.