Screen Director's Playhouse: Season 1
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
Meet The Governor
Oct 5, 1955 · 30 min
A "bumpkin-type" lawyer runs for governor until the opposition digs into his past.
Day is Done
Oct 12, 1955 · 30 min
During the catastrophic 1951 retreat of American troops in Korea, a recruit finds a Chinese bugle. His sargeant then attempts to use it to instill the fighting spirit in his men.
Midsummer Daydream
Oct 19, 1955 · 30 min
A young man who wants desperately to get married finds "The Girl" in, of all places, a marriage license bureau. But the happy ending is threatened by the appearance of a suave, smo
Arroyo
Oct 26, 1955 · 30 min
A small New Mexican town enjoys a reasonably peaceful existence under the rule of self-appointed judge Lamar Kendall. This state of affairs is disrupted by the appearance of a woun
Want ad Wedding
Nov 2, 1955 · 30 min
A young naval officer, alone in a strange city, is planning to be married. Having no friends in town, he places an ad in the newspaper advertising for wedding guests.
The Life of Vernon Hathaway
Nov 9, 1955 · 30 min
A meek little watch repairman daydreams himself into exciting adventures. When his alter ego takes over, he begins living his dreams in real life.
The Final Tribute
Nov 16, 1955 · 30 min
A nurse in a small-town doctor's office protests the attitude of the new young physician. His cold, impersonal treatment of patients is exactly opposite that of the kindly and gent
The Brush Roper
Nov 23, 1955 · 30 min
Grandpa Atkins tries to live up to his tales of former glory as a cowpoke. He learns a dangerous bull is at large in the brush, saddles up, and goes after him with his rope.
Tom and Jerry
Nov 30, 1955 · 30 min
It's Christmas Eve at the Macy house. Tom Macy plays Santa for he and wife Jerry's little boy, Tommy. It is obvious that Jerry is not happy with her husband Tom. Jerry knows Tom ha
Rookie of the Year
Dec 7, 1955 · 30 min
A small-town newspaper sports writer harbors an ambition to work for a big city daily. He sees his chance to achieve his goal while attending the World Series: one of the rookies s
Lincoln's Doctor's Dog
Dec 14, 1955 · 30 min
Discouraged and saddened by the War Between the States, President Lincoln is cheered by the gift of a puppy from his physician.
The Silent Partner
Dec 21, 1955 · 30 min
Watching the TV broadcast of the Academy Awards presentation, a faded actress realizes that the patron at another table in the restaurant was once a well-known comic. Her happy dis
Titanic Incident
Dec 28, 1955 · 30 min
A cardsharp and his wife aboard the Titanic on its fateful last voyage pick a wealthy Britisher as their pigeon. The cardsharp sets up the Britisher for a climactic card session, b
Hot Cargo
Jan 4, 1956 · 30 min
A chorus girl, stranded in a waterfront town in the Orient, is befriended by the skipper of a freighter. She marries the skipper and then meets a good-looking young harbor policema
It's Always Sunday
Jan 11, 1956 · 30 min
A kindly minister who believes in doing good for the unfortunate befriends a pair of itinerants who arrive in town.
Number Five Checked Out
Jan 18, 1956 · 30 min
A young deaf woman is left alone to look after the resort cabins owned by her father. Two dangerous bank robbers move in, using the secluded spot as a temporary hideout.
Prima Donna
Feb 1, 1956 · 30 min
A philanthropic concert artist takes an interest in a 13-year-old newsboy with an outstanding singing voice. She runs into difficulties when the boy also shows a marked preference
Cry Justice
Feb 15, 1956 · 30 min
Bitter because his law partner married the woman he loved, a man plots his own disappearance, making it appear he has been murdered by his partner. Ten years later, the partner is
Affair in Sumatra
Feb 22, 1956 · 30 min
A beautiful half-caste girl is torn between love for her people and love for a man.
One Against Many
Mar 7, 1956 · 30 min
A scientist devoted to saving lives is faced with a difficult decision: he may be forced to kill in order to prevent a state-wide livestock epidemic.
It's a Most Unusual Day
Mar 14, 1956 · 30 min
A married couple take in a night club show starring Jimmy McHugh, and are prompted by his melodies to relive their past.
The Sword Of Villon
Apr 4, 1956 · 30 min
The swashbuckling poet Francois Villon fights for love and liberty while preventing the assassination of the King of France by a scheming count and countess.
Markheim
Apr 11, 1956 · 30 min
Late on Christmas Day, a man coaxes an antiques shopkeeper to let him in under the pretense of needing a gift for his fiancée, but it is soon clear he wants something else. To his
Claire
Apr 25, 1956 · 30 min
A young doctor brings his second wife to his lakeside home to live. She is taunted by the presence of his pet cat, which serves to remind her that because she couldn't swim, she st
A Ticket For Thaddeus
May 9, 1956 · 30 min
A humble refugee from war-torn Poland has never been able to shed his fear of anyone in uniform. When the immigrant is involved in a minor traffic altercation, he tries to prove to
The Dream
May 16, 1956 · 30 min
In France in 1887 an impressionable youth gives his mother cause for alarm. The young man has a recurrent dream in which he searches for his dead father. The mother is further upse
What Day is it?
Jun 6, 1956 · 30 min
A husband and wife dance team bicker backstage when the husband can't remember what special date his wife is observing. Between song and dance numbers, the arguments escalate until
Every Man Had Two Wives
Jun 13, 1956 · 30 min
In the spring, when one gentleman's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of a former love, his wife decides to take drastic action. She and hubby make a trip back to the old home town,
Partners
Jul 4, 1956 · 30 min
A rodeo star befriends an orphan boy who yearns to compete.
White Corridors
Jul 11, 1956 · 30 min
An American tourist in London accompanies a friend to the hospital for an emergency operation. At the hospital, she claims she has witnessed a murder, but the doctors think she is
The Carroll Formula
Jul 18, 1956 · 30 min
A college professor stumbled across a fantastic formula for reducing the size of things in the unpublished mathematical works of C.L. Dodgson, who, as Lewis Carroll, wrote Alice in
Apples on the Lilac Tree
Jul 25, 1956 · 30 min
A couple's peculiar marital arrangement is the talk of the town. It seems that the husband loves to do the housework, while his wife spends the day at the office.
Bitter Waters
Aug 1, 1956 · 30 min
In a fashionable German resort at the turn of the century, a wealthy young American touring Europe with his uncle meets a woman and her widowed mother. A romance develops between t
The Day I met Caruso
Sep 5, 1956 · 30 min
On a train between Boston and New York, a ten-year-old Quaker girl meets Enrico Caruso. She takes him to task for his worldliness and extravagances, but is eventually won over by h
High Air
Sep 12, 1956 · 30 min
Long separated, a river-tunnel foreman and his son come face to face during an under-river disaster which almost takes their lives.