Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Season 1
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Season 1 Full Episode Guide
A big, ugly man discovers romance.
A husband and wife team up to do a little detective work and find themselves in the middle of a heist.
A psychiatrist is bamboozled by two patients, each claiming the other wants to kill someone.
A nightclub entertainer meets and marries a millionaire.
A cynic is caught in the trap of his effort to be on both sides of the French Revolution.
The widowed father of four boys must deal with one of them who is getting romantic ideas.
A group of teenagers construct a rocket to travel into space.
A reclusive woman's life is disrupted when her greedy nephew visits.
A man's niece complicates a rapport he has with monsters.
An insurance investigator's secretary uses a mink coat as bait to help her boss trap jewel thieves.
A traveling salesman fills in for a friend on a date and has his life changed.
A newspaper reporter puts her life on the line to rescue a young girl being held captive by her gangster boyfriend.
Story of China Smith, a disreputable, disheveled Irishman making his living on the lucrative Singapore rackets.
A department-story employee is implicated in the death of a customer.
A chambermaid becomes distraught when her daughter goes missing, and a businessman falls for the maid during their search for the daughter.
A woman dreams of becoming a successful musical star, but her level-headed boyfriend brings her back down to Earth.
Outlaw Monte Clovis comes to Kingdale to settle some business. He's come to claim his woman, Mary, and the child she was carrying when he was sent to the hoosegow. Monte wants a shoot out with his former best friend, Cal, who married to Mary and has since "gone straight." Meanwhile, Monte's old gang rides into town to hold up the bank.
A doctor becomes engaged to a socialite and problems arise when his pretty nurse complicates matters.
After the escape of three convicts, a woman home alone fears they might harm her.
Members of Steamer were attacked by Hamadan, a crazy musician, and blown away by magic wind.
A widow supports her family through painting and ceramics.
A doctor devotes her life to finding a serum to battle a disease sweeping Korea, the country that claimed her husband and son.
The life of artist Grandma Moses who began her career in her 70's, capturing rural scenes of life and celebrations in upstate New York.
A pianist must choose between his music career and love.
Grandpa has a portrait of Teddy Roosevelt hanging in his home and is overwhelmed when the real Mr. Roosevelt comes to visit.
A musician is torn between his music and the love of a woman.
A widowed older farmer falls in love with the much younger woman he hires.
Architect Hayden Chart, recovering from the death of his wife, begins anew overseas.
A prize fighter continues to box to pay his debts.
The troubled life of Mary Todd Lincoln and her influence on her husband.
A millionaire leaves his riches to his spinster sister, and the town's corrupt politicians try to gain control of the estate.
An Italian girl helps five American POWs.
A wealthy woman finds herself engaged to two suitors at the same time.
When Claggart is found murdered after making false accusations of mutiny against Billy Budd, it leads to Billy's court-martial and trial.
In order to cut even more corners, the penny-pinching owner of a hotel also plays maid.
A man marries a woman who has lost her voice; unfortunately, when her voice returns she doesn't shut up.
A man having been rejected by a society girl ventures West, upon his success out West he returns and plots revenge against another upper class family.
Baro, a fearless young member of the underground network helps the persecuted flee.
A woman finds romance at a remote wireless station in Nova Scotia.
Two employees are dead at a post office hold-up. There is one survivor, but the press paints him as a coward.
A man wishes to write the great American novel, but a fatal illness changes his life's direction
A woman is assigned the job of ghost-writing the memoirs of Aimee Durant, a flamboyant Wild West gal.
A man abandons his dream of Presidency to work at saving the Whig party.
An old woman is ignored by her family, that is until she wins a sizable amount of money.
A woman falls in love with the Doctor she meets at the train station after she gets a cinder in her eye
A society woman from Washington, D.C. joins the Army Corp.
A US Customs Officer breaks up a narcotics smuggling ring.
A middle-aged woman begins a romance with a car-racing playboy.
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