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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Season 5

September. 30,1955
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7.7
| Drama Comedy

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 5 Full Episode Guide

Episode 51 - Top Secret
First Aired: September. 21,1956

A man comes under close scrutiny after documents of value disappear

Episode 50 - Midnight Kill
First Aired: September. 14,1956

Joe Benson, policeman turner lawyer, is running for the city council. When a policeman is killed, Joe thinks local gangsters planned the murder.

Episode 49 - The Press Agent
First Aired: September. 07,1956

Show biz agent Danny Scott is taking a bigger cut from his client then he should.

Episode 48 - I'll Wait for You
First Aired: August. 31,1956

A fight over his girlfriend results in a jail term for Joe Santorelli. When he is released, after a year's imprisonment, he is filled with hate for the whole human race.

Episode 47 - Strange Defense
First Aired: August. 24,1956

A man must decide whether a woman who is accused of murder is his supposedly deceased wife or her twin sister.

Episode 46 - Boling Point
First Aired: August. 17,1956

A hard-hitting crime reporter discovers that his wife once worked for a gambling ring.

Episode 45 - Repercussion
First Aired: August. 10,1956

A hard-hitting crime reporter discovers that his wife once worked for a gambling ring.

Episode 44 - Flowers for Jenny
First Aired: August. 03,1956

A woman tells her man she'll marry him, if he can prove that he cares more for her than for fighting. But as he sets out to pick up the wedding bouquet, he becomes involved with train robbers.

Episode 43 - Dara
First Aired: July. 27,1956

An actress is informed that her husband was killed in a plane crash, but he suddenly returns. And when he does, he accuses her of sabotaging the plane.

Episode 42 - The Bankmouse
First Aired: July. 20,1956

An aging Finnish lumberjack who with his whole family wiped out in one night, turns his devotion toward a horse that was responsible for the accident since he needs someone to love.

Episode 41 - The Happy Sun
First Aired: July. 13,1956

When all of an aging Finnish lumberjack's family is wiped out in one night, he turns his devotion toward a horse that was responsible for the accident, because he needs someone to love.

Episode 40 - The Mechanical Cook
First Aired: July. 06,1956

Sgt. Childs wants to be a cook in the Air Force, but he keeps getting assigned duties like Hangar Chief. He gets himself assigned to a general's flight so he can show off his kitchen skills, but the general's dietitian has other ideas.

Episode 39 - Weapon of Courage
First Aired: June. 29,1956

A disabled war veteran who has taken a job as a bank teller feels that his disability has made him useless.

Episode 38 - Witness to Condemn
First Aired: June. 22,1956

The only witness to a murder loses her sight as a result of an attack by the killers.

Episode 37 - Pattern for Pursuit
First Aired: June. 15,1956

Mountie Sgt. Douglas Renfrew is sent back to the Northwest Territory to reopen a murder investigation. The gun which killed a man has turned up, and its owner is the key suspect. Renfrew is nursed back to health following a mountain lion attack by the daughter of the murdered man. She claims the man he's seeking is no longer alive.

Episode 36 - The Roustabout
First Aired: June. 08,1956

A saddle bum is pushed into the middle of a fight between some ranchers and a storekeeper who has been selling barbed wire to the squatters.

Episode 35 - Date for Tomorrow
First Aired: May. 25,1956

After breaking out of prison, Eddie Markham decides to use a girl he meets as at an amusement park as a decoy in a holdup.

Episode 34 - Officer Needs Help
First Aired: May. 18,1956

Dan Grabow is given a 90-day tryout as chief of police in a small beach town. His discovers that none of the members of his force have received adequate police training.

Episode 33 - Plague Ship
First Aired: May. 11,1956

A captain finds that his ship is threatened by bubonic plague.

Episode 32 - Formosa Patrol
First Aired: May. 04,1956

The story of the destroyer USS DeHaven and a persistent rain that turned into the third worst storm in the history of the coastal Southern California.

Episode 31 - Step Right Up and Die
First Aired: April. 27,1956

When an amusement park operator finds a body in the Fun House, he is afraid to tell the police, having once spent three years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. He gets rid of the corpse, but is trapped just the same and faces death.

Episode 30 - The Mysterious Cargo
First Aired: April. 20,1956

After being slugged, robbed and having his ship sail without him, Mr. Gallup heads for the States on another ship. Tension mounts when he realizes the cargo doesn't correspond to the manifest.

Episode 29 - The Bitter Land
First Aired: April. 13,1956

A man arrives in the West to seek the murderer of his son and is faced with the dilemma of saving the murderer's own son when outlaws set out to get the boy.

Episode 28 - Angels in the Sky
First Aired: April. 06,1956

A transport plane carrying wounded men from the South Pacific faces disaster.

Episode 27 - The Finger of God
First Aired: March. 30,1956

An escaping Boer prisoner of war breaks into an apparently deserted house and gets the surprise of his life.

Episode 26 - The Waiting House
First Aired: March. 23,1956

The honeymoon house in Bermuda, which a couple has chosen, has been the scene of accidents to a good many tenants before them.

Episode 25 - The Young and the Brave
First Aired: March. 16,1956

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Episode 24 - Web of Circumstance
First Aired: March. 09,1956

A bank teller has been stealing pennies and stashing away dollars taken from his wife's grocery budget for years. His goal: to make a break from his shrewish spouse and sail for an island paradise in the Pacific.

Episode 23 - Showdown at Painted Rock
First Aired: March. 02,1956

A sheriff risks his life by insisting on hanging a murderer in the lawless old West.

Episode 22 - Ordeal
First Aired: February. 24,1956

No one believes a man when he insists he saw a murder committed.

Episode 21 - On a Dark Night
First Aired: February. 17,1956

A college professor tries to rescue a girl who turns out to be a gangster's moll.

Episode 20 - Top Man
First Aired: February. 10,1956

A mountain climber is fiercely determined to conquer the man-killing Himalayan peak, Calpurtha.

Episode 19 - The Gentle Stranger
First Aired: February. 03,1956

A mail-order bride finds life on a ranch not to her liking. A range war decides her future.

Episode 18 - The Day I Died
First Aired: January. 27,1956

A ruthless business tycoon is convinced he owes all his success to himself alone. But a strange thing happens to him on a hospital operating table.

Episode 17 - The Big Payday
First Aired: January. 20,1956

A former fighter always wanted to be champ, but never made it. He's a manager now, and hopes his heavyweight contender will make it.

Episode 16 - Dealer's Choice
First Aired: January. 13,1956

The owner of a pearling ship loses it in a poker game. Convinced that the winner cheated, he signs on with him for the next voyage, suspecting that the new owner will soon be anxious to sell the ship back to him.

Episode 15 - Fool Proof
First Aired: January. 06,1956

When Mary Hunter became a teacher of blind children she never dreamed the lessons she taught might one day save her life not until that fateful evening in the parking lot.

Episode 14 - Well of Anger
First Aired: December. 30,1955

In the Old West, Ed Sawyer is trying to set up a modest homestead. But a big rancher, Luke Gans, uses violence to keep Sawyer away from the water supply.

Episode 13 - Christmas Guest
First Aired: December. 23,1955

A professor's modest salary doesn't permit much spending for Christmas gifts, so when his wife's brother arrives laden with expensive gifts a bitter argument ensues. Out of that, comes a better understanding of Christmas.

Episode 12 - The Baited Hook
First Aired: December. 16,1955

In a Florida swamp, Sheriff Ames is marooned with killer, Link Bradford.

Episode 11 - On the Nose
First Aired: December. 09,1955

An air force pilot is assigned to carry an atomic scientist to the site of a bomb experiment. To the pilot's dismay, the ship's navigator becomes ill before takeoff and is replaced by a woefully inexperience substitute.

Episode 10 - Moment of Triumph
First Aired: December. 02,1955

A business tycoon is able to right the wrong done twenty years ago to his professor who refused to give a passing grade to a rich man's son when he didn't deserve it.

Episode 9 - The Careless Cadet
First Aired: November. 25,1955

Sgt. Ben Destry receives an appointment to West Point as a reward for valor in the Korean War. But he scoffs at the Academy's traditions and finds the orders of his juniors hard to take.

Episode 8 - Night of the Big Swamp
First Aired: November. 18,1955

Reno Cromwell, a hunting guide obliged to aid the law in hunting down his best friend, a killer. Reno's girlfriend is actually still in love with the killer, but her pleas to Reno not to help in the pursuit are in vain.

Episode 7 - No Trial by Jury
First Aired: November. 11,1955

After a valuable horse drowns in a well, a homesteader faces ruin. The law of the range makes him liable because of negligence in not covering or fencing the well.

Episode 6 - A Gift of Life
First Aired: November. 04,1955

A big time salesman is too busy getting ahead to make friends. Then he finds himself in a hospital bed in need of a transfusion. A portrait of a tragic character.

Episode 5 - Nothing to Do Till Next Fall
First Aired: October. 28,1955

A college football coach is faced with a difficult decision for the big home coming game.

Episode 4 - The Girl Who Scared Men Off
First Aired: October. 21,1955

A country schoolmarm bitterly resents it when the community imports a tweedy, pipe-smoking exchange teacher from England to add culture to the school. It takes a fire at the school picnic to set things right and clear up the problem.

Episode 3 - Two-Bit Gangster
First Aired: October. 14,1955

A newsman travels to a small town to cover what appears to be a routine robbery, in which a masked thief killed an ex-con who interfered with his getaway. But, the reporter's investigation begins to reveal the ex-con in the role of a hero.

Episode 2 - Bandit's Hide-Out
First Aired: October. 07,1955

The wife of a gentle Spanish shepherd is discontented with the quiet life they lead. He returns home one night to find his wife and sheep are gone.

Episode 1 - The Last Out
First Aired: September. 30,1955

A once promising baseball player is now grounds keeper for a minor league team. His deep knowledge of the game is more than the team's manager can handle.

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