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Playhouse 90

Season 1

1956 · 39 episodes

  1. 1. Forbidden Area

    1956-10-04 · 90m

    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?

  2. 2. Requiem for a Heavyweight

    1956-10-11 · 90m

    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 who tries to help him recover his self-respect.

  3. 3. Sizeman and Son

    1956-10-18 · 90m

    The happy atmosphere in Mr. Sizeman's factory is disrupted by an argumentative newcomer - his son.

  4. 4. Rendezvous in Black

    1956-10-25 · 90m

    A woman is inexplicably killed on a street-corner. What has this to do with other deaths around the city?

  5. 5. The Country Husband

    1956-11-01 · 90m

    After a near-death experience, a businessman starts to re-think his life, and wonders about leaving his wife.

  6. 6. The Big Slide

    1956-11-08 · 90m

    A vaudeville comic becomes a silent film star.

  7. 7. Heritage of Anger

    1956-11-15 · 90m

    A wealthy industrialist has trouble with his sons.

  8. 8. Eloise

    1956-11-22 · 90m

    It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.

  9. 9. Confession

    1956-11-29 · 90m

    When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.

  10. 10. Made in Heaven

    1956-12-06 · 90m

    When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.

  11. 11. Sincerely, Willis Wade

    1956-12-13 · 90m

    A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.

  12. 12. The Family Nobody Wanted

    1956-12-20 · 90m

    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 children that the Doss family adopt until they have 12 children.

  13. 13. Massacre at Sand Creek

    1956-12-27 · 90m

    An investigation into a massacre of Native Americans.

  14. 14. Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses

    1957-01-03 · 90m

    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.

  15. 15. The Ninth Day

    1957-01-10 · 90m

    Events in the aftermath of World War Three.

  16. 16. So Soon to Die

    1957-01-17 · 90m

    Down on his luck, war hero Lionel Amblin contemplates committing a murder.

  17. 17. The Star Wagon

    1957-01-24 · 90m

    An inventor, pondering on how he might differently have arranged his life, invents a time machine and decides to make a few changes.

  18. 18. The Greer Case

    1957-01-31 · 90m

    When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

  19. 19. The Miracle Worker

    1957-02-07 · 90m

    The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

  20. 20. The Comedian

    1957-02-14 · 90m

    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 than his. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, whom Sammy has hired as his assistant but whom he really uses as his whipping boy.

  21. 21. One Coat of White

    1957-02-21 · 90m

    A newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.

  22. 22. The Blackwell Story

    1957-02-28 · 90m

    In the 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell determines to become a doctor.

  23. 23. Invitation to a Gunfighter

    1957-03-07 · 90m

    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 bad until they handed the reigns over to the new terror. Pooling their money again, this time to hire Jeffers to get rid of Dancer.

  24. 24. The Last Tycoon

    1957-03-14 · 90m

    A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.

  25. 25. The Hostess with the Mostes'

    1957-03-21 · 90m

    The story of Perle Mesta, who became, first, a renowned society hostess, and then an ambassadress.

  26. 26. Where's Charley?

    1957-03-28 · 90m

    Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".

  27. 27. Clipper Ship

    1957-04-04 · 90m

    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 death when the vessel reached its destination. Though unyielding at first, the ship's stern captain eventually helped the woman to make a clean getaway, with the condemned man in tow.

  28. 28. If You Knew Elizabeth

    1957-04-11 · 90m

  29. 29. Three Men on a Horse

    1957-04-18 · 90m

    A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.

  30. 30. Four Women in Black

    1957-04-25 · 90m

    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 their fellow mankind.

  31. 31. Child of Trouble

    1957-05-02 · 90m

  32. 32. Homeward Borne

    1957-05-09 · 90m

    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 pilot, hates the boy and his psychological baggage.

  33. 33. The Helen Morgan Story

    1957-05-16 · 90m

    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 poor choices, such as her affair with a married man, her short marriage to a much younger man, a court fight over an adopted baby and her fatal descent into booze addiction.

  34. 34. Winter Dreams

    1957-05-23 · 90m

  35. 35. Circle of the Day

    1957-05-30 · 90m

    On her tenth wedding anniversary (which is also her daughter's birthday), a wife begins to suspect her husband of unfaithfulness.

  36. 36. Without Incident

    1957-06-06 · 90m

    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 rescues the wives of two slain traders and captures the Indian chief accused of the murders. When he returns to the fort, he's faced with a revolt among his own men.

  37. 37. Clash by Night

    1957-06-13 · 90m

    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 happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.

  38. 38. Ain't No Time for Glory

    1957-06-20 · 90m

    American soldiers must use stealth to take over a German command post in Normandy.

  39. 39. The Fabulous Irishman

    1957-06-27 · 90m

    Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.

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