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Four Star Playhouse

Season 1 1952 - 1953

  • 1952-09-25T04:00:00Z on CBS
  • 25m
  • 9h 55m (20 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Comedy, Drama
Four Star Playhouse had four rotating actors they were, Dick Powell, David Niven, Charles Boyer and Ida Lupino. Originally it was to be Dick Powell, Charles Boyer, Joel McCrea and Rosalind Russell, but that never happened. In its first year Four Star was on every other week sharing its spot with Amos 'N Andy show. Into the second season Four Star became weekly. Dick Powell played a character named Willie Dante who ran Dante's Nightclub. This character was shown in several episodes. The photo is from the episode 'Go Ahead and Jump' with Dick Powell as Eddie the cabdriver. The format of the episodes varied from comedy to drama.

20 episodes

Series Premiere

1952-09-25T04:00:00Z

1x01 My Wife Geraldine

Series Premiere

1x01 My Wife Geraldine

  • 1952-09-25T04:00:00Z30m

A man learns that he is suspected of murdering his wife, whom he now claims never existed.

1952-10-02T05:00:00Z

1x02 Dante's Inferno

1x02 Dante's Inferno

  • 1952-10-02T05:00:00Z30m

Dick Powell portrays the owner of a swank restaurant which offers gambling. Trouble arises when a beautiful woman patron insists that she is about to be murdered.

1952-10-23T05:00:00Z

1x03 The Lost Silk Hat

1x03 The Lost Silk Hat

  • 1952-10-23T05:00:00Z30m

After quarrelling with a woman a man loses his hat and winds up being accused of her murder.

1952-11-06T05:00:00Z

1x04 Backstage

1x04 Backstage

  • 1952-11-06T05:00:00Z30m

An actor named Paul is out on an evening stroll when he sees a young woman attempting to jump off a bridge. After a struggle, he discovers her name is Amy and she is homeless. Paul believes $5 could mean the difference between decency & despair so he pays for Amy to stay in a hotel for the night, agreeing to meet her the next day. Amy is nowhere to be found when Paul returns. He worries and begins the search for this mysterious woman.

1952-11-20T05:00:00Z

1x05 Welcome Home

1x05 Welcome Home

  • 1952-11-20T05:00:00Z30m

A fugitive from the police returns to his hometown after a 15-year absence.

1952-12-04T05:00:00Z

1x06 The Island

1x06 The Island

  • 1952-12-04T05:00:00Z30m

A doctor caring for natives on a tropical island is dismissed by the bully owner of the island who discovered a discrepancy in his medical past. Suddenly, the owner is struck with acute appendicitis and the just-fired doctor is called to perform emergency surgery.

1952-12-18T05:00:00Z

1x07 The Officer and the Lady

1x07 The Officer and the Lady

  • 1952-12-18T05:00:00Z30m

An incurably ill child's desire to see his father brings about a great transformation in the character of a knavish officer.

1953-01-01T05:00:00Z

1x08 Knockout

1x08 Knockout

  • 1953-01-01T05:00:00Z30m

A young middleweight boxer finds at the height of his career that his championship fight has been fixed.

1953-01-15T05:00:00Z

1x09 The Man on the Train

1x09 The Man on the Train

  • 1953-01-15T05:00:00Z30m

On a train returning from India, William Langford meets a man who is carrying 75,000 English pounds in his briefcase. Murder becomes a possibility when the man and his money suddenly disappear.

1953-01-29T05:00:00Z

1x10 Trail's End

1x10 Trail's End

  • 1953-01-29T05:00:00Z30m

A famous marshal of Dodge City sets out in search of the murderous Sonoma Kid and runs into a tragedy of the desert.

1953-02-12T05:00:00Z

1x11 Sound Off, My Love

1x11 Sound Off, My Love

  • 1953-02-12T05:00:00Z30m

A wife finally goes to the doctor about her hearing loss and returns home in time to hear her husband plot her death.

1953-02-26T05:00:00Z

1x12 The Man in the Box

1x12 The Man in the Box

  • 1953-02-26T05:00:00Z30m

Theater-goers are surprised to see actor Victor Sherman at the play, considering what happened a year earlier. As the play proceeds, the man in the box imagines himself playing each of the characters in the drama being performed onstage.

1953-03-12T05:00:00Z

1x13 No Identity

1x13 No Identity

  • 1953-03-12T05:00:00Z30m

A young boy fights to win his foster mother’s love.

After separating from his wife, a wealthy clubman is about to marry a much young woman -- whereupon his mirror image walks out on him in disgust.

1953-04-23T05:00:00Z

1x15 The Last Voyage

1x15 The Last Voyage

  • 1953-04-23T05:00:00Z30m

A sea captain en route to the Orient discovers that a time bomb has been planted on his ship.

1953-05-07T04:00:00Z

1x16 Night Ride

1x16 Night Ride

  • 1953-05-07T04:00:00Z30m

Five people, one a murder, are trapped on a subway.

1953-05-21T04:00:00Z

1x17 The Ladies On His Mind

1x17 The Ladies On His Mind

  • 1953-05-21T04:00:00Z30m

A psychiatrist listens to his female patients go on about their troubles. As they talk, he imagines himself within each of their stories.

1953-06-04T04:00:00Z

1x18 To Whom It May Concern

1x18 To Whom It May Concern

  • 1953-06-04T04:00:00Z30m

A bank employee mails a letter to his boss and goes on a frantic chase to get the letter back from the post office before it gets delivered.

Season Finale

1953-06-25T04:00:00Z

1x19 Mr. Bingham

Season Finale

1x19 Mr. Bingham

  • 1953-06-25T04:00:00Z30m

Past haunts politician running for Senator.

1953-06-18T04:00:00Z

1x20 Shadowed

1x20 Shadowed

  • 1953-06-18T04:00:00Z25m

Burt Stroude is a virtual shoe-in to be nominate to the U.S. Senate. His future is threatened when an incident from his past comes to the public's attention.

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