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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Season 5 1955 - 1956

  • 1955-10-01T01:30:00Z on CBS
  • 30m
  • 1d 1h 30m (51 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • 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.

51 episodes

Season Premiere

1955-10-01T01:30:00Z

5x01 The Last Out

Season Premiere

5x01 The Last Out

  • 1955-10-01T01:30:00Z30m

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.

1955-10-08T01:30:00Z

5x02 Bandit's Hide-Out

5x02 Bandit's Hide-Out

  • 1955-10-08T01:30:00Z30m

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.

1955-10-15T01:30:00Z

5x03 Two-Bit Gangster

5x03 Two-Bit Gangster

  • 1955-10-15T01:30:00Z30m

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.

5x04 The Girl Who Scared Men Off

  • 1955-10-22T01:30:00Z30m

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.

5x05 Nothing to Do Till Next Fall

  • 1955-10-29T01:30:00Z30m

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

1955-11-05T02:30:00Z

5x06 A Gift of Life

5x06 A Gift of Life

  • 1955-11-05T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1955-11-12T02:30:00Z

5x07 No Trial by Jury

5x07 No Trial by Jury

  • 1955-11-12T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1955-11-19T02:30:00Z

5x08 Night of the Big Swamp

5x08 Night of the Big Swamp

  • 1955-11-19T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1955-11-26T02:30:00Z

5x09 The Careless Cadet

5x09 The Careless Cadet

  • 1955-11-26T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1955-12-03T02:30:00Z

5x10 Moment of Triumph

5x10 Moment of Triumph

  • 1955-12-03T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1955-12-10T02:30:00Z

5x11 On the Nose

5x11 On the Nose

  • 1955-12-10T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1955-12-17T02:30:00Z

5x12 The Baited Hook

5x12 The Baited Hook

  • 1955-12-17T02:30:00Z30m

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

1955-12-24T02:30:00Z

5x13 Christmas Guest

5x13 Christmas Guest

  • 1955-12-24T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1955-12-31T02:30:00Z

5x14 Well of Anger

5x14 Well of Anger

  • 1955-12-31T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1956-01-07T02:30:00Z

5x15 Fool Proof

5x15 Fool Proof

  • 1956-01-07T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1956-01-14T02:30:00Z

5x16 Dealer's Choice

5x16 Dealer's Choice

  • 1956-01-14T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1956-01-21T02:30:00Z

5x17 The Big Payday

5x17 The Big Payday

  • 1956-01-21T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1956-01-28T02:30:00Z

5x18 The Day I Died

5x18 The Day I Died

  • 1956-01-28T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1956-02-04T02:30:00Z

5x19 The Gentle Stranger

5x19 The Gentle Stranger

  • 1956-02-04T02:30:00Z30m

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

1956-02-11T02:30:00Z

5x20 Top Man

5x20 Top Man

  • 1956-02-11T02:30:00Z30m

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

1956-02-18T02:30:00Z

5x21 On a Dark Night

5x21 On a Dark Night

  • 1956-02-18T02:30:00Z30m

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

1956-02-25T02:30:00Z

5x22 Ordeal

5x22 Ordeal

  • 1956-02-25T02:30:00Z30m

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

1956-03-03T02:30:00Z

5x23 Showdown at Painted Rock

5x23 Showdown at Painted Rock

  • 1956-03-03T02:30:00Z30m

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

1956-03-10T02:30:00Z

5x24 Web of Circumstance

5x24 Web of Circumstance

  • 1956-03-10T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1956-03-17T02:30:00Z

5x25 The Young and the Brave

5x25 The Young and the Brave

  • 1956-03-17T02:30:00Z30m

Total Toys TV reviews the Build-A-Minion Pirate/Cro-Minion figure pack made by Thinkway.

1956-03-24T02:30:00Z

5x26 The Waiting House

5x26 The Waiting House

  • 1956-03-24T02:30:00Z30m

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

1956-03-31T02:30:00Z

5x27 The Finger of God

5x27 The Finger of God

  • 1956-03-31T02:30:00Z30m

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

1956-04-07T02:30:00Z

5x28 Angels in the Sky

5x28 Angels in the Sky

  • 1956-04-07T02:30:00Z30m

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

1956-04-14T02:30:00Z

5x29 The Bitter Land

5x29 The Bitter Land

  • 1956-04-14T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1956-04-21T02:30:00Z

5x30 The Mysterious Cargo

5x30 The Mysterious Cargo

  • 1956-04-21T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1956-04-28T02:30:00Z

5x31 Step Right Up and Die

5x31 Step Right Up and Die

  • 1956-04-28T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1956-05-05T01:30:00Z

5x32 Formosa Patrol

5x32 Formosa Patrol

  • 1956-05-05T01:30:00Z30m

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.

1956-05-12T01:30:00Z

5x33 Plague Ship

5x33 Plague Ship

  • 1956-05-12T01:30:00Z30m

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

1956-05-19T01:30:00Z

5x34 Officer Needs Help

5x34 Officer Needs Help

  • 1956-05-19T01:30:00Z30m

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.

1956-05-26T01:30:00Z

5x35 Date for Tomorrow

5x35 Date for Tomorrow

  • 1956-05-26T01:30:00Z30m

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.

1956-06-09T01:30:00Z

5x36 The Roustabout

5x36 The Roustabout

  • 1956-06-09T01:30:00Z30m

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.

1956-06-16T01:30:00Z

5x37 Pattern for Pursuit

5x37 Pattern for Pursuit

  • 1956-06-16T01:30:00Z30m

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.

1956-06-23T01:30:00Z

5x38 Witness to Condemn

5x38 Witness to Condemn

  • 1956-06-23T01:30:00Z30m

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

1956-06-30T01:30:00Z

5x39 Weapon of Courage

5x39 Weapon of Courage

  • 1956-06-30T01:30:00Z30m

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

1956-07-07T01:30:00Z

5x40 The Mechanical Cook

5x40 The Mechanical Cook

  • 1956-07-07T01:30:00Z30m

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.

1956-07-14T01:30:00Z

5x41 The Happy Sun

5x41 The Happy Sun

  • 1956-07-14T01:30:00Z30m

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.

1956-07-21T01:30:00Z

5x42 The Bankmouse

5x42 The Bankmouse

  • 1956-07-21T01:30:00Z30m

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.

1956-07-28T01:30:00Z

5x43 Dara

5x43 Dara

  • 1956-07-28T01:30:00Z30m

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.

1956-08-04T01:30:00Z

5x44 Flowers for Jenny

5x44 Flowers for Jenny

  • 1956-08-04T01:30:00Z30m

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.

1956-08-11T01:30:00Z

5x45 Repercussion

5x45 Repercussion

  • 1956-08-11T01:30:00Z30m

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

1956-08-18T01:30:00Z

5x46 Boling Point

5x46 Boling Point

  • 1956-08-18T01:30:00Z30m

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

1956-08-25T01:30:00Z

5x47 Strange Defense

5x47 Strange Defense

  • 1956-08-25T01:30:00Z30m

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

1956-09-01T01:30:00Z

5x48 I'll Wait for You

5x48 I'll Wait for You

  • 1956-09-01T01:30:00Z30m

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.

1956-09-08T01:30:00Z

5x49 The Press Agent

5x49 The Press Agent

  • 1956-09-08T01:30:00Z30m

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

1956-09-15T01:30:00Z

5x50 Midnight Kill

5x50 Midnight Kill

  • 1956-09-15T01:30:00Z30m

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

Season Finale

1956-09-22T01:30:00Z

5x51 Top Secret

Season Finale

5x51 Top Secret

  • 1956-09-22T01:30:00Z30m

A man comes under close scrutiny after documents of value disappear

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