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Playhouse 90

Season 1 1956 - 1957

  • 1956-10-05T01:30:00Z on CBS
  • 1h 5m
  • 2d 10h 30m (39 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama
The most ambitious and acclaimed of all the anthology series', Playhouse 90 was in a league of its own. "Requiem of a Heavyweight," written by Rod Serling, garnered numerous Emmys and remains one of the best live dramas. Each week the series aired a complete 90 minute live drama. The list of talents is amazing: John Frankenheimer, Arthur Hiller, John Brahm, Arthur Penn were a few of the directors. Every angle and every shot left an impact on the viewing public. It was a treasure of a show, that rare gem that lives on.

39 episodes

Series Premiere

1956-10-05T01:30:00Z

1x01 Forbidden Area

Series Premiere

1x01 Forbidden Area

  • 1956-10-05T01:30:00Z1h 30m

Heston stars as a one-eyed colonel intent of solving the mystery of the exploding bombers. Soviet agents have infiltrated a secret air base and are busy doing away with American aircraft.

1956-10-12T01:30:00Z

1x02 Requiem For A Heavyweight

1x02 Requiem For A Heavyweight

  • 1956-10-12T01:30:00Z1h 30m

A professional heavyweight boxer (Palance) is burned out after fourteen years in the ring. When during his last fight he is sold out by his devious manager (Keenan Wynn), he struggles to find new meaning in his life.

1956-10-19T01:30:00Z

1x03 Sizeman and Son

1x03 Sizeman and Son

  • 1956-10-19T01:30:00Z1h 30m

Sizeman owns a dress-manufacturing business in New York City. When his son was born, he addded the words ""and Son"" to the name of the company, hoping that they would work together some day. Then the son returns from the Korean War a changed man. Regarding himself as a savior of the common man from the greed of the bosses, he disrupts the happy working atmosphere at Sizeman and Son's.

1956-10-26T01:30:00Z

1x04 Rendezvous In Black

1x04 Rendezvous In Black

  • 1956-10-26T01:30:00Z1h 30m

The unexplainable death of a young man's fiancee while waiting for him on a street corner sets off a series of seemingly unrelated murders in the city.

1956-11-02T02:30:00Z

1x05 The Country Husband

1x05 The Country Husband

  • 1956-11-02T02:30:00Z1h 30m

After a close brush with death, a businessman intends to live each and every day to the fullest without regard to his wife and child. When he falls for the babysitter he considers running off with her but returns after a lot of soul-searching to his wife who forgives him.

1956-11-09T02:30:00Z

1x06 The Big Slide

1x06 The Big Slide

  • 1956-11-09T02:30:00Z1h 30m

When a second-rate vaudeville comic becomes a silent movie star, the conflict between his love for an actress and the demands of his career brings tragedy and heartbreak to the clown.

1956-11-16T02:30:00Z

1x07 Heritage of Anger

1x07 Heritage of Anger

  • 1956-11-16T02:30:00Z1h 30m

Industrial mogul Eddie Hanneman finds that his two sons are uninterested in taking over the family business though they want the rewards.

1956-11-23T02:30:00Z

1x08 Eloise

1x08 Eloise

  • 1956-11-23T02:30:00Z1h 30m

Eloise was a little girl who lived in the Plaza Hotel in New York. A memorable sequence involved her ordering one raisin from room service for her tiny pet turtle. The entire play was hilarious.

1956-11-30T02:30:00Z

1x09 Confession

1x09 Confession

  • 1956-11-30T02:30:00Z1h 30m

After the death of a wealthy community leader, a reporter is preparing a series on his life. When he interviews the deceased's son and daughter, they are withholding information from him. Investigations get dangerous when attempts on his life are made. The deceased's valet reveals that a letter was left which contains evidence of the politician's participation in a public swindle.

1956-12-07T02:30:00Z

1x10 Made in Heaven

1x10 Made in Heaven

  • 1956-12-07T02:30:00Z1h 30m

A married couple get into a petty quarrel that leads to their separation, after which the wife entertains a handsome European from the cocktail party and the husband begins to fall for an attractive stranger.

1956-12-14T02:30:00Z

1x11 Sincerely, Willis Wade

1x11 Sincerely, Willis Wade

  • 1956-12-14T02:30:00Z1h 30m

Wealthy mill owner, Henry Harcourt, finances the college education of a poor but ambitious boy, Willis Wayde. The young man is in love with Bess, Harcourt's daughter.

1956-12-21T02:30:00Z

1x12 The Family Nobody Wanted

1x12 The Family Nobody Wanted

  • 1956-12-21T02:30:00Z1h 30m

Carl and Helen Doss, are unable to have children of their own, so they wind up adopting several youngsters of mixed races.

1956-12-28T02:30:00Z

1x13 Massacre at Sand Creek

1x13 Massacre at Sand Creek

  • 1956-12-28T02:30:00Z1h 30m

A drama set in 1860s Colorado about the tragically manipulative ways of a U.S. Army colonel who forces the Cheyenne to fight a battle they want to avoid. Seeking fame and the rank of a general, the self-serving colonel drives the Cheyenne warriors into an unprotectable region known as Sand Creek. Despite the efforts of a young U.S. soldier intent on saving them, the Indians were massacred.

1957-01-11T02:30:00Z

1x15 The Ninth Day

1x15 The Ninth Day

  • 1957-01-11T02:30:00Z1h 30m

After World War III a small group of people live in the desert. A young man rebels against the group and tries to run away, hoping to find other communities of survivors, but is told by the elders that he must stay and marry the group's only young woman.

1957-01-18T02:30:00Z

1x16 So Soon To Die

1x16 So Soon To Die

  • 1957-01-18T02:30:00Z1h 30m

1957-01-25T02:30:00Z

1x17 The Star Wagon

1x17 The Star Wagon

  • 1957-01-25T02:30:00Z1h 30m

Story about a timid inventor who works for an exploitive boss and spends company time collaborating with his boyhood friend on a time machine. When the boss fires the inventor and orders the machine destroyed, the two friends decide to go back in the machine to 1926 when they were young and full of dreams.

1957-02-01T02:30:00Z

1x18 The Greer Case

1x18 The Greer Case

  • 1957-02-01T02:30:00Z1h 30m

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

1957-02-08T02:30:00Z

1x19 The Miracle Worker

1x19 The Miracle Worker

  • 1957-02-08T02:30:00Z1h 30m

The episode retells the first encounter of Annie Sullivan and young Helen Keller, unable to hear or see since the age of two. It was later remade for theatrical release.

1957-02-15T02:30:00Z

1x20 The Comedian

1x20 The Comedian

  • 1957-02-15T02:30:00Z1h 30m

Sammy Hogarth has reached the top of his profession as a TV comedian. But though his audience loves him, his co-workers hate him. They know him as an egotistical, petty tyrant. What keeps them from quitting is money--his salaries are the best in the business. Hogarth's head writer is Al Preston, and Al is in a jam. He has run out of ideas, can't think up anything Sammy will accept for the next show. In fact, Sammy threatens to fire Al unless he comes up with some especially clever and unusual material for that show.

1957-02-22T02:30:00Z

1x21 One Coat of White

1x21 One Coat of White

  • 1957-02-22T02:30:00Z1h 30m

1957-03-01T02:30:00Z

1x22 The Blackwell Story

1x22 The Blackwell Story

  • 1957-03-01T02:30:00Z1h 30m

A drama about the numerous obstacles faced by a young student who is intent on becoming the first woman doctor in the United States. Set in the late 1830's, the program examined her dedication, her love interests, and her efforts to modernize antiquated O.R. procedures which she feels are life-threatening.

1x23 Invitation to a Gunfighter

  • 1957-03-08T02:30:00Z1h 30m

Hugh O'Brian is a gunfighter terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter (Gilbert Roland) to drive O'Brian out of town (which he does).

But, if the townsfolk thought they had it bad when O'Brian ran the town, that was childsplay next to the reign of terror instituted when Roland takes over.

Finally, they have to pool their money again, this time to hire O'Brian to get rid of Gilbert Roland.

A wonderful dramatization of the old adage, ""Be careful what you ask for; you may get it.""

1957-03-15T02:30:00Z

1x24 The Last Tycoon

1x24 The Last Tycoon

  • 1957-03-15T02:30:00Z1h 30m

Monroe Stahr heads a movie studio apparently headed for financial trouble. He is under pressure from the stockholders to produce a box-office hit. While he turns his attention to their latest film, he finds that financial expert Lou Myrick will play a crucial role in his business as well as in his personal life.

1x25 The Hostess with the Mostest

  • 1957-03-22T02:30:00Z1h 30m

1957-03-29T02:30:00Z

1x26 Charley's Aunt

1x26 Charley's Aunt

  • 1957-03-29T02:30:00Z1h 30m

1957-04-05T02:30:00Z

1x27 Clipper Ship

1x27 Clipper Ship

  • 1957-04-05T02:30:00Z1h 30m

A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shpping 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.

1957-04-12T02:30:00Z

1x28 If You Knew Elizabeth

1x28 If You Knew Elizabeth

  • 1957-04-12T02:30:00Z1h 30m

1957-04-19T02:30:00Z

1x29 Three Men on a Horse

1x29 Three Men on a Horse

  • 1957-04-19T02:30:00Z1h 30m

1957-04-26T02:30:00Z

1x30 Four Women in Black

1x30 Four Women in Black

  • 1957-04-26T02:30:00Z1h 30m

1957-05-03T01:30:00Z

1x31 Child of Trouble

1x31 Child of Trouble

  • 1957-05-03T01:30:00Z1h 30m

1957-05-10T01:30:00Z

1x32 Homeward Borne

1x32 Homeward Borne

  • 1957-05-10T01:30:00Z1h 30m

A drama of a refugee orphan, who was both wanted and unwanted in the family of a returning war hero. The wife fought against her own happiness to take in the orphan. To the orphan, the husband is a killer of his people and resentment burns deep. The husband is equally inflamed against the orphan and is determined he must go. It becomes a family divided, but ends when scorn turns to love.

1957-05-17T01:30:00Z

1x33 The Helen Morgan Story

1x33 The Helen Morgan Story

  • 1957-05-17T01:30:00Z1h 30m

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.

1957-05-24T01:30:00Z

1x34 Winter Dreams

1x34 Winter Dreams

  • 1957-05-24T01:30:00Z1h 30m

1957-05-31T01:30:00Z

1x35 Circle of the Day

1x35 Circle of the Day

  • 1957-05-31T01:30:00Z1h 30m

1957-06-07T01:30:00Z

1x36 Without Incident

1x36 Without Incident

  • 1957-06-07T01:30:00Z1h 30m

Captain Russell Bidlack, commander of a U.S. Cavalry unit in 1870, determines to complete a rescue mission through dangerous Indian territoy. 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.

1957-06-14T01:30:00Z

1x37 Clash by Night

1x37 Clash by Night

  • 1957-06-14T01:30:00Z1h 30m

1957-06-21T01:30:00Z

1x38 Ain't No Time for Glory

1x38 Ain't No Time for Glory

  • 1957-06-21T01:30:00Z1h 30m

Season Finale

1957-06-28T01:30:00Z

1x39 The Fabulous Irishman

Season Finale

1x39 The Fabulous Irishman

  • 1957-06-28T01:30:00Z1h 30m

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

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