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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Season 2 1952 - 1963

  • 1952-09-06T01:30:00Z on CBS
  • 30m
  • 1d 2h (52 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.

52 episodes

Season Premiere

1952-09-06T01:30:00Z

2x01 Homecoming

Season Premiere

2x01 Homecoming

  • 1952-09-06T01:30:00Z30m

An ex-athlete can't face his own aging until he meets a woman who refuses to change.

1952-09-13T01:30:00Z

2x02 Marriage of Lit-Lit

2x02 Marriage of Lit-Lit

  • 1952-09-13T01:30:00Z30m

A general store manager at a Canadian outpost marries an Indian girl named Lit-Lit. Her conniving father, in an attempt to shake down his new son-in-law, tries to get his daughter to leave her new husband until he comes through with more supplies and loot. The old man's plans go awry because the girl has fallen in love.

1952-09-20T01:30:00Z

2x03 I Want to be a Movie Star

2x03 I Want to be a Movie Star

  • 1952-09-20T01:30:00Z30m

A father complains about his daughter's movie magazines -- until he's discovered by a talent scout.

1952-09-27T01:30:00Z

2x04 The Trial

2x04 The Trial

  • 1952-09-27T01:30:00Z30m

A gold miner's greed makes him murder his partners.

1952-10-04T02:30:00Z

2x05 Come What May

2x05 Come What May

  • 1952-10-04T02:30:00Z30m

A man learns too late that a gun is a poor problem solver.

1952-10-11T02:30:00Z

2x06 Trouble on Pier 12

2x06 Trouble on Pier 12

  • 1952-10-11T02:30:00Z30m

When Captain Torras is accused of double murder and his life is threatened, he hires professional bodyguard Mike Grover to protect him.

1952-10-18T02:30:00Z

2x07 This Plane for Hire

2x07 This Plane for Hire

  • 1952-10-18T02:30:00Z30m

The adventure-romance of a Mexican Al Capone.

1952-10-25T02:30:00Z

2x08 Drawing Room A

2x08 Drawing Room A

  • 1952-10-25T02:30:00Z30m

An attractive lady find herself on a train with a case of amnesia. A psychiatrist, also traveling, agrees to assist the woman with her memory loss and determine the cause.

1952-11-01T02:30:00Z

2x09 Enchanted Evening

2x09 Enchanted Evening

  • 1952-11-01T02:30:00Z30m

A family's happy life gets complicated when the kids have lost theater tickets that belonged to their dad's boss.

1952-11-08T02:30:00Z

2x10 Tango

2x10 Tango

  • 1952-11-08T02:30:00Z30m

A night club affair winds up in intrigue and mystery.

1952-11-15T02:30:00Z

2x11 The House of Pride

2x11 The House of Pride

  • 1952-11-15T02:30:00Z30m

A young bride learns that not everything in the tropics is paradise.

1952-11-22T02:30:00Z

2x12 Pussyfootin' Rocks

2x12 Pussyfootin' Rocks

  • 1952-11-22T02:30:00Z30m

A masked band of desperadoes smuggles illegal aliens into the U.S. Each carries a piece of camouflage-painted tarp to crouch under when threatened with discovery. The Ripplehissians dispatch the gullible aliens into a deep well, A lawman has to thwart the gang, led by his identical twin brother.

1952-11-29T02:30:00Z

2x13 Barrow Street

2x13 Barrow Street

  • 1952-11-29T02:30:00Z30m

A jilted girl settles an old score in an unusual and poignant fashion.

1952-12-06T02:30:00Z

2x14 Mr. Thayer

2x14 Mr. Thayer

  • 1952-12-06T02:30:00Z30m

On her first job, a girl meets a seedy and serene gentleman to whom the ordinary rules mean nothing.

1952-12-13T02:30:00Z

2x15 The White Cream Pitcher

2x15 The White Cream Pitcher

  • 1952-12-13T02:30:00Z30m

After 20 years of marriage, a couple bent on divorce turn to their pastor to help them divide their possessions.

1952-12-20T02:30:00Z

2x16 The Playwright

2x16 The Playwright

  • 1952-12-20T02:30:00Z30m

A man juggles his life in pursuit of the things he wants to do.

1952-12-27T02:30:00Z

2x17 A String of Beads

2x17 A String of Beads

  • 1952-12-27T02:30:00Z30m

A governess for a wealthy family becomes the object of affection from elderly Count Borselli.

1953-01-03T02:30:00Z

2x18 Jenny

2x18 Jenny

  • 1953-01-03T02:30:00Z30m

A single mother, bored with her life, takes part in a play where she meets a widower.

1953-01-10T02:30:00Z

2x19 The Unopened Letter

2x19 The Unopened Letter

  • 1953-01-10T02:30:00Z30m

A woman receives a letter from the man she loves but does not open it for thirty-five years.

1953-01-17T02:30:00Z

2x20 High on the Gallows

2x20 High on the Gallows

  • 1953-01-17T02:30:00Z30m

A Hollywood movie producer falls for an ambitious starlet and almost wrecks his career.

1953-01-24T02:30:00Z

2x21 Guardians of the Clock

2x21 Guardians of the Clock

  • 1953-01-24T02:30:00Z30m

Jonathan Bigby, an elderly clock keeper, is forcibly retired by his company. Bigby decides to exact an unusual revenge but then finds himself the victim of a larcenous criminal.

1953-01-31T02:30:00Z

2x22 Point of Honor

2x22 Point of Honor

  • 1953-01-31T02:30:00Z30m

After a revolution sweeps his country, a police officer finds himself belonging to the wrong party.

1953-02-07T02:30:00Z

2x23 Manhattan Robin Hood

2x23 Manhattan Robin Hood

  • 1953-02-07T02:30:00Z30m

A reporter investigates by posing as a high-school basketball coach to stop a raffle gambling racket and finds a judge also on the take.

1953-02-14T02:30:00Z

2x24 Mr. Greentree and Friend

2x24 Mr. Greentree and Friend

  • 1953-02-14T02:30:00Z30m

A lonely college professor strikes up a friendship with Jackie, a lion who has run away from the circus.

1953-02-21T02:30:00Z

2x25 The Devil's Other Name

2x25 The Devil's Other Name

  • 1953-02-21T02:30:00Z30m

Steve Jordan kills his wife, Marietta and it looks like the perfect crime to pave the way for him to wed wealthy Helen but Steve doesn't count on Marietta's brother, Russ.

1953-02-28T02:30:00Z

2x26 Girl of My Dreams

2x26 Girl of My Dreams

  • 1953-02-28T02:30:00Z30m

A married man falls in love with another woman at first glance.

1953-03-07T02:30:00Z

2x27 Big Jim's Boy

2x27 Big Jim's Boy

  • 1953-03-07T02:30:00Z30m

A man returning from military service wants to become a doctor. He needs money for his education, and as much as he hates to enter into his father's field of expertise as a boxer he finds himself entering the ring.

1953-03-14T02:30:00Z

2x28 Nineteen Rue Marie

2x28 Nineteen Rue Marie

  • 1953-03-14T02:30:00Z30m

An American finds himself in the Paris home of a doctor, unaware of who he is or how he got there. His one daily visitor is Celeste who, he's told, he once loved. Armed with only the address of the bakery that makes the cakes Celeste brings him, he escapes the doctor's home and goes out to try and remember his life.

1953-03-21T02:30:00Z

2x29 Parent's Weekend

2x29 Parent's Weekend

  • 1953-03-21T02:30:00Z30m

A woman finds out that the key to youth is to act her age.

1953-03-28T02:30:00Z

2x30 Happy Ending

2x30 Happy Ending

  • 1953-03-28T02:30:00Z30m

An author lives in Copenhagen with his wife and daughter. He refuses to alter his stories to happily-ever-after endings.

1953-04-04T02:30:00Z

2x31 The Governess

2x31 The Governess

  • 1953-04-04T02:30:00Z30m

Quite sentimental story of an old woman looking back on her life as a governess. Though now she's seemingly been forgotten by her past charges, the deep feelings this woman felt for her "children" never will.

1953-04-11T02:30:00Z

2x32 The Mirror

2x32 The Mirror

  • 1953-04-11T02:30:00Z30m

When a man's past is revealed his self-assurance is broken.

1963-04-18T02:30:00Z

2x33 Papa Goes to the Ball

2x33 Papa Goes to the Ball

  • 1963-04-18T02:30:00Z30m

A man takes his daughter to a school dance and puts on an exhibition that makes him the "beau" of the ball.

1953-04-25T02:30:00Z

2x34 Allen of Harper

2x34 Allen of Harper

  • 1953-04-25T02:30:00Z30m

A professor is saved from early retirement by a group of students.

1953-05-02T01:30:00Z

2x35 Medicine Woman

2x35 Medicine Woman

  • 1953-05-02T01:30:00Z30m

Smug Sam Bentley, a builder of high rise construction projects, is inconvenienced by a doctor's parked car. He decides to give him a piece of his mind, only to find the doctor is a lady. Instead of an argument, they get romantic. Things go well until one of her patients is hurt at one of his work sites.

1953-05-09T01:30:00Z

2x36 The Copper Ring

2x36 The Copper Ring

  • 1953-05-09T01:30:00Z30m

Dr. Gunther is growing old and irritable, but one evening he dreams of an Egyptian copper ring which brings happiness to all who wear it. And he slips it on.

1953-05-16T01:30:00Z

2x37 Vacation for Ginny

2x37 Vacation for Ginny

  • 1953-05-16T01:30:00Z30m

A mousy clerk at a travel agency wins a vacation and finds herself being pursued by no less than two suitors.

1953-05-23T01:30:00Z

2x38 Pursuit

2x38 Pursuit

  • 1953-05-23T01:30:00Z30m

A talented musician loses an arm in a hunting accident.

1953-05-30T01:30:00Z

2x39 The Girl that I Married

2x39 The Girl that I Married

  • 1953-05-30T01:30:00Z30m

An Army major falls for a French woman and a Red Cross Worker.

1953-06-06T01:30:00Z

2x40 Twenty-Two Sycamore Road

2x40 Twenty-Two Sycamore Road

  • 1953-06-06T01:30:00Z30m

A woman feels she is being taken for granted by her construction worker husband.

1953-06-13T01:30:00Z

2x41 The Widow Makes Three

2x41 The Widow Makes Three

  • 1953-06-13T01:30:00Z30m

A crime commission looks for three missing witnesses who can put the finger on a waterfront racketeer.

1953-06-20T01:30:00Z

2x42 Operation Riviera

2x42 Operation Riviera

  • 1953-06-20T01:30:00Z30m

Comedy about a GI on a ten day furlough on the isle of Capri.

1953-06-27T01:30:00Z

2x43 The Ledge

2x43 The Ledge

  • 1953-06-27T01:30:00Z30m

A young artist who's come to the big city loses heart when he experiences vision problems. Despite reassurance from his doctor that his eyes will improve, he becomes disheartened and climbs out onto a window ledge. The doctor, a cop, and a young woman who knows his case all work to coax him back inside.

1953-07-04T01:30:00Z

2x44 Richard and the Lion

2x44 Richard and the Lion

  • 1953-07-04T01:30:00Z30m

A young husband feels neglected because his wife pays too much attention to her pets, so he gets one of this own - a lion.

1953-07-11T01:30:00Z

2x45 Storm Warnings

2x45 Storm Warnings

  • 1953-07-11T01:30:00Z30m

Wanda is married to one of the operators of a small Alaskan cargo airline. She sends a note to her husband's partner, Vic, suggesting a rendezvous. When the letter goes missing, Vic is convinced his partner knows about their affair and feeding him deadly landing instructions via radio during a storm.

1953-07-18T01:30:00Z

2x46 The Journey

2x46 The Journey

  • 1953-07-18T01:30:00Z30m

A woman who is considerably younger than her husband is bored with their uneventful like in Costa Rica.

1953-07-25T01:30:00Z

2x47 Knave of Hearts

2x47 Knave of Hearts

  • 1953-07-25T01:30:00Z30m

Gambler Steve returns to marry Laura only to find she is to marry homesteader, Johnny. Laura's father, rancher Warren, disapproves of both men and, with hired gun Dineen, aims to eliminate both.

1953-08-01T01:30:00Z

2x48 The Doctor Goes Home

2x48 The Doctor Goes Home

  • 1953-08-01T01:30:00Z30m

A high society doctor finds great happiness in treating the poor.

1953-08-08T01:30:00Z

2x49 Simplon Express

2x49 Simplon Express

  • 1953-08-08T01:30:00Z30m

An incompetent detective bumbles his way thru danger and intrigue

1953-08-15T01:30:00Z

2x50 Miracle in the Night

2x50 Miracle in the Night

  • 1953-08-15T01:30:00Z30m

A wealthy woman is afraid to go out alone.

1953-08-22T01:30:00Z

2x51 Sheila

2x51 Sheila

  • 1953-08-22T01:30:00Z30m

A man's attempts to collect his aunt's inheritance are foiled by a cat named Sheila.

Season Finale

1953-08-29T01:30:00Z

2x52 Two Loves Have I

Season Finale

2x52 Two Loves Have I

  • 1953-08-29T01:30:00Z30m

After the death of her husband in the early years of World War II, a newspaper reporter throws herself into helping refugees from the Nazi invasion in wartime Lisbon.

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