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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Season 4 1954 - 1955

  • 1954-09-11T01:30:00Z on CBS
  • 30m
  • 1d 3h 30m (55 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.

55 episodes

Season Premiere

1954-09-11T01:30:00Z

4x01 The Secret

Season Premiere

4x01 The Secret

  • 1954-09-11T01:30:00Z30m

A Hollywood columnist solves the mysterious disappearance of a silent film star.

4x02 Reunion at Steepler's Hill

  • 1954-09-18T01:30:00Z30m

Returning to his home town, a gunman (John Ireland) betrays an outlaw buddy to obtain reward money.

1954-09-25T01:30:00Z

4x03 The Pipe

4x03 The Pipe

  • 1954-09-25T01:30:00Z30m

A suspect in a diamond robbery cleverly outwits thieves who think he has the store.

1954-10-02T02:30:00Z

4x04 The Viking

4x04 The Viking

  • 1954-10-02T02:30:00Z30m

This Travel Oz features the Boondooma Balladeers and Heritage Muster, a 5 day gathering of bush balladeers, musicians and poets, in a festival known appropriately as, the "spirit of the bush". The Two Tims take us to the Blue Mountains for a winter magic festival. Then celebrations to mark the discovery of Australia by white settlers. Travel to the Town of 1770 in Queensland.

1954-10-09T02:30:00Z

4x05 The Net Draws Tight

4x05 The Net Draws Tight

  • 1954-10-09T02:30:00Z30m

The honest proprietor of a roadside cafe tries to help both a wayward boy and his own brother, an escaped killer.

1954-10-16T02:30:00Z

4x06 Square Shootin'

4x06 Square Shootin'

  • 1954-10-16T02:30:00Z30m

A comedy about a tenderfoot in the Old West.

1954-10-23T02:30:00Z

4x07 The Best of Everything

4x07 The Best of Everything

  • 1954-10-23T02:30:00Z30m

A young man, greedy for wealth, resorts to murder to get it.

1954-10-30T02:30:00Z

4x08 The Sensation Club

4x08 The Sensation Club

  • 1954-10-30T02:30:00Z30m

The Sensation Club worships the unusual and the bizarre. What better thing for Garman to bring before his fellow sensation-seekers than a man he believes is being sought for murder by the police?

1954-11-06T02:30:00Z

4x09 No Rescue

4x09 No Rescue

  • 1954-11-06T02:30:00Z30m

A wanted Latin American jeopardizes his life to aid fellow passengers in a plane crash.

1954-11-13T02:30:00Z

4x10 Midnight Haul

4x10 Midnight Haul

  • 1954-11-13T02:30:00Z30m

A driver tries to find out why his trucks are being stolen

1954-11-20T02:30:00Z

4x11 The Long Trail

4x11 The Long Trail

  • 1954-11-20T02:30:00Z30m

Texas Ranger Walden accepts the hospitality of an Oregon sheriff and his daughter while on the trail of a man wanted for murder. He learns his quarry, Sam Gates, is nearby and the sheriff agrees to help him fulfill the order of the law. Several locals ask the ranger to reconsider arresting Gates because he was only acting in self defense. Plus, he's now a family man, married to the sheriff's daughter.

1954-11-27T02:30:00Z

4x12 Mystery of Murder

4x12 Mystery of Murder

  • 1954-11-27T02:30:00Z30m

On a second honeymoon with his wife, a judge gets a chance to test his theory that there is a criminal type that will not kill under any circumstances.

1954-12-04T02:30:00Z

4x13 Volturio Investigates

4x13 Volturio Investigates

  • 1954-12-04T02:30:00Z30m

A debonair jewel thief discovers there's no honor among thieves.

1954-12-11T02:30:00Z

4x14 Spangal Island

4x14 Spangal Island

  • 1954-12-11T02:30:00Z30m

A man in a small New England town is suspected of having something to do with the disappearance of his rival.

1954-12-18T02:30:00Z

4x15 Woman Expert

4x15 Woman Expert

  • 1954-12-18T02:30:00Z30m

A detective uses his masculine charm to solve his cases. His method is to befriend the suspected murderer's sweetheart and gain her confidence.

1954-12-25T02:30:00Z

4x16 Day of Good News

4x16 Day of Good News

  • 1954-12-25T02:30:00Z30m

A man moves from the big city to a small town and works for the local newspaper which only covers good news.

4x17 The Dumbest Man in the Army

  • 1955-01-01T02:30:00Z30m

An Army misfit is ridiculed by his fellow soldiers when a prank backfires.

1955-01-08T02:30:00Z

4x18 The Cool One

4x18 The Cool One

  • 1955-01-08T02:30:00Z30m

Tom Novak (Stephen McNally) journeys to the Dakotas to find a wife and a ranch site. Although he finds them, another man asserts prior claim to both.

1955-01-15T02:30:00Z

4x19 Man Out of the Rain

4x19 Man Out of the Rain

  • 1955-01-15T02:30:00Z30m

Floods followed by a landslide find Mona Tyrrel trapped in her home with Zakka - a young man who is a complete stranger to her.

1955-01-22T02:30:00Z

4x20 Underground

4x20 Underground

  • 1955-01-22T02:30:00Z30m

Joe Tierney has had years of experience with the telephone company and its underground cable system. Some hoods decide to kidnap him and learn the location of a bank alarm.

1955-01-29T02:30:00Z

4x21 Murder In Paradise

4x21 Murder In Paradise

  • 1955-01-29T02:30:00Z30m

A couple's quiet South Seas island paradise life is disrupted by strangers with a tale of a man lost at sea.

1955-02-05T02:30:00Z

4x22 The Last Pilot Schooner

4x22 The Last Pilot Schooner

  • 1955-02-05T02:30:00Z30m

A rookie reporter is assigned to cover the final voyage of a schooner and gets caught up in the drama when the ship begins to sink.

1955-02-12T02:30:00Z

4x23 The Schoolmarm

4x23 The Schoolmarm

  • 1955-02-12T02:30:00Z30m

A Civil War veteran is eager to teach the ways of peace and democracy to the frontiersmen of the new state of Oregon.

1955-02-19T02:30:00Z

4x24 The Way to Freedom

4x24 The Way to Freedom

  • 1955-02-19T02:30:00Z30m

An embezzler gets the chance to impersonate a Scotland Yard Officer. As such, he is assigned to search for a murderer.

1955-02-26T02:30:00Z

4x25 Fast Break

4x25 Fast Break

  • 1955-02-26T02:30:00Z30m

A former basketball player, once jailed for accepting a bribe, must move from one city to another as his reputation catches up with him.

1955-03-05T02:30:00Z

4x26 Fedar

4x26 Fedar

  • 1955-03-05T02:30:00Z30m

In ancient Sicily, a sculptor is sentenced to be a galley slave for insulting a tyrant who rules the island.

1955-03-12T02:30:00Z

4x27 Visitor in the Night

4x27 Visitor in the Night

  • 1955-03-12T02:30:00Z30m

An ambitious mayor has a tough time trying to explain what he was doing in the company of a gorgeous blonde on election eve, when his wife was away.

1955-03-19T02:30:00Z

4x28 Ride to the West

4x28 Ride to the West

  • 1955-03-19T02:30:00Z30m

A gunslinger and his brother confront a crazed killer in a spooky Western ghost town.

1955-03-26T02:30:00Z

4x29 Log the Man Innocent

4x29 Log the Man Innocent

  • 1955-03-26T02:30:00Z30m

When a sea captain refuses to toss a man overboard because he is ill, the crew causes a mutiny and tosses both captain and sick man adrift in a boat.

1955-04-02T02:30:00Z

4x30 Tourists - Overnight

4x30 Tourists - Overnight

  • 1955-04-02T02:30:00Z30m

A niece is the traveling companion for her wealthy aunt and they stay overnight at a tourists' home and find themselves among gangsters.

1955-04-09T02:30:00Z

4x31 Mr. Ears

4x31 Mr. Ears

  • 1955-04-09T02:30:00Z30m

An elderly storekeeper keeps his young friend enthralled with tales of his days as an Indian fighter.

1955-04-16T02:30:00Z

4x32 O'Brien

4x32 O'Brien

  • 1955-04-16T02:30:00Z30m

Federal agent Sam Ireland is assigned to a lawless border town. Sam takes a room in a boarding house suspected of being the center of a human smuggling. The agent finds himself distracted by the fairer sex.

1955-04-23T02:30:00Z

4x33 Who's the Blonde?

4x33 Who's the Blonde?

  • 1955-04-23T02:30:00Z30m

Dollars disappear when a mysterious blonde appears at closing time in a bank. The teller is hard pressed to explain the discrepancy in the day's receipts.

1955-04-30T01:30:00Z

4x34 The Brute Next Door

4x34 The Brute Next Door

  • 1955-04-30T01:30:00Z30m

A mild-mannered architect harbors a secret love of the more violent forms of sport. He gets his big chance when a boxer in need of a manager moves next door.

1955-05-07T01:30:00Z

4x35 The Unlighted Road

4x35 The Unlighted Road

  • 1955-05-07T01:30:00Z30m

Young Jeff Latham stops at a roadside diner and ends up working there. After meeting a nice local girl, everything seems to be going his way. Things get complicated when he unwittingly gets involved with criminals working out of the diner.

1955-05-14T01:30:00Z

4x36 Too Many Nelsons

4x36 Too Many Nelsons

  • 1955-05-14T01:30:00Z30m

A western town is dominated by one family. When one of them is murdered, a stranger in town finds himself the object of a lynch mob.

1955-05-21T01:30:00Z

4x37 Sentence of Death

4x37 Sentence of Death

  • 1955-05-21T01:30:00Z30m

A girl witnesses the shooting of a druggist. But she doesn't go along with the identification of a suspect made by other witnesses.

1955-05-28T01:30:00Z

4x38 The Argonauts

4x38 The Argonauts

  • 1955-05-28T01:30:00Z30m

After nearly 30 years of dull routine, a shipping clerk signs on with a ship as a sailor. But on the eve of embarkation, he meets up with more exciting fare in port.

1955-06-04T01:30:00Z

4x39 Visa for X

4x39 Visa for X

  • 1955-06-04T01:30:00Z30m

A member of the British Civil Service whose job it is to produce identity cards for the War Office, is tempted to use his skills for illegitimate purposes when his son becomes a fugitive.

4x40 O'Connor and the Blue-Eyed Felon

  • 1955-06-11T01:30:00Z30m

A guest finally finds her way to O'Connor's insolvent fishing lodge in the High Sierras. But her car is flashy, her purse empty and her only luggage a revolver.

1955-06-18T01:30:00Z

4x41 A Mule for Santa Fe

4x41 A Mule for Santa Fe

  • 1955-06-18T01:30:00Z30m

A father and son need another mule so they can join the wagon train. But they come across criminals who want more than they can offer for the transaction.

1955-06-25T01:30:00Z

4x42 Splendid with Swords

4x42 Splendid with Swords

  • 1955-06-25T01:30:00Z30m

The last of a line of famous fencers falls in love with a girl who scoffs at fencing.

1955-07-02T01:30:00Z

4x43 The Ordeal of Dr. Sutton

4x43 The Ordeal of Dr. Sutton

  • 1955-07-02T01:30:00Z30m

The romance of a nurse suffers a setback when a doctor turns down a chance to establish a private practice.

1955-07-09T01:30:00Z

4x44 Ambitious Cop

4x44 Ambitious Cop

  • 1955-07-09T01:30:00Z30m

A policeman who wants to be a district attorney kills an old friend in a gun duel. He now has to reckon not only with the public, which thinks of him as a killer, but with angry mobsters.

1955-07-16T01:30:00Z

4x45 Meet Mr. Justice

4x45 Meet Mr. Justice

  • 1955-07-16T01:30:00Z30m

A small town postmaster, storekeeper and justice of the peace has his hands full when a young eloping couple attempts to "borrow" gasoline from his locked pump.

1955-07-23T01:30:00Z

4x46 Visibility Zero

4x46 Visibility Zero

  • 1955-07-23T01:30:00Z30m

An aging senior airline pilot is about to be promoted to operations chief, but feels he is being "grounded" due to his age. When he makes his farewell flight he learns that things are changing.

1955-07-30T01:30:00Z

4x47 The Direct Approach

4x47 The Direct Approach

  • 1955-07-30T01:30:00Z30m

A large state-decreed construction project overwhelms a small rural town that is dominated by a gruff but soft-hearted old soldier. His niece is young and craves romance, and finds it in the construction foreman, who's very much at odds with the townsfolk and especially a man that fancies himself as her boyfriend.

1955-08-06T01:30:00Z

4x48 Too Late to Run

4x48 Too Late to Run

  • 1955-08-06T01:30:00Z30m

The owner of a roadside diner is falling for his new waitress, but his young assistant is suspicious of her. The report that a dangerous killer is in the vicinity changes the picture.

1955-08-13T01:30:00Z

4x49 On Leave

4x49 On Leave

  • 1955-08-13T01:30:00Z30m

Pvt. Henri Baptiste, decorated French soldier of World War I, obtains a leave and visits his home village, only to find it devastated.

1955-08-20T01:30:00Z

4x50 Jury of One

4x50 Jury of One

  • 1955-08-20T01:30:00Z30m

A lawyer goes to a small Wyoming town in search of the heir to a strange legacy. Two claimants show up, each with verbal proof of his rightful claim, and this puts the lawyer in the role of a Solomon to decide which is the heir.

1955-08-27T01:30:00Z

4x51 The Case for the State

4x51 The Case for the State

  • 1955-08-27T01:30:00Z30m

A young assistant district attorney suspects a trap has been baited for an indigent artist accused of stealing money from an art gallery.

1955-09-03T01:30:00Z

4x52 Three Months to Remember

4x52 Three Months to Remember

  • 1955-09-03T01:30:00Z30m

An ex-GI suffering from amnesia returns to his home town in an attempt to regain both his memory and an inheritance.

1955-09-10T01:30:00Z

4x53 The Uninhibited Female

4x53 The Uninhibited Female

  • 1955-09-10T01:30:00Z30m

An efficiency expert on his first assignment and an outspoken secretary lock horns over how things are done.

1955-09-17T01:30:00Z

4x54 Wild Call

4x54 Wild Call

  • 1955-09-17T01:30:00Z30m

After working in a department store for forty years, a man decides to go on a sea voyage.

Season Finale

1955-09-24T01:30:00Z

4x55 The Quitter

Season Finale

4x55 The Quitter

  • 1955-09-24T01:30:00Z30m

Trainer Bradley Taylor enlists the aid of a mule to train a frisky harness-race horse.

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