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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Season 6 1956 - 1957

  • 1956-09-29T01:30:00Z on CBS
  • 30m
  • 22h (44 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.

44 episodes

Season Premiere

1956-09-29T01:30:00Z

6x01 Moment of Vengeance

Season Premiere

6x01 Moment of Vengeance

  • 1956-09-29T01:30:00Z30m

When a $20-a-month ranch hand elopes with the daughter of a cattle baron, the father gets his dander up and figures the young man is after his money.

6x02 The House That Jackson Built

  • 1956-10-06T01:30:00Z30m

A woman who has devoted herself to her career decides she is never to wed. She proceeds to buy a house and build a life that doesn't involve having a family. But she is pleasantly surprised about what happens next.

1956-10-13T01:30:00Z

6x03 The Trophy

6x03 The Trophy

  • 1956-10-13T01:30:00Z30m

A self-made man uses his money to offset his crudeness. His wife is constantly humiliated by his bad taste.

1956-10-20T01:30:00Z

6x04 Enoch Prentiss

6x04 Enoch Prentiss

  • 1956-10-20T01:30:00Z30m

A hard man in business is on the receiving end of the squeeze play when his daughter is threatened by a blackmailer who wants $25,000 in exchange for her reputation.

1956-10-27T01:30:00Z

6x05 Always the Best Man

6x05 Always the Best Man

  • 1956-10-27T01:30:00Z30m

A bachelor talks his best friend into breaking his engagement. But after he meets the man's ex-fiance, he begins to fall in love with her himself.

6x06 The Night They Won the Oscar

  • 1956-11-10T02:30:00Z30m

A dedicated director has had the loving support and understanding of his wife during the years in which he mastered his craft. After he wins an Oscar for a picture he directed, they find they are rapidly drifting apart.

1956-11-17T02:30:00Z

6x07 Explosion

6x07 Explosion

  • 1956-11-17T02:30:00Z30m

An American secret agent fighting to get control of a South American oil well poses an Englishman to thwart enemy agents.

1956-11-24T02:30:00Z

6x08 The Letter

6x08 The Letter

  • 1956-11-24T02:30:00Z30m

A Southern girl discovers that Confederate soldiers are not receiving letters from home. She therefore decides to deliver letters from her neighbors to their sons and sweethearts.

1956-12-01T02:30:00Z

6x09 Once Upon a Time

6x09 Once Upon a Time

  • 1956-12-01T02:30:00Z30m

A small girl teaches a thief about honesty after she sees him commit a crime.

1956-12-08T02:30:00Z

6x10 Washington Incident

6x10 Washington Incident

  • 1956-12-08T02:30:00Z30m

During the trying days of 1862, Abraham Lincoln overhears a disturbing conversation.

1956-12-15T02:30:00Z

6x11 A Tale of Wells Fargo

6x11 A Tale of Wells Fargo

  • 1956-12-15T02:30:00Z30m

After a series of train robberies and stagecoach hold-ups, the Wells Fargo Company assigns special agent Jim Hardie to capture the outlaws.

1956-12-22T02:30:00Z

6x12 A Light in the Desert

6x12 A Light in the Desert

  • 1956-12-22T02:30:00Z30m

A doctor saves a mother, dying in childbirth, and restores his own soul in the process.

1956-12-29T02:30:00Z

6x13 The Big Payoff

6x13 The Big Payoff

  • 1956-12-29T02:30:00Z30m

Joe McQuade is a respected and honest detective, who is in line for a promotion. His daughter needs an operation and a racketeer offers him money.

1957-01-05T02:30:00Z

6x14 The Lady Was a Flop

6x14 The Lady Was a Flop

  • 1957-01-05T02:30:00Z30m

Red McGivney, a former jockey who now works as an exercise boy, is sure that a race horse named Lady has the makings of a champion. After everyone else has given up, Red buys her to train and race himself.

1957-01-12T02:30:00Z

6x15 Tower Room 14-A

6x15 Tower Room 14-A

  • 1957-01-12T02:30:00Z30m

A house detective believes all women to be unfaithful until he meets a certain beautiful young lady.

1957-01-19T02:30:00Z

6x16 Terror in the Streets

6x16 Terror in the Streets

  • 1957-01-19T02:30:00Z30m

The story of an artist who moves into a cheap tenement apartment to decide whether or not to marry, but instead of peace of mind finds herself in the middle of terror.

1957-01-26T02:30:00Z

6x17 The Enchanted

6x17 The Enchanted

  • 1957-01-26T02:30:00Z30m

A man brings a young girl into his house with the intention of training her to be his wife.

1957-02-02T02:30:00Z

6x18 One Left Over

6x18 One Left Over

  • 1957-02-02T02:30:00Z30m

An auto accident takes the lives of a man's wife and his two sons, and he must find the courage to live for his daughter.

1957-02-09T02:30:00Z

6x19 Sometimes You Break Even

6x19 Sometimes You Break Even

  • 1957-02-09T02:30:00Z30m

An Army doctor and nurse have two critical patients and lock horns over how to deal with the lack of resources.

1957-02-16T02:30:00Z

6x20 Night Drive

6x20 Night Drive

  • 1957-02-16T02:30:00Z30m

A drive with an old lady over a lonely road turns out to be a nightmare for a young woman when the old lady proves to be a man with a gun.

1957-02-23T02:30:00Z

6x21 The Wedding Present

6x21 The Wedding Present

  • 1957-02-23T02:30:00Z30m

A lonely woman, tired of her reputation as a respectable spinster, takes a drifter in as a boarder and discovers he's wanted for murder.

1957-03-02T02:30:00Z

6x22 The Life You Save

6x22 The Life You Save

  • 1957-03-02T02:30:00Z30m

Marriage is the furthest thing from the mind of one-armed tramp, Tom Triplet -- then he sees Lucy Nell Crater, a deaf-mute girl with angelic innocence.

1957-03-09T02:30:00Z

6x23 Carriage from Britain

6x23 Carriage from Britain

  • 1957-03-09T02:30:00Z30m

A young mother's desire to keep ahead of the Joneses leads her to import a baby buggy like the one Prince Charles had.

1957-03-16T02:30:00Z

6x24 The Girl in the Grass

6x24 The Girl in the Grass

  • 1957-03-16T02:30:00Z30m

Harry Carstairs wakes up feeling young and adventurous. His wife, however, doesn't share his romantic mood, so Harry wanders off to the park. He intends to read the financial page, but finds himself being stared at by a beautiful girl.

1957-03-23T02:30:00Z

6x25 For Better, For Worse

6x25 For Better, For Worse

  • 1957-03-23T02:30:00Z30m

Walter Van Buren begins to suspect that his new wife is a compulsive liar.

1957-03-30T02:30:00Z

6x26 The Restless Gun

6x26 The Restless Gun

  • 1957-03-30T02:30:00Z30m

On the trail to visit his old friend Dan, former gunfighter Britt Ponset meets an escaped murderer nursing a grudge and plotting to kill Dan. Britt's job now is to warn Dan and help him prepare for the inevitable showdown.

1957-04-06T02:30:00Z

6x27 Clothes Make the Man

6x27 Clothes Make the Man

  • 1957-04-06T02:30:00Z30m

A mousy little button salesman gets thrown out of his hotel when it is taken over by a new chain, because he wore outlandish clothes.

1957-04-13T02:30:00Z

6x28 The Blue Hotel

6x28 The Blue Hotel

  • 1957-04-13T02:30:00Z30m

Strangers stranded in a hotel by a blizzard pass the time by playing poker. Tensions rise when one of them accuses another of cheating.

1957-04-20T02:30:00Z

6x29 Girl With a Glow

6x29 Girl With a Glow

  • 1957-04-20T02:30:00Z30m

An attractive, charming librarian is smitten with the movie director who's been hanging around the library. He enlists her help in tracking down a stunning woman he'd seen there days before; he describes her as having "a glow." Though she's glad to help, she hates that she hasn't captured his attention like the future movie star has.

1957-04-27T02:30:00Z

6x30 Hey, Mac

6x30 Hey, Mac

  • 1957-04-27T02:30:00Z30m

A beautiful divorcee and her spoiled teenage son destroy the peace of a widower and his pretty teenage daughter.

1957-05-04T01:30:00Z

6x31 The Traveling Corpse

6x31 The Traveling Corpse

  • 1957-05-04T01:30:00Z30m

Professor Stephen Bolt, a teacher of criminology, hears a strange story from a guest lecturer: a man dies suddenly. While his wife is arranging the burial, the corpse disappears

1957-05-11T01:30:00Z

6x32 The Dead are Silent

6x32 The Dead are Silent

  • 1957-05-11T01:30:00Z30m

1957-05-18T01:30:00Z

6x33 Switch Station

6x33 Switch Station

  • 1957-05-18T01:30:00Z30m

A drifter takes a temporary job at a stagecoach station but refuse a permanent one from manager Henry Maguire. As he's ready to move on bandits arrive threatening Henry and daughter Bess. The cowboy makes a crucial choice.

6x34 Sister Louise Goes to Town

  • 1957-05-25T01:30:00Z30m

A nun is bothered by the cloister's leaky roof, so, after learning she has come into an inheritance, she decides to do something about it.

1957-06-01T01:30:00Z

6x35 The Sword

6x35 The Sword

  • 1957-06-01T01:30:00Z30m

Cyrano de Bergerac is saved from the executioner's axe only by the adroit swordsmanship of de la Force.

1957-06-08T01:30:00Z

6x36 An Old Spanish Custom

6x36 An Old Spanish Custom

  • 1957-06-08T01:30:00Z30m

A temperamental movie star believes she can issue orders to everyone - even people she's just met.

1957-06-15T01:30:00Z

6x37 Storm Over Rapallo

6x37 Storm Over Rapallo

  • 1957-06-15T01:30:00Z30m

Pietro and Francesca live in a little Italian village on the Mediterranean. She's the cook in a ramshackle hotel and he's the waiter, but he rebels at spending his life picking up crumbs and plots big business deals at the waterfront. His association with Rubio, an evil fisherman frightens Francesca, but she is powerless to dissuade Pietro from entering into a scheme with Rubio to rob a pair of American tourists.

1957-06-22T01:30:00Z

6x38 Fifty Beautiful Girls

6x38 Fifty Beautiful Girls

  • 1957-06-22T01:30:00Z30m

A dancer repeatedly receives death threats by mail and phone calls.

1957-06-29T01:30:00Z

6x39 Sporting Chance

6x39 Sporting Chance

  • 1957-06-29T01:30:00Z30m

A jealous man turns a duck hunting expedition into a manhunt.

1957-08-03T01:30:00Z

6x40 Easy Going Man

6x40 Easy Going Man

  • 1957-08-03T01:30:00Z30m

A boy plays cupid for his widowed mother and her old flame.

1957-08-10T01:30:00Z

6x41 Hands of the Enemy

6x41 Hands of the Enemy

  • 1957-08-10T01:30:00Z30m

A defense attorney is met with antagonism when he arrives in a small town to help a boy already convicted by public opinion of stealing $8,000.

1957-08-17T01:30:00Z

6x42 The Face of a Killer

6x42 The Face of a Killer

  • 1957-08-17T01:30:00Z30m

A gangster pursued by the police convinces a crooked plastic surgeon to alter his face to look like a respected banker so the thug can kill and assume the identity of the respected citizen

1957-08-23T01:30:00Z

6x43 Goodbye, Joe

6x43 Goodbye, Joe

  • 1957-08-23T01:30:00Z30m

Season Finale

1957-08-30T01:30:00Z

6x44 Always Open and Shut

Season Finale

6x44 Always Open and Shut

  • 1957-08-30T01:30:00Z30m

Two policeman who are partners on a dangerous beat vie for the love of the same woman.

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