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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Season 7 1957 - 1958

  • 1957-09-14T01:30:00Z on CBS
  • 30m
  • 19h (38 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.

38 episodes

Season Premiere

1957-09-14T01:30:00Z

7x01 Three Dollar Bill

Season Premiere

7x01 Three Dollar Bill

  • 1957-09-14T01:30:00Z30m

Eddie Martin is making lots of money at his job, and he's happy. Not so his wife, who thinks Eddie should work behind a desk and wear a gray-flannel suit. In an effort to help her husband get ahead, she throws a dinner party for the boss.

1957-09-21T01:30:00Z

7x02 One Way Out

7x02 One Way Out

  • 1957-09-21T01:30:00Z30m

A man serving a long sentence finds his only ticket out is through parole and good behavior.

1957-10-12T01:30:00Z

7x03 Smarty

7x03 Smarty

  • 1957-10-12T01:30:00Z30m

On a boat headed for Panama, a brash, overdressed girl tries desperately to make friends with other passengers. But her outlandish appearance and loud voice make her an object of ridicule.

1957-10-19T01:30:00Z

7x04 High Barrier

7x04 High Barrier

  • 1957-10-19T01:30:00Z30m

A wealthy, domineering wife schemes her husband's death.

1957-10-26T01:30:00Z

7x05 Bitter Parting

7x05 Bitter Parting

  • 1957-10-26T01:30:00Z30m

After Prof. Rhys Lorenz is blinded in an accident, he becomes bitter at the world.

1957-11-02T02:30:00Z

7x06 Dual Control

7x06 Dual Control

  • 1957-11-02T02:30:00Z30m

An American flier's plane crashes in the Chinese jungle. A lovely Eurasian girl joins the flier in an attempt to escape the Communists.

1957-11-09T02:30:00Z

7x07 The Hole Card

7x07 The Hole Card

  • 1957-11-09T02:30:00Z30m

A widow with a gambling problem owes everyone money, including the landlord who's wanting to evict her. She desperately wants to buy a pricey birthday gift for for her young son, who lives with disapproving relatives. If only she could have a little luck.

1957-11-16T02:30:00Z

7x08 The Lonely Wizard

7x08 The Lonely Wizard

  • 1957-11-16T02:30:00Z30m

The true story of electrical engineer Charles Steinmetz. Even as a child in Germany, Charles was lonely, preferring to devise inventions rather than play with other children. As he grows to young manhood, Steinmetz applies his brilliant mind to problems of electrical engineering.

1957-11-23T02:30:00Z

7x09 No Second Helping

7x09 No Second Helping

  • 1957-11-23T02:30:00Z30m

A wife finds a letter in the pocket of her suave husband and learns he's been seeing a young woman. She suspects he's been cheating, but he says she's the daughter of a friend and simply reminds him of his youth. The wife decides to get to the bottom of it all by having the "chick" join them for dinner.

1957-11-30T02:30:00Z

7x10 Outlaw's Boots

7x10 Outlaw's Boots

  • 1957-11-30T02:30:00Z30m

A reformed outlaw has trouble going straight.

1957-12-07T02:30:00Z

7x11 Neighbors

7x11 Neighbors

  • 1957-12-07T02:30:00Z30m

A home-loving man's marriage has become a dull routine until he becomes interested in a young widow who moves next door.

1957-12-14T02:30:00Z

7x12 French Provincial

7x12 French Provincial

  • 1957-12-14T02:30:00Z30m

In Paris, columnist Mary Andrews runs into an old friend, Dutch Morgan. She agrees to play the role of Dutch's wife, from whom he's separated, when he visits a family that helped him when he was shot down in World War 2.

1957-12-21T02:30:00Z

7x13 Rich Man, Poor Man

7x13 Rich Man, Poor Man

  • 1957-12-21T02:30:00Z30m

A humble peasant is simple and naive - until he illegally sells a horde of antique statuettes to an unscrupulous dealer. The new found wealth complicates his life and nearly destroys his marriage.

1957-12-28T02:30:00Z

7x14 Pattern for Death

7x14 Pattern for Death

  • 1957-12-28T02:30:00Z30m

Bill Carter suspects that his present wife is still in love with her first husband. He allows his jealousy to threaten his marriage and ruin his life.

1958-01-11T02:30:00Z

7x15 Guys Like O'Malley

7x15 Guys Like O'Malley

  • 1958-01-11T02:30:00Z30m

Battle-hardened Sgt. O'Malley dedicates himself to the task of making a seasoned soldier out of an irresponsible private.

1958-01-18T02:30:00Z

7x16 Home Again

7x16 Home Again

  • 1958-01-18T02:30:00Z30m

A trio of jewel thieves, two men and a woman, take refuge from the police in a small town where the girl was raised. Tension mounts as the three strive to remain undetected while their attitude toward each other begins to change.

1958-02-01T02:30:00Z

7x17 No Boat for Four Months

7x17 No Boat for Four Months

  • 1958-02-01T02:30:00Z30m

Arriving on the lonely French Island of Tuamotu in the South Pacific in the late summer of 1939, an Army doctor discovers his medical school classmate and finds that he must help him conquer his addiction to morphine.

1958-02-08T02:30:00Z

7x18 Heroes Never Group Up

7x18 Heroes Never Group Up

  • 1958-02-08T02:30:00Z30m

After he is presented with a citation for saving a child's life, Frankie Nevada is impressed with his role of hero. When he becomes more concerned with his press clippings than with finding a job, his girlfriend as well as his friends turn against him.

1958-02-15T02:30:00Z

7x19 East of the Moon

7x19 East of the Moon

  • 1958-02-15T02:30:00Z30m

A trip to Japan by a businessman becomes a complicated love affair when his boss asks him to visit his Japanese wife and child whom he had left behind.

1958-02-22T02:30:00Z

7x20 Man on a Rack

7x20 Man on a Rack

  • 1958-02-22T02:30:00Z30m

A clothing salesman lets a lady friend talk him out of using his customary high-pressure sales techniques. But his sales drop, and the boss is forced to take him off the road.

1958-03-01T02:30:00Z

7x21 Two Lives Have I

7x21 Two Lives Have I

  • 1958-03-01T02:30:00Z30m

After years as a hen-pecked husband, Hully Brown decides to leave his overbearing wife and make a new life for himself.

1958-03-08T02:30:00Z

7x22 Night of the Stranger

7x22 Night of the Stranger

  • 1958-03-08T02:30:00Z30m

A psychiatrist takes refuge in the home of a stranger when one of her patients tries to run over her with his car. (He didn't take the news that he was going to be committed very well.) After stalking the house and terrorizing the pair for hours, the patient finally leaves. The doctor and homeowner attempt to escape, but the deranged man returns, more desperate than before to break into the house.

1958-03-15T02:30:00Z

7x23 The Honor System

7x23 The Honor System

  • 1958-03-15T02:30:00Z30m

An ex-con tries to force his son's acceptance to an elite college by attempting to blackmail the man who must approve the entrants.

1958-03-22T02:30:00Z

7x24 Bluebeard's Seventh Wife

7x24 Bluebeard's Seventh Wife

  • 1958-03-22T02:30:00Z30m

A disappointed suitor is accused of playing cop when he voices doubts about a former girlfriend's choice of a husband.

1958-03-29T02:30:00Z

7x25 I Shot a Prowler

7x25 I Shot a Prowler

  • 1958-03-29T02:30:00Z30m

While her husband is away on a business trip, a lonely housewife becomes infatuated with another man. When he threatens her with exposure unless she gives him a large sum of money, she searches frantically for a solution to her problem.

1958-04-05T02:30:00Z

7x26 Papa Said No

7x26 Papa Said No

  • 1958-04-05T02:30:00Z30m

Photographer Calvin is interested in pretty Suzanne only as a model, but she thinks of Calvin as a prospective husband. Only when Suzanne's irate father visits the studio does Calvin realize her intentions.

1958-04-12T02:30:00Z

7x27 Secrets of the Old Bailey

7x27 Secrets of the Old Bailey

  • 1958-04-12T02:30:00Z30m

A Detective Superintendent of Scotland Yard is assigned the task of solving a baffling murder of an attractive London model

1958-04-19T02:30:00Z

7x28 A Contest of Ladies

7x28 A Contest of Ladies

  • 1958-04-19T02:30:00Z30m

A British movie star finds himself in a miserable situation: All he wants to do is rest, but he's forced to judge a beauty contest, and the participants don't give him a moment's peace.

1958-04-26T02:30:00Z

7x29 The Kind Mr. Smith

7x29 The Kind Mr. Smith

  • 1958-04-26T02:30:00Z30m

A poor Frenchman (Vincent Price) is mistaken upon his arrival in England for another man from France expected to arrive at that time. He is brought to the home of Mr. Smith, an apparently wealthy art connoisseur, and his lovely daughter (Valerie French). He soon finds out that both Mr. Smith and the expected Frenchman (Jonathan Harris) are involved in a scheme to sell a fake Corot painting.

1958-05-03T01:30:00Z

7x30 Penny Wise

7x30 Penny Wise

  • 1958-05-03T01:30:00Z30m

A poor working girl fears she will not be accepted by her husband's socially prominent family. On her way to a first meeting with her in-laws, she has a series of wacky daydreams about them.

A New York City reporter arrives in a small town where two recent murders have the locals terrified. Vigilantes have decided that a man from the wrong side of the tracks is the killer. The police chief, however, believes there's a big secret in the town that points to the guilty party.

1958-05-31T01:30:00Z

7x32 Lottery for Revenge

7x32 Lottery for Revenge

  • 1958-05-31T01:30:00Z30m

Revolutionists under the heel of a dictator are aided by an American newsman who becomes involved and lends a hand to help make the revolution a success.

1958-06-07T01:30:00Z

7x33 Way of the West

7x33 Way of the West

  • 1958-06-07T01:30:00Z30m

Dr. John Carter, a rather starchy young physician from Boston, is on his way to San Francisco. When a frontier town is stricken by a smallpox epidemic, the doctor reluctantly joins forces with the lawless Belle Starr to rush aid to the stricken people.

1958-06-14T01:30:00Z

7x34 Long Distance

7x34 Long Distance

  • 1958-06-14T01:30:00Z30m

A wife tries to make a last-ditch phone call to save her husband from the electric chair.

1958-06-21T01:30:00Z

7x35 You'll Have to Die Now

7x35 You'll Have to Die Now

  • 1958-06-21T01:30:00Z30m

A young man follows his father's footsteps and becomes a police officer. He learns that one of his Dad's old buddies who's still of the force is on the make. The rookie offers the lieutenant a chance to "go straight" if he'll help him get evidence against the mob. That's when he learns that it could be deadly to expose the corruption.

1958-06-28T01:30:00Z

7x36 Curfew at Midnight

7x36 Curfew at Midnight

  • 1958-06-28T01:30:00Z30m

George Slattery is being ridden hard by his parole officer since getting out of jail for murder. He's fallen for a nice woman in the neighborhood, but a small-time gangster thinks she belongs with him. The constant harassment by the thug and his goons is testing George's ability to keep his fists in check and himself out of prison.

Season Finale

1958-08-16T01:30:00Z

7x37 False Alarm

Season Finale

7x37 False Alarm

  • 1958-08-16T01:30:00Z30m

A honest cab driver who has fallen on hard times joins a gang planning to commit an armored car robbery.

1957-06-28T01:30:00Z

7x38 Curfew at Midnight

7x38 Curfew at Midnight

  • 1957-06-28T01:30:00Z30m

George Slattery is being ridden hard by his parole officer since getting out of jail for murder. He's fallen for a nice woman in the neighborhood, but a small-time gangster thinks she belongs with him. The constant harassment by the thug and his goons is testing George's ability to keep his fists in check and himself out of prison.

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