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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Season 2 1959 - 1960

  • 1959-09-15T02:00:00Z on CBS
  • 45m
  • 16h (16 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama
Welcome to the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse guide at TV Tome. This site is currently under construction. The episode list currently only contains the shows released for syndication and the airdates are copyright dates, not the network premiere dates for each episode. Most noticeably missing are the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz hours, 8 original (1958-1960) and 5 replays(1957-58.) In mid 1958, Desi Arnaz proclaimed this new Desilu show as his "#1 baby", and promised Desilu Playhouse would include great hours of drama, comedy, and variety. His biggest selling point, however, was the creation of new hour long I Love Lucy episodes. Desilu had created 5 of the hour long specials for the 1957-58 season, and all were top rated. Westinghouse just lost their long running anthology show Studio One, and was anxious to continue in the prime Monday time slot AND with high ratings promised by previous Lucy-Desi efforts. Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse was the result. The first show

16 episodes

Season Premiere

1959-09-15T02:00:00Z

2x01 A Diamond for Carla

Season Premiere

2x01 A Diamond for Carla

  • 1959-09-15T02:00:00Z1h

1959-10-03T02:00:00Z

2x02 The Day the Town Stood Up

2x02 The Day the Town Stood Up

  • 1959-10-03T02:00:00Z1h

1959-10-17T02:00:00Z

2x03 Six Guns for Donegan

2x03 Six Guns for Donegan

  • 1959-10-17T02:00:00Z1h

1959-10-31T03:00:00Z

2x04 So Tender, So Profane

2x04 So Tender, So Profane

  • 1959-10-31T03:00:00Z1h

1959-11-07T03:00:00Z

2x05 Come Back to Sorrento

2x05 Come Back to Sorrento

  • 1959-11-07T03:00:00Z1h

1959-11-14T03:00:00Z

2x06 Border Justice

2x06 Border Justice

  • 1959-11-14T03:00:00Z1h

1959-11-21T03:00:00Z

2x07 Lepke

2x07 Lepke

  • 1959-11-21T03:00:00Z1h

1959-12-05T03:00:00Z

2x08 The Hanging Judge

2x08 The Hanging Judge

  • 1959-12-05T03:00:00Z1h

1959-12-12T03:00:00Z

2x09 Murder in Gratitude

2x09 Murder in Gratitude

  • 1959-12-12T03:00:00Z1h

A doctor kills the man who murdered his brother, but he kills the wrong man.

1959-12-26T03:00:00Z

2x10 The Desilu Revue

2x10 The Desilu Revue

  • 1959-12-26T03:00:00Z1h

Lucille Ball plays herself as the vice-president of Desilu Productions, who is busy readying her workshop of young performers for their musical revue. The performers in this program were actual members of Lucy's Workshop at Desilu Studios, and included film historian Robert Osborne, Carole Cook and Dick Kallman, who later starred in the series ""Hank"".

1960-01-24T03:00:00Z

2x11 Meeting at Apalachin

2x11 Meeting at Apalachin

  • 1960-01-24T03:00:00Z1h

1960-02-20T03:00:00Z

2x12 Thunder in the Night

2x12 Thunder in the Night

  • 1960-02-20T03:00:00Z1h

1960-03-19T03:00:00Z

2x13 Circle of Evil

2x13 Circle of Evil

  • 1960-03-19T03:00:00Z1h

1960-04-16T03:00:00Z

2x14 The Man in the Funny Suit

2x14 The Man in the Funny Suit

  • 1960-04-16T03:00:00Z1h

In 1956, viewers saw Ed Wynn give a moving performance in ""Requiem for a Heavyweight"" on the Playhouse 90 series. This program shows the tense drama which unfolded behind the scenes, when Ed's son and co-star Keenan Wynn feared that ""The Perfect Fool"" would be far from perfect in his first straight dramatic role.

1960-05-14T02:00:00Z

2x15 City in Bondage

2x15 City in Bondage

  • 1960-05-14T02:00:00Z1h

Season Finale

1960-06-11T02:00:00Z

2x16 Murder is a Private Affair

Season Finale

2x16 Murder is a Private Affair

  • 1960-06-11T02:00:00Z1h
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