Episode guide
Playhouse 90: Season 3
38 episodes · premiered Sep 25, 1958
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- Episode 1: The Plot to Kill Stalin Sep 25, 1958 · 1h 30m In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with anti-Semitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear…
- Episode 2: Days of Wine and Roses Oct 2, 1958 · 1h 30m An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
- Episode 3: The Time of Your Life Oct 9, 1958 · 1h 30m William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the characters drift in and out of the bar…
- Episode 4: The Long March Oct 16, 1958 · 1h 30m
- Episode 5: Shadows Tremble Oct 23, 1958 · 1h 30m An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.
- Episode 6: Word from a Sealed-Off Box Oct 30, 1958 · 1h 30m A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.
- Episode 7: Heart of Darkness Nov 6, 1958 · 1h 30m A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
- Episode 8: Old Man Nov 20, 1958 · 1h 30m To fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts.
- Episode 9: The Return of Ansel Gibbs Nov 27, 1958 · 1h 30m After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.
- Episode 10: Free Weekend Dec 4, 1958 · 1h 30m
- Episode 11: Seven Against the Wall Dec 11, 1958 · 1h 30m The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.
- Episode 12: The Nutcracker Dec 25, 1958 · 1h 30m This telecast of George Balanchine's famous production was broadcast only four years after it was premiered by the New York City Ballet. This was the only episode of the series televised…
- Episode 13: Face of a Hero Jan 1, 1959 · 1h 30m
- Episode 14: The Wings of the Dove Jan 8, 1959 · 1h 30m An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress…
- Episode 15: The Blue Men Jan 15, 1959 · 1h 30m
- Episode 16: The Velvet Alley Jan 22, 1959 · 1h 30m Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.
- Episode 17: A Quiet Game of Cards Jan 29, 1959 · 1h 30m A few friends meet each weekend for a quiet game of cards. But they're bored with poker and, in trying to find another diversion, gradually find themselves plotting a hypothetical murder…
- Episode 18: Child of Our Time Feb 5, 1959 · 1h 30m War deprives Tanguy of his childhood. When his mother returns to Spain to oppose the Franco regime, he is left in Nazi-occupied Marseilles, France.
- Episode 19: The Second Man Feb 12, 1959 · 1h 30m
- Episode 20: The Raider Feb 19, 1959 · 1h 30m A corporate raider plans a hostile takeover. To stall him, pressure is put on a scientist to rush through a new type of engine before all necessary tests have been completed.
- Episode 21: The Ding-A-Ling Girl Feb 26, 1959 · 1h 30m A housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her.
- Episode 22: Made in Japan Mar 5, 1959 · 1h 30m A young soldier in occupied Japan after World War II falls in love with a lovely Japanese girl, but is horrified about what his prejudiced family in Philadelphia will think if he takes her…
- Episode 23: For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1 Mar 12, 1959 · 1h 30m During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
- Episode 24: For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2 Mar 19, 1959 · 1h 30m The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.
- Episode 25: A Trip to Paradise Mar 26, 1959 · 1h 30m
- Episode 26: In Lonely Expectation Apr 2, 1959 · 1h 30m
- Episode 27: The Day Before Atlanta Apr 9, 1959 · 1h 30m
- Episode 28: Judgment at Nuremberg Apr 16, 1959 · 1h 30m In the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice.
- Episode 29: A Corner of the Garden Apr 23, 1959 · 1h 30m
- Episode 30: Dark December Apr 30, 1959 · 1h 30m During World War II, an army doctor struggles to convert a Franciscan monastery into a field hospital.
- Episode 31: Diary of a Nurse May 7, 1959 · 1h 30m The daily emergencies and stresses of a major city's hospital ward as seen through the eyes of nurse Gail Lucas.
- Episode 32: A Marriage of Strangers May 14, 1959 · 1h 30m Marry in haste, repent at leisure? Well, maybe.
- Episode 33: Out of Dust May 21, 1959 · 1h 30m On a cattle drive across the prairie, the sons of a wealthy cattle baron plot his death.
- Episode 34: The Rank and File May 28, 1959 · 1h 30m A powerful union leader is interrogated by a Senate committee. Testifying before a Senate, William Kilcoyne tells the story of his career. He began as a factory worker and his shrewdness…
- Episode 35: The Killers of Mussolini Jun 4, 1959 · 1h 30m As the Salo Republic crumbles around him, Mussolini, along with his mistress and several of his ministers flee with retreating Nazi soldiers, but are caught at the town of Dongo by red…
- Episode 36: Project Immortality Jun 11, 1959 · 1h 30m Key defense scientist Doner has cancer. Schramm is assigned to code Doner's thinking into a computer. He gets to know him as a friend, a husband and father. The project is successful, but…
- Episode 37: Dark as the Night Jun 18, 1959 · 1h 30m A British politician finds himself open to blackmail because of the indiscretion of his American wife.
- Episode 38: The Second Happiest Day Jun 25, 1959 · 1h 30m A man about to be married recalls the day his life changed permanently.