Playhouse 90

  • Premiered: Oct 1956
  • Episodes: 133
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • CBS
  • Tuesday at 21
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Season 1
1x1
Forbidden Area
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Air date
Oct 04, 1956
Heston stars as a one-eyed colonel intent of solving the mystery of the exploding bombers. Soviet agents have infiltrated a secret air base and are busy doing away with American aircraft.
1x2
Requiem For A Heavyweight
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 11, 1956
A professional heavyweight boxer (Palance) is burned out after fourteen years in the ring. When during his last fight he is sold out by his devious manager (Keenan Wynn), he struggles to find new meaning in his life.
1x3
Sizeman and Son
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Air date
Oct 18, 1956
Sizeman owns a dress-manufacturing business in New York City. When his son was born, he addded the words ""and Son"" to the name of the company, hoping that they would work together some .. show full overview
1x4
Rendezvous In Black
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Air date
Oct 25, 1956
The unexplainable death of a young man's fiancee while waiting for him on a street corner sets off a series of seemingly unrelated murders in the city.
1x5
The Country Husband
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Air date
Nov 01, 1956
After a close brush with death, a businessman intends to live each and every day to the fullest without regard to his wife and child. When he falls for the babysitter he considers .. show full overview
1x6
The Big Slide
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Air date
Nov 08, 1956
When a second-rate vaudeville comic becomes a silent movie star, the conflict between his love for an actress and the demands of his career brings tragedy and heartbreak to the clown.
1x7
Heritage of Anger
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Air date
Nov 15, 1956
Industrial mogul Eddie Hanneman finds that his two sons are uninterested in taking over the family business though they want the rewards.
1x8
Eloise
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Air date
Nov 22, 1956
Eloise was a little girl who lived in the Plaza Hotel in New York. A memorable sequence involved her ordering one raisin from room service for her tiny pet turtle. The entire play was hilarious.
1x9
Confession
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Air date
Nov 29, 1956
After the death of a wealthy community leader, a reporter is preparing a series on his life. When he interviews the deceased's son and daughter, they are withholding information from .. show full overview
1x10
Made in Heaven
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Air date
Dec 06, 1956
A married couple get into a petty quarrel that leads to their separation, after which the wife entertains a handsome European from the cocktail party and the husband begins to fall for an attractive stranger.
1x11
Sincerely, Willis Wade
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 13, 1956
Wealthy mill owner, Henry Harcourt, finances the college education of a poor but ambitious boy, Willis Wayde. The young man is in love with Bess, Harcourt's daughter.
1x12
The Family Nobody Wanted
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Air date
Dec 20, 1956
Carl and Helen Doss, are unable to have children of their own, so they wind up adopting several youngsters of mixed races.
1x13
Massacre at Sand Creek
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Air date
Dec 27, 1956
A drama set in 1860s Colorado about the tragically manipulative ways of a U.S. Army colonel who forces the Cheyenne to fight a battle they want to avoid. Seeking fame and the rank of a .. show full overview
1x14
Snowshoes. A Comedy of People and Horses.
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Air date
Jan 03, 1957
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1x15
The Ninth Day
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Air date
Jan 10, 1957
After World War III a small group of people live in the desert. A young man rebels against the group and tries to run away, hoping to find other communities of survivors, but is told by .. show full overview
1x16
So Soon To Die
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Air date
Jan 17, 1957
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1x17
The Star Wagon
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Air date
Jan 24, 1957
Story about a timid inventor who works for an exploitive boss and spends company time collaborating with his boyhood friend on a time machine. When the boss fires the inventor and .. show full overview
1x18
The Greer Case
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Jan 31, 1957
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1x19
The Miracle Worker
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Air date
Feb 07, 1957
The episode retells the first encounter of Annie Sullivan and young Helen Keller, unable to hear or see since the age of two. It was later remade for theatrical release.
1x20
The Comedian
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Air date
Feb 14, 1957
Sammy Hogarth has reached the top of his profession as a TV comedian. But though his audience loves him, his co-workers hate him. They know him as an egotistical, petty tyrant. What .. show full overview
1x21
One Coat of White
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Air date
Feb 21, 1957
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1x22
The Blackwell Story
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Air date
Feb 28, 1957
A drama about the numerous obstacles faced by a young student who is intent on becoming the first woman doctor in the United States. Set in the late 1830's, the program examined her .. show full overview
1x23
Invitation to a Gunfighter
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Air date
Mar 07, 1957
Hugh O'Brian is a gunfighter terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter (Gilbert Roland) to drive O'Brian out of town (which .. show full overview
1x24
The Last Tycoon
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Air date
Mar 14, 1957
Monroe Stahr heads a movie studio apparently headed for financial trouble. He is under pressure from the stockholders to produce a box-office hit. While he turns his attention to their .. show full overview
1x25
The Hostess with the Mostest
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Air date
Mar 21, 1957
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1x26
Charley's Aunt
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Air date
Mar 28, 1957
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1x27
Clipper Ship
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Air date
Apr 04, 1957
A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shpping magnate, and her growing love for a handsome young political prisoner who was scheduled to be put to death when .. show full overview
1x28
If You Knew Elizabeth
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Air date
Apr 11, 1957
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1x29
Three Men on a Horse
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Air date
Apr 18, 1957
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1x30
Four Women in Black
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Air date
Apr 25, 1957
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1x31
Child of Trouble
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Air date
May 02, 1957
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1x32
Homeward Borne
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Air date
May 09, 1957
A drama of a refugee orphan, who was both wanted and unwanted in the family of a returning war hero. The wife fought against her own happiness to take in the orphan. To the orphan, the .. show full overview
1x33
The Helen Morgan Story
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Air date
May 16, 1957
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1x34
Winter Dreams
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Air date
May 23, 1957
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1x35
Circle of the Day
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Air date
May 30, 1957
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1x36
Without Incident
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Air date
Jun 06, 1957
Captain Russell Bidlack, commander of a U.S. Cavalry unit in 1870, determines to complete a rescue mission through dangerous Indian territoy. In the course of the mission, he rescues the .. show full overview
1x37
Clash by Night
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Air date
Jun 13, 1957
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1x38
Ain't No Time for Glory
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Air date
Jun 20, 1957
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1x39 Season finale
The Fabulous Irishman
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Air date
Jun 27, 1957
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