Screen Directors Playhouse

  • Premiered: Oct 1955
  • Episodes: 35
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • NBC
  • Unknown
  • Comedy Drama Romance

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Season 1
1x1
Meet The Governor
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Air date
Oct 05, 1955
A ""bumpkin-type"" lawyer runs for governor until the opposition digs into his past.
1x2
Day is Done
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Air date
Oct 12, 1955
During the catastrophic 1951 retreat of American troops in Korea, a recruit finds a Chinese bugle. His sargeant then attempts to use it to instill the fighting spirit in his men.
1x3
Midsummer Daydream
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Air date
Oct 19, 1955
A young man who wants desperately to get married finds ""The"" girl in, of all places, a marriage license bureau. But the happy ending is threatened by the appearance of a suave, smooth, sophisticated gambling man.
1x4
Arroyo
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Air date
Oct 26, 1955
A small New Mexican town enjoys a reasonably peaceful existence under the rule of self-appointed judge Lamar Kendall. This state of affairs is disrupted by the appearance of a wounded .. show full overview
1x5
Want ad Wedding
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Air date
Nov 02, 1955
A young naval officer, alone in a strange city, is planning to be married. Having no friends in town, he places an ad in the newspaper advertising for wedding guests.
1x6
The Life of Vernon Hathaway
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Air date
Nov 09, 1955
A meek little watch repairman daydreams himself into exciting adventures. When his alter ego takes over, he begins living his dreams in real life.
1x7
The Final Tribute
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Air date
Nov 16, 1955
A nurse in a small-town doctor's office protests the attitude of the new young physician. His cold, impersonal treatment of patients is exactly opposite that of the kindly and gentle elderly doctor he will someday replace.
1x8
The Bush Roper
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Air date
Nov 23, 1955
Grandpa Atkins tries to live up to his tales of former glory as a cowpoke. He learns a dangerous bull is at large in the brush, saddles up, and goes after him with his rope.
1x9
Tom and Jerry
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Air date
Nov 30, 1955
It's Christmas Eve at the Macy house. Tom Macy plays Santa for he and wife Jerry's little boy, Tommy. It is obvious that Jerry is not happy with her husband Tom. Jerry knows Tom has a .. show full overview
1x10
Rookie of the Year
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Air date
Dec 07, 1955
A small-town newspaper sports writer harbors an ambition to work for a big city daily. He sees his chance to achieve his goal while attending the World Series: one of the rookies shows a .. show full overview
1x11
Lincoln's Doctor's Dog
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Air date
Dec 14, 1955
Discouraged and saddened by the War Between the States, President Lincoln is cheered by the gift of a puppy from his physician.
1x12
The Silent Partner
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Air date
Dec 21, 1955
Watching the TV broadcast of the Academy Awards presentation, a faded actress realizes that the patron at another table in the restaurant was once a well-known comic. Her happy discovery is marred, however, by a man who calls both of them has-beens.
1x13
Titanic Incident
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Air date
Dec 28, 1955
A cardsharp and his wife aboard the Titanic on its fateful last voyage pick a wealthy Britisher as their pigeon. The cardsharp sets up the Britisher for a climactic card session, but the tables seem to turn as the ship goes down.
1x14
Hot Cargo
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 04, 1956
A chorus girl, stranded in a waterfront town in the Orient, is befriended by the skipper of a freighter. She marries the skipper and then meets a good-looking young harbor policeman who falls in love with her.
1x15
It`s Always Sunday
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Air date
Jan 11, 1956
A kindly minister who believes in doing good for the unfortunate befriends a pair of itinerants who arrive in town.
1x16
Number Five Checked Out
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Air date
Jan 18, 1956
A young deaf woman is left alone to look after the resort cabins owned by her father. Two dangerous bank robbers move in, using the secluded spot as a temporary hideout.
1x17
Prima Donna
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Air date
Feb 01, 1956
A philanthropic concert artist takes an interest in a 13-year-old newsboy with an outstanding singing voice. She runs into difficulties when the boy also shows a marked preference for baseball.
1x18
Cry Justice
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Air date
Feb 15, 1956
Bitter because his law partner married the woman he loved, a man plots his own disappearance, making it appear he has been murdered by his partner. Ten years later, the partner is released from prison and seeks revenge.
1x19
Affair in Sumatra
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Air date
Feb 22, 1956
A beautiful half-caste girl is torn between love for her people and love for a man.
1x20
One Against Many
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Air date
Mar 07, 1956
A scientist devoted to saving lives is faced with a difficult decision: he may be forced to kill in order to prevent a state-wide livestock epidemic.
1x21
It`s a Most Unusual Day
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Air date
Mar 14, 1956
A married couple take in a night club show starring Jimmy McHugh, and are prompted by his melodies to relive their past.
1x22
The Sword Of Villon
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Air date
Apr 04, 1956
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1x23
Markheim
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Air date
Apr 11, 1956
This episode has no summary.
1x24
Claire
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Air date
Apr 25, 1956
A young doctor brings his second wife to his lakeside home to live. She is taunted by the presence of his pet cat, which serves to remind her that because she couldn't swim, she stood helplessly by while the first wife drowned.
1x25
A Ticket For Thaddeus
Episode overview
Air date
May 09, 1956
A humble refugee from war-torn Poland has never been able to shed his fear of anyone in uniform. When the immigrant is involved in a minor traffic altercation, he tries to prove to the police he was at fault even though he wasn't.
1x26
The Dream
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Air date
May 16, 1956
In France in 1887 an impressionable youth gives his mother cause for alarm. The young man has a recurrent dream in which he searches for his dead father. The mother is further upset when .. show full overview
1x27
What Day is it?
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Air date
Jun 06, 1956
A husband and wife dance team bicker backstage when the husband can't remember what special date his wife is observing. Between song and dance numbers, the arguments escalate until a .. show full overview
1x28
Every Man Had Two Wives
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Air date
Jun 13, 1956
In the spring, when one gentleman's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of a former love, his wife decides to take drastic action. She and hubby make a trip back to the old home town, determined to come face to face with his childhood sweetheart.
1x29
Partners
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Air date
Jul 04, 1956
A rodeo star befriends an orphan boy who yearns to compete.
1x30
White Corridors
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Air date
Jul 11, 1956
An American tourist in London accompanies a friend to the hospital for an emergency operation. At the hospital, she claims she has witnessed a murder, but the doctors think she is imagining things.
1x31
The Carroll Formula
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Air date
Jul 18, 1956
A college professor stumbled across a fantastic formula for reducing the size of things in the unpublished mathematical works of C.L. Dodgson, who, as Lewis Carroll, wrote Alice in Wonderland.
1x32
Apples on the Lilac Tree
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Air date
Jul 25, 1956
A couple's peculiar marital arrangement is the talk of the town. It seems that the husband loves to do the housework, while his wife spends the day at the office.
1x33
Bitter Waters
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Air date
Aug 01, 1956
In a fashionable German resort at the turn of the century, a wealthy young American touring Europe with his uncle meets a woman and her widowed mother. A romance develops between the .. show full overview
1x34
The Day I met Caruso
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Air date
Sep 05, 1956
On a train between Boston and New York, a ten-year-old Quaker girl meets Enrico Caruso. She takes him to task for his worldliness and extravagances, but is eventually won over by his .. show full overview
1x35 Show finale
High Air
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 12, 1956
Long separated, a river-tunnel foreman and his son come face to face during an under-river disaster which almost takes their lives.

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