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Playhouse 90(1956)

Drama
First Air Date: 1956-10-04
Average Runtime: 1h 30m
Rating: 7.6
Votes: 8
Seasons: 4
Episodes: 134

Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s were usually hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual, a weekly series of hour-and-a-half dramas rather than 60-minute plays. Playhouse 90 began as a pitch by Frank Stanton—the formidable, forward-thinking right-hand man to CBS chairman William S. Paley—during a brainstorming session for program ideas. The project was ultimately developed by Hubbell Robinson, a CBS vice president who received no screen credit on Playhouse 90 but is often described as its creator.

Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

Episodes: 39
E01
Forbidden Area

Air Date: 1956-10-04

1h 30m

Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a te...

E02
Requiem for a Heavyweight

Air Date: 1956-10-11

1h 30m

An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is exploited by his...

E03
Sizeman and Son

Air Date: 1956-10-18

1h 30m

The happy atmosphere in Mr. Sizeman's factory is disrupted by an argumentative newcomer - his son.

E04
Rendezvous in Black

Air Date: 1956-10-25

1h 30m

A woman is inexplicably killed on a street-corner. What has this to do with other deaths around the city?

E05
The Country Husband

Air Date: 1956-11-01

1h 30m

After a near-death experience, a businessman starts to re-think his life, and wonders about leaving his wife.

E06
The Big Slide

Air Date: 1956-11-08

1h 30m

A vaudeville comic becomes a silent film star.

E07
Heritage of Anger

Air Date: 1956-11-15

1h 30m

A wealthy industrialist has trouble with his sons.

E08
Eloise

Air Date: 1956-11-22

1h 30m

It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.

E09
Confession

Air Date: 1956-11-29

1h 30m

When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man...

E10
Made in Heaven

Air Date: 1956-12-06

1h 30m

When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.

E11
Sincerely, Willis Wade

Air Date: 1956-12-13

1h 30m

A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.

E12
The Family Nobody Wanted

Air Date: 1956-12-20

1h 30m

A true story, it follows a pastor and his wife through forties beginning with one biological child, Donny. But the up...

E13
Massacre at Sand Creek

Air Date: 1956-12-27

1h 30m

An investigation into a massacre of Native Americans.

E14
Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses

Air Date: 1957-01-03

1h 30m

Some racetrack Johnnies are talking between races when one wonders if you can hypnotize a horse into thinking it's a ...

E15
The Ninth Day

Air Date: 1957-01-10

1h 30m

Events in the aftermath of World War Three.

E16
So Soon to Die

Air Date: 1957-01-17

1h 30m

Down on his luck, war hero Lionel Amblin contemplates committing a murder.

E17
The Star Wagon

Air Date: 1957-01-24

1h 30m

An inventor, pondering on how he might differently have arranged his life, invents a time machine and decides to make...

E18
The Greer Case

Air Date: 1957-01-31

1h 30m

When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

E19
The Miracle Worker

Air Date: 1957-02-07

1h 30m

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

E20
The Comedian

Air Date: 1957-02-14

1h 30m

Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedien...

E21
One Coat of White

Air Date: 1957-02-21

1h 30m

A newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.

E22
The Blackwell Story

Air Date: 1957-02-28

1h 30m

In the 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell determines to become a doctor.

E23
Invitation to a Gunfighter

Air Date: 1957-03-07

1h 30m

A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfight...

E24
The Last Tycoon

Air Date: 1957-03-14

1h 30m

A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.

E25
The Hostess with the Mostes'

Air Date: 1957-03-21

1h 30m

The story of Perle Mesta, who became, first, a renowned society hostess, and then an ambassadress.

E26
Where's Charley?

Air Date: 1957-03-28

1h 30m

Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".

E27
Clipper Ship

Air Date: 1957-04-04

1h 30m

A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shipping magnate, and her growing love for a handso...

E28
If You Knew Elizabeth

Air Date: 1957-04-11

1h 30m

No episode overview available.

E29
Three Men on a Horse

Air Date: 1957-04-18

1h 30m

A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.

E30
Four Women in Black

Air Date: 1957-04-25

1h 30m

Four nuns, led by Sister Teresa, begin a treacherous journey across the Arizona desert in 1870. Their faith enables t...

E31
Child of Trouble

Air Date: 1957-05-02

1h 30m

No episode overview available.

E32
Homeward Borne

Air Date: 1957-05-09

1h 30m

Just after World War Two ends, an American woman takes in a Polish war orphan boy, a concentration camp survivor. But...

E33
The Helen Morgan Story

Air Date: 1957-05-16

1h 30m

Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star o...

E34
Winter Dreams

Air Date: 1957-05-23

1h 30m

No episode overview available.

E35
Circle of the Day

Air Date: 1957-05-30

1h 30m

On her tenth wedding anniversary (which is also her daughter's birthday), a wife begins to suspect her husband of unf...

E36
Without Incident

Air Date: 1957-06-06

1h 30m

Captain Russell Bidlack, commander of a U.S. Cavalry unit in 1870, determines to complete a rescue mission through da...

E37
Clash by Night

Air Date: 1957-06-13

1h 30m

Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy,...

E38
Ain't No Time for Glory

Air Date: 1957-06-20

1h 30m

American soldiers must use stealth to take over a German command post in Normandy.

E39
The Fabulous Irishman

Air Date: 1957-06-27

1h 30m

Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.

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