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.
Air Date: 1956-10-04
Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a te...
Air Date: 1956-10-11
An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is exploited by his...
Air Date: 1956-10-18
The happy atmosphere in Mr. Sizeman's factory is disrupted by an argumentative newcomer - his son.
Air Date: 1956-10-25
A woman is inexplicably killed on a street-corner. What has this to do with other deaths around the city?
Air Date: 1956-11-01
After a near-death experience, a businessman starts to re-think his life, and wonders about leaving his wife.
Air Date: 1956-11-08
A vaudeville comic becomes a silent film star.
Air Date: 1956-11-15
A wealthy industrialist has trouble with his sons.
Air Date: 1956-11-22
It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.
Air Date: 1956-11-29
When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man...
Air Date: 1956-12-06
When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.
Air Date: 1956-12-13
A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.
Air Date: 1956-12-20
A true story, it follows a pastor and his wife through forties beginning with one biological child, Donny. But the up...
Air Date: 1956-12-27
An investigation into a massacre of Native Americans.
Air Date: 1957-01-03
Some racetrack Johnnies are talking between races when one wonders if you can hypnotize a horse into thinking it's a ...
Air Date: 1957-01-10
Events in the aftermath of World War Three.
Air Date: 1957-01-17
Down on his luck, war hero Lionel Amblin contemplates committing a murder.
Air Date: 1957-01-24
An inventor, pondering on how he might differently have arranged his life, invents a time machine and decides to make...
Air Date: 1957-01-31
When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.
Air Date: 1957-02-07
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
Air Date: 1957-02-14
Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedien...
Air Date: 1957-02-21
A newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.
Air Date: 1957-02-28
In the 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell determines to become a doctor.
Air Date: 1957-03-07
A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfight...
Air Date: 1957-03-14
A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.
Air Date: 1957-03-21
The story of Perle Mesta, who became, first, a renowned society hostess, and then an ambassadress.
Air Date: 1957-03-28
Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".
Air Date: 1957-04-04
A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shipping magnate, and her growing love for a handso...
Air Date: 1957-04-11
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Air Date: 1957-04-18
A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
Air Date: 1957-04-25
Four nuns, led by Sister Teresa, begin a treacherous journey across the Arizona desert in 1870. Their faith enables t...
Air Date: 1957-05-02
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Air Date: 1957-05-09
Just after World War Two ends, an American woman takes in a Polish war orphan boy, a concentration camp survivor. But...
Air Date: 1957-05-16
Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star o...
Air Date: 1957-05-23
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Air Date: 1957-05-30
On her tenth wedding anniversary (which is also her daughter's birthday), a wife begins to suspect her husband of unf...
Air Date: 1957-06-06
Captain Russell Bidlack, commander of a U.S. Cavalry unit in 1870, determines to complete a rescue mission through da...
Air Date: 1957-06-13
Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy,...
Air Date: 1957-06-20
American soldiers must use stealth to take over a German command post in Normandy.
Air Date: 1957-06-27
Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.