Four Star Playhouse - Season 3

Four Star Playhouse - Season 3

Season 3

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DatesSept. 30, 1954 - Juni 30, 1955
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Episodes

Man in the Cellar
Season 3Episode 130 min

Man in the Cellar

A little girl who regularly talks to imaginary friends grows frustrated when her parents refuse to believe that there is a real man in the cellar.
Sept. 30, 1954
Never Explain
Season 3Episode 230 min

Never Explain

A novice social worker is dispatched to the home of a widower who refuses to send his children to school.
Okt. 7, 1954
Interlude
Season 3Episode 330 min

Interlude

A young woman from a wealthy family is graduating from an exclusive school with neither her parents nor close friends attending. In her lonliness, she becomes infatuated with an older man, a divorced newspaper reporter.
Okt. 14, 1954
The Wallet
Season 3Episode 430 min

The Wallet

A French waiter with more pride than money will not stand for his sickly wife to be admitted to a free public hospital. When a wealthy customer leaves behind a wallet containing thousands of dollars, the server takes it to upgrade his wife's medical care. Their son also becomes a thief to pay the bills.
Okt. 21, 1954
The Adolescent
Season 3Episode 530 min

The Adolescent

A school teacher on the disciplinery board, finds herself investigating her nephew's misconduct.
Okt. 28, 1954
The Contest
Season 3Episode 630 min

The Contest

The head of detectives runs into problems when he suspect his fiancé has committed murder.
Nov. 4, 1954
Vote Of Confidence
Season 3Episode 730 min

Vote Of Confidence

A con man, recently released from prison, attempts to recoup his fortunes by convincing an heiress' secretary that he needs funds to run an orphanage.
Nov. 11, 1954
My Own Dear Dragon
Season 3Episode 830 min

My Own Dear Dragon

A successful playwright does his best to avoid reading the script written by his young new wife. She can't understand why he refuses to encourage her. At a party celebrating his 25th year in the theatre, he reveals the incident from his past that causes him to discourage her writing.
Nov. 18, 1954
Marked Down
Season 3Episode 930 min

Marked Down

A woman who works at a fancy dress shop is determined to meet and marry the millionaire whose office is next door. Once she is asked out, she realizes that money doesn't make a person. Meanwhile, a young boy is buying a dress on layaway for his mother's birthday, but there's more to his story.
Nov. 25, 1954
Meet A Lonely Man
Season 3Episode 1030 min

Meet A Lonely Man

An attractive young lady mistakes a lonely hotel desk clerk for a Texas oil millionaire she'd once met. Loving the attention she's lavishing on him, he plays along...until his big spending catches up with him.
Dez. 2, 1954
Bourbon Street
Season 3Episode 1130 min

Bourbon Street

A musician returns to New Orleans after breaking into the bigtime. Though his ex-wife deserted him, he is bent on revenge after receiving an anonymous letter telling him she committed suicide after being mistreated by her lover.
Dez. 9, 1954
A Championship Affair
Season 3Episode 1230 min

A Championship Affair

A renowned professional bridge champion (Boyer) returns to (openly) woo his long lost, but married, love (Miles). In circuitous fashion, his unselfish love leads him to (secretly) help her bridge-addicted husband (Ross Elliott) choose to finally gain success in life.
Dez. 16, 1954
The Answer
Season 3Episode 1330 min

The Answer

A cynical Hollywood writer returns to his hometown. At a bar he meets a drunken, disillusioned playwright. The writer challenges the playwright to relate his play, which he does, holding the audience rapt in his gripping recital.
Dez. 23, 1954
Go Ahead And Jump
Season 3Episode 1430 min

Go Ahead And Jump

Eddie, a cab driver, picks up a sad looking fare and brings him to a hotel where he witnesses the man being humiliated by his ex-wife. When the man asks to be taken to the middle of the biggest bridge, Eddie uses some every day, hard-nosed psychology, and a little lie, to make the man see that life is worth living.
Dez. 30, 1954
A Bag Of Oranges
Season 3Episode 1530 min

A Bag Of Oranges

Believing her husband innocent of the crime he is to be executed for, his wife takes up a vigil the night of the scheduled execution at a nearby café. A curious reporter wonders about the bag of oranges she carries with her.
Jan. 6, 1955
Stuffed Shirt
Season 3Episode 1630 min

Stuffed Shirt

A seemingly cuckolded working-class husband (Boyer), in tropical setting, must resort to a life-risking ruse (in court) to rid himself of his bigamous, greedy and potentially blackmailing wife who would not otherwise reveal her own lack of virtuosity.
Jan. 11, 1955
Breakfast in Bed
Season 3Episode 1730 min

Breakfast in Bed

An artist is enticed away from his lucrative commercial advertising contracts by a young model who shows obvious disappointment that he is not striving to achieve his potential as a creative artist.
Jan. 20, 1955
The Good Sister
Season 3Episode 1830 min

The Good Sister

A nun in German orphanage during World War II will is determined to marry her oldest orphan to an American serviceman in order to secure a future for her.
Jan. 27, 1955
A Kiss for Mr. Lincoln
Season 3Episode 1930 min

A Kiss for Mr. Lincoln

A young woman teaches her timid husband some things about love when he tries to show her the importance of supporting Abraham Lincoln for the Presidency.
Feb. 3, 1955
Fair Trial
Season 3Episode 2030 min

Fair Trial

Chicago television newsman Dave Sheridan (Dick Powell) arrives in a small Ohio town, Hadenville, where Richard Fulton has just been lynched. The chief of police (Edward R. Platt) tells Sheridan he confessed to killing sweet old Mrs. Winslow and the town went wild. Sheridan plans on doing a piece exposing how sick the town is. Hotel clerk Carol (Jean Howell) wants him to give the town a "fair trial".
Feb. 10, 1955
The Wild Bunch
Season 3Episode 2130 min

The Wild Bunch

After a charmer sweeps a pretty widow off her feet and marries her in haste, she confesses that she has money and three children. He has no problem with the money, but the thought of instant fatherhood gives him pause.
Feb. 17, 1955
Tusitala
Season 3Episode 2230 min

Tusitala

The true story of Robert Louis Stevenson's stay on the island of Tahiti. The islanders have come to revere him as Tusitala-Teller of Tales. They believe he is magical and powerful. When the two opposing chiefs of the island plan war against one another out of petty jealousy, Tusitala uses his wits to convince both chiefs to make peace and save the tranquility of the island.
Feb. 24, 1955
The Returning
Season 3Episode 2330 min

The Returning

An American professor in Japan falls in love with a half-breed former student in 1941. He is fired for violating school policy, so he returns to America, resolved to bring his intended to America once settled. World War II intervenes.
März 3, 1955
Eddie`s Place
Season 3Episode 2430 min

Eddie`s Place

Ellen is released from a punitive work farm without means, but Eddie befriends her and gives her a job at his restaurant. She wants to go straight, but Eddie pressures her to cover for some of his own shady activities.
März 10, 1955
Henry And The Psychopathic Horse
Season 3Episode 2530 min

Henry And The Psychopathic Horse

After falling for a medical student, a New York City psychiatrist travels to her family ranch to announce their engagement. Her father hates city slickers and expect her to marry a rancher to run the estate. To win his woman's hand, Henry's challenged to ride an unbroken stallion known as a "killer." He puts his professional skills to work on the horse.
März 17, 1955
Night At Lark Cottage
Season 3Episode 2630 min

Night At Lark Cottage

A woman with no companion other than her young daughter knows that an escaped convict is on his way to kill her.
März 24, 1955
The Girl On The Bridge
Season 3Episode 2730 min

The Girl On The Bridge

After drawing and painting an unknown young woman he met on a bridge near his vacation retreat, an artist (Dick Powell) is desperate to find her again when the painting begins calling to him.
März 31, 1955
The Collar
Season 3Episode 2830 min

The Collar

The night before the military plans to massacre a warring tribe of Blackfoot Indians, an imprisoned and tortured priest comes out from the tribe to ask for mercy.
Apr. 7, 1955
Madeira, Madeira
Season 3Episode 2930 min

Madeira, Madeira

The untimely death of his artist friend causes a failing writer to visit the widow to pay his condolences and pursue suspicions about her. When he arrives, the cheerful widow presents him with an offer he finds both puzzling and attractive. His acceptance leads him to the discovery of the fate of his friend.
Apr. 14, 1955
With All My Heart
Season 3Episode 3030 min

With All My Heart

An overweight woman watches her doctor boyfriend marry someone else.
Apr. 21, 1955
The House Always Wins
Season 3Episode 3130 min

The House Always Wins

Willie Dante, the tough but suave owner of a nightclub and illegal back room casino. One evening, Willie sees an old flame with a man and another couple, The woman, still caring for Willie, tells him that the people she's with are planning to rob his casino. Willie outwits them and keeps his former love from being arrested.
Apr. 28, 1955
Uncle Fred Flits By
Season 3Episode 3230 min

Uncle Fred Flits By

Uncle Fred descends upon a suburban home, completely disrupts the lives of the family by his eccentric behaviour, and brings two young lovers together. His unwilling accomplice, and a horrified spectator of this chaos, is his nephew, Pongo.
Mai 5, 1955
Alias Mr. Hepp
Season 3Episode 3330 min

Alias Mr. Hepp

Frank Hepp has made his career charming rich, unhappy women out of their fortunes. His parole officer orders him avoid all women, but he can't help himself when a single wealthy woman moves in next door. Mr. Hepp's plan to fleece his new victim runs afoul when he actually falls for her.
Mai 12, 1955
Trudy
Season 3Episode 3430 min

Trudy

A young woman is planning her wedding to a groom whom no one believes exists outside her own wishful dreams.
Mai 26, 1955
Broken Journey
Season 3Episode 3530 min

Broken Journey

Two cops transporting prisoner Cookie decide on a layover in the city of Westover, temporarily placing Cookie in the local jail while they freshen up elsewhere. Cookie devises a plot to snooker the locals into releasing him.
Juni 2, 1955
The Executioner
Season 3Episode 3630 min

The Executioner

A complex web of deception is revealed during the investigation of the assassination of a police official. In a foreign country during the Cold War, an American doctor is accused to being a spy and targeted for murder, but the wrong man is killed. But, perhaps, the right man died after all.
Juni 9, 1955
The Frightened Woman
Season 3Episode 3730 min

The Frightened Woman

A woman's loneliness leads her to re-experience her long repressed (20-year old) pain-associated memories (albeit benign themselves). The mystery: is she (Oberon) insane (hallucinations or phantasms?), will her busy businessman husband (Stevens) rediscover his more nurturing side (in other words will he ever finally land the account), and will a therapist (Beaumont) help bring it all together for the better and for us to make good sense of it?
Juni 23, 1955
Award
Season 3Episode 3830 min

Award

Valerie is a world famous movie actress who just bombed on her first attempt at live acting on Broadway. She goes to Ben, renowned acting instructor, to teach her how to be a live actress. He refuses unless she can succeed at a challenge.
Juni 30, 1955

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