Playhouse 90 - Season 3
Season 3
Network
DatesSep 25, 1958 - Jun 25, 1959
Episodes
Season 3Episode 190 min
The Plot to Kill Stalin
In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with anti-Semitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.
Sep 25, 1958
Season 3Episode 290 min
Days of Wine and Roses
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
Oct 2, 1958
Season 3Episode 390 min
The Time of Your Life
William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the characters drift in and out of the bar and each other's lives, giving voice to Saroyan's philosophies as they randomly comment about the impending world war, the beauty of art, and traditional notions of good and evil.
Oct 9, 1958
Season 3Episode 490 min
The Long March
Oct 16, 1958
Season 3Episode 590 min
Shadows Tremble
An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.
Oct 23, 1958
Season 3Episode 690 min
Words from a Sealed-Off Box
A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.
Oct 30, 1958
Season 3Episode 790 min
Heart of Darkness
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
Nov 6, 1958
Season 3Episode 890 min
Old Man
To fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts.
Nov 20, 1958
Season 3Episode 990 min
The Return of Ansel Gibbs
After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.
Nov 27, 1958
Season 3Episode 1090 min
Free Weekend
Dec 4, 1958
Season 3Episode 1190 min
Seven Against the Wall
The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.
Dec 11, 1958
Season 3Episode 1290 min
The Nutcracker
This telecast of George Balanchine's famous production was broadcast only four years after it was premiered by the New York City Ballet. This was the only episode of the series televised in color.
Dec 25, 1958
Season 3Episode 1390 min
Face of a Hero
Jan 1, 1959
Season 3Episode 1490 min
The Wings of the Dove
An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.
Jan 8, 1959
Season 3Episode 1590 min
The Blue Men
Jan 15, 1959
Season 3Episode 1690 min
The Velvet Alley
Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.
Jan 22, 1959
Season 3Episode 1790 min
A Quiet Game of Cards
A few friends meet each weekend for a quiet game of cards. But they're bored with poker and, in trying to find another diversion, gradually find themselves plotting a hypothetical murder. It is hypothetical, isn't it?
Jan 29, 1959
Season 3Episode 1890 min
Child of Our Time
War deprives Tanguy of his childhood. When his mother returns to Spain to oppose the Franco regime, he is left in Nazi-occupied Marseilles, France.
Feb 5, 1959
Season 3Episode 1990 min
The Second Man
Feb 12, 1959
Season 3Episode 2090 min
The Raider
A corporate raider plans a hostile takeover. To stall him, pressure is put on a scientist to rush through a new type of engine before all necessary tests have been completed.
Feb 19, 1959
Season 3Episode 2190 min
The Dingaling Girl
A housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her.
Feb 26, 1959
Season 3Episode 2290 min
Made in Japan
A young soldier in occupied Japan after World War II falls in love with a lovely Japanese girl, but is horrified about what his prejudiced family in Philadelphia will think if he takes her home with him.
Mar 5, 1959
Season 3Episode 2390 min
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Part One)
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
Mar 12, 1959
Season 3Episode 2490 min
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Part Two)
The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.
Mar 19, 1959
Season 3Episode 2590 min
A Trip to Paradise
Mar 26, 1959
Season 3Episode 2690 min
In Lonely Expectation
Apr 2, 1959
Season 3Episode 2790 min
The Day Before Atlanta
Apr 9, 1959
Season 3Episode 2890 min
Judgment at Nuremberg
In the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice.
Apr 16, 1959
Season 3Episode 2990 min
A Corner of the Garden
Apr 23, 1959
Season 3Episode 3090 min
Dark December
During World War II, an army doctor struggles to convert a Franciscan monastery into a field hospital.
Apr 30, 1959
Season 3Episode 3190 min
Diary of a Nurse
The daily emergencies and stresses of a major city's hospital ward as seen through the eyes of nurse Gail Lucas.
May 7, 1959
Season 3Episode 3290 min
A Marriage of Strangers
Marry in haste, repent at leisure? Well, maybe.
May 14, 1959
Season 3Episode 3390 min
Out of Dust
On a cattle drive across the prairie, the sons of a wealthy cattle baron plot his death.
May 21, 1959
Season 3Episode 3490 min
The Rank and File
A powerful union leader is interrogated by a Senate committee.
May 28, 1959
Season 3Episode 3590 min
The Killers of Mussolini
As the Salo Republic crumbles around him, Mussolini, along with his mistress and several of his ministers flee with retreating Nazi soldiers, but are caught at the town of Dongo by red partisans. All are brutally executed without trial.
Jun 4, 1959
Season 3Episode 3690 min
Project Immortality
Key defense scientist Doner has cancer. Schramm is assigned to code Doner's thinking into a computer. He gets to know him as a friend, a husband and father. The project is successful, but he now knows identity is not programmable.
Jun 11, 1959
Season 3Episode 3790 min
Dark as the Night
A British politician finds himself open to blackmail because of the indiscretion of his American wife.
Jun 18, 1959
Season 3Episode 3890 min
The Second Happiest Day
A man about to be married recalls the day his life changed permanently.
Jun 25, 1959
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