Schlitz Playhouse of Stars - Season 5

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars - Season 5

Season 5

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Episodes51
DatesSep 30, 1955 - Sep 21, 1956
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Episodes

The Last Man Out
Season 5Episode 130 min

The Last Man Out

A once promising baseball player is now grounds keeper for a minor league team. His deep knowledge of the game is more than the team's manager can handle.

Sep 30, 1955
Bandits Hide-Out
Season 5Episode 230 min

Bandits Hide-Out

A gentle Spanish shepherd is married to a beautiful girl who is discontented with the quiet life they lead. He returns home one night to find both his wife and his sheep gone. His bandit cousin, who made off with both, learns that the shepherd's gentleness is deceptive.

Oct 7, 1955
Two-Bit Gangster
Season 5Episode 330 min

Two-Bit Gangster

Newsman Bill Ottman travels to a small town to cover what appears to be a routine robbery, in which a masked thief has killed an ex-con who interfered with his getaway. But, the reporter's investigation begins to reveal the ex-con in the role of a hero.

Oct 14, 1955
The Girl Who Scared Men Off
Season 5Episode 430 min

The Girl Who Scared Men Off

A volatile country schoolmarm bitterly resents it when the community imports a tweedy, pipe-smoking exchange teacher from England to add culture to the school. It takes a fire at the school picnic to set things right and clear up the problem.

Oct 21, 1955
Nothing to Do Till Next Fall
Season 5Episode 530 min

Nothing to Do Till Next Fall


A college football coach is faced with a difficult decision for the big home coming game.

Oct 28, 1955
A Gift of Life
Season 5Episode 630 min

A Gift of Life

Story about a salesman who works so hard he collapses. The enforced idleness of convalescence irritates him until he begins to wonder about the four anonymous blood donors who saved his life.

Nov 4, 1955
No Trial by Jury
Season 5Episode 730 min

No Trial by Jury

After a valuable horse drowns in a well, a homesteader faces ruin. The law of the range makes him liable because of negligence in not covering or fencing the well.

Nov 11, 1955
Night in the Big Swamp
Season 5Episode 830 min

Night in the Big Swamp

Two expeditions take off into the swampland, one a hunting guide who is seeking his best friend, an escaped convict and the other a girl of the swamp.

Nov 18, 1955
The Careless Cadet
Season 5Episode 930 min

The Careless Cadet

Sgt. Ben Destry receives an appointment to West Point as a reward for valor in the Korean War. But he scoffs at the Academy's traditions and finds the orders of his juniors hard to take.

Nov 25, 1955
Moment of Triumph
Season 5Episode 1030 min

Moment of Triumph

Prentice Brown, whose science professor years before was dismissed when he refused to give a rich man's son a passing grade, he didn't deserve. Twenty years have passed, and now the tycoon finds himself in a position to right the old wrong.

Dec 2, 1955
On the Nose
Season 5Episode 1130 min

On the Nose

A veteran pilot is set for a flight on a top-secret mission when his regular navigator becomes ill. A young lieutenant substitutes and the old pilot feels sure his number is up.

Dec 9, 1955
The Baited Hook
Season 5Episode 1230 min

The Baited Hook

A sheriff's deputy is offered a $25,000 bribe and compares it with his meager salary. Action is in a Florida swamp as he trails a criminal.

Dec 16, 1955
Christmas Quest
Season 5Episode 1330 min

Christmas Quest

The brother-in-law and sister of a wealthy bachelor inadvertently put a damper on their holiday plans. A professor whose modest salary doesn't permit much spending for Christmas gifts. When his wife's brother arrives laden with expensive gifts there is a bitter argument that leads to a better understanding of Christmas.

Dec 23, 1955
Well of Anger
Season 5Episode 1430 min

Well of Anger

In the Old West, Ed Sawyer is trying to set up a modest homestead. But a big rancher, Luke Gans, uses violence to keep Sawyer away from the water supply.

Dec 30, 1955
Foolproof
Season 5Episode 1530 min

Foolproof

Following an accident, a woman awakens in a hospital bed with her eyes and head swathed in bandages. Unknown to her, she is in the hands of enterprising kidnappers - who hope to deceive her long enough to collect a ransom.

Jan 6, 1956
Dealer's Choice
Season 5Episode 1630 min

Dealer's Choice

The owner of a pearling ship loses it in a poker game. Convinced that the winner cheated, he signs on with him for the next voyage, suspecting that the
new owner will soon be anxious to sell the ship back to him.

Jan 13, 1956
The Big Payday
Season 5Episode 1730 min

The Big Payday

A former fighter always wanted to be champ, but never made it. He's a manager now, and hopes his heavyweight contender will make it.

Jan 20, 1956
The Day I Died
Season 5Episode 1830 min

The Day I Died

Ruthless business tycoon is convinced he owes all his success to himself alone. But a strange thing happens to him on a hospital operating table.

Jan 27, 1956
The Gentle Stranger
Season 5Episode 1930 min

The Gentle Stranger

A mail-order bride finds life on a ranch not to her liking. A range war decides her future.

Feb 3, 1956
Top Man
Season 5Episode 2030 min

Top Man

Mountain climber Martin Nace is fiercely determined to conquer the man-killing mountain Calpurtha.

Feb 10, 1956
On a Dark Night
Season 5Episode 2130 min

On a Dark Night

Professor Gene Fox and his friend Max give a good-looking blonde a lift and are lured into a gangster's hideout. The professor guesses that Max, who's always telling tall stories abouthimself, staged the episode.

Feb 17, 1956
Ordeal
Season 5Episode 2230 min

Ordeal

No one believes a man when he tries to insist he saw a murder committed.

Feb 24, 1956
Showdown at Painted Rock
Season 5Episode 2330 min

Showdown at Painted Rock

A sheriff risks his life by insisting on hanging a murderer in the lawless old West.

Mar 2, 1956
Web of Circumstance
Season 5Episode 2430 min

Web of Circumstance

A bank teller for years has been stealing pennies and stashing away dollars taken from his wife's grocery budget.
Object: to make a break from his shrewish spouse and sail for an island paradise in the Pacific.

Mar 9, 1956
The Young and the Brave
Season 5Episode 2530 min

The Young and the Brave

Aboard a destroyer, gunner's mate Eddie Younger has gone sour on the navy. But his attitude changes during the course of a battle.

Mar 16, 1956
The Waiting House
Season 5Episode 2630 min

The Waiting House

The honeymoon house in Bermuda which a couple has chosen has been the scene of accidents to a good many tenants before them.

Mar 23, 1956
The Finger of God
Season 5Episode 2730 min

The Finger of God

An escaping Boer prisoner of war breaks into an apparently deserted house and gets the surprise of his life.

Mar 30, 1956
Angels in the Sky
Season 5Episode 2830 min

Angels in the Sky

Tense moments aboard a transport plane carrying wounded men from the South Pacific as they face disaster.

Apr 6, 1956
The Bitter Land
Season 5Episode 2930 min

The Bitter Land

A man arrives in the West to seek the murderer of his son and is faced with the dilemma of saving the murderer's own son when outlaws set out to get the boy.

Apr 13, 1956
The Mysterious Cargo
Season 5Episode 3030 min

The Mysterious Cargo

After being slugged, robbed and having his ship sail without him, Gallup heads for the States on another ship.
Tension mounts when he realizes the cargo doesn't correspond to the manifest.

Apr 20, 1956
Step Right Up and Die
Season 5Episode 3130 min

Step Right Up and Die

When an amusement park operator finds a body in the Fun House, he is afraid to tell the police, having once spent three years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. He gets rid of the corpse but is trapped just the same and faces death.

Apr 27, 1956
Formosa Patrol
Season 5Episode 3230 min

Formosa Patrol

The story of the destoryer USS DeHaven and a persistent rain that turned into the third worst storm in the history of the coastal Southern California.

May 4, 1956
Plague Ship
Season 5Episode 3330 min

Plague Ship

Aboard a ship the captain finds his ship threatened by bubonic plague.

May 11, 1956
Officer Needs Help
Season 5Episode 3430 min

Officer Needs Help

Dan Grabow is given a 90-day tryout as chief of police in a small beach town. His discovers that none of the members of his force have received adequate police training.

May 18, 1956
Date for Tomorrow
Season 5Episode 3530 min

Date for Tomorrow

Two escaped convicts plan to use a young amusement park ticketseller as a pawn in a robbery. But the best-laid plans may suffer when a beautiful young girl is involved.

May 25, 1956
The Roustabout
Season 5Episode 3630 min

The Roustabout

A saddle bum is pushed into the middle of a fight between some ranchers and a storekeeper who has been selling barbed wire to the squatters.

Jun 8, 1956
Pattern for Pursuit
Season 5Episode 3730 min

Pattern for Pursuit

Canadian Mountie is attacked by a mountain lion while he is tracking down the murderer of a Canuck guide, is nursed back to healthy by a beautiful
half breed and somewhere down the line loses the trail he was following.

Jun 15, 1956
Witness to Condemn
Season 5Episode 3830 min

Witness to Condemn

The only witness to a murder loses her sight as a result of an attack by the killers.

Jun 22, 1956
Weapon of Courage
Season 5Episode 3930 min

Weapon of Courage

A disabled war veteran who has taken a job as a bank teller feels that his disability has made him useless.

Jun 29, 1956
The Mechanical Cook
Season 5Episode 4030 min

The Mechanical Cook

An Air Force crew chief who wants to be a cook gets his big chance. He is assigned to the private plane of a general who is reputed to be a gourmet.
But he finds his path to culinary stardom blocked by a WAF dietician.

Jul 6, 1956
The Happy Sun
Season 5Episode 4130 min

The Happy Sun

An aging Finnish lumberjack who with his whole family wiped out in one night, turns his devotion toward a horse that was responsible for the accident since he needs someone to love.

Jul 13, 1956
The Bankmouse
Season 5Episode 4230 min

The Bankmouse

A Scotch lass settles in California, then takes a job in a bank after she sees the president's son as well as the young man's shrewish fiancee

Jul 20, 1956
Dara
Season 5Episode 4330 min

Dara

An actress is informed that her husband was killed in a plane crash, but he suddenly returns. And when he does, he accuses her of sabotaging the plane.

Jul 27, 1956
Flowers for Jenny
Season 5Episode 4430 min

Flowers for Jenny

A woman tells her man that she'll marry him if he can prove that he cares more for her than for fighting, but he becomes involved with train robbers as he sets out to pick up the wedding bouquet.

Aug 3, 1956
Repercussion
Season 5Episode 4530 min

Repercussion

A hard-hitting crime reporter discovers that his wife once worked for a gambling ring.

Aug 10, 1956
Boiling Point
Season 5Episode 4630 min

Boiling Point

A hard-working service station operator and his wife who wants to be a movie star in a story of a right guy for the wrong gal.

Aug 17, 1956
Strange Defence
Season 5Episode 4730 min

Strange Defence

A man must decide whether a woman who is accused of murder is his supposedly deceased wife or her twin sister.

Aug 24, 1956
I'll Wait for You
Season 5Episode 4830 min

I'll Wait for You

A fight over his girlfriend results in a jail term for Joe Santorelli. When he is released, after a year's imprisonment, he is filled with hate for the whole human race.

Aug 31, 1956
The Press Agent
Season 5Episode 4930 min

The Press Agent

Show biz agent Danny Scott is taking a bigger cut from his client then he should.

Sep 7, 1956
Midnight Kill
Season 5Episode 5030 min

Midnight Kill

Joe Benson, policeman turner lawyer, is running for the city council. When a policeman is killed, Joe thinks local gangsters planned the murder.

Sep 14, 1956
Top Secret
Season 5Episode 5130 min

Top Secret

A man comes under close scrutiny after documents of value disappear.

Sep 21, 1956

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