Schlitz Playhouse of Stars - Season 5
Season 5
Episodes
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nothing to Do Till Next Fall
A college football coach is faced with a difficult decision for the big home coming game.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Gentle Stranger
A mail-order bride finds life on a ranch not to her liking. A range war decides her future.
Top Man
Mountain climber Martin Nace is fiercely determined to conquer the man-killing mountain Calpurtha.
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.
Ordeal
No one believes a man when he tries to insist he saw a murder committed.
Showdown at Painted Rock
A sheriff risks his life by insisting on hanging a murderer in the lawless old West.
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.
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.
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.
The Finger of God
An escaping Boer prisoner of war breaks into an apparently deserted house and gets the surprise of his life.
Angels in the Sky
Tense moments aboard a transport plane carrying wounded men from the South Pacific as they face disaster.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Plague Ship
Aboard a ship the captain finds his ship threatened by bubonic plague.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Witness to Condemn
The only witness to a murder loses her sight as a result of an attack by the killers.
Weapon of Courage
A disabled war veteran who has taken a job as a bank teller feels that his disability has made him useless.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Repercussion
A hard-hitting crime reporter discovers that his wife once worked for a gambling ring.
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.
Strange Defence
A man must decide whether a woman who is accused of murder is his supposedly deceased wife or her twin sister.
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.
The Press Agent
Show biz agent Danny Scott is taking a bigger cut from his client then he should.
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.
Top Secret
A man comes under close scrutiny after documents of value disappear.
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