Schlitz Playhouse of Stars - Season 6
Season 6
Episodes
Moment of Vengeance
A ranchhand wins his hard-bitten cattle baron father-in-law's forgiveness for marrying his daughter.
The House That Jackson Built
A career girl fed up with manhunting decides to buy a house and settle down to spinsterhood gracefully.
The Trophy
A self-made man uses his money to offset his crudeness. His wife is constantly humiliated by his bad taste.
Enoch Prentiss
A hard man in business is on the receiving end of the squeeze play when his daughter is threatened by a blackmailer who wants $25,000 in exchange for her reputation.
Always the Best Man
A bachelor talks his best friend into breaking his engagement. But after he meets the man's ex-fiance, he begins to fall in love with her himself!
The Night They Won the Oscar
A dedicated director has had the loving support and understanding of his wife during the years in which he mastered his craft.
After he wins an Oscar for a picture he directed, they find they are rapidly drifting apart.
The Letter
A Southern girl discovers that Confederate soldiers are not receiving letters from home. She therefore decides to deliver letters from her neighbors to their sons and sweethearts.
Once Upon a Crime
A thief steals the money box from an amusement park, then attaches himself to a group of children to keep from getting caught.
The Washington Incident
During the trying days of 1862, Abraham Lincoln overhears a disturbing conversation.
A Tale of Wells Fargo
A gang of outlaws conduct a series of Wells Fargo stagecoach and office robberies. The company assigns Jim Hardie to investigate and stop the robbers.
A Light in the Desert
A doctor saves a mother, dying in childbirth, and restores his own soul in the process.
The Big Payoff
Joe McQuade is a respected and honest detective, who is in line for a promotion. His daughter needs an operation and a racketeer offers him money.
The Lady is a Flop
Red McGivney, a former jockey who now works as an exercise boy, is sure that a race horse named Lady has the makings of a champion.
After everyone else has given up, Red buys her to train and race himself.
Tower Room 14-A
A house detective belives every woman quits when the going gets rough, until a convict's girlfriend changes his mind.
Terror in the Streets
The story of an artist who moves into a cheap tenement apartment to decide whether or not to marry but instead of peace of mind finds herself in the middle of terror.
The Enchanted
A man brings a young girl into his house with the intention of training her to be his wife.
One Left Over
An auto accident takes the lives of a man's wife and his two sons and he must find the courage to live for his daughter.
Somet8imes You Break Even
An Army doctor and nurse have two critical patients and lock horns over how to deal with the lack of resources.
Night Drive
A drive with an old lady over a lonely road turns out to be a nightmare for a young woman when the old lady proves to be a man with a gun.
The Wedding Present
A lonely woman tired of her reputation as a respectable spinster, takes a drifter in as a boarder and discovers he's wanted for murder.
The Life You Save
Tom T. Triplet is an engaging one-armed tramp, a man who has been to a lot of places and seen a lot of things.
But never before has he seen anyone like Lucynell Crater, a deaf-mute of angelic innocence.
Carriage from Britain
A young mother's desire to keep ahead of the Joneses leads her to import a baby buggy like the one Prince Charles had.
The Girl in the Grass
Harry Carstairs wakes up on a beautiful Indian summer day feeling young and adventurous. His wife, however, doesn't share his romantic mood, so Harry wanders off to the park. He intends to read the financial page, but finds himself being stared at by a beautiful girl.
For better, For Worse
Accused of a hit-and-run, a woman claims she's innocent, but can't get anyone to believe her because she's a pathological liar.
The Restless Gun
Story of a man with a gun upsets the plans of his best friend to meet a revengeful killer at dawn and shoot it out.
Clothes Make the Man
A mousy little button salesman gets thrown out of his hotel when it is taken over by a new chain, because he wore outlandish clothes.
The Blue Hotel
A coward in a rough western town believes the joke when others pretend they think he's a top gun and dangerous man.
Girl with a Glow
The story of a famous director who hires a librarian to find a gorgeous girl whom he saw in the Hollywood Public Library to star in his next movie.
Hey, Mac
A beautiful divorcee and her spoiled teenage son destroy the peace of a widower and his pretty teenage daughter.
The Traveling Corpse
Professor Stephen Bolt, a teacher of criminology, hears a strange story from a guest lecturer: a man dies suddenly.
While his wife is arranging the burial, the corpse disappears
Switch Station
A wandering cowboy gets a job at a stagecoach station's switch station. Fond of his wandering life, he refuses the offer of a permanent job.
Then a band of stagecoach robbers rides in and threatens the cowboy's employer and his daughter.
Sister Louise Goes to Town
A cloister nun with a great imagination sometimes gets caught in her own schemes.
The Sword
Cyrano de Bergerac is saved from the executioner's axe only by the adroit swordsmanship of de la Force.
An Old Spanish Custom
A temperamental movie star believes she can issue orders to everyone - even people she's just met.
Storm Over Rapallo
Pietro and Francesca live in a little Italian village on the Mediterranean. She's the cook in a ramshackle hotel and he's the waiter, but he rebels at spending his life picking up crumbs and plots big business deals at the waterfront. His association with Rubio, an evil fisherman frightens Francesca but she is powerless to dissuade Pietro from entering into a scheme with Rubio to rob a pair of American tourists.
Fifty Beautiful Girls
A dancer receives death threats by repeatedly receiving letters and phone calls.
The Dead Are Silent
A period piece set in old Boston. A pretty young wife is treated badly by her hard husband until she makes use of a scandal to handle him.
Easy-Going Man
A boy plays cupid for his widowed mother and her old flame.
Hands of the Enemy
A defense attorney is met with antagonism when he arrives in a small town to help a boy already convicted by public opinion of stealing $8,000.
Sporting Chance
A jealous man turns a duck hunting expedition into a manhunt.
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