Schlitz Playhouse of Stars - Season 6

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars - Season 6

Season 6

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Episodes40
DatesSep 28, 1956 - Aug 16, 1957
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Episodes

Moment of Vengeance
Season 6Episode 130 min

Moment of Vengeance

A ranchhand wins his hard-bitten cattle baron father-in-law's forgiveness for marrying his daughter.

Sep 28, 1956
The House That Jackson Built
Season 6Episode 230 min

The House That Jackson Built

A career girl fed up with manhunting decides to buy a house and settle down to spinsterhood gracefully.

Oct 5, 1956
The Trophy
Season 6Episode 330 min

The Trophy

A self-made man uses his money to offset his crudeness. His wife is constantly humiliated by his bad taste.

Oct 12, 1956
Enoch Prentiss
Season 6Episode 430 min

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.

Oct 19, 1956
Always the Best Man
Season 6Episode 530 min

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!

Oct 26, 1956
The Night They Won the Oscar
Season 6Episode 630 min

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.

Nov 9, 1956
The Letter
Season 6Episode 730 min

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.

Nov 23, 1956
Once Upon a Crime
Season 6Episode 830 min

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.

Nov 30, 1956
The Washington Incident
Season 6Episode 930 min

The Washington Incident

During the trying days of 1862, Abraham Lincoln overhears a disturbing conversation.

Dec 7, 1956
A Tale of Wells Fargo
Season 6Episode 1030 min

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.

Dec 14, 1956
A Light in the Desert
Season 6Episode 1130 min

A Light in the Desert

A doctor saves a mother, dying in childbirth, and restores his own soul in the process.

Dec 21, 1956
The Big Payoff
Season 6Episode 1230 min

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.

Dec 28, 1956
The Lady is a Flop
Season 6Episode 1330 min

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.

Jan 4, 1957
Tower Room 14-A
Season 6Episode 1430 min

Tower Room 14-A

A house detective belives every woman quits when the going gets rough, until a convict's girlfriend changes his mind.

Jan 11, 1957
Terror in the Streets
Season 6Episode 1530 min

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.

Jan 18, 1957
The Enchanted
Season 6Episode 1630 min

The Enchanted

A man brings a young girl into his house with the intention of training her to be his wife.

Jan 25, 1957
One Left Over
Season 6Episode 1730 min

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.

Feb 1, 1957
Somet8imes You Break Even
Season 6Episode 1830 min

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.

Feb 8, 1957
Night Drive
Season 6Episode 1930 min

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.

Feb 15, 1957
The Wedding Present
Season 6Episode 2030 min

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.

Feb 22, 1957
The Life You Save
Season 6Episode 2130 min

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.

Mar 1, 1957
Carriage from Britain
Season 6Episode 2230 min

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.

Mar 8, 1957
The Girl in the Grass
Season 6Episode 2330 min

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.

Mar 15, 1957
For better, For Worse
Season 6Episode 2430 min

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.

Mar 22, 1957
The Restless Gun
Season 6Episode 2530 min

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.

Mar 29, 1957
Clothes Make the Man
Season 6Episode 2630 min

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.

Apr 5, 1957
The Blue Hotel
Season 6Episode 2730 min

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.

Apr 12, 1957
Girl with a Glow
Season 6Episode 2830 min

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.

Apr 19, 1957
Hey, Mac
Season 6Episode 2930 min

Hey, Mac

A beautiful divorcee and her spoiled teenage son destroy the peace of a widower and his pretty teenage daughter.

Apr 26, 1957
The Traveling Corpse
Season 6Episode 3030 min

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

May 3, 1957
Switch Station
Season 6Episode 3130 min

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.

May 17, 1957
Sister Louise Goes to Town
Season 6Episode 3230 min

Sister Louise Goes to Town

A cloister nun with a great imagination sometimes gets caught in her own schemes.

May 24, 1957
The Sword
Season 6Episode 3330 min

The Sword

Cyrano de Bergerac is saved from the executioner's axe only by the adroit swordsmanship of de la Force.

May 31, 1957
An Old Spanish Custom
Season 6Episode 3430 min

An Old Spanish Custom

A temperamental movie star believes she can issue orders to everyone - even people she's just met.

Jun 7, 1957
Storm Over Rapallo
Season 6Episode 3530 min

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.

Jun 14, 1957
Fifty Beautiful Girls
Season 6Episode 3630 min

Fifty Beautiful Girls

A dancer receives death threats by repeatedly receiving letters and phone calls.

Jun 21, 1957
The Dead Are Silent
Season 6Episode 3730 min

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.

Jul 19, 1957
Easy-Going Man
Season 6Episode 3830 min

Easy-Going Man

A boy plays cupid for his widowed mother and her old flame.

Aug 2, 1957
Hands of the Enemy
Season 6Episode 3930 min

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.

Aug 9, 1957
Sporting Chance
Season 6Episode 4030 min

Sporting Chance

A jealous man turns a duck hunting expedition into a manhunt.

Aug 16, 1957

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