Schlitz Playhouse of Stars - Season 7

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars - Season 7

Season 7

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Episodes37
DatesSep 13, 1957 - Aug 15, 1958
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Episodes

Three Dollar Bill
Season 7Episode 130 min

Three Dollar Bill

Eddie Martin is making lots of money at his job and he's happy. Not so his wife, who thinks Eddie should work behind a desk and wear a grey-flannel suit.
In an effort to help her husband get ahead, she throws a dinner party for the boss.

Sep 13, 1957
One Way Out
Season 7Episode 230 min

One Way Out

A man serving a long sentence finds his only ticket out is through parole and good behaviour.

Sep 20, 1957
Smarty
Season 7Episode 330 min

Smarty

On a boat headed for Panama, a brash, overdressed girl tries desperatedly to make friends with other passengers.
But her outlandish appearance and loud voice make her an object of ridicule.

Oct 11, 1957
High Barrier
Season 7Episode 430 min

High Barrier

A wealthy, domineering wife schemes her husband's death.

Oct 18, 1957
Bitter Parting
Season 7Episode 530 min

Bitter Parting

After Prof. Rhys Lorenz is blinded in an accident, he becomes bitter at the world.

Oct 25, 1957
Dual Control
Season 7Episode 630 min

Dual Control

An American flier's plane crashes in the Chinese jungle. A lovely Eurasian girl joins the flier in an attempt to escape the Communists.

Nov 1, 1957
The Hole Card
Season 7Episode 730 min

The Hole Card

Story of a genteel lady gambler who never loses her hunch that her bad luck is changing.

Nov 8, 1957
The Lonely Wizard
Season 7Episode 830 min

The Lonely Wizard

The true story of electrical engineer Charles Steinmetz. Even as a child in Germany, Charles was lonely, preferring to devise inventions rather than play with other children. As he grows to young manhood, Steinmetz applies his brilliant mind to problems of electrical engineering.

Nov 15, 1957
No Second Helping
Season 7Episode 930 min

No Second Helping

A woman suspects her husband of having a romance with the young daughter of one of his former flames.
In an attempt to show her husband the error of his ways, the wife invites the girl out for a weekend.

Nov 22, 1957
Outlaw's Boots
Season 7Episode 1030 min

Outlaw's Boots

A reformed outlaw has trouble going straight.

Nov 29, 1957
Neighbors
Season 7Episode 1130 min

Neighbors

A home-loving man's marriage has become a dull routine until he becomes interested in a young widow who moves next door.

Dec 6, 1957
French Provincial
Season 7Episode 1230 min

French Provincial

Mary Andrews, a big city columnist, in Paris on a combined business and pleasure trip, meets her old friend Dutch Morgan.  Morgan is to visit the Nadeaus, a French family who aided him when his plane was shot down during World War 2. Since the family does not know that Morgan and his wife are separated, Mary promises to fulfill the role. An estranged American plans to visit a French family who protected him during World War II However, he lacks the nerve to face them without the wife they heard him talk so much about. Complications follow when Mary Andrews, an American newspaperwoman in Paris, volunteers to substitute as his wife.

Dec 13, 1957
Rich Man, Poor Man
Season 7Episode 1330 min

Rich Man, Poor Man

A humble peasant, simple and naive until he sells illegally a horde of antique statuettes to an unscrupulous dealer.
The new found wealth complicates his life and nearly destroys his marriage.

Dec 20, 1957
Pattern for Death
Season 7Episode 1430 min

Pattern for Death

Bill Carter is a man who suspects that his present wife is still in love with her first husband allows his jealousy to threaten his marriage and ruin his life.

Dec 27, 1957
Guys Like O'Malley
Season 7Episode 1530 min

Guys Like O'Malley

Battle-hardened Sgt. O'Malley dedicates himself to the task of making a seasoned soldier of an irresponsible private.

Jan 10, 1958
Home Again
Season 7Episode 1630 min

Home Again

A trio of jewel thieves, two men and a woman, take refuge from the police in a small town where the girl was raised.
Tension mounts as the three strive to remain undetected while their attitude toward each other begins to change.

Jan 17, 1958
No Boat for Four Months
Season 7Episode 1730 min

No Boat for Four Months

Arriving on the lonely French Island of Tuamota in the South Pacific in the late summer of 1939, an Army doctor discovers his medical school classmate and finds that he must help him conquer his addiction to morphine.

Jan 24, 1958
Heroes Never Grow Up
Season 7Episode 1830 min

Heroes Never Grow Up

After he is presented with a citation for saving a child's life, Frankie Nevada is impressed with his role of hero.
When he becomes more concerned with his press clippings than with finding a job, his girlfriend as well as his friends turn against him.

Feb 7, 1958
East to the Moon
Season 7Episode 1930 min

East to the Moon

A trip to Japan by a businessman becomes a complicated love affair when his boss asks him to visit his Japanese wife and child whom he had left behind.

Feb 14, 1958
Man on a Rack
Season 7Episode 2030 min

Man on a Rack

A clothing salesman lets a lady friend talk him out of using his customary high-pressure sales techniques. But his sales drop, and the boss is forced to take him off the road.

Feb 21, 1958
Two Lives Have I
Season 7Episode 2130 min

Two Lives Have I

After years as a hen-pecked husband, Hully Brown decides to leave his overbearing wife and make a new life for himself.

Feb 28, 1958
Night of the Stranger
Season 7Episode 2230 min

Night of the Stranger

After the death of his wife, John York decides to take a trip to help overcome his grief.

Mar 7, 1958
The Honor System
Season 7Episode 2330 min

The Honor System

A father is worried that his son will be rejected by a top-rated college, an ex-convict resorts to blackmail to insure the boy's entrance.

Mar 14, 1958
Bluebeard's Seventh Wife
Season 7Episode 2430 min

Bluebeard's Seventh Wife

A disappointed suitor is accused of playing cop when he voices doubts about a former girlfriend's choice of a husband.

Mar 21, 1958
I Shot a Prowler
Season 7Episode 2530 min

I Shot a Prowler

While her husband is away on an extended business trip, Vivian Braxton, a lonely housewife, becomes infatuated with another man, Johnny Kyper.
When Kyper threatens Vivian with exposure unless she gives him a large sum of money, the young woman searches frantically for a solution to her problem.

Mar 28, 1958
Papa Said No
Season 7Episode 2630 min

Papa Said No

Photographer Calvin Penny is interested in pretty Suzanne Stacey only as a model, but she thinks of Calvin as a prospective husband.
For that reason she agrees to pose for him. Only when Suzanne's irate father visits the studio does Calvin realize Suzanne's intentions.

Apr 4, 1958
Secrets of the Old Bailey
Season 7Episode 2730 min

Secrets of the Old Bailey

A Detective Superintendent of Scotland Yard is assigned the task of solving a baffling murder of an attractive London model.

Apr 11, 1958
A Contest of Ladies
Season 7Episode 2830 min

A Contest of Ladies

A British movie star finds himself in a miserable situation: All he wants to do is rest, but he's forced to judge a beauty contest, and the participants don't give him a moment's peace!

Apr 18, 1958
The Kind Mr. Smith
Season 7Episode 2930 min

The Kind Mr. Smith

A charming vagabond becomes implicated in an art swindle.

Apr 25, 1958
Penny Wise
Season 7Episode 3030 min

Penny Wise

A lower class working girl is afraid she won't be accepted by her husband's wealthy family.

May 2, 1958
The Town That Slept with Its Lights On
Season 7Episode 3130 min

The Town That Slept with Its Lights On

A young gardener is accused of terrorizing an entire town.

May 16, 1958
Lottery for Revenge
Season 7Episode 3230 min

Lottery for Revenge

Revolutionists under the heel of a dictator are aided by an American newsman who becomes involved and lends a hand to help make the revolution a success.

May 30, 1958
Way of the West
Season 7Episode 3330 min

Way of the West

Dr. John Carter, a rather starchy young physician from Boston, is on his way to San Francisco. When a frontier town is stricken by a smallpox epidemic, the doctor reluctantly joins forces with the lawless Belle Starr to rush aid to the stricken people.

Jun 6, 1958
You'll Have to Die Now
Season 7Episode 3430 min

You'll Have to Die Now

A rookie cop finds out that a veteran police lieutenant has been taking illegal payoff's from local criminals and threatens to turn him in.

Jun 20, 1958
Curfew at Midnight
Season 7Episode 3530 min

Curfew at Midnight

A man on parole falls in love with a girl who has been seeing a hoodlum. The hoodlum warns the paroled man to stay away from the girl and when he refuses he schemes to make his rival violate his parole.

Jun 27, 1958
Long Distance
Season 7Episode 3630 min

Long Distance

A wife tries to make a last-ditch phone call to save her husband from the electric chair.

Jul 25, 1958
False Alarm
Season 7Episode 3730 min

False Alarm

Sid Devlin, a well-meaning cab driver in need of money, is persuaded by ruthless criminal Max Gebler to act as an accomplice in an armored-car-robbery. Gebler involves Devlin's wife to make sure he won't back out of the deal.

Aug 15, 1958

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