Schlitz Playhouse of Stars - Season 8

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars - Season 8

Season 8

Network
Episodes20
DatesSep 12, 1958 - Jul 31, 1959
Previous Season

Episodes

Portrait of a Legend
Season 8Episode 130 min

Portrait of a Legend

A veteran detective teams with a young plainclothesman to hunt down a psycho killer.

Sep 12, 1958
Kinsman
Season 8Episode 230 min

Kinsman

The story of a man's desperate search for his only child, a young son, now thirteen, he hasn't seen for ten years.
He returns from prison to find that his wife left their son at a mission when she remarried.

Sep 19, 1958
A Thing to Fight For
Season 8Episode 330 min

A Thing to Fight For

A peace-loving Civil War veteran seeks refuge from the violence of war as overseer on a Florida plantation.

Sep 26, 1958
The Hasty Hanging
Season 8Episode 430 min

The Hasty Hanging

A man and his wife are sentenced to hang without a trial.

Oct 10, 1958
The Trouble with Ruth
Season 8Episode 530 min

The Trouble with Ruth

Not even her husband knows that Ruth Elliot is a kleptomaniac. But hoodlum Joseph Libo finds out about her illness and threatens to tell her husband unless she helps him carry out a robbery.

Oct 24, 1958
False Impression
Season 8Episode 630 min

False Impression

A crippled dental technician falls in love with a pretty girl who refuses to have anything to do with him. He decides to steal a fortune in jewels and so force the girl to overlook his physical handicap and marry him.

Nov 7, 1958
The Last Edition
Season 8Episode 730 min

The Last Edition

Sheldon Black is training Dean Lowell for the position of managing editor of the Morning Chronicle. He learns that a wartime friend of Lowell's is condemned to die, but that Lowell has turned a deaf ear to the man's pleas for help. Puzzled, Black orders Lowell to write a story about the condemned man.

Nov 21, 1958
Third Son
Season 8Episode 830 min

Third Son

The youngest brother is torn between whether to follow in the footsteps of his brother who is a frontier marshal or the other one who is a dashing gambler.

Dec 5, 1958
No Answer
Season 8Episode 930 min

No Answer

Once again panic-stricken Maggie Athenson calls the police for protection from Cassidy, a suave swindler who she says has threatened her life.
Even though Maggie's previous pleas had been false alarms, policemen Howell and Brophy decide to follow through.

Dec 19, 1958
A Fistful of Love
Season 8Episode 1030 min

A Fistful of Love

A prizefighter knows no other trade and is given his most merciless beating. The people he meets in a nightmarish night are as bewildered as he but unaware of his inner emotional struggle regarding his young son.

Jan 2, 1959
You Can't Win 'em All
Season 8Episode 1130 min

You Can't Win 'em All

A professional football player refuses to admit that his playing days are over.

Jan 16, 1959
And Practically Strangers
Season 8Episode 1230 min

And Practically Strangers

Alan Mitchell is assigned to work with his brother Hugh on a nuclear bomb project for the Army, but there is hostility between the two because of Alan's feeling that he always had to take a back seat to his younger brother.

Jan 30, 1959
The Man Who Had No Friends
Season 8Episode 1330 min

The Man Who Had No Friends

Champion Barry Brannon retires from a successful career as a fighter and goes into the restaurant business with his long-time manager, Charlie Spendlove. When Barry proposes to his girl, he finds that she is in love with Charlie.

Feb 13, 1959
On the Brink
Season 8Episode 1430 min

On the Brink

Story of an intense hatred between father and son.

Feb 27, 1959
Ivy League
Season 8Episode 1530 min

Ivy League

After 30 years in the Marine Corps, Bull Mitchell retires and enrolls as a college freshman.

Mar 13, 1959
The Salted Mine
Season 8Episode 1630 min

The Salted Mine

Alice Batson hires Slade, a private detective to determine whether she has been swindled in her purchase of a worthless mine.

Mar 27, 1959
The Rumor
Season 8Episode 1730 min

The Rumor

A group of office workers hears that one of them has to be fired, Eddie decides to make the noble sacrifice and quit.

Jun 5, 1959
Hostage
Season 8Episode 1830 min

Hostage

A motorcycle cop becomes hostage to a cold-blooded slayer who plans to use him to escape police roadblocks.

Jun 19, 1959
Cowboy Five Seven
Season 8Episode 1930 min

Cowboy Five Seven

Early one morning, Major Gerald McKay of the Strategic Air Command says goodbye to his wife and four children as he prepares to begin a routine day's work as part of America's air-defense system. He promises his wife that he will be home in time to attend his daughter's piano recital.

Jul 17, 1959
A Balled to Die by
Season 8Episode 2030 min

A Balled to Die by

Rancher Anna Carrick hires singing cowboy Johnny Guitar to play at her wedding.
Johnny soon learns that Anna is to marry a killer against her will.

Jul 31, 1959

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