39 episodes

Playhouse 90 - Season 1

First aired Oct 4, 1956Season 1

Browse all 39 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Forbidden Area

2.0
Oct 4, 195690 min1 votes

Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will anyone believe him?

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Episode 2

Requiem for a Heavyweight

NR
Oct 11, 195690 min

An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is exploited by his manager, despite the efforts of a compassionate young woman who tries to help him recover his self-respect.

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Episode 3

Sizeman and Son

NR
Oct 18, 195690 min

The happy atmosphere in Mr. Sizeman's factory is disrupted by an argumentative newcomer - his son.

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Episode 4

Rendezvous in Black

NR
Oct 25, 195690 min

A woman is inexplicably killed on a street-corner. What has this to do with other deaths around the city?

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Episode 5

The Country Husband

NR
Nov 1, 195690 min

After a near-death experience, a businessman starts to re-think his life, and wonders about leaving his wife.

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Episode 6

The Big Slide

NR
Nov 8, 195690 min

A vaudeville comic becomes a silent film star.

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Episode 7

Heritage of Anger

NR
Nov 15, 195690 min

A wealthy industrialist has trouble with his sons.

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Episode 8

Eloise

NR
Nov 22, 195690 min

It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.

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Episode 9

Confession

NR
Nov 29, 195690 min

When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.

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Episode 10

Made in Heaven

NR
Dec 6, 195690 min

When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.

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Episode 11

Sincerely, Willis Wade

NR
Dec 13, 195690 min

A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.

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Episode 12

The Family Nobody Wanted

NR
Dec 20, 195690 min

A true story, it follows a pastor and his wife through forties beginning with one biological child, Donny. But the upheaval of the war years results in a number of mixed raced children that the Doss family adopt until they have 12 children.

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Episode 13

Massacre at Sand Creek

NR
Dec 27, 195690 min

An investigation into a massacre of Native Americans.

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Episode 14

Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses

NR
Jan 3, 195790 min

Some racetrack Johnnies are talking between races when one wonders if you can hypnotize a horse into thinking it's a champion. The idea sets in motion a series of hilarious events.

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Episode 15

The Ninth Day

NR
Jan 10, 195790 min

Events in the aftermath of World War Three.

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Episode 16

So Soon to Die

NR
Jan 17, 195790 min

Down on his luck, war hero Lionel Amblin contemplates committing a murder.

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Episode 17

The Star Wagon

NR
Jan 24, 195790 min

An inventor, pondering on how he might differently have arranged his life, invents a time machine and decides to make a few changes.

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Episode 18

The Greer Case

NR
Jan 31, 195790 min

When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

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Episode 19

The Miracle Worker

NR
Feb 7, 195790 min

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

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Episode 20

The Comedian

7.5
Feb 14, 195790 min2 votes

Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than his. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, whom Sammy has hired as his assistant but whom he really uses as his whipping boy.

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Episode 21

One Coat of White

NR
Feb 21, 195790 min

A newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.

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Episode 22

The Blackwell Story

NR
Feb 28, 195790 min

In the 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell determines to become a doctor.

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Episode 23

Invitation to a Gunfighter

NR
Mar 7, 195790 min

A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter to drive him out of town. The townsfolk thought they had it bad until they handed the reigns over to the new terror. Pooling their money again, this time to hire Jeffers to get rid of Dancer.

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Episode 24

The Last Tycoon

NR
Mar 14, 195790 min

A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.

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Episode 25

The Hostess with the Mostes'

NR
Mar 21, 195790 min

The story of Perle Mesta, who became, first, a renowned society hostess, and then an ambassadress.

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Episode 26

Where's Charley?

NR
Mar 28, 195790 min

Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".

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Episode 27

Clipper Ship

NR
Apr 4, 195790 min

A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shipping magnate, and her growing love for a handsome young political prisoner who was scheduled to be put to death when the vessel reached its destination. Though unyielding at first, the ship's stern captain eventually helped the woman to make a clean getaway, with the condemned man in tow.

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Episode 28

If You Knew Elizabeth

NR
Apr 11, 195790 min

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Episode 29

Three Men on a Horse

NR
Apr 18, 195790 min

A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.

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Episode 30

Four Women in Black

NR
Apr 25, 195790 min

Four nuns, led by Sister Teresa, begin a treacherous journey across the Arizona desert in 1870. Their faith enables them to deal with the challenges of nature and the hostility of their fellow mankind.

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Episode 31

Child of Trouble

NR
May 2, 195790 min

TMDB has not published a written overview for this episode yet.

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Episode 32

Homeward Borne

NR
May 9, 195790 min

Just after World War Two ends, an American woman takes in a Polish war orphan boy, a concentration camp survivor. But conflict arises when her husband, a returning Air Force bomber pilot, hates the boy and his psychological baggage.

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Episode 33

The Helen Morgan Story

NR
May 16, 195790 min

Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star of top rated shows and owning her own club. Also seen is her poor choices, such as her affair with a married man, her short marriage to a much younger man, a court fight over an adopted baby and her fatal descent into booze addiction.

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Episode 34

Winter Dreams

NR
May 23, 195790 min

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Episode 35

Circle of the Day

NR
May 30, 195790 min

On her tenth wedding anniversary (which is also her daughter's birthday), a wife begins to suspect her husband of unfaithfulness.

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Episode 36

Without Incident

NR
Jun 6, 195790 min

Captain Russell Bidlack, commander of a U.S. Cavalry unit in 1870, determines to complete a rescue mission through dangerous Indian territory. In the course of the mission, he rescues the wives of two slain traders and captures the Indian chief accused of the murders. When he returns to the fort, he's faced with a revolt among his own men.

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Episode 37

Clash by Night

NR
Jun 13, 195790 min

Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.

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Episode 38

Ain't No Time for Glory

NR
Jun 20, 195790 min

American soldiers must use stealth to take over a German command post in Normandy.

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Episode 39

The Fabulous Irishman

NR
Jun 27, 195790 min

Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.