Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — Season 2

Aired 5 September 1952

An ex-athlete can't face his own aging until he meets a woman who refuses to change.

Aired 12 September 1952

A general store manager at a Canadian outpost marries an Indian girl named Lit-Lit. Her conniving father, in an attempt to shake down his new son-in-law, tries to get his daughter to leave her new husband until he comes through with more supplies and loot. The old man's plans go awry because the girl has fallen in love.

Aired 19 September 1952

A father complains about his daughter's movie magazines -- until he's discovered by a talent scout.

Aired 26 September 1952

A gold miner's greed makes him murder his partners.

Aired 3 October 1952

A man learns too late that a gun is a poor problem solver.

Aired 10 October 1952

When Captain Torras is accused of double murder and his life is threatened, he hires professional bodyguard Mike Grover to protect him.

Aired 17 October 1952

The adventure-romance of a Mexican Al Capone.

Aired 24 October 1952

An attractive lady find herself on a train with a case of amnesia. A psychiatrist, also traveling, agrees to assist the woman with her memory loss and determine the cause.

Aired 31 October 1952

A family's happy life gets complicated when the kids have lost theater tickets that belonged to their dad's boss.

Aired 7 November 1952

A night club affair winds up in intrigue and mystery.

Aired 14 November 1952

A young bride learns that not everything in the tropics is paradise.

Aired 21 November 1952

A masked band of desperadoes smuggles illegal aliens into the U.S. Each carries a piece of camouflage-painted tarp to crouch under when threatened with discovery. The Ripplehissians dispatch the gullible aliens into a deep well, A lawman has to thwart the gang, led by his identical twin brother.

Aired 28 November 1952

A jilted girl settles an old score in an unusual and poignant fashion.

Aired 5 December 1952

On her first job, a girl meets a seedy and serene gentleman to whom the ordinary rules mean nothing.

Aired 12 December 1952

After 20 years of marriage, a couple bent on divorce turn to their pastor to help them divide their possessions.

Aired 19 December 1952

A man juggles his life in pursuit of the things he wants to do.

Aired 26 December 1952

A governess for a wealthy family becomes the object of affection from elderly Count Borselli.

Aired 2 January 1953

A single mother, bored with her life, takes part in a play where she meets a widower.

Aired 9 January 1953

A woman receives a letter from the man she loves but does not open it for thirty-five years.

Aired 16 January 1953

A Hollywood movie producer falls for an ambitious starlet and almost wrecks his career.

Aired 23 January 1953

Jonathan Bigby, an elderly clock keeper, is forcibly retired by his company. Bigby decides to exact an unusual revenge but then finds himself the victim of a larcenous criminal.

Aired 30 January 1953

After a revolution sweeps his country, a police officer finds himself belonging to the wrong party.

Aired 6 February 1953

A reporter investigates by posing as a high-school basketball coach to stop a raffle gambling racket and finds a judge also on the take.

Aired 13 February 1953

A lonely college professor strikes up a friendship with Jackie, a lion who has run away from the circus.

Aired 20 February 1953

Steve Jordan kills his wife, Marietta and it looks like the perfect crime to pave the way for him to wed wealthy Helen but Steve doesn't count on Marietta's brother, Russ.

Aired 27 February 1953

A married man falls in love with another woman at first glance.

Aired 6 March 1953

A man returning from military service wants to become a doctor. He needs money for his education, and as much as he hates to enter into his father's field of expertise as a boxer he finds himself entering the ring.

Aired 13 March 1953

An American finds himself in the Paris home of a doctor, unaware of who he is or how he got there. His one daily visitor is Celeste who, he's told, he once loved. Armed with only the address of the bakery that makes the cakes Celeste brings him, he escapes the doctor's home and goes out to try and remember his life.

Aired 20 March 1953

A woman finds out that the key to youth is to act her age.

Aired 27 March 1953

An author lives in Copenhagen with his wife and daughter. He refuses to alter his stories to happily-ever-after endings.

Aired 3 April 1953

Quite sentimental story of an old woman looking back on her life as a governess. Though now she's seemingly been forgotten by her past charges, the deep feelings this woman felt for her "children" never will.

Aired 10 April 1953

When a man's past is revealed his self-assurance is broken.

Aired 17 April 1963

A man takes his daughter to a school dance and puts on an exhibition that makes him the "beau" of the ball.

Aired 24 April 1953

A professor is saved from early retirement by a group of students.

Aired 1 May 1953

Smug Sam Bentley, a builder of high rise construction projects, is inconvenienced by a doctor's parked car. He decides to give him a piece of his mind, only to find the doctor is a lady. Instead of an argument, they get romantic. Things go well until one of her patients is hurt at one of his work sites.

Aired 8 May 1953

Dr. Gunther is growing old and irritable, but one evening he dreams of an Egyptian copper ring which brings happiness to all who wear it. And he slips it on.

Aired 15 May 1953

A mousy clerk at a travel agency wins a vacation and finds herself being pursued by no less than two suitors.

Aired 22 May 1953

A talented musician loses an arm in a hunting accident.

Aired 29 May 1953

An Army major falls for a French woman and a Red Cross Worker.

Aired 5 June 1953

A woman feels she is being taken for granted by her construction worker husband.

Aired 12 June 1953

A crime commission looks for three missing witnesses who can put the finger on a waterfront racketeer.

Aired 19 June 1953

Comedy about a GI on a ten day furlough on the isle of Capri.

Aired 26 June 1953

A young artist who's come to the big city loses heart when he experiences vision problems. Despite reassurance from his doctor that his eyes will improve, he becomes disheartened and climbs out onto a window ledge. The doctor, a cop, and a young woman who knows his case all work to coax him back inside.

Aired 3 July 1953

A young husband feels neglected because his wife pays too much attention to her pets, so he gets one of this own - a lion.

Aired 10 July 1953

Wanda is married to one of the operators of a small Alaskan cargo airline. She sends a note to her husband's partner, Vic, suggesting a rendezvous. When the letter goes missing, Vic is convinced his partner knows about their affair and feeding him deadly landing instructions via radio during a storm.

Aired 17 July 1953

A woman who is considerably younger than her husband is bored with their uneventful like in Costa Rica.

Aired 24 July 1953

Gambler Steve returns to marry Laura only to find she is to marry homesteader, Johnny. Laura's father, rancher Warren, disapproves of both men and, with hired gun Dineen, aims to eliminate both.

Aired 31 July 1953

A high society doctor finds great happiness in treating the poor.

Aired 7 August 1953

An incompetent detective bumbles his way thru danger and intrigue

Aired 14 August 1953

A wealthy woman is afraid to go out alone.

Aired 21 August 1953

A man's attempts to collect his aunt's inheritance are foiled by a cat named Sheila.

Aired 28 August 1953

After the death of her husband in the early years of World War II, a newspaper reporter throws herself into helping refugees from the Nazi invasion in wartime Lisbon.