Schlitz Playhouse of Stars — Season 6

Aired 28 September 1956

When a $20-a-month ranch hand elopes with the daughter of a cattle baron, the father gets his dander up and figures the young man is after his money.

Aired 5 October 1956

A woman who has devoted herself to her career decides she is never to wed. She proceeds to buy a house and build a life that doesn't involve having a family. But she is pleasantly surprised about what happens next.

Aired 12 October 1956

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

Aired 19 October 1956

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.

Aired 26 October 1956

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.

Aired 9 November 1956

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.

Aired 16 November 1956

An American secret agent fighting to get control of a South American oil well poses an Englishman to thwart enemy agents.

Aired 23 November 1956

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.

Aired 30 November 1956

A small girl teaches a thief about honesty after she sees him commit a crime.

Aired 7 December 1956

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

Aired 14 December 1956

After a series of train robberies and stagecoach hold-ups, the Wells Fargo Company assigns special agent Jim Hardie to capture the outlaws.

Aired 21 December 1956

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

Aired 28 December 1956

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.

Aired 4 January 1957

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.

Aired 11 January 1957

A house detective believes all women to be unfaithful until he meets a certain beautiful young lady.

Aired 18 January 1957

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.

Aired 25 January 1957

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

Aired 1 February 1957

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.

Aired 8 February 1957

An Army doctor and nurse have two critical patients and lock horns over how to deal with the lack of resources.

Aired 15 February 1957

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.

Aired 22 February 1957

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.

Aired 1 March 1957

Marriage is the furthest thing from the mind of one-armed tramp, Tom Triplet -- then he sees Lucy Nell Crater, a deaf-mute girl with angelic innocence.

Aired 8 March 1957

A young mother's desire to keep ahead of the Joneses leads her to import a baby buggy like the one Prince Charles had.

Aired 15 March 1957

Harry Carstairs wakes up 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.

Aired 22 March 1957

Walter Van Buren begins to suspect that his new wife is a compulsive liar.

Aired 29 March 1957

On the trail to visit his old friend Dan, former gunfighter Britt Ponset meets an escaped murderer nursing a grudge and plotting to kill Dan. Britt's job now is to warn Dan and help him prepare for the inevitable showdown.

Aired 5 April 1957

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.

Aired 12 April 1957

Strangers stranded in a hotel by a blizzard pass the time by playing poker. Tensions rise when one of them accuses another of cheating.

Aired 19 April 1957

An attractive, charming librarian is smitten with the movie director who's been hanging around the library. He enlists her help in tracking down a stunning woman he'd seen there days before; he describes her as having "a glow." Though she's glad to help, she hates that she hasn't captured his attention like the future movie star has.

Aired 26 April 1957

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

Aired 3 May 1957

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

Aired 10 May 1957

Aired 17 May 1957

A drifter takes a temporary job at a stagecoach station but refuse a permanent one from manager Henry Maguire. As he's ready to move on bandits arrive threatening Henry and daughter Bess. The cowboy makes a crucial choice.

Aired 24 May 1957

A nun is bothered by the cloister's leaky roof, so, after learning she has come into an inheritance, she decides to do something about it.

Aired 31 May 1957

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

Aired 7 June 1957

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

Aired 14 June 1957

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.

Aired 21 June 1957

A dancer repeatedly receives death threats by mail and phone calls.

Aired 28 June 1957

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

Aired 2 August 1957

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

Aired 9 August 1957

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.

Aired 16 August 1957

A gangster pursued by the police convinces a crooked plastic surgeon to alter his face to look like a respected banker so the thug can kill and assume the identity of the respected citizen

Aired 22 August 1957

Aired 29 August 1957

Two policeman who are partners on a dangerous beat vie for the love of the same woman.