About this season
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
Episodes (36)
1. A Thing to Fight For
Aired 26 September 1958
A peace-loving Civil War veteran seeks refuge from the violence of war as overseer on a Florida plantation.
2. The Best House in the Valley
Aired 3 October 1958
3. The Hasty Hanging
Aired 10 October 1958
A man and his wife are sentenced to hang without a trial.
4. The Four
Aired 17 October 1958
5. The Trouble With Ruth
Aired 24 October 1958
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.
6. The Connoisseur
Aired 31 October 1958
7. False Impression
Aired 7 November 1958
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 in order to force the girl to overlook his physical handicap and marry him.
8. A Game of Hate
Aired 14 November 1958
9. Last Edition
Aired 21 November 1958
Newspaper editor Sheldon Black is being shoved aside for the publisher's slimy protégé, Dean Lowell, who passed Black's ideas off as his own. Before exiting, Black orders Lowell to cover the execution of a condemned man that Lowell was friends with in the war. If the reptile Lowell had been willing to soil his "war hero" reputation and testify, he could have saved the man from the electric chair. Instead, he remains quiet and turns in quite a news story.
10. Coney Island Winter
Aired 28 November 1958
11. Third Son
Aired 5 December 1958
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.
12. Drive a Desert Road
Aired 12 December 1958
13. No Answer
Aired 19 December 1958
A swindler who's known for separating rich widows from their money is the lead suspect in the murder of this latest "pigeon." His alibi seems pretty air tight: he was with the investigating cop when the murder supposedly took place.
14. Small Wonder
Aired 26 December 1958
15. A Fistful of Love
Aired 2 January 1959
Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.
16. The Deadly Guest
Aired 9 January 1959
17. You Can't Win 'Em All
Aired 16 January 1959
A professional football player refuses to admit that his playing days are over.
18. And Practically Strangers
Aired 30 January 1959
From childhood Alan Mitchell has always felt his abilities and achievements overshadowed by those of his younger brother Hugh. When Hugh requisitions Alan to work with him on a nuclear bomb project it puts an additional strain on their already tense relationship.
19. Death Trap
Aired 6 February 1959
20. The Man Who Had No Friends
Aired 13 February 1959
Champion Barry Brannon retires from a successful career as a fighter and goes into the restaurant business with his long-time manager, Charlie. When Barry proposes to his girl, he finds that she is in love with Charlie.
21. Various Temptations
Aired 20 February 1959
22. On the Brink
Aired 27 February 1959
Story of an intense hatred between father and son.
23. Stand-In for Murder
Aired 6 March 1959
24. Ivy League
Aired 13 March 1959
After 30 years in the Marine Corps, Bull Mitchell retires and enrolls as a college freshman.
25. Frederick
Aired 20 March 1959
26. The Salted Mine
Aired 27 March 1959
In the Old West, a beautiful mine owner hires a detective to discover if she has been swindled when she bought a mine.
27. The Dreamer
Aired 3 April 1959
28. This Will Do Nicely
Aired 17 April 1959
29. The Case of the Two Sisters
Aired 1 May 1959
30. Boy on a Fence
Aired 15 May 1959
31. Mirror, Mirror
Aired 29 May 1959
32. The Rumor
Aired 5 June 1959
The guys of the billing department at Brittanica Insurance heard that one of them is about to be let go. After breaking up with his girlfriend-of-the-week, office playboy Eddie shoots off his mouth and says he's gonna quit and leave town. Of course, he reconsiders as soon as he meets another woman.
33. The Miss and the Missiles
Aired 12 June 1959
34. Hostage
Aired 19 June 1959
A motorcycle cop becomes hostage to a cold-blooded slayer who plans to use him to escape police roadblocks.
35. Cowboy Five Seven
Aired 17 July 1959
This dramatization was about a typical day in the lives of the men of SAC, was made by Stewart, a reserve officer in the air force, at Westover (Mass.) Air Base. No professional actors are used; officers and enlisted men and their families portray themselves.
36. A Ballad to Die By
Aired 31 July 1959
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.