About this season
CBS Playhouse is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS from 1967 to 1970. Airing twelve plays over the course of its run, the series was nominated for a number of awards and featured many noteworthy actors and playwrights.
Episodes (4)
1. The People Next Door
Aired 15 October 1968 • 90 min
Comfortable New York suburbanites Arthur and Gerrie Mason discover one night that their seemingly perfect 16-year-old daughter Maxie has been using LSD. Arthur immediately suspects his 17-year-old son Artie of supplying the drug to his sister, and kicks him out. Whereupon a confused Gerrie seeks advice from high school principal David Hoffman, whose family has their own problems. Very sensibly, he advises love and understanding on part of the parents, which all but goes out the window when Maxie confesses that not only has she been tripping for some time now, but is also sexually active and on the pill.
2. Saturday Adoption
Aired 4 December 1968 • 90 min
Rich Meridan is white, well-to-do and off to law school so he can make more money. Macy Stander is Black, a cut above poverty and young enough to dream and hope for a better life. Both youths are stifled: one has too much, the other too little.
3. The Experiment
Aired 25 February 1969 • 90 min
Wilson Evans is a free-spirited young scientist who compromises his liberal views to accept a lucrative job with a high-tech chemical corporation.
4. Shadow Game
9.0Aired 7 May 1969 • 90 min
The employees in a high-powered New York business office are stranded on the 50th floor when the power fails during the 1965 East Coast blackout. A small party is begun, and truths about the career and personal ambitions of the workers begin to emerge.