Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Season 8

TV Show

Season 8 Episodes

1. A Thing to Fight For

September 26th, 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

October 3rd, 1958

3. The Hasty Hanging

October 10th, 1958

A man and his wife are sentenced to hang without a trial.

4. The Four

October 17th, 1958

5. The Trouble With Ruth

October 24th, 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

October 31st, 1958

7. False Impression

November 7th, 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

November 14th, 1958

9. Last Edition

November 21st, 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

November 28th, 1958

11. Third Son

December 5th, 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

December 12th, 1958

13. No Answer

December 19th, 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

December 26th, 1958

15. A Fistful of Love

January 2nd, 1959

Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.

16. The Deadly Guest

January 9th, 1959

17. You Can't Win 'Em All

January 16th, 1959

A professional football player refuses to admit that his playing days are over.

18. And Practically Strangers

January 30th, 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

February 6th, 1959

20. The Man Who Had No Friends

February 13th, 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

February 20th, 1959

22. On the Brink

February 27th, 1959

Story of an intense hatred between father and son.

23. Stand-In for Murder

March 6th, 1959

24. Ivy League

March 13th, 1959

After 30 years in the Marine Corps, Bull Mitchell retires and enrolls as a college freshman.

25. Frederick

March 20th, 1959

26. The Salted Mine

March 27th, 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

April 3rd, 1959

28. This Will Do Nicely

April 17th, 1959

29. The Case of the Two Sisters

May 1st, 1959

30. Boy on a Fence

May 15th, 1959

31. Mirror, Mirror

May 29th, 1959

32. The Rumor

June 5th, 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

June 12th, 1959

34. Hostage

June 19th, 1959

A motorcycle cop becomes hostage to a cold-blooded slayer who plans to use him to escape police roadblocks.

35. Cowboy Five Seven

July 17th, 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

July 31st, 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.

All Seasons

Season 8

Season 8

Sep 26, 1958
Season 7

Season 7

Sep 13, 1957
Season 6

Season 6

Sep 28, 1956
Season 5

Season 5

Sep 30, 1955
Season 4

Season 4

Sep 10, 1954
Season 3

Season 3

Sep 4, 1953
Season 2

Season 2

Sep 5, 1952
Season 1

Season 1

Oct 5, 1951