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The Best Episodes of Four Star Playhouse

Every episode of Four Star Playhouse ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Four Star Playhouse!

Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company;...
Genres:DramaComedy
Network:CBS

Best Episodes Summary

"Moorings" is the best rated episode of "Four Star Playhouse". It scored 8.5/10 based on 32 votes. Directed by Robert Florey and written by N/A, it aired on 11/12/1953. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Bourbon Street".

  • Moorings
    8.5/1032 votes
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    #1 - Moorings

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1953

    A sickly aging shipping magnate falls in love with a blind mother.

    Director: Robert Florey

    Writer: N/A

  • Bourbon Street
    8.3/1012 votes
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    #2 - Bourbon Street

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1954

    A musician returns to New Orleans after breaking into the bigtime. Though his ex-wife deserted him, he is bent on revenge after receiving an anonymous letter telling him she committed suicide after being mistreated by her lover.

    Director: Roy Kellino

    Writer: N/A

  • Alias Mr. Hepp
    8.3/1015 votes
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    #3 - Alias Mr. Hepp

    Season 3 Episode 33 - Aired 5/12/1955

    Frank Hepp has made his career charming rich, unhappy women out of their fortunes. His parole officer orders him avoid all women, but he can't help himself when a single wealthy woman moves in next door. Mr. Hepp's plan to fleece his new victim runs afoul when he actually falls for her.

    Director: Roy Kellino

    Writer: N/A

  • Distinguished Service
    8.3/1017 votes
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    #4 - Distinguished Service

    Season 4 Episode 38 - Aired 7/5/1956

    More interested in his career than in his duty as a physician, a noted doctor intentionally misdiagnoses a patient in an Asian city so he could get back to the U.S. and accept a major award. When his wife realizes that he abandoned a town needing his help to fight a Plague outbreak, she demands a divorce.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bomb
    8.1/1040 votes
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    #5 - The Bomb

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/18/1954

    An engaged couple and the woman's former suitor take shelter in an abandoned house, too late to notice an unexploded bomb. Their retreat is cut off by a cave-in, and they must defuse the bomb with instructions delivered over a phone line.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Book
    8.0/1025 votes
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    #6 - The Book

    Season 2 Episode 27 - Aired 4/1/1954

    A stranger tussles with John over a library book and is struck and killed by a passing car. John discovers a message in the book and follows it to a blind meeting, only to be mistaken for a hit man with an assassination team.

    Director: Roy Kellino

    Writer: N/A

  • Magic Night
    8.0/1017 votes
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    #7 - Magic Night

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 1/12/1956

    Upset that his 25 years of service for the company are unappreciated, Henri treats himself to an expensive night on the town, on the company's dime. He then comes to his senses, distraught that his embezzlement will be discovered.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Tunnel of Fear
    8.0/1060 votes
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    #8 - Tunnel of Fear

    Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 1/19/1956

    While traveling alone in a train compartment, an elderly, wealthy, wheelchair-bound man (Cedric Hardwicke) is confronted by a younger man (David Niven), whom he had double-crossed over twenty years ago. The younger man, now bent on revenge, tells the elderly man that he intends to kill him when the train passes through an upcoming tunnel. A battle of wits ensues.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • To Whom It May Concern
    7.9/1044 votes
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    #9 - To Whom It May Concern

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 6/4/1953

    A bank employee mails a letter to his boss confessing to stealing $7000 and includes the stocks he bought with the money. As he puts a gun to his head, he sees in the paper that the stocks' worth have gone through the roof. Now he wants to live and goes on a frantic chase to get the letter back from the post office before it gets delivered.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Go Ahead And Jump
    7.9/1032 votes
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    #10 - Go Ahead And Jump

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/30/1954

    Eddie, a cab driver, picks up a sad looking fare and brings him to a hotel where he witnesses the man being humiliated by his ex-wife. When the man asks to be taken to the middle of the biggest bridge, Eddie uses some every day, hard-nosed psychology, and a little lie, to make the man see that life is worth living.

    Director: Roy Kellino

    Writer: N/A

  • To Die at Midnight
    7.9/1019 votes
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    #11 - To Die at Midnight

    Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 3/15/1956

    The conflict of a prison warden who discovers exculpatory evidence on the eve of an execution.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Stand-In
    7.9/1023 votes
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    #12 - The Stand-In

    Season 4 Episode 40 - Aired 7/19/1956

    An aspiring actress has spent 20 years in Hollywood, not gaining fame as she had hoped, but as a stand-in for a well-known actress. Her ambition turns to despair, and her affection to bitterness.

    Director: Ida Lupino

    Writer: N/A

  • Backstage
    7.8/1048 votes
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    #13 - Backstage

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/6/1952

    An actor named Paul is out on an evening stroll when he sees a young woman attempting to jump off a bridge. After a struggle, he discovers her name is Amy and she is homeless. Paul believes $5 could mean the difference between decency & despair so he pays for Amy to stay in a hotel for the night, agreeing to meet her the next day. Amy is nowhere to be found when Paul returns. He worries and begins the search for this mysterious woman.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Meet A Lonely Man
    7.8/1025 votes
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    #14 - Meet A Lonely Man

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1954

    An attractive young lady mistakes a lonely hotel desk clerk for a Texas oil millionaire she'd once met. Loving the attention she's lavishing on him, he plays along...until his big spending catches up with him.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Other Room
    7.8/1014 votes
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    #15 - The Other Room

    Season 4 Episode 31 - Aired 5/17/1956

    A teacher wanting to leave his unfulfilling job needs money to write the book he's dreamed of. A stranger enters and makes an unusual offer: $10,000 to take a physical for a dying man so he can get life insurance to take care of his widow when he passes on.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • House For Sale
    7.7/1055 votes
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    #16 - House For Sale

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/31/1953

    A woman visits an isolated house expecting to meet with the realtor. Instead, she encounters a murderer who's escaped from a mental hospital. When a couple drops in to tour the home, she tries to escape with them, but they refuse to believe her story of a killer with a body in the fireplace.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Touch and Go
    7.7/1018 votes
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    #17 - Touch and Go

    Season 4 Episode 28 - Aired 4/26/1956

    Ted attacks old enemy Walter in a fit of rage. Stunned at the realization that Walter is dead, he hears a woman on the phone who overheard their conversation. Ted needs to find this woman and keep her from telling the police anything.

    Director: Robert Florey

    Writer: N/A

  • My Wife Geraldine
    7.6/1071 votes
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    #18 - My Wife Geraldine

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1952

    Man invents a wife, then accused of murdering her.

    Director: Robert Florey

    Writer: N/A

  • The Squeeze
    7.6/1051 votes
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    #19 - The Squeeze

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1953

    Another of the great Willie Dante stories. Stan, the son of the DA, is a secret gambler. He loses big in Willie's joint and pays by check. Stan's pretty sister shows up to ask Willie's help. Deras, a gangster up before the Grand Jury, wants to get hold of Stan's check to blackmail the DA. He shows up at Dante's and Willie turns over the check at gunpoint. Never to be out-witted, Willie has Lt. Waldo waiting in the wings to get the checks back, have Deras arrested, and win Stan's sister.

    Director: Robert Aldrich

    Writer: N/A

  • Interlude
    7.6/1031 votes
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    #20 - Interlude

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1954

    A young woman from a wealthy family is graduating from an exclusive school with neither her parents nor close friends attending. In her lonliness, she becomes infatuated with an older man, a divorced newspaper reporter.

    Director: Roy Kellino

    Writer: N/A

  • The Returning
    7.6/1017 votes
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    #21 - The Returning

    Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/3/1955

    An American professor in Japan falls in love with a half-breed former student in 1941. He is fired for violating school policy, so he returns to America, resolved to bring his intended to America once settled. World War II intervenes.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • One Way Out
    7.6/1044 votes
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    #22 - One Way Out

    Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1955

    A wealthy woman separates from her fortune-hunting husband. She rents a swanky New York penthouse in a building so new that she is the only one living there. When she awakens from a nap, she finds herself trapped in the apartment. Her estranged husband and his girlfriend are after her money and are hoping this will drive her crazy.

    Director: Roy Kellino

    Writer: N/A

  • Watch the Sunset
    7.6/1021 votes
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    #23 - Watch the Sunset

    Season 4 Episode 34 - Aired 6/7/1956

    Philip Benton is entertaining thoughts of moving on from his wife, who has been in a sanitarium for five years. Just as he is starting a new relationship with his secretary, he receives news that his wife is better and will be released.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Man on a Train
    7.5/1072 votes
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    #24 - Man on a Train

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/15/1953

    William encounters an old acquaintance, John Dwerrihouse, on a train with 75,000 pounds. Only later did William learn that Dwerrihouse had disappeared four months earlier after embezzling 75,000 pounds from the train company.

    Director: Robert Florey

    Writer: N/A

  • A Place Of His Own
    7.5/1040 votes
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    #25 - A Place Of His Own

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1953

    The Commander, a mildly brain injured war hero, lives with his greedy family. All he wants is his own house, while all they want is to preserve their failing wealth, at all costs. When Frank, his younger brother, kills a man over a gambling debt, the family convinces Claude that he is the one that did it. He takes the blame, but instead of being arrested, he is given a $10,000 reward because the dead man was a most wanted criminal.

    Director: Robert Florey

    Writer: N/A