8.5/1032 votesLoading...#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
- 8.3/1012 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.3/1015 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.3/1017 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.1/1041 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.0/1026 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.0/1017 votesLoading...
#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
- 8.0/1060 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.9/1044 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.9/1032 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.9/1019 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.9/1023 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.8/1048 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.8/1014 votesLoading...
#14 - 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
- 7.7/1055 votesLoading...
#15 - 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
- 7.7/1026 votesLoading...
#16 - 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
- 7.7/1018 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.6/1071 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.6/1051 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.6/1031 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.6/1017 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.6/1044 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.6/1021 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.5/1072 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.5/1040 votesLoading...
#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
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;...
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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".