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#1 - 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
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#2 - 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
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#3 - My Wife Geraldine
Season 1 Episode 1
Aired 9/25/1952
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#4 - 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
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#5 - Welcome Home
Season 1 Episode 5
Aired 11/20/1952
A notorious criminal returns to his home town after 15 years away, and a young man wants to join him in notoriety and, probably, death at the hands of police.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: N/A
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#6 - Knockout
Season 1 Episode 8
Aired 1/1/1953
Middleweight boxer finds his big bout has been fixed.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#7 - Sound Off, My Love
Season 1 Episode 11
Aired 2/12/1953
Woman buys hearing aid and hears husband plot her murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#8 - The Last Voyage
Season 1 Episode 15
Aired 4/23/1953
Sea captain discovers a time bomb is planted on his ship.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: N/A
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#9 - Shadowed
Season 1 Episode 19
Aired 6/18/1953
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#10 - The Officer and the Lady
Season 1 Episode 7
Aired 12/18/1952
A reformed pickpocket in Paris obtains the purse of an attractive woman. He reads a letter telling about her dying son, and he decides to grant the boy's wish to meet his father.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#11 - No Identity
Season 1 Episode 13
Aired 3/12/1953
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#12 - Night Ride
Season 1 Episode 16
Aired 5/7/1953
Five people, one a murderer, are trapped on subway.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#13 - The Man in the Box
Season 1 Episode 12
Aired 2/26/1953
Boyer plays four roles in story of a director and his woes.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: N/A
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#14 - Dante's Inferno
Season 1 Episode 2
Aired 10/2/1952
Willie Dante owns a bar and gambling house called Dante's Inferno. One night, the wife of an acquaintance tells Willie that her husband has threatened her. Willie comforts her and sends her home, but she turns up dead the next day.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#15 - The Island
Season 1 Episode 6
Aired 12/4/1952
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#16 - The Man Who Walked Out On Himself
Season 1 Episode 14
Aired 3/26/1953
After separating from his wife, a wealthy clubman is about to marry a much young woman -- whereupon his mirror image walks out on him in disgust.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#17 - The Lost Silk Hat
Season 1 Episode 3
Aired 10/23/1952
Englishman must retrieve his hat after visiting his love.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Ronald Colman, Milton Merlin
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#18 - The Ladies On His Mind
Season 1 Episode 17
Aired 5/21/1953
A psychiatrist listens to his female patients go on about their troubles. As they talk, he imagines himself within each of their stories.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: N/A
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#19 - Trail's End
Season 1 Episode 10
Aired 1/29/1953
A famous marshal of Dodge City sets out in search of the murderous Sonoma Kid and runs into a tragedy of the desert.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: N/A
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Backstage" is the best rated episode of "Four Star Playhouse" season 1. It scored 7.7/10 based on 49 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/6/1952. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "To Whom It May Concern".