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The Best Episodes of Four Star Playhouse Season 2

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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; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 1 - Finale
    7.3/10(41 votes)

    #1 - Finale

    S2:E1

    Steve Carlyle is an actor who can't find work because his famous nearly identical cousin Roger takes measures to keep him from getting any parts that would gain Steve any public exposure, because Roger knows that Steve is a better actor.

    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:Seeleg Lester

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  2. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 2 - The Squeeze
    7.5/10(62 votes)

    #2 - The Squeeze

    S2:E2

    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:Unknown

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  3. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 3 - A Place Of His Own
    7.3/10(49 votes)

    #3 - A Place Of His Own

    S2:E3

    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:Unknown

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  4. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 4 - Love At Sea
    6.3/10(37 votes)

    #4 - Love At Sea

    S2:E4

    A journalist's wife who, while alone on a sea voyage, becomes the center of male attention.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 5 - The Witness
    7.1/10(69 votes)

    #5 - The Witness

    S2:E5

    A suave attorney is hired to defend a man on trial for robbery and murder. The attorney finds the real culprit and solves the mystery in the courtroom.

    Director:Robert Aldrich
    Writer:Seeleg Lester

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  6. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 6 - A Matter Of Advice
    6.0/10(32 votes)

    #6 - A Matter Of Advice

    S2:E6

    Weary Dr. Gentry gets no rest from his irritating patients. The pediatrician deals with ill-mannered kids and parents who can't make a move without checking with him first. An evening out with his wife to watch their oldest daughter star in "Romeo and Juliet" becomes a disaster when a panicked new mother interrupts the balcony scene with a silly phone call.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 7 - Search in the Night
    6.9/10(45 votes)

    #7 - Search in the Night

    S2:E7

    A newspaper reporter is intrigued as to why a woman hired a dive team to retrieve her purse from the Chicago River.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 8 - Moorings
    8.0/10(45 votes)

    #8 - Moorings

    S2:E8

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

    Director:Robert Florey
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 9 - The Hard Way
    7.0/10(35 votes)

    #9 - The Hard Way

    S2:E9

    Vic breaks the bank at Willie's gambling hall, and Willie unknowingly pays him off with counterfeit money. When Vic threatens him, Willie convinces him that they've both been duped, and they cooperate to track down the real culprit.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 10 - For Art`s Sake
    7.1/10(33 votes)

    #10 - For Art`s Sake

    S2:E10

    Ted Parker enlists his friend Addy, a famous art expert, into an elaborate ruse to portray his budding love interest as a break-out artist, despite her lack of talent.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 11 - The Girl On The Park Bench
    7.0/10(64 votes)

    #11 - The Girl On The Park Bench

    S2:E11

    A beautiful, intelligent, and politically savvy young woman takes up residency in the city park to protest the Mayor's decision to end rent control on apartments. The comically ornery mayor seems to have met his match! Sparks fly as the Mayor dispatches the city's handsome attorney in an attempt to oust the young woman, who gives her a friendly warning that she will get evicted and lose in court. The tables get turned as the woman proves she is also good at law, but after some very interesting negotiations, all's well that ends well.

    Director:Hal Walker
    Writer:William Bowers

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  12. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 12 - The Room
    7.0/10(27 votes)

    #12 - The Room

    S2:E12

    A doctor encounters suspicion and a dark secret when he rents a house in Cuba.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 13 - A Man Of The World
    7.0/10(32 votes)

    #13 - A Man Of The World

    S2:E13

    Predictable Andy Bush is taking a train to his annual three week vacation without his wife. A young woman in trouble approaches him and asks him to help her by pretending to be her husband.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 14 - The Gift
    7.1/10(74 votes)

    #14 - The Gift

    S2:E14

    Businessman Carl Baxter is a good boss for 364 days a year, but his memories of his estrangement with his son causes his mood to change at Christmas.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 15 - House For Sale
    7.6/10(64 votes)

    #15 - House For Sale

    S2:E15

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 16 - The Test
    6.1/10(22 votes)

    #16 - The Test

    S2:E16

    A test pilot learns that it's possible that his sick daughter could have polio, just before he tests a new military plane.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 17 - The Bad Streak
    6.8/10(28 votes)

    #17 - The Bad Streak

    S2:E17

    An honest professional casino owner runs into bad luck with impending insolvency or sale of his property. He also runs into his ""long-lost"" never forgotten misdirected son who is obsessed to better his hated father at gambling for having abandoned (rejected) him in infancy when it was all the doing of his guardian, one-time socialite, protective maternal grandmother who has fallen from her lofty position as well. Honor, love and pride play their roles.

    Director:Robert Aldrich
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 18 - A String of Beads
    7.3/10(73 votes)

    #18 - A String of Beads

    S2:E18

    Joan Robinson works as a governess for a wealthy family. She attends a party thrown by her employer and, although she is an attractive young woman, she is completely ignored until one of the guests, Count Borselli, appraises the beads she is wearing as a valuable string of pearls. She proteststo no avail, knowing they are imitations. Her whole life changes. She is invited to parties, and wooed by a fortune hunter. When it's finally learned that the beads are worthless, she is fired and her suitor loses interest. The count admits that, provoked by the snobbish socialites, he deliberatly lied about the beads. In the end, he and the governess fall in love.

    Director:William Cameron Menzies
    Writer:Don Ettlinger

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  19. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 19 - Indian Taker
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - Indian Taker

    S2:E19

    A comedy of errors about an insurance executive’s wife. At a party, the impulse suddenly comes over her and she proceeds to steal the jewels of all wealthy guests, who happen to be insured by her husband’s firm.

    Director:Blake Edwards
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 20 - Second Dawn
    6.8/10(26 votes)

    #20 - Second Dawn

    S2:E20

    A blind man has a chance for surgery to restore his sight, but it may last for just a few minutes.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 21 - The Gun
    7.0/10(57 votes)

    #21 - The Gun

    S2:E21

    A police detective returns home to his family one morning only to have his meal interrupted by a constant stream of people: the milkman, his neighbor, the postman, the grocery boy, and a salesman. Afterwards, he finds that his gun is missing. In a panic that slowly turns to paranoia, he realizes that each of the visitors had said something that makes them a suspect.

    Director:Frank McDonald
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 22 - The Bomb
    7.9/10(55 votes)

    #22 - The Bomb

    S2:E22

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 23 - Meet McGraw: Long Count
    7.4/10(63 votes)

    #23 - Meet McGraw: Long Count

    S2:E23

    McGraw, a private eye, is hired by Lila Lamont to protect her from her threatening husband Louis.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 24 - Detective`s Holiday
    7.4/10(42 votes)

    #24 - Detective`s Holiday

    S2:E24

    A detective (Dick Powell) takes a trip to a cabin in the woods to get away from it all. A man, his wife, and his two kids entertain him. When one of the kids let's it slip that their step-mother just got her blond hair, the detective predicts she is running from the law and decides to check it out.

    Director:Blake Edwards
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Four Star Playhouse Season 2 Episode 25 - Operation In Money
    7.5/10(34 votes)

    #25 - Operation In Money

    S2:E25

    The chief teller of a bank openly embezzles a large sum of money to extort a pay raise from the bank's board of directors.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Finale" is the best rated episode of "Four Star Playhouse" season 2. It scored 7.3/10 based on 41 votes. Directed by Roy Kellino and written by Seeleg Lester, it aired on 9/24/1953. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Squeeze".