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The Best Episodes of Four Star Playhouse Season 2

Every episode of Four Star Playhouse Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Four Star Playhouse Season 2!

The Best Episodes of Four Star Playhouse Season 2

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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  1. 8.4/10(33 votes)

    #1 - Moorings

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    S2:E8

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

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    Director:Robert Florey
    Writer:N/A
  2. 8.0/10(43 votes)

    #2 - The Bomb

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    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.

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    Director:N/A
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  3. 7.9/10(28 votes)

    #3 - The Book

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    S2:E27

    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.

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    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:N/A
  4. 7.6/10(53 votes)

    #4 - The Squeeze

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    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.

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  5. 7.6/10(61 votes)

    #5 - House For Sale

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    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.

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  6. 7.5/10(42 votes)

    #6 - A Place Of His Own

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    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.

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    Director:Robert Florey
    Writer:N/A
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  8. 7.5/10(38 votes)

    #7 - Detective`s Holiday

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    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.

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    Director:Blake Edwards
    Writer:N/A
  9. 7.5/10(30 votes)

    #8 - Operation In Money

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    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.

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  10. 7.3/10(35 votes)

    #9 - Finale

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    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.

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    Director:Roy Kellino
  11. 7.3/10(28 votes)

    #10 - The Hard Way

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    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.

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  12. 7.3/10(56 votes)

    #11 - Meet McGraw: Long Count

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    S2:E23

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

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  13. 7.2/10(63 votes)

    #12 - The Witness

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    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.

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  14. 7.2/10(29 votes)

    #13 - For Art`s Sake

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    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.

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  15. 7.2/10(68 votes)

    #14 - A String of Beads

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    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.

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  16. 7.1/10(29 votes)

    #15 - Village In The City

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    S2:E30

    An artist turns detective to find out who murdered his favorite model and left the body in his studio.

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  17. 7.0/10(40 votes)

    #16 - Out of the Night

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    S2:E7

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

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  18. 7.0/10(58 votes)

    #17 - The Girl On The Park Bench

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    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.

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    Director:Hal Walker
  19. 7.0/10(25 votes)

    #18 - A Man Of The World

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    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.

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  20. 7.0/10(65 votes)

    #19 - The Gift

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    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.

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  21. 7.0/10(49 votes)

    #20 - The Gun

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    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.

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  22. 7.0/10(28 votes)

    #21 - Lady of the Orchids

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    S2:E26

    An architect's wife endangers his career when she is involved in a car accident. While on a ride to a roadhouse, she accidentally spills brandy on the driver, with whom she has been flirting. The driver is assumed to be responsible for the fatal crash, and only the wife's testimony can save him.

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    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:N/A
  23. 7.0/10(39 votes)

    #22 - A Study In Panic

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    S2:E28

    Wise-guy newspaperman Fred Jordan writes a column making fun of "normal" men who panic during a fire. Soon afterward he gets a letter from a deranged man who promises Jordan that he will soon know the "real" meaning of the word "panic"--because within 24 hours, the man is going to kill Jordan.

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    Director:Roy Kellino
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  24. 6.9/10(24 votes)

    #23 - The Room

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    S2:E12

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

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  25. 6.9/10(23 votes)

    #24 - The Bad Streak

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    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.

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  26. 6.8/10(23 votes)

    #25 - Second Dawn

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    S2:E20

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

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Moorings" is the best rated episode of "Four Star Playhouse" season 2. It scored 8.4/10 based on 33 votes. Directed by Robert Florey and written by N/A, it aired on 11/12/1953. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "The Bomb".