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The Best Episodes of Four Star Playhouse Season 3

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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 3 Episode 1 - Man in the Cellar
    6.8/10(39 votes)

    #1 - Man in the Cellar

    S3:E1

    A little girl who regularly talks to imaginary friends grows frustrated when her parents refuse to believe that there is a real man in the cellar.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 2 - Never Explain
    6.9/10(29 votes)

    #2 - Never Explain

    S3:E2

    A novice social worker is dispatched to the home of a widower who refuses to send his children to school.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 3 - Interlude
    7.8/10(39 votes)

    #3 - Interlude

    S3:E3

    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:Unknown

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  4. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 4 - The Wallet
    6.5/10(30 votes)

    #4 - The Wallet

    S3:E4

    A French waiter with more pride than money will not stand for his sickly wife to be admitted to a free public hospital. When a wealthy customer leaves behind a wallet containing thousands of dollars, the server takes it to upgrade his wife's medical care. Their son also becomes a thief to pay the bills.

    Director:Robert Florey
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 5 - The Adolescent
    6.5/10(34 votes)

    #5 - The Adolescent

    S3:E5

    A school teacher on the disciplinery board, finds herself investigating her nephew's misconduct.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 6 - The Contest
    6.5/10(52 votes)

    #6 - The Contest

    S3:E6

    The head of detectives runs into problems when he suspect his fiancé has committed murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 7 - Vote Of Confidence
    7.1/10(38 votes)

    #7 - Vote Of Confidence

    S3:E7

    A con man, recently released from prison, attempts to recoup his fortunes by convincing an heiress' secretary that he needs funds to run an orphanage.

    Director:William Asher
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 8 - My Own Dear Dragon
    6.7/10(30 votes)

    #8 - My Own Dear Dragon

    S3:E8

    A successful playwright does his best to avoid reading the script written by his young new wife. She can't understand why he refuses to encourage her. At a party celebrating his 25th year in the theatre, he reveals the incident from his past that causes him to discourage her writing.

    Director:Robert Florey
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 9 - Marked Down
    7.0/10(29 votes)

    #9 - Marked Down

    S3:E9

    A woman who works at a fancy dress shop is determined to meet and marry the millionaire whose office is next door. Once she is asked out, she realizes that money doesn't make a person. Meanwhile, a young boy is buying a dress on layaway for his mother's birthday, but there's more to his story.

    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 10 - Meet A Lonely Man
    7.5/10(36 votes)

    #10 - Meet A Lonely Man

    S3:E10

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 11 - Bourbon Street
    8.1/10(16 votes)

    #11 - Bourbon Street

    S3:E11

    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:Unknown

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  12. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 12 - A Championship Affair
    6.9/10(31 votes)

    #12 - A Championship Affair

    S3:E12

    A renowned professional bridge champion (Boyer) returns to (openly) woo his long lost, but married, love (Miles). In circuitous fashion, his unselfish love leads him to (secretly) help her bridge-addicted husband (Ross Elliott) choose to finally gain success in life.

    Director:Robert Florey
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 13 - The Answer
    7.3/10(77 votes)

    #13 - The Answer

    S3:E13

    A cynical Hollywood writer returns to his hometown. At a bar he meets a drunken, disillusioned playwright. The writer challenges the playwright to relate his play, which he does, holding the audience rapt in his gripping recital.

    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:Leonard Freeman

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  14. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 14 - Go Ahead And Jump
    7.8/10(39 votes)

    #14 - Go Ahead And Jump

    S3:E14

    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:Unknown

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  15. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 15 - A Bag Of Oranges
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - A Bag Of Oranges

    S3:E15

    Believing her husband innocent of the crime he is to be executed for, his wife takes up a vigil the night of the scheduled execution at a nearby café. A curious reporter wonders about the bag of oranges she carries with her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 16 - Stuffed Shirt
    6.8/10(27 votes)

    #16 - Stuffed Shirt

    S3:E16

    A seemingly cuckolded working-class husband (Boyer), in tropical setting, must resort to a life-risking ruse (in court) to rid himself of his bigamous, greedy and potentially blackmailing wife who would not otherwise reveal her own lack of virtuosity.

    Director:Robert Florey
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 17 - Breakfast in Bed
    7.1/10(34 votes)

    #17 - Breakfast in Bed

    S3:E17

    An artist is enticed away from his lucrative commercial advertising contracts by a young model who shows obvious disappointment that he is not striving to achieve his potential as a creative artist.

    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 18 - The Good Sister
    7.0/10(15 votes)

    #18 - The Good Sister

    S3:E18

    A nun in German orphanage during World War II will is determined to marry her oldest orphan to an American serviceman in order to secure a future for her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 19 - A Kiss for Mr. Lincoln
    6.7/10(17 votes)

    #19 - A Kiss for Mr. Lincoln

    S3:E19

    A young woman teaches her timid husband some things about love when he tries to show her the importance of supporting Abraham Lincoln for the Presidency.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 20 - Fair Trial
    6.2/10(31 votes)

    #20 - Fair Trial

    S3:E20

    Chicago television newsman Dave Sheridan (Dick Powell) arrives in a small Ohio town, Hadenville, where Richard Fulton has just been lynched. The chief of police (Edward R. Platt) tells Sheridan he confessed to killing sweet old Mrs. Winslow and the town went wild. Sheridan plans on doing a piece exposing how sick the town is. Hotel clerk Carol (Jean Howell) wants him to give the town a "fair trial".

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 21 - The Wild Bunch
    6.9/10(47 votes)

    #21 - The Wild Bunch

    S3:E21

    After a charmer sweeps a pretty widow off her feet and marries her in haste, she confesses that she has money and three children. He has no problem with the money, but the thought of instant fatherhood gives him pause.

    Director:William A. Seiter
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 22 - Tusitala
    6.1/10(35 votes)

    #22 - Tusitala

    S3:E22

    The true story of Robert Louis Stevenson's stay on the island of Tahiti. The islanders have come to revere him as Tusitala-Teller of Tales. They believe he is magical and powerful. When the two opposing chiefs of the island plan war against one another out of petty jealousy, Tusitala uses his wits to convince both chiefs to make peace and save the tranquility of the island.

    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 23 - The Returning
    7.2/10(28 votes)

    #23 - The Returning

    S3:E23

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 24 - Eddie`s Place
    7.0/10(40 votes)

    #24 - Eddie`s Place

    S3:E24

    Ellen is released from a punitive work farm without means, but Eddie befriends her and gives her a job at his restaurant. She wants to go straight, but Eddie pressures her to cover for some of his own shady activities.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Four Star Playhouse Season 3 Episode 25 - Henry And The Psychopathic Horse
    6.0/10(27 votes)

    #25 - Henry And The Psychopathic Horse

    S3:E25

    After falling for a medical student, a New York City psychiatrist travels to her family ranch to announce their engagement. Her father hates city slickers and expect her to marry a rancher to run the estate. To win his woman's hand, Henry's challenged to ride an unbroken stallion known as a "killer." He puts his professional skills to work on the horse.

    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Man in the Cellar" is the best rated episode of "Four Star Playhouse" season 3. It scored 6.8/10 based on 39 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/30/1954. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Never Explain".