6.7/1031 votes#1 - Man in the Cellar
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1954
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1020 votes
#2 - Never Explain
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1954
A novice social worker is dispatched to the home of a widower who refuses to send his children to school.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1031 votes
#3 - 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
- 6.8/1020 votes
#4 - The Wallet
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1954
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: N/A
- 6.2/1027 votes
#5 - The Adolescent
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1954
A school teacher on the disciplinery board, finds herself investigating her nephew's misconduct.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1040 votes
#6 - The Contest
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1954
The head of detectives runs into problems when he suspect his fiancé has committed murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1030 votes
#7 - Vote Of Confidence
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1954
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: N/A
- 6.9/1023 votes
#8 - My Own Dear Dragon
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1954
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: N/A
- 6.7/1021 votes
#9 - Marked Down
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1954
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: N/A
- 7.7/1026 votes
#10 - 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
- 8.3/1012 votes
#11 - 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
- 7.0/1026 votes
#12 - A Championship Affair
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1954
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: N/A
- 7.2/1071 votes
#13 - The Answer
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/23/1954
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
- 7.9/1032 votes
#14 - 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
- NaN/100 votes
#15 - A Bag Of Oranges
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1955
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1018 votes
#16 - Stuffed Shirt
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/11/1955
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: N/A
- 7.1/1027 votes
#17 - Breakfast in Bed
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/20/1955
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: N/A
- 7.0/1011 votes
#18 - The Good Sister
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1/27/1955
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1013 votes
#19 - A Kiss for Mr. Lincoln
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/3/1955
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1023 votes
#20 - Fair Trial
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1955
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1041 votes
#21 - The Wild Bunch
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/17/1955
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: N/A
- 6.1/1025 votes
#22 - Tusitala
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1955
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: N/A
- 7.6/1017 votes
#23 - 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
- 7.1/1036 votes
#24 - Eddie`s Place
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/10/1955
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.1/1021 votes
#25 - Henry And The Psychopathic Horse
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 3/17/1955
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: N/A
The Best Episodes of Four Star Playhouse Season 3
Every episode of Four Star Playhouse Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Four Star Playhouse Season 3!
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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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Man in the Cellar" is the best rated episode of "Four Star Playhouse" season 3. It scored 6.7/10 based on 31 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/30/1954. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Never Explain".