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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!

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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  1. 8.3/10(12 votes)

    #1 - Bourbon Street

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    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.

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    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:N/A
  2. 8.2/10(16 votes)

    #2 - Alias Mr. Hepp

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    S3:E33

    Frank Hepp has made his career charming rich, unhappy women out of their fortunes. His parole officer orders him avoid all women, but he can't help himself when a single wealthy woman moves in next door. Mr. Hepp's plan to fleece his new victim runs afoul when he actually falls for her.

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    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:N/A
  3. 7.8/10(35 votes)

    #3 - Go Ahead And Jump

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    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.

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    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:N/A
  4. 7.6/10(33 votes)

    #4 - Interlude

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    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.

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    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:N/A
  5. 7.6/10(29 votes)

    #5 - Meet A Lonely Man

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    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.

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  6. 7.4/10(33 votes)

    #6 - Madeira, Madeira

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    S3:E29

    The untimely death of his artist friend causes a failing writer to visit the widow to pay his condolences and pursue suspicions about her. When he arrives, the cheerful widow presents him with an offer he finds both puzzling and attractive. His acceptance leads him to the discovery of the fate of his friend.

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    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:N/A
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  8. 7.4/10(29 votes)

    #7 - Award

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    S3:E38

    Valerie is a world famous movie actress who just bombed on her first attempt at live acting on Broadway. She goes to Ben, renowned acting instructor, to teach her how to be a live actress. He refuses unless she can succeed at a challenge.

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  9. 7.3/10(73 votes)

    #8 - The Answer

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    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.

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  10. 7.3/10(20 votes)

    #9 - The Returning

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    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.

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  11. 7.3/10(40 votes)

    #10 - Trudy

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    S3:E34

    A young woman is planning her wedding to a groom whom no one believes exists outside her own wishful dreams.

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    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:N/A
  12. 7.2/10(31 votes)

    #11 - Vote Of Confidence

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    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.

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    Director:William Asher
    Writer:N/A
  13. 7.1/10(30 votes)

    #12 - Breakfast in Bed

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    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.

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    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:N/A
  14. 7.1/10(21 votes)

    #13 - The Executioner

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    S3:E36

    A complex web of deception is revealed during the investigation of the assassination of a police official. In a foreign country during the Cold War, an American doctor is accused to being a spy and targeted for murder, but the wrong man is killed. But, perhaps, the right man died after all.

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    Director:Robert Florey
    Writer:N/A
  15. 7.0/10(24 votes)

    #14 - Never Explain

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    S3:E2

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

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  16. 7.0/10(27 votes)

    #15 - A Championship Affair

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    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.

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    Director:Robert Florey
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  17. 7.0/10(42 votes)

    #16 - The Wild Bunch

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    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.

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  18. 7.0/10(37 votes)

    #17 - Eddie`s Place

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    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.

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  19. 7.0/10(24 votes)

    #18 - The Collar

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    S3:E28

    The night before the military plans to massacre a warring tribe of Blackfoot Indians, an imprisoned and tortured priest comes out from the tribe to ask for mercy.

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    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:N/A
  20. 7.0/10(31 votes)

    #19 - Broken Journey

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    S3:E35

    Two cops transporting prisoner Cookie decide on a layover in the city of Westover, temporarily placing Cookie in the local jail while they freshen up elsewhere. Cookie devises a plot to snooker the locals into releasing him.

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  21. 6.9/10(22 votes)

    #20 - Stuffed Shirt

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    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.

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    Director:Robert Florey
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  22. 6.9/10(50 votes)

    #21 - The House Always Wins

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    S3:E31

    Willie Dante, the tough but suave owner of a nightclub and illegal back room casino. One evening, Willie sees an old flame with a man and another couple, The woman, still caring for Willie, tells him that the people she's with are planning to rob his casino. Willie outwits them and keeps his former love from being arrested.

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    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:N/A
  23. 6.8/10(24 votes)

    #22 - My Own Dear Dragon

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    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.

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    Director:Robert Florey
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  24. 6.8/10(12 votes)

    #23 - The Good Sister

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    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.

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  25. 6.8/10(30 votes)

    #24 - The Girl On The Bridge

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    S3:E27

    After drawing and painting an unknown young woman he met on a bridge near his vacation retreat, an artist (Dick Powell) is desperate to find her again when the painting begins calling to him.

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  26. 6.7/10(35 votes)

    #25 - Man in the Cellar

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    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.

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Bourbon Street" is the best rated episode of "Four Star Playhouse" season 3. It scored 8.3/10 based on 12 votes. Directed by Roy Kellino and written by N/A, it aired on 12/9/1954. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Alias Mr. Hepp".