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The Best Episodes of Four Star Playhouse Season 4

Every episode of Four Star Playhouse Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Four Star Playhouse Season 4!

The Best Episodes of Four Star Playhouse Season 4

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 - The Firing Squad

    S4:E1

    A WWII captain must oversee an execution he doesn't want to happen.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #2 - The Face of Danger

    S4:E2

    A 100-year-old woman who recalls her romance with a desperado during the days of the old West.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #3 - Let the Chips Fall

    S4:E3

    A reformed card sharp is recruited to unmask a suspected poker cheat among a group of wealthy gamblers. He finds it difficult to be impartial when the suspect enthusiastically befriends him.

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    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:Unknown
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    #4 - Full Circle

    S4:E4

    A particularly bad review causes a Broadway actress to scheme to humiliate the drama critic.

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    Director:Harry Horner
    Writer:Unknown
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    #5 - A Spray of Bullets

    S4:E5

    A former sheriff, Will Sonnett, known for his fast draw shows up in Mesa to see an optometrist; he's become nearsighted and badly needs glasses. Also in town is a punk gunfighter who wants to make a name for himself. Knowing Sonnett has vision problems, he challenges the lawman to a duel.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #6 - The Devil to Pay

    S4:E6

    In Hell, the administrating office is hopelessly out of date and incompetent, so Satan enlists the help of an exceptionally aggressive and heartless businessman to modernize the place. He installs an IBM system and soon it's the picture of efficiency, much, it turns out, to the businessman's regret.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #7 - Here Comes the Suit

    S4:E7

    A milquetoast employee at a novelty company is overlooked by everyone from his boss to the woman he crushes on. But after being suckered by a shady tailor into getting a shockingly garish suit, he's whistled at by woman and mistaken for a gangster. His newly found self-confidence fits him well.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #8 - Looking Glass House

    S4:E8

    A woman is surprised when her fiancé turns out to have been married before.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #9 - Something Very Special

    S4:E9

    Alan moves to America when his wife dies, leaving his young daughter with her grandmother in Paris. When he returns after five years, his daughter has difficulty believing that he loves her.

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    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:Unknown
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    #10 - A Place Full of Strangers

    S4:E10

    Industrialist Fleet Mason, a workaholic who doesn't realize how many lives he effects with his stressed-out working habits. When he thinks his loving wife has hung up on him in disgust, he re-evaluates his life by taking an imaginary bus trip to Meadville"". The trip is to nowhere and is full of psychological imagery. In a smoke shrouded bus terminal he meets all the people in his life as total strangers. When he meets his wife and realizes she doesn't recognize him, he becomes despondent. Only when his father appears and guides him to the exit does he realize how he must alter his life.

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    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:Unknown
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    #11 - One Way Out

    S4:E11

    A wealthy woman separates from her fortune-hunting husband. She rents a swanky New York penthouse in a building so new that she is the only one living there. When she awakens from a nap, she finds herself trapped in the apartment. Her estranged husband and his girlfriend are after her money and are hoping this will drive her crazy.

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    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:Unknown
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    #12 - Dark Meeting

    S4:E12

    When her long-time pin-boy retires, bowling proprietress hires the one guy who answers her want-ad right away. He turns out to be an escaped committed psychotic who, lonely and always lacking in the social skills, never received the nurturing of a friend [you think]. We know it but it takes some time before she becomes aware. While waiting for the police to come to apprehend him, she lets him walk her home through the park while lending him her sympathetic ear. Dealing with a psychotic might take some finesse. How will HE take it? And how will he take IT?

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #13 - Magic Night

    S4:E13

    Upset that his 25 years of service for the company are unappreciated, Henri treats himself to an expensive night on the town, on the company's dime. He then comes to his senses, distraught that his embezzlement will be discovered.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #14 - Tunnel of Fear

    S4:E14

    While traveling alone in a train compartment, an elderly, wealthy, wheelchair-bound man (Cedric Hardwicke) is confronted by a younger man (David Niven), whom he had double-crossed over twenty years ago. The younger man, now bent on revenge, tells the elderly man that he intends to kill him when the train passes through an upcoming tunnel. A battle of wits ensues.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #15 - High Stakes

    S4:E15

    An employee catches attractive Mrs. Raymond making a pass at Willie, then Mr. Raymond comes to the club with a gun to get even. Willie shoots him in self defense, but Willie is framed when Mr. Raymond's gun disappears.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #16 - The Listener

    S4:E16

    Sheila and her brother engineer a gas leak to kill her husband so they can split the insurance money. Overhearing the plot is the husband's invalid father, but it's no concern because he can't speak or write. Sheila doesn't realize he is able to communicate with his nurse through his eyes.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #17 - Safe Keeping

    S4:E17

    The chancellor of a foreign university gives newspaperman Frank Carstairs a document to smuggle out of the country. He anticipates being charged with treason by the totalitarian government and he wants the free world to know he did not willingly join their side. Meanwhile, Frank carries on an affair with a sexy foreign spy who seems to be playing both sides of the fence.

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    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:Unknown
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    #18 - No Limit

    S4:E18

    Suave restaurateur-gambler Willie Dante rebuffs the attempt of racketeers to cash in on his gambling activities. He appears to change his mind, however, due to the influence of a beautiful woman.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #19 - Command

    S4:E19

    The first mate on a merchant ship has been waiting for years to take command of the ship. When the elderly captain makes a mistake at a time when the ship is in danger the first mate sees his chance.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #20 - Once to Every Woman

    S4:E20

    At a particularly vulnerable time in her life, Carol is wooed by charming David. They fall in love, but Carol then learns that David is married. He says that he will get divorced for her, but Carol is visited by David's wife.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #21 - Red Wine

    S4:E21

    A police detective travels to Borneo looking for an American who murdered his wife for a huge insurance payoff. There are only three Americans there, all on a rubber plantation, but none fits the physical description. Once his cover is blown, the detective comes clean and tells the men he thinks none of them are his man. But he knows the killer is a wine connoisseur and he uses that to set a trap.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #22 - To Die at Midnight

    S4:E22

    The conflict of a prison warden who discovers exculpatory evidence on the eve of an execution.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #23 - Desert Encounter

    S4:E23

    A famous author gets embroiled in an unusual situation when he offers to drive a young Mexican girl to her ranch.

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    Director:Roy Kellino
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    #24 - The Case of Emily Cameron

    S4:E24

    Emily is an invalid who needs a caretaker. Her husband leaves her home alone one day, and she begins to stew over the low regard that he has for her. He, on the other hand, resents the opportunities that he's missed because of Emily.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #25 - The Rites of Spring

    S4:E25

    An older husband tests the marital fidelity of his amorous young wife by anonymously sending her flowers from "a secret admirer".

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Season 4 Ratings Summary

"The Firing Squad" is the best rated episode of "Four Star Playhouse" season 4. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/6/1955. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Face of Danger".