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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!

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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Network:CBS

Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Finale" is the best rated episode of "Four Star Playhouse" season 2. It scored 7.3/10 based on 34 votes. Directed by Roy Kellino and written by Seeleg Lester, it aired on 9/24/1953. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Squeeze".

  • Finale
    7.3/1034 votes

    #1 - Finale

    Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1953

    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.

    Director: Roy Kellino

    Writer: Seeleg Lester

  • The Squeeze
    7.6/1051 votes

    #2 - The Squeeze

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/1953

    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.

    Director: Robert Aldrich

    Writer: N/A

  • A Place Of His Own
    7.5/1040 votes

    #3 - A Place Of His Own

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/1953

    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.

    Director: Robert Florey

    Writer: N/A

  • Love At Sea
    6.4/1030 votes

    #4 - Love At Sea

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1953

    A journalist's wife who, while alone on a sea voyage, becomes the center of male attention.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Witness
    7.2/1061 votes

    #5 - The Witness

    Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/1953

    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.

    Director: Robert Aldrich

    Writer: Seeleg Lester

  • A Matter Of Advice
    6.4/1026 votes

    #6 - A Matter Of Advice

    Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1953

    Weary Dr. Gentry gets no rest from his irritating patients. The pediatrician deals with ill-mannered kids and parents who can't make a move without checking with him first. An evening out with his wife to watch their oldest daughter star in "Romeo and Juliet" becomes a disaster when a panicked new mother interrupts the balcony scene with a silly phone call.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Out of the Night
    7.1/1037 votes

    #7 - Out of the Night

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/1953

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Moorings
    8.5/1032 votes

    #8 - Moorings

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1953

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

    Director: Robert Florey

    Writer: N/A

  • The Hard Way
    7.3/1026 votes

    #9 - The Hard Way

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/1953

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • For Art`s Sake
    7.3/1028 votes

    #10 - For Art`s Sake

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/1953

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Girl On The Park Bench
    7.0/1056 votes

    #11 - The Girl On The Park Bench

    Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/3/1953

    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.

    Director: Hal Walker

    Writer: William Bowers

  • The Room
    7.0/1022 votes

    #12 - The Room

    Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/10/1953

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Man Of The World
    7.3/1023 votes

    #13 - A Man Of The World

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/17/1953

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Gift
    7.1/1060 votes

    #14 - The Gift

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/24/1953

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • House For Sale
    7.7/1055 votes

    #15 - House For Sale

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/31/1953

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Test
    6.3/1017 votes

    #16 - The Test

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/7/1954

    A test pilot learns that it's possible that his sick daughter could have polio, just before he tests a new military plane.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bad Streak
    7.0/1022 votes

    #17 - The Bad Streak

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/14/1954

    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.

    Director: Robert Aldrich

    Writer: N/A

  • A String of Beads
    7.2/1067 votes

    #18 - A String of Beads

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/21/1954

    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.

    Director: William Cameron Menzies

    Writer: Don Ettlinger

  • Indian Taker
    NaN/100 votes

    #19 - Indian Taker

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/28/1954

    A comedy of errors about an insurance executive’s wife. At a party, the impulse suddenly comes over her and she proceeds to steal the jewels of all wealthy guests, who happen to be insured by her husband’s firm.

    Director: Blake Edwards

    Writer: N/A

  • Second Dawn
    6.9/1022 votes

    #20 - Second Dawn

    Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/4/1954

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Gun
    7.0/1048 votes

    #21 - The Gun

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/11/1954

    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.

    Director: Frank McDonald

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bomb
    8.1/1040 votes

    #22 - The Bomb

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/18/1954

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Meet McGraw: Long Count
    7.3/1054 votes

    #23 - Meet McGraw: Long Count

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/25/1954

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Detective`s Holiday
    7.5/1035 votes

    #24 - Detective`s Holiday

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/4/1954

    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.

    Director: Blake Edwards

    Writer: N/A

  • Operation In Money
    7.5/1027 votes

    #25 - Operation In Money

    Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/11/1954

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A