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Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live
Season 1
6.9/10134 votesForbidden Area
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/1956
Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will anyone believe him?
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Pat Frank
8.3/10367 votesRequiem for a Heavyweight
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/1956
An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is exploited by his manager, despite the efforts of a compassionate young woman who tries to help him recover his self-respect.
Director: Ralph Nelson
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSizeman and Son
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/1956
The happy atmosphere in Mr. Sizeman's factory is disrupted by an argumentative newcomer - his son.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Rendezvous in Black
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1956
A woman is inexplicably killed on a street-corner. What has this to do with other deaths around the city?
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Country Husband
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/1956
After a near-death experience, a businessman starts to re-think his life, and wonders about leaving his wife.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Big Slide
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1956
A vaudeville comic becomes a silent film star.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Heritage of Anger
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1956
A wealthy industrialist has trouble with his sons.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.6/1028 votes
Eloise
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/22/1956
It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Leonard Spigelgass
- N/A/100 votes
Confession
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/1956
When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Made in Heaven
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/1956
When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Sincerely, Willis Wade
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1956
A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Family Nobody Wanted
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/20/1956
A true story, it follows a pastor and his wife through forties beginning with one biological child, Donny. But the upheaval of the war years results in a number of mixed raced children that the Doss family adopt until they have 12 children.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Unknown
- 6.4/1043 votes
Massacre at Sand Creek
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/27/1956
An investigation into a massacre of Native Americans.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/3/1957
Some racetrack Johnnies are talking between races when one wonders if you can hypnotize a horse into thinking it's a champion. The idea sets in motion a series of hilarious events.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Ninth Day
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/10/1957
Events in the aftermath of World War Three.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Unknown
- 6.8/1018 votes
So Soon to Die
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1957
Down on his luck, war hero Lionel Amblin contemplates committing a murder.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Star Wagon
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/24/1957
An inventor, pondering on how he might differently have arranged his life, invents a time machine and decides to make a few changes.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Greer Case
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/31/1957
When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.9/1025 votes
The Miracle Worker
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/7/1957
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.8/10305 votes
The Comedian
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/14/1957
Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than his. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, whom Sammy has hired as his assistant but whom he really uses as his whipping boy.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Rod Serling
- N/A/100 votes
One Coat of White
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/21/1957
A newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Blackwell Story
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/28/1957
In the 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell determines to become a doctor.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 8.0/1013 votes
Invitation to a Gunfighter
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/7/1957
A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter to drive him out of town. The townsfolk thought they had it bad until they handed the reigns over to the new terror. Pooling their money again, this time to hire Jeffers to get rid of Dancer.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.7/1028 votes
The Last Tycoon
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/14/1957
A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Unknown
- 6.9/1025 votes
The Hostess with the Mostes'
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/21/1957
The story of Perle Mesta, who became, first, a renowned society hostess, and then an ambassadress.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.3/1020 votes
Where's Charley?
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/28/1957
Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.8/1012 votes
Clipper Ship
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/4/1957
A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shipping magnate, and her growing love for a handsome young political prisoner who was scheduled to be put to death when the vessel reached its destination. Though unyielding at first, the ship's stern captain eventually helped the woman to make a clean getaway, with the condemned man in tow.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
If You Knew Elizabeth
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/11/1957
No description available
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Three Men on a Horse
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/18/1957
A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Four Women in Black
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/25/1957
Four nuns, led by Sister Teresa, begin a treacherous journey across the Arizona desert in 1870. Their faith enables them to deal with the challenges of nature and the hostility of their fellow mankind.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Child of Trouble
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 5/2/1957
No description available
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.6/1014 votes
Homeward Borne
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/9/1957
Just after World War Two ends, an American woman takes in a Polish war orphan boy, a concentration camp survivor. But conflict arises when her husband, a returning Air Force bomber pilot, hates the boy and his psychological baggage.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.2/1021 votes
The Helen Morgan Story
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/16/1957
Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star of top rated shows and owning her own club. Also seen is her poor choices, such as her affair with a married man, her short marriage to a much younger man, a court fight over an adopted baby and her fatal descent into booze addiction.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.0/1013 votes
Winter Dreams
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/23/1957
No description available
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Circle of the Day
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 5/30/1957
On her tenth wedding anniversary (which is also her daughter's birthday), a wife begins to suspect her husband of unfaithfulness.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.1/1016 votes
Without Incident
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 6/6/1957
Captain Russell Bidlack, commander of a U.S. Cavalry unit in 1870, determines to complete a rescue mission through dangerous Indian territory. In the course of the mission, he rescues the wives of two slain traders and captures the Indian chief accused of the murders. When he returns to the fort, he's faced with a revolt among his own men.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Clash by Night
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 6/13/1957
Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Unknown
- 7.8/1018 votes
Ain't No Time for Glory
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 6/20/1957
American soldiers must use stealth to take over a German command post in Normandy.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Fabulous Irishman
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 6/27/1957
Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Unknown