All Episodes of Playhouse 90

Season 1

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  Forbidden 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

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  8.4/10336 votes

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  Requiem 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: N/A

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  Sizeman 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.

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  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: N/A

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  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.

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  The Big Slide

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/8/1956

  A vaudeville comic becomes a silent film star.

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  Heritage of Anger

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/15/1956

  A wealthy industrialist has trouble with his sons.

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  7.2/1019 votes

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  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

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  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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  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: N/A

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  6.2/1040 votes

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  Massacre at Sand Creek

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/27/1956

  An investigation into a massacre of Native Americans.

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  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.

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  The Ninth Day

  Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/10/1957

  Events in the aftermath of World War Three.

  Director: John Frankenheimer

  Writer: N/A

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  6.8/1016 votes

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  So Soon to Die

  Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1957

  Down on his luck, war hero Lionel Amblin contemplates committing a murder.

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  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.

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  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: N/A

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  8.2/1016 votes

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  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: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  7.9/10287 votes

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  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

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  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.

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  The Blackwell Story

  Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/28/1957

  In the 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell determines to become a doctor.

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  8.0/1012 votes

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  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: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  8.1/1022 votes

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  The Last Tycoon

  Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/14/1957

  A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.

  Director: John Frankenheimer

  Writer: N/A

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  6.9/1017 votes

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  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: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  6.4/1018 votes

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  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: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  8.2/1010 votes

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  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.

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  If You Knew Elizabeth

  Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/11/1957

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  Director: John Frankenheimer

  Writer: N/A

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  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.

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  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.

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  Child of Trouble

  Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 5/2/1957

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  Director: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  6.6/1012 votes

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  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: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  7.5/1017 votes

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  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: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  7.0/1010 votes

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  Winter Dreams

  Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/23/1957

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  Director: John Frankenheimer

  Writer: N/A

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  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: N/A

  Writer: N/A

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  7.4/1013 votes

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  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.

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  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: N/A

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  7.4/1014 votes

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  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.

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  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: N/A