The Best Episodes of Playhouse 90 Season 1

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

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The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

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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.

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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

A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.

Director: John Frankenheimer

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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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American soldiers must use stealth to take over a German command post in Normandy.

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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.

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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

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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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

The story of Perle Mesta, who became, first, a renowned society hostess, and then an ambassadress.

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

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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.

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Director: John Frankenheimer

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An investigation into a massacre of Native Americans.

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Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".

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The happy atmosphere in Mr. Sizeman's factory is disrupted by an argumentative newcomer - his son.

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A woman is inexplicably killed on a street-corner. What has this to do with other deaths around the city?

Director: John Frankenheimer

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After a near-death experience, a businessman starts to re-think his life, and wonders about leaving his wife.

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A vaudeville comic becomes a silent film star.

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A wealthy industrialist has trouble with his sons.

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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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When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.

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A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.

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