The Best Episodes of Playhouse 90 Season 1

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

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 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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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

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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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

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An investigation into a massacre of Native Americans.

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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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Events in the aftermath of World War Three.

Director: John Frankenheimer

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

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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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When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

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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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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 newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.

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

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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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A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.

Director: John Frankenheimer

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

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