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The Best Episodes of Playhouse 90 Season 3

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 8 - Old Man
    9.4/10(18 votes)

    S3:E8

    To fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts.

    Director:John Frankenheimer
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 3 - The Time of Your Life
    9.3/10(30 votes)

    S3:E3

    William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the characters drift in and out of the bar and each other's lives, giving voice to Saroyan's philosophies as they randomly comment about the impending world war, the beauty of art, and traditional notions of good and evil.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 34 - The Rank and File
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E34

    A powerful union leader is interrogated by a Senate committee. Testifying before a Senate, William Kilcoyne tells the story of his career. He began as a factory worker and his shrewdness and ambition carried him up through the ranks to his present position as head of a large union.

    Director:Franklin J. Schaffner
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  4. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 18 - Child of Our Time
    8.5/10(10 votes)

    S3:E18

    War deprives Tanguy of his childhood. When his mother returns to Spain to oppose the Franco regime, he is left in Nazi-occupied Marseilles, France.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 1 - The Plot to Kill Stalin
    8.1/10(38 votes)

    S3:E1

    In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with anti-Semitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 16 - The Velvet Alley
    8.1/10(43 votes)

    S3:E16

    Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 28 - Judgment at Nuremberg
    8.1/10(83 votes)

    S3:E28

    In the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice.

    Director:George Roy Hill
    Writer:Abby Mann

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  8. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 2 - Days of Wine and Roses
    7.8/10(198 votes)

    S3:E2

    An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

    Director:John Frankenheimer
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 12 - The Nutcracker
    7.8/10(14 votes)

    S3:E12

    This telecast of George Balanchine's famous production was broadcast only four years after it was premiered by the New York City Ballet. This was the only episode of the series televised in color.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 32 - A Marriage of Strangers
    7.6/10(16 votes)

    S3:E32

    Marry in haste, repent at leisure? Well, maybe.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 10 - Free Weekend
    7.3/10(14 votes)

    S3:E10

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 23 - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1
    7.3/10(22 votes)

    S3:E23

    During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.

    Director:John Frankenheimer
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 35 - The Killers of Mussolini
    7.3/10(22 votes)

    S3:E35

    As the Salo Republic crumbles around him, Mussolini, along with his mistress and several of his ministers flee with retreating Nazi soldiers, but are caught at the town of Dongo by red partisans. All are brutally executed without trial.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 36 - Project Immortality
    7.3/10(18 votes)

    S3:E36

    Key defense scientist Doner has cancer. Schramm is assigned to code Doner's thinking into a computer. He gets to know him as a friend, a husband and father. The project is successful, but he now knows identity is not programmable.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 24 - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2
    7.1/10(17 votes)

    S3:E24

    The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.

    Director:John Frankenheimer
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 7 - Heart of Darkness
    6.0/10(58 votes)

    S3:E7

    A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 4 - The Long March
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S3:E4

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 5 - Shadows Tremble
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S3:E5

    An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 6 - Word from a Sealed-Off Box
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S3:E6

    A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 9 - The Return of Ansel Gibbs
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S3:E9

    After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 11 - Seven Against the Wall
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S3:E11

    The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 13 - Face of a Hero
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S3:E13

    No description available

    Director:John Frankenheimer
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 14 - The Wings of the Dove
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S3:E14

    An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 15 - The Blue Men
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S3:E15

    No description available

    Director:John Frankenheimer
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 17 - A Quiet Game of Cards
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S3:E17

    A few friends meet each weekend for a quiet game of cards. But they're bored with poker and, in trying to find another diversion, gradually find themselves plotting a hypothetical murder. It is hypothetical, isn't it?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Old Man" is the best rated episode of "Playhouse 90" season 3. It scored 9.4/10 based on 18 votes. Directed by John Frankenheimer and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/20/1958. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Time of Your Life".