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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 1 - The Plot to Kill Stalin
    8.1/10(35 votes)

    #1 - The Plot to Kill Stalin

    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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  2. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 2 - Days of Wine and Roses
    7.8/10(195 votes)

    #2 - Days of Wine and Roses

    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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  3. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 3 - The Time of Your Life
    9.3/10(29 votes)

    #3 - The Time of Your Life

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

    #4 - The Long March

    S3:E4

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

    #5 - Shadows Tremble

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

    #6 - Word from a Sealed-Off Box

    S3:E6

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 7 - Heart of Darkness
    6.1/10(54 votes)

    #7 - Heart of Darkness

    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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  8. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 8 - Old Man
    9.4/10(17 votes)

    #8 - Old Man

    S3:E8

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

    Director:John Frankenheimer
    Writer:Unknown

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

    #9 - The Return of Ansel Gibbs

    S3:E9

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 10 - Free Weekend
    6.5/10(13 votes)

    #10 - Free Weekend

    S3:E10

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

    #11 - Seven Against the Wall

    S3:E11

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 12 - The Nutcracker
    7.4/10(13 votes)

    #12 - The Nutcracker

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

    #13 - Face of a Hero

    S3:E13

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    Director:John Frankenheimer
    Writer:Unknown

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

    #14 - The Wings of the Dove

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

    #15 - The Blue Men

    S3:E15

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    Director:John Frankenheimer
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 16 - The Velvet Alley
    8.1/10(44 votes)

    #16 - The Velvet Alley

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

    #17 - A Quiet Game of Cards

    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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  18. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 18 - Child of Our Time
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - Child of Our Time

    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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  19. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 19 - The Second Man
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - The Second Man

    S3:E19

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 20 - The Raider
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - The Raider

    S3:E20

    A corporate raider plans a hostile takeover. To stall him, pressure is put on a scientist to rush through a new type of engine before all necessary tests have been completed.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 21 - The Ding-A-Ling Girl
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - The Ding-A-Ling Girl

    S3:E21

    A housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 22 - Made in Japan
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - Made in Japan

    S3:E22

    A young soldier in occupied Japan after World War II falls in love with a lovely Japanese girl, but is horrified about what his prejudiced family in Philadelphia will think if he takes her home with him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 23 - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1
    7.3/10(21 votes)

    #23 - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1

    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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  24. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 24 - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2
    7.0/10(16 votes)

    #24 - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2

    S3:E24

    The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.

    Director:John Frankenheimer
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Playhouse 90 Season 3 Episode 25 - A Trip to Paradise
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - A Trip to Paradise

    S3:E25

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Plot to Kill Stalin" is the best rated episode of "Playhouse 90" season 3. It scored 8.1/10 based on 35 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/25/1958. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Days of Wine and Roses".