8.2/1033 votes#1 - The Plot to Kill Stalin
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1958
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10184 votes
#2 - Days of Wine and Roses
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1958
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: N/A
- 9.6/1028 votes
#3 - The Time of Your Life
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1958
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#4 - The Long March
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1958
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#5 - Shadows Tremble
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1958
An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#6 - Word from a Sealed-Off Box
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1958
A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.1/1054 votes
#7 - Heart of Darkness
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1958
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 9.2/1015 votes
#8 - Old Man
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1958
To fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - The Return of Ansel Gibbs
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1958
After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1010 votes
#10 - Free Weekend
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1958
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - Seven Against the Wall
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1958
The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1012 votes
#12 - The Nutcracker
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/25/1958
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#13 - Face of a Hero
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/1/1959
No description available
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#14 - The Wings of the Dove
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/8/1959
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#15 - The Blue Men
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/1959
No description available
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1040 votes
#16 - The Velvet Alley
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/1959
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#17 - A Quiet Game of Cards
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/29/1959
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#18 - Child of Our Time
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1959
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#19 - The Second Man
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1959
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#20 - The Raider
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/19/1959
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#21 - The Ding-A-Ling Girl
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/26/1959
A housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#22 - Made in Japan
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 3/5/1959
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1019 votes
#23 - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/12/1959
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: N/A
- 7.1/1014 votes
#24 - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/19/1959
The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#25 - A Trip to Paradise
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 3/26/1959
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Playhouse 90 Season 3
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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 8.2/10 based on 33 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/25/1958. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Days of Wine and Roses".