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The Best Episodes of Playhouse 90 Season 3

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The Best Episodes of Playhouse 90 Season 3

Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated...

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  1. 9.6/10(28 votes)

    #1 - The Time of Your Life

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    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.

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  2. 9.3/10(16 votes)

    #2 - Old Man

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

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  3. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The Rank and File

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    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.

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  4. 8.2/10(42 votes)

    #4 - The Velvet Alley

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    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.

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  5. 8.0/10(36 votes)

    #5 - The Plot to Kill Stalin

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    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.

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  6. 8.0/10(80 votes)

    #6 - Judgment at Nuremberg

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    S3:E28

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

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  8. 7.8/10(187 votes)

    #7 - Days of Wine and Roses

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    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.

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  9. 7.6/10(15 votes)

    #8 - A Marriage of Strangers

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    S3:E32

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

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  10. 7.4/10(13 votes)

    #9 - The Nutcracker

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    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.

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  11. 7.3/10(12 votes)

    #10 - Free Weekend

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  12. 7.3/10(21 votes)

    #11 - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1

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    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.

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  13. 7.3/10(21 votes)

    #12 - The Killers of Mussolini

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    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.

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  14. 7.3/10(16 votes)

    #13 - Project Immortality

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    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.

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  15. 7.0/10(16 votes)

    #14 - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2

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    S3:E24

    The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.

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  16. 6.1/10(54 votes)

    #15 - Heart of Darkness

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    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.

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    #16 - The Long March

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    #17 - Shadows Tremble

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

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    #18 - Word from a Sealed-Off Box

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

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    #19 - The Return of Ansel Gibbs

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    S3:E9

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

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    #20 - Seven Against the Wall

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    S3:E11

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

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    #21 - Face of a Hero

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    #22 - The Wings of the Dove

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    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.

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    #23 - The Blue Men

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    #24 - A Quiet Game of Cards

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    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?

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    #25 - Child of Our Time

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    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.

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Time of Your Life" is the best rated episode of "Playhouse 90" season 3. It scored 9.6/10 based on 28 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/9/1958. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Old Man".