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The Best Episodes of Playhouse 90 Season 4

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Playhouse 90 Season 4 Episode 1 - Target for Three
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    #1 - Target for Three

    S4:E1

    Three conspirators plan the death of a South American head of state.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Playhouse 90 Season 4 Episode 2 - The Sounds of Eden
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    #2 - The Sounds of Eden

    S4:E2

    Three different viewpoints of the same story - a kidnapping and its aftermath.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Playhouse 90 Season 4 Episode 3 - Misalliance
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    #3 - Misalliance

    S4:E3

    A group of people gathered at a wealthy man's country home on a summer weekend engage in an exploration of their varied romantic entanglements.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Playhouse 90 Season 4 Episode 4 - The Hidden Image
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    #4 - The Hidden Image

    S4:E4

    A journalist out to expose political corruption finds his family is in danger.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Playhouse 90 Season 4 Episode 5 - The Grey Nurse Said Nothing
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    #5 - The Grey Nurse Said Nothing

    S4:E5

    In Australia, a landowner is arrested for murder - but where's the body?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Playhouse 90 Season 4 Episode 6 - The Tunnel
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    #6 - The Tunnel

    S4:E6

    In the Civil War, a tunnel is dug under Confederate lines, and filled with explosives.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Playhouse 90 Season 4 Episode 7 - The Silver Whistle
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    #7 - The Silver Whistle

    S4:E7

    The old people's home is a pretty miserable place - until the arrival of the mysterious Mr. Erwenter.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Playhouse 90 Season 4 Episode 8 - John Brown's Raid
    6.3/10(15 votes)

    #8 - John Brown's Raid

    S4:E8

    The story of abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.

    Director:Sidney Lumet
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Playhouse 90 Season 4 Episode 9 - A Dream of Treason
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    #9 - A Dream of Treason

    S4:E9

    A State Department official is required to leak a confidential document - which may have terrible repercussions.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Playhouse 90 Season 4 Episode 10 - To the Sound of Trumpets
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    #10 - To the Sound of Trumpets

    S4:E10

    In Paris, a former soldier is alarmed when the girl he has fallen in love with demonstrates a rather naïve and romanticized attitude to war.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Playhouse 90 Season 4 Episode 11 - The Cruel Day
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Cruel Day

    S4:E11

    Violence and brutality greet a French Army captain when he arrives in Algeria to assume command of a remote outpost. He is appalled by the savage massacre of an Algerian family by the Rebels. When the French take a prisoner who knows the names of Rebel leaders, the captain is told that torture is the only way to make him talk. Then the captain meets the prisoner - a handsome, intelligent teenage boy.

    Director:Franklin J. Schaffner
    Writer:Reginald Rose

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  12. Playhouse 90 Season 4 Episode 12 - Tomorrow
    8.0/10(29 votes)

    #12 - Tomorrow

    S4:E12

    Slow witted, and tired, Fentry leads a lonely life of grinding poverty in his sharecropper's shack until a sick, pregnant woman escaping her abusive husband comes there. He takes her in and cares for her, eventually falling in love with her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Playhouse 90 Season 4 Episode 13 - The Hiding Place
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    #13 - The Hiding Place

    S4:E13

    In the last days of World War II, two English airmen are captured by an ordinary German citizen, who, instead of handing them over to the authorities, keeps them prisoner in his cellar, neglecting to tell them when the war ends.

    Director:Sidney Lumet
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Playhouse 90 Season 4 Episode 14 - Alas, Babylon
    8.8/10(46 votes)

    #14 - Alas, Babylon

    S4:E14

    Americans try to cope with the aftermath of a nuclear catastrophe.

    Director:Robert Stevens
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Playhouse 90 Season 4 Episode 15 - Journey to the Day
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    #15 - Journey to the Day

    S4:E15

    Patients at a mental hospital meet for a group therapy session.

    Director:John Frankenheimer
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Playhouse 90 Season 4 Episode 16 - The Shape of the River
    6.8/10(8 votes)

    #16 - The Shape of the River

    S4:E16

    Determined to pay off his debts, Mark Twain sets off on a lecture tour.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Playhouse 90 Season 4 Episode 17 - In the Presence of Mine Enemies
    8.1/10(28 votes)

    #17 - In the Presence of Mine Enemies

    S4:E17

    In the Warsaw ghetto, a Jewish man seeks revenge for the rape of his sister by a German soldier.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Target for Three" is the best rated episode of "Playhouse 90" season 4. It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/1/1959. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Sounds of Eden".