The Best Episodes of Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Season 5
Every episode of Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Season 5!
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
Season 5 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars" season 5 is "The Last Out", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "The Last Out" aired on 9/30/1955 and is rated NaN point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Bandit's Hide-Out".
NaN/10 0 votes#1 - The Last Out
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/30/1955
A once promising baseball player is now grounds keeper for a minor league team. His deep knowledge of the game is more than the team's manager can handle.
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#2 - Bandit's Hide-Out
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1955
The wife of a gentle Spanish shepherd is discontented with the quiet life they lead. He returns home one night to find his wife and sheep are gone.
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#3 - Two-Bit Gangster
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1955
A newsman travels to a small town to cover what appears to be a routine robbery, in which a masked thief killed an ex-con who interfered with his getaway. But, the reporter's investigation begins to reveal the ex-con in the role of a hero.
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#4 - The Girl Who Scared Men Off
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1955
A country schoolmarm bitterly resents it when the community imports a tweedy, pipe-smoking exchange teacher from England to add culture to the school. It takes a fire at the school picnic to set things right and clear up the problem.
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#5 - Nothing to Do Till Next Fall
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1955
A college football coach is faced with a difficult decision for the big home coming game.
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#6 - A Gift of Life
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1955
A big time salesman is too busy getting ahead to make friends. Then he finds himself in a hospital bed in need of a transfusion. A portrait of a tragic character.
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#7 - No Trial by Jury
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1955
After a valuable horse drowns in a well, a homesteader faces ruin. The law of the range makes him liable because of negligence in not covering or fencing the well.
Director: Reginald Le Borg
Writer: DeWitt Bodeen
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#8 - Night of the Big Swamp
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/18/1955
Reno Cromwell, a hunting guide obliged to aid the law in hunting down his best friend, a killer. Reno's girlfriend is actually still in love with the killer, but her pleas to Reno not to help in the pursuit are in vain.
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#9 - The Careless Cadet
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1955
Sgt. Ben Destry receives an appointment to West Point as a reward for valor in the Korean War. But he scoffs at the Academy's traditions and finds the orders of his juniors hard to take.
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#10 - Moment of Triumph
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1955
A business tycoon is able to right the wrong done twenty years ago to his professor who refused to give a passing grade to a rich man's son when he didn't deserve it.
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#11 - On the Nose
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1955
An air force pilot is assigned to carry an atomic scientist to the site of a bomb experiment. To the pilot's dismay, the ship's navigator becomes ill before takeoff and is replaced by a woefully inexperience substitute.
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#12 - The Baited Hook
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1955
In a Florida swamp, Sheriff Ames is marooned with killer, Link Bradford.
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#13 - Christmas Guest
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/23/1955
A professor's modest salary doesn't permit much spending for Christmas gifts, so when his wife's brother arrives laden with expensive gifts a bitter argument ensues. Out of that, comes a better understanding of Christmas.
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#14 - Well of Anger
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 12/30/1955
In the Old West, Ed Sawyer is trying to set up a modest homestead. But a big rancher, Luke Gans, uses violence to keep Sawyer away from the water supply.
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#15 - Fool Proof
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1956
When Mary Hunter became a teacher of blind children she never dreamed the lessons she taught might one day save her life not until that fateful evening in the parking lot.
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#16 - Dealer's Choice
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/13/1956
The owner of a pearling ship loses it in a poker game. Convinced that the winner cheated, he signs on with him for the next voyage, suspecting that the new owner will soon be anxious to sell the ship back to him.
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#17 - The Big Payday
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/20/1956
A former fighter always wanted to be champ, but never made it. He's a manager now, and hopes his heavyweight contender will make it.
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#18 - The Day I Died
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 1/27/1956
A ruthless business tycoon is convinced he owes all his success to himself alone. But a strange thing happens to him on a hospital operating table.
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#19 - The Gentle Stranger
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/3/1956
A mail-order bride finds life on a ranch not to her liking. A range war decides her future.
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#20 - Top Man
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1956
A mountain climber is fiercely determined to conquer the man-killing Himalayan peak, Calpurtha.
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#21 - On a Dark Night
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 2/17/1956
A college professor tries to rescue a girl who turns out to be a gangster's moll.
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#22 - Ordeal
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1956
No one believes a man when he insists he saw a murder committed.
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#23 - Showdown at Painted Rock
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 3/2/1956
A sheriff risks his life by insisting on hanging a murderer in the lawless old West.
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#24 - Web of Circumstance
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 3/9/1956
A bank teller has been stealing pennies and stashing away dollars taken from his wife's grocery budget for years. His goal: to make a break from his shrewish spouse and sail for an island paradise in the Pacific.
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#25 - The Young and the Brave
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 3/16/1956
Total Toys TV reviews the Build-A-Minion Pirate/Cro-Minion figure pack made by Thinkway.
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