NaN/100 votes#1 - A Thing to Fight For
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1958
A peace-loving Civil War veteran seeks refuge from the violence of war as overseer on a Florida plantation.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#2 - The Best House in the Valley
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1958
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#3 - The Hasty Hanging
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1958
A man and his wife are sentenced to hang without a trial.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#4 - The Four
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1958
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/109 votes
#5 - The Trouble With Ruth
Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/1958
Not even her husband knows that Ruth Elliot is a kleptomaniac. But hoodlum Joseph Libo finds out about her illness and threatens to tell her husband unless she helps him carry out a robbery.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#6 - The Connoisseur
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1958
No description available
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1010 votes
#7 - False Impression
Season 8 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1958
A crippled dental technician falls in love with a pretty girl who refuses to have anything to do with him. He decides to steal a fortune in jewels in order to force the girl to overlook his physical handicap and marry him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#8 - A Game of Hate
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1958
No description available
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - Last Edition
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1958
Newspaper editor Sheldon Black is being shoved aside for the publisher's slimy protégé, Dean Lowell, who passed Black's ideas off as his own. Before exiting, Black orders Lowell to cover the execution of a condemned man that Lowell was friends with in the war. If the reptile Lowell had been willing to soil his "war hero" reputation and testify, he could have saved the man from the electric chair. Instead, he remains quiet and turns in quite a news story.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#10 - Coney Island Winter
Season 8 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1958
No description available
Director: John Brahm
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - Third Son
Season 8 Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1958
The youngest brother is torn between whether to follow in the footsteps of his brother who is a frontier marshal or the other one who is a dashing gambler.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#12 - Drive a Desert Road
Season 8 Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1958
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#13 - No Answer
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1958
A swindler who's known for separating rich widows from their money is the lead suspect in the murder of this latest "pigeon." His alibi seems pretty air tight: he was with the investigating cop when the murder supposedly took place.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#14 - Small Wonder
Season 8 Episode 14 - Aired 12/26/1958
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#15 - A Fistful of Love
Season 8 Episode 15 - Aired 1/2/1959
Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#16 - The Deadly Guest
Season 8 Episode 16 - Aired 1/9/1959
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1017 votes
#17 - You Can't Win 'Em All
Season 8 Episode 17 - Aired 1/16/1959
A professional football player refuses to admit that his playing days are over.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#18 - And Practically Strangers
Season 8 Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1959
From childhood Alan Mitchell has always felt his abilities and achievements overshadowed by those of his younger brother Hugh. When Hugh requisitions Alan to work with him on a nuclear bomb project it puts an additional strain on their already tense relationship.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#19 - Death Trap
Season 8 Episode 19 - Aired 2/6/1959
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#20 - The Man Who Had No Friends
Season 8 Episode 20 - Aired 2/13/1959
Champion Barry Brannon retires from a successful career as a fighter and goes into the restaurant business with his long-time manager, Charlie. When Barry proposes to his girl, he finds that she is in love with Charlie.
Director: Anton Leader
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#21 - Various Temptations
Season 8 Episode 21 - Aired 2/20/1959
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#22 - On the Brink
Season 8 Episode 22 - Aired 2/27/1959
Story of an intense hatred between father and son.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#23 - Stand-In for Murder
Season 8 Episode 23 - Aired 3/6/1959
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#24 - Ivy League
Season 8 Episode 24 - Aired 3/13/1959
After 30 years in the Marine Corps, Bull Mitchell retires and enrolls as a college freshman.
Director: Richard Whorf
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#25 - Frederick
Season 8 Episode 25 - Aired 3/20/1959
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Season 8
Every episode of Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Season 8 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Season 8!
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...
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Network:CBS
Season 8 Ratings Summary
"A Thing to Fight For" is the best rated episode of "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars" season 8. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by John Brahm and written by N/A, it aired on 9/26/1958. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "The Best House in the Valley".