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.
The best episode of "Schlitz Playhouse of Stars" season 8 is "A Thing to Fight For", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by John Brahm and written by N/A. "A Thing to Fight For" aired on 9/26/1958 and is rated NaN point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Best House in the Valley".
A peace-loving Civil War veteran seeks refuge from the violence of war as overseer on a Florida plantation.
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A man and his wife are sentenced to hang without a trial.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.
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A professional football player refuses to admit that his playing days are over.
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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.
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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
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Story of an intense hatred between father and son.
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After 30 years in the Marine Corps, Bull Mitchell retires and enrolls as a college freshman.
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