The Best Episodes of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Season 1
Every episode of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse Season 1!
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.
Season 1 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse" season 1 is "Lucy Goes to Mexico", rated N/A/10 from 0 user votes. It was directed by Jerry Thorpe and written by Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf. "Lucy Goes to Mexico" aired on 10/6/1958 and is rated NaN point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Song of Bernadette".
NaN/10 0 votes#1 - Lucy Goes to Mexico
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/1958
Lucy, Ricky, Fred, and Ethel are visiting San Diego. While Ricky rehearses a show with Maurice Chevalier, Lucy and Ethel cross the Mexican border to do a little shopping. Returning to the US, a stowaway boy is found in the Ricardo's car trunk by US Customes. With Lucy and Ethel in jail, Ricky, Fred, and Maurice come to the rescue. Unfortunately, now Chevalier is being held because he is not authorized to leave the US into Mexico. This sends Lucy off to a bullfight to find the American consul, only Lucy disguises herself as a matador, and ends up facing a raging bull.
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Writer: Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf
- NaN/10 0 votes
#2 - Song of Bernadette
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/1958
Based on Mary Gray Blanton's biography The Miracle of Bernadette, this is the story of Bernadette Soubirous, a french peasant girl who discovered healing waters after seeing a vision of Mary, Mother of Jesus. The experience changed her life, and she eventually became a nun, and later named a Saint by the Catholic church.
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#3 - The Case For Dr. Mudd
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/20/1958
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Director: N/A
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#4 - My Father The Fool
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/27/1958
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Director: Jerry Thorpe
Writer: Adrian Spies
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#5 - Debut
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/3/1958
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Director: Arthur Hiller
Writer: Paul Monash
8.1/10 452 votes#6 - The Time Element
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/10/1958
A patient visiting a psychiatrist complains of recurrent dreams in which he imagines he is living in Hawaii just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. A series of flashbacks shows him living with his knowledge of what has happened in the seventeen years since, betting on sure winners in sports events, but also seeking to warn a newly-married couple, newspaper editors, and anyone else who will listen that they will be attacked by the Japanese. Everyone is either too interested in a good time or too determinedly patriotic to give heed; the man only gets punched on the jaw. In the end the psychiatrist is left looking at a blank couch, and to steady his own nerves he goes to a bar to get a drink. There he learns his patient was killed at Pearl Harbor.
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: Rod Serling
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#7 - The Night The Phone Rang
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/17/1958
What more terrifying predicament could an innocent man be faced with than to become involved with a gang of highly organized criminals—a murder syndicate which selects not only its victim but his executioner?
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: N/A
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#8 - Silent Thunder
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/1958
An American Indian seeks dignity in a white community.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: John McGreevey
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#9 - Lucy Makes Room for Danny
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/1/1958
Lucy & Ricky are off to sunny California for his latest motion picture, and rent their home to Danny Williams (Danny Thomas) and family. When Ricky's picture deal falls through, suddenly the Ricardo's are without a place to live. The Mertz' offer their home, and the two couples are now housemates. Unfortunately, Lucy becomes up in arms regarding the way the Williams are using their home, and soon makes a pest of herself. Culminating in a snow fight, the matter is finally settled in court.
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Writer: Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf
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#10 - K. O. Kitty
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/8/1958
Dance teacher Kitty Williams, who loves dogs, is delighted when she learns that she has inherited a boxer from her late Uncle Charlie. But the ""boxer"" turns out to be Harold Tibbetts, a muscle-bound country boy.
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Writer: N/A
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#11 - The Crazy Hunter
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/15/1958
A girl trains a blind horse.
Director: Jerry Thorpe
Writer: Walter Newman
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#12 - Ballad For A Bad Man
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/22/1958
Chris Hody, a professional bounty hunter, goes after young Danny Cash, who is wanted for robbery and murder. The girl Cash loves is a member of a troupe of entertainers. Hody joins the troupe as a guide, hoping that Cash will turn up with the stolen money.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: N/A
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#13 - Chez Rouge
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/22/1958
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Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: Adrian Spies
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#14 - The Comeback
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/4/1959
A has-been ballplayer revives a Little League team.
Director: Arthur Lubin
Writer: N/A
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#15 - Happy Hill
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 11/18/1958
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Director: Robert B. Sinclair
Writer: N/A
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#16 - Trial At Devil's Canyon
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 12/9/1958
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Director: Claudio Guzmán
Writer: N/A
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#17 - Symbol of Authority
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 12/23/1958
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Director: Robert B. Sinclair
Writer: Ernest Kinoy
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#18 - Martin's Folly
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1959
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Director: Robert Ellis Miller
Writer: N/A
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#19 - Perilous
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/20/1959
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Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10 37 votes
#20 - Chain of Command
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/12/1959
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Director: Jerry Thorpe
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10 32 votes
#21 - A Diamond For Carla
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/17/1959
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Director: N/A
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- 6.6/10 11 votes
#22 - Lucy Goes to Alaska
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/9/1959
Alaska is celebrating statehood! Red Skelton invites Ricky Ricardo to appear on his television show that is being filmed in the new state. The entire gang comes along and take a look at a recent Alaskan land investment by Ricky & Fred. Unfortunately, accomadations are scarce and the foursome must share a room, with Lucy spending the night on a troublesome hammock. The following morning, Lucy lucks out and lands an appearance on the TV show with Red in a Freddy the Freeloader sketch. Clever Lucy begins to believe she can pawn off the bad land investment on Red, and the two head out to take a look. Ultimately stranded, the two redheads trade land for airfare, but on the way back, Lucy and Red end up having to pilot the plane to safety.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.9/10 22 votes
#23 - The Innocent Assassin
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/16/1959
Eileen Gorman and Jamsie Corcoran are in love, but they live in 1921 Dublin, Ireland, and their romance is blighted by civil strife. Their fathers are partisans of the Irish Republican Army, fighting the British. Their IRA group decides that a traitor must be killed, and Jamsie is assigned to assassinate him.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: N/A
- NaN/10 0 votes
#24 - The Hard Road
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/30/1959
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Director: Douglas Heyes
Writer: Douglas Heyes
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#25 - The Untouchables [1]
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/20/1959
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Director: Phil Karlson
Writer: N/A