Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

S8 · E1 · 26. Sep 1958

A Thing to Fight For Folge 1

A peace-loving Civil War veteran seeks refuge from the violence of war as overseer on a Florida plantation.

S8 · E2 · 3. Okt 1958

The Best House in the Valley Folge 2

S8 · E3 · 10. Okt 1958

The Hasty Hanging Folge 3

A man and his wife are sentenced to hang without a trial.

S8 · E4 · 17. Okt 1958

The Four Folge 4

S8 · E5 · 24. Okt 1958

The Trouble With Ruth Folge 5

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.

S8 · E6 · 31. Okt 1958

The Connoisseur Folge 6

S8 · E7 · 7. Nov 1958

False Impression Folge 7

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.

S8 · E8 · 14. Nov 1958

A Game of Hate Folge 8

S8 · E9 · 21. Nov 1958

Last Edition Folge 9

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.

S8 · E10 · 28. Nov 1958

Coney Island Winter Folge 10

S8 · E11 · 5. Dez 1958

Third Son Folge 11

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.

S8 · E12 · 12. Dez 1958

Drive a Desert Road Folge 12

S8 · E13 · 19. Dez 1958

No Answer Folge 13

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.

S8 · E14 · 26. Dez 1958

Small Wonder Folge 14

S8 · E15 · 2. Jan 1959

A Fistful of Love Folge 15

Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.

S8 · E16 · 9. Jan 1959

The Deadly Guest Folge 16

S8 · E17 · 16. Jan 1959

You Can't Win 'Em All Folge 17

A professional football player refuses to admit that his playing days are over.

S8 · E18 · 30. Jan 1959

And Practically Strangers Folge 18

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.

S8 · E19 · 6. Feb 1959

Death Trap Folge 19

S8 · E20 · 13. Feb 1959

The Man Who Had No Friends Folge 20

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.

S8 · E21 · 20. Feb 1959

Various Temptations Folge 21

S8 · E22 · 27. Feb 1959

On the Brink Folge 22

Story of an intense hatred between father and son.

S8 · E23 · 6. Mär 1959

Stand-In for Murder Folge 23

S8 · E24 · 13. Mär 1959

Ivy League Folge 24

After 30 years in the Marine Corps, Bull Mitchell retires and enrolls as a college freshman.

S8 · E25 · 20. Mär 1959

Frederick Folge 25

S8 · E26 · 27. Mär 1959

The Salted Mine Folge 26

In the Old West, a beautiful mine owner hires a detective to discover if she has been swindled when she bought a mine.

S8 · E27 · 3. Apr 1959

The Dreamer Folge 27

S8 · E28 · 17. Apr 1959

This Will Do Nicely Folge 28

S8 · E29 · 1. Mai 1959

The Case of the Two Sisters Folge 29

S8 · E30 · 15. Mai 1959

Boy on a Fence Folge 30

S8 · E31 · 29. Mai 1959

Mirror, Mirror Folge 31

S8 · E32 · 5. Jun 1959

The Rumor Folge 32

The guys of the billing department at Brittanica Insurance heard that one of them is about to be let go. After breaking up with his girlfriend-of-the-week, office playboy Eddie shoots off his mouth and says he's gonna quit and leave town. Of course, he reconsiders as soon as he meets another woman.

S8 · E33 · 12. Jun 1959

The Miss and the Missiles Folge 33

S8 · E34 · 19. Jun 1959

Hostage Folge 34

A motorcycle cop becomes hostage to a cold-blooded slayer who plans to use him to escape police roadblocks.

S8 · E35 · 17. Jul 1959

Cowboy Five Seven Folge 35

This dramatization was about a typical day in the lives of the men of SAC, was made by Stewart, a reserve officer in the air force, at Westover (Mass.) Air Base. No professional actors are used; officers and enlisted men and their families portray themselves.

S8 · E36 · 31. Jul 1959

A Ballad to Die By Folge 36

Rancher Anna Carrick hires singing cowboy Johnny Guitar to play at her wedding. Johnny soon learns that Anna is to marry a killer against her will.