Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

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Season 8

Episodes

1. A Thing to Fight For
Sep 26, 1958

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

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2. The Best House in the Valley
Oct 3, 1958

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3. The Hasty Hanging
Oct 10, 1958

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

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4. The Four
Oct 17, 1958

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5. The Trouble With Ruth
Oct 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.

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6. The Connoisseur
Oct 31, 1958

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7. False Impression
Nov 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.

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8. A Game of Hate
Nov 14, 1958

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9. Last Edition
Nov 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.

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10. Coney Island Winter
Nov 28, 1958

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11. Third Son
Dec 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.

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12. Drive a Desert Road
Dec 12, 1958

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13. No Answer
Dec 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.

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14. Small Wonder
Dec 26, 1958

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15. A Fistful of Love
Jan 2, 1959

Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.

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16. The Deadly Guest
Jan 9, 1959

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17. You Can't Win 'Em All
Jan 16, 1959

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

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18. And Practically Strangers
Jan 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.

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19. Death Trap
Feb 6, 1959

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20. The Man Who Had No Friends
Feb 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.

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21. Various Temptations
Feb 20, 1959

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22. On the Brink
Feb 27, 1959

Story of an intense hatred between father and son.

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23. Stand-In for Murder
Mar 6, 1959

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24. Ivy League
Mar 13, 1959

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

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25. Frederick
Mar 20, 1959

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26. The Salted Mine
Mar 27, 1959

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

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27. The Dreamer
Apr 3, 1959

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28. This Will Do Nicely
Apr 17, 1959

No overview available.

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29. The Case of the Two Sisters
May 1, 1959

No overview available.

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30. Boy on a Fence
May 15, 1959

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31. Mirror, Mirror
May 29, 1959

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32. The Rumor
Jun 5, 1959

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.

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33. The Miss and the Missiles
Jun 12, 1959

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34. Hostage
Jun 19, 1959

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

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35. Cowboy Five Seven
Jul 17, 1959

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.

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36. A Ballad to Die By
Jul 31, 1959

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.

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