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Four Star Playhouse: S1E1-My Wife Geraldine* (1952) | S1E1-My Wife Geraldine: A man finds himself accused of murdering his wife, a woman he claims never existed. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S1E2-Dante's Inferno* (1952) | S1E2-Dante's Inferno: Willie Dante owns a bar and gambling house called Dante's Inferno. One night, the wife of an acquaintance tells Willie that her husband has threatened her. Willie comforts her and sends her home, but she turns up dead the next day. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S1E3-The Lost Silk Hat* (1952) | S1E3-The Lost Silk Hat: After a lovers' quarrel and a vow to never return, a man realizes he has left behind his silk hat. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S1E4-Backstage* (1952) | S1E4-Backstage: A director (Charles Boyer) befriends a despondent young woman. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S1E5-Welcome Home* (1952) | S1E5-Welcome Home: A criminal meets a troubled youth. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S1E6-The Island* (1952) | S1E6-The Island: A doctor caring for natives on a tropical island is dismissed by the bully owner of the island who discovered a discrepancy in his medical past. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S1E7-The Officer And The Lady* (1952) | S1E7-The Officer And The Lady: A reformed pickpocket in Paris obtains the purse of an attractive woman. He reads a letter telling about her dying son, and he decides to grant the boy's wish to meet his father. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S1E8-Knockout* (1952) | S1E8-Knockout: A young man follows a quick trajectory from beginning boxer to the middleweight championship match. The night before the championship fight, he learns that the match is fixed, with him as the chosen winner. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S1E9-The Man on the Train* (1953) | No one else sees a man's former acquaintance on a train. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S1E11-Sound Off My Love* (1953) | S1E11-Sound Off My Love: Martha resists getting a hearing aid but after a near accident, she gives in but hides it from others and learns what people have been saying about her behind her back. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S1E12-Man in the Box* (1953) | Actor Victor Sherman surprises theater-goers at the play. As the play proceeds, the man in the box imagines himself playing each of the characters in the show. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S1E13-No Identity* (1953) | S1E13-No Identity: Mitch Carver befriends and adopts an orphan boy. Mitch's wife is pregnant with their first child, and she treats the boy as a threat to the natural family that she wants to have. David Niven, Frances Rafferty. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S1E14-The Man Who Walked Out On Himself* (1953) | After separating from his wife, a wealthy clubman is about to marry a much young woman -- whereupon his mirror image walks out on him in disgust. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S1E15-Last Voyage* (1953) | S1E15-Last Voyage: A sea captain on his final voyage learns that there is a bomb on his ship, timed to go off soon after reaching port. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S1E16-Night Ride* (1953) | S1E16-Night Ride: On a late night subway car, five passengers try to determine which of them is a homicidal maniac, the subject of a city-wide manhunt. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S1E17-The Ladies on His Mind* (1953) | A psychiatrist listens to his female patients go on about their troubles. As they talk, he imagines himself within each of their stories. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S1E18-To Whom It May Concern* (1953) | S1E18-To Whom It May Concern: A bank employee mails a letter to his boss confessing he stold $7000 to buy stock. As he puts a gun to his head, he sees in the paper that his stock has gone through the roof. Now, he needs to get back that letter! | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S1E19-Shadowed* (1953) | S1E19-Shadowed: Burt Stroude is about to be chosen as the party's senatorial candidate. At the same time, he hears from the married woman he had an affair with in his youth. She's dying and wants him at her bedside. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S2E1-Finale* (1953) | S2E1-Finale: Steve has a tough time landing a role because he looks too much like his famous actor cousin, Roger Carlyle. Steve eventually resorts to plastic surgery with ironic results. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S2E2-The Squeeze* (1953) | S2E2-The Squeeze: Dick Powell plays a safe-cracker who comes out of retirement for one last heist. He discovers that his accomplices plan to kill him after the robbery. What will he do to survive? | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S2E5-The Witness* (1953) | S2E5-The Witness: A defense attorney idles in a swank restaurant while his client's on trial for murder. The attorney's PIs search for a female witness who can get the defendant off, so the attorney avoids court to keep delaying the trial. Dick Powell. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S2E6-A Matter Of Advice* (1953) | S2E6-A Matter Of Advice: Weary Dr. Gentry gets no rest from his irritating patients. The pediatrician deals with ill-mannered kids and parents who can't make a move without him. An evening out with his wife becomes a disaster. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S2E7-Search In The Night* (1953) | S2E7-Search In The Night: A newspaper reporter is intrigued as to why a woman hired a dive team to retrieve her purse from the Chicago River. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S2E8-Moorings* (1953) | S2E8-Moorings: An overworked man is ordered by his doctor to take a vacation. While at the resort, he falls in love with a blind woman. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S2E11-The Girl On The Park Bench* (1953) | S2E11-The Girl On The Park Bench: A beautiful, intelligent, and politically savvy young woman takes up residency in the city park to protest the Mayor's decision to end rent control on apartments. Joan Fontaine. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S2E13-A Man Of The World* (1953) | S2E13-A Man Of The World: Predictable Andy Bush is taking a train to his annual three week vacation without his wife. A young woman in trouble approaches him and asks him to help her by pretending to be her husband. David Niven. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S2E15-House For Sale* (1953) | S2E15-House For Sale: A woman shops for a house with her husband, a returning Korean War veteran. Events turn nasty when her real estate agent turns out to be a psychopathic imposter who has murdered the real agent. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S2E16-The Test* (1954) | S2E16-The Test: A test pilot learns that it's possible that his sick daughter could have polio, just before he tests a new military plane. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S2E21-The Gun* (1954) | S2E21-The Gun: Dick Powell plays a cop who returns home after a tough night only to be confronted with noisy kids, his wife, neighbors, delivery men and a vacuum cleaner salesman. When he discovers his gun is missing, he must track everyone down to see who has it. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S2E22-The Bomb* (1954) | S2E22-The Bomb: Three people in a triangle romance are in for a fright when they find themselves trapped in a house with an unexploded bomb from WWII! David Niven, Barry Curtis. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S2E23-Meet McGraw* (1954) | S2E23-Meet McGraw: McGraw, a private eye, is hired by Lila Lamont to protect her from her threatening husband Louis. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S2E24-Detective's Holiday* (1954) | S2E24-Detective's Holiday: A detective takes a trip to a cabin in the woods to get away from it all. A man, his wife, and his two kids entertain him but of the man's kids slips and gives away a bit of suspicious info. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S2E26-Lady Of The Orchids* (1954) | S2E26-Lady Of The Orchids: Neglected by her husband, Stacy goes out with wealthy bachelor Paul and gets in a car accident from which she escapes unnoticed. She is the only one who can save Paul from manslaughter charges, but at risk of her own marriage. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S2E27-The Book* (1954) | S2E27-The Other Room: A stranger tussles with John over a library book and is struck and killed by a passing car. John discovers a message in the book and follows it to a blind meeting, only to be mistaken for a hit man with an assassination team. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S2E28-A Study In Panic* (1954) | S2E28-A Study In Panic: After newsman Fred Jordan writes a column making fun of normal men who panic during a fire, he gets a letter from a sick man who promises to kill Jordan in 24 hours. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S2E31-The Doctor And The Countess* (1954) | S2E31-The Doctor And The Countess: A plastic surgeon is hired to severely ruin the face of a beautiful countess, in order to relate to her husband, who was burned and disfigured in an accident. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S3E2-Never Explain* (1954) | S3E2-Never Explain: A new social worker has been assigned to investigate the parenting of a free-thinker (David Niven). | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S3E6-The Contest* (1954) | S3E6-The Contest: When a police detective investigates the murder of a playwright, his investigation leads him to two possible culprits - his brother and his fiance. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S3E8-My Own Dear Dragon* (1954) | S3E8-My Own Dear Dragon: A successful playwright does his best to avoid reading the script written by his young new wife. She can't understand why he refuses to encourage her. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S3E10-Meet A Lonely Man* (1954) | S3E10-Meet A Lonely Man: An attractive young lady mistakes a lonely hotel desk clerk for a Texas oil millionaire she'd once met. Loving the attention she's lavishing on him, he plays along...until his big spending catches up with him. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S3E13-The Answer* (1954) | S3E13-The Answer: A disillusioned Hollywood screenwriter returns to his old neighborhood bar, where he meets an alcoholic genius and undergoes an epiphany. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S3E14-Go Ahead And Jump* (1954) | S3E14-Go Ahead And Jump: A despondent man hires a taxi to take him to a bridge in order to jump off and kill himself. Rather than refusing service, the taxi driver offers encouragement and tells his own tale of woe. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S3E17-Breakfast In Bed* (1955) | S3E17-Breakfast In Bed: An artist is enticed away from his lucrative commercial advertising contracts by a young model who shows obvious disappointment that he is not striving to achieve his potential as a creative artist. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S3E18-The Good Sister* (1955) | S3E18-The Good Sister: A nun plays matchmaker for an American soldier and a Czech girl. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S3E20-Fair Trial* (1955) | Chicago newsman Dave Sheridan (Dick Powell) arrives in a small Ohio town where Richard Fulton has just been lynched. The chief of police tells Sheridan he confessed to killing sweet old Mrs. Winslow and the town went wild. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S3E21-The Wild Bunch* (1955) | S3E21-The Wild Bunch: On the way home from their honeymoon, a bride confesses two things to her groom: She's wealthy and has three teenage children plus a dog waiting for them at her home. He soon learns that they're a wild bunch in need of taming. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S3E22-Tusitala* (1955) | S3E22-Tusitala: Robert Louis Stevenson, near the end of his life, mediates between two Samoan tribes to prevent war. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S3E24-Eddie's Place* (1955) | S3E24-Eddie's Place: Ellen is hitchhiking. A nice guy, Eddie, picks her up and quickly realizes she's just out of the state prison. He befriends her and gives her a job but there is a dark side to Eddie yet to be seen. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S3E28-The Collar* (1955) | S3E28-The Collar: A priest is held captive by Indians and later begs for their lives to be spared. David Niven, Barton MacLane. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S3E31-The House Always Wins* (1955) | S3E31-The House Always Wins: Although it seems to be just another night in his gambling casino, Willie Dante runs into an old flame who reveals that the party she's with want to rob the place. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S3E32-Uncle Fred Flits By* (1955) | S3E32-Uncle Fred Flits By: Uncle Fred descends upon a suburban home, completely disrupts the lives of the family by his eccentric behaviour, and brings two young lovers together. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S3E33-Alias Mr. Hepp* (1955) | S3E33-Alias Mr. Hepp: Frank Hepp has made his career charming rich, unhappy women out of their fortunes. His parole officer orders him to avoid all women, but he can't help himself when a single wealthy woman moves in next door. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S3E34-Trudy* (1955) | S3E34-Trudy: Trudy believes she gets whatever she wants, and she involves several friends in her wish to be married. No one has ever seen her fiance, and they think he may be just a wish. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S3E35-Broken Journey* (1955) | S3E35-Broken Journey: David Niven is an amiable safe-cracker who devises an ingenious but simple way of escaping from custody. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S3E36-The Executioner* (1955) | S3E36-The Executioner: A complex web of deception is revealed during the investigation of the assassination of a police official. In a foreign country during the Cold War, an American doctor is accused of being a spy and targeted for murder. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E1-The Firing Squad* (1955) | S4E1-The Firing Squad: In the Australian Army in North Africa in WW2, a military deserter is ordered executed, for a murder he probably did not commit. Disgraced Captain Adams is ordered to lead the firing squad, in exchange for restoration of his own honor. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E2-Face of Danger* (1955) | A reporter meets with a 100-year-old woman to ask about her life in the Old West. Her family keeps insisting she lived an upright and charming life in those frontier days, but she remembers the torrid affair she had with notorious outlaw Laramie Cole. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E3-Let The Chips Fall* (1955) | S4E3-Let The Chips Fall: A reformed card sharp is recruited to unmask a suspected poker cheat among a group of wealthy gamblers. He finds it difficult to be impartial when the suspect enthusiastically befriends him. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E4-Full Circle* (1955) | S4E4-Full Circle: A particularly bad review causes a Broadway actress to scheme to humiliate the drama critic. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E5-A Spray Of Bullets* (1955) | S4E5-A Spray Of Bullets: A former sheriff, Will Sonnett, known for his fast draw shows up in Mesa to see an optometrist; he's become nearsighted and badly needs glasses. Also in town is a punk gunfighter who wants to make a name for himself. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E12-Dark Meeting* (1956) | S4E12-Dark Meeting: Billie hires an odd man as the new pin boy at her bowling alley, but quickly fires him because of his violent outbursts. Only then does she learn he's a murderous psycho who has escaped from prison. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E13-Magic Night* (1956) | S4E13-Magic Night: Upset that his years of service for the company are unappreciated, Henri treats himself to a night on the town, on the company's dime. He then comes to his senses, distraught that his embezzlement will be discovered. Charles Boyer. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E15-High Stakes* (1956) | S4E15-High Stakes: An employee catches attractive Mrs. Raymond making a pass at Willie, then Mr. Raymond comes to the club with a gun to get even. Willie shoots him in self defense, but Willie is framed when Mr. Raymond's gun disappears. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E16-The Listener* (1956) | S4E16-The Listener: Sheila and her brother engineer a gas leak to kill her husband so they can split the insurance money. Overhearing the plot is the husband's invalid father, but it's no concern because he can't speak or write. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E21-Red Wine* (1956) | S4E21-Red Wine: David Niven plays a detective who goes to Borneo to find an American accused of murder. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E22-To Die At Midnight* (1956) | S4E22-To Die At Midnight: A prison warden desperately tries to prove that a man scheduled for execution is innocent. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E23-Desert Encounter* (1956) | A playwright driving to Los Angeles gives a lift to a young woman heading to her father's ranch. Upon arriving, he's locked up and expected to marry the girl or be killed. The writer's unwittingly being used as a stand-in for the man she's being fooling around with. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E26-Autumn Carousel* (1956) | S4E26-Autumn Carousel: Steve is a man who writes terrible TV shows, and who meets a young girl named Jill on a train. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E28-Touch And Go* (1956) | S4E28-Touch And Go: Ted attacks old enemy Walter in a fit of rage. Stunned at the realization that Walter is dead, he hears a woman on the phone who overheard their conversation. Ted needs to find this woman and keep her from telling the police anything. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E31-The Other Room* (1956) | S4E31-The Other Room: A teacher wanting to leave his unfulfilling job needs money to write the book he's dreamed of. A stranger enters and makes an unusual offer: $10,000 to take a physical for a dying man so he can get life insurance for his widow-to-be. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E32-One Forty-Two* (1956) | S4E32-One Forty-Two: Ruthless dictator Mendoza summons a priest when 300,000 people in his country announce that they will pray for him to die at 1:42 that day. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E34-Watch The Sunset* (1956) | S4E34-Watch The Sunset: Philip Benton is entertaining thoughts of moving on from his wife, who has been in a sanitarium for five years. Just as he is starting a new relationship with his secretary, he receives news that his wife is better and will be released. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E37-The Stacked Deck* (1956) | S4E37-The Stacked Deck: Fresh out of prison, blackmailer Gus Anderson intends to use Willie's casino to launder his victims' money. To insure his cooperation, Gus' thugs are holding one of Willie's waiters hostage. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E38-Distinguished Service* (1956) | S4E38-Distinguished Service: More interested in his career than in his duty as a physician, a noted doctor intentionally misdiagnoses a patient in an Asian city so he could get back to the U.S. and accept a major award. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E40-The Stand-In* (1956) | S4E40-The Stand-In: Actress Grace Markham's job consists of being the stand-in for movie star Marion Clayton. Unable to accept that she's supremely untalented, Grace instead becomes embittered and blames the leading lady's popularity for her own dead-end career. | |
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Four Star Playhouse: S4E47-The Direct Approach* (1955) | A large state-decreed construction project overwhelms a small rural town that is dominated by a gruff but soft-hearted old soldier. His niece is young and craves romance, and finds it in the construction foreman, who's very much at odds with the townsfolk and especially a man that fancies himself as her boyfriend. |
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