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Playhouse 90 : Season 1
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Air date: 04 Oct '56 - 39 episodesPlayhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s were usually hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual, a weekly series of hour-and-a-half dramas rather than 60-minute plays. Playhouse 90 began as a pitch by Frank Stanton—the formidable, forward-thinking right-hand man to CBS chairman William S. Paley—during a brainstorming session for program ideas. The project was ultimately developed by Hubbell Robinson, a CBS vice president who received no screen credit on Playhouse 90 but is often described as its creator.
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List of Episodes (39)
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1. Forbidden Area
04 Oct '56Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will anyone believe him?
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2. Requiem for a Heavyweight
11 Oct '56An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is exploited by his manager, despite the efforts of a compassionate young woman who tries to help him recover his self-respect.
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3. Sizeman and Son
18 Oct '56The happy atmosphere in Mr. Sizeman's factory is disrupted by an argumentative newcomer - his son.
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4. Rendezvous in Black
25 Oct '56A woman is inexplicably killed on a street-corner. What has this to do with other deaths around the city?
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5. The Country Husband
01 Nov '56After a near-death experience, a businessman starts to re-think his life, and wonders about leaving his wife.
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6. The Big Slide
08 Nov '56A vaudeville comic becomes a silent film star.
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7. Heritage of Anger
15 Nov '56A wealthy industrialist has trouble with his sons.
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8. Eloise
22 Nov '56It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.
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9. Confession
29 Nov '56When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.
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10. Made in Heaven
06 Dec '56When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.
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11. Sincerely, Willis Wade
13 Dec '56A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.
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12. The Family Nobody Wanted
20 Dec '56A true story, it follows a pastor and his wife through forties beginning with one biological child, Donny. But the upheaval of the war years results in a number of mixed raced children that the Doss family adopt until they have 12 children.
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13. Massacre at Sand Creek
27 Dec '56An investigation into a massacre of Native Americans.
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14. Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses
03 Jan '57Some racetrack Johnnies are talking between races when one wonders if you can hypnotize a horse into thinking it's a champion. The idea sets in motion a series of hilarious events.
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15. The Ninth Day
10 Jan '57Events in the aftermath of World War Three.
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16. So Soon to Die
17 Jan '57Down on his luck, war hero Lionel Amblin contemplates committing a murder.
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17. The Star Wagon
24 Jan '57An inventor, pondering on how he might differently have arranged his life, invents a time machine and decides to make a few changes.
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18. The Greer Case
31 Jan '57When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.
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19. The Miracle Worker
07 Feb '57The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
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20. The Comedian
14 Feb '57Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than his. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, whom Sammy has hired as his assistant but whom he really uses as his whipping boy.
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21. One Coat of White
21 Feb '57A newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.
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22. The Blackwell Story
28 Feb '57In the 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell determines to become a doctor.
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23. Invitation to a Gunfighter
07 Mar '57A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter to drive him out of town. The townsfolk thought they had it bad until they handed the reigns over to the new terror. Pooling their money again, this time to hire Jeffers to get rid of Dancer.
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24. The Last Tycoon
14 Mar '57A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.
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25. The Hostess with the Mostes'
21 Mar '57The story of Perle Mesta, who became, first, a renowned society hostess, and then an ambassadress.
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