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Playhouse 90 : Season 3
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Air date: 25 Sep '58 - 38 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 (38)
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1. The Plot to Kill Stalin
25 Sep '58In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with anti-Semitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.
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2. Days of Wine and Roses
02 Oct '58An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
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3. The Time of Your Life
09 Oct '58William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the characters drift in and out of the bar and each other's lives, giving voice to Saroyan's philosophies as they randomly comment about the impending world war, the beauty of art, and traditional notions of good and evil.
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4. The Long March
16 Oct '58
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5. Shadows Tremble
23 Oct '58An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.
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6. Word from a Sealed-Off Box
30 Oct '58A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.
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7. Heart of Darkness
06 Nov '58A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
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8. Old Man
20 Nov '58To fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts.
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9. The Return of Ansel Gibbs
27 Nov '58After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.
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10. Free Weekend
04 Dec '58
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11. Seven Against the Wall
11 Dec '58The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.
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12. The Nutcracker
25 Dec '58This telecast of George Balanchine's famous production was broadcast only four years after it was premiered by the New York City Ballet. This was the only episode of the series televised in color.
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13. Face of a Hero
01 Jan '59
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14. The Wings of the Dove
08 Jan '59An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.
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15. The Blue Men
15 Jan '59
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16. The Velvet Alley
22 Jan '59Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.
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17. A Quiet Game of Cards
29 Jan '59A few friends meet each weekend for a quiet game of cards. But they're bored with poker and, in trying to find another diversion, gradually find themselves plotting a hypothetical murder. It is hypothetical, isn't it?
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18. Child of Our Time
05 Feb '59War deprives Tanguy of his childhood. When his mother returns to Spain to oppose the Franco regime, he is left in Nazi-occupied Marseilles, France.
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19. The Second Man
12 Feb '59
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20. The Raider
19 Feb '59A corporate raider plans a hostile takeover. To stall him, pressure is put on a scientist to rush through a new type of engine before all necessary tests have been completed.
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21. The Ding-A-Ling Girl
26 Feb '59A housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her.
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22. Made in Japan
05 Mar '59A young soldier in occupied Japan after World War II falls in love with a lovely Japanese girl, but is horrified about what his prejudiced family in Philadelphia will think if he takes her home with him.
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23. For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1
12 Mar '59During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
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24. For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2
19 Mar '59The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.
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25. A Trip to Paradise
26 Mar '59
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