Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Season 2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Season 2 Full Episode Guide
After the death of her husband in the early years of World War II, a newspaper reporter throws herself into helping refugees from the Nazi invasion in wartime Lisbon.
A man's attempts to collect his aunt's inheritance are foiled by a cat named Sheila.
A wealthy woman is afraid to go out alone.
An incompetent detective bumbles his way thru danger and intrigue
A high society doctor finds great happiness in treating the poor.
Gambler Steve returns to marry Laura only to find she is to marry homesteader, Johnny. Laura's father, rancher Warren, disapproves of both men and, with hired gun Dineen, aims to eliminate both.
A woman who is considerably younger than her husband is bored with their uneventful like in Costa Rica.
Wanda is married to one of the operators of a small Alaskan cargo airline. She sends a note to her husband's partner, Vic, suggesting a rendezvous. When the letter goes missing, Vic is convinced his partner knows about their affair and feeding him deadly landing instructions via radio during a storm.
A young husband feels neglected because his wife pays too much attention to her pets, so he gets one of this own - a lion.
A young artist who's come to the big city loses heart when he experiences vision problems. Despite reassurance from his doctor that his eyes will improve, he becomes disheartened and climbs out onto a window ledge. The doctor, a cop, and a young woman who knows his case all work to coax him back inside.
Comedy about a GI on a ten day furlough on the isle of Capri.
A crime commission looks for three missing witnesses who can put the finger on a waterfront racketeer.
A woman feels she is being taken for granted by her construction worker husband.
An Army major falls for a French woman and a Red Cross Worker.
A talented musician loses an arm in a hunting accident.
A mousy clerk at a travel agency wins a vacation and finds herself being pursued by no less than two suitors.
Dr. Gunther is growing old and irritable, but one evening he dreams of an Egyptian copper ring which brings happiness to all who wear it. And he slips it on.
Smug Sam Bentley, a builder of high rise construction projects, is inconvenienced by a doctor's parked car. He decides to give him a piece of his mind, only to find the doctor is a lady. Instead of an argument, they get romantic. Things go well until one of her patients is hurt at one of his work sites.
A professor is saved from early retirement by a group of students.
A man takes his daughter to a school dance and puts on an exhibition that makes him the "beau" of the ball.
When a man's past is revealed his self-assurance is broken.
Quite sentimental story of an old woman looking back on her life as a governess. Though now she's seemingly been forgotten by her past charges, the deep feelings this woman felt for her "children" never will.
An author lives in Copenhagen with his wife and daughter. He refuses to alter his stories to happily-ever-after endings.
A woman finds out that the key to youth is to act her age.
An American finds himself in the Paris home of a doctor, unaware of who he is or how he got there. His one daily visitor is Celeste who, he's told, he once loved. Armed with only the address of the bakery that makes the cakes Celeste brings him, he escapes the doctor's home and goes out to try and remember his life.
A man returning from military service wants to become a doctor. He needs money for his education, and as much as he hates to enter into his father's field of expertise as a boxer he finds himself entering the ring.
A married man falls in love with another woman at first glance.
Steve Jordan kills his wife, Marietta and it looks like the perfect crime to pave the way for him to wed wealthy Helen but Steve doesn't count on Marietta's brother, Russ.
A lonely college professor strikes up a friendship with Jackie, a lion who has run away from the circus.
A reporter investigates by posing as a high-school basketball coach to stop a raffle gambling racket and finds a judge also on the take.
After a revolution sweeps his country, a police officer finds himself belonging to the wrong party.
Jonathan Bigby, an elderly clock keeper, is forcibly retired by his company. Bigby decides to exact an unusual revenge but then finds himself the victim of a larcenous criminal.
A Hollywood movie producer falls for an ambitious starlet and almost wrecks his career.
A woman receives a letter from the man she loves but does not open it for thirty-five years.
A single mother, bored with her life, takes part in a play where she meets a widower.
A governess for a wealthy family becomes the object of affection from elderly Count Borselli.
A man juggles his life in pursuit of the things he wants to do.
After 20 years of marriage, a couple bent on divorce turn to their pastor to help them divide their possessions.
On her first job, a girl meets a seedy and serene gentleman to whom the ordinary rules mean nothing.
A jilted girl settles an old score in an unusual and poignant fashion.
A masked band of desperadoes smuggles illegal aliens into the U.S. Each carries a piece of camouflage-painted tarp to crouch under when threatened with discovery. The Ripplehissians dispatch the gullible aliens into a deep well, A lawman has to thwart the gang, led by his identical twin brother.
A young bride learns that not everything in the tropics is paradise.
A night club affair winds up in intrigue and mystery.
A family's happy life gets complicated when the kids have lost theater tickets that belonged to their dad's boss.
An attractive lady find herself on a train with a case of amnesia. A psychiatrist, also traveling, agrees to assist the woman with her memory loss and determine the cause.
The adventure-romance of a Mexican Al Capone.
When Captain Torras is accused of double murder and his life is threatened, he hires professional bodyguard Mike Grover to protect him.
A man learns too late that a gun is a poor problem solver.
A gold miner's greed makes him murder his partners.
A father complains about his daughter's movie magazines -- until he's discovered by a talent scout.
A general store manager at a Canadian outpost marries an Indian girl named Lit-Lit. Her conniving father, in an attempt to shake down his new son-in-law, tries to get his daughter to leave her new husband until he comes through with more supplies and loot. The old man's plans go awry because the girl has fallen in love.
An ex-athlete can't face his own aging until he meets a woman who refuses to change.