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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Season 8

September. 26,1958

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

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 Season 8 Full Episode Guide

Episode 36 - A Ballad to Die By

First Aired: July. 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.

Episode 35 - Cowboy Five Seven

First Aired: July. 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.

Episode 34 - Hostage

First Aired: June. 19,1959

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

Episode 33 - The Miss and the Missiles

First Aired: June. 12,1959

Episode 32 - The Rumor

First Aired: June. 05,1959

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.

Episode 31 - Mirror, Mirror

First Aired: May. 29,1959

Episode 30 - Boy on a Fence

First Aired: May. 15,1959

Episode 29 - The Case of the Two Sisters

First Aired: May. 01,1959

Episode 28 - This Will Do Nicely

First Aired: April. 17,1959

Episode 27 - The Dreamer

First Aired: April. 03,1959

Episode 26 - The Salted Mine

First Aired: March. 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.

Episode 25 - Frederick

First Aired: March. 20,1959

Episode 24 - Ivy League

First Aired: March. 13,1959

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

Episode 23 - Stand-In for Murder

First Aired: March. 06,1959

Episode 22 - On the Brink

First Aired: February. 27,1959

Story of an intense hatred between father and son.

Episode 21 - Various Temptations

First Aired: February. 20,1959

Episode 20 - The Man Who Had No Friends

First Aired: February. 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.

Episode 19 - Death Trap

First Aired: February. 06,1959

Episode 18 - And Practically Strangers

First Aired: January. 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.

Episode 17 - You Can't Win 'Em All

First Aired: January. 16,1959

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

Episode 16 - The Deadly Guest

First Aired: January. 09,1959

Episode 15 - A Fistful of Love

First Aired: January. 02,1959

Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.

Episode 14 - Small Wonder

First Aired: December. 26,1958

Episode 13 - No Answer

First Aired: December. 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.

Episode 12 - Drive a Desert Road

First Aired: December. 12,1958

Episode 11 - Third Son

First Aired: December. 05,1958

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.

Episode 10 - Coney Island Winter

First Aired: November. 28,1958

Episode 9 - Last Edition

First Aired: November. 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.

Episode 8 - A Game of Hate

First Aired: November. 14,1958

Episode 7 - False Impression

First Aired: November. 07,1958

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.

Episode 6 - The Connoisseur

First Aired: October. 31,1958

Episode 5 - The Trouble With Ruth

First Aired: October. 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.

Episode 4 - The Four

First Aired: October. 17,1958

Episode 3 - The Hasty Hanging

First Aired: October. 10,1958

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

Episode 2 - The Best House in the Valley

First Aired: October. 03,1958

Episode 1 - A Thing to Fight For

First Aired: September. 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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