Schlitz Playhouse of Stars - Season 7
Season 7
Episodes
Three Dollar Bill
Eddie Martin is making lots of money at his job and he's happy. Not so his wife, who thinks Eddie should work behind a desk and wear a grey-flannel suit.
In an effort to help her husband get ahead, she throws a dinner party for the boss.
One Way Out
A man serving a long sentence finds his only ticket out is through parole and good behaviour.
Smarty
On a boat headed for Panama, a brash, overdressed girl tries desperatedly to make friends with other passengers.
But her outlandish appearance and loud voice make her an object of ridicule.
High Barrier
A wealthy, domineering wife schemes her husband's death.
Bitter Parting
After Prof. Rhys Lorenz is blinded in an accident, he becomes bitter at the world.
Dual Control
An American flier's plane crashes in the Chinese jungle. A lovely Eurasian girl joins the flier in an attempt to escape the Communists.
The Hole Card
Story of a genteel lady gambler who never loses her hunch that her bad luck is changing.
The Lonely Wizard
The true story of electrical engineer Charles Steinmetz. Even as a child in Germany, Charles was lonely, preferring to devise inventions rather than play with other children. As he grows to young manhood, Steinmetz applies his brilliant mind to problems of electrical engineering.
No Second Helping
A woman suspects her husband of having a romance with the young daughter of one of his former flames.
In an attempt to show her husband the error of his ways, the wife invites the girl out for a weekend.
Outlaw's Boots
A reformed outlaw has trouble going straight.
Neighbors
A home-loving man's marriage has become a dull routine until he becomes interested in a young widow who moves next door.
French Provincial
Mary Andrews, a big city columnist, in Paris on a combined business and pleasure trip, meets her old friend Dutch Morgan. Morgan is to visit the Nadeaus, a French family who aided him when his plane was shot down during World War 2. Since the family does not know that Morgan and his wife are separated, Mary promises to fulfill the role. An estranged American plans to visit a French family who protected him during World War II However, he lacks the nerve to face them without the wife they heard him talk so much about. Complications follow when Mary Andrews, an American newspaperwoman in Paris, volunteers to substitute as his wife.
Rich Man, Poor Man
A humble peasant, simple and naive until he sells illegally a horde of antique statuettes to an unscrupulous dealer.
The new found wealth complicates his life and nearly destroys his marriage.
Pattern for Death
Bill Carter is a man who suspects that his present wife is still in love with her first husband allows his jealousy to threaten his marriage and ruin his life.
Guys Like O'Malley
Battle-hardened Sgt. O'Malley dedicates himself to the task of making a seasoned soldier of an irresponsible private.
Home Again
A trio of jewel thieves, two men and a woman, take refuge from the police in a small town where the girl was raised.
Tension mounts as the three strive to remain undetected while their attitude toward each other begins to change.
No Boat for Four Months
Arriving on the lonely French Island of Tuamota in the South Pacific in the late summer of 1939, an Army doctor discovers his medical school classmate and finds that he must help him conquer his addiction to morphine.
Heroes Never Grow Up
After he is presented with a citation for saving a child's life, Frankie Nevada is impressed with his role of hero.
When he becomes more concerned with his press clippings than with finding a job, his girlfriend as well as his friends turn against him.
East to the Moon
A trip to Japan by a businessman becomes a complicated love affair when his boss asks him to visit his Japanese wife and child whom he had left behind.
Man on a Rack
A clothing salesman lets a lady friend talk him out of using his customary high-pressure sales techniques. But his sales drop, and the boss is forced to take him off the road.
Two Lives Have I
After years as a hen-pecked husband, Hully Brown decides to leave his overbearing wife and make a new life for himself.
Night of the Stranger
After the death of his wife, John York decides to take a trip to help overcome his grief.
The Honor System
A father is worried that his son will be rejected by a top-rated college, an ex-convict resorts to blackmail to insure the boy's entrance.
Bluebeard's Seventh Wife
A disappointed suitor is accused of playing cop when he voices doubts about a former girlfriend's choice of a husband.
I Shot a Prowler
While her husband is away on an extended business trip, Vivian Braxton, a lonely housewife, becomes infatuated with another man, Johnny Kyper.
When Kyper threatens Vivian with exposure unless she gives him a large sum of money, the young woman searches frantically for a solution to her problem.
Papa Said No
Photographer Calvin Penny is interested in pretty Suzanne Stacey only as a model, but she thinks of Calvin as a prospective husband.
For that reason she agrees to pose for him. Only when Suzanne's irate father visits the studio does Calvin realize Suzanne's intentions.
Secrets of the Old Bailey
A Detective Superintendent of Scotland Yard is assigned the task of solving a baffling murder of an attractive London model.
A Contest of Ladies
A British movie star finds himself in a miserable situation: All he wants to do is rest, but he's forced to judge a beauty contest, and the participants don't give him a moment's peace!
The Kind Mr. Smith
A charming vagabond becomes implicated in an art swindle.
Penny Wise
A lower class working girl is afraid she won't be accepted by her husband's wealthy family.
The Town That Slept with Its Lights On
A young gardener is accused of terrorizing an entire town.
Lottery for Revenge
Revolutionists under the heel of a dictator are aided by an American newsman who becomes involved and lends a hand to help make the revolution a success.
Way of the West
Dr. John Carter, a rather starchy young physician from Boston, is on his way to San Francisco. When a frontier town is stricken by a smallpox epidemic, the doctor reluctantly joins forces with the lawless Belle Starr to rush aid to the stricken people.
You'll Have to Die Now
A rookie cop finds out that a veteran police lieutenant has been taking illegal payoff's from local criminals and threatens to turn him in.
Curfew at Midnight
A man on parole falls in love with a girl who has been seeing a hoodlum. The hoodlum warns the paroled man to stay away from the girl and when he refuses he schemes to make his rival violate his parole.
Long Distance
A wife tries to make a last-ditch phone call to save her husband from the electric chair.
False Alarm
Sid Devlin, a well-meaning cab driver in need of money, is persuaded by ruthless criminal Max Gebler to act as an accomplice in an armored-car-robbery. Gebler involves Devlin's wife to make sure he won't back out of the deal.
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