Schlitz Playhouse of Stars - Season 8

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A Thing to Fight For

1 - A Thing to Fight For

Air Date: September 26, 1958

A peace-loving Civil War veteran seeks refuge from the violence of war as overseer on a Florida plantation.

The Best House in the Valley

2 - The Best House in the Valley

Air Date: October 3, 1958

The Hasty Hanging

3 - The Hasty Hanging

Air Date: October 10, 1958

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

The Four

4 - The Four

Air Date: October 17, 1958

The Trouble With Ruth

5 - The Trouble With Ruth

Air Date: 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.

The Connoisseur

6 - The Connoisseur

Air Date: October 31, 1958

False Impression

7 - False Impression

Air Date: November 7, 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.

A Game of Hate

8 - A Game of Hate

Air Date: November 14, 1958

Last Edition

9 - Last Edition

Air Date: 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.

Coney Island Winter

10 - Coney Island Winter

Air Date: November 28, 1958

Third Son

11 - Third Son

Air Date: December 5, 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.

Drive a Desert Road

12 - Drive a Desert Road

Air Date: December 12, 1958

No Answer

13 - No Answer

Air Date: 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.

Small Wonder

14 - Small Wonder

Air Date: December 26, 1958

A Fistful of Love

15 - A Fistful of Love

Air Date: January 2, 1959

Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.

The Deadly Guest

16 - The Deadly Guest

Air Date: January 9, 1959

You Can't Win 'Em All

17 - You Can't Win 'Em All

Air Date: January 16, 1959

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

And Practically Strangers

18 - And Practically Strangers

Air Date: 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.

Death Trap

19 - Death Trap

Air Date: February 6, 1959

The Man Who Had No Friends

20 - The Man Who Had No Friends

Air Date: 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.

Various Temptations

21 - Various Temptations

Air Date: February 20, 1959

On the Brink

22 - On the Brink

Air Date: February 27, 1959

Story of an intense hatred between father and son.

Stand-In for Murder

23 - Stand-In for Murder

Air Date: March 6, 1959

Ivy League

24 - Ivy League

Air Date: March 13, 1959

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

Frederick

25 - Frederick

Air Date: March 20, 1959

The Salted Mine

26 - The Salted Mine

Air Date: 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.

The Dreamer

27 - The Dreamer

Air Date: April 3, 1959

This Will Do Nicely

28 - This Will Do Nicely

Air Date: April 17, 1959

The Case of the Two Sisters

29 - The Case of the Two Sisters

Air Date: May 1, 1959

Boy on a Fence

30 - Boy on a Fence

Air Date: May 15, 1959

Mirror, Mirror

31 - Mirror, Mirror

Air Date: May 29, 1959

The Rumor

32 - The Rumor

Air Date: June 5, 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.

The Miss and the Missiles

33 - The Miss and the Missiles

Air Date: June 12, 1959

Hostage

34 - Hostage

Air Date: June 19, 1959

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

Cowboy Five Seven

35 - Cowboy Five Seven

Air Date: 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.

A Ballad to Die By

36 - A Ballad to Die By

Air Date: 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.