Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

Season 8 1958 - 1959

  • 1958-09-27T01:30:00Z on CBS
  • 30m
  • 18h (36 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama, Comedy
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.

36 episodes

Season Premiere

1958-09-27T01:30:00Z

8x01 A Thing to Fight For

Season Premiere

8x01 A Thing to Fight For

  • 1958-09-27T01:30:00Z30m

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

8x02 The Best House in the Valley

  • 1958-10-04T01:30:00Z30m

1958-10-11T01:30:00Z

8x03 The Hasty Hanging

8x03 The Hasty Hanging

  • 1958-10-11T01:30:00Z30m

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

1958-10-18T01:30:00Z

8x04 The Four

8x04 The Four

  • 1958-10-18T01:30:00Z30m

1958-10-25T01:30:00Z

8x05 The Trouble With Ruth

8x05 The Trouble With Ruth

  • 1958-10-25T01:30:00Z30m

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.

1958-11-01T02:30:00Z

8x06 The Connoisseur

8x06 The Connoisseur

  • 1958-11-01T02:30:00Z30m

1958-11-08T02:30:00Z

8x07 False Impression

8x07 False Impression

  • 1958-11-08T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1958-11-15T02:30:00Z

8x08 A Game of Hate

8x08 A Game of Hate

  • 1958-11-15T02:30:00Z30m

1958-11-22T02:30:00Z

8x09 Last Edition

8x09 Last Edition

  • 1958-11-22T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1958-11-29T02:30:00Z

8x10 Coney Island Winter

8x10 Coney Island Winter

  • 1958-11-29T02:30:00Z30m

1958-12-06T02:30:00Z

8x11 Third Son

8x11 Third Son

  • 1958-12-06T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1958-12-13T02:30:00Z

8x12 Drive a Desert Road

8x12 Drive a Desert Road

  • 1958-12-13T02:30:00Z30m

1958-12-20T02:30:00Z

8x13 No Answer

8x13 No Answer

  • 1958-12-20T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1958-12-27T02:30:00Z

8x14 Small Wonder

8x14 Small Wonder

  • 1958-12-27T02:30:00Z30m

1959-01-03T02:30:00Z

8x15 A Fistful of Love

8x15 A Fistful of Love

  • 1959-01-03T02:30:00Z30m

Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.

1959-01-10T02:30:00Z

8x16 The Deadly Guest

8x16 The Deadly Guest

  • 1959-01-10T02:30:00Z30m

1959-01-17T02:30:00Z

8x17 You Can't Win 'Em All

8x17 You Can't Win 'Em All

  • 1959-01-17T02:30:00Z30m

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

1959-01-31T02:30:00Z

8x18 And Practically Strangers

8x18 And Practically Strangers

  • 1959-01-31T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1959-02-07T02:30:00Z

8x19 Death Trap

8x19 Death Trap

  • 1959-02-07T02:30:00Z30m

8x20 The Man Who Had No Friends

  • 1959-02-14T02:30:00Z30m

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.

1959-02-21T02:30:00Z

8x21 Various Temptations

8x21 Various Temptations

  • 1959-02-21T02:30:00Z30m

1959-02-28T02:30:00Z

8x22 On the Brink

8x22 On the Brink

  • 1959-02-28T02:30:00Z30m

Story of an intense hatred between father and son.

1959-03-07T02:30:00Z

8x23 Stand-In for Murder

8x23 Stand-In for Murder

  • 1959-03-07T02:30:00Z30m

1959-03-14T02:30:00Z

8x24 Ivy League

8x24 Ivy League

  • 1959-03-14T02:30:00Z30m

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

1959-03-21T02:30:00Z

8x25 Frederick

8x25 Frederick

  • 1959-03-21T02:30:00Z30m

1959-03-28T02:30:00Z

8x26 The Salted Mine

8x26 The Salted Mine

  • 1959-03-28T02:30:00Z30m

In the Old West, a beautiful mine owner hires a detective to discover if she has been swindled when she bought a mine.

1959-04-04T02:30:00Z

8x27 The Dreamer

8x27 The Dreamer

  • 1959-04-04T02:30:00Z30m

1959-04-18T02:30:00Z

8x28 This Will Do Nicely

8x28 This Will Do Nicely

  • 1959-04-18T02:30:00Z30m

8x29 The Case of the Two Sisters

  • 1959-05-02T01:30:00Z30m

1959-05-16T01:30:00Z

8x30 Boy on a Fence

8x30 Boy on a Fence

  • 1959-05-16T01:30:00Z30m

1959-05-30T01:30:00Z

8x31 Mirror, Mirror

8x31 Mirror, Mirror

  • 1959-05-30T01:30:00Z30m

1959-06-06T01:30:00Z

8x32 The Rumor

8x32 The Rumor

  • 1959-06-06T01:30:00Z30m

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.

1959-06-13T01:30:00Z

8x33 The Miss and the Missiles

8x33 The Miss and the Missiles

  • 1959-06-13T01:30:00Z30m

1959-06-20T01:30:00Z

8x34 Hostage

8x34 Hostage

  • 1959-06-20T01:30:00Z30m

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

1959-07-18T01:30:00Z

8x35 Cowboy Five Seven

8x35 Cowboy Five Seven

  • 1959-07-18T01:30:00Z30m

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.

Season Finale

1959-08-01T01:30:00Z

8x36 A Ballad to Die By

Season Finale

8x36 A Ballad to Die By

  • 1959-08-01T01:30:00Z30m

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.

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