Playhouse 90 - Season 1

1. Forbidden Area

Aired: 10/4/1956

Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will anyone believe him?

2. Requiem for a Heavyweight

Aired: 10/11/1956

An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is exploited by his manager, despite the efforts of a compassionate young woman who tries to help him recover his self-respect.

3. Sizeman and Son

Aired: 10/18/1956

The happy atmosphere in Mr. Sizeman's factory is disrupted by an argumentative newcomer - his son.

4. Rendezvous in Black

Aired: 10/25/1956

A woman is inexplicably killed on a street-corner. What has this to do with other deaths around the city?

5. The Country Husband

Aired: 11/1/1956

After a near-death experience, a businessman starts to re-think his life, and wonders about leaving his wife.

6. The Big Slide

Aired: 11/8/1956

A vaudeville comic becomes a silent film star.

7. Heritage of Anger

Aired: 11/15/1956

A wealthy industrialist has trouble with his sons.

8. Eloise

Aired: 11/22/1956

It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.

9. Confession

Aired: 11/29/1956

When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.

10. Made in Heaven

Aired: 12/6/1956

When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.

11. Sincerely, Willis Wade

Aired: 12/13/1956

A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.

12. The Family Nobody Wanted

Aired: 12/20/1956

A true story, it follows a pastor and his wife through forties beginning with one biological child, Donny. But the upheaval of the war years results in a number of mixed raced children that the Doss family adopt until they have 12 children.

13. Massacre at Sand Creek

Aired: 12/27/1956

An investigation into a massacre of Native Americans.

14. Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses

Aired: 1/3/1957

Some racetrack Johnnies are talking between races when one wonders if you can hypnotize a horse into thinking it's a champion. The idea sets in motion a series of hilarious events.

15. The Ninth Day

Aired: 1/10/1957

Events in the aftermath of World War Three.

16. So Soon to Die

Aired: 1/17/1957

Down on his luck, war hero Lionel Amblin contemplates committing a murder.

17. The Star Wagon

Aired: 1/24/1957

An inventor, pondering on how he might differently have arranged his life, invents a time machine and decides to make a few changes.

18. The Greer Case

Aired: 1/31/1957

When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

19. The Miracle Worker

Aired: 2/7/1957

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

20. The Comedian

Aired: 2/14/1957

Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than his. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, whom Sammy has hired as his assistant but whom he really uses as his whipping boy.

21. One Coat of White

Aired: 2/21/1957

A newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.

22. The Blackwell Story

Aired: 2/28/1957

In the 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell determines to become a doctor.

23. Invitation to a Gunfighter

Aired: 3/7/1957

A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter to drive him out of town. The townsfolk thought they had it bad until they handed the reigns over to the new terror. Pooling their money again, this time to hire Jeffers to get rid of Dancer.

24. The Last Tycoon

Aired: 3/14/1957

A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.

25. The Hostess with the Mostes'

Aired: 3/21/1957

The story of Perle Mesta, who became, first, a renowned society hostess, and then an ambassadress.

26. Where's Charley?

Aired: 3/28/1957

Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".

27. Clipper Ship

Aired: 4/4/1957

A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shipping magnate, and her growing love for a handsome young political prisoner who was scheduled to be put to death when the vessel reached its destination. Though unyielding at first, the ship's stern captain eventually helped the woman to make a clean getaway, with the condemned man in tow.

28. If You Knew Elizabeth

Aired: 4/11/1957

29. Three Men on a Horse

Aired: 4/18/1957

A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.

30. Four Women in Black

Aired: 4/25/1957

Four nuns, led by Sister Teresa, begin a treacherous journey across the Arizona desert in 1870. Their faith enables them to deal with the challenges of nature and the hostility of their fellow mankind.

31. Child of Trouble

Aired: 5/2/1957

32. Homeward Borne

Aired: 5/9/1957

Just after World War Two ends, an American woman takes in a Polish war orphan boy, a concentration camp survivor. But conflict arises when her husband, a returning Air Force bomber pilot, hates the boy and his psychological baggage.

33. The Helen Morgan Story

Aired: 5/16/1957

Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star of top rated shows and owning her own club. Also seen is her poor choices, such as her affair with a married man, her short marriage to a much younger man, a court fight over an adopted baby and her fatal descent into booze addiction.

34. Winter Dreams

Aired: 5/23/1957

35. Circle of the Day

Aired: 5/30/1957

On her tenth wedding anniversary (which is also her daughter's birthday), a wife begins to suspect her husband of unfaithfulness.

36. Without Incident

Aired: 6/6/1957

Captain Russell Bidlack, commander of a U.S. Cavalry unit in 1870, determines to complete a rescue mission through dangerous Indian territory. In the course of the mission, he rescues the wives of two slain traders and captures the Indian chief accused of the murders. When he returns to the fort, he's faced with a revolt among his own men.

37. Clash by Night

Aired: 6/13/1957

Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.

38. Ain't No Time for Glory

Aired: 6/20/1957

American soldiers must use stealth to take over a German command post in Normandy.

39. The Fabulous Irishman

Aired: 6/27/1957

Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.