Schlitz Playhouse of Stars - Season 8

1. A Thing to Fight For

Aired: 9/26/1958

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

2. The Best House in the Valley

Aired: 10/3/1958

3. The Hasty Hanging

Aired: 10/10/1958

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

4. The Four

Aired: 10/17/1958

5. The Trouble With Ruth

Aired: 10/24/1958

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.

6. The Connoisseur

Aired: 10/31/1958

7. False Impression

Aired: 11/7/1958

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.

8. A Game of Hate

Aired: 11/14/1958

9. Last Edition

Aired: 11/21/1958

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.

10. Coney Island Winter

Aired: 11/28/1958

11. Third Son

Aired: 12/5/1958

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.

12. Drive a Desert Road

Aired: 12/12/1958

13. No Answer

Aired: 12/19/1958

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.

14. Small Wonder

Aired: 12/26/1958

15. A Fistful of Love

Aired: 1/2/1959

Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.

16. The Deadly Guest

Aired: 1/9/1959

17. You Can't Win 'Em All

Aired: 1/16/1959

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

18. And Practically Strangers

Aired: 1/30/1959

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.

19. Death Trap

Aired: 2/6/1959

20. The Man Who Had No Friends

Aired: 2/13/1959

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.

21. Various Temptations

Aired: 2/20/1959

22. On the Brink

Aired: 2/27/1959

Story of an intense hatred between father and son.

23. Stand-In for Murder

Aired: 3/6/1959

24. Ivy League

Aired: 3/13/1959

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

25. Frederick

Aired: 3/20/1959

26. The Salted Mine

Aired: 3/27/1959

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

27. The Dreamer

Aired: 4/3/1959

28. This Will Do Nicely

Aired: 4/17/1959

29. The Case of the Two Sisters

Aired: 5/1/1959

30. Boy on a Fence

Aired: 5/15/1959

31. Mirror, Mirror

Aired: 5/29/1959

32. The Rumor

Aired: 6/5/1959

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.

33. The Miss and the Missiles

Aired: 6/12/1959

34. Hostage

Aired: 6/19/1959

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

35. Cowboy Five Seven

Aired: 7/17/1959

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.

36. A Ballad to Die By

Aired: 7/31/1959

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.