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Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s were usually hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual, a weekly series of hour-and-a-half dramas rather than 60-minute plays. Playhouse 90 began as a pitch by Frank Stanton—the formidable, forward-thinking right-hand man to CBS chairman William S. Paley—during a brainstorming session for program ideas. The project was ultimately developed by Hubbell Robinson, a CBS vice president who received no screen credit on Playhouse 90 but is often described as its creator.

Playhouse 90 Season 3

September. 25,1958
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Playhouse 90

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Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s were usually hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual, a weekly series of hour-and-a-half dramas rather than 60-minute plays. Playhouse 90 began as a pitch by Frank Stanton—the formidable, forward-thinking right-hand man to CBS chairman William S. Paley—during a brainstorming session for program ideas. The project was ultimately developed by Hubbell Robinson, a CBS vice president who received no screen credit on Playhouse 90 but is often described as its creator.

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Playhouse 90 Season 3 Full Episode Guide

Episode 38 - The Second Happiest Day
Episode 37 - Dark as the Night
First Aired: June. 18,1959

A British politician finds himself open to blackmail because of the indiscretion of his American wife.

Episode 36 - Project Immortality
First Aired: June. 11,1959

Key defense scientist Doner has cancer. Schramm is assigned to code Doner's thinking into a computer. He gets to know him as a friend, a husband and father. The project is successful, but he now knows identity is not programmable.

Episode 35 - The Killers of Mussolini
First Aired: June. 04,1959

As the Salo Republic crumbles around him, Mussolini, along with his mistress and several of his ministers flee with retreating Nazi soldiers, but are caught at the town of Dongo by red partisans. All are brutally executed without trial.

Episode 33 - Out of Dust
Episode 31 - Diary of a Nurse
First Aired: May. 07,1959

The daily emergencies and stresses of a major city's hospital ward as seen through the eyes of nurse Gail Lucas.

Episode 30 - Dark December
First Aired: April. 30,1959

During World War II, an army doctor struggles to convert a Franciscan monastery into a field hospital.

Episode 28 - Judgment at Nuremberg
First Aired: April. 16,1959

In the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice.

Episode 24 - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2
Episode 23 - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1
First Aired: March. 12,1959

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.

Episode 22 - Made in Japan
First Aired: March. 05,1959

A young soldier in occupied Japan after World War II falls in love with a lovely Japanese girl, but is horrified about what his prejudiced family in Philadelphia will think if he takes her home with him.

Episode 21 - The Ding-A-Ling Girl
First Aired: February. 26,1959

A housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her.

Episode 20 - The Raider
First Aired: February. 19,1959

A corporate raider plans a hostile takeover. To stall him, pressure is put on a scientist to rush through a new type of engine before all necessary tests have been completed.

Episode 18 - Child of Our Time
First Aired: February. 05,1959

War deprives Tanguy of his childhood. When his mother returns to Spain to oppose the Franco regime, he is left in Nazi-occupied Marseilles, France.

Episode 17 - A Quiet Game of Cards
First Aired: January. 29,1959

A few friends meet each weekend for a quiet game of cards. But they're bored with poker and, in trying to find another diversion, gradually find themselves plotting a hypothetical murder. It is hypothetical, isn't it?

Episode 16 - The Velvet Alley
First Aired: January. 22,1959

Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.

Episode 14 - The Wings of the Dove
First Aired: January. 08,1959

An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.

Episode 12 - The Nutcracker
First Aired: December. 25,1958

This telecast of George Balanchine's famous production was broadcast only four years after it was premiered by the New York City Ballet. This was the only episode of the series televised in color.

Episode 11 - Seven Against the Wall
Episode 9 - The Return of Ansel Gibbs
Episode 8 - Old Man
Episode 7 - Heart of Darkness
First Aired: November. 06,1958

A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.

Episode 6 - Word from a Sealed-Off Box
Episode 5 - Shadows Tremble
First Aired: October. 23,1958

An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.

Episode 3 - The Time of Your Life
First Aired: October. 09,1958

William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the characters drift in and out of the bar and each other's lives, giving voice to Saroyan's philosophies as they randomly comment about the impending world war, the beauty of art, and traditional notions of good and evil.

Episode 2 - Days of Wine and Roses
First Aired: October. 02,1958

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

Episode 1 - The Plot to Kill Stalin
First Aired: September. 25,1958

In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with anti-Semitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.

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