Playhouse 90
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.
Episodes
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Three conspirators plan the death of a South American head of state.
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Three different viewpoints of the same story - a kidnapping and its aftermath.
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A group of people gathered at a wealthy man's country home on a summer weekend engage in an exploration of their varied romantic entanglements.
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A journalist out to expose political corruption finds his family is in danger.
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In Australia, a landowner is arrested for murder - but where's the body?
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In the Civil War, a tunnel is dug under Confederate lines, and filled with explosives.
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The old people's home is a pretty miserable place - until the arrival of the mysterious Mr. Erwenter.
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The story of abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.
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A State Department official is required to leak a confidential document - which may have terrible repercussions.
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In Paris, a former soldier is alarmed when the girl he has fallen in love with demonstrates a rather naïve and romanticized attitude to war.
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Violence and brutality greet a French Army captain when he arrives in Algeria to assume command of a remote outpost. He is appalled by the savage massacre of an Algerian family by the Rebels. When the French take a prisoner who knows the names of Rebel leaders, the captain is told that torture is the only way to make him talk. Then the captain meets the prisoner - a handsome, intelligent teenage boy.
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Slow witted, and tired, Fentry leads a lonely life of grinding poverty in his sharecropper's shack until a sick, pregnant woman escaping her abusive husband comes there. He takes her in and cares for her, eventually falling in love with her.
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In the last days of World War II, two English airmen are captured by an ordinary German citizen, who, instead of handing them over to the authorities, keeps them prisoner in his cellar, neglecting to tell them when the war ends.
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Americans try to cope with the aftermath of a nuclear catastrophe.
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Patients at a mental hospital meet for a group therapy session.
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Determined to pay off his debts, Mark Twain sets off on a lecture tour.
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In the Warsaw ghetto, a Jewish man seeks revenge for the rape of his sister by a German soldier.
