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The Playwright
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars - S2 - E16
A man juggles his life in pursuit of the things he wants to do.
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars: Season 2 - 52 Episode s
2x1 - Homecoming
September 5, 1952
An ex-athlete can't face his own aging until he meets a woman who refuses to change.
2x2 - Marriage of Lit-Lit
September 12, 1952
A general store manager at a Canadian outpost marries an Indian girl named Lit-Lit. Her conniving father, in an attempt to shake down his new son-in-law, tries to get his daughter to leave her new husband until he comes through with more supplies and loot. The old man's plans go awry because the girl has fallen in love.
2x3 - I Want to be a Movie Star
September 19, 1952
A father complains about his daughter's movie magazines -- until he's discovered by a talent scout.
2x4 - The Trial
September 26, 1952
A gold miner's greed makes him murder his partners.
2x5 - Come What May
October 3, 1952
A man learns too late that a gun is a poor problem solver.
2x6 - Trouble on Pier 12
October 10, 1952
When Captain Torras is accused of double murder and his life is threatened, he hires professional bodyguard Mike Grover to protect him.
2x7 - This Plane for Hire
October 17, 1952
The adventure-romance of a Mexican Al Capone.
2x8 - Drawing Room A
October 24, 1952
An attractive lady find herself on a train with a case of amnesia. A psychiatrist, also traveling, agrees to assist the woman with her memory loss and determine the cause.
2x9 - Enchanted Evening
October 31, 1952
A family's happy life gets complicated when the kids have lost theater tickets that belonged to their dad's boss.
2x10 - Tango
November 7, 1952
A night club affair winds up in intrigue and mystery.
2x11 - The House of Pride
November 14, 1952
A young bride learns that not everything in the tropics is paradise.
2x12 - Pussyfootin' Rocks
November 21, 1952
A masked band of desperadoes smuggles illegal aliens into the U.S. Each carries a piece of camouflage-painted tarp to crouch under when threatened with discovery. The Ripplehissians dispatch the gullible aliens into a deep well, A lawman has to thwart the gang, led by his identical twin brother.
2x13 - Barrow Street
November 28, 1952
A jilted girl settles an old score in an unusual and poignant fashion.
2x14 - Mr. Thayer
December 5, 1952
On her first job, a girl meets a seedy and serene gentleman to whom the ordinary rules mean nothing.
2x15 - The White Cream Pitcher
December 12, 1952
After 20 years of marriage, a couple bent on divorce turn to their pastor to help them divide their possessions.
2x16 - The Playwright
December 19, 1952
A man juggles his life in pursuit of the things he wants to do.
2x17 - A String of Beads
December 26, 1952
A governess for a wealthy family becomes the object of affection from elderly Count Borselli.
2x18 - Jenny
January 2, 1953
A single mother, bored with her life, takes part in a play where she meets a widower.
2x19 - The Unopened Letter
January 9, 1953
A woman receives a letter from the man she loves but does not open it for thirty-five years.
2x20 - High on the Gallows
January 16, 1953
A Hollywood movie producer falls for an ambitious starlet and almost wrecks his career.
2x21 - Guardians of the Clock
January 23, 1953
Jonathan Bigby, an elderly clock keeper, is forcibly retired by his company. Bigby decides to exact an unusual revenge but then finds himself the victim of a larcenous criminal.
2x22 - Point of Honor
January 30, 1953
After a revolution sweeps his country, a police officer finds himself belonging to the wrong party.
2x23 - Manhattan Robin Hood
February 6, 1953
A reporter investigates by posing as a high-school basketball coach to stop a raffle gambling racket and finds a judge also on the take.
2x24 - Mr. Greentree and Friend
February 13, 1953
A lonely college professor strikes up a friendship with Jackie, a lion who has run away from the circus.
2x25 - The Devil's Other Name
February 20, 1953
Steve Jordan kills his wife, Marietta and it looks like the perfect crime to pave the way for him to wed wealthy Helen but Steve doesn't count on Marietta's brother, Russ.
2x26 - Girl of My Dreams
February 27, 1953
A married man falls in love with another woman at first glance.
2x27 - Big Jim's Boy
March 6, 1953
A man returning from military service wants to become a doctor. He needs money for his education, and as much as he hates to enter into his father's field of expertise as a boxer he finds himself entering the ring.
2x28 - Nineteen Rue Marie
March 13, 1953
An American finds himself in the Paris home of a doctor, unaware of who he is or how he got there. His one daily visitor is Celeste who, he's told, he once loved. Armed with only the address of the bakery that makes the cakes Celeste brings him, he escapes the doctor's home and goes out to try and remember his life.
2x29 - Parent's Weekend
March 20, 1953
A woman finds out that the key to youth is to act her age.
2x30 - Happy Ending
March 27, 1953
An author lives in Copenhagen with his wife and daughter. He refuses to alter his stories to happily-ever-after endings.
2x31 - The Governess
April 3, 1953
Quite sentimental story of an old woman looking back on her life as a governess. Though now she's seemingly been forgotten by her past charges, the deep feelings this woman felt for her "children" never will.
2x32 - The Mirror
April 10, 1953
When a man's past is revealed his self-assurance is broken.
2x33 - Papa Goes to the Ball
April 17, 1963
A man takes his daughter to a school dance and puts on an exhibition that makes him the "beau" of the ball.
2x34 - Allen of Harper
April 24, 1953
A professor is saved from early retirement by a group of students.
2x35 - Medicine Woman
May 1, 1953
Smug Sam Bentley, a builder of high rise construction projects, is inconvenienced by a doctor's parked car. He decides to give him a piece of his mind, only to find the doctor is a lady. Instead of an argument, they get romantic. Things go well until one of her patients is hurt at one of his work sites.
2x36 - The Copper Ring
May 8, 1953
Dr. Gunther is growing old and irritable, but one evening he dreams of an Egyptian copper ring which brings happiness to all who wear it. And he slips it on.
2x37 - Vacation for Ginny
May 15, 1953
A mousy clerk at a travel agency wins a vacation and finds herself being pursued by no less than two suitors.
2x38 - Pursuit
May 22, 1953
A talented musician loses an arm in a hunting accident.
2x39 - The Girl that I Married
May 29, 1953
An Army major falls for a French woman and a Red Cross Worker.
2x40 - Twenty-Two Sycamore Road
June 5, 1953
A woman feels she is being taken for granted by her construction worker husband.
2x41 - The Widow Makes Three
June 12, 1953
A crime commission looks for three missing witnesses who can put the finger on a waterfront racketeer.
2x42 - Operation Riviera
June 19, 1953
Comedy about a GI on a ten day furlough on the isle of Capri.
2x43 - The Ledge
June 26, 1953
A young artist who's come to the big city loses heart when he experiences vision problems. Despite reassurance from his doctor that his eyes will improve, he becomes disheartened and climbs out onto a window ledge. The doctor, a cop, and a young woman who knows his case all work to coax him back inside.
2x44 - Richard and the Lion
July 3, 1953
A young husband feels neglected because his wife pays too much attention to her pets, so he gets one of this own - a lion.
2x45 - Storm Warnings
July 10, 1953
Wanda is married to one of the operators of a small Alaskan cargo airline. She sends a note to her husband's partner, Vic, suggesting a rendezvous. When the letter goes missing, Vic is convinced his partner knows about their affair and feeding him deadly landing instructions via radio during a storm.
2x46 - The Journey
July 17, 1953
A woman who is considerably younger than her husband is bored with their uneventful like in Costa Rica.
2x47 - Knave of Hearts
July 24, 1953
Gambler Steve returns to marry Laura only to find she is to marry homesteader, Johnny. Laura's father, rancher Warren, disapproves of both men and, with hired gun Dineen, aims to eliminate both.
2x48 - The Doctor Goes Home
July 31, 1953
A high society doctor finds great happiness in treating the poor.
2x49 - Simplon Express
August 7, 1953
An incompetent detective bumbles his way thru danger and intrigue
2x50 - Miracle in the Night
August 14, 1953
A wealthy woman is afraid to go out alone.
2x51 - Sheila
August 21, 1953
A man's attempts to collect his aunt's inheritance are foiled by a cat named Sheila.
2x52 - Two Loves Have I
August 28, 1953
After the death of her husband in the early years of World War II, a newspaper reporter throws herself into helping refugees from the Nazi invasion in wartime Lisbon.