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Murder In Paradise
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars - S4 - E21
A couple's quiet South Seas island paradise life is disrupted by strangers with a tale of a man lost at sea.
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars: Season 4 - 55 Episode s
4x1 - The Secret
September 10, 1954
A Hollywood columnist solves the mysterious disappearance of a silent film star.
4x2 - Reunion at Steepler's Hill
September 17, 1954
Returning to his home town, a gunman (John Ireland) betrays an outlaw buddy to obtain reward money.
4x3 - The Pipe
September 24, 1954
A suspect in a diamond robbery cleverly outwits thieves who think he has the store.
4x4 - The Viking
October 1, 1954
This Travel Oz features the Boondooma Balladeers and Heritage Muster, a 5 day gathering of bush balladeers, musicians and poets, in a festival known appropriately as, the "spirit of the bush". The Two Tims take us to the Blue Mountains for a winter magic festival. Then celebrations to mark the discovery of Australia by white settlers. Travel to the Town of 1770 in Queensland.
4x5 - The Net Draws Tight
October 8, 1954
The honest proprietor of a roadside cafe tries to help both a wayward boy and his own brother, an escaped killer.
4x6 - Square Shootin'
October 15, 1954
A comedy about a tenderfoot in the Old West.
4x7 - The Best of Everything
October 22, 1954
A young man, greedy for wealth, resorts to murder to get it.
4x8 - The Sensation Club
October 29, 1954
The Sensation Club worships the unusual and the bizarre. What better thing for Garman to bring before his fellow sensation-seekers than a man he believes is being sought for murder by the police?
4x9 - No Rescue
November 5, 1954
A wanted Latin American jeopardizes his life to aid fellow passengers in a plane crash.
4x10 - Midnight Haul
November 12, 1954
A driver tries to find out why his trucks are being stolen
4x11 - The Long Trail
November 19, 1954
Texas Ranger Walden accepts the hospitality of an Oregon sheriff and his daughter while on the trail of a man wanted for murder. He learns his quarry, Sam Gates, is nearby and the sheriff agrees to help him fulfill the order of the law. Several locals ask the ranger to reconsider arresting Gates because he was only acting in self defense. Plus, he's now a family man, married to the sheriff's daughter.
4x12 - Mystery of Murder
November 26, 1954
On a second honeymoon with his wife, a judge gets a chance to test his theory that there is a criminal type that will not kill under any circumstances.
4x13 - Volturio Investigates
December 3, 1954
A debonair jewel thief discovers there's no honor among thieves.
4x14 - Spangal Island
December 10, 1954
A man in a small New England town is suspected of having something to do with the disappearance of his rival.
4x15 - Woman Expert
December 17, 1954
A detective uses his masculine charm to solve his cases. His method is to befriend the suspected murderer's sweetheart and gain her confidence.
4x16 - Day of Good News
December 24, 1954
A man moves from the big city to a small town and works for the local newspaper which only covers good news.
4x17 - The Dumbest Man in the Army
December 31, 1954
An Army misfit is ridiculed by his fellow soldiers when a prank backfires.
4x18 - The Cool One
January 7, 1955
Tom Novak (Stephen McNally) journeys to the Dakotas to find a wife and a ranch site. Although he finds them, another man asserts prior claim to both.
4x19 - Man Out of the Rain
January 14, 1955
Floods followed by a landslide find Mona Tyrrel trapped in her home with Zakka - a young man who is a complete stranger to her.
4x20 - Underground
January 21, 1955
Joe Tierney has had years of experience with the telephone company and its underground cable system. Some hoods decide to kidnap him and learn the location of a bank alarm.
4x21 - Murder In Paradise
January 28, 1955
A couple's quiet South Seas island paradise life is disrupted by strangers with a tale of a man lost at sea.
4x22 - The Last Pilot Schooner
February 4, 1955
A rookie reporter is assigned to cover the final voyage of a schooner and gets caught up in the drama when the ship begins to sink.
4x23 - The Schoolmarm
February 11, 1955
A Civil War veteran is eager to teach the ways of peace and democracy to the frontiersmen of the new state of Oregon.
4x24 - The Way to Freedom
February 18, 1955
An embezzler gets the chance to impersonate a Scotland Yard Officer. As such, he is assigned to search for a murderer.
4x25 - Fast Break
February 25, 1955
A former basketball player, once jailed for accepting a bribe, must move from one city to another as his reputation catches up with him.
4x26 - Fedar
March 4, 1955
In ancient Sicily, a sculptor is sentenced to be a galley slave for insulting a tyrant who rules the island.
4x27 - Visitor in the Night
March 11, 1955
An ambitious mayor has a tough time trying to explain what he was doing in the company of a gorgeous blonde on election eve, when his wife was away.
4x28 - Ride to the West
March 18, 1955
A gunslinger and his brother confront a crazed killer in a spooky Western ghost town.
4x29 - Log the Man Innocent
March 25, 1955
When a sea captain refuses to toss a man overboard because he is ill, the crew causes a mutiny and tosses both captain and sick man adrift in a boat.
4x30 - Tourists - Overnight
April 1, 1955
A niece is the traveling companion for her wealthy aunt and they stay overnight at a tourists' home and find themselves among gangsters.
4x31 - Mr. Ears
April 8, 1955
An elderly storekeeper keeps his young friend enthralled with tales of his days as an Indian fighter.
4x32 - O'Brien
April 15, 1955
Federal agent Sam Ireland is assigned to a lawless border town. Sam takes a room in a boarding house suspected of being the center of a human smuggling. The agent finds himself distracted by the fairer sex.
4x33 - Who's the Blonde?
April 22, 1955
Dollars disappear when a mysterious blonde appears at closing time in a bank. The teller is hard pressed to explain the discrepancy in the day's receipts.
4x34 - The Brute Next Door
April 29, 1955
A mild-mannered architect harbors a secret love of the more violent forms of sport. He gets his big chance when a boxer in need of a manager moves next door.
4x35 - The Unlighted Road
May 6, 1955
Young Jeff Latham stops at a roadside diner and ends up working there. After meeting a nice local girl, everything seems to be going his way. Things get complicated when he unwittingly gets involved with criminals working out of the diner.
4x36 - Too Many Nelsons
May 13, 1955
A western town is dominated by one family. When one of them is murdered, a stranger in town finds himself the object of a lynch mob.
4x37 - Sentence of Death
May 20, 1955
A girl witnesses the shooting of a druggist. But she doesn't go along with the identification of a suspect made by other witnesses.
4x38 - The Argonauts
May 27, 1955
After nearly 30 years of dull routine, a shipping clerk signs on with a ship as a sailor. But on the eve of embarkation, he meets up with more exciting fare in port.
4x39 - Visa for X
June 3, 1955
A member of the British Civil Service whose job it is to produce identity cards for the War Office, is tempted to use his skills for illegitimate purposes when his son becomes a fugitive.
4x40 - O'Connor and the Blue-Eyed Felon
June 10, 1955
A guest finally finds her way to O'Connor's insolvent fishing lodge in the High Sierras. But her car is flashy, her purse empty and her only luggage a revolver.
4x41 - A Mule for Santa Fe
June 17, 1955
A father and son need another mule so they can join the wagon train. But they come across criminals who want more than they can offer for the transaction.
4x42 - Splendid with Swords
June 24, 1955
The last of a line of famous fencers falls in love with a girl who scoffs at fencing.
4x43 - The Ordeal of Dr. Sutton
July 1, 1955
The romance of a nurse suffers a setback when a doctor turns down a chance to establish a private practice.
4x44 - Ambitious Cop
July 8, 1955
A policeman who wants to be a district attorney kills an old friend in a gun duel. He now has to reckon not only with the public, which thinks of him as a killer, but with angry mobsters.
4x45 - Meet Mr. Justice
July 15, 1955
A small town postmaster, storekeeper and justice of the peace has his hands full when a young eloping couple attempts to "borrow" gasoline from his locked pump.
4x46 - Visibility Zero
July 22, 1955
An aging senior airline pilot is about to be promoted to operations chief, but feels he is being "grounded" due to his age. When he makes his farewell flight he learns that things are changing.
4x47 - The Direct Approach
July 29, 1955
A large state-decreed construction project overwhelms a small rural town that is dominated by a gruff but soft-hearted old soldier. His niece is young and craves romance, and finds it in the construction foreman, who's very much at odds with the townsfolk and especially a man that fancies himself as her boyfriend.
4x48 - Too Late to Run
August 5, 1955
The owner of a roadside diner is falling for his new waitress, but his young assistant is suspicious of her. The report that a dangerous killer is in the vicinity changes the picture.
4x49 - On Leave
August 12, 1955
Pvt. Henri Baptiste, decorated French soldier of World War I, obtains a leave and visits his home village, only to find it devastated.
4x50 - Jury of One
August 19, 1955
A lawyer goes to a small Wyoming town in search of the heir to a strange legacy. Two claimants show up, each with verbal proof of his rightful claim, and this puts the lawyer in the role of a Solomon to decide which is the heir.
4x51 - The Case for the State
August 26, 1955
A young assistant district attorney suspects a trap has been baited for an indigent artist accused of stealing money from an art gallery.
4x52 - Three Months to Remember
September 2, 1955
An ex-GI suffering from amnesia returns to his home town in an attempt to regain both his memory and an inheritance.
4x53 - The Uninhibited Female
September 9, 1955
An efficiency expert on his first assignment and an outspoken secretary lock horns over how things are done.
4x54 - Wild Call
September 16, 1955
After working in a department store for forty years, a man decides to go on a sea voyage.
4x55 - The Quitter
September 23, 1955
Trainer Bradley Taylor enlists the aid of a mule to train a frisky harness-race horse.