Playhouse 90 (Staffel 3)

The Plot to Kill Stalin (Folge 1)

Sendedatum: 1958-09-25

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: 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.

Days of Wine and Roses (Folge 2)

Sendedatum: 1958-10-02

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: 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.

The Time of Your Life (Folge 3)

Sendedatum: 1958-10-09

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: 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.

The Long March (Folge 4)

Sendedatum: 1958-10-16

Laufzeit: 90 min

Shadows Tremble (Folge 5)

Sendedatum: 1958-10-23

Laufzeit: 90 min

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

Word from a Sealed-Off Box (Folge 6)

Sendedatum: 1958-10-30

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.

Heart of Darkness (Folge 7)

Sendedatum: 1958-11-06

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: 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.

Old Man (Folge 8)

Sendedatum: 1958-11-20

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: To fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts.

The Return of Ansel Gibbs (Folge 9)

Sendedatum: 1958-11-27

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.

Free Weekend (Folge 10)

Sendedatum: 1958-12-04

Laufzeit: 90 min

Seven Against the Wall (Folge 11)

Sendedatum: 1958-12-11

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.

The Nutcracker (Folge 12)

Sendedatum: 1958-12-25

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: 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.

Face of a Hero (Folge 13)

Sendedatum: 1959-01-01

Laufzeit: 90 min

The Wings of the Dove (Folge 14)

Sendedatum: 1959-01-08

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: 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.

The Blue Men (Folge 15)

Sendedatum: 1959-01-15

Laufzeit: 90 min

The Velvet Alley (Folge 16)

Sendedatum: 1959-01-22

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: 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.

A Quiet Game of Cards (Folge 17)

Sendedatum: 1959-01-29

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: 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?

Child of Our Time (Folge 18)

Sendedatum: 1959-02-05

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: 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.

The Second Man (Folge 19)

Sendedatum: 1959-02-12

Laufzeit: 90 min

The Raider (Folge 20)

Sendedatum: 1959-02-19

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: 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.

The Ding-A-Ling Girl (Folge 21)

Sendedatum: 1959-02-26

Laufzeit: 90 min

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

Made in Japan (Folge 22)

Sendedatum: 1959-03-05

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: 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.

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1 (Folge 23)

Sendedatum: 1959-03-12

Laufzeit: 90 min

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

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2 (Folge 24)

Sendedatum: 1959-03-19

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.

A Trip to Paradise (Folge 25)

Sendedatum: 1959-03-26

Laufzeit: 90 min

In Lonely Expectation (Folge 26)

Sendedatum: 1959-04-02

Laufzeit: 90 min

The Day Before Atlanta (Folge 27)

Sendedatum: 1959-04-09

Laufzeit: 90 min

Judgment at Nuremberg (Folge 28)

Autor: Abby Mann

Sendedatum: 1959-04-16

Laufzeit: 90 min

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

A Corner of the Garden (Folge 29)

Sendedatum: 1959-04-23

Laufzeit: 90 min

Dark December (Folge 30)

Sendedatum: 1959-04-30

Laufzeit: 90 min

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

Diary of a Nurse (Folge 31)

Sendedatum: 1959-05-07

Laufzeit: 90 min

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

A Marriage of Strangers (Folge 32)

Sendedatum: 1959-05-14

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: Marry in haste, repent at leisure? Well, maybe.

Out of Dust (Folge 33)

Sendedatum: 1959-05-21

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: On a cattle drive across the prairie, the sons of a wealthy cattle baron plot his death.

The Rank and File (Folge 34) 9.0

Autor: Rod Serling

Sendedatum: 1959-05-28

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: A powerful union leader is interrogated by a Senate committee. Testifying before a Senate, William Kilcoyne tells the story of his career. He began as a factory worker and his shrewdness and ambition carried him up through the ranks to his present position as head of a large union.

The Killers of Mussolini (Folge 35)

Sendedatum: 1959-06-04

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: 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.

Project Immortality (Folge 36)

Sendedatum: 1959-06-11

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: 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.

Dark as the Night (Folge 37)

Sendedatum: 1959-06-18

Laufzeit: 90 min

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

The Second Happiest Day (Folge 38)

Sendedatum: 1959-06-25

Laufzeit: 90 min

Übersicht: A man about to be married recalls the day his life changed permanently.