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 (Temporada 3)
The Plot to Kill Stalin (Episodio 1)
Fecha de emisión: 1958-09-25
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: 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 (Episodio 2)
Fecha de emisión: 1958-10-02
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: 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 (Episodio 3)
Fecha de emisión: 1958-10-09
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: 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 (Episodio 4)
Fecha de emisión: 1958-10-16
Duración: 90 min
Shadows Tremble (Episodio 5)
Fecha de emisión: 1958-10-23
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.
Word from a Sealed-Off Box (Episodio 6)
Fecha de emisión: 1958-10-30
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.
Heart of Darkness (Episodio 7)
Fecha de emisión: 1958-11-06
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: 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 (Episodio 8)
Fecha de emisión: 1958-11-20
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: To fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts.
The Return of Ansel Gibbs (Episodio 9)
Fecha de emisión: 1958-11-27
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.
Free Weekend (Episodio 10)
Fecha de emisión: 1958-12-04
Duración: 90 min
Seven Against the Wall (Episodio 11)
Fecha de emisión: 1958-12-11
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.
The Nutcracker (Episodio 12)
Fecha de emisión: 1958-12-25
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: 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 (Episodio 13)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-01-01
Duración: 90 min
The Wings of the Dove (Episodio 14)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-01-08
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: 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 (Episodio 15)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-01-15
Duración: 90 min
The Velvet Alley (Episodio 16)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-01-22
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: 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 (Episodio 17)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-01-29
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: 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 (Episodio 18)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-02-05
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: 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 (Episodio 19)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-02-12
Duración: 90 min
The Raider (Episodio 20)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-02-19
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: 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 (Episodio 21)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-02-26
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: A housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her.
Made in Japan (Episodio 22)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-03-05
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: 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 (Episodio 23)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-03-12
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: 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 (Episodio 24)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-03-19
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.
A Trip to Paradise (Episodio 25)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-03-26
Duración: 90 min
In Lonely Expectation (Episodio 26)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-04-02
Duración: 90 min
The Day Before Atlanta (Episodio 27)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-04-09
Duración: 90 min
Judgment at Nuremberg (Episodio 28)
Guionista: Abby Mann
Fecha de emisión: 1959-04-16
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: In the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice.
A Corner of the Garden (Episodio 29)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-04-23
Duración: 90 min
Dark December (Episodio 30)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-04-30
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: During World War II, an army doctor struggles to convert a Franciscan monastery into a field hospital.
Diary of a Nurse (Episodio 31)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-05-07
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: 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 (Episodio 32)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-05-14
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: Marry in haste, repent at leisure? Well, maybe.
Out of Dust (Episodio 33)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-05-21
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: On a cattle drive across the prairie, the sons of a wealthy cattle baron plot his death.
The Rank and File (Episodio 34) 9.0
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1959-05-28
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: 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 (Episodio 35)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-06-04
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: 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 (Episodio 36)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-06-11
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: 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 (Episodio 37)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-06-18
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: A British politician finds himself open to blackmail because of the indiscretion of his American wife.
The Second Happiest Day (Episodio 38)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-06-25
Duración: 90 min
Sinopsis: A man about to be married recalls the day his life changed permanently.

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