Playhouse 90

- Season 3

(1958)

In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with antisemitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.

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.

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. At least one of the relationships stands a chance of enduring: a brawny innocent named Tom is falling in love with a vulnerable young prostitute named Kitty.

Lt. Col. Rocky Thompson orders a group of Marines on a 36-mile march after a training mission.

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

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

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.

In the South, convicts get a temporary release to help during a flood.

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

During "parents' weekend" at Camp Mojave, parents maneuver to aid their children in winning the camp's awards.

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

This telecast of George Balanchine's famous production was broadcast only four years after it was premiered by the New York City Ballet.

Drama of a prosecuting attorney whose cowardice results in a death for which an innocent man is blamed.

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 career of veteran New York police detective Roy Brenner is put on a departmental trial after he refuses to file charges against a boy accused of theft and an influential businessman questions his integrity.

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 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?

A young Spanish boy, Tanguy, is deprived of childhood by World War II. He is left in France when his mother returns to Spain to oppose the Franco regime.

A woman barrister at a prestigious London chambers tries to save a young man accused of murdering his wealthy aunt.

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.

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

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.

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

The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.

A troubled teenage boy, Raymond Austin, meets a Ellie, a provocative teenage beauty who introduces him to delinquents and youthful "beatniks".

A woman converts a house into a home for unwed mothers and tries to help a teenage girl decide whether to keep her child or agree to an adoption.

During the American Civil War, a Union scouting party kills a man and his teenage son as they attempt to defend their plantation. A soldier discovers a young girl hiding inside the mansion.

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

After the death of her mother, a teenage girl, Barbara, moves in with Dorothy, her mother's best friend, and Louis, Dorothy's weak and beaten husband.

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

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

Jerry and Louise are two shy types who meet and wed through a lonely hearts club. They soon learn that being a married couple is not like the movies or romance novels.

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

An alcoholic factory worker becomes the president of the local union, rises to national prominence, and becomes involved in corruption and racketeering. He is called to testify before the U.S. Senate where he tells his story.

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.

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.

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

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