Schlitz Playhouse

- Season 3

(1953)

An architect finds that romance can hurt a working relationship.

Embezzler Mark Andrews trains a dog as a killer to exact revenge from his ex-boss.

A crime-bent college student's carefully laid plans for robbery boomerang.

Prospector Jake Simpson unwittingly allows a killer to join his search for a gold mine.

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After three other cargo planes have mysteriously disappeared, an army air corps crew is informed that their plane is carrying a hidden time bomb. Since a powerful storm has made visibility virtually nil, the airmen desperately search their craft for the explosives.

A long-ago crime is exposed in a letter disrupts the comfortable life of a married couple

A man blinded by an accident is forced to borrow money from a racketeer in order to support his wife.

Aspiring artist Mark Norton is financed by his father---who thinks he's studying agriculture.

Two brothers fall for the same girl.

An honest man learns that he can save his daughter from being swindled only by resorting to fraud himself.

Despondent shop girl Norma Bailey decides to end it all by gas asphyxiation. Before it can take effect, a young man breaks in and stops it, but he's there by chance, running from the police, pursuing him for a stolen diamond bracelet. Later, Norma falls in love with him and tries to persuade the victim not to press charges.

A heartless businessman has spent the last three weeks in a single room of his home. He's developed a psychosomatic affliction which makes it unable for him to turn the room's doorknob. He refuses to leave until he can open the door himself, and refuses psychiatric help. A family with a sick child takes refuge in his home during a severe storm against his wishes.

The wife of a fugitive from the law escapes with him to a far away island. Their tiny refuge becomes the scene of great emotional and physical upheaval with the arrival of a mysterious detective and a tropical storm.

In the 1870s, Texas Ranger Earl Webb must escort wanted gunman John Fenner by passenger train through the state of Louisiana to get back home. However, the long, grueling journey is fraught with danger, including many of Fenner's trigger happy relatives trying to free the prisoner.

An opponent of a boxer who goes blind during a fight is tormented by the fact that he may have caused the blindness.

A baker discovers talents other than baking during the holidays.

Vi divorces her husband after he be comes involved with crooks and goes to prison for a gas station holdup. She gets on with her life with her son and new husband. Seven years later, out of prison, Marty shows up at the amusement park shooting gallery she operates. He's angry and wants her to know he's good with a gun.

A young policeman's daily contact with ugliness and heartbreak shakes his faith in humanity.

A colorful outlaw is the object of a boy's hero-worship.

An adventurer impersonates the lost Dauphin to elude Napoleon's men.

An officer comes to the aid of his friend who is being sought for murder.

A man heads out west to get rich mining gold and breaks a lot of promises along the way.

A police lieutenant serving time in a state penitentiary is trying to obtain evidence for a man facing execution on a false charge.

While leading a safari, a professional hunter encounters the judge who sentenced his innocent brother to death for a crime he did not commit.

A young woman is forced to choose between two detectives who love her.

A retired actress defends a woman on a murder charge.

An ex-pilot's restlessness threatens his marriage.

A corporal in Napoleon's army faces death for his alleged romantic involvement with Josephine.

An Army lieutenant is held captive by a troubled G.I.

A man returns to an island to claim buried gold.

After an argument with his wife, a man embarks on an auto trip that throws him into contact with an escaped killer.

A young actress must decide between marriage and a stage career.

An engineer, caught in a romantic triangle, is almost killed by the woman he loves.

On a hospital ship, a Navy doctor tries to help a wounded marine who has lost the will to live.

Angry townspeople persecute a deputy sheriff who tries to defend a girl accused of murder.

A beauty parlor owner finds herself caught in the middle of escaping criminals.

A trio is trapped by a raging blizzard. Their group is joined by a thug who managed to escape a plane wreck.

Three Americans are arrested in a small South American country as a revolution is about to take place. The authorities believe that one of the three is the leader of the revolt and threaten to kill all three men unless the ring-leader comes forward.

A retired sea captain has problems when he finds a whale washed up on his doorstep after a storm.

A vacationing bookkeeper gets involved in a bizarre struggle for life and treasure with an escaped convict.

No-nonsense sailor Bunter signs on as first mate on a sailing ship helmed by an eccentric skipper. The Captain is a firm believer in spiritualism which Bunter dismisses as idiotic superstition. But one strange night, Bunter falls on the deck, saying he's seen a ghost. The next morning, his hair is completely white.

After two years on Devil's Island, a prisoner escapes and is befriended by a policeman.

Napoleon sends one of his Brigadiers (Claude Dauphin) on a special mission to the King of Spain.

Small town police are about to search the swamps for the murderer of a local cop when a man emerges from the bayou. He says he's a detective on the trail of a payroll thief and shot the robber/cop killer in a shootout. The man shows off a bag full of the stolen money which he says he retrieved and must return to the city immediately. Before he can catch a train out of town, the deputy realizes the "detective" isn't who he claims to be and a chase back into the swamps ensues.

In the Old West, a boy's life is jeopardized by gunmen who want to take control of his father's land.

A martinet of a general, one of his former officers, and a middle aged plane passenger find themselves in a liferaft with only one canteen of water.

A reporter's girlfriend tries to keep him from stepping into a deadly trap set by his vicious managing editor.

In ancient Rome, a general's daughter falls under the spell of her enemy -- the invading Hannibal.

A young sheepman is torn between a blacksmith's daughter and a woman who promises to help him win a fortune at cards.

A destitute pilot takes the only flying job offered him, then begins to suspect that his employers are criminals.

A recluse, locked in an elevator, faces death.

A small army garrison is surrounded by Apaches who threaten to wipe out the entire command unless an Indian prisoner is set free.