Four Star Playhouse

Season: 3

Episode: 4

The Wallet

The Wallet

Air Date:21/10/1954

A French waiter with more pride than money will not stand for his sickly wife to be admitted to a free public hospital. When a wealthy customer leaves behind a wallet containing thousands of dollars, the server takes it to upgrade his wife's medical care. Their son also becomes a thief to pay the bills.

Episode: 8

My Own Dear Dragon

My Own Dear Dragon

Air Date:18/11/1954

A successful playwright does his best to avoid reading the script written by his young new wife. She can't understand why he refuses to encourage her. At a party celebrating his 25th year in the theatre, he reveals the incident from his past that causes him to discourage her writing.

Episode: 9

Marked Down

Marked Down

Air Date:25/11/1954

A woman who works at a fancy dress shop is determined to meet and marry the millionaire whose office is next door. Once she is asked out, she realizes that money doesn't make a person. Meanwhile, a young boy is buying a dress on layaway for his mother's birthday, but there's more to his story.

Episode: 10

Meet A Lonely Man

Meet A Lonely Man

Air Date:02/12/1954

An attractive young lady mistakes a lonely hotel desk clerk for a Texas oil millionaire she'd once met. Loving the attention she's lavishing on him, he plays along...until his big spending catches up with him.

Episode: 11

Bourbon Street

Bourbon Street

Air Date:09/12/1954

A musician returns to New Orleans after breaking into the bigtime. Though his ex-wife deserted him, he is bent on revenge after receiving an anonymous letter telling him she committed suicide after being mistreated by her lover.

Episode: 12

A Championship Affair

A Championship Affair

Air Date:16/12/1954

A renowned professional bridge champion (Boyer) returns to (openly) woo his long lost, but married, love (Miles). In circuitous fashion, his unselfish love leads him to (secretly) help her bridge-addicted husband (Ross Elliott) choose to finally gain success in life.

Episode: 14

Go Ahead And Jump

Go Ahead And Jump

Air Date:30/12/1954

Eddie, a cab driver, picks up a sad looking fare and brings him to a hotel where he witnesses the man being humiliated by his ex-wife. When the man asks to be taken to the middle of the biggest bridge, Eddie uses some every day, hard-nosed psychology, and a little lie, to make the man see that life is worth living.

Episode: 15

A Bag Of Oranges

A Bag Of Oranges

Air Date:06/01/1955

Believing her husband innocent of the crime he is to be executed for, his wife takes up a vigil the night of the scheduled execution at a nearby café. A curious reporter wonders about the bag of oranges she carries with her.

Episode: 17

Breakfast in Bed

Breakfast in Bed

Air Date:20/01/1955

An artist is enticed away from his lucrative commercial advertising contracts by a young model who shows obvious disappointment that he is not striving to achieve his potential as a creative artist.

Episode: 19

A Kiss for Mr. Lincoln

A Kiss for Mr. Lincoln

Air Date:03/02/1955

A young woman teaches her timid husband some things about love when he tries to show her the importance of supporting Abraham Lincoln for the Presidency.

Episode: 20

Fair Trial

Fair Trial

Air Date:10/02/1955

Chicago television newsman Dave Sheridan (Dick Powell) arrives in a small Ohio town, Hadenville, where Richard Fulton has just been lynched. The chief of police (Edward R. Platt) tells Sheridan he confessed to killing sweet old Mrs. Winslow and the town went wild. Sheridan plans on doing a piece exposing how sick the town is. Hotel clerk Carol (Jean Howell) wants him to give the town a "fair trial".

Episode: 22

Tusitala

Tusitala

Air Date:24/02/1955

The true story of Robert Louis Stevenson's stay on the island of Tahiti. The islanders have come to revere him as Tusitala-Teller of Tales. They believe he is magical and powerful. When the two opposing chiefs of the island plan war against one another out of petty jealousy, Tusitala uses his wits to convince both chiefs to make peace and save the tranquility of the island.

Episode: 24

Eddie`s Place

Eddie`s Place

Air Date:10/03/1955

Ellen is released from a punitive work farm without means, but Eddie befriends her and gives her a job at his restaurant. She wants to go straight, but Eddie pressures her to cover for some of his own shady activities.

Episode: 25

Henry And The Psychopathic Horse

Henry And The Psychopathic Horse

Air Date:17/03/1955

After falling for a medical student, a New York City psychiatrist travels to her family ranch to announce their engagement. Her father hates city slickers and expect her to marry a rancher to run the estate. To win his woman's hand, Henry's challenged to ride an unbroken stallion known as a "killer." He puts his professional skills to work on the horse.

Episode: 26

Night At Lark Cottage

Night At Lark Cottage

Air Date:24/03/1955

A woman with no companion other than her young daughter knows that an escaped convict is on his way to kill her.

Episode: 27

The Girl On The Bridge

The Girl On The Bridge

Air Date:31/03/1955

After drawing and painting an unknown young woman he met on a bridge near his vacation retreat, an artist (Dick Powell) is desperate to find her again when the painting begins calling to him.

Episode: 29

Madeira, Madeira

Madeira, Madeira

Air Date:14/04/1955

The untimely death of his artist friend causes a failing writer to visit the widow to pay his condolences and pursue suspicions about her. When he arrives, the cheerful widow presents him with an offer he finds both puzzling and attractive. His acceptance leads him to the discovery of the fate of his friend.

Episode: 31

The House Always Wins

The House Always Wins

Air Date:28/04/1955

Willie Dante, the tough but suave owner of a nightclub and illegal back room casino. One evening, Willie sees an old flame with a man and another couple, The woman, still caring for Willie, tells him that the people she's with are planning to rob his casino. Willie outwits them and keeps his former love from being arrested.

Episode: 33

Alias Mr. Hepp

Alias Mr. Hepp

Air Date:12/05/1955

Frank Hepp has made his career charming rich, unhappy women out of their fortunes. His parole officer orders him avoid all women, but he can't help himself when a single wealthy woman moves in next door. Mr. Hepp's plan to fleece his new victim runs afoul when he actually falls for her.

Episode: 36

The Executioner

The Executioner

Air Date:09/06/1955

A complex web of deception is revealed during the investigation of the assassination of a police official. In a foreign country during the Cold War, an American doctor is accused to being a spy and targeted for murder, but the wrong man is killed. But, perhaps, the right man died after all.

Episode: 37

The Frightened Woman

The Frightened Woman

Air Date:23/06/1955

A woman's loneliness leads her to re-experience her long repressed (20-year old) pain-associated memories (albeit benign themselves). The mystery: is she (Oberon) insane (hallucinations or phantasms?), will her busy businessman husband (Stevens) rediscover his more nurturing side (in other words will he ever finally land the account), and will a therapist (Beaumont) help bring it all together for the better and for us to make good sense of it?

Episode: 38

Award

Award

Air Date:30/06/1955

Valerie is a world famous movie actress who just bombed on her first attempt at live acting on Broadway. She goes to Ben, renowned acting instructor, to teach her how to be a live actress. He refuses unless she can succeed at a challenge.