Season 3
Playhouse 90
38 EPISODES • 1958
Season 3 of Playhouse 90 was released on September 25 and consists of 38 episodes.

Season 2

Episodes

1: The Plot to Kill Stalin
Sep 25, 1958
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.
2: Days of Wine and Roses
Oct 2, 1958
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.
3: The Time of Your Life
Oct 9, 1958
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.
4: The Long March
Oct 16, 1958
5: Shadows Tremble
Oct 23, 1958
An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.
6: Word from a Sealed-Off Box
Oct 30, 1958
A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.
7: Heart of Darkness
Nov 6, 1958
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.
8: Old Man
Nov 20, 1958
To fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts.
9: The Return of Ansel Gibbs
Nov 27, 1958
After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.
10: Free Weekend
Dec 4, 1958
11: Seven Against the Wall
Dec 11, 1958
The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.
12: The Nutcracker
Dec 25, 1958
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.
13: Face of a Hero
Jan 1, 1959
14: The Wings of the Dove
Jan 8, 1959
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.
15: The Blue Men
Jan 15, 1959
16: The Velvet Alley
Jan 22, 1959
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.
17: A Quiet Game of Cards
Jan 29, 1959
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?
18: Child of Our Time
Feb 5, 1959
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.
19: The Second Man
Feb 12, 1959
20: The Raider
Feb 19, 1959
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.
21: The Ding-A-Ling Girl
Feb 26, 1959
A housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her.
22: Made in Japan
Mar 5, 1959
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.
23: For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1
Mar 12, 1959
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
24: For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2
Mar 19, 1959
The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.
25: A Trip to Paradise
Mar 26, 1959
26: In Lonely Expectation
Apr 2, 1959
27: The Day Before Atlanta
Apr 9, 1959
28: Judgment at Nuremberg
Apr 16, 1959
In the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice.
29: A Corner of the Garden
Apr 23, 1959
30: Dark December
Apr 30, 1959
During World War II, an army doctor struggles to convert a Franciscan monastery into a field hospital.
31: Diary of a Nurse
May 7, 1959
The daily emergencies and stresses of a major city's hospital ward as seen through the eyes of nurse Gail Lucas.
32: A Marriage of Strangers
May 14, 1959
Marry in haste, repent at leisure? Well, maybe.
33: Out of Dust
May 21, 1959
On a cattle drive across the prairie, the sons of a wealthy cattle baron plot his death.
34: The Rank and File
May 28, 1959
A powerful union leader is interrogated by a Senate committee.
35: The Killers of Mussolini
Jun 4, 1959
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.
36: Project Immortality
Jun 11, 1959
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.
37: Dark as the Night
Jun 18, 1959
A British politician finds himself open to blackmail because of the indiscretion of his American wife.
38: The Second Happiest Day
Jun 25, 1959
A man about to be married recalls the day his life changed permanently.
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