Heston stars as a one-eyed colonel intent of solving the mystery of the exploding bombers. Soviet agents have infiltrated a secret air base and are busy doing away with American aircraft.
A professional heavyweight boxer (Palance) is burned out after fourteen years in the ring. When during his last fight he is sold out by his devious manager (Keenan Wynn), he struggles to find new meaning in his life.
Sizeman owns a dress-manufacturing business in New York City. When his son was born, he addded the words ""and Son"" to the name of the company, hoping that they would work together some day. Then the son returns from the Korean War a changed man. Regarding himself as a savior of the common man from the greed of the bosses, he disrupts the happy working atmosphere at Sizeman and Son's.
The unexplainable death of a young man's fiancee while waiting for him on a street corner sets off a series of seemingly unrelated murders in the city.
After a close brush with death, a businessman intends to live each and every day to the fullest without regard to his wife and child. When he falls for the babysitter he considers running off with her but returns after a lot of soul-searching to his wife who forgives him.
When a second-rate vaudeville comic becomes a silent movie star, the conflict between his love for an actress and the demands of his career brings tragedy and heartbreak to the clown.
Industrial mogul Eddie Hanneman finds that his two sons are uninterested in taking over the family business though they want the rewards.
Eloise was a little girl who lived in the Plaza Hotel in New York. A memorable sequence involved her ordering one raisin from room service for her tiny pet turtle. The entire play was hilarious.
After the death of a wealthy community leader, a reporter is preparing a series on his life. When he interviews the deceased's son and daughter, they are withholding information from him. Investigations get dangerous when attempts on his life are made. The deceased's valet reveals that a letter was left which contains evidence of the politician's participation in a public swindle.
A married couple get into a petty quarrel that leads to their separation, after which the wife entertains a handsome European from the cocktail party and the husband begins to fall for an attractive stranger.
Wealthy mill owner, Henry Harcourt, finances the college education of a poor but ambitious boy, Willis Wayde. The young man is in love with Bess, Harcourt's daughter.
Carl and Helen Doss, are unable to have children of their own, so they wind up adopting several youngsters of mixed races.
A drama set in 1860s Colorado about the tragically manipulative ways of a U.S. Army colonel who forces the Cheyenne to fight a battle they want to avoid. Seeking fame and the rank of a general, the self-serving colonel drives the Cheyenne warriors into an unprotectable region known as Sand Creek. Despite the efforts of a young U.S. soldier intent on saving them, the Indians were massacred.
After World War III a small group of people live in the desert. A young man rebels against the group and tries to run away, hoping to find other communities of survivors, but is told by the elders that he must stay and marry the group's only young woman.
Story about a timid inventor who works for an exploitive boss and spends company time collaborating with his boyhood friend on a time machine. When the boss fires the inventor and orders the machine destroyed, the two friends decide to go back in the machine to 1926 when they were young and full of dreams.
The episode retells the first encounter of Annie Sullivan and young Helen Keller, unable to hear or see since the age of two. It was later remade for theatrical release.
Sammy Hogarth has reached the top of his profession as a TV comedian. But though his audience loves him, his co-workers hate him. They know him as an egotistical, petty tyrant. What keeps them from quitting is money--his salaries are the best in the business. Hogarth's head writer is Al Preston, and Al is in a jam. He has run out of ideas, can't think up anything Sammy will accept for the next show. In fact, Sammy threatens to fire Al unless he comes up with some especially clever and unusual material for that show.
A drama about the numerous obstacles faced by a young student who is intent on becoming the first woman doctor in the United States. Set in the late 1830's, the program examined her dedication, her love interests, and her efforts to modernize antiquated O.R. procedures which she feels are life-threatening.
Hugh O'Brian is a gunfighter terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter (Gilbert Roland) to drive O'Brian out of town (which he does). But, if the townsfolk thought they had it bad when O'Brian ran the town, that was childsplay next to the reign of terror instituted when Roland takes over. Finally, they have to pool their money again, this time to hire O'Brian to get rid of Gilbert Roland. A wonderful dramatization of the old adage, ""Be careful what you ask for; you may get it.""
Monroe Stahr heads a movie studio apparently headed for financial trouble. He is under pressure from the stockholders to produce a box-office hit. While he turns his attention to their latest film, he finds that financial expert Lou Myrick will play a crucial role in his business as well as in his personal life.
A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shpping magnate, and her growing love for a handsome young political prisoner who was scheduled to be put to death when the vessel reached its destination. Though unyielding at first, the ship's stern captain eventually helped the woman to make a clean getaway, with the condemned man in tow.
A drama of a refugee orphan, who was both wanted and unwanted in the family of a returning war hero. The wife fought against her own happiness to take in the orphan. To the orphan, the husband is a killer of his people and resentment burns deep. The husband is equally inflamed against the orphan and is determined he must go. It becomes a family divided, but ends when scorn turns to love.
Captain Russell Bidlack, commander of a U.S. Cavalry unit in 1870, determines to complete a rescue mission through dangerous Indian territoy. In the course of the mission, he rescues the wives of two slain traders and captures the Indian chief accused of the murders. When he returns to the fort, he's faced with a revolt among his own men.
For this week only, Playhouse 90 suspends its usual dramatic format to telecast a remote from Madison Square Garden. There producer Michael Todd is throwing a big party for some 18,000 guests to celebrate the first anniversary of the Broadway opening of his film Around the world in 80 days. Elizabeth Taylor (Mrs. Todd) is hostess. Many celebrities are invited, and some entertainers will perform.
A lawyer's new brother-in-law disapproves of his specialty of defending murderers. But when he finds himself accused of murder, he asks for his help.
Based on a case history in psychologist Dr. Robert Linder's book ""The 50-Minute Hour."" Unbeknownst to his friends and colleagues, the outwardly sane and secure atomic physicist Dr. Kirk Allen has for many years been embarking upon imaginary visits to another planet. At first this mental abnormality harms no one, but when Allen begins acting strangely on the job, the Pentagon begins to suspect that he is a security risk. Under psychological counseling, Allen reveals his ""secret life""—and provides surprisingly accurate extraterrestrial charts as ""proof"" that he is truly out of this world.
A Civil Aeronautics Board investigation determines that the reason a plane crashed, killing all aboard except one of the pilots, is that either the dead pilot or the survivor became panic-stricken and pushed the wrong button, but the investigators aren't sure which one was at fault.
In a Northern prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War, a crippled Yankee commander has a rebellious Rebel executed. The dead man's brother, also a prisoner, vows vengeance. He volunteers to accompany the commander on a mission, planning to murder him along the way but changes his mind and escapes instead, deciding the commander is ""already dead."" The commander, a changed man, covers up for the escapees and himself faces court martial.
An innocent man, doomed to die for the murder of a cop that he didn't commit, is rushed from prison to the county hospital for an emergency operation. The surgeon becomes convinced of the man's innocence when he mumbles a girl's name under anesthesia. The surgeon seeks the help of a psychiatrist to penetrate his patient's subconscious.
Mr. Golden talks with Nathan in the Turkish bath, lamenting that perhaps life has passed him by. He then returns home to his wife and finds out that he is to become a grandfather.
On a night flight from Miami, Fla. to New York, an airliner develops electrical trouble. In cameo portrayals we see the reactions of friends and families to the possible fate of the plane passengers.
The James boys, being framed for a bank heist, are saved by the banker's daughter.
A murder trial is followed through different jurors and their reactions.
An American bomber wing stationed in England in 1943 has flown many dangerous missions. The fliers regard their commander, Col. Culver, as a man devoid of any human emotion or understanding. After a mission in which one of Culver's best pilots was shot down, the overwrought colonel singles out a young flier and publicly accuses him of cowardice. This accusation brings the conflict between the two men into the open.
A Civil War POW returns to the South to find his father is considered a traitor for refusing to burn his crops along with the other scorched-earth adherents. He goes to work for and falls in love with the wife of a riverboat entrepreneur. He finds something to live for when his father is killed standing up to the entrepreneur and he gets the wife.
A group of widely diverse people meet in a San Francisco waterfront saloon.
A sailor searches for a man who befriended him when he was a young boy.
To fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts.
Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to a high government service position after years of retirement.
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.
Dr. Lawrence Doner has been diagnosed as having a fatal form of leukemia. The Space agency people are concerned, and they dispatch Martin Schramm to Dr. Doner to convince him to submit to the process of answering questions designed to probe his thought processes for the remainder of his life. The object of this knowledge is to build a mechanical brain that thinks like Dr. Lawerence Doner. Doner is reluctant to do this, because he wants to be with his family. A compromise is reached when it is agreed that Schramm will live in the Doner household. There is an excellent scene for the punsters of the world when Schramm arrives with Doner to meet Mrs. Doner. Mrs. Doner points out a tear on Doner's coat. Mrs. Doner responds with, ""Whatsoever shall ye rip, so shall I sew"". Dr. Doner comes back with, ""Man does not live by thread alone"" . Now we know how much they care for each other. We feel better knowing also that they are well rounded thoughtful intelligent people. Schramm is totally dedica
A grim vision of nuclear Armageddon replete with mobs ravaging supermarkets for what little food remained.
In a state mental hospital, six patients are brought together for group psychotherapy. (from TV Guide)
