Playhouse 90 Season 1, Episode 1: Forbidden Area

Requiem for a Heavyweight

An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is exploited by his manager, despite the efforts of a compassionate young woman who tries to help him recover his self-respect.

90 min

Sizeman and Son

The happy atmosphere in Mr. Sizeman's factory is disrupted by an argumentative newcomer - his son.

90 min

Rendezvous in Black

A woman is inexplicably killed on a street-corner. What has this to do with other deaths around the city?

90 min

The Country Husband

After a near-death experience, a businessman starts to re-think his life, and wonders about leaving his wife.

90 min

The Big Slide

A vaudeville comic becomes a silent film star.

90 min

Heritage of Anger

A wealthy industrialist has trouble with his sons.

90 min

Eloise

It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.

90 min

Confession

When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.

90 min

Made in Heaven

When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.

90 min

Sincerely, Willis Wade

A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.

90 min

The Family Nobody Wanted

A true story, it follows a pastor and his wife through forties beginning with one biological child, Donny. But the upheaval of the war years results in a number of mixed raced children that the Doss family adopt until they have 12 children.

90 min

Massacre at Sand Creek

An investigation into a massacre of Native Americans.

90 min

Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses

Some racetrack Johnnies are talking between races when one wonders if you can hypnotize a horse into thinking it's a champion. The idea sets in motion a series of hilarious events.

90 min

The Ninth Day

Events in the aftermath of World War Three.

90 min

So Soon to Die

Down on his luck, war hero Lionel Amblin contemplates committing a murder.

90 min

The Star Wagon

An inventor, pondering on how he might differently have arranged his life, invents a time machine and decides to make a few changes.

90 min

The Greer Case

When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

90 min

The Miracle Worker

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

90 min

The Comedian

Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than his. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, whom Sammy has hired as his assistant but whom he really uses as his whipping boy.

90 min

One Coat of White

A newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.

90 min

The Blackwell Story

In the 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell determines to become a doctor.

90 min

Invitation to a Gunfighter

A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter to drive him out of town. The townsfolk thought they had it bad until they handed the reigns over to the new terror. Pooling their money again, this time to hire Jeffers to get rid of Dancer.

90 min

The Last Tycoon

A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.

90 min

The Hostess with the Mostes'

The story of Perle Mesta, who became, first, a renowned society hostess, and then an ambassadress.

90 min

Where's Charley?

Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".

90 min

Clipper Ship

A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shipping 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.

90 min

If You Knew Elizabeth

90 min

Three Men on a Horse

A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.

90 min

Four Women in Black

Four nuns, led by Sister Teresa, begin a treacherous journey across the Arizona desert in 1870. Their faith enables them to deal with the challenges of nature and the hostility of their fellow mankind.

90 min

Child of Trouble

90 min

Homeward Borne

Just after World War Two ends, an American woman takes in a Polish war orphan boy, a concentration camp survivor. But conflict arises when her husband, a returning Air Force bomber pilot, hates the boy and his psychological baggage.

90 min

The Helen Morgan Story

Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star of top rated shows and owning her own club. Also seen is her poor choices, such as her affair with a married man, her short marriage to a much younger man, a court fight over an adopted baby and her fatal descent into booze addiction.

90 min

Winter Dreams

90 min

Circle of the Day

On her tenth wedding anniversary (which is also her daughter's birthday), a wife begins to suspect her husband of unfaithfulness.

90 min

Without Incident

Captain Russell Bidlack, commander of a U.S. Cavalry unit in 1870, determines to complete a rescue mission through dangerous Indian territory. 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.

90 min

Clash by Night

Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.

90 min

Ain't No Time for Glory

American soldiers must use stealth to take over a German command post in Normandy.

90 min

The Fabulous Irishman

Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.

90 min