Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Season 6, Episode 33: Switch Station

Moment of Vengeance

When a $20-a-month ranch hand elopes with the daughter of a cattle baron, the father gets his dander up and figures the young man is after his money.

The House That Jackson Built

A woman who has devoted herself to her career decides she is never to wed. She proceeds to buy a house and build a life that doesn't involve having a family. But she is pleasantly surprised about what happens next.

The Trophy

A self-made man uses his money to offset his crudeness. His wife is constantly humiliated by his bad taste.

Enoch Prentiss

A hard man in business is on the receiving end of the squeeze play when his daughter is threatened by a blackmailer who wants $25,000 in exchange for her reputation.

Always the Best Man

A bachelor talks his best friend into breaking his engagement. But after he meets the man's ex-fiance, he begins to fall in love with her himself.

The Night They Won the Oscar

A dedicated director has had the loving support and understanding of his wife during the years in which he mastered his craft. After he wins an Oscar for a picture he directed, they find they are rapidly drifting apart.

Explosion

An American secret agent fighting to get control of a South American oil well poses an Englishman to thwart enemy agents.

The Letter

A Southern girl discovers that Confederate soldiers are not receiving letters from home. She therefore decides to deliver letters from her neighbors to their sons and sweethearts.

Once Upon a Time

A small girl teaches a thief about honesty after she sees him commit a crime.

Washington Incident

During the trying days of 1862, Abraham Lincoln overhears a disturbing conversation.

A Tale of Wells Fargo

After a series of train robberies and stagecoach hold-ups, the Wells Fargo Company assigns special agent Jim Hardie to capture the outlaws.

A Light in the Desert

A doctor saves a mother, dying in childbirth, and restores his own soul in the process.

The Big Payoff

Joe McQuade is a respected and honest detective, who is in line for a promotion. His daughter needs an operation and a racketeer offers him money.

The Lady Was a Flop

Red McGivney, a former jockey who now works as an exercise boy, is sure that a race horse named Lady has the makings of a champion. After everyone else has given up, Red buys her to train and race himself.

Tower Room 14-A

A house detective believes all women to be unfaithful until he meets a certain beautiful young lady.

Terror in the Streets

The story of an artist who moves into a cheap tenement apartment to decide whether or not to marry, but instead of peace of mind finds herself in the middle of terror.

The Enchanted

A man brings a young girl into his house with the intention of training her to be his wife.

One Left Over

An auto accident takes the lives of a man's wife and his two sons, and he must find the courage to live for his daughter.

Sometimes You Break Even

An Army doctor and nurse have two critical patients and lock horns over how to deal with the lack of resources.

Night Drive

A drive with an old lady over a lonely road turns out to be a nightmare for a young woman when the old lady proves to be a man with a gun.

The Wedding Present

A lonely woman, tired of her reputation as a respectable spinster, takes a drifter in as a boarder and discovers he's wanted for murder.

The Life You Save

Marriage is the furthest thing from the mind of one-armed tramp, Tom Triplet -- then he sees Lucy Nell Crater, a deaf-mute girl with angelic innocence.

Carriage from Britain

A young mother's desire to keep ahead of the Joneses leads her to import a baby buggy like the one Prince Charles had.

The Girl in the Grass

Harry Carstairs wakes up feeling young and adventurous. His wife, however, doesn't share his romantic mood, so Harry wanders off to the park. He intends to read the financial page, but finds himself being stared at by a beautiful girl.

For Better, For Worse

Walter Van Buren begins to suspect that his new wife is a compulsive liar.

The Restless Gun

On the trail to visit his old friend Dan, former gunfighter Britt Ponset meets an escaped murderer nursing a grudge and plotting to kill Dan. Britt's job now is to warn Dan and help him prepare for the inevitable showdown.

Clothes Make the Man

A mousy little button salesman gets thrown out of his hotel when it is taken over by a new chain, because he wore outlandish clothes.

The Blue Hotel

Strangers stranded in a hotel by a blizzard pass the time by playing poker. Tensions rise when one of them accuses another of cheating.

Girl With a Glow

An attractive, charming librarian is smitten with the movie director who's been hanging around the library. He enlists her help in tracking down a stunning woman he'd seen there days before; he describes her as having "a glow." Though she's glad to help, she hates that she hasn't captured his attention like the future movie star has.

Hey, Mac

A beautiful divorcee and her spoiled teenage son destroy the peace of a widower and his pretty teenage daughter.

The Traveling Corpse

Professor Stephen Bolt, a teacher of criminology, hears a strange story from a guest lecturer: a man dies suddenly. While his wife is arranging the burial, the corpse disappears

The Dead are Silent

Sister Louise Goes to Town

A nun is bothered by the cloister's leaky roof, so, after learning she has come into an inheritance, she decides to do something about it.

The Sword

Cyrano de Bergerac is saved from the executioner's axe only by the adroit swordsmanship of de la Force.

An Old Spanish Custom

A temperamental movie star believes she can issue orders to everyone - even people she's just met.

Storm Over Rapallo

Pietro and Francesca live in a little Italian village on the Mediterranean. She's the cook in a ramshackle hotel and he's the waiter, but he rebels at spending his life picking up crumbs and plots big business deals at the waterfront. His association with Rubio, an evil fisherman frightens Francesca, but she is powerless to dissuade Pietro from entering into a scheme with Rubio to rob a pair of American tourists.

Fifty Beautiful Girls

A dancer repeatedly receives death threats by mail and phone calls.

Sporting Chance

A jealous man turns a duck hunting expedition into a manhunt.

Easy Going Man

A boy plays cupid for his widowed mother and her old flame.

Hands of the Enemy

A defense attorney is met with antagonism when he arrives in a small town to help a boy already convicted by public opinion of stealing $8,000.

The Face of a Killer

A gangster pursued by the police convinces a crooked plastic surgeon to alter his face to look like a respected banker so the thug can kill and assume the identity of the respected citizen

Goodbye, Joe

Always Open and Shut

Two policeman who are partners on a dangerous beat vie for the love of the same woman.