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Playhouse 90
Season 4
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Episode 190 min1959-10-01
Target for Three
Three conspirators plan the death of a South American head of state.
Episode 290 min1959-10-15
The Sounds of Eden
Three different viewpoints of the same story - a kidnapping and its aftermath.
Episode 390 min1959-10-29
Misalliance
A group of people gathered at a wealthy man's country home on a summer weekend engage in an exploration of their varied romantic entanglements.
Episode 490 min1959-11-12
The Hidden Image
A journalist out to expose political corruption finds his family is in danger.
Episode 590 min1959-11-26
The Grey Nurse Said Nothing
In Australia, a landowner is arrested for murder - but where's the body?
Episode 690 min1959-12-10
The Tunnel
In the Civil War, a tunnel is dug under Confederate lines, and filled with explosives.
Episode 790 min1959-12-24
The Silver Whistle
The old people's home is a pretty miserable place - until the arrival of the mysterious Mr. Erwenter.
Episode 890 min1960-01-14
John Brown's Raid
The story of abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.
Episode 990 min1960-01-21
A Dream of Treason
A State Department official is required to leak a confidential document - which may have terrible repercussions.
Episode 1090 min1960-02-10
To the Sound of Trumpets
In Paris, a former soldier is alarmed when the girl he has fallen in love with demonstrates a rather naïve and romanticized attitude to war.
Episode 1190 min1960-02-24
The Cruel Day
Violence and brutality greet a French Army captain when he arrives in Algeria to assume command of a remote outpost. He is appalled by the savage massacre of an Algerian family by the Rebels. When the French take a prisoner who knows the names of Rebel leaders, the captain is told that torture is the only way to make him talk. Then the captain meets the prisoner - a handsome, intelligent teenage boy.
Episode 1290 min1960-03-07
Tomorrow
Slow witted, and tired, Fentry leads a lonely life of grinding poverty in his sharecropper's shack until a sick, pregnant woman escaping her abusive husband comes there. He takes her in and cares for her, eventually falling in love with her.
Episode 1390 min1960-03-22
The Hiding Place
In the last days of World War II, two English airmen are captured by an ordinary German citizen, who, instead of handing them over to the authorities, keeps them prisoner in his cellar, neglecting to tell them when the war ends.
Episode 1490 min1960-04-03
Alas, Babylon
Americans try to cope with the aftermath of a nuclear catastrophe.
Episode 1590 min1960-04-22
Journey to the Day
Patients at a mental hospital meet for a group therapy session.
Episode 1690 min1960-05-02
The Shape of the River
Determined to pay off his debts, Mark Twain sets off on a lecture tour.
Episode 1790 min1960-05-16
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
In the Warsaw ghetto, a Jewish man seeks revenge for the rape of his sister by a German soldier.
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