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Screen Director's Playhouse - Season 1
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Title: Screen Director's Playhouse

Overview: Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The stories ranged from musicals to comedies and dramas.

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Average Vote: 6.5 (3 votes)

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Screen Director's Playhouse - Meet The Governor (Season 1 - Episode 1)

A "bumpkin-type" lawyer runs for governor until the opposition digs into his past.

Screen Director's Playhouse - Day is Done (Season 1 - Episode 2)

During the catastrophic 1951 retreat of American troops in Korea, a recruit finds a Chinese bugle. His sargeant then attempts to use it to instill the fighting spirit in his men.

Screen Director's Playhouse - Midsummer Daydream (Season 1 - Episode 3)

A young man who wants desperately to get married finds "The Girl" in, of all places, a marriage license bureau. But the happy ending is threatened by the appearance of a suave, smooth, sophisticated gambling man.

Screen Director's Playhouse - Arroyo (Season 1 - Episode 4)

A small New Mexican town enjoys a reasonably peaceful existence under the rule of self-appointed judge Lamar Kendall. This state of affairs is disrupted by the appearance of a wounded young woman, who reports that an Indian raid has wiped out her wagon train.

Screen Director's Playhouse - Want ad Wedding (Season 1 - Episode 5)

A young naval officer, alone in a strange city, is planning to be married. Having no friends in town, he places an ad in the newspaper advertising for wedding guests.

Screen Director's Playhouse - The Life of Vernon Hathaway (Season 1 - Episode 6)

A meek little watch repairman daydreams himself into exciting adventures. When his alter ego takes over, he begins living his dreams in real life.

Screen Director's Playhouse - The Final Tribute (Season 1 - Episode 7)

A nurse in a small-town doctor's office protests the attitude of the new young physician. His cold, impersonal treatment of patients is exactly opposite that of the kindly and gentle elderly doctor he will someday replace.

Screen Director's Playhouse - The Brush Roper (Season 1 - Episode 8)

Grandpa Atkins tries to live up to his tales of former glory as a cowpoke. He learns a dangerous bull is at large in the brush, saddles up, and goes after him with his rope.

Screen Director's Playhouse - Tom and Jerry (Season 1 - Episode 9)

It's Christmas Eve at the Macy house. Tom Macy plays Santa for he and wife Jerry's little boy, Tommy. It is obvious that Jerry is not happy with her husband Tom. Jerry knows Tom has a woman on the side named Lola. Their dear friends, Father O'Dowd and attorney Mr. Garrity coax Tom and Jerry into seeing sense and save the couple's marriage.

Screen Director's Playhouse - Rookie of the Year (Season 1 - Episode 10)

A small-town newspaper sports writer harbors an ambition to work for a big city daily. He sees his chance to achieve his goal while attending the World Series: one of the rookies shows a style reminiscent of a former all-time great banned from baseball for accepting a bribe.

Screen Director's Playhouse - Lincoln's Doctor's Dog (Season 1 - Episode 11)

Discouraged and saddened by the War Between the States, President Lincoln is cheered by the gift of a puppy from his physician.

Screen Director's Playhouse - The Silent Partner (Season 1 - Episode 12)

Watching the TV broadcast of the Academy Awards presentation, a faded actress realizes that the patron at another table in the restaurant was once a well-known comic. Her happy discovery is marred, however, by a man who calls both of them has-beens.

Screen Director's Playhouse - Titanic Incident (Season 1 - Episode 13)

A cardsharp and his wife aboard the Titanic on its fateful last voyage pick a wealthy Britisher as their pigeon. The cardsharp sets up the Britisher for a climactic card session, but the tables seem to turn as the ship goes down.

Screen Director's Playhouse - Hot Cargo (Season 1 - Episode 14)

A chorus girl, stranded in a waterfront town in the Orient, is befriended by the skipper of a freighter. She marries the skipper and then meets a good-looking young harbor policeman who falls in love with her.

Screen Director's Playhouse - It's Always Sunday (Season 1 - Episode 15)

A kindly minister who believes in doing good for the unfortunate befriends a pair of itinerants who arrive in town.

Screen Director's Playhouse - Number Five Checked Out (Season 1 - Episode 16)

A young deaf woman is left alone to look after the resort cabins owned by her father. Two dangerous bank robbers move in, using the secluded spot as a temporary hideout.

Screen Director's Playhouse - Prima Donna (Season 1 - Episode 17)

A philanthropic concert artist takes an interest in a 13-year-old newsboy with an outstanding singing voice. She runs into difficulties when the boy also shows a marked preference for baseball.

Screen Director's Playhouse - Cry Justice (Season 1 - Episode 18)

Bitter because his law partner married the woman he loved, a man plots his own disappearance, making it appear he has been murdered by his partner. Ten years later, the partner is released from prison and seeks revenge.

Screen Director's Playhouse - Affair in Sumatra (Season 1 - Episode 19)

A beautiful half-caste girl is torn between love for her people and love for a man.

Screen Director's Playhouse - One Against Many (Season 1 - Episode 20)

A scientist devoted to saving lives is faced with a difficult decision: he may be forced to kill in order to prevent a state-wide livestock epidemic.

Screen Director's Playhouse - It's a Most Unusual Day (Season 1 - Episode 21)

A married couple take in a night club show starring Jimmy McHugh, and are prompted by his melodies to relive their past.

Screen Director's Playhouse - The Sword Of Villon (Season 1 - Episode 22)

The swashbuckling poet Francois Villon fights for love and liberty while preventing the assassination of the King of France by a scheming count and countess.

Screen Director's Playhouse - Markheim (Season 1 - Episode 23)

Late on Christmas Day, a man coaxes an antiques shopkeeper to let him in under the pretense of needing a gift for his fiancée, but it is soon clear he wants something else. To his surprise, what he gets is a battle with his own conscience.

Screen Director's Playhouse - Claire (Season 1 - Episode 24)

A young doctor brings his second wife to his lakeside home to live. She is taunted by the presence of his pet cat, which serves to remind her that because she couldn't swim, she stood helplessly by while the first wife drowned.

Screen Director's Playhouse - A Ticket For Thaddeus (Season 1 - Episode 25)

A humble refugee from war-torn Poland has never been able to shed his fear of anyone in uniform. When the immigrant is involved in a minor traffic altercation, he tries to prove to the police he was at fault even though he wasn't.

Screen Director's Playhouse - The Dream (Season 1 - Episode 26)

In France in 1887 an impressionable youth gives his mother cause for alarm. The young man has a recurrent dream in which he searches for his dead father. The mother is further upset when the boy tells her of meeting a baron who offers to take him aboard ship for a journey to the West Indies.

Screen Director's Playhouse - What Day is it? (Season 1 - Episode 27)

A husband and wife dance team bicker backstage when the husband can't remember what special date his wife is observing. Between song and dance numbers, the arguments escalate until a singing telegram arrives. Music by Leon Klatzkin. Songs: Yankee doodle boy, Mary's a grand old name by George M. Cohan; When you're a clown by Jeff Bailey, Jack Latimer; arrangements by Walter Sheets, Russell Garcia

Screen Director's Playhouse - Every Man Had Two Wives (Season 1 - Episode 28)

In the spring, when one gentleman's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of a former love, his wife decides to take drastic action. She and hubby make a trip back to the old home town, determined to come face to face with his childhood sweetheart.

Screen Director's Playhouse - Partners (Season 1 - Episode 29)

A rodeo star befriends an orphan boy who yearns to compete.

Screen Director's Playhouse - White Corridors (Season 1 - Episode 30)

An American tourist in London accompanies a friend to the hospital for an emergency operation. At the hospital, she claims she has witnessed a murder, but the doctors think she is imagining things.

Screen Director's Playhouse - The Carroll Formula (Season 1 - Episode 31)

A college professor stumbled across a fantastic formula for reducing the size of things in the unpublished mathematical works of C.L. Dodgson, who, as Lewis Carroll, wrote Alice in Wonderland.

Screen Director's Playhouse - Apples on the Lilac Tree (Season 1 - Episode 32)

A couple's peculiar marital arrangement is the talk of the town. It seems that the husband loves to do the housework, while his wife spends the day at the office.

Screen Director's Playhouse - Bitter Waters (Season 1 - Episode 33)

In a fashionable German resort at the turn of the century, a wealthy young American touring Europe with his uncle meets a woman and her widowed mother. A romance develops between the young couple, until the society matron mother brings her own past to bear on their relationship.

Screen Director's Playhouse - The Day I met Caruso (Season 1 - Episode 34)

On a train between Boston and New York, a ten-year-old Quaker girl meets Enrico Caruso. She takes him to task for his worldliness and extravagances, but is eventually won over by his voice, as he sings arias from Aida, La Boheme, Tosca, and Pagliacci, as well as the World War I tune ""Over There.""

Screen Director's Playhouse - High Air (Season 1 - Episode 35)

Long separated, a river-tunnel foreman and his son come face to face during an under-river disaster which almost takes their lives.

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