Four Star Playhouse
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine.
Blake Edwards was among the writers and directors who contributed to the series. Edwards created the recurring character of illegal gambling house operator Willie Dante for Dick Powell to play on this series. The character was later revamped and spun off in his own series starring Howard Duff, then-husband of Lupino.
The pilot for Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy, aired here, as did another episode in which Lovejoy recreated his role of Chicago newspaper reporter Randy Stone, from the radio drama Nightbeat.
First Air Date: Sep 25, 1952
Last Air date: Jul 26, 1956
Season: 4 Season
Episode: 129 Episode
Runtime: 30 minutes
IMDb: 6.13/10 by 8.00 users
Popularity: 58.87
Language: English
Episode
The Firing Squad
The Face of Danger
Let the Chips Fall
Full Circle
A Spray of Bullets
The Devil to Pay
Here Comes the Suit
Looking Glass House
Something Very Special
A Place Full of Strangers
One Way Out
Dark Meeting
Magic Night
Tunnel of Fear
High Stakes
The Listener
Safe Keeping
No Limit
Command
Once to Every Woman
Red Wine
To Die at Midnight
Desert Encounter
The Case of Emily Cameron
The Rites of Spring
Autumn Carousel
Wall of Bamboo
Touch and Go
A Long Way From Texas
That Woman
The Other Room
One Forty-Two
Beneath the Surface
Watch the Sunset
Second Chance
Woman Afraid
The Stacked Deck
Distinguished Service
Yellowbelly
The Stand-In
Success Story
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