All Episodes of Screen Director's Playhouse
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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.
Season 1
4.8/1084 votesMeet The Governor
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/1955
A "bumpkin-type" lawyer runs for governor until the opposition digs into his past.
Director: Leo McCarey
Writer: Unknown
- 6.3/10108 votes
Day is Done
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/1955
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.2/1076 votes
Midsummer Daydream
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/1955
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.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Unknown
- 6.3/1070 votes
Arroyo
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/1955
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.
Director: George Waggner
Writer: Unknown
- 5.5/1063 votes
Want ad Wedding
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/1955
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.
Director: William A. Seiter
Writer: Unknown
- 6.0/1072 votes
The Life of Vernon Hathaway
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/1955
A meek little watch repairman daydreams himself into exciting adventures. When his alter ego takes over, he begins living his dreams in real life.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Writer: Richard Wormser
- 6.8/1079 votes
The Final Tribute
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/1955
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.
Director: Andrew L. Stone
Writer: Unknown
- 6.5/1077 votes
The Brush Roper
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/1955
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.
Director: Stuart Heisler
Writer: Unknown
- 6.0/1092 votes
Tom and Jerry
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/1955
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.
Director: Leo McCarey
Writer: Unknown
- 6.7/10274 votes
Rookie of the Year
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/7/1955
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.
Director: John Ford
Writer: Frank S. Nugent
- 6.8/10110 votes
Lincoln's Doctor's Dog
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/14/1955
Discouraged and saddened by the War Between the States, President Lincoln is cheered by the gift of a puppy from his physician.
Director: H. C. Potter
Writer: William R. Cox
7.2/10192 votesThe Silent Partner
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/1955
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.
Director: George Marshall
Writer: Barbara Avedon
- 6.3/1084 votes
Titanic Incident
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/28/1955
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.
Director: Ted Tetzlaff
Writer: William R. Cox
- 6.7/1070 votes
Hot Cargo
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/4/1956
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.
Director: Tay Garnett
Writer: David Dortort
- 6.4/1091 votes
It's Always Sunday
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/11/1956
A kindly minister who believes in doing good for the unfortunate befriends a pair of itinerants who arrive in town.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.9/10227 votes
Number Five Checked Out
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/18/1956
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.
Director: Ida Lupino
Writer: Unknown
- 6.3/10106 votes
Prima Donna
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/1/1956
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.
Director: David Butler
Writer: Gene Raymond, Peter Milne
- 6.3/1074 votes
Cry Justice
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/15/1956
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.
Director: George Sherman
Writer: Unknown
- 5.4/1073 votes
Affair in Sumatra
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/22/1956
A beautiful half-caste girl is torn between love for her people and love for a man.
Director: Byron Haskin
Writer: Michael Fessier
- 6.5/1069 votes
One Against Many
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/7/1956
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.
Director: William Dieterle
Writer: Malvin Wald
- 6.0/10104 votes
It's a Most Unusual Day
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/14/1956
A married couple take in a night club show starring Jimmy McHugh, and are prompted by his melodies to relive their past.
Director: Claude Binyon
Writer: Unknown
- 6.2/1092 votes
The Sword Of Villon
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 4/4/1956
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 7.2/10121 votes
Markheim
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 4/11/1956
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.
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Writer: Unknown
- 6.6/1094 votes
Claire
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 4/25/1956
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.
Director: Frank Tuttle
Writer: Philip MacDonald
- 7.4/1067 votes
A Ticket For Thaddeus
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 5/9/1956
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.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 5.5/1063 votes
The Dream
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 5/16/1956
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.
Director: Hugo Haas
Writer: Unknown
- 5.2/1033 votes
What Day is it?
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 6/6/1956
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
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
- 6.5/1034 votes
Every Man Had Two Wives
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 6/13/1956
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.
Director: Lewis Allen
Writer: Frank Gill Jr., DeWitt Bodeen
- 5.8/1025 votes
Partners
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 7/4/1956
A rodeo star befriends an orphan boy who yearns to compete.
Director: Tay Garnett
Writer: Winston Miller
- 7.1/1054 votes
White Corridors
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 7/11/1956
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.
Director: Ted Post
Writer: Unknown
- 6.2/1030 votes
The Carroll Formula
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 7/18/1956
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.
Director: Tay Garnett
Writer: John L. Greene
- 6.1/1043 votes
Apples on the Lilac Tree
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 7/25/1956
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.
Director: John Rich
Writer: Lee Loeb
- 6.0/1040 votes
Bitter Waters
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 8/1/1956
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.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Zoë Akins
- 6.6/1075 votes
The Day I met Caruso
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 9/5/1956
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.""
Director: Unknown
Writer: Zoë Akins