Screen Director's Playhouse backdrop
Comedy•Drama

The Worst Episodes of Screen Director's Playhouse

Every episode of Screen Director's Playhouse ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Screen Director's Playhouse!

Binge this in 17h 30m•Peaking at 7.4/10

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.

Airs on
ABCNBC
BestEpisodes
WorstEpisodes
BestSeasons
AllEpisodes

Seasons1

All1

Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Worst Episode
    Click to reveal
    Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 1 - Meet The Governor
    4.8/10(84 votes)

    S1:E1

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

    Director:Leo McCarey
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  2. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 27 - What Day is it?
    5.2/10(33 votes)

    S1:E27

    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  3. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 19 - Affair in Sumatra
    5.4/10(73 votes)

    S1:E19

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

    Director:Byron Haskin
    Writer:Michael Fessier

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  4. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 5 - Want ad Wedding
    5.5/10(63 votes)

    S1:E5

    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  5. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 26 - The Dream
    5.5/10(63 votes)

    S1:E26

    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  6. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 29 - Partners
    5.8/10(25 votes)

    S1:E29

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

    Director:Tay Garnett
    Writer:Winston Miller

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

    7. Trending NowTRENDING NOW

    The 20 BEST Episodes of Screen Director's Playhouse

    READ
  7. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 6 - The Life of Vernon Hathaway
    6.0/10(72 votes)

    S1:E6

    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  8. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 9 - Tom and Jerry
    6.0/10(92 votes)

    S1:E9

    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  9. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 21 - It's a Most Unusual Day
    6.0/10(104 votes)

    S1:E21

    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  10. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 33 - Bitter Waters
    6.0/10(40 votes)

    S1:E33

    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  11. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 32 - Apples on the Lilac Tree
    6.1/10(43 votes)

    S1:E32

    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  12. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 3 - Midsummer Daydream
    6.2/10(76 votes)

    S1:E3

    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  13. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 22 - The Sword Of Villon
    6.2/10(92 votes)

    S1:E22

    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  14. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 31 - The Carroll Formula
    6.2/10(30 votes)

    S1:E31

    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  15. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 2 - Day is Done
    6.3/10(108 votes)

    S1:E2

    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  16. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 4 - Arroyo
    6.3/10(70 votes)

    S1:E4

    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  17. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 13 - Titanic Incident
    6.3/10(84 votes)

    S1:E13

    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  18. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 17 - Prima Donna
    6.3/10(106 votes)

    S1:E17

    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
    Writers:Gene Raymond, Peter Milne

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  19. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 18 - Cry Justice
    6.3/10(74 votes)

    S1:E18

    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  20. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 15 - It's Always Sunday
    6.4/10(91 votes)

    S1:E15

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  21. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 8 - The Brush Roper
    6.5/10(77 votes)

    S1:E8

    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  22. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 20 - One Against Many
    6.5/10(69 votes)

    S1:E20

    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  23. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 28 - Every Man Had Two Wives
    6.5/10(34 votes)

    S1:E28

    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
    Writers:Frank Gill Jr., DeWitt Bodeen

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  24. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 24 - Claire
    6.6/10(94 votes)

    S1:E24

    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  25. Screen Director's Playhouse Season 1 Episode 34 - The Day I met Caruso
    6.6/10(75 votes)

    S1:E34

    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

Worst Episodes Summary

"Meet The Governor" is the worst rated episode of "Screen Director's Playhouse". It scored 4.8/10 based on 84 votes. Directed by Leo McCarey and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/5/1955. This episode scored 0.4 points lower than the second lowest rated, "What Day is it?".