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Playhouse 90

Season 1 Episode 8: Eloise

It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Forbidden Area

1. Forbidden Area

Aired: Oct 4, 1956

Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disapp...

Episode 3 Sizeman and Son

3. Sizeman and Son

Aired: Oct 18, 1956

Morris Sizeman is a successful garment manufacturer in New York City. His son...

Episode 4 Rendezvous in Black

4. Rendezvous in Black

Aired: Oct 25, 1956

Johnny Marr's fiancee is killed by a whiskey bottle thrown from an airplane. ...

Episode 5 The Country Husband

5. The Country Husband

Aired: Nov 1, 1956

After a car crash and the arrival of a beautiful babysitter, a young business...

Episode 6 The Big Slide

6. The Big Slide

Aired: Nov 8, 1956

A down-and-out vaudeville comedian, Buddy McCoy, becomes a successful silent ...

Episode 7 Heritage of Anger

7. Heritage of Anger

Aired: Nov 15, 1956

Industrialist Eddie Hanneman learns that his sons do not wish to take over th...

Episode 8 Eloise

8. Eloise

Aired: Nov 22, 1956

It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things...

Episode 9 Confession

9. Confession

Aired: Nov 29, 1956

When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate...

Episode 10 Made in Heaven

10. Made in Heaven

Aired: Dec 6, 1956

When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.

Episode 15 The Ninth Day

15. The Ninth Day

Aired: Jan 10, 1957

After World War III a small group of people live in the desert. A young man t...

Episode 16 So Soon to Die

16. So Soon to Die

Aired: Jan 17, 1957

An unemployed actor, Lionel Amblin, is hired to kill a young girl before she ...

Episode 17 The Star Wagon

17. The Star Wagon

Aired: Jan 24, 1957

An inventor, pondering on how he might differently have arranged his life, in...

Episode 18 The Greer Case

18. The Greer Case

Aired: Jan 31, 1957

When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems en...

Episode 19 The Miracle Worker

19. The Miracle Worker

Aired: Feb 7, 1957

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Kelle...

Episode 20 The Comedian

20. The Comedian

Aired: Feb 14, 1957

Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthle...

Episode 21 One Coat of White

21. One Coat of White

Aired: Feb 21, 1957

A newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.

Episode 26 Where's Charley?

26. Where's Charley?

Aired: Mar 28, 1957

Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt f...

Episode 27 Clipper Ship

27. Clipper Ship

Aired: Apr 4, 1957

A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shipping ma...

Episode 29 Three Men on a Horse

29. Three Men on a Horse

Aired: Apr 18, 1957

A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped...

Episode 30 Four Women in Black

30. Four Women in Black

Aired: Apr 25, 1957

Four nuns, led by Sister Teresa, begin a treacherous journey across the Arizo...

Episode 32 Homeward Borne

32. Homeward Borne

Aired: May 9, 1957

Just after World War Two ends, an American woman takes in a Polish war orphan...

Episode 34 Winter Dreams

34. Winter Dreams

Aired: May 23, 1957

A successful young man announces his recent engagement, only to be forced to ...

Episode 35 Circle of the Day

35. Circle of the Day

Aired: May 30, 1957

On her tenth wedding anniversary (which is also her daughter's birthday),a w...

Episode 36 Without Incident

36. Without Incident

Aired: Jun 6, 1957

The captain of a U.S. Cavalry unit rescues two wives of slain traders who wer...

Episode 37 Clash by Night

37. Clash by Night

Aired: Jun 13, 1957

Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears t...

Info about Playhouse 90

Seasons: 4

Current Status: Ended

Network: CBS

Genres:Comedy, Drama, Crime, Mystery, War, Romance