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The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse

Season 1 Episode 28: Borrow My Car

Two garage mechanics become involved with an attractive woman and a store robbery.

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 4 Death Has a System

4. Death Has a System

Aired: Oct 23, 1953

A man's desire to avenge the murder of his brother is fulfilled at a cost.

Episode 5 The Ragged Stranger

5. The Ragged Stranger

Aired: Oct 30, 1953

A middle-aged man heading home talks a hitch-hiker into helping him regain hi...

Episode 6 Melody in Black

6. Melody in Black

Aired: Nov 6, 1953

The town is gossiping about a local murder. Her continued piano lessons and a...

Episode 8 Claire

8. Claire

Aired: Nov 20, 1953

A woman working hard to support her ill husband is put on the spot by the nurse.

Episode 9 Frozen Escape

9. Frozen Escape

Aired: Nov 27, 1953

Alaska prospector Jeff claims he didn't kill fellow gold hunter Arthur; he si...

Episode 10 Vacation Wife

10. Vacation Wife

Aired: Dec 4, 1953

A young wife takes a vacation alone at a mountain resort and meets another man.

Episode 14 Miss Darkness

14. Miss Darkness

Aired: Jan 1, 1954

A girl recognizes a bank robber, and, afraid to tell the police, seeks refuge...

Episode 15 The Gold Thumb

15. The Gold Thumb

Aired: Jan 8, 1954

A ruthless sister plots murder in order to get a large inheritance.

Episode 16 Account Closed

16. Account Closed

Aired: Jan 15, 1954

Bill is infatuated with his sexy blonde co-worker Alice, but she remains cool...

Episode 17 Farewell Performance

17. Farewell Performance

Aired: Jan 22, 1954

A ventriloquist, popular on the vaudeville stage, murders his unfaithful, nag...

Episode 21 Live a Little

21. Live a Little

Aired: Feb 19, 1954

A devoted husband becomes involved with another woman in a life of crime.

Episode 22 His Brother's Girl

22. His Brother's Girl

Aired: Feb 26, 1954

A college professor loses a chance at a promotion because of his brother's in...

Episode 23 Taps for a Hoofer

23. Taps for a Hoofer

Aired: Mar 5, 1954

A fading dancing star uses the remnant of glamour that still clings to his na...

Episode 24 Don't You Remember?

24. Don't You Remember?

Aired: Mar 12, 1954

A lonely man returns to his boyhood village to find his former sweetheart sti...

Episode 25 Open Season

25. Open Season

Aired: Mar 19, 1954

A man suspects his wife of being unfaithful and arranges a showdown at a duck...

Episode 26 The Silence

26. The Silence

Aired: Mar 26, 1954

A woman frightens the construction workers in the jungles of India when they ...

Episode 28 Borrow My Car

28. Borrow My Car

Aired: Apr 9, 1954

Two garage mechanics become involved with an attractive woman and a store rob...

Episode 32 Girl on the Drum

32. Girl on the Drum

Aired: May 7, 1954

When a dancer from Havana causes a New Orleans representative for a New York ...

Episode 33 The Black Purse

33. The Black Purse

Aired: May 14, 1954

The honesty of penniless Jeff Miller leads him into intrigue when he finds a ...

Episode 34 Fie, Fie, Fifi

34. Fie, Fie, Fifi

Aired: May 21, 1954

Fifi, the owner of a matrimonial business, involves a poor, middle-aged coupl...

Episode 35 Grenadine

35. Grenadine

Aired: May 28, 1954

A con artist's plan for taking advantage of a young woman is fouled up by a d...

Episode 36 Unfair Game

36. Unfair Game

Aired: Jun 4, 1954

A long-married couple travels from sophisticated life in Sydney, Australia, i...

Episode 37 Terror Train

37. Terror Train

Aired: Jun 11, 1954

A scientist and his wife are riding on a train that holds more danger than th...

Episode 38 Doubled in Danger

38. Doubled in Danger

Aired: Jun 18, 1954

A recently released convict vows revenge on the man that unjustly set him up....

Episode 40 Dear Little Fool

40. Dear Little Fool

Aired: Jul 4, 1954

Nurse Carroll doesn't follow the book in to attending to the old men under he...

Episode 41 Uncle Charley

41. Uncle Charley

Aired: Jul 11, 1954

A non-existent uncle proves to be a real-life problem for a couple, in this s...

Episode 42 The Whistling Room

42. The Whistling Room

Aired: Jul 18, 1954

A Londoner, with his father, moves to a castle in Ireland to be near his fian...

Episode 43 Bachelor's Week-end

43. Bachelor's Week-end

Aired: Jul 25, 1954

A bachelor is nearly connived out of getting married by his friends during a ...

Episode 44 Annual Honeymoon

44. Annual Honeymoon

Aired: Aug 1, 1954

The story revolves around a slave-driver boss and how he becomes the well-lik...

Episode 45 Long, Long Ago

45. Long, Long Ago

Aired: Aug 8, 1954

During a stormy night at an old, isolated house in England, a lonely couple a...

Episode 46 Mungahra

46. Mungahra

Aired: Aug 15, 1954

A Londoner returns from a South Seas fortune-hunting expedition minus his son...

Episode 48 Playmates

48. Playmates

Aired: Aug 29, 1954

Monica is a lonely young girl who is schooled at home by her Uncle Stephen an...

Episode 49 Adopted Son

49. Adopted Son

Aired: Sep 5, 1954

A mother tries to remake the athletic boy she has adopted to the image of her...

Episode 50 A Mansion for Jimmy

50. A Mansion for Jimmy

Aired: Sep 12, 1954

Jimmy's new friends come from a higher income bracket than he does, so he doe...

Episode 52 Portrait of Tobey

52. Portrait of Tobey

Aired: Sep 26, 1954

A drama about a man who spent his life savings for his own likeness.

Info about The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse

Seasons: 2

Network: ABC

Genres:Drama