Originaltitel
Four Star Playhouse
Produktionsland
Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
Originalsprache
Englisch
FSK
6
Untertitel
Nein
Besetzung
Dick Powell, Ida Lupino, David Niven, Angela Lansbury, Natalie Wood, Jack Benny, Charles Boyer
Episoden-Guide
1. Staffel 1 (19 Episoden)
01
Episode 1
Man invents a wife, then accused of murdering her.
02
Episode 2
Willie Dante owns a bar and gambling house called Dante's Inferno. One night, the wife of an acquaintance tells Willie that her husband has threatened her. Willie comforts her and sends her home, but she turns up dead the next day.
03
Episode 3
Englishman must retrieve his hat after visiting his love.
04
Episode 4
An actor named Paul is out on an evening stroll when he sees a young woman attempting to jump off a bridge. After a struggle, he discovers her name is Amy and she is homeless. Paul believes $5 could mean the difference between decency & despair so he pays for Amy to stay in a hotel for the night, agreeing to meet her the next day. Amy is nowhere to be found when Paul returns. He worries and begins the search for this mysterious woman.
05
Episode 5
A notorious criminal returns to his home town after 15 years away, and a young man wants to join him in notoriety and, probably, death at the hands of police.
06
Episode 6
Rebellious physician on an island in the South Pacific.
07
Episode 7
A reformed pickpocket in Paris obtains the purse of an attractive woman. He reads a letter telling about her dying son, and he decides to grant the boy's wish to meet his father.
08
Episode 8
Middleweight boxer finds his big bout has been fixed.
09
Episode 9
William encounters an old acquaintance, John Dwerrihouse, on a train with 75,000 pounds. Only later did William learn that Dwerrihouse had disappeared four months earlier after embezzling 75,000 pounds from the train company.
10
Episode 10
2. Staffel 2 (31 Episoden)
01
Episode 1
02
Episode 2
Another of the great Willie Dante stories. Stan, the son of the DA, is a secret gambler. He loses big in Willie's joint and pays by check. Stan's pretty sister shows up to ask Willie's help. Deras, a gangster up before the Grand Jury, wants to get hold of Stan's check to blackmail the DA. He shows up at Dante's and Willie turns over the check at gunpoint. Never to be out-witted, Willie has Lt. Waldo waiting in the wings to get the checks back, have Deras arrested, and win Stan's sister.
03
Episode 3
The Commander, a mildly brain injured war hero, lives with his greedy family. All he wants is his own house, while all they want is to preserve their failing wealth, at all costs. When Frank, his younger brother, kills a man over a gambling debt, the family convinces Claude that he is the one that did it. He takes the blame, but instead of being arrested, he is given a $10,000 reward because the dead man was a most wanted criminal.
04
Episode 4
A journalist's wife who, while alone on a sea voyage, becomes the center of male attention.
05
Episode 5
A suave attorney is hired to defend a man on trial for robbery and murder. The attorney finds the real culprit and solves the mystery in the courtroom.
06
Episode 6
07
Episode 7
08
Episode 8
A sickly aging shipping magnate falls in love with a blind mother.
09
Episode 9
10
Episode 10
3. Staffel 3 (38 Episoden)
01
Episode 1
02
Episode 2
03
Episode 3
A young woman from a wealthy family is graduating from an exclusive school with neither her parents nor close friends attending. In her lonliness, she becomes infatuated with an older man, a divorced newspaper reporter.
04
Episode 4
05
Episode 5
A school teacher on the disciplinery board, finds herself investigating her nephew's misconduct.
06
Episode 6
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Episode 7
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Episode 8
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Episode 9
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Episode 10
4. Staffel 4 (41 Episoden)
01
Episode 1
A WWII captain must oversee an execution he doesn't want to happen.
02
Episode 2
A 100-year-old woman who recalls her romance with a desperado during the days of the old West.
03
Episode 3
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Episode 4
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Episode 5
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Episode 6
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Episode 7
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Episode 8
A woman is surprised when her fiancé turns out to have been married before.
09
Episode 9
A former jazz great is released from a mental hospital where he has been treated for amnesia...and for the attempted murder of his wife, and attempted suicide. Upon returning to his home and wife, a series of events leads up to the startling discovery of what really happened the night of the attempted murder/suicide.
10
Episode 10
Industrialist Fleet Mason, a workaholic who doesn't realize how many lives he effects with his stressed-out working habits. When he thinks his loving wife has hung up on him in disgust, he re-evaluates his life by taking an imaginary bus trip to Meadville"". The trip is to nowhere and is full of psychological imagery. In a smoke shrouded bus terminal he meets all the people in his life as total strangers. When he meets his wife and realizes she doesn't recognize him, he becomes despondent. Only when his father appears and guides him to the exit does he realize how he must alter his life.
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