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Meet The Governor E1 30 min

1. Meet The Governor

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

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Day is Done E2 30 min

2. Day is Done

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.

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Midsummer Daydream E3 30 min

3. Midsummer Daydream

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.

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Arroyo E4 30 min

4. Arroyo

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.

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Want ad Wedding E5 30 min

5. Want ad Wedding

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.

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The Life of Vernon Hathaway E6 30 min

6. The Life of Vernon Hathaway

A meek little watch repairman daydreams himself into exciting adventures. When his alter ego takes over, he begins living his dreams in real life.

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The Final Tribute E7 30 min

7. The Final Tribute

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.

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The Brush Roper E8 30 min

8. The Brush Roper

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.

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Tom and Jerry E9 30 min

9. Tom and Jerry

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.

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Rookie of the Year E10 30 min

10. Rookie of the Year

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.

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Lincoln's Doctor's Dog E11 30 min

11. Lincoln's Doctor's Dog

Discouraged and saddened by the War Between the States, President Lincoln is cheered by the gift of a puppy from his physician.

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The Silent Partner E12 30 min

12. The Silent Partner

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.

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Titanic Incident E13 30 min

13. Titanic Incident

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.

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Hot Cargo E14 30 min

14. Hot Cargo

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.

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It's Always Sunday E15 30 min

15. It's Always Sunday

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

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Number Five Checked Out E16 30 min

16. Number Five Checked Out

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.

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Prima Donna E17 30 min

17. Prima Donna

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.

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Cry Justice E18 30 min

18. Cry Justice

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.

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Affair in Sumatra E19 30 min

19. Affair in Sumatra

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

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One Against Many E20 30 min

20. One Against Many

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.

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It's a Most Unusual Day E21 30 min

21. It's a Most Unusual Day

A married couple take in a night club show starring Jimmy McHugh, and are prompted by his melodies to relive their past.

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The Sword Of Villon E22 30 min

22. The Sword Of Villon

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.

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Markheim E23 30 min

23. Markheim

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.

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Claire E24 30 min

24. Claire

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.

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A Ticket For Thaddeus E25 30 min

25. A Ticket For Thaddeus

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.

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The Dream E26 30 min

26. The Dream

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.

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What Day is it? E27 30 min

27. What Day is it?

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

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Every Man Had Two Wives E28 30 min

28. Every Man Had Two Wives

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.

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Partners E29 30 min

29. Partners

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

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White Corridors E30 30 min

30. White Corridors

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.

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The Carroll Formula E31 30 min

31. The Carroll Formula

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.

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Apples on the Lilac Tree E32 30 min

32. Apples on the Lilac Tree

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.

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Bitter Waters E33 30 min

33. Bitter Waters

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.

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The Day I met Caruso E34 30 min

34. The Day I met Caruso

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.""

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High Air E35 30 min

35. High Air

Long separated, a river-tunnel foreman and his son come face to face during an under-river disaster which almost takes their lives.

Screen Director's Playhouse poster

Screen Director's Playhouse (1955)

7.0 (5) 1 Season 30m/ep 1955-10-05 US

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.

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Stars: N/A