Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was sponsored by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. The title was shortened to Schlitz Playhouse, beginning with the fall 1957 season.
This episode, The Restless Gun starred John Payne as a gregarious, intelligent, wandering cowhand/gunslinger, aired March 29, 1957. It was based on the old time radio series "The Six Shooter" and Payne's character had the same name: Britt Ponset. This was changed to Vint Bonner when the The Restless Gun appeared as an American western television series on NBC between 1957 and 1959. Some episodes of the series were based on the stories of the old time radio programs.
This pilot episode is very interesting to watch for any "Six Shooter" western fans of the radio series. There is some interesting co-stars in this episode like William Hopper who went on to play Paul Drake in the show Perry Mason and a very young Michael Landon who went on to play Little Joe on Bonanza.
This episode was written by Les Crutchfield, one of the major writers for "Gunsmoke" on both radio and television (he wrote 81 scripts for the radio program alone) and also created the character Festus on the Gunsmoke TV series.
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Britt Ponset finds a wounded man in the desert and brings him to Jenny
Garber to nurse him back to health. No man seems to think much of
Jenny. A moving, well-written story.
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"The Six-Shooter" from Hollywood Star Playhouse aired April 13, 1952 on NBC sponsored by The Bakers Of America. The first adventure of Britt Ponset, which would lead to the old time radio western series named "The Six-Shooter." The Wells Fargo office has been robbed of $5000 and a man has been shot. A distinctive horseshoe provieds a clue for The Six-Shooter.
Bret and Bart ride into a small Arizona town and are mistaken for Wyatt
Earp and Doc Holliday despite their protestations to the contrary.
Things start to look bad for the Mavericks when an outlaw gang ride into
town and the local sheriff convinces the crooks that the two gamblers
are the famous lawmen.
Lonely drifter Mike Rogers finally settles down when he meets young heiress Ellie Guteman. They build the house of their dreams in a beautiful and remote area, ignoring rumors of a curse. With their arrival, however, the curse seems to come to life, and they find themselves in grave danger.
Aunt Bee and Clara Johnson are both jarring homemade pickles. The only
difference is that Clara's are good enough to have won the blue ribbon
at the fair eleven years counting while Aunt Bee's taste like they've
been floating in kerosene. The boys are too polite to tell Aunt bee the
truth about her pickles and come up with a plan to switch Aunt Bee's
pickles with store bought pickles. The plan backfires when Bee decides
to enter her pickles in the contest.
A young woman lying in a hospital bed, her head wrapped in bandages,
awaits the outcome of a surgical procedure performed by the State in a
last-ditch attempt to make her look "normal".
A young woman lying in a hospital bed, her head wrapped in bandages,
awaits the outcome of a surgical procedure performed by the State in a
last-ditch attempt to make her look "normal".
Two-part radio adaptation of Liz Lochhead's stage play, first performed at the Edinburgh Lyceum in 1985. Liz Lochhead's dramatization of Bram Stoker's novel remains generally faithful to the original, but combines some of the characters and condenses events to fit into the requirements of a play. Adapted for radio by John Foley; introduced by Robin Lustig.
Gunsmoke. August 23, 1952. CBS net. "Shakespeare". Sustaining. A good story about a crazed Shakespearean actor who commits murder during a Kansas heat wave.
Gunsmoke. August 9, 1952. CBS. "The Kentucky Tolmans". The Tolmans from Kentucky include a good lookin' mountain gal, a drinking old father with a secret, and a son willing to kill to get at it.
Gunsmoke. July 26, 1952. CBS. "Gentlemen's Disagreement". Ed Beaudry comes to Dodge to kill Bert Wells. A showdown seems inevitable, but Beaudry is found dead!
Gunsmoke. July 19, 1952. CBS net. "Doc Holiday". Sustaining. Doc Holiday has come to Dodge to kill Big Jack Finley. But Big Jack's son, Thorne Finley, is the real problem.
Gunsmoke. July 5, 1952. CBS net. "Never Pester Chester". Sustaining. Two Texas cowboys drag Chester behind a horse for fun, almost killing him. Marshal Dillon brings in the cowboys...without his guns.
A Werewolf Horror Play by Victor Pemberton. Set around the end of the 19th century in Cambridge and the Fen Country, a Judge encounters the terrible curse of lycanthropy in his district. Vincent Price tracks a shadowy monster in the search for his missing son. Gothic horror. Starring Vincent Price, Coral Browne, Peter Whitman, Sheila Grant, Elizabeth Proud and John Rye.
Kirk and psychiatrist Helen Noel are trapped on a maximum security penal
colony that experiments with mind control and Spock must use the Vulcan
mind-meld to find a way to save them.
At a prominent club in Washington, D.C., a socialite argues about whether it would be possible to change history by traveling back in time. When he leaves the club he finds himself in 1865, on the night that President Lincoln will be shot.
Holmes is called upon to investigate the plight of a successful American businessman whose past association with a secret society comes back to haunt him.
The Enterprise picks up untrustworthy entrepreneur Harry Mudd
accompanied by three beautiful women who immediately put a spell on all
the male crew members.
A transporter malfunction splits Captain Kirk into two halves: one meek
and indecisive, the other violent and ill tempered. The remaining crew
members stranded on the planet cannot be beamed up to the ship until a
the problem is fixed.