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Four Star Playhouse

Four Star Playhouse Season 2

24 September 195331 episodes

Where to watch Four Star Playhouse Season 2

Four Star Playhouse season 2 is free to watch in Australia on Tubi. Season 2 was released on 24 September 1953.

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Availability checked 16 November 2026.

Four Star Playhouse Season 2 air dates

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Air dates: TMDB.

Four Star Playhouse Season 2 episodes

  1. S02 E01

    Finale

    30m

    Steve Carlyle is an actor who can't find work because his famous nearly identical cousin Roger takes measures to keep him from getting any parts that would gain Steve any public exposure, because Roger knows that Steve is a better actor.

  2. S02 E02

    The Squeeze

    30m

    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.

  3. S02 E03

    A Place Of His Own

    30m

    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.

  4. S02 E04

    Love At Sea

    30m

    A journalist's wife who, while alone on a sea voyage, becomes the center of male attention.

  5. S02 E05

    The Witness

    30m

    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.

  6. S02 E06

    A Matter Of Advice

    30m

    Weary Dr. Gentry gets no rest from his irritating patients. The pediatrician deals with ill-mannered kids and parents who can't make a move without checking with him first.

  7. S02 E07

    Search in the Night

    24m

    A newspaper reporter is intrigued as to why a woman hired a dive team to retrieve her purse from the Chicago River.

  8. S02 E08

    Moorings

    30m

    A sickly aging shipping magnate falls in love with a blind mother.

  9. S02 E09

    The Hard Way

    30m

    Vic breaks the bank at Willie's gambling hall, and Willie unknowingly pays him off with counterfeit money. When Vic threatens him, Willie convinces him that they've both been duped, and they cooperate to track down the real culprit.

  10. S02 E10

    For Art`s Sake

    30m

    Ted Parker enlists his friend Addy, a famous art expert, into an elaborate ruse to portray his budding love interest as a break-out artist, despite her lack of talent.

  11. S02 E11

    The Girl On The Park Bench

    30m

    A beautiful, intelligent, and politically savvy young woman takes up residency in the city park to protest the Mayor's decision to end rent control on apartments. The comically ornery mayor seems to have met his match!

  12. S02 E12

    The Room

    30m

    A doctor encounters suspicion and a dark secret when he rents a house in Cuba.

  13. S02 E13

    A Man Of The World

    30m

    Predictable Andy Bush is taking a train to his annual three week vacation without his wife. A young woman in trouble approaches him and asks him to help her by pretending to be her husband.

  14. S02 E14

    The Gift

    30m

    Businessman Carl Baxter is a good boss for 364 days a year, but his memories of his estrangement with his son causes his mood to change at Christmas.

  15. S02 E15

    House For Sale

    30m

    A woman visits an isolated house expecting to meet with the realtor. Instead, she encounters a murderer who's escaped from a mental hospital. When a couple drops in to tour the home, she tries to escape with them, but they refuse to believe her story of a killer with a body in the fireplace.

  16. S02 E16

    The Test

    30m

    A test pilot learns that it's possible that his sick daughter could have polio, just before he tests a new military plane.

  17. S02 E17

    The Bad Streak

    30m

    An honest professional casino owner runs into bad luck with impending insolvency or sale of his property. He also runs into his ""long-lost"" never forgotten misdirected son who is obsessed to better his hated father at gambling for having abandoned (rejected) him in infancy when it was all the doing of his guardian...

  18. S02 E18

    A String of Beads

    30m

    Joan Robinson works as a governess for a wealthy family. She attends a party thrown by her employer and, although she is an attractive young woman, she is completely ignored until one of the guests, Count Borselli, appraises the beads she is wearing as a valuable string of pearls.

  19. S02 E19

    Indian Taker

    30m

    A comedy of errors about an insurance executive’s wife. At a party, the impulse suddenly comes over her and she proceeds to steal the jewels of all wealthy guests, who happen to be insured by her husband’s firm.

  20. S02 E20

    Second Dawn

    30m

    A blind man has a chance for surgery to restore his sight, but it may last for just a few minutes.

  21. S02 E21

    The Gun

    30m

    A police detective returns home to his family one morning only to have his meal interrupted by a constant stream of people: the milkman, his neighbor, the postman, the grocery boy, and a salesman. Afterwards, he finds that his gun is missing.

  22. S02 E22

    The Bomb

    30m

    An engaged couple and the woman's former suitor take shelter in an abandoned house, too late to notice an unexploded bomb. Their retreat is cut off by a cave-in, and they must defuse the bomb with instructions delivered over a phone line.

  23. S02 E23

    Meet McGraw: Long Count

    30m

    McGraw, a private eye, is hired by Lila Lamont to protect her from her threatening husband Louis.

  24. S02 E24

    Detective`s Holiday

    30m

    A detective (Dick Powell) takes a trip to a cabin in the woods to get away from it all. A man, his wife, and his two kids entertain him. When one of the kids let's it slip that their step-mother just got her blond hair, the detective predicts she is running from the law and decides to check it out.

  25. S02 E25

    Operation In Money

    30m

    The chief teller of a bank openly embezzles a large sum of money to extort a pay raise from the bank's board of directors.

  26. S02 E26

    Lady of the Orchids

    30m

    An architect's wife endangers his career when she is involved in a car accident. While on a ride to a roadhouse, she accidentally spills brandy on the driver, with whom she has been flirting. The driver is assumed to be responsible for the fatal crash, and only the wife's testimony can save him.

  27. S02 E27

    The Book

    30m

    A stranger tussles with John over a library book and is struck and killed by a passing car. John discovers a message in the book and follows it to a blind meeting, only to be mistaken for a hit man with an assassination team.

  28. S02 E28

    A Study In Panic

    30m

    Wise-guy newspaperman Fred Jordan writes a column making fun of "normal" men who panic during a fire. Soon afterward he gets a letter from a deranged man who promises Jordan that he will soon know the "real" meaning of the word "panic"--because within 24 hours, the man is going to kill Jordan.

  29. S02 E29

    Masquerade

    30m

    A costume ball during the New Orleans Mardi Gras turns sour when the family hosting the festivities discovers that their cousin has escaped from jail.

  30. S02 E30

    Village In The City

    30m

    An artist turns detective to find out who murdered his favorite model and left the body in his studio.

  31. S02 E31

    The Doctor and the Countess

    30m

    A famous plastic surgeon is recruited to severely disfigure the face of a beautiful countess, in order to relate to her husband, who was burned and disfigured in a serious accident and has become a recluse.

Episode names, air dates, runtimes and summaries: TMDB. Air dates are the first broadcast anywhere.

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