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Four Star Playhouse Season 4

6 October 195541 episodes

Where to watch Four Star Playhouse Season 4

Four Star Playhouse season 4 is free to watch in Australia on Tubi. Season 4 was released on 6 October 1955.

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Availability checked 16 November 2026.

Four Star Playhouse Season 4 air dates

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Air dates: TMDB.

Four Star Playhouse Season 4 episodes

  1. S04 E01

    The Firing Squad

    30m

    A WWII captain must oversee an execution he doesn't want to happen.

  2. S04 E02

    The Face of Danger

    30m

    A 100-year-old woman who recalls her romance with a desperado during the days of the old West.

  3. S04 E03

    Let the Chips Fall

    30m

    A reformed card sharp is recruited to unmask a suspected poker cheat among a group of wealthy gamblers. He finds it difficult to be impartial when the suspect enthusiastically befriends him.

  4. S04 E04

    Full Circle

    30m

    A particularly bad review causes a Broadway actress to scheme to humiliate the drama critic.

  5. S04 E05

    A Spray of Bullets

    30m

    A former sheriff, Will Sonnett, known for his fast draw shows up in Mesa to see an optometrist; he's become nearsighted and badly needs glasses. Also in town is a punk gunfighter who wants to make a name for himself. Knowing Sonnett has vision problems, he challenges the lawman to a duel.

  6. S04 E06

    The Devil to Pay

    30m

    In Hell, the administrating office is hopelessly out of date and incompetent, so Satan enlists the help of an exceptionally aggressive and heartless businessman to modernize the place. He installs an IBM system and soon it's the picture of efficiency, much, it turns out, to the businessman's regret.

  7. S04 E07

    Here Comes the Suit

    30m

    A milquetoast employee at a novelty company is overlooked by everyone from his boss to the woman he crushes on. But after being suckered by a shady tailor into getting a shockingly garish suit, he's whistled at by woman and mistaken for a gangster. His newly found self-confidence fits him well.

  8. S04 E08

    Looking Glass House

    30m

    A woman is surprised when her fiancé turns out to have been married before.

  9. S04 E09

    Something Very Special

    30m

    Alan moves to America when his wife dies, leaving his young daughter with her grandmother in Paris. When he returns after five years, his daughter has difficulty believing that he loves her.

  10. S04 E10

    A Place Full of Strangers

    30m

    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.

  11. S04 E11

    One Way Out

    30m

    A wealthy woman separates from her fortune-hunting husband. She rents a swanky New York penthouse in a building so new that she is the only one living there. When she awakens from a nap, she finds herself trapped in the apartment.

  12. S04 E12

    Dark Meeting

    30m

    When her long-time pin-boy retires, bowling proprietress hires the one guy who answers her want-ad right away. He turns out to be an escaped committed psychotic who, lonely and always lacking in the social skills, never received the nurturing of a friend [you think].

  13. S04 E13

    Magic Night

    30m

    Upset that his 25 years of service for the company are unappreciated, Henri treats himself to an expensive night on the town, on the company's dime. He then comes to his senses, distraught that his embezzlement will be discovered.

  14. S04 E14

    Tunnel of Fear

    30m

    While traveling alone in a train compartment, an elderly, wealthy, wheelchair-bound man (Cedric Hardwicke) is confronted by a younger man (David Niven), whom he had double-crossed over twenty years ago.

  15. S04 E15

    High Stakes

    30m

    An employee catches attractive Mrs. Raymond making a pass at Willie, then Mr. Raymond comes to the club with a gun to get even. Willie shoots him in self defense, but Willie is framed when Mr. Raymond's gun disappears.

  16. S04 E16

    The Listener

    30m

    Sheila and her brother engineer a gas leak to kill her husband so they can split the insurance money. Overhearing the plot is the husband's invalid father, but it's no concern because he can't speak or write. Sheila doesn't realize he is able to communicate with his nurse through his eyes.

  17. S04 E17

    Safe Keeping

    30m

    The chancellor of a foreign university gives newspaperman Frank Carstairs a document to smuggle out of the country. He anticipates being charged with treason by the totalitarian government and he wants the free world to know he did not willingly join their side.

  18. S04 E18

    No Limit

    30m

    Suave restaurateur-gambler Willie Dante rebuffs the attempt of racketeers to cash in on his gambling activities. He appears to change his mind, however, due to the influence of a beautiful woman.

  19. S04 E19

    Command

    30m

    The first mate on a merchant ship has been waiting for years to take command of the ship. When the elderly captain makes a mistake at a time when the ship is in danger the first mate sees his chance.

  20. S04 E20

    Once to Every Woman

    30m

    At a particularly vulnerable time in her life, Carol is wooed by charming David. They fall in love, but Carol then learns that David is married. He says that he will get divorced for her, but Carol is visited by David's wife.

  21. S04 E21

    Red Wine

    30m

    A police detective travels to Borneo looking for an American who murdered his wife for a huge insurance payoff. There are only three Americans there, all on a rubber plantation, but none fits the physical description.

  22. S04 E22

    To Die at Midnight

    30m

    The conflict of a prison warden who discovers exculpatory evidence on the eve of an execution.

  23. S04 E23

    Desert Encounter

    30m

    A famous author gets embroiled in an unusual situation when he offers to drive a young Mexican girl to her ranch.

  24. S04 E24

    The Case of Emily Cameron

    30m

    Emily is an invalid who needs a caretaker. Her husband leaves her home alone one day, and she begins to stew over the low regard that he has for her. He, on the other hand, resents the opportunities that he's missed because of Emily.

  25. S04 E25

    The Rites of Spring

    30m

    An older husband tests the marital fidelity of his amorous young wife by anonymously sending her flowers from "a secret admirer".

  26. S04 E26

    Autumn Carousel

    30m

    A TV writer finds inspiration from a little girl travelling to Los Angeles.

  27. S04 E27

    Wall of Bamboo

    30m

    An undercover agent is dispatched to the anti-communist underground to search for an important contact. But when he's caught by the red Chinese, he's tortured in various ways for important information by a mysterious renegade white man who leads them known by the nom de guerre "Sampan Joe".

  28. S04 E28

    Touch and Go

    30m

    Ted attacks old enemy Walter in a fit of rage. Stunned at the realization that Walter is dead, he hears a woman on the phone who overheard their conversation. Ted needs to find this woman and keep her from telling the police anything.

  29. S04 E29

    A Long Way From Texas

    30m

    Two con men target a naive young oilman from Texas. They visit Willie's gambling hall, and the con men threaten Willie. He decides to get revenge, and teach a lesson to the oilman.

  30. S04 E30

    That Woman

    30m

    A young widow, who is in denial that her husband has died, moves in with her brother-in-law's family down on the farm. Her city ways and manners clash with the simple, pious life of the farmers.

  31. S04 E31

    The Other Room

    30m

    A teacher wanting to leave his unfulfilling job needs money to write the book he's dreamed of. A stranger enters and makes an unusual offer: $10,000 to take a physical for a dying man so he can get life insurance to take care of his widow when he passes on.

  32. S04 E32

    One Forty-Two

    30m

    Ruthless dictator Mendoza summons a priest when 300,000 people in his country announce that they will pray for him to die at 1:42 that day.

  33. S04 E33

    Beneath the Surface

    30m

    In an effort to escape her past, a woman takes a job in a plant.

  34. S04 E34

    Watch the Sunset

    30m

    Philip Benton is entertaining thoughts of moving on from his wife, who has been in a sanitarium for five years. Just as he is starting a new relationship with his secretary, he receives news that his wife is better and will be released.

  35. S04 E35

    Second Chance

    30m

    An experienced writer is in the middle of a professional slump when he is inspired by the story of an old long lost friend. While his career is reviving, he seems to be hindering the acting prospects of his novice young girlfriend.

  36. S04 E36

    Woman Afraid

    30m

    While her husband is laid up in a farm house with a broken leg, Nina sees a prowling burglar. She calls for help, but the hired hand that she calls for is the burglar - and he's also a murderer.

  37. S04 E37

    The Stacked Deck

    30m

    Fresh out of prison, blackmailer Gus Anderson intends to use Willie's casino to launder his victims' money. To insure his cooperation, Gus' thugs are holding one of Willie's waiters hostage.

  38. S04 E38

    Distinguished Service

    30m

    More interested in his career than in his duty as a physician, a noted doctor intentionally misdiagnoses a patient in an Asian city so he could get back to the U.S. and accept a major award. When his wife realizes that he abandoned a town needing his help to fight a Plague outbreak, she demands a divorce.

  39. S04 E39

    Yellowbelly

    30m

    A military hero becomes circumspect as his wife expects their first child. In battle, he jumps into a protective hole instead of forging to the front of the line. His company nicknames him Yellowbelly, and he loses the respect of his men.

  40. S04 E40

    The Stand-In

    30m

    An aspiring actress has spent 20 years in Hollywood, not gaining fame as she had hoped, but as a stand-in for a well-known actress. Her ambition turns to despair, and her affection to bitterness.

  41. S04 E41

    Success Story

    30m

    A man is assigned to force a small-town newspaper out of existence.

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

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