Theater of Stars Episode Guide

Episode Guide

• Season 1 Episode 79: The Long Long Laugh

  Only one fellow worker (June Lockhart) is kind when a man (Russell Arms) is the butt of a bad joke.

• Season 1 Episode 78: Rain in the Morning

  A woman lets a salesman into her house, to find he is really an escaped mental patient.

• Season 1 Episode 77: End of the Rope

  A stranger in 1870s Arizona sticks to the truth despite a lynch mob's pressure.

• Season 1 Episode 76: The Ice Man

  With Jackie Coogan, Andrew Duggan, Peggy McKay.

• Season 1 Episode 75: Cave In

  A children's accident uncovers their parents' extramarital affair. With Paul Langton, Jeanne Cooper.

• Season 1 Episode 74: Fight the Whole World

  A boy (Dean Stockwell) falls in love with his adopted parents' natural daughter.

• Season 1 Episode 73: The Odd Ones

  A drab art teacher (Marilyn Erskine) falls for her handsome pupil (Darryl Hickman).

• Season 1 Episode 72: The Man Without a Country

  A man's (Peter Hansen) wish never to see the United States again comes tragically true.

• Season 1 Episode 71: The Fall of the House of Usher

  An eccentric old man hears his dead sister's voice.

• Season 1 Episode 70: Journey Into Darkness

  A hard-working father gets amnesia from a head injury.

• Season 1 Episode 69: The Ivy Curtain

  College officials try to cover up a student's murder.

• Season 1 Episode 68: A Question of Balance

  A murder case could expose an assistant district attorney's (Paul Langton) extramarital romance.

• Season 1 Episode 67: From the Desk of Margaret Tidings

  A career woman (Margaret Hayes) tries to find out who is poisoning her.

• Season 1 Episode 66: Eye of the Storm

  A battered bride (Gloria Talbot) seeks help from her jealous sister (Marian Seldes).

• Season 1 Episode 65: Horsepower

  A teen (Dean Stockwell) rebels against his father's discipline.

• Season 1 Episode 64: Mr. Krane

  A man claiming to be a superior alien (Cedric Hardwicke) gives earthlings a life-or-death demand.

• Season 1 Episode 63: Barricade on the Big Black

  An Army officer (Richard Crenna) falls for an Indian's wife (Mary LaRoche).

• Season 1 Episode 62: Strong Medicine

  An unwanted Easterner (Patrick O'Neal) in the Old West struggles to keep his inheritance.

• Season 1 Episode 61: Jane Eyre

  An orphaned girl (Joan Elan) debates marrying for love or security.

• Season 1 Episode 60: Eugenie Grandet

  A woman (Peggy McKay) debates telling her poor fiance (Van Dufour) that she is now rich.

• Season 1 Episode 59: Wisp's End

  An aspiring concert pianist's (Will Hutchins) ambition exceeds his talent.

• Season 1 Episode 58: The Last Leaf

  An eccentric (Evelyn Varden) has her own funeral while she's still around to enjoy it.

• Season 1 Episode 57: The Others

  A governess (Sarah Churchill) battles evil spirits for her young charges' souls.

• Season 1 Episode 56: The Alumni Reunion

  An unsuccessful man (Don Keefer) tries to find a new career at his college reunion.

• Season 1 Episode 55: The Starmaster

  A retired general (Victor Jory) tries to use military tactics in business.

• Season 1 Episode 54: Sound of Fear

  A man (Jerry Paris) accused of murder suffers for his father's (Lewis Martin) past.

• Season 1 Episode 53: Wipeout

  A scheming surfer (Tom Tryon) plays without pay with a fading movie star (Shelley Winters).

• Season 1 Episode 52: When Hell Froze

  A loyal wife (Jane Wyman) is unjustly accused of adultery for befriending a stranger (Martin Milner).

• Season 1 Episode 51: War of Nerves

  Drama of a 'secret army' in Paris. With Stephen Boyd, Louis Jourdan, Monique LaMaire.

• Season 1 Episode 50: Wake Up, Darling

  Polly (Janet Blair) wants a musical career, but her husband (Barry Nelson) wants a housewife.

• Season 1 Episode 49: Verdict by Terror

  An aspiring politician (Cliff Robertson) answers for ruthless scheming.

• Season 1 Episode 48: Turncoat

  A traitor (George Hamilton) returns to steal U.S. missile plans and becomes a lonely girl's romantic target.

• Season 1 Episode 47: A Time for Killing

  A sub commander (George C. Scott) loses his taste for war, angering his crew.

• Season 1 Episode 46: Time to Love

  With Maximilian Schell, Ralph Bellamy.

• Season 1 Episode 45: Time for Elizabeth

  A retiree (Groucho Marx) attracts the attentions of a woman (Eden Marx) who likes mustaches.

• Season 1 Episode 44: Think Pretty

  A record producer (Fred Astaire) romances and deceives an agent (Barrie Chase).

• Season 1 Episode 43: Terror Island

  A bride (Ginger Rogers) visits her new in-laws -- who may never let her leave alive.

• Season 1 Episode 42: The Square Peg

  A man (Bob Cummings) unwittingly works for the mob.

• Season 1 Episode 41: The Sojourner

  A roamer's (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) outlook changes when he learns a truth from his past.

• Season 1 Episode 40: The Sister & the Savage

  A singer-turned-nun (Connie Francis) urges a young rocker to have needed surgery.

• Season 1 Episode 39: Simon Says Get Married

  Computer dating goes awry by mis-matchmaking.

• Season 1 Episode 38: Shipwrecked

  A shipwreck survivor (Jason Robards Jr.) bargains with God to let his companion (Hope Lange) live.

• Season 1 Episode 37: The Shattered Glass

  A widow's (Shirley Jones) father tries to turn her from an exploitative old flame (William Shatner).

• Season 1 Episode 36: The Seven Little Foys

  The Foys (The Osmonds) leave school to return to vaudeville. Narrated by Bob Hope.

• Season 1 Episode 35: Runaway

  A teen (Joey Heatherton) trades family life for disillusionment with a folk-song cult.

• Season 1 Episode 34: The Reason Nobody Hardly Ever Seen a Fat Outlaw in the Old West Is as Follows:

  A good guy (Don Knotts) tries to go bad, but can't.

• Season 1 Episode 33: Perilous Times

  World War II comes between lovers (Peter Falk, Diane Baker).

• Season 1 Episode 32: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch

  A Siberian labor-camp inmate (Jason Robards Jr.) struggles to survive.

• Season 1 Episode 31: Nightmare

  Two members of a love triangle (Julie Harris, Farley Granger) plot the murder of the third.

• Season 1 Episode 30: Murder in the First

  With Janet Leigh, Lloyd Bochner, Bobby Darin.

• Season 1 Episode 29: Mr. Biddle's Crime Wave

  Framed tourist Biddle (Roddy McDowall) hides out with a man-crazy woman (Shari Lewis).

• Season 1 Episode 28: Mr. Governess

  A lonely man (Tom Tryon) disguises himself to be with his rich fiancee and falls for his widowed employer.

• Season 1 Episode 27: Massacre at Fort Phil Kearny

  Post-Civil War Army officers (Richard Egan, Robert Fuller) clash over treatment of Indians.

• Season 1 Episode 26: The Loving Cup

  A socialite (Patrick O'Neal) courts marital disaster to seek money from his wife's (Polly Bergen) old flame.

• Season 1 Episode 25: The Lady Is My Wife

  A wife (Jean Simmons) is the stake in her husband's (Brad Dillman) poker game.

• Season 1 Episode 24: Kicks

  Murder results when a rich gambler (Melodie Johnson) won't pay her poor bookie (Mickey Rooney).

• Season 1 Episode 23: In Pursuit of Excellence

  A student (Glen Corbett) considers cheating to pass a test.

• Season 1 Episode 22: In Any Language

  A has-been (Nanette Fabray) goes to Italy to revive her career and her ex-husband's (John Forsythe) interest.

• Season 1 Episode 21: Holloway's Daughters

  When a man (David Wayne) inherits his father's (Robert Young) detective agency, his daughters interfere.

• Season 1 Episode 20: The Highest Fall of All

  A grieving stunt man (Stuart Whitman) chances a Golden Gate Bridge leap, against friends' advice.

• Season 1 Episode 19: Four Kings

  Four convicts parachute behind enemy lines to steal Nazi rocketry secrets.

• Season 1 Episode 18: The Fatal Mistake

  A reptile rancher's (Arthur Hill) hobby rids him of a blackmailer (Roddy McDowall).

• Season 1 Episode 17: The Enemy on the Beach

  Navy men (Robert Wagner, James Donald) on duty fall for a bitter war widow (Sally Ann Howes).

• Season 1 Episode 16: Echo of Evil

  Police and the new mob boss (Nehemiah Persoff) plague a retired gangster (Barry Sullivan).

• Season 1 Episode 15: Double Jeopardy

  A jet-set private eye (Jack Kelly) angers twin murder suspects (Lauren Bacall in a dual role).

• Season 1 Episode 14: Dear Deductible

  A newly rich man (Peter Falk) and a newly poor socialite (Janet Leigh) enter a rocky marriage of convenience.

• Season 1 Episode 13: Dead Wrong

  Fugitives in a love triangle hole up with a hermit monk (Patrick O'Neal).

• Season 1 Episode 12: Deadlock

  A recent widow (Lee Grant) holds police hostage while ambushing her husband's killer.

• Season 1 Episode 11: The Crime

  A district attorney (Pat O'Brien) warns his deputy (Jack Lord) not to prejudge a society woman accused of murder.

• Season 1 Episode 10: Crazier Than Cotton

  A woman (Jean Simmons) is disillusioned when her sculptor boyfriend (Bradford Dillman) forsakes art for cash.

• Season 1 Episode 9: Corridor 400

  A lounge singer (Suzanne Pleshette) goes undercover to expose a society drug czar.

• Season 1 Episode 8: Cops & Robbers

  A group of retirees plans a bizarre caper with an elderly ex-con (Bert Lahr).

• Season 1 Episode 7: Clash of Cymbals

  An attractive piano student has the romantic interest of two mentors (Louis Jourdan, Jack Klugman).

• Season 1 Episode 6: The Candidate

  A once-successful political manager (Milton Berle) cannot avert personal defeats.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Brilliant Benjamin Boggs

  A softhearted fiance's (Donald O'Connor) good intentions bring bad results.

• Season 1 Episode 4: The Blue-Eyed Horse

  Melvin's (Ernest Borgnine) gambling-addict wife (Joan Blondell) turns into a racehorse.

• Season 1 Episode 3: And Baby Makes Five

  A couple (Cliff Robertson, Angie Dickinson) abandons successful city careers to buck a small-town big shot.

• Season 1 Episode 2: The Admiral

  His wife's death forces an admiral (Robert Young) and his son (Robert Reed) to realize their own shortcomings.

• Season 1 Episode 1: A Case of Armed Robbery

  An angry young man (Tony Franciosa) hires an aging safecracker (Pat O'Brien) for a robbery.