Screen Director's Playhouse
Screen Director's Playhouse

Screen Director's Playhouse

1955 1 Seasons 35 Episodes ⭐ 7.0 Comedy Drama

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.

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.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Meet The Governor

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

EP 2

Day is Done

During the catastrophic 1951 retreat of American troops in Korea, a recruit finds a Chinese bugle. His sargeant then att

EP 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

EP 4

Arroyo

A small New Mexican town enjoys a reasonably peaceful existence under the rule of self-appointed judge Lamar Kendall. Th

EP 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

EP 6

The Life of Vernon Hathaway

A meek little watch repairman daydreams himself into exciting adventures. When his alter ego takes over, he begins livin

EP 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

EP 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

EP 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

EP 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

EP 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 phy

EP 12

The Silent Partner

Watching the TV broadcast of the Academy Awards presentation, a faded actress realizes that the patron at another table

EP 13

Titanic Incident

A cardsharp and his wife aboard the Titanic on its fateful last voyage pick a wealthy Britisher as their pigeon. The car

EP 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

EP 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.

EP 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

EP 17

Prima Donna

A philanthropic concert artist takes an interest in a 13-year-old newsboy with an outstanding singing voice. She runs in

EP 18

Cry Justice

Bitter because his law partner married the woman he loved, a man plots his own disappearance, making it appear he has be

EP 19

Affair in Sumatra

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

EP 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 s

EP 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.

EP 22

The Sword Of Villon

The swashbuckling poet Francois Villon fights for love and liberty while preventing the assassination of the King of Fra

EP 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 fi

EP 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

EP 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 i

EP 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

EP 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.

EP 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 a

EP 29

Partners

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

EP 30

White Corridors

An American tourist in London accompanies a friend to the hospital for an emergency operation. At the hospital, she clai

EP 31

The Carroll Formula

A college professor stumbled across a fantastic formula for reducing the size of things in the unpublished mathematical

EP 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, wh

EP 33

Bitter Waters

In a fashionable German resort at the turn of the century, a wealthy young American touring Europe with his uncle meets

EP 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 wo

EP 35

High Air

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

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