@bernardjkd.bsky.social#SchlitzPlayhouseOfStars I don't follow baseball closely but is the @milwaukeebrewers.bsky.social getting to The World Series seen as some kind of tribute to The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous, Schlitz, who shut down their factory after 150+ years in April this year?
@bernardjkd.bsky.social#SchlitzPlayhouseOfStars TV ep #2.52 "Two Loves Have I" (28-Aug-53).
Last ep in S2. Very basic and dull war romance.
But now have a 7th member My 100 Club:
Janine Perreau who I saw in a 1959 #RichardDiamond but now an eligible 1953 TV ep here. She is 84yo today.
@bernardjkd.bsky.social#SchlitzPlayhouseOfStars TV ep #2.47 "Knave of Hearts" (24-Jul-53).
A Western starring Mark Stevens shortly before #MartinKane. I find him as dull here as he was in the latter.
Lee Van Cleef's presence is more of note.
Loved the Republic Studio's Western backlot.
@bernardjkd.bsky.social#SchlitzPlayhouseOfStars TV ep #2.45 "Storm Warnings" (10-Jul-53).
Decent ep even if pre-filmed TV isn't giving me what I want.
I liked all the fog scenes with Eddie on the runway and couldn't work out if those inserts were filmed for this or taken from an old movie?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIvD...
@bernardjkd.bsky.social#SchlitzPlayhouseOfStars TV ep #2.43 "The Ledge" (26-Jun-53)..
This is so similar up top to #Dragnet TV ep #2.01 "The Big Jump" (11-Sep-52) that I expected Joe Friday to drop in.
Allene Roberts I know from 50's #Dragnet and Regis Toomey from #RichardDiamond TV.
@bernardjkd.bsky.social#SchlitzPlayhouseOfStars TV ep #2.35 "Medicine Woman" (01-May-53).
I presume the guy knew the nurse to be manhandling her soat the start.😬
The story is basicallly 1950's man meets female Dr and courts her as he's shocked a Dr can be female.
But it was all kinda fun.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf92...
@bernardjkd.bsky.social#ScienceFictionTheatre TV 1.01 cont'd.
Whether it'll be all starchy military men and dutiful wifes like S1 of 1960s #TheOuterLimits (such a disappointment) I don't know, eg Ellen Drew didn't get to act here unlike her appearance on #SchlitzPlayhouseOfStars TV ep #2.31 "The Governess" (03-Apr-53).
@bernardjkd.bsky.social#SchlitzPlayhouseOfStars Schlitz brewery closed forever recently in May 2026!!
A beer so famous I'd never heard of it. Mind you I've barely heard of Milwaukee either.
Maybe I should've imported a keg for my watching of a show they sponsored 75 years ago.
@bernardjkd.bsky.social#SchlitzPlayhouseOfStars TV ep #2.31 "The Governess" (03-Apr-53).
Looks like there'll be no more live eps in the survivors as we're well into pre-recorded in LA eps.
Lillian Bronson is Pringy. She's 50 so playing older. Know her from #Dragnet 1967 as the Bird Lady.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGCq...
@bernardjkd.bsky.social#SchlitzPlayhouseOfStars The next surviving TV ep seems to be #2.28 "Nineteen Rue Marie" (13-Mar-53).
Pre-recorded in Hollywood.
A man wakes up in Paris with no memory of who he is.
Very watchable.
Has old OTR fave Lawrence Dobkin plus Leon Askin ("Hogan's Heroes").
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv1U...
@bernardjkd.bsky.social#SchlitzPlayhouseOfStars TV 2.02 cont'd.
The ep's a comedy but not clever in depicting Native Americans with red face. Saying that the father is quite clever.
The main problem is that 1950s Hollywood trope of normalising a middle-aged white marrying a teen.
F*cken creepy part of USA culture!
@bernardjkd.bsky.social#SchlitzPlayhouseOfStars TV 2.02 cont'd.
So Rita Moreno is joins my 100 Club now I've relaxed the criteria to include up to 1954/55 TV with no lower age limit.
The 100 Club members are now:
Marilyn Erskine 100
Donna Martell 98
Nita Talbot 96
Joanne Woodward 96
Rita Moreno 94
Cheryl Callaway 79
@bernardjkd.bsky.social#SchlitzPlayhouseOfStars TV ep #2.02 "The Marriage of Lit-Lit" (12-Sep-52).
Finally a full ep. Introduced eventually by Donald Cook. So maybe they rotate the host presenter? Who knows?
Rita Moreno stars. Last seen in #RichardDiamond TV ep #4.04 (02-Aug-60).
@bernardjkd.bsky.social#SchlitzPlayhouseOfStars TV ep #2.01 "Homecoming" (05-Sep-52).
Again just a partial ep again. First 6 minutes. But we see Irene Dunne presenting and seemingly a famous presenter doing an intro was the current format. That wasn't seen in the surviving partial eps.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSIp...
@bernardjkd.bsky.social#SchlitzPlayhouseOfStars And that seems to be it for Season 1 just 3 partials eps found of the 48 made.
Onto Season 2 for the 1952/53. Again Fridays at 9.00pm on CBS. A full 52 weekly eps!
Against
DuMont TV: Life Begins at Eighty (discussion)
ABC TV: All-Star News
NBC TV: The Big Story (crime)
@bernardjkd.bsky.social#SchlitzPlayhouseOfStars TV 1.37 cont'd,
The female journo lead character was great. She was played by Teresa Wright.... and I've seen her one other place.
Her final TV appearance 44 years later in #PicketFences TV ep #4.13 "My Romance" (26-Jan-96) where she was Judge Bone's old lover.
@bernardjkd.bsky.social#SchlitzPlayhouseOfStars TV ep #1.37 "Dress in the Window" (13-Jun-52).
8-10 minutes are missing but at least there's 18 minutes in this clip. I think the full ep exists this is just a crap rip from a satellite TV channel.
Again this isn't New York TV so back in LA?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FN0...
@bernardjkd.bsky.social#SchlitzPlayhouseOfStars TV ep #1.36 "Souvenir from Singapore" (06-Jun-52).
Ep doesn't exist but this ended up as a pilot episode for the show "China Smith" which ran for 26 episodes starting almost immediately. The same actor Dan Duryea played the lead. It also has a spin-off movie (of sorts).
@bernardjkd.bsky.social#SchlitzPlayhouseOfStars TV 1.33 cont'd.
The other goodie here is that man-eater Jean Carson is in it!
Now seen her 6 times:
#StudioOne TV #1.13 (11-May-49)
#StudioOne TV #1.19 (22-Jun-49)
#MartinKane TV #4.49 (28-May-53)
#InnerSanctum TV #1.00 (unaired 1954)
#RichardDiamond TV #3.02 (22-Feb-59)
@bernardjkd.bsky.social#SchlitzPlayhouseOfStars TV ep #1.33 "Autumn in New York" (16-May-52).
Ok we are back with live TV. It's definitely CBS New York. LA can't fake this TV!
Only the first 8 minutes exist and it's a musical. Not sure how it ends just so glad it's still going out live.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4SF...