Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

5.8 / 10
1958
2 seasons
47 episodes
Drama

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Lucy Goes to Mexico

    06-10-195860m

    Lucy, Ricky, Fred, and Ethel are visiting San Diego. While Ricky rehearses a show with Maurice Chevalier, Lucy and Ethel cross the Mexican border to do a little shopping. Returni...

  • Ep 2

    2.Song of Bernadette

    13-10-195860m

    Based on Mary Gray Blanton's biography The Miracle of Bernadette, this is the story of Bernadette Soubirous, a french peasant girl who discovered healing waters after seeing a visi...

  • Ep 3

    3.The Case For Dr. Mudd

    20-10-195860m
  • Ep 4

    4.My Father The Fool

    27-10-195860m
  • Ep 5

    5.Debut

    03-11-195860m
  • The Time Element

    6.The Time Element

    8.0
    10-11-195860m

    A patient visiting a psychiatrist complains of recurrent dreams in which he imagines he is living in Hawaii just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. A series of flashbacks shows him...

  • Ep 7

    7.The Night The Phone Rang

    17-11-195860m

    What more terrifying predicament could an innocent man be faced with than to become involved with a gang of highly organized criminals—a murder syndicate which selects not only i...

  • Ep 8

    8.Silent Thunder

    24-11-195860m

    An American Indian seeks dignity in a white community.

  • Ep 9

    9.Lucy Makes Room for Danny

    01-12-195860m

    Lucy & Ricky are off to sunny California for his latest motion picture, and rent their home to Danny Williams (Danny Thomas) and family. When Ricky's picture deal falls through, s...

  • Ep 10

    10.K. O. Kitty

    08-12-195860m

    Dance teacher Kitty Williams, who loves dogs, is delighted when she learns that she has inherited a boxer from her late Uncle Charlie. But the ""boxer"" turns out to be Harold Tibb...

  • Ep 11

    11.The Crazy Hunter

    15-12-195860m

    A girl trains a blind horse.

  • Ep 12

    12.Ballad For A Bad Man

    22-12-195860m

    Chris Hody, a professional bounty hunter, goes after young Danny Cash, who is wanted for robbery and murder. The girl Cash loves is a member of a troupe of entertainers. Hody joins...

  • Ep 13

    13.Chez Rouge

    22-12-195860m
  • Ep 14

    14.The Comeback

    04-02-195960m

    A has-been ballplayer revives a Little League team.

  • Ep 15

    15.Happy Hill

    18-11-195860m
  • Ep 16

    16.Trial At Devil's Canyon

    09-12-195860m
  • Ep 17

    17.Symbol of Authority

    23-12-195860m

    A shy, inarticulate proofreader finds illusory escape from his humdrum world by masquerading as a doctor in a big-city hospital.

  • Ep 18

    18.Martin's Folly

    19-01-195960m

    Martin is a middle class husband living with his wife and son in suburbia. The family is forced to live austerely while Martin spends every extra dollar building a boat in his gara...

  • Ep 19

    19.Perilous

    20-05-195960m
  • Ep 20

    20.Chain of Command

    12-02-195960m

    An Army lieutenant commanding a basic-training unit clashes with an arrogant Private.

  • Ep 21

    21.A Diamond For Carla

    17-03-195960m
  • Ep 22

    22.Lucy Goes to Alaska

    09-02-195960m

    Alaska is celebrating statehood! Red Skelton invites Ricky Ricardo to appear on his television show that is being filmed in the new state. The entire gang comes along and take a...

  • Ep 23

    23.The Innocent Assassin

    16-02-195960m

    Eileen Gorman and Jamsie Corcoran are in love, but they live in 1921 Dublin, Ireland, and their romance is blighted by civil strife. Their fathers are partisans of the Irish Republ...

  • Ep 24

    24.The Hard Road

    30-03-195960m
  • Ep 25

    25.The Untouchables [1]

    20-04-195960m
  • Ep 26

    26.The Untouchables [2]

    27-04-195960m
  • Ep 27

    27.Lucy's Summer Vacation

    08-06-195960m
  • Ep 28

    28.Lucy Wants A Career

    13-04-195960m

    Lucy is exasperated. Once again tired of her daily routine, she wants to give show business another try. Ricky agrees, and Lucy auditions as a ""Girl Friday"" for a morning news...

  • Ep 29

    29.Two Counts of Murder

    06-07-195960m
  • Ep 30

    30.The Killer Instinct

    04-06-195960m
  • Ep 31

    31.Murder in Gratitude

    20-11-195960m

    After the reception for Gerald Lester's wedding, his brother Derek and a few close associates board a train with the newlyweds. During the trip Gerald suddenly becomes ill and die...

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