As of July 2026, Playhouse 90 Season 3 aired in 1958 with 38 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Playhouse 90 Season 3

1958 38 Episodes Drama ⭐ 8/10

If you want a drama that takes its characters as seriously as its plot, Playhouse 90 Season 3 is available on streaming right now. A single, tightly-focused season means there is plenty to get through without ever feeling padded. With 8 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. The ensemble does the kind of work that holds up under scrutiny. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Playhouse 90 Season 3 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. Playhouse 90 Season 3 trusts its audience to sit with discomfort instead of resolving it too quickly. Season 3 of Playhouse 90 includes 38 episodes. It aired from September 1958 to June 1959. Episodes include "The Plot to Kill Stalin", "Days of Wine and Roses", "The Time of Your Life". It was aired in 1958. The performances in Playhouse 90 Season 3 do a lot of work in the silences between the dialogue. It rarely drops the ball, and when it does, it recovers fast.

Viewers drawn to character-driven storytelling will find plenty to sit with in Playhouse 90 Season 3. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. The performances match the material at every turn. Worth starting sooner rather than later.

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🎬 Playhouse 90 Season 3 — Episode Guide

E1
The Plot to Kill Stalin
1958-09-25
In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with anti-Semitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.
E2
Days of Wine and Roses
1958-10-02
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
E3
The Time of Your Life
1958-10-09
William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the characters drift in and out of the bar and each other's lives, giving voice to Saroyan's philosophies as they randomly comment about the impending world ...
E4
The Long March
1958-10-16
E5
Shadows Tremble
1958-10-23
An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.
E6
Word from a Sealed-Off Box
1958-10-30
A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.
E7
Heart of Darkness
1958-11-06
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
E8
Old Man
1958-11-20
To fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts.
E9
The Return of Ansel Gibbs
1958-11-27
After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.
E10
Free Weekend
1958-12-04
E11
Seven Against the Wall
1958-12-11
The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.
E12
The Nutcracker
1958-12-25
This telecast of George Balanchine's famous production was broadcast only four years after it was premiered by the New York City Ballet. This was the only episode of the series televised in color.
E13
Face of a Hero
1959-01-01
E14
The Wings of the Dove
1959-01-08
An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give u...
E15
The Blue Men
1959-01-15
E16
The Velvet Alley
1959-01-22
Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.
E17
A Quiet Game of Cards
1959-01-29
A few friends meet each weekend for a quiet game of cards. But they're bored with poker and, in trying to find another diversion, gradually find themselves plotting a hypothetical murder. It is hypothetical, isn't it?
E18
Child of Our Time
1959-02-05
War deprives Tanguy of his childhood. When his mother returns to Spain to oppose the Franco regime, he is left in Nazi-occupied Marseilles, France.
E19
The Second Man
1959-02-12
E20
The Raider
1959-02-19
A corporate raider plans a hostile takeover. To stall him, pressure is put on a scientist to rush through a new type of engine before all necessary tests have been completed.

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