Four Star Playhouse: A Place Full of Strangers (Dick Powell)

[@Paladin1873]

There's a reason it is called the golden years of television.

[@waldolydecker8118]

Don't get too sentimental....the 'golden years' also had plenty of lightweight nonsense back then just like today. Definitely MORE trash today, but trash has always been around in ample supply...be it television or Hollywood's 'golden years.'

[@Paladin1873]

@@waldolydecker8118 Even the trash shows of that time were superior to today's brain rot garbage.

[@davedee4382]

@@waldolydecker8118 true. But I have to tell you as a kid back that I really enjoyed television. And for me it just kept getting better. Then around 1965 it started to become fads. You had a Martian in the suburbs you had a witch in the suburbs you had a genie in the suburbs you had a female robot in the suburbs. One point there was a pilot show that was actually aired on CBS and it was a proposed series about an invisible baby. The last really well written well produced good shows were the Andy Griffith show the Dick Van Dyke show the variety shows of that era of the late 50s early 60s. and why television for shook the dramas as they did is beyond me. Those programs were great. And of course a number of them went on to become movies. You know theatrical films. And I understand why because they were so well done well written, although I always feel that the television version, very often was better than the film version except for Marty.

[@lisaboyer3802]

These actors made tv great you can't get a cast like that today.

[@chrispraz877]

What a great thing four-star did with their productions. So glad to have discovered this show!

[@binduzutshi2874]

A very good movie

[@angloaust1575]

Another mystery thriller Amazing how scripts Are made ones imagination Works overtime creating Unusual situations!

[@whaleshrimp111]

Great job Dick! We sure could use your talent these days.

[@KarmicSalt]

I am really enjoying these old shows. Just brilliant

[@CaptainNavman]

Dina Merrill - absolute charm, total beauty.

[@pattimaeda6097]

And extremely rich

[@kirbywaite1586]

@@pattimaeda6097 Yes, she was the daughter of Mrs. Merriweather Post who built Mar- a- Lago.

[@ladydianepoet]

Anyone notice "Floyd" from Andy Griffith Show? "Pink Floyd" is a great tee-shirt! I love these shows and echo all compliments about Dick Powell, such a versatile guy!

[@fromthesidelines]

I believe he appeared a few times on Dick's radio show, "RICHARD DIAMOND, PRIVATE DETECTIVE". Powell knew a GOOD character actor when he appeared with them.

[@michaelwertzy9808]

They used to hawk it in the ads rear of "Rolling Stone", a 'HOT PINK' tee-shirt with Howard McNear's (you know, Floyd the Barber)picture on the front. I was an idiot and the ad bit the dust!

[@periel]

What a sweet story. A little like Groundhog Day meets It’s a Wonderful Life meets A Christmas Carol.

[@seriagungnurastarlight]

Thank you and we enjoyed the play very much👍

[@edoedo8686]

This was a great show; well produced drama. I vaguely remember this show as a boy. This episode has a touch of Twilight Zone-Kafka. Dick Powell really was in tune to drama....

[@zeldasmith6154]

Dick Powell was born in Arkansas. He's definitely a guy who calls the shots. Multi-talented: singer, actor, director, producer.

[@bobbybecker80]

I just discovered these impeccable gems. Thank you!

[@augustbruce]

Simply brilliant.

[@walterwheeler5465]

An entertaining plot and well acted by the primary and supporting cast. Dick Powell does well in the varied characters he plays.

[@gretchenbreeden5528]

great

[@bodegabreath4258]

Oh, yeah, most def, Serlingish. My only complaint, I wish it were longer. But the best things in life are never long enough.

[@crystalheart9]

Loved it, thank you so much!

[@seriagungnurastarlight]

Thank you to you too ❤️

[@khaterehlunden5136]

Thank you

[@chrisrainbow2393]

a great story well acted.

[@coyotedelanube8572]

Good old Howard McNear. The barber on the Andy Griffith Show.

[@bodegabreath4258]

“Where is this place?” “Don’t you know? It’s the Twilight Zone.”

[@fromthesidelines]

Willard Wiener also wrote the teleplay for Ida Lupino's directorial effort (from her story) for "SCREEN DIRECTORS PLAYHOUSE" a month later, "Number Five Checked Out" [with Teresa Wright, Peter Lorre and William Talman].

[@vertxxgg]

great production we saw in Spain in 60s Golden Age of T.V

[@Rosey01222]

Dick Powell and Dina Merrill sitting at the bus station lunch counter. Behind them is a sign on the wall advertising Hot Cakes and Coffee, price: 35 cents. The 1950s world where a $1 bill had the value of a $20 bill in the 21st century.

[@reynaldoflores4522]

Dick Powell wakes up in the 22nd century after being in suspended animation. He is informed by his assistant that his bank account had grown to $100 million. Dick: " whoopee! This calls for a celebration "!! After an expensive steak dinner..... Waiter: " Your check, sir. That'll be $500,000 ".

[@AnnaPace-t5v]

Things cost less but salaries were a lot lower too

[@reynaldoflores4522]

This looks more like an episode of " One Step Beyond. "

[@arturovaldes546]

For a man wanting to get away. He didn't waste time running after the first blond he met..

[@winstonpoole9906]

One's future looks brighter the harder one works.

[@telemachus7732]

This is better than any twilight zone show!

[@Madeline8887]

💗 Dick Powell. He died because he smoked too many cigarettes.

[@Beadbud5000]

This script could have been a Ron Sterling one.

[@biaedwards4025]

Yes..very TZ.

[@jeffreyberkin9842]

Great.

[@auggiedoggiesmommy1734]

Rod

[@latinforever]

Rod Serling.

[@kathyflorcruz552]

You see a recurring number in this series. 33.

[@winstonpoole9906]

Shades of Groundhog Day.

[@ryan.moulton]

Don't be so grim... that's a word you never hear anymore. Fleet is a forgotten name, too.

[@artkent]

That older woman is fine character actress, Lillian Bronson, Henry Fonda's mother in Spencer's Mountain.

[@Kidraver555]

Very ambitious plot, wonder what drugs the writer was using.

[@bovnycccoperalover3579]

C.S. Lewis wrote a novel, "The Great Divorce" about a man traveling from Help to Heaven. I wonder if it was based on that. There really is nothing new under the sun.

[@tomripsin730]

hard to believe this predates The Twilight Zone. Rod Serling must've been taking notes. 🙂

[@williamwhizz6496]

Thanks for posting , this one was a bit predictable , twilite zone ish.

[@Lyfs-Awsumm]

Hot Cakes and Coffee for 35 CENTS!!!!!❤.....WOW

[@davedee4382]

2:30 Dick is called “son.” He was a hard 50 years old! The actor playing his father isn’t that much older than him. In a number of these shows the stars, who owned the series, played parts that were considerably younger than they really were. They were paired up with young suitors and were referred to as being young. It’s kind of embarrassing. Powell died in 1962 not very many years after this show.

[@jayendepersil6607]

Is he in heaven?

[@bovnycccoperalover3579]

Dina Merrill was the daughter of E.F. Hutton.

[@michaelreid6937]

And of Marjorie Merriweather Post...Mar a Lago was her childhood winter home.

[@jayendepersil6607]

What happened to him? He looks so old. I want him back like he was in 42nt street.

[@ronaldmayle1823]

Floyd the barber from Andy Griffith.

[@TeaParty1776]

I was goijng to say Twilight zone

[@alphaomega8373]

Poor Floyd just wanted to work for himself in a small town.

[@thomasnorman951]

Floyd the Barber

[@timmc8444]

Vacations.something americans no little about!

[@j1947m]

The way we no little about spelling!

[@susannah1948]

Weird

[@waldolydecker8118]

You say Rod Serling gave us "bleak" morals in his Twilight Zone episodes? lol, nonsense.