CBS Summer Playhouse

CBS Summer Playhouse

CBS anthology series airing unsold television pilots during the summer season.

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Seasons

1. The Saint in Manhattan

Air Date: 1987-06-12

Simon Templar returns to New York via Concorde and is feeling restless, until a note from an old flame surfaces.

2. Kung Fu: The Next Generation

Air Date: 1987-06-19

A modern-day descendant of Caine hopes to turn his estranged son away from a life of crime.

3. Changing Patterns

Air Date: 1987-06-26

Two housewives trying to enter the fashion industry can't find a store willing to buy their designs.

4. Mickey and Nora

Air Date: 1987-06-26

An ex-CIA agent can't convince anyone that he's no longer a spy.

5. Puppetman

Air Date: 1987-07-03

A children's show puppeteer is torn between spending time with his visiting 6-year-old son and saving his show.

6. Sawdust

Air Date: 1987-07-03

A bored accountant buys a run-down circus and has a go at running it himself, much to the displeasure of his wife and children.

7. Barrington

Air Date: 1987-07-09

8. Doctors Wilde

Air Date: 1987-07-17

9. Mabel and Max

Air Date: 1987-07-31

New York actress Mabel, who has not worked since a heart attack, opens her home to an aspiring young actress and becomes her acting coach.

10. King of the Building

Air Date: 1987-07-31

Doorman on New York Park Avenue gets involved in the lives of his tenants.

11. The Time of Their Lives

Air Date: 1987-08-14

12. Infiltrator

Air Date: 1987-08-21

13. Reno and Yolanda

Air Date: 1987-08-21

14. Day to Day

Air Date: 1987-08-21

15. Sirens

Air Date: 1987-09-04

16. In the Lion's Den

Air Date: 1987-09-04

17. Travelin' Man

Air Date: 1987-09-11

Burned-out Boston surgeon decides to hit the road and reconnect with his father and daughter. Both of whom he has been estranged from.

18. Kingpins

Air Date: 1987-09-18

19. Sons of Gunz

Air Date: 1987-09-18

1. My Africa

Air Date: 1988-06-21

2. Real Life

Air Date: 1988-06-28

Comedy about homemaking from the viewpoints of a blue-collar worker's wife and an ex-career woman.

3. Old Money

Air Date: 1988-06-28

Comedy about a fabulously wealthy family, and the servants who work for them.

4. The Pretenders

Air Date: 1988-07-05

5. Baby on Board

Air Date: 1988-07-12

6. Dr. Paradise

Air Date: 1988-07-12

7. The Johnsons Are Home

Air Date: 1988-07-19

Off the wall family finds their version of domestic bliss in Minneapolis.

8. Limited Partners

Air Date: 1988-07-19

Two pals try to get rich quick by buying a busted burger joint, and serving only British fast food.

9. Silent Whisper

Air Date: 1988-07-26

10. Fort Figueroa

Air Date: 1988-08-02

11. Whattley by the Bay

Air Date: 1988-08-09

A big-city newspaper editor decides to return home to the town where he grew up.

12. Sniff

Air Date: 1988-08-09

An unsuccessful reporter finds his luck changing when he becomes the owner of a talented dog.

13. Off Duty

Air Date: 1988-08-16

14. Roughhouse

Air Date: 1988-08-16

15. Mad Avenue

Air Date: 1988-08-23

16. Further Adventures

Air Date: 1988-08-30

17. Tickets, Please

Air Date: 1988-06-06

1. Microcops

Air Date: 1989-06-20

Two intergalactic 'Microcops' chase a cosmic crook named Cloyd to Earth, where their size becomes cellular.

2. B Men

Air Date: 1989-06-27

The "B Men" are high-schoolers who take up bounty hunting after "relying on their wits" to nab a serial killer.

3. Coming to America

Air Date: 1989-07-04

Based on the film of the same name, this pilot places Prince Tariq of Zamunda and his assistant Oha in the house of a family in Queens, N.Y.

4. Shivers

Air Date: 1989-07-04

A divorced father and his children move into a house haunted by a Revolutionary War-era troublemaker and his girlfriend.

5. Elysian Fields

Air Date: 1989-07-11

6. American Nuclear

Air Date: 1989-07-25

A New York columnist and a mayoral aide marry and create a blended family with his rebellious daughter and her uptight children.

7. Curse of the Corn People

Air Date: 1989-08-01

A group of Kansas friends in their 20s undertakes the making of a horror movie.

8. The Heat

Air Date: 1989-08-08

9. Road Show

Air Date: 1989-08-15

10. Outpost

Air Date: 1989-08-22

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Rating

6.3/10

Release Date

1987-06-12

Episodes

46 (3 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast