Playhouse 90 A Quiet Game of Cards (Season 3, Episode 17)
TV Episode | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Playhouse 90

A Quiet Game of Cards (Season 3, Episode 17)

TV Episode | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

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?

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Updated Jan 29, 1959

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Jan 29, 1959 (United States)

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Won 13 Primetime Emmy Awards. Another 6 wins & 36 nominations

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11 cast members

Name	Known for
William Bendix Wales Wales See fewer	Lifeboat (1944)
Pattee Chapman Secretary (as Pattie Chapman) Secretary (as Pattie Chapman) See fewer	The Bob Cummings Show (1955)
Raymond Greenleaf Dr. Carmichael Dr. Carmichael See fewer	All the King's Men (1949)
Irene Hervey Mrs. McBurnie Mrs. McBurnie See fewer	Play Misty for Me (1971)
Richard Joy Actor (as Dick Joy) Actor (as Dick Joy) See fewer	December Bride (1954)
Michael Landon Douglas Cunningham Douglas Cunningham See fewer	Little House on the Prairie (1974)
E.G. Marshall Merrill Merrill See fewer	12 Angry Men (1957)
Gary Merrill McBurnie McBurnie See fewer	All About Eve (1950)
Barry Sullivan Sturbridge Sturbridge See fewer	Cause for Alarm! (1951)
Franchot Tone Raymond Raymond See fewer	Dangerous (1935)
Katherine Warren Sylvia Cunningham Sylvia Cunningham See fewer	The Caine Mutiny (1954)