
CBS Summer Playhouse
CBS anthology series airing unsold television pilots during the summer season.
Seasons
E1The Saint in Manhattan
Jun 12, 1987
Simon Templar returns to New York via Concorde and is feeling restless, until a note from an old flame surfaces.
E2Kung Fu: The Next Generation
Jun 19, 1987
A modern-day descendant of Caine hopes to turn his estranged son away from a life of crime.
E3Changing Patterns
Jun 26, 1987
Two housewives trying to enter the fashion industry can't find a store willing to buy their designs.
E4Mickey and Nora
Jun 26, 1987
An ex-CIA agent can't convince anyone that he's no longer a spy.

E5Puppetman
Jul 3, 1987
A children's show puppeteer is torn between spending time with his visiting 6-year-old son and saving his show.
E6Sawdust
Jul 3, 1987
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.
E7Barrington
Jul 9, 1987
E8Doctors Wilde
Jul 17, 1987
E9Mabel and Max
Jul 31, 1987
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.
E10King of the Building
Jul 31, 1987
Doorman on New York Park Avenue gets involved in the lives of his tenants.
E11The Time of Their Lives
Aug 14, 1987
E12Infiltrator
Aug 21, 1987
E13Reno and Yolanda
Aug 21, 1987
E14Day to Day
Aug 21, 1987
E15Sirens
Sep 4, 1987
E16In the Lion's Den
Sep 4, 1987
E17Travelin' Man
Sep 11, 1987
Burned-out Boston surgeon decides to hit the road and reconnect with his father and daughter. Both of whom he has been estranged from.
E18Kingpins
Sep 18, 1987
E19Sons of Gunz
Sep 18, 1987
E1My Africa
Jun 21, 1988
E2Real Life
Jun 28, 1988
Comedy about homemaking from the viewpoints of a blue-collar worker's wife and an ex-career woman.
E3Old Money
Jun 28, 1988
Comedy about a fabulously wealthy family, and the servants who work for them.
E4The Pretenders
Jul 5, 1988
E5Baby on Board
Jul 12, 1988
E6Dr. Paradise
Jul 12, 1988
E7The Johnsons Are Home
Jul 19, 1988
Off the wall family finds their version of domestic bliss in Minneapolis.
E8Limited Partners
Jul 19, 1988
Two pals try to get rich quick by buying a busted burger joint, and serving only British fast food.
E9Silent Whisper
Jul 26, 1988
E10Fort Figueroa
Aug 2, 1988
E11Whattley by the Bay
Aug 9, 1988
A big-city newspaper editor decides to return home to the town where he grew up.
E12Sniff
Aug 9, 1988
An unsuccessful reporter finds his luck changing when he becomes the owner of a talented dog.
E13Off Duty
Aug 16, 1988
E14Roughhouse
Aug 16, 1988
E15Mad Avenue
Aug 23, 1988
E16Further Adventures
Aug 30, 1988
E17Tickets, Please
Jun 6, 1988
E1Microcops
Jun 20, 1989
Two intergalactic 'Microcops' chase a cosmic crook named Cloyd to Earth, where their size becomes cellular.
E2B Men
Jun 27, 1989
The "B Men" are high-schoolers who take up bounty hunting after "relying on their wits" to nab a serial killer.
E3Coming to America
Jul 4, 1989
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.
E4Shivers
Jul 4, 1989
A divorced father and his children move into a house haunted by a Revolutionary War-era troublemaker and his girlfriend.
E5Elysian Fields
Jul 11, 1989
E6American Nuclear
Jul 25, 1989
A New York columnist and a mayoral aide marry and create a blended family with his rebellious daughter and her uptight children.
E7Curse of the Corn People
Aug 1, 1989
A group of Kansas friends in their 20s undertakes the making of a horror movie.
E8The Heat
Aug 8, 1989
E9Road Show
Aug 15, 1989
E10Outpost
Aug 22, 1989
Storyline
CBS anthology series airing unsold television pilots during the summer season.
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