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The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 - 1956 6.3 (7 votes) 8 Seasons
Genres
Drama
Networks
NBC

The Philco Television Playhouse

Overview

The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.

Key Crew

Writer: Robert Alan Aurthur

Producer: Robert Alan Aurthur

Top Cast

Bert Lytell
Bert Lytell

Self - Host

Seasons

Season 1 (1948)

No overview available.

45 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Dinner at Eight
1948-10-03

Social-climbing Mrs. Oliver Jordan, whose husband's firm is in financial trouble, feels obligated to reciprocate hospitality for a visiting British aristocratic couple by arranging a small dinner party. The guests are chosen both to impress--a faded stage star, a well-known if over-the-hill alcoholic actor--and to meet certain social obligations. This means the necessary inclusion of a philandering doctor and his wife, and a gauche, nouveau-riche couple who are loathed but powerful.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Rebecca
1948-10-10

Brooding and moody Maxim deWinter returns from an extended trip to the continent with a young bride, less than a year after the tragic death of hi first wife, Rebecca. The staff of Manderley, his country home, including Mrs Danvers the housekeeper who rules over the house, are still devoted to their former mistress, the socialite Rebecca and they find it difficult to accept the new, shy Mrs deWinter who is inexperienced running a large home.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Counsellor-at-Law
1948-10-17

An upscale Manhattan attorney torn between his greedy practices of insider trading and embezzlement and his desire to help the working-class Jews from his old neighborhood.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Angel in the Wings
1948-10-24

An understudy for a stage show's star takes over when an accident circumvents the stars performance. The understudy takes over and brings down the house.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Street Scene
1948-10-31

Abraham Kaplan lives with his family in a row house populated by a kaleidoscope of characters looking to break out of poverty. Kaplan's revolutionary, socialist views grate against some of his neighbors.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: This Thing Called Love
1948-11-07

A professional couple marry and the wife insists on celibacy for three months to see if they really are compatible or not. The husband tries to lure her with all kinds of excuses and tricks to the marital bed.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Camille
1948-11-14

Camille, a beautiful courtesan and Armand Duval, a young man in the foreign service, are in love. Their relationship jeopardizes his career and prevents the marriage of his sister into a ""respectable"" family, if Duval marries Camille. Camille becomes ill and dies.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: An Inspector Calls
1948-11-21

When Inspector Goole calls unexpectedly on the prosperous Birling family, his startling revelations not only shatter the very foundations of their lives, but challenge us all to examine our consciences.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: I Like It Here
1948-11-28

Willie is a refugee who works as a houseman at a professor's home. He's a sweet and lovable man even when he's interfering in other people's lives. The Professor's daughter is in love with Brad, a young lawyer. Of course, Willie sees fit to give Brad all kinds of advice.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Suspect
1948-12-05

20 years ago, a Scotswoman was accused of an ax murder and let off with the ignominious Scottish verdict of Not Proven. She changes her name and lives down her past, but when her son becomes engaged, his fiancée's godfather spots the mother and recognizes her. In his efforts to trap her, and hers not to be trapped trouble arises.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: Parlor Story
1948-12-12

An ambitious professor wants to become President of his university. He is soon caught up in the political opportunism of the State Governor, the wiles of an unscrupulous newspaper publisher and the parlor tricks of his own meddling wife.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: A Christmas Carol
1948-12-19

The skinflint Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: The Old Lady Shows Her Medals
1948-12-26

The basement flat of Mrs Dowey, a Scottish charwoman who lives and works in London, during World War I, and Mrs Dowey and her guests - three other charwomen whom she has invited for tea - are discussing the tactics of trench warfare with the confidence of people who have never been near the Front.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Ramshackle Inn
1949-01-02

An old maid librarian has saved her money for twenty years, in order to buy a hotel where she can meet interesting people. She purchases a strange rundown place near the ocean and gets what she bargains for.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Cyrano de Bergerac
1949-01-09

The poetry-spouting soldier with the oversized nose, Cyrano uses the handsome but inarticulate Christian as a conduit for his feelings, the ugly but eloquent Cyrano pours his heart out to the lovely Roxanne. And she, wooed by the beauty of the words, falls in love with Christian, not realizing that it is Cyrano whose voice has aroused her passion.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Papa Is All
1949-01-16

Papa is an ugly tempered, overly strict, scrupulously religious Pennsylvanian Dutch, his wife and children rebel.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Pride and Prejudice
1949-01-23

The trials of a woman trying to find husbands for her five daughters in 18th-century England.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Dark Hammock
1949-01-30

In a remote part of Florida Coral Platt, a sinister woman has married a man considerably older than she. For reasons sufficient to her, she wants him out of the way and plans an ingenious though slow murder by poison. She has succeeded in making it seem that Marvin is dying through natural causes. However, she is forced unexpectedly to play hostess to two women who have come to Florida. The women stay longer than they planned because they have begun to suspect what Coral is up to. In a series of exciting scenes they discover just what is going on and prevent Marvin's death.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: The Late Christopher Bean
1949-02-06

Dr. Haggett and his family, who have some of Bean's canvases, suddenly realize their value, and become hard, selfish, and ill-tempered. It is Abby, the family servant, who ultimately holds them all in her power; she has one of the greatest paintings, which she cannot be persuaded into selling or giving away. She is the only one who really understood the artist -- besides, she had been married to him!

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: The Story of Mary Surratt
1949-02-13

After the death of her husband Mary opened a boardinghouse to pay the debts owed by her husband. .. There she began a respectable boardinghouse business and met the man who would ultimately lead to her inglorious place in history - John Wilkes Booth.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Twelfth Night
1949-02-20

Viola, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work as a page in the court of Count Orsino. Orsino is hopelessly in love with a woman named Olivia, and soon Viola finds herself hopelessly in love with Orsino. But Orsino thinks she's a man, and her predicament worsens when she realizes that Olivia has fallen in love with her.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: St. Helena
1949-02-27

On St. Helena, the exiled emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is grim when his faithful Corscian attendant Cipriani dies. In his confinement he's suffering from a bad liver and a sulking mistress all this begins to weigh heavy on him as he continues to be haunted by spectres of his mistakes. He cannot forget, he says, that if he had not attacked so soon at Waterloo, he would have had 12,000 more men. The imperial manners gradually give way to those of a lonely and embittered country squire. Feeling death upon him at last, he hears that a comet has appeared in the sky.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: The Druid Circle
1949-03-06

An embittered professor comes near to wrecking the lives of a young man and young woman whose love for each other has been accidentally revealed to him through a letter written by the boy to the girl. The professor uses this to humiliate the young people, unconsciously venting upon them his own perverse cruelty for the disappointment suffered in his own life.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: Quality Street
1949-03-13

Because she's nearly 30 and still unwed, Phoebe Throssel is regarded as an over-the-hill spinster. Thus, when offered the opportunity for a reunion with Captain Brown, whom she hasn't seen in years, Phoebe desperately wants to rekindle his affections.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: Dinner at Antoine's
1949-03-20

The murder of a woman at a dinner party unveils a multitude of twists and turns as the murderer is uncovered.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: Becky Sharp
1949-03-27

A scheming illegitimate girl trying to claw her way up in English society. However, fate never seems to give her an even break.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 27: And Never Been Kissed
1949-04-03

A sixteen-year-old girl tries everything to attract the opposite sex.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 28: What Makes Sammy Run?
1949-04-10

The story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New York's East Side, through newspaper ranks and finally through Hollywood, leaving in his wake the wrecked careers of his associates; for this is his tragedy and his chief characteristic-his congenital incapacity for friendship.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 29: Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies
1949-04-17

Only Mr. Mergenthwirker, a person pure of heart, can see the lobblies, which are invisible fairy-like creatures.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 30: Burlesque
1949-04-24

Vaudevillians Skid and Bonnie are partners onstage and off -- until success comes to Skip. He develops an oversized ego and a taste for booze, which alienates Bonnie. But his friends struggle to help him redeem himself.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 31: Macbeth
1949-05-01

Scottish nobleman who prompted by his own prophecy and ambitions, kills a king to wear his crown.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 32: Romeo and Juliet
1949-05-15

Star crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet are doomed from the start by the hatred of their families.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 33: This Time, Next Year
1949-06-05

The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materialises every year at Grant's Tomb.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 34: It Pays to Advertise
1949-06-12

With the aide of his secretary and an ad man, he creates an enormously popular product and cant keep up with the demand.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 35: Summer Formal
1949-06-19

A charming young girl comes to live in a household of an elderly priest. Jenny, 18, is the precise opposite of the kind of smart sophisticated young miss that puzzles and exasperates Father Moynihan. The plot is concerned with the priest's clumsy endeavors to make Jenny attractive to the boys.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 36: Jenny Kissed Me
1949-06-26

A charming young girl comes to live in a household of an elderly priest. The 18-year-old Jenny is the precise opposite of the kind of smart sophisticated young miss that puzzles and exasperates Father Moynihan. The priest makes clumsy endeavours to make Jenny attractive to the boys.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 37: Dark of the Moon
1949-07-03

A witch boy named John who falls in love with a beautiful girl named Barbara Allen. John has a conjure woman turn him into a human. The only condition of the spell is that Barbara must remain faithful to John for one full year after they are married. If Barbara is not faithful, then John will turn back into a witch boy.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 38: For Love or Money
1949-07-10

A young woman shows up during a thunderstorm at the country home of a famous actor.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 39: The Five Lives of Richard Gordon
1949-07-17

Katie Gordon, Richard's long suffering wife, has put up with his shenanigans to the point where she seeks a divorce. Her restless and bored spouse just keeps finding himself in hot water.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 40: You Touched Me!
1949-07-24

The adopted son of a drunken former sea captain returns to the household as an adult. He asks the old man for his eldest daughter's hand in marriage. Everyone believes it's an attempt to secure an inheritance.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 41: The Fourth Wall
1949-07-31

The life of a middle-aged couple has become to complacent and empty.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 42: Enter Madame
1949-08-07

A grand opera prima donna who practically deserts her husband to follow her career, even though she loves her better half. While the pampered pet of a suite of servants and receiving the homage of operatic mad foreigners, she believes he is sitting at home in Boston immersed in his work. Instead he has fallen for a designing widow and has about decided to divorce his songbird wife.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 43: A Murder Has Been Arranged
1949-08-14

A ghost story set in a theatre, legend claims a dumb woman will appear on stage and reveal the identity of a murderer.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 44: Pretty Little Parlor
1949-08-21

A little soirée is interrupted by a murder and the guests are all suspect in the pretty little parlor.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 45: Three Cornered Moon
1949-08-28

Nellie Rimpleger tries to hold together her eccentric family (including her children, saucy daughter Elizabeth, law student Kenneth, and Eddie, a would-be actor) after they lose their fortune in the stock-market crash. While Elizabeth works in a shoe factory and tries to help her brothers find jobs, she falls in love with a melancholy writer, but marries a wealthy doctor.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 2 (1949)

No overview available.

45 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: What Every Woman Knows
1949-09-04

A Victorian Scotswoman of far-reaching ambition. Using her supposedly frail feminine wiles, she maneuvers her fatuous husband into a successful political career. He rises to a parliamentary seat, never quite realizing that he hasn't done it alone.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Pride's Castle
1949-09-11

Pride Dawson was one of those "Robber Barons", who started out his life in rags and turned his life to riches and women. His contempt for human decency or moral restraint left him ruthless and corrupt. He falls for Sharon O'Neill who is a woman filled with so much goodness in her soul, as much as he has evil in his.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: The Little Sister
1949-09-18

A woman from Kansas comes to Marlowe to help find her missing brother.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: The Lonely
1949-09-25

An engaged Air Force lieutenant goes on a ten-day furlough to Scotland with a female friend. Their understanding is that the trip will be purely platonic; instead, they fall madly in love. At his first opportunity, the lieutenant flies back to America to break the news to his fiancé and family.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: The Queen Bee
1949-10-02

A conniving and devious Southern socialite who manipulates the lives of those around her with tragic results.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Something's Got to Give
1949-10-09

A couple of New England housewives disrupt their marriages by becoming an early morning radio team.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: The Last Tycoon
1949-10-16

A 1930's brilliant and efficient movie mogul and the story behind the Hollywood Dream Factory.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Because of the Lockwoods
1949-10-23

The Lockwoods are patronising toward their former neighbours, the Hunters, who are now living in the poorer district in town. The Hunters are saved from despair from the help of a young junk dealer named Oliver Read, who teaches the Lockwoods a lesson in humanity.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Damion's Daughter
1949-10-30

A theater owner's daughter discovers his father's true nature and is shaken by the discovery. She moments jealousy backstage to expose him.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: The House of Seven Gables
1949-11-06

With the ownership of Seven Gables, the opulent family estate, at stake, a man frames his brother for murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: The Promise
1949-11-13

A husband and wife are drifting apart due to different goals in their individual careers.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: Medical Meeting
1949-11-20

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram
1949-11-27

A female psychiatrist visits the home of a famous woman novelist and discovers unhappiness aplenty. She learns the novelist's ambitions and vanity are causes of the trouble.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Mist on the Waters
1949-12-04

Blackmail terrorizes a couple because of an accident which was a terrible tragedy.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: The Beautiful Bequest
1949-12-11

The story of a spoiled and jilted young novelist of intellectual pretensions, who is freshened up and made marketable and happy again by design of his sporting publisher.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: The Strange Christmas Dinner
1949-12-18

A modern day Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to close his store on Christmas Day.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: In Beauty Like the Night
1949-12-25

A British pilot who lost his sight during the Second World War deals with the problems caused by the injury.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Little Boy Lost
1950-01-01

An English poet searches for his son whom he has never seen. The child disappeared shortly after his mother was killed by the Gestapo.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: Bethel Merriday
1950-01-08

A small-town girl named Bethel Merriday is determined to become an actress.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: Murder at the Stork Club
1950-01-15

A wealthy matron is murdered at the Stork Club and the suspect list is growing.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: The Marriages
1950-01-22

In England in the 1890s, Colonel Chart, a widower with four children, falls in love with a charming, wealthy American widow, Mrs. Churchley, but his 27-year-old spinster daughter Adela contrives to ruin the relationship. She also turns two of the other three children against their intended stepmother and spoils the widow's plans to help Adela's brother Godfrey out of an unpleasant situation.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: Uncle Dynamite
1950-01-29

Uncle Fred wants Pongo to marry Sally Painter, an unsuccessful American sculptor. They had been engaged but she broke it off when Pongo refused to smuggle jewellery into America for a friend of hers.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: The Sudden Guest
1950-02-05

A New England spinster Miss Leckton disregards her neighbours' cry for help and assistance during a hurricane. She resents the intrusion, especially since her neighbours happen to be Jews.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: Ann Rutledge
1950-02-12

The short life of Ann Rutledge, Abraham Lincoln's one true love who passed away at age 22 of typhoid fever.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: A Letter to Mr. Priest
1950-02-19

An attorney, voted most likely to succeed in college, looks back on his life.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: Hometown
1950-02-26

Mitchell Hickok, an author from the country, comes to New York for a publicity build-up for his book. He meets a glamorous woman, who introduces him to the nightlife of Manhattan. He soon tires of cafés, cocktail parties, and public appearances, and returns to his simple way of living in the country and Eileen, his childhood sweetheart.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 27: The Life of Vincent Van Gogh
1950-03-05

The tragic life story of the tormented artist.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 28: The Uncertain Molly Collicutt
1950-03-12

A flirtatious woman has a difficult time settling down to her marital responsibilities.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 29: The Trial of Steven Kent
1950-03-19

A jury foreman seeks to wreak personal vengeance on the murder defendant.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 30: The Second Oldest Profession
1950-03-26

An idealistic newspaper editor battles with his stubborn publisher.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 31: Nocturne
1950-04-02

In London in 1910, two sisters, Jenny and Emmy Blanchard, must support and care for their widowed, invalid father. Jenny, the younger, pretty sister, seeks to escape from the depressing reality of her poverty-stricken home, while Emmy, the older, plain sister, finds comfort and eventual happiness by serving their ailing father. At the end, both are engaged: Jenny will marry Keith Reddington and Emmy will wed Alf Rylett.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 32: Dirty Eddie
1950-04-09

Dirty Eddie is a sleek black pig with a fat movie contract and Hollywood isn't too happy about it.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 33: The End is Known
1950-04-16

A department store tycoon comes home and is nearly hit by a falling body. He then learns the suicide jumped from his apartment. A mystery surrounds a suicide.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 34: The Man in the Black Hat
1950-04-23

A gambler has nothing to lose as his shady past with women and cards catch up to him.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 35: The American
1950-04-30

An American travelling in Europe finds clashes between the two cultures.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 36: The Feast
1950-05-07

A seaside resort hotel brings together an odd assortment of people: a frustrated married couple, four young lovers, children and an grouchy old miser.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 37: Brat Farrar
1950-05-14

Identical twins concoct a plan to defraud an insurance company and collect a large sum of cash.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 38: The Charmed Circle
1950-05-21

A poverty-ridden student feels out-of-place among his wealthy fraternity brothers. He eventually falls in love with a rich girl and leads a revolt against the President of the fraternity house.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 39: Semmelweis
1950-05-28

Story of the great physician who saved millions of lives due to his discovery of the cause of childbed fever (puerperal fever) and eliminated its danger by prescribing the absolute sterlization of all instruments and the cleanliness of all persons coming in contact with the mother.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 40: Sense and Sensibility
1950-06-04

Sisters left poor by the death of the family matriarch search for suitable husbands in Georgian England.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 41: The Bump on Brannigan's Head
1950-06-11

A bonk on the head turns a grouchy hothead into the sweetest man in town. Brannigan runs for mayor of his small town--and wins--with his "love everybody" campaign. He even wins over the crooked newspaper publisher.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 42: Anything Can Happen
1950-06-18

A Russian emigrant to America finds a new language, and strange manners bewildering but tries mightily to adapt to his new homeland.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 43: Hear My Heart Speak
1950-06-25

A shell-shocked WWI ex-soldier is unable to speak though doctors say the problem isn't physical. Tired of completing with his overbearing, doting mother, the woman he loves begins to withdraw from his life. It's then that he regains his ability to talk.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 44: The Reluctant Landlord
1950-07-02

Georgi, a kindly and honest immigrant from the Georgian area of Russia, experiences many difficulties as he tries to adapt to his adopted country. He works hard to make a place for himself in America, all the while fighting with the English language and the strange customs of an alien people.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 45: The Tentacles
1950-07-09

A young wife fights to free her husband from the control of his manipulative and controlling father.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 3 (1950)

No overview available.

56 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: High Tor
1950-09-10

Van Dorn is getting the hard sell from businessmen wanting to buy his mountain, High Tor, for commercial use. When the group becomes trapped by a landslide, Van Dorn goes for help and encounters a Dutchwoman who's been haunting the mountain for two centuries.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Long Run
1950-09-17

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Dear Guest and Ghost
1950-09-24

A mother receives help with her troublesome kids from a friendly ghost.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: The Touch of a Stranger
1950-10-01

A scientist's life has been destroyed by another man's greed and takes out his anger on three innocent strangers, implicating them in his own death.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: The Vine That Grew on Fiftieth Street
1950-10-08

Seeds planted in a New York City backyard grow into a magical plant that brings happiness to those living near it. Formerly unpleasant neighbors turn into caring, warm-hearted individuals.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: A Husband for Mama
1950-10-15

The three children of a widowed woman scheme to get their mother a new husband, setting their sites on a middle-aged doctor.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Portrait in Smoke
1950-10-22

A debt collector searches for the woman who saved him from an armed holdup; he wants her to have a $1000 reward. As he talks with those who knew her, he learns that she was a siren with a couple of murders to her credit.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: The Gambler
1950-10-29

A scathing denunciation of gambling and feudal aristocrats of the 19th Century, this story relates how Philip, a young medical student, bargains away his career for the unsure success of high gambling stakes. His caution turns to uncontrollable greed when he learns that money can buy women and quick fame. His destiny is bound to Theresa's, a beautiful young woman who has been mortgaged in marriage for her stepfather's debt, and to her wealthy grandmother's, who chooses to gamble away her fortune so there will be no inheritors.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: The Power Devil
1950-11-05

A young attorney involves himself in many shady deals as he pursues political ambitions. His wife speaks up and demands he clean up his act. The threat of disbarment also contributes to his final decision.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: The Man Who Got Away With It
1950-11-12

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: I'm Still Alive
1950-11-19

A mousy teacher at a small school had written a swashbuckling story filled with international spies and adventure. Unbeknownst to him, the story is sold to a newspaper as a true account of his life. Suddenly, femme fatales and real gangsters are paying him visits.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: Torch for a Dark Journey
1950-11-26

A Czech scientist escapes from Prague with the aid of an American industrialist, who wants to hire him for his personal benefit. The scientist is followed by a former student, now a fanatic Communist, who insists that the scientist must return to his own country to work for the People's Republic. The scientist must decide whether to return or abandon his countrymen and accept personal freedom in America.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: Wacky, the Small Boy
1950-12-03

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Bonanza
1950-12-10

The residents of a Western ghost town won't admit that their gold rush "boom town" days ended long ago.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Decoy
1950-12-17

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: The Pupil
1950-12-24

A tutor hired to instruct an uncontrollable 10-year-old soon recognizes the child's problem: it's his parents. The boy has had never received any affection from his negligent mother and father.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Leaf out of a Book
1950-12-31

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: The Symbol: Jefferson Davis
1951-01-07

Three decades in the life of the Confederate president are covered by three women: each of his two wives, and his daughter.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: The Lost Diplomat
1951-01-14

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: Confession
1951-01-21

The final confession of the highest degree. A compelling story, told by the eyes of the beholder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: The Great Escape
1951-01-28

The story of the biggest POW-camp escape of World War II.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: A Matter of Life and Death
1951-02-04

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: Kitty Doone
1951-02-11

A faded movie star schemes to keep her career at all costs.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: Let Them Be Sea Captains
1951-02-18

Horace Greeley, volatile editor of The New York tribune, and Margaret Fuller, the mid-19th century feminist and first woman employed on the newspaper's staff.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: The Man Who Bought a Town
1951-02-25

A butcher purchases the town he calls home to preserve its quiet lifestyle.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: No Medals on Pop
1951-03-11

A young boy believes his father deserves a medal for being in the war and is heartbroken when he finds out the truth and how his father disgraced the family.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 27: The Dark Corridor
1951-03-18

The story of the Marr family which is made up of a dominant mother who bates everyone, the vacillating son, his wife, and the blind son. Then a new maid arrives, a maid who has served a term in prison as an accessory to a murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 28: Bulletin 120
1951-03-25

In Mississippi in 1915, Dr. Joseph Goldberger works with a test group of convicts and discovers that pellagra is caused by a dietary deficiency and not infection.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 29: Parnassus on Wheels
1951-04-01

In 1900's New England, Helen McGuill buys a horse-drawn, traveling bookstore, "Parnassus," from its owner, Roger McGuill. Roger travels with Helen in the beginning of her book-selling odyssey, and out of that comes adventure and romance.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 30: Routine Assignment
1951-04-08

A reporter gets a confession of robbery from a man only to have the man then deny his guilt in a complex twist of events.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 31: Hour of Destiny
1951-04-15

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 32: The Birth of the Movies
1951-04-22

Drama on the career of D.W. Griffith. Producer Fred Coe briefly talks with Lillian Gish before and following the drama.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 33: Mr. Arcularis
1951-04-29

After undergoing important surgery, Mr. Arcularis goes on a long ocean voyage - where increasingly strange things occur.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 34: A Secret Island
1951-05-06

A vicious woman is determined to see her niece wed for money and social position instead of for love.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 35: The Visitors
1951-05-13

A young boy's disappearance when his mother remarries leads to a mystery when he is found and has forgotten who he is.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 36: Justice and Mr. Pleznik
1951-05-20

The story of a naturalized immigrant's first experience with jury duty.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 37: Rescue
1951-05-27

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 38: The Adventures of Hiram Holliday
1951-06-03

A mild-mannered proof-reader goes on a world tour, and demonstrates several esoteric skills whilst undergoing exciting adventures.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 39: The Fast Dollar
1951-06-10

A humorous tale of life in a small town and its impact on a would-be confidence man.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 40: Operation: Airlift
1951-06-17

The story of the Berlin airlift, when the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. The success of the airlift humiliated the Soviets claiming that such a thing would never work.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 41: Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal
1951-06-24

Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medical practice success by using the Good book as guidance.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 42: The Plot
1951-07-01

Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medical practice success by using the Good book as guidance.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 43: Case History
1951-07-08

A sleuthing psychiatrist probes a murder in his fiancee's home and stirs up a hornet's nest with his future in-laws.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 44: I Want to March
1951-07-15

The year is 1915 and the suffragettes cause a stir in the home of a zoology professor as his wife takes up the banner of "women's rights".

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 45: Pretend I Am A Stranger
1951-07-22

The story of a British soldier and his buddy's widow as the two grow closer in their grief.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 46: Television Story
1951-07-29

A covetous young actress' career means more to her than marriage to a middle-aged actor who turns to TV after a successful career in other facets of show business only to find that his wife influences his work there.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 47: The Return
1951-08-05

An amnesia victim is told by his alleged stepfather that he is heir to a fortune. When his so-called family greet him with reserve, however he gets busy to iron out the unreal problem.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 48: Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands
1951-08-12

Lawyer Tutt refuses to cross the street for a $5 million account, but goes clear to Pottsville to draw up a will for Jim Lawton, staying there until he successfully contests a claim to a woman's farm.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 49: Come Alive
1951-08-19

An arrogant woman whose self-centered tactics cause endless grief for her secretary, husband, sister and anyone who comes into contact with her.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 50: Night at the Vulcan
1951-08-26

When an actor is murdered backstage, the cast of the production become the suspects, seems the actor had plenty of enemies.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 51: This Time Next Year
1951-09-02

The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materializes every year at the same time, at his tomb, Grant's Tomb.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 52: Women of Intrigue
1951-09-09

In this tale of Communist intrigue set in England, a man who works for the foreign office disappears.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 53: The Wayward Season
1951-09-16

A composer's reaction to his daughter's marriage to a middle-aged man brings changes in his own life.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 54: The Spur
1951-09-23

After the assassination of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth leaped to the stage below, his spur became entangled in the American flag draping the balcony causing Booth to break his leg.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 55: By-Line for Murder
1951-09-30

A bitter assistant foreign editor of a London newspaper commits murder in the newspaper office after being passed over yet again for a promotion.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 56: Requiem for a Model A
1951-10-07

After buying a very used car, a writer uncovers some very unusual items under one of the seat cushions. The story of the vehicle's former owners is told via flashbacks.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 4 (1951)

No overview available.

25 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Marcia Akers
1951-10-21

A young woman has an unhealthy desire to get ahead, climbing the social ladder and stepping on people along the way. She's set to marry a wealthy man--just what's always wanted--when she finds herself in love with a "regular guy".

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Education of a Fullback
1951-11-04

A comedy on the foibles of campus activities about a professor who can't understand why a football hero shouldn't be given an unsatisfactory grade especially when he slept thru the classes.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: A Little Night Music
1951-11-18

Elizabeth Chapin is the belle of the town who is now approaching 40 as a spinster music teacher.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Incident at Golden's Creek
1951-12-02

An Iron Curtain delegation is marooned in a small mid-western town.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Perspective
1951-12-16

The play suggested by the career of Hans VanMergeren called the master art forger.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: The Sisters
1951-12-30

The lives of two sisters are disrupted by a psychopath who appears claiming to be their godson.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Without Fear or Favor
1952-01-13

Modern day corruption investigations (film of the Kefauver investigation is shown) has a parallel in 1870s New York, where the New York Times crusades against the crooks in City Hall headed by Boss Tweed and his thieving cronies, which included judges, police officials and even the Mayor.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Segment
1952-01-27

During a convention, a visiting family takes a hotel room. The father and Mother get ready while the daughter leaves. The wife nagging pushes the man over the edge and he is determined to kill her after he makes her listen to his list of reasons she's been cruel to him. Meanwhile police try to talk him out of it, and watch him with a television camera across the street.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Rich Boy
1952-02-10

This well-received adaptation of the 1924 F. Scott Fitzgerald short story starred Gene Lyons as rich playboy Anson Hunter, who realizes too late that he has wasted his life by allowing the one woman he truly loved (Kelly) to slip out of his grasp.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Tender Age
1952-02-24

The tragic aspects of the so-called "lost generation" of the 20's is told.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: Dusty Portrait
1952-03-09

A tragic story of an innocent victim of justice based entirely on circumstantial evidence.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: The Best Laid Schemes
1952-03-23

Boy can we relate to this PLOT TWIST from back in the 40's. Doctors are helpless in dealing with an epidemic that hits New York City. The answer is provided by an exterminator.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: The Room Next Door
1952-04-05

A social-climbing couple scheme to find a mate for their unromantic inclined daughter. She however prefers an unstable piano player over an established member of the tea and crumpet set, things build up with a tragic ending.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: The Basket Weaver
1952-04-19

The story of the marine assault on Iwo Jima leads a former veteran into a crackup with a bullying personality increased by a personal crisis.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: We Were Children
1952-05-04

A close knit family learns that a man who was the son of their family gardener is related to them thru an indiscretion.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: A Cowboy for Chris
1952-05-18

A little boy's infatuation for a cowboy who boards at his home and another boarder who attempts to disillusion the child.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: A Man's Game
1952-06-01

A big league manager travels to Alabama to scout catcher Chub Evans but signs Evans' fireball pitching sister instead.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Flight into Darkness
1952-06-15

A psychological drama about two brothers obsessed with the idea that he is going insane and later that his brother, a doctor is going to murder him.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: The Monument
1952-06-29

A reporter has undertaken the biography of a Confederate general to get the authentic version of his heroism at Bull Run.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: A Letter to Mr. Priest
1952-07-13

The camera becomes you and you become the narrator as the camera becomes a person and unfolds the story. Nelson Olmsted is the voice.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Bratt Farrar
1952-07-27

No Not Brett Favre- Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the identity of Patrick Ashby, heir to the Ashby fortune who disappeared when he was 13.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: The Five Fathers of Pepi
1952-08-10

A young war orphan is taken in by five men living along the Italian Riviera. Their hope is to find a wealthy American couple who will adopt Pepi and give him a proper upbringing. When the time comes to give the tyke up.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: Three Sundays
1952-08-24

A criminal brings scandal to the family of a dead intelligence officer but eventually confesses his shoddy motives for creating the affair and absolves the dead man.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: The Last Hour
1952-09-07

A woman is on trial for espionage and has but a few hours to prove her innocence.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: Holiday Song
1952-09-14

The night before Rosh Hashonah, a cantor suffers a spiritual crisis. That same night, he is sent by someone to see a rabbi out in Brooklyn, A mysterious train station attendant gives him directions after which he stops a woman from committing suicide because she is despondent over the death of her husband in the war. On his way home, the cantor meets up with the husband. He thought his wife had died. The cantor reunites them. After trying to find the station guard, the cantor learns that no one has ever worked there fitting the man's description. thus the cantor realizes that some sort of 'celestial conductor' must have had a hand in the matter. His faith restored, the cantor is able to resume his life's work.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 5 (1952)

No overview available.

33 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Thin Air
1952-09-21

A young girl's disappearance on the night of her engagement party leads investigators and her fiancee on a long perplexing case that ends in a London pub 24 years later.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Black Sheep
1952-10-05

A reformed playboy has quite a time explaining his escapades to the mother of the girl he decides to marry.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Uncertain Heritage
1952-10-19

The story of a young man struggling against his father's domination after his father has been dead for several years.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: The Winter of the Dog
1952-11-02

This plot revolves around American troops stationed in China after WWII.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Parole Chief
1952-11-16

The case histories of several parolees and events that shaped the career of the parole director is told.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: The Gift
1952-11-30

A child has been given an exceptional gift by her fairy godmother, the gift of finding lost articles

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Tempest of Tick Creek
1952-12-14

The story of two brothers and a missing uncle who returns suddenly bringing with him a chest which the brothers assume contains gold. The brothers want their share but so does the uncle's jilted bride and son.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Magic Morning
1952-12-28

A woman seeks success in her marriage as she had gained in her career.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Double Jeopardy
1953-01-04

A jury finds a woman not guilty of the murder of her husband, but some still believe her to be guilty of the crime.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Pride's Way
1953-01-11

The story from incidents in the life of Benedict Arnold and how Arnold's family suffers by his traitorous acts against his country.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: Two for One
1953-01-18

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: Elegy
1953-01-25

A young writer hears that his friend has died so he writes an "Elegy - A Tribute to Larry" that brings him fame and fortune. A year later his friend turns up very much alive and with plans for blackmail.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: The Reluctant Citizen
1953-02-08

A 67-year-old refugee deals with his fears and conflicted feelings as he's about to become an American citizen.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Mr. Pettengill Here
1953-02-15

A dancer becomes so eager for success that her ambition nearly ruins her career.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Wings on My Feet
1953-02-22

DANCE- DANCE- DANCE- The struggle is real for this young dancer.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: The Trip to Bountiful
1953-03-01

Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940's Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish -- just once before she dies -- is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home." The trouble is her son, Ludie, is too concerned for her health to allow her to travel alone and her petty daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae, insists they don't have money to squander on bus tickets. This prompts "escape" attempts each month which coincide with the arrival of Mrs. ...

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: The Gesture
1953-03-15

Misaligned plot twists for this lost episode.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: The Velvet Mitten
1953-03-22

A man becomes entangled with a flighty woman during a convention.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: A Young Lady of Property
1953-04-05

Wilma a 15-year-old girl has dreams of becoming a movie star but after her mother's death she is sent to live with her aunt, her father is too weak and unreliable. She wishes to be back at her home with her father.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: The Recluse
1953-04-19

Classic definition of a recluse when an older man withdraws from the world to live in seclusion and often in solitude. Withdrawn from the world; due to heavy trauma in his life.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Printer's Measure
1953-04-26

An old typesetter in a printing works fears the new machinery which will make him redundant - and perhaps render his whole working life pointless.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: A Little Something in Reserve
1953-05-10

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: Marty
1953-05-24

Marty Pilletti is a 36 year-old butcher who lives with his mother. His brothers and sisters are all married and his dear mother - along with several other of her friends - is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl and get married. The truth is Marty is lonely and would like nothing better. He has very low self-esteem however and admits to his mother that he's ugly and no one wants him. He's tired of going to the Saturday night dance with his buddies and then going home more depressed than he was when the evening started. At one of those dances he meets ...

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: The Way of an Eagle
1953-06-07

The story of John J. Audobon and his wife Lucy.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: Baby and Me
1953-06-14

In a family of eccentrics the five year old daughter stands out for her diva like behavior. Her mother, a retired actress, and her happy go lucky father accept her behavior while her older brother cares only about scouting.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: Expectant Relations
1953-06-21

The struggle of a middle-aged woman who tries to win an inheritance from a rich uncle.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 27: The House in Athens
1953-07-05

Three people are thrown together by the death of a man.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 28: The Big Deal
1953-07-19

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 29: The Cipher
1953-08-02

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 30: Ernie Barger is 50
1953-08-09

Ernie Barger has a startling revelation when he turns 50. The discovery that he is no longer needed by anyone sends him over the edge.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 31: The Rainmaker
1953-08-16

Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't make up for the fact that she's just plain plain! Even the town sheriff, File, for whom she harbors a secret yen, won't take a chance --- until the town suffers a drought and into the lives of Lizzie and her brothers and father comes one Bill Starbuck ... profession: Rainmaker!

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 32: Othello
1953-09-06

Othello, the Moor of Venice, is manipulated into believing his loving wife an adulteress.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 33: Holiday Song
1953-09-20

A cantor's faith is renewed.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 6 (1953)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: 0 for 37
1953-09-27

A young ballplayer appreciates the value of home and family after a shaky start in professional baseball.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Bachelor Party
1953-10-11

Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and hopes.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: The Girl With the Stopwatch
1953-10-25

A woman of 30 is preoccupied with her work as a television script writer.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: The Train to Trouble
1953-11-08

A man must decide whether or not to expose the past of a candidate for the sheriff's office.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Up Above the World So High
1953-11-22

A middle-aged woman seemingly has the gift of second sight.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: The Sixth Year
1953-11-29

A wife becomes exasperated with her husband who seems to have lost the will to work. She takes their child and leaves. He finds a menial job and asks her to come home. She seeks advice on the situation from her mother and father

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: The Midnight Caller
1953-12-13

Three unmarried women residing in a boarding house in a small town have watched life pass them by waiting for the right man to come into their lives. When a new stranger shows up and moves into the boarding house.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: The Glorification of Al Toolum
1953-12-27

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: The Hangman in the Fog
1954-01-10

An American newspaperman in London believes that he is being pursued by agents from across the Iron Curtain.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Smoke Screen
1954-01-24

A country boy gets a job in the city as a bookkeeper. He meets a beautiful model and gets mixed up in a murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: A Game of Hide and Seek
1954-02-07

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: Statute of Limitations
1954-02-21

The perpetrators of a million dollar robbery find themselves with five hours to go before the statute of limitations takes effect.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: The Dancers
1954-03-07

A meek young boy, still shy and unsure of himself, visits his sister in a small town and is persuaded by her to ask the most popular girl in town for a date. He asks her to a school dance, but, as she is going steady, she refuses his invitation. Believing himself to be the butt of ridicule by the young population of the town because of his awkwardness, he withdraws into himself. He later meets a young girl who is as shy as he, is and, because of the mutual understanding between them, they give each other the confidence each lacks.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: The Broken Fist
1954-03-21

The story of a middle-aged Frenchman in Algiers who decides to do something for his homeland during the Nazi occupation. He joins the underground and goes to the port of Marseilles to report on shipping.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: The Mother
1954-04-04

A widow tries not to be dependent on her children.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: The King and Mrs. Candle
1954-04-18

The deposed King of Brandovia, whose inhabitants spend their time exporting bologna and repelling invasions by neighboring Carps and Gloats, finds his way to America, where he earns a living as a dancing instructor.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: The Joker
1954-05-02

Mike Galloway, a "nice guy", was an incurable practical joker--always passing out exploding cigars and perpetrating other silliness. His pranks made for a bad first impression on Dorie, but eventually they fell in love and married.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: And Crown Thy Good
1954-05-16

In this stirring "drama of an old lady's love for her grandson, Miss Gish plays the role of the wife of a poor Texas farmer who has raised her grandson, following the death of his parents.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: The Shadow of Willie Greer
1954-05-30

In this stirring "drama of an old lady's love for her grandson, Miss Gish plays the role of the wife of a poor Texas farmer who has raised her grandson, following the death of his parents.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: Adapt or Die
1954-06-13

An editor of the major magazine "Throb" finds that he must either adapt to the high pressure life of a New York magazine or be without a job.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Friday the Thirteenth
1954-06-27

3 women have just attended their college reunion, and are returning together when their vehicle crashes through a fence and over a cliff. As their husbands wait anxiously above the accident scene, they learn that only two of the women have survived, and they relive memories of their lives together as they await word as to who lives and who died.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: Man Drowning
1954-07-11

A big man on the campus turns out to be somewhat of a dud.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: The Catamaran
1954-07-25

A husband's hobby threatens his marriage until he finds a suitable replacement, the wife that is.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: The Man in the Middle of the Ocean
1954-08-08

A member of an architect's firm is torn by internal conflict. His partners need his compliance if they are to cash in on a deal they have made with a building contractor.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: Star in the Summer Night
1954-08-22

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: Run Like a Thief
1954-09-05

Alexander has been a faithful employee of Madame Pollard as maitre d' at her elegant resort. Eager to introduce his protege Rob, things go wrong when his wife Della finds an expensive bracelet lost by Pollard and begs to keep. The police are called and Alexander's dreams of his future begin to crumble.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 7 (1954)

No overview available.

25 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Middle of the Night
1954-09-19

A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Time Bomb
1954-10-03

A couple deeply in love find things changing when a third woman enters the picture and then it becomes a case of attempted murder.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Man on the Mountaintop
1954-10-17

Horace Mann Borden is an adult former child prodigy who has been exploited by his father to advance his own theories about education. Horace feels that people view him as a freak and expect things out of him. Horace shuts out the world. Greta Blake is the woman who has fallen in love with Horace and shows him that the world is not out to get him.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Time of Delivery
1954-10-31

A 24-hour delay in mail delivery violently changes three lives. A postman collapses on his daily route and the delivery of his sack of mail is delayed for a day. In three dramatic situations which develop,

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Crime Without Motive
1954-11-14

The story of teenage violence and vandalism and the family problems that lead the culprits into their vicious acts.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Beg, Borrow or Steal
1954-11-28

The story of a man who embezzles $18,000 from an estate in order to live up to the standards he likes and of the trap he finds himself in when another lawyer takes over the estate.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Catch My Boy on Sunday
1954-12-12

A frustrated mother is disappointed with her marriage and pushes her ten year old son into acting career.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Run, Girl, Run
1954-12-26

An aspiring young actress loses her big chance on Broadway and returns home. Her mother shows why she may have failed and inspires her to try again.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Walk Into the Night
1955-01-09

A story of a bonded messenger and a briefcase containing $60,000.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Anatomy of Fear
1955-01-23

A man is implicated in a murder while vacationing with his wife at a summer resort. The man recognizes a murdered woman as the one in love with his business partner. He hides her purse in order to delay identification but his wife threatens to expose him,

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: A Sense of Justice
1955-02-06

A young man is determined to rid a Western town of its domineering political boss.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: The Assassin
1955-02-20

The story of Jacques Mornard, the Russian secret police agent who buried a pickaxe in the skull of the fiery anti-Stalinist Leon Trotsky.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: Play Me Hearts and Flowers
1955-03-06

A singer who has teamed up with a comedian realizes that he has become the comic's ""straight man"" both on and off the stage, and that somehow he must reassert his individuality.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Shadow of the Champ
1955-03-20

A lonely woman feels she has one last shot at romance with a man who's content with being a flunky to a boxing champion.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Watch Me Die
1955-04-03

He can't simply divorce his wife to marry a young starlet since he wants her money, too. So he begins his search for the ideal way to kill his unsuspecting spouse.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: The Bold and the Brave
1955-04-17

The commander of a military prep school brings near disaster to himself and his son, a pupil at the school. He pushes the boy beyond endurance in his effort to make him a better student than he was.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Letter of Recommendation
1955-05-01

A governess's charm masks a disturbing and manipulative personality.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: The Pardon-Me Boy
1955-05-15

A young man, held a failure by his father, is a juror in the murder trial of a gangland boss. When the trial is over, the son reveals that he held out for the acquittal of the defendant.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: The Ghost Writer
1955-05-29

The manager of a former actor now running for Congress wants to exploit the fact that the opposition candidate's daughter is working on their campaign. However, the actor and his ghost writer hesitate to use the girl's hatred of her father to their advantage.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: Total Recall
1955-06-12

A man who's stopped before committing suicide says he can remember nothing of his past. A police check reveals that he has a wife.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Black Frost
1955-06-26

A greedy skipper wants to make a big catch despite ice freezing on the ship threatening to capsize it.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: Incident in July
1955-07-10

Daddy Tom, the camp director, is upset when he learns through the grapevine that one of his counselors, Mrs. Johnson, is infatuated with his 19-year-old office worker, Andy, and that she wants to give him $1,100 for his education. The first part of the rumour is not true but the second part is. She is unable to have children and thinks this is a constructive way to use the money they saved for a child. She and her husband squabble over this. Andy's parents are dead. Daddy Tom fires both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. He later re-hires them on the condition that she not mention...

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: The Death of Billy the Kid
1955-07-24

How Pat Garrett hunted down and killed the legendary outlaw Billy The Kid.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: A Room in Paris
1955-08-07

An American ventures to Paris for artistic inspiration and gets caught up with a deceitful woman bent on destruction.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: Gretel
1955-08-21

Two men fight for the affections of the fickle Gretel, who pits friend against friend.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 8 (1955)

No overview available.

12 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Miss America Story
1955-09-04

The Philco Corporation and ABC network televised the first live Miss America broadcast on Saturday September 11, 1954. Twenty seven million viewers from coast to coast shared the thrills of the Boardwalk Hall audience as they watched from their own homes as California's Lee Meriwether captured the title for 1955. Bob Russell was the emcee. For the first time, the pageant also featured it's first "Illuminated Night Parade" down the Boardwalk.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: The Outsiders
1955-09-18

The work of US engineers in a South American country is disrupted by angry local people.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: A Man is Ten Feet Tall
1955-10-02

Axel, secretly AWOL from the army, joins a black waterfront worker in his fight against bigotry.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: A Business Proposition
1955-10-23

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: The Mechanical Heart
1955-11-06

A businessman commits an unpardonable breach of ethics in order to keep his business alive.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: One Mummy Too Many
1955-11-20

Three crates, one contains a mummy, one a dead body and one an air-conditioning unit that gets shunted around with utter confusion.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: The Trees
1955-12-04

A little girl returns from a fresh air camp to her slum district home and brings a sapling with her. The tree is planted in the parking. Ridicule of the family's efforts to keep it alive comes from all sources. Angered, the father sets out to get more trees planted, trouble brews.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Christmas 'Til Closing
1955-12-18

A poor family tries to make the best out of Christmas with little income.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Rise Up and Walk
1956-01-01

A polio victim's battle to conquer polio is a potent weapon for recovery.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: This Land is Mine
1956-01-15

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: The Starlet
1956-01-29

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: Kyria Katina
1956-02-12

The life of a widow is likely to change the day a gentleman suitor proposes to her. For the better?

Runtime: 60 min

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