Lux Video Theatre

1. Saturday's Children

Air Date: 1950-10-02

Pretty Bobby Halevy loves Rims Rosson, a dreamer and inventor without much going for him. Rims has a scheme of going to Manila to turn hemp into silk and become rich. But when one of her family talks Bobby into tricking Rims into marriage, the real world comes crashing down on the couple.

2. Rosalind

Air Date: 1950-10-09

An aging actress resists the fact that she is no longer able to play ingénue roles.

3. Shadow on the Heart

Air Date: 1950-10-16

Coast Guard Seaman Red Harrington on duty at Cape Cod, meets a pretty girl named Stormy Denton. Only after he has developed a fondness for her does he discover that she is blind. But it doesn't make any difference to the young sailor. He wants to marry her. All he knows about her past is that she was wounded and lost her sight while serving as an Army nurse during the War. She is to undergo a special operation on her eyes and is anxiously awaited not only by Red bu an ex-fiance whom she has not heard from since her injury.

4. The Valient

Air Date: 1950-10-23

A convicted murderer steadfastly refuses to reveal his real identity leaves the warden and prison chaplain with no luck in penetrating the man's silence. A girl who thinks he might be her brother visits the convict.

5. Mine to Have

Air Date: 1950-10-30

When her husband is killed in trying to elude police, she is imprisoned as his accomplice. She discovers that she is going to have a baby and after the child is born, that she must give it up. Her only hope for her baby's security and her own peace of mind is a policeman who has befriended her.

6. That Wonderful Night

Air Date: 1950-11-06

An English girl is thoroughly unimpressed by winning a date with an American Movie idol she never heard of. The date is the idea of a press-agent trying to stir up interest in the actor's newest movie. The girl's disinterest in the stunt and the actor's general boredom with publicity stunts forbode a grim evening, until events take a surprising turn.

7. Gallant Lady

Air Date: 1950-11-13

A woman discovers that her husband, who disappeared seven years ago, was suffering amnesia and is now happily living with a new wife and their child. She must decide whether to disrupt his new-found family life or remake her own.

8. Goodnight, Please

Air Date: 1950-11-20

A besieged bank executive decides that the high pressure business isn't worth the aggravation. Fed up with questions he simply went to bed.

9. The Token

Air Date: 1950-11-27

Story of a fiery girl with a great love for the sea, during the days of American's great clipper fleets.

10. To Thine Own Self

Air Date: 1950-12-04

A stock broker plans to rob his clients. After emptying the safe, he reserves a train compartment under an assumed name, shaves off his moustache and removes all marks of his identity from his clothing in the hope of leading a new life of a wealthy investor in another city. Just an hour before his scheduled departure a strange girl approaches him and tries to persuade him to remain honest.

11. The Lovely Menace

Air Date: 1950-12-11

Marie Overbrook, is a young French widow of an American soldier, who is suddenly cast in the midst of high society. Living with her father-in-law, Marie is invited to a party where she will meet al of her husband's old friends. Before the party, the girl confesses that she is afraid of making a fool of herself in front of all the guests. Moreover, she is even more frightened by the prospect of being treated like a poor French peasant. But at the affair everything goes differently than she had anticipated. The young widow makes a great hit with the men and they heap attention on her. All the women, however resent her for fear she is stealing their husbands. Marie finds that she has unwittingly become the competitor of every woman there.

12. Down Bayou Du Bac

Air Date: 1950-12-18

The story is set in the Louisiana Bayou, where young sweethearts parents' try to break up their romance.

13. A Child is Born

Air Date: 1950-12-25

The child born in none other than Jesus Christ and the event that was to rock the world is seen through the eyes of an innkeeper and his wife.

14. A Well-Remembered Voice

Air Date: 1951-01-01

A husband and wife are drifting apart because one doesn't think the other is sad enough about their son's death.

15. The Purple Doorknob

Air Date: 1951-01-08

A spirited old woman hopes for a little excitement in her quiet life in a small New England town, and gets it when a famous actress knocks at her door one night with a strange request.

16. Purple and Fine Linen

Air Date: 1951-01-15

The plot concerns an elderly woman beggar who picks a man's pocket on a London street, persuades her victim not to turn her over to the police and leads him into a series of adventures, during which he discovers that she is no ordinary pickpocket - nor elderly, either.

17. Manhattan Pastorale

Air Date: 1951-01-22

A spinsterish young schoolteacher finds an abundance of excitement in a visit to the Big City. Her adventures beging when she finds $30,000 in a taxi and turns it over to the police. A visit by mobsters and her involvement in gang warfare follow promptly.

18. The Shiny People

Air Date: 1951-01-29

Story of a sideshow barker with a yen for high society after he meets a society gal out slumming.

19. The Choir Rehearsal

Air Date: 1951-02-05

It takes place in the small New England town of Tuckerton during the early years of the nineteenth century. Esmeralda is expelled from the church coral group because she sings a tuneful melody in the choir. Embarrassed and deeply hurt Esmeralda withdraws from society and stops going to church. She is making plans to leave town when an unexpected ally turns up.

20. Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Air Date: 1951-02-12

Humble Abraham Lincoln gains the respect of his Illinois neighbors, growing in stature and respect until he is elected President in 1860 and departs for Washington.

21. To the Lovely Margaret

Air Date: 1951-02-19

Margaret, who lives in the home of her uncle, Professor Adams, is rarely invited to parties or dances. To her surprise she receives an invitation to the important Junior Prom from one of the most handsome young men in town. But, her joy is short-lived for he calls up a day later to break the date in order to take another girl. Just when it looks as though Margaret will continue to be a wallflower someone steps into her home to bring the story or an unexpected and happier ending.

22. The Irish Drifter

Air Date: 1951-02-26

Due to his mother and father who are continually fighting and threatening to get divorced, little Robbie Crosley decides to run away. Packing a knapsack he starts for New York where he plans to join the Navy. Before he can get very far, Robbie meets Tim Larkin, a philosophical tramp who is always on the move from one place to another. Robbie stops to tell Tim his story and the kindly drifter decides to take matters into his own hands. He realizes that for the boy's sake he must solve the Crosley's marital problems before taking the youngster back home. But when he visits the parents that evening Tim finds that it will take more than his glib tongue to straighten things out.

23. Not Guilty of Much

Air Date: 1951-03-05

A young tenant of a Manhattan apartment house spends her working days in a department store. Kitty is in love with a young lawyer named George who lives three flights above her apartment. They can't consider getting married because George has yet to get his first case and doesn't make enough money to support himself. One day, when he is buried in his law books, he receives a message that Kitty has been arrested. She has been accused of stealing an automobile. George rushes to her defense and finds that his first case is also one of the most unusual to ever come before the bar.

24. Long Distance

Air Date: 1951-03-12

Story of a woman trying against desperate odds to save her husband from unjust execution. Uncovering new evidence that will prove his innocence she tries in a series of time-consuming, frustrating telephone calls to reach the trial judge, the only man who can intervene.

25. No Shoes

Air Date: 1951-03-19

A truck driver is awaiting the birth of his first child and certain that it will be a boy, since all his plans for the child are based on that assumption. He is crushed when a nurse informs him his wife has given birth to a girl, he is about to fight with a quiet stranger who tries to reason with him when he learns the most important lesson of his life.

26. The Treasure Trove

Air Date: 1951-03-26

Tony is the best friend of Bob and Hilda Devinish. He visits their home in London every weekend and spends his vacations with the young couple. One day while helpin to weed the garden. Tony digs up some old Roman coins. Excitedly he shows them to the Devinishes and then brings them to a coin expert to evaluate their worth. When they discoer that the Roman money is worth over 10,000 pounds, greed begins to replace the friendship between the men. Tony tries to steal the coins, Bob threatens to shoot him and it looks as though the newfound wealth is going to bring only grief to them both. When Hilda suddenly uncovers the real and terrible meaning of their discovery, a new light is thrown on them.

27. The Old Lady Shows Her Medals

Air Date: 1951-04-02

A young soldier, about to leave for war, is "adopted" by an elderly lady with the same surname.

28. Column Item

Air Date: 1951-04-09

Sophie Claire is telling one of her fellow press agents that the worst has come to pass, she is in love with her client, Eli Norman. At that moment she receives a phone call from Norman telling her to release a story to the papers for him. It is to announce his marriage to another girl. Although she is badly hurt she decides to put on a brave face and continue in her job without showing her feelings. She soon discovers that her client's future wife is only using him to further her own career. When he calls up with another news item a few days later, it changes Sophie's feelings completely.

29. Heritage on Wimpole Street

Air Date: 1951-04-16

Setting of the play is the home in England of Edward Barrett, father of the famous poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. After she had run away to marry Robert Browning, Barrett refused to ever she her again. When Elizabeth died, Barrett was too proud to admit that he had treated her harshly. He continues to be the stern parent and treats his other two daughters with an even firmer hand. Barrett refuses to let them go out with men or in any way lead a normal life. One day, while he is in a particularly bad mood, Barrett receives an unexpected visit from Elizabeth's son who brings about a strange transformation in his grandfather.

30. Hit and Run

Air Date: 1951-04-23

A man who has run over a child, decides to hide from the police. However, he develops a persecution complex and reaches the point where he is terrified by every doorknock. Whe he can't stand the life of seclusion any longer he goes about trying to remove any evident he might have left behind.

31. The Speech

Air Date: 1951-04-30

A small toen doctor is called to New York to accept an award as the outstanding country doctor of the year. He leaves his home in Bowlegs, Okla., with his wife to visit the big city for the first time. The day before the dinner at which the citation is to be presented, he spends many hours practicing on an imposing speech written for him by a local professor. But at the affair the doctor discovers that he lost his glasses and is forced to give an extemporaneous speech.

32. The Sire de Maletroit's Door

Air Date: 1951-05-07

Set in 15th century France, the story deals with a young man who flees from the Royal Guard after trying to avenge the death of a friends. He takes refuge in the home of the Sire de Maletroit, who mistaking him for another guard who is in love with his daughter, orders an immediate marriage. The daughter, realizing he is the wrong man and a fugitive, is unwilling to reveal his identity.

33. Local Storm

Air Date: 1951-05-14

A thriller about a woman who believes she is a cripple.

34. Wild Geese

Air Date: 1951-05-21

A young and beautiful school mistress receives a strange visit from an Englishman who introduces himself as Cyril. The traveler tells Jane that he has come two thousand miles to buy the ship model that has been sitting on her fireplace mantel for years. Confused by the sudden interest in the ship which she inherited from her father, Jane refuses to sell. While Cyril calls on her day after day and continues his offers for the ship, she becomes determined to find out the reasons for his interest. The results of her probing prove to have a bearing on the future of both parties.

35. Sweet Sorrow

Air Date: 1951-05-28

An important Broadway actress has journeyed to the town of Oxford, Vermont to play the lead in a summer stock presentation. She is surprised that the townfolk are unfriendly and greet her with great hostility. Linda finds out the reason for the cool reception when a friendly schoolteacher tells her that the show's producer has just skipped town with the box office receipts. It looks as though the entire company will be tarred and feathered and driven out of town when Linda hits upon a daring and desperate plan which may set matters right again.

36. Consider the Lillies

Air Date: 1951-06-04

A struggling young authoress caught between her own puritanical inclinations and a publisher's efforts to please the public's fancy by injecting "spice" into her manuscript.

37. Weather for Today

Air Date: 1951-06-11

A young Broadway producer is having casting problems on his forthcoming play. Although the deadline for casting is approaching he has just about given up and is resting at his Staten Island home when a high wind storm gives him more serious problems to think about. When the storm reaches the dangerous stage a young woman seeks refuge in his home. His problems take on a new flavor until he makes an important discovery which enables him to solve them all.

38. Inside Story

Air Date: 1951-06-18

A psychological comedy about an advertising girl and a psychiatrist.

39. The Promise

Air Date: 1951-06-25

Story of a sadistic tycoon ruthlessly dominates his wife. Although crippled by an accident, he continues to run his business from his bedside, bulldozing and thundering to his employees and family alike. His meek wife is fully subservient to him until a strange change comes over her. The change in her attitude enables her to extract a promise from her husband to change his ways and he is forced to fulfill his promise in a most unusual and horrifying manner.

1. The Pacing Goose

Air Date: 1951-08-27

A farm woman would rather raise a goose as a pet than a cat.

2. Forever Walking Free

Air Date: 1951-09-03

The story takes place in London during the height of the "Battle of Britain" when the Luftwaffe was bombing the populace. Joan Warrock's home has been bombed. She meets an American Air Force gunner, Buster Menton, in the blackout-darkened streets shortly afterwards and he takes her to an afterhour "pub" to calm her nerves. It isn't until the evening is over that she realizes there has been something strange about the place and about Buster. Her thoughts return to the party in the bombed building and she dreads all the future bombing that will come, until Menton convinces her that he knows that she has nothing to worry about in the future.

3. It's a Promise

Air Date: 1951-09-10

A young roomer's life is unexpectedly altered by a seven-year-old child.

4. A Family Affair

Air Date: 1951-09-17

An outwardly weak-kneed, henpecked member of Philadelphia's elite, Sumner Scofield II is constantly reminded by his wife that he must look down his bank-roll at anyone not in the same financial and social bracket as the Scofields. When their son Will, home from Yale for Spring vacation declares he wants to quit college and marry a vocalist in a band, Agnes Scofield tells Sumner the family must "buy the girl off". Sumner's encounter with the young singer takes an unusual turn which allows him to assert himself for once in his life.

5. A Matter of Life

Air Date: 1951-09-24

A widower, realizes to his astonishment that his daughter, a typical wholesome American girl, begins to act strangely almost overnight, stealing and disobeying him. When he shadows her one night, he realizes she has fallen in with drug addicts and herself becomes addicted to narcotics.

6. Grandma Was an Actress

Air Date: 1951-10-01

An old woman seeks to persuade her granddaughter to go on the stage against her son's opposition.

7. Route 19

Air Date: 1951-10-08

Maryjane finds herself in a lonely bus station on a desolate highway one rainy night shortly after it is reported that a homicidal maniac is at large in the area. There are only two people in the station and Maryjane suspects that one of them is the killer.

8. Cafe Ami

Air Date: 1951-10-15

In Western Germany an Army sergeant feels there is something strange about the proprietor of a cafe, but doesn't believe a German girl who says the man is an exNazi concentration camp commandant.

9. The Twinkle in Her Eye

Air Date: 1951-10-22

A bachelor's sister believes he should get married. She hires a housekeeper for him and he refuses to have the girl in the house until he meets her.

10. The Doctor's Wife

Air Date: 1951-10-29

A young wife of a doctor tries to help him by learning his profession. She learns far too well and nearly causes her husband to lose his medical license.

11. Confession

Air Date: 1951-11-05

Story of a small town bank cashier dismissed from his job, after the bank's president John Gresham is indicted for embezzlement. The bank trustees suspect that Baldwin is involved in the crime but don't accuse him. He cannot find other work because of the scandal and is practically penniless when he receives a strange offer of $100,000 if he will leave town.

12. No Will of His Own

Air Date: 1951-11-12

An excavation inspector finds an original play by William Shakespear in the ruins of an old London house and connives to pass it off as a creation of his own.

13. Stolen Years

Air Date: 1951-11-19

The easy-going life on a Chinese river port of four foreign agents for American firms is unexpectedly interrupted by Detective Yates of the San Francisco police department, who announces he wants one of them as a fugitive from a California murder warrant.

14. Dames are Poison

Air Date: 1951-11-26

A nurse is forced to make a shrewd real estate deal when five roommates leave her with a lease for a huge house.

15. Tin Badge

Air Date: 1951-12-03

A beat cop finds that making the arrest of a wanted killer has its aftermath - attacks by vengeful henchmen.

16. Second Sight

Air Date: 1951-12-10

Story of a secretary hired by a blinded foreign correspondent to take down his memories and in so doing proves a fateful influence on his life.

17. The Blues Street

Air Date: 1951-12-17

Pete Cornelius the 19-year-old son of a wealthy businessman is on his way to college for his first year's studies but when he stops off in New Orleans on the way to the school Pete becomes fascinated with the city. He also becomes interested in a nightclub vocalist, Lou Jansen and decides against catching his train for the University. His disappearance causes his father to send out a nationwide alarm and offers $1000 reward for his son's return. When this is announced Lou plays a different part in his life than he had anticipated.

18. A Child is Born

Air Date: 1951-12-24

The story of the Innkeeper and his wife in the town of Bethlehem during the reign of King Herod.

19. The Jest of Hahalaba

Air Date: 1951-12-31

A British business man whose clairvoyance plays tricks on him on New Year's Eve.

20. Mr. Finchley Versus the Bomb

Air Date: 1952-01-07

Finchley refuses to move from an old ghost town he calls home. The Army has planned to test the atom bomb at the site but Finchley will not budge.

21. Ceylon Treasure

Air Date: 1952-01-14

Adventurer Dave Rorsford arrives at a hotel in Ceylon carrying a gem worth a fortune, an international band of thieves immediately find out about it and make plans to steal it. A blonde named Alma also turns up at the same hotel hoping to buy the jewel. Indirectly she lures Rorsford into a trap set by the plotters. However, once she has betrayed him, Alma makes new plans to secure the diamond.

22. The Sound of Waves Breaking

Air Date: 1952-01-21

Mike Brackauer shrugs off his success as an artist, feeling that his rise to fame has been based on technical proficiency without any deep creative talent. He becomes increasingly moody over his failure to inject what he terms "the spark of life" into his paintings. His confidence in himself is suddenly restored when a department stor salesgirl tells him she can hear the sound of waves breaking when she looks at one of his seascape paintings. A short time later they fall in love and plan marriage until Brackauer's confidence again leaves him.

23. For Goodness Sake

Air Date: 1952-01-28

A Boston waterfront roughneck is hounded by a beautiful evangelist who tries to convert him.

24. Kelly

Air Date: 1952-02-04

A romantic comedy about the member of a three-man army team which followed the invading Allied Forces to Normandy in 1944 to liberate American prisoners of war and other Nazi captives.

25. The Game of Chess

Air Date: 1952-02-11

A foreign ruler, unarmed and without guards or servants, plays a game of wits with a would-be assassin.

26. Life, Liberty and Orrin Dudley

Air Date: 1952-02-18

A veteran uses his GI allotment to further his education and win the love of the school teacher.

27. The Bargain

Air Date: 1952-02-25

The wife of a mining engineer, gains the money needed to save her husband's business.

28. Night, Be Quiet

Air Date: 1952-03-03

A young wife becomes involved in a triangle with her husband and his youthful brother, a guest in their home.

29. The Promotion

Air Date: 1952-03-10

A hapless employee finds the proverbial silver lining in the dreaded pink slip after a long career as a salesman.

30. The Foggy, Foggy Dew

Air Date: 1952-03-17

Kyle had been brought up by foster parents. On a hunting trip he meets his biological father, a strange looking drifter with a guitar.

31. Julie

Air Date: 1952-03-24

A temperamental actress gets entangled in a struggle with her daughter over the love of the same man.

32. Taste

Air Date: 1952-03-31

A sinister gourmet and wine authority makes a cunning bet to win a reluctant young lady. The wager: his town and country houses against the girl's hand that he can guess the date and vinyard's name of a rare claret the father is serving for dinner.

33. Man at Bay

Air Date: 1952-04-07

A man convicted of murder breaks out of jail to expose the real killer.

34. Decision

Air Date: 1952-04-14

The story of a man's inner conflict between his self-respect and his worldly desires.

35. Operation Weekend

Air Date: 1952-04-21

Concerning a clash between a young medical student and a famous brain specialist.

36. Salad Days

Air Date: 1952-04-28

The adventures of law student Bellamy Partridge's at school and his quest to wed Judy Dwinelle.

37. Masquerade

Air Date: 1952-05-05

A French dramatist is in quest of a young actress to star in his latest play.

38. Marriage in the Beginning

Air Date: 1952-05-12

Story of a young wife who is jealous of her husband's political activities.

39. Ferry Crisis at Friday Point

Air Date: 1952-05-19

An old man has a small ferry boat on which he takes goods and passengers back and forth across the river of a small Midwestern town. One day the town's leaders decide that they'll build a bridge from the town across the river, which would enable them to bring even more goods and visitors to the town, but it will put the old ferryman out of business.

40. Pattern for Glory

Air Date: 1952-05-26

The story of a young dramatist torn between love for his sweetheart and his devotion to an older film star with whom he shares his first success.

41. Garneau '83

Air Date: 1952-06-02

The plot concerns an art patron whose name is mysteriously linked with that of her young protege.

42. The Lesson

Air Date: 1952-06-09

A psychological drama.

43. Gilia

Air Date: 1952-06-16

A young wife sacrifices her career as a novelist rather than stand in the way of her husband's ambitions as a musician.

44. Welcome Home, Lefty

Air Date: 1952-06-23

A washed up major league baseball player is put to the test by his hometown regarding his sportsmanship.

45. I Can't Remember

Air Date: 1952-06-30

A story about a detective accused of the homicide of a beautiful girl.

46. The Lady from Washington

Air Date: 1952-07-07

A political career woman is forced to choose between marriage or becoming the first woman to run for the vice-presidency.

47. Son Wanted

Air Date: 1952-07-14

A movie-struck youngster tries to palm off a youthful vagabond as the missing son of an aged woman.

48. The Brigadier

Air Date: 1952-07-21

The play deals with a spy in Northern ranks during Sherman's march thru Georgia.

49. Two Pale Horsemen

Air Date: 1952-07-28

Story about a cynical artist and a lonesome teacher who seek to escape from reality by going to an Arctic village.

50. Two Make Four

Air Date: 1952-08-04

Story about two orphans in search of foster parents.

51. The Orchard

Air Date: 1952-08-11

A tragic rural American life involving a family of itinerant cherry pickers.

52. You Be the Bad Guy

Air Date: 1952-08-18

Detective lieutenant Dan Shelvin is torn between the sense of duty and justice and his devotion to his family after discovering his younger brother in a hijacking racket.

53. The Magnolia Touch

Air Date: 1952-08-25

A married Dixie gentleman smitten by a young Southern belle now living in Manhattan invites him to her apartment for an old homestyle dinner.

1. The Return of Ulysses

Air Date: 1952-09-01

An explorer returns home after 15 years and finds his wife and son bitter and reproachful over his long absence.

2. Ile

Air Date: 1952-09-08

The captain of a whaling vessel whose indomitable will and greed for oil drives his men to mutiny and his wife to insanity.

3. Stone's Throw

Air Date: 1952-09-15

A romantic comedy about a young writer and a rugged forest ranger in a vacation housing problem.

4. Happily, But Not Forever

Air Date: 1952-09-22

The comedy deals with a college professor whose job is in jeopardy through an over-zealous student body.

5. A Message for Janice

Air Date: 1952-09-29

Dave Carter attempts to deliver a message from his deceased comrad-in-arms to a young girl, he meets unexpected rebuffs from his buddy's parents.

6. A Legacy for Love

Air Date: 1952-10-06

A Parisian model discovers that wealth doesn't solve all her problems.

7. The Country Lawyer

Air Date: 1952-10-20

Story of a Country lawyer takes care of his community for 50 years.

8. Three Hours Between

Air Date: 1952-10-27

Nancy Holmes childhood romance is revived when her first beau visits her at midnight to while away the hours between planes.

9. The Face of Autumn

Air Date: 1952-11-03

A fight manager risks his family's savings to back the comeback of an ex-champ.

10. Something to Celebrate

Air Date: 1952-11-10

A humble bookkeeper is out for that long-postponed raise from his boss.

11. The Man Who Struck It Rich

Air Date: 1952-11-17

An Alaskan sourdough returns home from Alaska is faced with the problem of distributing his wealth.

12. The Hill

Air Date: 1952-11-24

A hard-boiled newspaperwoman meets with some opposition from her male colleagues when she is assigned to Korea as a war correspondent.

13. Amo, Amas, Amat

Air Date: 1952-12-01

A girl engaged to an intern too poor to marry, gets a job tutoring a rich young man.

14. Fear

Air Date: 1952-12-08

A drama about the reunion of two men who haven't seen each other for 25 years. One is a millionaire philanthropist and the other an ex-con.

15. Song for a Banjo

Air Date: 1952-12-15

A cattle drover is falsely accused of swindling his boss.

16. A Child is Born

Air Date: 1952-12-22

Gene Lockhart and Fay Bainter will recreate the roles of the Innkeeper and his wife for the third year, of the Christmas television classic "A Child Is Born", Stephen Vincent Benet's story of the Nativity.

17. The Key

Air Date: 1952-12-29

A shock victim of an airplane accident effects a small miracle by nursing a group of war veteran flyers similarly affected.

18. Two for Tea

Air Date: 1953-01-05

A young man caught on the rebound becomes enmeshed in a hilarious series of matrimonial situations.

19. Thanks for a Lovely Evening

Air Date: 1953-01-12

A shy business executive finds a romantic mentor in one of his brash truck drivers.

20. Ti Babette

Air Date: 1953-01-19

A Canadian backwoods lass is transformed into a glamorous debutante.

21. The Inn of Eagles

Air Date: 1953-01-26

A wartime bomber pilot returns after nine years to his squadron's rendezvous, where his sweetheart vowed she would wait for him.

22. The White Gown

Air Date: 1953-02-02

A 16-year-old girl wears a very special dress on her first date with a college man and gives her parents anxious moments when she departs.

23. A Bouquet for Caroline

Air Date: 1953-02-09

Story of a retired concert singer is unable to accept obscurity.

24. Miss Marlow at Play

Air Date: 1953-02-16

A reigning headliner of the British stage is accused by an irate father, of stealing the affections of his son from the girl of his choice.

25. Autumn Nocturne

Air Date: 1953-02-23

Story of two sanitarium patients on road to new health.

26. A Time for Heroes

Air Date: 1953-03-02

A lonely adventurer returns home after 12 years to claim a son he had deserted.

27. One of These Things

Air Date: 1953-03-09

A skilled and devastating "man about town" offers some sage advice about how to land your prey. The intended catch a lovely Angela Gray.

28. The Wednesday Wish

Air Date: 1953-03-16

A compassionate matron has a fondness for hobos and a longing for a refrigerator with a light inside.

29. One for the Road

Air Date: 1953-03-23

Drama of a veteran newsman and his final big headline story.

30. The Brooch

Air Date: 1953-04-02

A young man and his wife confront the meddling mother, take control of the unhappy situation, and live, presumably, happily ever after.

31. With Glory and Honor

Air Date: 1953-04-09

Story of a tortured son of a man, condemned to die in the electric chair.

32. Measure for Greatness

Air Date: 1953-04-16

The story of the parents of a pre-med student who feels that his family fails to live up to his ideals.

33. Long Distance

Air Date: 1953-04-23

A frenzied wife tries desperately to halt the execution of her husband who is about to die in the electric chair.

34. The Ascent of Alfred Fishkettle

Air Date: 1953-04-30

Story concerns a young man whose scientific experiments disturb his entire neighborhood, especially when he discovers how to fly through the air with the greatest of ease.

35. Listen, He's Proposing

Air Date: 1953-05-07

A small-town girl whose on-again off-again romance keeps the neighbors guessing. Their curiosity reaches an all-time high when the word gets around that a proposal is in the offing.

36. The Betrayers

Air Date: 1953-05-14

Story of a man unwittingly involved in hi-jacking, finds himself pursued by police and killers.

37. Tunnel Job

Air Date: 1953-05-21

Dan Carmody is the boss of a construction job 1,500 feet below the surface of a river. The job is fraught with danger and turmoil when he must make a life or death decision.

38. Lost Sunday

Air Date: 1953-05-28

A middle-aged school teacher is in a one-woman battle with the international date line and the Bon Voyage Travel Bureau, trying to get back a golden day she lost on her wistful trip around the World.

39. Ten Days to Forever

Air Date: 1953-06-04

A little known custom in Mississippi, permits a life prisoner 10 days furlough after several years of good behavior; and what happens to aristocratic Jeff Foster, convicted murderer, on his 10-day return.

40. Make Believe Bride

Air Date: 1953-06-11

A bewildered plane passenger agrees to pose as the husband of a fleeing and temporarily penniless, heiress who has just enough with her for the trip if she goes on the company's "half-fare-for-wives" plan.

41. Wind of the Way

Air Date: 1953-06-18

A young widow of a war hero is reminded that "love is a gift not a debt".

42. This is Jimmy Merrill

Air Date: 1953-06-25

When two feuding newscasters become involved in a mud-slinging campaign, an interesting situation is bound to develop. The instigator of the feud suddenly faces an expose of scandal in his own family.

43. Force of Circumstance

Air Date: 1953-07-02

A man is jailed for the hit-and-run death of a child, even though he couldn't possibly have committed the crime. He struggles to free himself of a web of evidence that has sent him to prison.

44. The Tango

Air Date: 1953-07-09

A frustrated dancer has been sitting next to the telephone for many years, waiting for a theatrical agent to keep his promise.

45. The Corporal and the Lady

Air Date: 1953-07-16

A G.I. camp in Korea is plagued by a mysterious pin-up picture thief. A meek corporal suffers from a strange ailment - he objects to pin-up girls around the barracks, particularly when the happen to be his wife!

46. A Man in the Kitchen

Air Date: 1953-07-23

An ad executive switches places with his wife while he writes the "Great American novel" at home.

47. The Odyssey of Jeffrey Sewell

Air Date: 1953-07-30

A disdainful young man gets a lesson on modern art appreciation from a stern and knowing lady artist.

48. Something to Live For

Air Date: 1953-08-06

The story concerns a retired stage star whose marriage to a theatrical producer is threatened by the ambitious and unscrupulous young star of his new play.

49. Lovely Day

Air Date: 1953-08-13

Linda Russell is under strict instructions from husband Bill to have the family home good and ready for the dinner visit of Bill's efficiency obsessed boss Mr Marshall. Will she meet Bill's expectations or will the evening end in disaster.

50. Women Who Wait

Air Date: 1953-08-20

The distraught wife of a pilot whose plan has crashed, realizes that another woman also awaits him just as fervently.

51. Some Call It Love

Air Date: 1953-08-27

A Washington Senator has a difficult time convincing his secretary that she should marry him.

1. Message in a Bottle

Air Date: 1953-09-03

Story of a once successful business executive whose delusions of grandeur cost him a career and a fortune.

2. The Second Meeting

Air Date: 1953-09-10

The story of two ex-GI's in a secluded hunting lodge. One brings home a bride, and she is the woman who jilted the buddy ten years earlier.

3. Witness for the Prosecution

Air Date: 1953-09-17

Leonard Vole is arrested on suspicion of murdering an elderly acquaintance. He employs an experienced but aging barrister as his defense attorney.

4. Return to Alsace

Air Date: 1953-09-24

The story of an ex-GI who makes some amazing discoveries when he goes to Europe to return a necklace stolen during the War by one of his buddies.

5. Anniversary

Air Date: 1953-10-01

Even the haunting spectre of death fails to dampen the gaiety of an anniversary celebration when it is pitted against a plucky woman's resolve.

6. The Moon for Linda

Air Date: 1953-10-08

Story about a doting mother of an ungrateful, headstrong, adopted daughter.

7. Guilty Knowledge

Air Date: 1953-10-15

Harry discovers that his best friend is responsible for a storage in the company's books.

8. The Cruel Time

Air Date: 1953-10-22

A frustrated piano teacher longs for recognition as a concert performer. A wealthy young matron offers to sponsor his concerts - against the wishes of his wife, who feels that the sponsor's interests are more than professional.

9. The Return of Socko Bernard

Air Date: 1953-10-29

A hungry and jobless former football star is embarrassed when he secures a job as a waiter at a hotel. He discovers too late that he is to serve dinner at a reunion of former classmates.

10. Will Power

Air Date: 1953-11-05

Story of a cantankerous millionaire who arouses the ire of his family by changing his will.

11. Lady of Suspicion

Air Date: 1953-11-12

A prison escapee seeks shelter on a fruit farm.

12. The Moment of the Rose

Air Date: 1953-11-19

Story of a penniless waiter who tries to give his daughter a better way of life.

13. Three Just Men

Air Date: 1953-12-10

The story set in a frontier cabin, involves three self-appointed vigilantes hunting down a Confederate soldier turned horse thief.

14. A Bouquet for Millie

Air Date: 1953-12-17

Millie loves flowers and constantly beseaches Tim to bring her a bouquet. Tim thinks flowers are sissy and refuses to buy them. An argument ensues and leads to a black eye for Millie, court proceeding and a sentence that Tim bring his wife a bouquet for 10 consecutive nights or spend 30 days in jail.

15. Call Off the Wedding

Air Date: 1954-01-07

Comedy of a country girl in the city, who uses her rooftop vegetable garden to win her man from the clutches of a movie siren.

16. All Dressed in White

Air Date: 1954-01-14

The macabre gift of a revolver with a single bullet in its chamber traps a sadistic killer at a wedding.

17. The Bachelor of Grandby Oaks

Air Date: 1954-01-21

A chronic bachelor is plagued by women in a small community overrun by them.

18. A Place in the Sun

Air Date: 1954-01-28

A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.

19. The Small Glass Bottle

Air Date: 1954-02-04

A nagging wife suspects her husband of trying to kill her.He gives her some pills for her headache and she thinks he has given her poison.

20. Shall Not Perish

Air Date: 1954-02-11

The story of a sharecropper's wife and a banker who both lost sons in Korea.

21. Final Round

Air Date: 1954-02-18

A prize fight manager double-crosses his boxer pal.

22. Borrowed Wife

Air Date: 1954-02-25

An author borrows his friend's wife in order to ward off a young girl's attentions.

23. Miracle at the Waldorf

Air Date: 1954-03-04

A once famed Viennese throat specialist is struggling to establish a practice in America.

24. Call Me Mrs.

Air Date: 1954-03-11

A brainy secretary gives up her career to be the wife of a "shrinking violet" construction engineer.

25. The Exposure of Michael O'Reilly

Air Date: 1954-03-18

The story of a man who posed for 30 years as a hero of the Irish Easter Rebellion of 1916.

26. Spent in Silence

Air Date: 1954-03-25

A deaf mute tries to find love and a career despite her handicap and parental opposition.

27. The Way I Feel

Air Date: 1954-04-01

The story of a teenager preparing to wed after graduation from high school, who is shocked when her fiance, the school's football hero, disgraces himself.

28. Pick of the Litter

Air Date: 1954-04-08

A young veterinarian saves the life of a boy's dog and gives a cynical gambler a lesson in human kindness and understanding.

29. The Girl Who Couldn't Cry

Air Date: 1954-04-15

A schoolteacher with a malicious teenage student trying to ruin the teachers reputation.

30. Gavin's Darling

Air Date: 1954-04-22

A young woman is distraught over her secure but loveless marriage to an elderly man.

31. A Chair for a Lady

Air Date: 1954-04-29

A man is freed from a loveless marriage by the death of his invalid wife and becomes suspect until the unscrupulous nurse comes into question.

32. Two Dozen Roses

Air Date: 1954-05-06

A famous novelist attempts to prevent her daughter's marriage to the son of a stage star.

33. The Queen's English

Air Date: 1954-05-13

Drama about a spinster teacher who is brought to trial by the school board on charges of prejudice. She is accused of flunking the son of a wealthy man because of an injustice the man committed against her.

34. Blind Fury

Air Date: 1954-05-20

A railroad agent is forced to a crucial decision when an attempt to wreck a train from his post is attempted.

35. I'll Never Love Again

Air Date: 1954-05-27

Lee suffers paralysis but the the love of a good man Nick helps her in her recovery.

36. The Outside Witness

Air Date: 1954-06-03

The outside witness is a window washer who, while performing his task, has his attention drawn to a supposedly respectable couple. He indeed overhears them discussing a murder plan designed to get rid of the man who could send them to jail. What is he going to do?

37. Waiting for Onorio

Air Date: 1954-06-10

A headstrong Italian immigrant and restaurant owner deserts his family in a fit of temper because his wife won't obey him and sign a bill of sale.

38. The Pretext

Air Date: 1954-06-17

A pretty young graduate student is caught in the cross-fire of an emotional conflict between her father and her fiance.

39. Perished Leaves

Air Date: 1954-06-24

A wealthy bachelor dies suddenly, leaving his lawyer with unWritten instructions that the woman he loves should benefit from his estate. He never names the woman and the lawyer is forced to play detective, which results in complications.

1. To Each His Own

Air Date: 1954-08-26

An unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.

2. Welcome, Stranger

Air Date: 1954-09-02

3. Christmas in July

Air Date: 1954-09-09

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize. As a result, he gets a promotion, buys presents for all of his family and friends, and proposes to his girl. When the truth comes out, he's not prepared for the consequences.

4. Hold Back the Dawn

Air Date: 1954-09-16

Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.

5. The Heiress

Air Date: 1954-09-23

A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.

6. Meet Jo Cathart

Air Date: 1954-09-30

7. The Mansion

Air Date: 1954-10-07

Young Master Lacy must make up his mind between a daughter of the Old South and a Northern hussy.

8. A Visit from Evelyn

Air Date: 1954-10-14

9. An Angel Went AWOL

Air Date: 1954-10-21

10. September Tide

Air Date: 1954-10-28

11. Imperfect Lady

Air Date: 1954-11-04

12. Five Star Final

Air Date: 1954-11-11

The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case - with tragic results.

13. Captive City

Air Date: 1954-11-18

14. A Medal for Benny

Air Date: 1954-11-25

Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when the townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.

15. Craig's Wife

Air Date: 1954-12-02

A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.

16. Ladies in Retirement

Air Date: 1954-12-09

The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results.

17. Double Indemnity

Air Date: 1954-12-16

An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.

18. September Affair

Air Date: 1954-12-23

An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.

19. The Chase

Air Date: 1954-12-30

Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.

20. Sunset Boulevard

Air Date: 1955-01-06

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

21. Penny Serenade

Air Date: 1955-01-13

A couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unexpected sadness and unexpected joy.

22. Love Letters

Air Date: 1955-01-20

23. So Evil My Love

Air Date: 1955-01-27

Olivia Harwood, missionary's widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. When Olivia opens a lodging house Mark becomes her lodger, then her lover. Olivia falls so completely under amoral Mark's spell that he's able to overcome her scruples, and soon she's his willing tool in an ambitious scheme of theft and blackmail...maybe too ambitious.

24. One Foot in Heaven

Air Date: 1955-02-03

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

25. A Bell for Adano

Air Date: 1955-02-10

Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life.

26. The Copperhead

Air Date: 1955-02-17

Milt Shanks lives a shamed life, hated by his neighbors for having been a traitor to the North in the American Civil War. But Shanks carries with him a secret, one he promised Abraham Lincoln to tell no one.

27. So Dark the Night

Air Date: 1955-02-24

A renowned and relentless Paris detective takes his first vacation in eleven years at a small inn in the French countryside. There he meets and falls in love with the hotelier's daughter, who had been betrothed to a neighboring farmer, but who hopes to marry him and move to Paris. On the evening of their engagement, both the fiancée and the farmer disappear. What has happened to them? Who is responsible? Can the famed detective apply his talents to a rural mystery?

28. Casablanca

Air Date: 1955-03-03

Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

29. The Life of Emile Zola

Air Date: 1955-03-10

The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.

30. It Grows on Trees

Air Date: 1955-03-17

What happens when an American family gets two trees that grow spendable money.

31. Shadow of a Doubt

Air Date: 1955-03-24

A young woman discovers her visiting "Uncle Charlie" may not be the man he seems to be.

32. My Name is Julia Ross

Air Date: 1955-03-31

Julia Ross is a young woman alone in the world and is in search of a job. She is hired by an elderly woman named Mrs. Hughes to act as her live-in personal secretary. One of Mrs. Hughes' stipulations is that whomever she hire treat this job as one of a long term nature, meaning no current boyfriends or marriage on the horizon. The closest person to Julia was Dennis Bruce, who lived at the same boarding house and who was somewhat sweet on Julia but left to get married to another woman. As such, Julia is grateful for her new job. When Julia awakens after her first night...

33. The Browning Version

Air Date: 1955-04-07

Forced to retire from an English public school. a disliked professor must confront his utter failures as a teacher, a husband, and a man.

34. No Sad Songs for Me

Air Date: 1955-04-14

Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every moment of her life count, but her effort is weakened by the discovery that Brad is interested in his assistant, Chris Radner. But when she learns that Brad does indeed love her and not Chris, and that Chris is leaving town, she realizes what she must do to ensure the future happiness of Brad and Polly. She persuades Chris to stay, makes a genuine friend of her and watches Polly grow ...

35. An Act of Murder

Air Date: 1955-04-21

A hard-line judge is tempted toward mercy-killing by his wife's terminal cancer.

36. The Great McGinty

Air Date: 1955-04-28

Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics. But endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.

37. Remember the Night

Air Date: 1955-05-05

Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent. He postpones the trial because it is hard to get a conviction at Christmas time. But he feels sorry for her and arranges for her bail, and ends up taking her home to his mother for Christmas. Surrounded by a loving family (in stark contrast to Lee's own family background) they fall in love. This creates a new problem: how do they handle the upcoming trial?

38. Eight Iron Men

Air Date: 1955-05-12

Tensions arise when a WW II squadron is ordered not to rescue a squad mate pinned down by the enemy, for fear of risking more lives.

39. Make Way for Tomorrow

Air Date: 1955-05-19

An elderly couple are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.

40. Thunder on the Hill

Air Date: 1955-05-26

Convicted murderess Valerie Carns is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. Nurse Sister Mary becomes convinced of her innocence and sets out to find the real killer.

41. The Suspect

Air Date: 1955-06-02

A middle aged man commits murder when he feels that his happiness is threatened. Without remorse the man continues on believing he's executed the perfect crime and won't be caught.

42. Lightning Strikes Twice

Air Date: 1955-06-09

Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.

43. The Inside Story

Air Date: 1955-06-16

When money is inadvertently removed from an hotel safe, it leads to all kinds of problems.

44. Forever Female

Air Date: 1955-06-23

An aging actress refuses to admit she is too old to play the ingénue role anymore.

45. Last Year's Snow

Air Date: 1955-06-30

46. The Creaking Gate

Air Date: 1955-07-07

47. Dark Tribute

Air Date: 1955-07-14

Murder mystery in which a woman who has won the sweepstakes is found murdered.

48. Desparate Glory

Air Date: 1955-07-21

49. The Bride Came C.O.D.

Air Date: 1955-07-28

A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.

50. The Nine-Penny Dream

Air Date: 1955-08-04

A dream of winning a penny pool is realized by the meek owner of an English pub, but the prestige he expected eludes him.

51. Perilous Deception

Air Date: 1955-08-11

A man murders his wife then makes his interest known to her best friend.

52. Nor All Your Tears

Air Date: 1955-08-18

53. June Bride

Air Date: 1955-08-25

A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong.

54. The Last Confession

Air Date: 1955-09-01

55. The Happy Man

Air Date: 1955-09-08

A man finds a wallet in a taxicab with a lot of money in it. He turns it in to the police, who--according to the law--will hold it for 90 days, and if no one claims it, the wallet and its content will be given to the person who found it. However, when his friends and neighbors find out that he turned in the wallet, they ridicule him mercilessly, and he begins to wonder if he did the right thing or not.

56. The Lucky Finger

Air Date: 1955-09-15

57. The Eyes of Father Tomasino

Air Date: 1955-09-22

When a gentle older priest is found killed a young man quota the force so he can devote all his time to finding the killer.

1. The Enchanted Cottage

Air Date: 1955-09-29

A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.

2. The Amazing Mrs. Halliday

Air Date: 1955-10-06

An American teacher rescues a group of orphans during an Asian war and finds she has problems trying to get them thru immigration.

3. The Two Dollar Bettor

Air Date: 1955-10-13

A bank employee gets hooked on horse racing and starts to take money from the bank when his funds run low.

4. The Human Jungle

Air Date: 1955-10-20

Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle. He calls this a cop's war that is the same as a soldier's war with the difference being that people hate cops. His cause isn't helped when a rookie policeman accidentally kills an ...

5. The Lady Gambles

Air Date: 1955-10-27

A desperate husband tries to find help for his wife suffering from addictive gambling.

6. Appointment for Love

Air Date: 1955-11-03

Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.

7. Bedtime Story

Air Date: 1955-11-10

Playwright tries to stop his wife from retiring so he can star her in his next play.

8. The Hunted

Air Date: 1955-11-17

An innocent girl is sent to prison by her policeman sweetheart who believes her guilty of the crime. When she is released on parole, the girl swears vengeance on those responsible for her undeserved punishment.

9. Miss Susie Slagle's

Air Date: 1955-11-24

Baltimore, 1910. Miss Susie Slagle opens a boarding house for medical students.

10. The Web

Air Date: 1955-12-01

An attorney acting as a body guard, apparently kills a man in defense of his employer's life, and later believes the victim was set up to be murdered.

11. Suspicion

Air Date: 1955-12-08

A shy young English woman marries a charming gentleman, then begins to suspect him of trying to kill her.

12. Branded

Air Date: 1955-12-15

A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.

13. Holiday Affair

Air Date: 1955-12-22

Connie Ennis, widowed mother to young son Timmy, has avoided accepting the marriage proposal of her longtime boyfriend Carl. While he patiently awaits her saying "yes," Connie clings to the memory of her late husband. By chance, a department store salesman enters her life and complicates matters when the two quickly fall in love. With two marriage proposals on the table, Connie is forced to make a final choice.

14. Cover-Up

Air Date: 1955-12-29

An insurance detective is sent to investigate the sudden death of a man.

15. Hands Across the Table

Air Date: 1956-01-05

A loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance.

16. The Unfaithful

Air Date: 1956-01-12

Chris Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.

17. Ivy

Air Date: 1956-01-19

An Edwardian belle meets a rich bachelor, but what to do about her husband and her lover?

18. Witness to Murder

Air Date: 1956-01-26

A woman's sanity comes into question, after she claims to have witnessed a murder from her apartment window.

19. The Green Promise

Air Date: 1956-02-02

A stubborn old farmer won't listen to any of his neighbors about how to improve the efficiency of his farm with modern methods, as he thinks "the old ways" were just fine. His three daughters live on the farm with him, and the oldest one, a teenager, has fallen in love with a local boy. However, she knows that she is expected to help her father work the farm and is torn between her love for the local boy and her father's expectations for her to continue working the farm.

20. The Star

Air Date: 1956-02-09

A washed-up movie queen finds romance, but still desires a come-back.

21. Night Song

Air Date: 1956-02-16

Cathy Mallory, beautiful socialite who prefers classical music, is taken by friends to a back-alley dance club. There, she meets blind pianist Dan Evans, who plays in Chick Morgan's swing band but seems to be a composer of great promise. Attracted but spurned, Cathy feigns blindness herself to get past Dan's bitter facade, scheming to get him to the doctor who can restore his sight...and to Carnegie Hall. But her actions bring about several twists in their relationship...

22. Hired Wife

Air Date: 1956-02-23

Kendal, a secretary, helps to her boss Stephen Dexter out of a legal problem by becoming his wife. What was supposed to be temporary becomes something more after many obstacles.

23. Here Comes the Groom

Air Date: 1956-03-01

Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.

24. Criminal Code

Air Date: 1956-03-08

After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.

25. Little Boy Lost

Air Date: 1956-03-15

A war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during WW II married a French girl who was murdered by the Nazis. After the war he returns to to try to find his son, whom he lost during a bombing raid but has been told is living in an orphanage in Paris.

26. The Steel Trap

Air Date: 1956-03-22

A Bank officer discovers a flaw in the U.S. extradition treaty with Brazil and decides to take advantage of it. On Friday, he steals a million dollars from the bank, knowing it won't be missed until the bank opens on the following Monday. He and his wife, who doesn't know what he has done, then take a flight to Brazil. After some difficulties, they get as far as New Orleans, where his wife discovers the reason for their flight and what he has done. She leaves him and returns home. He is now alone with his conscience, and doesn't know if he can get back and return the ...

27. It Started With Eve

Air Date: 1956-03-29

A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.

28. Tabloid

Air Date: 1956-04-05

A reporter is determined to bring down a gambling kingpin.

29. Temptation

Air Date: 1956-04-12

In a flashback, late-Victorian beauty Ruby, a divorcée with a shady past, calculatingly marries rich Egyptologist Nigel, who installs her at his Cairo estate while he digs for mummies. Bored, Ruby undertakes to recover a friend's letters from Baroudi. But when she meets the blackmailer, mutual attraction leads to an affair. As Ruby gets in deeper, she finds Baroudi is even more unscrupulous than she dreamed.

30. Betrayed

Air Date: 1956-04-19

A man abandons his bride on their wedding night only to show up a month later when he is accused of murder.

31. Impact

Air Date: 1956-04-26

An unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding, and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy.

32. Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

Air Date: 1956-05-03

Wealthy Samuel Fulton is getting older and has no family of his own. He decides to leave his estate to the family of his first love, who turned down his marriage proposal years ago because he was poor. But he wants to test the family before leaving his money to them. He takes a room in their home and a job in the father's shop. He anonymously grants them $100,000. Harriet Blaisdell moves the family into a mansion and makes plans to marry her daughter Millicent off to a socialite rather than her soda jerk boyfriend Dan. The money goes to their heads, and they soon find...

33. The Night of January Sixteenth

Air Date: 1956-05-10

The story revolves around three people; Tycoon Bjorn Faulkner, who is being called upon by his board of directors to explain a missing $20,000,000; Kit Lane, his secretary who also has a personal interest; and Steve Van Ruyle, a sailor who has inherited a position on Faulkner's board of directors. Faulkner is (presumably) murdered, and Kit is falsely accused of the murder. Steve assumes the job of clearing her name.

34. Princess O'Rourke

Air Date: 1956-05-17

A pilot falls in love with a woman he believes is heading cross country to become a maid, little suspecting that she's actually a princess.

35. Millie's Daughter

Air Date: 1956-05-24

Joanna Maitland, living in Boston with her very conservative relatives, runs away to Palm Beach to be with her mother, Millie Maitland, whom she has been forbidden to see. Robert Lattimer, a Boston bank official in charge of her estate, follows her and, while trying to persuade her to return to Boston, falls in love with her. Millie, a social secretary in charge of the funds of a Palm Beach charity, 'borrows' from the fund, with intentions of paying the money back using a check she is expecting. When the check is stopped, Millie self-reports her embezzlement to the ...

36. Indiscreet

Air Date: 1956-05-31

The political future of the Governor of the Caribbean is in jeopardy due to his wife's past, which eventually catches up to her.

37. She Married Her Boss

Air Date: 1956-06-07

A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.

38. A House of His Own

Air Date: 1956-06-14

An inmate feels he has paid his debt in prison and files for parole. All are in favor except for one member.

39. The Corrigan Case

Air Date: 1956-06-21

A woman is acquitted of murdering her husband, but the cloud of suspicion still surrounds her. Her daughter and a tenant in the family rooming house set out to find the real killer of her father.

40. A Yankee Cousin

Air Date: 1956-06-28

A man moves his family from Puerto Rico to New York City in the hopes of making a success for himself. He soon finds out that by signing for what he wants, the creditors are after him.

41. A Marriage Day

Air Date: 1956-07-05

A plain but wealthy heiress does not find the happiness she expected in her marriage to a handsome young man.

42. Sting in the Tail

Air Date: 1956-07-12

Greedy Joseph Bently is working hard on his plan to inherit the estate of a rich relative, but things change when his sister confesses that she murdered her husband.

43. No One to Cry With

Air Date: 1956-07-19

A woman recently released from a mental institute gets a job as a housekeeper. Things turn for the worse when her employer's wife arrives, causing stress and conflict for the rest of the household.

44. Miss Mabel

Air Date: 1956-07-26

After Miss Mabel poisons her spiteful sister, she rewrites the will of her dead sibling to leave the estate to the locals.

45. The Quick and the Dead

Air Date: 1956-08-02

A Sioux guide leads a wagon train West. A gambler on the trip is suspicious and believes the guide is leading them into an ambush.

46. Rebuke Me Not

Air Date: 1956-08-09

An innocent man is about to be convicted of murdering his hypochondriac wife.

1. The Wayward Saint

Air Date: 1956-08-30

2. Road of Fear

Air Date: 1956-09-06

3. The Top Rung

Air Date: 1956-09-13

4. Mildred Pierce

Air Date: 1956-09-20

After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful, but cannot seem to win the approval of her spoiled daughter.

5. Only Yesterday

Air Date: 1956-09-27

6. Now, Voyager

Air Date: 1956-10-04

Boston spinster blossoms under therapy and finds impossible romance.

7. The Guilty

Air Date: 1956-10-11

Two sisters are in love with the same man. Then one of them is found murdered, which leads police to suspect the other girl.

8. Flamingo Road

Air Date: 1956-10-18

A carnival dancer finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by a corrupt political boss. Complications arise when she becomes romantically involved with the local Sheriff.

9. Because of You

Air Date: 1956-10-25

A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.

10. You Can't Escape Forever

Air Date: 1956-11-01

A newspaperman is given the "advice to the lovelorn" column to write after an argument with his boss. He resents the assignment but the job pays off when he gets the beat on the hottest story of the day.

11. Jezebel

Air Date: 1956-11-08

A haughty headstrong Southern Belle in Antebellum Louisiana loses her fiancée due to her stubborn vanity and pride and vows to get him back.

12. The Glass Web

Air Date: 1956-11-15

A beautiful but heartless television actress, uses seduction and tricks to blackmail the men in her life to a point, where she could get herself killed.

13. The Gay Sisters

Air Date: 1956-11-22

Fiona, Evelyn and Susanna are sisters. Their mother dies on the Lusitania, their father is killed in France, they must manage their Fifth Avenue mansion by themselves. Fiona marries Charles Barclay in order to get an inheritance and he begins a campaign to obtain the mansion to level it for real estate development. She vows that this will never happen.

14. Old Acquaintance

Air Date: 1956-11-29

Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels.

15. Christmas in Connecticut

Air Date: 1956-12-13

A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.

16. Hollywood's Musical Holiday Revue

Air Date: 1956-12-20

Todays theme is Hollywood's Musical Holiday Revue.

17. Michael and Mary

Air Date: 1956-12-27

After being deserted by her husband, Mary falls in love with Michael. After a few years, they marry, raise a son, and Michael becomes a successful writer. However, her first husband returns with plans of blackmail.

18. It Happened on Fifth Avenue

Air Date: 1957-01-03

A homeless New Yorker moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.

19. Just Across the Street

Air Date: 1957-01-10

20. To Have and Have Not

Air Date: 1957-01-17

During WWII, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a Free French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sexy lounge singer.

21. Vice Squad

Air Date: 1957-01-24

When a police officer is shot arresting a car thief, Captain Barnaby uses his skills and contacts to track down the culprits and uncovers a bank heist plan in the process. Barnaby has no qualms about bending the law to achieve his ends, including trumped up charges to persuade his only witness to cooperate or detaining some call girls to coerce their madam to help him. In the meantime he deals with everyday police business, juggling seemingly trivial matters with more serious ones.

22. One Sunday Afternoon

Air Date: 1957-01-31

Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.

23. The Undesirable

Air Date: 1957-02-07

24. Dark Victory

Air Date: 1957-02-14

A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether she'll meet her final days with dignity.

25. One Way Street

Air Date: 1957-02-21

After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico.

26. Possessed

Air Date: 1957-02-28

After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.

27. One Way Passage

Air Date: 1957-03-07

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.

28. Eileen

Air Date: 1957-03-14

Irish rebel Barry O'Day has a price on his head from the English, so he disguises himself as a groom. But when he falls in love with a beautiful English girl, she'll have nothing to do with a man who's only a groom. Nevertheless, Barry determines to claim Eileen for his own.

29. The Great Lie

Air Date: 1957-03-21

After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is now pregnant with his child.

30. The Black Angel

Air Date: 1957-03-28

When Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer's murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent...aided by the victim's ex-husband.

31. Adam Had Four Sons

Air Date: 1957-04-04

Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie even more. At the same time, Emilie falls in love with Adam. The boys grow up, but Adam insists that Emilie stay on as part of the family. Her relationships with both the boys and Adam become strained after one son marries a gold-digging viper named Hester.

32. The Taggart Light

Air Date: 1957-04-18

33. The Man Who Played God

Air Date: 1957-04-25

After losing his hearing, a musician uses lip-reading to help others.

34. The Hard Way

Air Date: 1957-05-02

Embittered, ambitious Helen Sherman sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.

35. Stand-In for Murder

Air Date: 1957-05-09

A night club musician, believing he is soon to die from an incurable disease, plans to carry out an unusual sacrifice in order to insure financial security for his family.

36. Death Do Us Part

Air Date: 1957-05-16

37. The Armed Venus

Air Date: 1957-05-23

The wealthy owner of a Park Avenue night club falls in love with a beautiful girl who turns out to have secrets. His doubt and suspicions set him on a dangerous path.

38. Paris Calling

Air Date: 1957-05-30

39. Payment in Kind

Air Date: 1957-06-06

40. Design for November

Air Date: 1957-06-13

41. Edge of Doubt

Air Date: 1957-06-20

42. The Latch Key

Air Date: 1957-06-27

A bus crash results in the deaths of several passengers, whose identities are in dispute. A scorched latch key seems to be the key to the mystery, and in a series of flashbacks the passengers on the bus unfold the story.

43. Who is Picasso?

Air Date: 1957-07-04

44. The Softest Music

Air Date: 1957-07-11

45. Summer Return

Air Date: 1957-07-18

46. High Tension

Air Date: 1957-07-25

The president of a power and light company is unaware that two of his associates plot to discredit him at an upcoming board meeting.

47. Dark Hammock

Air Date: 1957-08-01

48. Barren Harvest

Air Date: 1957-08-08

A law clerk schemes to murder his boss. He has help from the man's housekeeper. The two commit what they think is the perfect crime. Craig Stevens is the host.

49. Judge Not

Air Date: 1957-08-15

A famous lawyer takes on the case of a man charged with a serious crime, which the lawyer himself has actually committed.

50. Diagnosis - Homicide

Air Date: 1957-08-22

An elderly but wealthy woman is murdered, and the only clues the police have are a a bloody envelope, a toothpick and a dead mosquito.

51. Old Witch, Old Witch

Air Date: 1957-09-05

A woman finds out that she has magical powers, and terrorizes the neighborhood and turns into a witch to scare the local kids. Her son sees his mother's new powers as a chance for him to make a ton of money.

52. The Last Act

Air Date: 1957-09-12

A fading actress is determined to control the lives of everyone around her, especially her family. She sets out to disinherit her grandson because she doesn't approve of the young French girl he is in love with.