The United States Steel Hour

1. POW

Air Date: 1953-10-27

The story of the psychological torment of American soldiers after they return home from Commmunist prison camps.

2. Hope for a Harvest

Air Date: 1953-11-10

A story examining the seeming loss of the American work ethic, as well as the issues of racism and prejudice.

3. The Wedding

Air Date: 1953-11-24

4. The Man in Possession

Air Date: 1953-12-08

A penniless society girl falls in love with the handsome sheriff's man sent to keep an eye on her belongings.

5. The Vanishing Point

Air Date: 1953-12-22

In Paris, the Head of the Missing Persons Bureau disappears and his assistant, hoping for a promotion, searches for him.

6. Hedda Gabler

Air Date: 1954-01-05

In a small backward Norwegian town in the 1860s, a woman who is married to a scholar whom she does not love subtly asserts her power over the people in her life.

7. The Rise of Carthage

Air Date: 1954-01-19

A power-mad businessman finds true values in a desert utopia called Carthage.

8. Papa Is All

Air Date: 1954-02-02

A story about a Pennsylvania Dutch Mennonite family in the 1940s, in which the parents adhere to their faith while their two children desire to be more ""worldly"" until they feel the personal call to the Mennonite faith.

9. Highway

Air Date: 1954-02-16

10. Morning Star

Air Date: 1954-03-02

A story revolving around a widow and her extended family on New York's Lower East Side, spanning the years 1910-1931, including such historic events as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, World War I, and the Great Depression, events that shaped the lives and destinies of the family.

11. Welcome Home

Air Date: 1954-03-16

The story of a beloved housekeeper and nanny who doesn't want to retire.

12. The Last Notch

Air Date: 1954-03-30

A story about a gunfighter who didn't particularly care for gunfighting.

13. Late Date

Air Date: 1954-04-13

14. The Rise and Fall of Silas Lapham

Air Date: 1954-04-27

Though rough around the edges, a self-made man tries to get his daughter admitted to Boston's high society 400.

15. The End of Paul Dane

Air Date: 1954-05-11

A story about a psychiatrist and two of his patients

16. The Great Chair

Air Date: 1954-05-25

17. Good for You

Air Date: 1954-06-08

18. Fearful Decision

Air Date: 1954-06-22

David Durfee's young son is kidnapped by desperate criminals, yet he refuses to pay the ransom that the town feels would ensure the boy's safety.

19. Haven's End

Air Date: 1954-07-06

20. A Garden in the Sea

Air Date: 1954-07-20

21. Oberstrasse Forty-Nine

Air Date: 1954-08-03

22. The Grand Tour

Air Date: 1954-08-17

23. Two

Air Date: 1954-08-31

1. The Notebook Warrior

Air Date: 1954-09-14

2. Baseball Blues

Air Date: 1954-09-28

The story of a 40-year-old pitcher facing his retirement from baseball.

3. The Man with the Gun

Air Date: 1954-10-12

4. The Fifth Wheel

Air Date: 1954-10-26

5. Goodbye...But It Doesn't Go Away

Air Date: 1954-11-09

6. The Man in the Goldfish Bowl

Air Date: 1954-11-09

7. King's Pawn

Air Date: 1954-11-23

8. One For The Road

Air Date: 1954-12-07

9. Presento

Air Date: 1954-12-21

10. The Thief

Air Date: 1955-01-04

A man (played by James Dean) is falsely accused of stealing in this very good melodrama. Dean harbors a secret love for a married woman, but he does not get the girl in the end.

11. The Bogey Man

Air Date: 1955-01-18

12. Six O'Clock Call

Air Date: 1955-02-01

13. Freighter

Air Date: 1955-02-15

A captain with 25 years of service on the ""Singapore"" faces a mental collapse as he takes his freighter out on its last voyage. Tension among the crew members mounts as the men battle one another and the elements on the fateful trip to Hong Kong.

14. Man in the Corner

Air Date: 1955-03-01

15. No Time for Sergeants

Air Date: 1955-03-15

A country bumpkin is drafted into the Air Force and wreaks havoc.

16. Scandal at Peppernut

Air Date: 1955-03-29

17. The Rack

Air Date: 1955-04-12

A young Army officer faces a court-martial as a result of his collaboration with the enemy while a prisoner of war.

18. The Roads to Home

Air Date: 1955-04-26

A bankrupt man, who becomes a migrant oil worker to repay his debts, journeys with his family and dreams of returning to the home they once owned.

19. Fearful Decision

Air Date: 1955-05-10

David Durfee's young son is kidnapped by desperate criminals, yet he refuses to pay the ransom that the town feels would ensure the boy's safety.

20. Big Winner

Air Date: 1955-05-24

The life of an Italian-American family is continuously upset by their Uncle Zi-Zi's schemes to appear as a contestant on a TV quiz program, on which he is certain that his fortune will be made.

21. Hung for a Sheep

Air Date: 1955-06-07

22. The Red Gulch

Air Date: 1955-06-21

1. The Meanest Man in the World

Air Date: 1955-07-06

2. The Gambler

Air Date: 1955-07-20

3. The Seventh Veil

Air Date: 1955-08-03

4. The Bride Cried

Air Date: 1955-08-17

5. Counterfeit

Air Date: 1955-08-31

6. A Wind from the South

Air Date: 1955-09-14

A story about an Irish country girl's first love

7. Ashton Buys a Horse

Air Date: 1955-09-28

8. Obsession

Air Date: 1955-10-12

9. Shoot It Again

Air Date: 1955-10-26

10. Outcast

Air Date: 1955-11-09

11. Incident in an Alley

Air Date: 1955-11-23

12. Edward, My Son

Air Date: 1955-12-07

13. White Gloves

Air Date: 1955-12-21

14. Bring Me a Dream

Air Date: 1956-01-04

15. The Great Adventure

Air Date: 1956-01-18

16. A Fair Shake

Air Date: 1956-02-01

17. Command

Air Date: 1956-02-15

18. Moment of Courage

Air Date: 1956-02-29

19. The Candidate

Air Date: 1956-03-14

20. Thirty Year Man

Air Date: 1956-03-28

21. The Funny Heart

Air Date: 1956-04-11

22. Noon on Doomsday

Air Date: 1956-04-25

When the narrow-minded citizens of a community acquit a psychopathic bully for the murder of an immigrant shopkeeper, a retired judge tries to persuade the community to rectify this miscarriage of justice.

23. Honest in the Rain

Air Date: 1956-05-09

A story about compulsive gambling

24. The Old Lady Shows Her Medals

Air Date: 1956-05-23

25. The Boarding House

Air Date: 1956-06-06

26. Longboat

Air Date: 1956-06-20

27. Moment of Courage

Air Date: 1956-06-20

28. Operation Three R's

Air Date: 1956-07-04

During World War II, Corporal Neville, an intelligent young man awaiting appointment to officers' candidate school, is asked, much to his displeasure, to become an instructor to illiterates.

29. The Partners

Air Date: 1956-07-18

30. Stopover at Sublimity

Air Date: 1956-08-01

31. Sideshow

Air Date: 1956-08-15

32. The Five Fathers of Pepi

Air Date: 1956-08-29

1. We Must Kill Toni

Air Date: 1956-09-12

2. Bang the Drum Slowly

Air Date: 1956-09-26

The powerful moving story of the friendship between the star pitcher of a baseball team and a catcher who is dying from Hodgkin's Disease.

3. Sauce for the Goose

Air Date: 1956-10-10

4. Wetback Run

Air Date: 1956-10-24

5. Survival

Air Date: 1956-11-07

6. Tom Sawyer

Air Date: 1956-11-21

7. Hunted

Air Date: 1956-12-05

8. The Old Lady Shows Her Medals

Air Date: 1956-12-19

9. Symbol of Authority

Air Date: 1956-12-19

10. The Human Pattern

Air Date: 1957-01-02

11. To Die Alone

Air Date: 1957-01-16

12. They Never Forget

Air Date: 1957-01-30

13. Inspired Alibi

Air Date: 1957-02-13

14. Shadow of Evil

Air Date: 1957-02-27

The town's sheriff, possessed of an irrational hatred of outlaws, kills a young man, claiming that the youngster had made an attempt on his life.

15. The Bottle Imp

Air Date: 1957-03-13

Phillip the Sailor meets Andre, Haiti's wealthiest inhabitant, who wants to sell Phillip a magic bottle containing an all-powerful Imp, which brought him his great fortune. Phillip isn't interested in the power the bottle can bring until he meets a beautiful girl whom he wants to marry, but he doesn't have the wealth which the girl's father demands.

16. Hidden Fury

Air Date: 1957-03-27

17. The Hill Wife

Air Date: 1957-04-10

18. A Matter of Pride

Air Date: 1957-04-24

19. A Drum is a Woman

Air Date: 1957-05-08

The love story of Zajj and Caribee Jones, told in the form of a jazz ""ballet""

20. Shadow in the Sky

Air Date: 1957-05-22

21. The Little Bullfighter

Air Date: 1957-06-05

22. Upbeat

Air Date: 1957-06-19

23. Reunion

Air Date: 1957-07-03

24. Victim

Air Date: 1957-07-17

25. The Change in Chester

Air Date: 1957-07-31

26. A Loud Laugh

Air Date: 1957-08-14

27. Up Above the World So High

Air Date: 1957-08-28

1. Windfall

Air Date: 1957-09-11

2. Haunted Harbor

Air Date: 1957-09-25

3. Who's Earnest?

Air Date: 1957-10-09

4. Crisis in Corona

Air Date: 1957-10-23

5. The Locked Door

Air Date: 1957-11-06

6. Huck Finn

Air Date: 1957-11-20

A musical version of the classic story

7. You Can't Win

Air Date: 1957-12-04

8. Little Charlie Don't Want a Saddle

Air Date: 1957-12-18

A mute spinster who becomes a mail-order bride to a widower goes to his farm and wins over the widower and his younger son, but not his older son, who feels that his father is not being true to the memory of the boy's mother.

9. The Charmer

Air Date: 1958-01-01

10. The Bromley Touch

Air Date: 1958-01-15

11. Never Know the End

Air Date: 1958-01-29

12. The Reward

Air Date: 1958-02-12

13. Walk with a Stranger

Air Date: 1958-02-26

14. Give Me My Son

Air Date: 1958-03-12

15. Top Secret Mission

Air Date: 1958-03-26

16. Beaver Patrol

Air Date: 1958-04-09

17. The Public Prosecutor

Air Date: 1958-04-23

18. A Man in Hiding

Air Date: 1958-05-07

19. Hour of the Rat

Air Date: 1958-05-21

John Woodruffe is tormented by memories of the horrors he suffered in a Japanese prison camp during World War II. He recalls his vow to avenge the death of a chaplain executed by Sakamura, the brutal camp adjutant. Years later, Woodruffe finds himself face to face with the object of his bitter hate, Sakamura.

20. A Family Alliance

Air Date: 1958-06-04

21. The Littlest Enemy

Air Date: 1958-06-18

22. The Hidden River

Air Date: 1958-07-02

23. Flint and Fire

Air Date: 1958-07-16

24. The Climate of Marriage

Air Date: 1958-07-30

25. Old Marshals Never Die

Air Date: 1958-08-13

Bat Bethune, former marshal of a New Mexico town, has become a legendary figure as a result of his boldness during the wild early days of the town's history. But, in his old age, he is given to shooting at imaginary badmen, endangering the inhabitants. Finally, the mayor decides Bethune must leave town.

26. Be My Guest

Air Date: 1958-08-27

1. The Wound Within

Air Date: 1958-09-10

2. Death Minus One

Air Date: 1958-09-24

3. Alexander Fleming

Air Date: 1958-09-24

4. Mid-Summer

Air Date: 1958-10-08

5. Secret in the Family

Air Date: 1958-10-22

6. Second Chance

Air Date: 1958-11-05

Dr. Victor Payson, a widower for just 6 months and father of a teenage daughter, is slated for the post of Chief of Surgeons of Collins General Hospital. But the wife of the hospital's director plants doubt among Payson's colleagues as to his suitability for the job because of his romance with a young divorcee.

7. This Day in Fear

Air Date: 1958-11-19

8. The Enemies

Air Date: 1958-12-03

9. One Red Rose for Christmas

Air Date: 1958-12-17

10. Goodbye...But It Doesn't Go Away

Air Date: 1958-12-31

11. Dangerous Interlude

Air Date: 1959-01-14

12. The Wall of Silence

Air Date: 1959-01-28

13. Family Happiness

Air Date: 1959-02-11

14. Trap for a Stranger

Air Date: 1959-02-25

15. The Square Egghead

Air Date: 1959-03-11

16. Night of Betrayal

Air Date: 1959-03-25

The son of a wealthy French collaborator, who is secretly a member of the underground, falls in love and marries a young girl hiding from the Gestapo.

17. Trouble-in-Law

Air Date: 1959-04-08

For years May Golden has ended every argument with her husband by threatening to get a job. When Mimi, her youngest married daughter, becomes exasperated with her mother's daily visits and free advice, May decides it's time to prove her value by making good her threat.

18. Little Tin God

Air Date: 1959-04-22

19. The Wayward Widow

Air Date: 1959-05-06

20. Call It a Day

Air Date: 1959-05-20

21. Whisper of Evil

Air Date: 1959-06-03

22. No Leave for the Captain

Air Date: 1959-06-17

23. Apple of His Eye

Air Date: 1959-07-01

24. The Pink Burro

Air Date: 1959-07-15

Former vaudeville singer Lil Andrews ambitiously makes preparations for her daughter's professional singing debut. She is unaware that the girl, who is living out of town with an aunt while taking singing lessons, has secretly married and given up plans for a singing career.

25. Wish on the Moon

Air Date: 1959-07-29

26. Seed of Guilt

Air Date: 1959-08-12

27. A Taste of Champagne

Air Date: 1959-08-26

1. The Case of Julia Walton

Air Date: 1959-09-09

2. The Hours Before Dawn

Air Date: 1959-09-23

3. Rachel's Summer

Air Date: 1959-10-07

4. The Human Comedy

Air Date: 1959-10-21

5. Holiday on Wheels

Air Date: 1959-10-21

6. Big Doc's Girl

Air Date: 1959-11-04

A young woman whose mother is in a sanitorium and father has just died of malaria must find a way to cope with life.

7. The Last Autumn

Air Date: 1959-11-18

8. Marriage--Handle with Care

Air Date: 1959-12-02

9. One Red Rose for Christmas

Air Date: 1959-12-16

10. Act of Terror

Air Date: 1959-12-30

11. Queen of the Orange Bowl

Air Date: 1960-01-13

12. You Can't Have Everything

Air Date: 1960-01-27

13. The American Cowboy

Air Date: 1960-02-10

14. The Women of Hadley Act

Air Date: 1960-02-24

15. Revolt in Hadley

Air Date: 1960-03-09

16. Charlie and the Kid

Air Date: 1960-03-23

17. How to Make a Killing

Air Date: 1960-04-06

18. The Girl Who Knew Too Much

Air Date: 1960-04-20

19. Girl in the Gold Bathtub

Air Date: 1960-05-04

20. Unknown Episode

Air Date: 1960-05-18

21. Game of Hearts

Air Date: 1960-06-01

22. The Imposter

Air Date: 1960-06-15

23. The Great Gold Mountain

Air Date: 1960-06-29

24. The Mercy of the Court

Air Date: 1960-07-13

25. Shadow of a Pale Horse

Air Date: 1960-07-20

26. The Case of the Missing Wife

Air Date: 1960-08-10

27. Bride of the Fox

Air Date: 1960-08-24

1. When in Rome

Air Date: 1960-09-07

2. The Man Who Knew Tomorrow

Air Date: 1960-09-21

3. The Revolt of Judge Lloyd

Air Date: 1960-10-05

4. The Missing Key

Air Date: 1960-10-19

5. A Time to Decide

Air Date: 1960-11-02

6. The Guest Cottage

Air Date: 1960-11-16

7. The Yum Yum Girl

Air Date: 1960-11-30

8. Shame the Devil

Air Date: 1960-12-14

9. Operation Northstar

Air Date: 1960-12-28

10. The Mating Machine

Air Date: 1961-01-11

In “The Mating Machine,” we meet four people involved with such a gadget — Geraldine Brooks, who runs it; Diana Lynn, as a waitress who mistakes Miss Brooks’ office for an employment agency: John Ericson, as a physicist who thinks he needs a wile, selected scientifically, and George Grizzard, as a disbeliever, They are all thrown together a bit too concidentally, but after that, it is every man (and woman) for himself (or herself).

11. The Devil Makes Sunday

Air Date: 1961-01-25

12. The Big Splash

Air Date: 1961-02-08

13. The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon

Air Date: 1961-02-22

Charlie Gordon, a retarded man working in a bakery, is made a genius through medical technology.

14. Private Eye, Private Eye

Air Date: 1961-03-08

Producer Max Liebman turns the tables and investigates the private eye. Sketches: Private Life of a Private Eye: Mike Mallet's after a thug, but his doting wife keeps getting in his way. Nairobi Safe Robbery: Simians sack a safe. The Good Old Days: A widow beseeches Percy Dovetonsils to find her husband's murderer. More Gore: The sponsor has doubts about his TV Series. Peter Legato: The star of the series is the music. Silent Movie: Nick Carter triumphs again. Musical Highlights: Conductor Charles Sanford ""Chase"" Ballet (""Son of Drum Suite:) ..... Buzz Miller Vocalise: Debussy Preludes ............... Edie Adams ""Girl Friday"" ............................ Pat Carroll

15. The White Crown

Air Date: 1961-03-08

16. Welcome Home

Air Date: 1961-03-22

The story of a beloved housekeeper and nanny who doesn't want to retire.

17. The Intervener

Air Date: 1961-03-22

18. The Oddball

Air Date: 1961-04-05

19. The Shame of Paula Marsten

Air Date: 1961-04-19

Paula Marsten, who has attempted suicide and been brought to a mental hospital in a state of nervous collapse, is recognized by the head physician, Dr. King, who refuses to become involved in the case.

20. Summer Rhapsody

Air Date: 1961-05-03

21. The Leonardi Code

Air Date: 1961-05-17

22. Famous

Air Date: 1961-05-31

23. Trial Without Jury

Air Date: 1961-06-14

Mr. and Mrs. Pollard feel that their son-in-law, novelist Mark Davis, isn't a fit parent for their grandchild. Lawyer Ellen Reed is convinced the Pollards' charge is based on their disapproval of Mark's latest book.

24. The Haven

Air Date: 1961-06-28

Although it disappoints his wife and kids, a man can't bear to spend another summer in their cottage by the lake so he decides to sell the house and use the money for a long trip.

25. Watching Out for Dulie

Air Date: 1961-07-12

26. Double-Edged Sword

Air Date: 1961-07-26

Colonel and Lady Morrigan were very nicely provided for in their brother's will. Now Muriel no longer need fear a poverty-stricken old age and the Colonel can pay his debts and renew membership in his beloved club. But then the Colonel studies the will and discovers that, in order to get the money, he'll have to tell a lie so he refuses it.

27. The Golden Thirty

Air Date: 1961-08-09

28. Woman Across the Hall

Air Date: 1961-08-23

1. Delayed Honeymoon

Air Date: 1961-09-06

2. Street of Love

Air Date: 1961-09-20

Romance blossoms between a lovely Soviet guide and an American Senator's son, despite objections from their families.

3. Brandenburg Gate

Air Date: 1961-10-04

4. Bury Me Twice

Air Date: 1961-10-18

5. Little Lost Sheep

Air Date: 1961-11-01

Phyllis and Arthur Bannister, teachers at Thoreau College, receive a real shock at the faculty meeting. It's been decided that the school 'image' has got to be modernized and a Madison Avenue expert is hired to do the job.

6. Man on the Mountaintop

Air Date: 1961-11-15

7. Tangle of Truth

Air Date: 1961-11-29

Sue Dulaney and Gordon Killman go out for a drink, and on the way home, Gordon runs another car off the road. He calls the police but refuses to give his name.

8. My Wife's Best Friend

Air Date: 1961-12-13

9. The Bitter Sex

Air Date: 1961-12-27

A woman decides to put an end to the marital bliss of her ex-husband and his new wife.

10. Far from the Shade Tree

Air Date: 1962-01-10

11. The Big Laugh

Air Date: 1962-01-24

12. A Nightmare at Bleak Hill

Air Date: 1962-02-07

13. The Perfect Accident

Air Date: 1962-02-21

14. Who Is This Woman?

Air Date: 1962-03-07

15. Two Black Kings

Air Date: 1962-03-21

16. The Loves of Claire Ambler

Air Date: 1962-04-04

17. The Go-Between

Air Date: 1962-04-18

18. A Man for Oona

Air Date: 1962-05-02

19. The Other Woman

Air Date: 1962-05-16

A woman hears a mysterious message in another woman's voice on a Bach tape she's listening to.

20. Lennie

Air Date: 1962-05-30

21. You Can't Escape

Air Date: 1962-06-13

22. Scene of the Crime

Air Date: 1962-06-27

23. Night of the Fourth

Air Date: 1962-07-11

24. Honor in Love

Air Date: 1962-07-25

25. Male Call

Air Date: 1962-08-08

26. Murder on the Agenda

Air Date: 1962-08-22

1. Dry Rain

Air Date: 1962-09-05

2. The Inner Panic

Air Date: 1962-09-19

A young man with a speech impediment who is having a hard time landing his first job gets a job in the mailroom of a big company through his mother's intervention and quickly gains confidence, loses his stutter, and finds love with a young woman who works at the same company.

3. The White Lie

Air Date: 1962-10-03

4. Wanted: Someone Innocent

Air Date: 1962-10-17

5. A Break in the Weather

Air Date: 1962-10-31

6. Marriage Marks the Spot

Air Date: 1962-11-14

7. Farewell To Innocence

Air Date: 1962-11-28

8. Big Day for a Scrambler

Air Date: 1962-12-12

9. The Duchess and the Smugs

Air Date: 1962-12-26

10. The Young Avengers

Air Date: 1963-01-09

11. Fair Young Ghost

Air Date: 1963-01-23

12. The Troubled Heart

Air Date: 1963-02-06

Margot Forrester, a young mother of two small children and an active participant in her community's social life, has been told that she has a serious heart defect, which even surgery may not correct.

13. Night Run to the West

Air Date: 1963-02-20

Caring for her elderly invalid husband is a lonely task for Francie Broderick, and when a truck driver named Charlie Williams barges into her life, she sees him as her salvation.

14. Moment of Rage

Air Date: 1963-03-06

Paul Gardiner, Latin teacher at a private school, was an adopted child who never bothered to inquire who his real parents were. But now his snobbish future mother-in-law insists that he learn their identities before he gets married.

15. The Secrets of Stella Crozier

Air Date: 1963-03-20

16. Mission of Fear

Air Date: 1963-04-03

17. The Soldier Ran Away

Air Date: 1963-04-17

Twelve-year-old Jeff Wheeler, whose father is an Army doctor stationed in Germany, wants to prove to the old man that he is self-reliant so he sneaks into the attic at night to make a pipe rack for him.

18. The Many Ways of Heaven

Air Date: 1963-05-01

Russell Hampshire hasn't spent much time with his son Teddy during summer vacation, but the youngster has found a substitute--Captain Walker, a retired airline pilot.

19. Don't Shake the Family Tree

Air Date: 1963-05-15

20. A Taste of Champagne

Air Date: 1963-05-29

21. The Old Lady Shows Her Medals

Air Date: 1963-06-12