Studio One
A wide range of memorable dramas during the Golden Age of Television.
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
Seasons
1. The Storm
Air Date: 1948-11-07
During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.
2. Let Me Do the Talking
Air Date: 1948-11-26
A young agent in the publishing business wheels and deals his way up the ladder, stepping on a few too many toes along the way.
3. The Medium
Air Date: 1948-12-12
Madame Flora conducts bogus seances to bilk grieving parents, but during one seance she feels hands around her neck and panics.
4. Not So Long Ago
Air Date: 1948-12-26
An elderly woman remembers back to a time in her youth when she was pursued by two gentlemen.
5. The Outward Room
Air Date: 1949-01-09
A story about psychological breakdown and recovery
6. Blind Alley
Air Date: 1949-01-30
A psychopathic killer escapes from prison and comes under the care of a noted psychiatrist.
7. Holiday
Air Date: 1949-02-20
The happy-go-lucky Johnny Case, a self-made man with the dream of making just enough money to retire on and then traveling around the world, proposes to the lovely Julia in Lake Placid but later discovers she's the daughter of a wealthy industrialist.
8. Julius Caesar
Air Date: 1949-03-06
A modern dress adaptation of the classic play
9. Berkeley Square
Air Date: 1949-03-20
When a young American inherits a house in London, he travels back in time to the Revolutionary War and encounters his ancestors.
10. Redemption
Air Date: 1949-04-03
Victor Karenin is devastated when his fiancée Lisa leaves him for Fedya but is happily surprised when Fedya falls for a young reckless gypsy girl.
11. Moment of Truth
Air Date: 1949-04-17
Five refugees vie for a seat on a flight to escape a Communist occupied Britain.
12. Julius Caesar
Air Date: 1949-05-01
A modern dress adaptation of the classic play about Roman politics
13. The Glass Key
Air Date: 1949-05-11
When his boss, a corrupt politician, is accused of murder, a man hunts the real killer, avoiding amorous advances from his boss' fiancee and attacks from gangsters along the way.
14. Shadow and Substance
Air Date: 1949-05-18
A true believer brings others, through the uncorrupted purity and simplicity of her own faith, back to first principles.
15. Flowers from a Stranger
Air Date: 1949-05-25
A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
16. The Dybbuk
Air Date: 1949-06-01
A haunting tale about ill-fated love, possession, and exorcism in a small Jewish town in Eastern Europe. The restless spirit of a dead man enters the body of the woman he was pledged to marry.
17. Boy Meets Girl
Air Date: 1949-06-08
A pair of screenwriters are ordered to concoct a comeback screenplay for a cowboy star whose star is on the wane.
18. Smoke
Air Date: 1949-06-15
"Smoke" is the story of European community roots and changes, reflected both in Russian politics and in the lives of two individuals who find philosophies diverging.
19. June Moon
Air Date: 1949-06-22
A naive Schenectady shipping clerk comes to Manhattan with dreams of becoming a lyricist, befriends a one-hit wonder composer, and meets the girl of his dreams.
20. The Shadowy Third
Air Date: 1949-06-29
A handsome doctor becomes the object of affection of several of his female patients, young and old alike.
1. Kyra Zelas
Air Date: 1949-09-12
Kyra Zelas is a very unusual girl, the doctor diagnoses her as being in the final stages of tuberculosis, when young Dr. Scott gives her an untested injection which miraculously heals her, leaving everyone surprised.
2. The Rival Dummy
Air Date: 1949-09-19
The murder of a ventriloquist's dummy
3. The Outward Room
Air Date: 1949-09-26
A mentally disturbed woman tries to lead a normal life.
4. Mrs. Moonlight
Air Date: 1949-10-03
A bride makes a wish on her wedding day to never look a day older than she does at that moment. Her wish becomes a curse as everyone and everything around her ages and she stays as youthful as ever.
5. The Light That Failed
Air Date: 1949-10-10
A war artist, Dick Helder, follows the British army into battle and experiences many difficulties and internal struggles while providing some outstanding descriptions of the desert and desert warfare.
6. The Storm
Air Date: 1949-10-17
During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.
7. Battleship Bismarck
Air Date: 1949-10-24
Two weeks after its maiden voyage on May 13, 1941, the battleship Bismarck was spotted, torpedoed and sunk by the British in the North Atlantic. This was a crucial point in World War II for the Germans, taking more than 2,000 lives.
8. Concerning a Woman of Sin
Air Date: 1949-10-31
A literary agent seeks to represent the author of a sensational new screenplay and is surprised to find out that the author is only nine years old.
9. The Husband
Air Date: 1949-11-07
A woman fears her late husband Connor has returned to haunt her.
10. Two Sharp Knives
Air Date: 1949-11-14
A murderer is found dead and his killer is sought.
11. Of Human Bondage
Air Date: 1949-11-21
Story of a crippled medical student's romance with a heartless waitress in 1910 Paris.
12. At Mrs. Beam's
Air Date: 1949-11-28
At the height of the Bluebeard panic, a mysterious young couple from Paris raise fears at a London boarding house.
13. Henry IV
Air Date: 1949-12-05
A wealthy eccentric Italian gentleman believes himself to be 11th-century Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV.
14. Jane Eyre
Air Date: 1949-12-12
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.
15. Mary Poppins
Air Date: 1949-12-19
A nanny of special talents is hired by George Banks, an old-fashioned London banker who is trying to raise his two naughty children.
16. The Inner Light
Air Date: 1949-12-26
An English home for the blind is disrupted by a visiting scientist who supposedly has a miracle discovery for curing specific cases of blindness.
17. Riviera
Air Date: 1950-01-02
Set in the French Riviera, this romantic love triangle occurs when the daughter of a wealthy Parisian widower vacations at the villa.
18. Beyond Reason
Air Date: 1950-01-09
A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.
19. Give Us Our Dream
Air Date: 1950-01-16
A widow named Mrs. Marsan lives in an apartment complex and pries into her neighbors' personal affairs. She is happiest when unsuspecting lovers argue and she can focus her opera glasses on them. Her innocently disingenuous nosiness helps to bring about a marriage between two cripples, a therapeutic romance for a depressed war widow, a happy ending in a sordid triangle affair. Even her death from heart trouble helps a friend, radical and fanatic, somehow learns a lesson in elementary humanity.
20. The Rockingham Tea Set
Air Date: 1950-01-23
A young nurse's romance is blighted by a spirit. An early appearance by Grace Kelly.
21. Father and the Angels
Air Date: 1950-01-30
The story of a minister whose church is sandwiched between a firehouse and a brewery and who desires to build a new house of worship in a better place.
22. The Loud Red Patrick
Air Date: 1950-02-06
A widower bringing up four daughters must deal with their eventual rebellion.
23. Flowers from a Stranger
Air Date: 1950-02-13
A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
24. The Wisdom Tooth
Air Date: 1950-02-20
A clerk fantasizes himself as a young freckled faced vital boy unlike his present persona, a pale and pulseless man and has the boy in him stir to life the courage to tell his boss off and ask his girl to marry him.
25. The Willow Cabin
Air Date: 1950-02-27
An American surgeon falls in love with a flighty British actress.
26. The Dreams of Jasper Hornby
Air Date: 1950-03-06
A wounded robber hands his loot to Jasper Hornby before dying. The rest of his gang begins a door-to-door search for the money.
27. The Dusty Godmother
Air Date: 1950-03-13
A reporter for a major newspaper and his wife divorce. The court awards custody of their child to the wife.
28. The Survivors
Air Date: 1950-03-20
Peter Decker returns from the American Civil War with a grudge against his neighbor, an army brigade troop leader. The showdown takes place according to the rules of the Wild West, where guns settled all conflicts but those rules are slowly being replace by civilization, and the rule of law.
29. Passenger to Bali
Air Date: 1950-03-27
A freighter captain agrees to take on an innocent looking passenger who proves to be a fountain of evil and impossible to get rid of.
30. The Scarlet Letter
Air Date: 1950-04-03
Classic tale of adultery and betrayal.
31. Walk the Dark Streets
Air Date: 1950-04-10
Janice Morel is an aging actress who works in a run-down nightclub. One night she's discovered naked in her hotel room, knifed to death.
32. Torrents of Spring
Air Date: 1950-04-17
A man falls in lust with another, abandoning his beloved Gemma in favor of a fling. Unhappy and unfulfilled with his decision he seeks out his beloved Gemma once again.
33. The Horse's Mouth
Air Date: 1950-04-24
Gulley Jimson, a poor antisocial painter just out of jail, tries to convince people to pay him for paintings they didn't actually commission.
34. Miracle in the Rain
Air Date: 1950-05-01
Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
35. A Wreath of Roses
Air Date: 1950-05-08
Camilla feels lonely and insecure that her husband is more interested in painting than spending time with her. Camilla steps into an unlikely affair with Richard Elton, a dangerous liar.
36. The Ambassadors
Air Date: 1950-05-15
A man sent to Paris to retrieve a woman's son from his corrupt life there is profoundly changed by the city.
37. The Room Upstairs
Air Date: 1950-05-22
A hard-boiled private eye receives a call from a small-town policeman who suspects an auto accident which involves the daughter of a prominent citizen is connected with the finding of the body of a young girl in the river.
38. The Man Who Had Influence
Air Date: 1950-05-29
The spoiled son of a politician learns a lesson when he is accused of murder.
39. The Taming of the Shrew
Air Date: 1950-06-05
A modern dress version of the Shakespeare classic
40. Zone Four
Air Date: 1950-06-12
A former OSS officer, Chris Jackson, is now teaching at a small university. Just as he's named head of the history department, an OSS agent asks him to rejoin. His services are needed by the government in "zone four."
41. There Was a Crooked Man
Air Date: 1950-06-19
The murder of a boarding house lodger is investigated.
42. My Granny Van
Air Date: 1950-06-26
Orphaned at a young age, George, one of twelve siblings went to live with his grandmother, a woman with tremendous spirit and natural dignity in the wild west, which inspired George to become a writer of those less fortunate.
1. Zone Four
Air Date: 1950-08-28
A former OSS officer, Chris Jackson, is now teaching at a small university. Just as he's named head of the history department, an OSS agent asks him to rejoin. His services are needed by the government in "zone four."
2. Look Homeward, Hayseed
Air Date: 1950-09-04
A city-bred radio announcer thinks that he's the best thing that happened to the rural broadcasting station where he is now working until he gets a rude country style awakening.
3. Mist with the Tamara Geba
Air Date: 1950-09-11
A young couple out for a romantic evening find themselves caught up in a mysterious encounter leading to murder.
4. Trilby
Air Date: 1950-09-18
The story of a young woman Trilby who is hypnotized by Svengali into becoming a great singer
5. Away from It All
Air Date: 1950-09-25
A Navy Lieutenant pilot and a Sergeant crash land on an island and stumble upon a lavish estate where a group of wealthy people all thought to have died now live.
6. The Passionate Pilgrim
Air Date: 1950-10-02
The story of Sister Elizabeth Wheeler, who accompanied Florence Nightingale to Crimea to help the British wounded. Dismissed for speaking out against the atrocities, she was later honored by Robert E. Lee for her service to the Confederate Army.
7. The Spectre of Alexander Wolff
Air Date: 1950-10-09
A French newsman returns to Marseilles to relive his killing of a suspected Gestapo agent when he was a member of the French Underground.
8. Good for Thirty Days
Air Date: 1950-10-16
An innocent gets caught up in a plot involving kidnapping, bribery and skulduggery.
9. The Road to Jericho
Air Date: 1950-10-23
A woman has a clandestine meeting with a man, other than her husband and uncovers some murder evidence that will prevent an innocent man from going to prison. The woman's husband is the assistant district attorney who is trying to send the innocent man to prison.
10. Wuthering Heights
Air Date: 1950-10-30
Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
11. The Blonde Comes First
Air Date: 1950-11-06
An arrogant conman who sells a fraudulent household cleaner takes a young woman under his wing without realizing she's a reporter.
12. The Last Cruise
Air Date: 1950-11-13
Story about submariners
13. The Floor of Heaven
Air Date: 1950-11-20
The story of young love and family pride.
14. The Shadow of a Man
Air Date: 1950-11-27
After the death of Persis Bradford, both her son Francis and her second husband Alan are left with the cold empty life which leaves them to deal with their grief in an even colder atmosphere.
15. Letter from Cairo
Air Date: 1950-12-04
Two members of the U. S. Intelligence Service become involved with Czechoslovakian patriots in exile in Austria. Their journey with this underground group takes them from the dungeons of Vienna to the high society world of New York City.
16. Mary Lou
Air Date: 1950-12-11
A rich old woman is determined to give her eight-year-old granddaughter a happy childhood.
17. Little Women (Part 1)
Air Date: 1950-12-18
Classic tale of the March Sisters; Part 1 concentrates on Meg's story.
18. Little Women (Part 2)
Air Date: 1950-12-25
Classic tale of the March Sisters; Part 2 tells Jo's story.
19. Collector's Item
Air Date: 1951-01-01
An antiques dealer makes his own rare items when he cannot find them
20. England Made Me
Air Date: 1951-01-08
Kate persuades her brother Anthony, who has lied to get jobs, borrows things and then leaves in a hurry, to be her boyfriend's bodyguard, a powerful Swedish financier.
21. Track of the Cat
Air Date: 1951-01-15
While Curt Bridges tracks down the panther that killed his brother Arthur, his family argues and bickers over whether younger brother Harold should marry a much-despised neighbor girl.
22. The Trial of John Peter Zenger
Air Date: 1951-01-22
The story of John Peter Zenger who fought British rule in the American colonies and printed materials against England's King George. This case is important to American historians and champions of the First Amendment because it represented a strong repudiation of British libel law and also marked an important fissure in the relationship between the American colonies and the mother country.
23. Public Servant
Air Date: 1951-01-29
Pops Thatcher, an elderly resident of a rundown county poor farm, is appointed to the town council. His battle to save the farm exposes the corruption on the council and breaths new life into the local newspaper.
24. The Target
Air Date: 1951-02-05
A strained marriage is brought to the breaking point when the wife's former lover arrives and a target shooting incident ends in tragedy.
25. None But My Foe
Air Date: 1951-02-12
A man writes an anonymous letter claiming he is going to poison a town's water supply, setting off a panic.
26. The Way Things Are
Air Date: 1951-02-19
When Lucy and Barkley Cooper summon their grown children to announce that the bank has foreclosed the mortgage on their house, they are sure the children will provide a remedy.
27. The Ambassadors
Air Date: 1951-02-26
A man sent to Paris to retrieve a woman's son from his corrupt life there is profoundly changed by the city.
28. One Pair of Hands
Air Date: 1951-03-05
A bored debutante decides to become a cook, because she once took a French cuisine class. What ensues is a comedic "Upstairs, Downstairs" tale between the wealthy upper class and the servants.
29. A Chill on the Wind
Air Date: 1951-03-12
A couple encounter troubles aroused by selfish love and deceit.
30. Hangman's House
Air Date: 1951-03-19
In 1911, two young Irishmen compete for the hand of the daughter of Ireland's Chief Justice.
31. The Case of Karen Smith
Air Date: 1951-03-26
A detective investigates the murder of a millionaire, which was witnessed by a femme fatale.
32. Wintertime
Air Date: 1951-04-02
A sea captain returns home to post-war Germany to find it in ruins, his shell-shocked fiancee missing a leg. When a lovely Latvian refugee stows away on his ship, he decides to help her.
33. Shake the Stars Down
Air Date: 1951-04-09
A beautiful housewife turns career girl to help her husband but he doesn't want her help and trouble starts.
34. The Straight and Narrow
Air Date: 1951-04-16
A young barrister forsakes his love to marry success but later discovers his former sweetheart has become a most influential figure, more powerful than his own father-in-law.
35. The Happy Housewife
Air Date: 1951-04-23
A comedy about the hidden hazards in the separate careers of a husband and wife conflicting with their everyday life.
36. Portrait by Rembrandt
Air Date: 1951-04-30
The struggling years of the great artist Rembrandt's career are dramatized.
37. No Tears for Hilda
Air Date: 1951-05-07
A major in the Armed Forces attempts to clear his pal who is accused of murdering his wife.
38. The Old Foolishness
Air Date: 1951-05-14
Maeve McHugh is loved by three brothers. They are a farmer, a scholar and a Communist fighter respectively. She finds herself unable to belong exclusively to any of them, but always wedded in part, if not in the flesh, to a mystical spirit.
39. A Chance for Happiness
Air Date: 1951-05-21
A middle-aged British traveling salesman befriends and eventually marries a displace Pole who is hiding from Russians.
40. Here Is My Life
Air Date: 1951-05-28
A young wife becomes infatuated with another man while her husband is overseas and her father tries to save her by bringing her supposedly dead mother out of obscurity.
41. Shield for Murder
Air Date: 1951-06-04
A detective's investigation into a bookie's death and the missing $25,000 in cash, leads him to a corrupt cop thanks to a witness.
42. Coriolanus
Air Date: 1951-06-11
Updating of the Shakespearean play from Roman time to Fascist Italy.
43. Screwball
Air Date: 1951-06-18
Despite age and limited skills, a garage mechanic pursues his dream of being a major league player.
44. Lonely Boy
Air Date: 1951-06-25
A grieving father must try and get his son over his wife's death. He swears that he talks to his mother all the time.
45. The Swan
Air Date: 1951-07-02
A man is employed to tutor the children of an aristocratic family and has an affair with the lady of the house.
46. Nightfall
Air Date: 1951-07-09
The cops, his girlfriend and his gang members are wondering why Vanning won't leave his room, especially since he's sitting on $300,000.
47. The Apple Tree
Air Date: 1951-07-16
On their silver wedding day, Ashurst and his wife are on their way to Torquay for the festival when they stop at the moor where they had first met.
48. Tremolo
Air Date: 1951-07-23
A jazz musician realizes that he is doing exactly what he wanted to avoid at all costs, making an impact with his music.
49. At Mrs. Beam's
Air Date: 1951-07-30
When a mysterious pair from Paris arrive at the boardinghouse, gossip and wild events take place.
50. The Pink Hussar
Air Date: 1951-08-06
A Hollywood producer tries to get $200,000 to finance his new play. Unfortunately, he finds that there are strings attached.
51. The Rabbit
Air Date: 1951-08-13
A meek bank clerk suffers a blow on the head during a robbery and begins to show significant changes in his mode of life and personality.
52. Run from the Sun
Air Date: 1951-08-20
A World War II veteran is framed for his wife's murder.
53. Summer Had Better Be Good
Air Date: 1951-08-27
A young couple are dealing with life's ups and downs when they move from the city and settle in the country.
54. Mr. Mummery's Suspicion
Air Date: 1951-09-03
British sleuth Mr. Mummery is out to catch a cook who disappeared after poisoning her guests. Wait a minute, Mr. Mummery just hired a new cook!
55. The Guinea Pig
Air Date: 1951-09-10
A group of tough convicts volunteer for a cancer experiment to avoid their harsh sentences.
1. The Angelic Avengers
Air Date: 1951-09-17
Two sisters move to a remote village in France to work for a retired English clergyman and his wife. They soon discover that there is an evil that pervades the home and attempt to overcome the evil that faces them.
2. The Little Black Bag
Air Date: 1951-09-24
The story deals with the heroic efforts of nearly 40 years ago of Charles Seymour Whitman, New York County district attorney, to suppress attempts by gambling elements to gain control of city government. Whitman's prosecution of Police Lt. Becker after the officer was found to be implicated in the 1913 assassination of gambling boss Herman Rosenthal.
3. The Idol of San Vittore
Air Date: 1951-10-01
The story of General Andreas della Rovere who was imprisoned by the Nazis and inspired fellow prisoners, despite the fact that he never existed!
4. Mighty Like A Rogue
Air Date: 1951-10-08
A western comedy about the dingy wife of an outlaw who takes the rap for him and goes to prison, coming home with some new ideas.
5. Colonel Judas
Air Date: 1951-10-15
A Czech ballerina, whose family is still trapped behind the Iron Curtain, is blackmailed into trapping a British spy for the Russians, but the spy is really a double agent.
6. Macbeth
Air Date: 1951-10-22
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
7. They Serve the Muses
Air Date: 1951-10-29
A woman is torn between her love for the life of a professional tennis player and that of being a wife, a young lady finds herself on the horns of a domestic dilemma.
8. The Hero
Air Date: 1951-11-05
A woman is torn between her love for the life of a professional tennis player and that of being a wife, a young lady finds herself on the horns of a domestic dilemma.
9. A Bolt of Lightning
Air Date: 1951-11-12
The story of James Otis, a Boston attorney and American patriot who contested the right of British troops to search colonists' homes during The Revolutionary War.
10. The King in Yellow
Air Date: 1951-11-19
A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.
11. The Dangerous Years
Air Date: 1951-11-26
The contrast of 1950s parents raised in the Roaring Twenties with their children of the Atomic Age comes with new challenges.
12. Mutiny on the Nicolette
Air Date: 1951-12-03
A man discovers that the good ship Nicolette is carrying weapons as cargo, and in order to prevent a war, he stages a mutiny with the crew against the Captain.
13. The Legend of Jenny Lind
Air Date: 1951-12-10
P.T. Barnum hires the Swedish nightingale Jenny Lind to perform her music as part of "The Greatest Show on Earth".
14. The Innocence of Pastor Muller
Air Date: 1951-12-17
The friend of a pleasant minister has invented a camera that takes a strange kind of photo, and with it, he plans to put Germany in a position to rule the world.
15. Sara Crewe
Air Date: 1951-12-24
When Sara's father goes off to fight in the First World War, she is sent to Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, an expensive and elite school. However, when her father is feared dead, she is relegated to menial duties.
16. The Paris Feeling
Air Date: 1951-12-31
In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.
17. The Devil in Velvet
Air Date: 1952-01-07
A professor goes back in time to the 17th Century to save a woman from poisoning.
18. Waterfront Boss
Air Date: 1952-01-14
The story of the infamous John M. Dunn's rise and fall as a notorious gangster on New York's Waterfront from 1934 to 1949.
19. The Other Father
Air Date: 1952-01-21
Andrew Dynes, suffers from nearly every frustration a male can be expected to harbor. Bullied at his underpaid job, no longer in love with his wife but lacking strength to tell her, Dynes finds solace with a woman 20 years younger.
20. Burden of Guilt
Air Date: 1952-01-28
The turf wars of crooked politicians and rival gangs of mobsters
21. A Candle for St. Jude
Air Date: 1952-02-04
The story of young, talented ballet dancers
22. Pagoda
Air Date: 1952-02-11
The owner of a charter airline must cope with disease and betrayal in war-torn Burma.
23. Success Story
Air Date: 1952-02-18
Novelist Horatio Alger's life is full of accomplishments and huge disappointments as he reassesses his 'Rags to Riches' life.
24. Letter from an Unknown Woman
Air Date: 1952-02-25
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.
25. Ten Thousand Horses Singing
Air Date: 1952-03-03
James Dean and John Forsythe star in this story of a wealthy orphan who meets a shy airline owner aboard a plane and later discovers that a corpse has been stowed there.
26. The Wings of the Dove
Air Date: 1952-03-10
An American journalist falls in love with a Londoner.
27. The Vintage Years
Air Date: 1952-03-17
A baker retires at the insistence of his two successful sons.
28. Miss Hargreaves
Air Date: 1952-03-24
Miss Constance Hargreaves is an imaginary woman, invented and documented by two young men during a holiday in Ireland.
29. The Story of Meg Mallory
Air Date: 1952-03-31
The mayor's daughter, who is kidnapped, falls in love with one of her captors.
30. Pontius Pilate
Air Date: 1952-04-07
The story, set 15 years after the Crucifixion, of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who is depicted as a victim of circumstances
31. Hold Back the Night
Air Date: 1952-04-14
A group of Marines reminisce about home as they try to hold onto a North Korean mountain pass in 1950.
32. Lily, the Queen of the Movies
Air Date: 1952-04-21
Lily's electrician boyfriend sees red when Lily is pursued by a wealthy suitor.
33. The Deep Dark
Air Date: 1952-04-28
A terrible disaster at a coal mine devastates the community.
34. Treasure Island
Air Date: 1952-05-05
The search is on for the pirate Flint's buried treasure on the treacherous ship of Long John Silver.
35. They Came to Baghdad
Air Date: 1952-05-12
In the Middle East, Victoria Jones, a girl with a yearning for adventure, gets more than she bargains for when a wounded agent dies in her hotel room during an important conference, which an underground organization is planning to sabotage.
36. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Air Date: 1952-05-19
Classic tale of a modern New Englander who travels back to the days of King Arthur and battles Merlin the Magician.
37. Abraham Lincoln
Air Date: 1952-05-26
The story of court-martialed Union soldier William Scott, who is slated for execution for sleeping on duty after he was sent for by Lincoln
38. Captain-General of the Armies
Air Date: 1952-06-02
A maladjusted child is threatened by an invasion of his hometown by a racketeer.
39. Lovers and Friends
Air Date: 1952-06-09
A man jeopardizes his marriage by wanting to marry another woman. When he changes his mind, it's too late because now his wife wants to marry another man.
40. International Incident
Air Date: 1952-06-16
An air liner flying over a middle eastern desert is forced to land in a remote spot and the passengers locked up. All are Americans or Britons. A man from the U.S. Embassay is interrogated and threatened unless he convinces another prisoner, an oil company executive, to collaborate with a new (unsaid but implied Soviet) regime.
41. There Was a Crooked Man
Air Date: 1952-06-23
A whodunnit set in a boarding house where fat, jolly, and crippled Mr. Otis is found murdered
42. The Blonde Comes First
Air Date: 1952-06-30
An arrogant conman who sells a fraudulent household cleaner takes a young woman under his wing without realizing she's a reporter.
43. The Rockingham Tea Set
Air Date: 1952-07-14
To keep her former fiancé from leaving her, a beautiful but neurotic young woman fakes a riding accident, and feigns paralysis of her lower body. When her nurse discovers her treachery, she resorts to a final desperate act of revenge.
44. The Last Thing I Do
Air Date: 1952-07-28
An irascible curator of a rare book collection plans the destruction of a rival professor whose research had discredited some of his most cherished theories 20 years before.
45. Jane Eyre
Air Date: 1952-08-04
After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
46. The Man They Acquitted
Air Date: 1952-08-11
After a doctor is acquitted of poisoning his evil invalid wife, he runs into complications in his attempt at a new life in Ireland.
47. One in a Million
Air Date: 1952-08-18
A bizarre plot falls apart at the seams because of a trip through a subway. Seems that the plotters are riding on the 1,000,000th car to drive through the tunnel and thus their plot is uncovered as officials seek to honor them.
48. The Good Companions
Air Date: 1952-08-25
A touring concert party named 'The Dinky Doos' are stranded in Rawsley because their manager has absconded with the funds and the lady pianist.
49. Stan, the Killer
Air Date: 1952-09-01
A French inspector and his Polish assistant must stop a murderer in Paris.
50. The Happy Housewife
Air Date: 1952-09-08
The story of the problems incurred by a couple when two careers become important instead of just one.
51. The Shadowy Third
Air Date: 1952-09-15
The tale of a nurse who is hired by a surgeon to care for his mentally unbalanced wife and dead child.
1. The Kill
Air Date: 1952-09-22
Grace Kelly in a very good early performance as the wife of Dick Foran, who is wrongly accused of murder. Nina Foch plays Foran's old girl friend who is still in love with him.
2. The Square Peg
Air Date: 1952-09-29
A psychologist evaluates a gangster's crew.
3. The Doctor's Wife
Air Date: 1952-10-06
A doctor's wife suffers after he marries her as he's not yet over his previous love.
4. Little Man, Big World
Air Date: 1952-10-13
A group of gangsters from a mid-sized city are getting squeezed out by their big city counterparts.
5. The Great Conspiracy
Air Date: 1952-10-20
The dictator of an unnamed European country is unaware that his advisers are plotting to assassinate him.
6. The Love Letter
Air Date: 1952-10-27
Professor White teaches at a provincial university who has lost his enjoyment of teaching. His hatred of youth and all it embellishes has destroyed his faith.
7. The Incredible Mr. Glencannon
Air Date: 1952-11-10
An adventurous sea captain, Mr. Glencannon, is a master at uncovering evil deeds.
8. Plan For Escape
Air Date: 1952-11-17
A crooked club owner's wife witnesses his murder, and has to flee from gangsters.
9. The Formula
Air Date: 1952-11-24
An American spy and his wife, with the help of the widow of a Swiss scientist, compete with enemy agents to find the scientist's hidden formula for a psycho-active gas that erases the will to resist.
10. I Am Jonathan Scrivener
Air Date: 1952-12-01
The tale of Jonathan Scrivener, told through his conversations with his secretary and his colleagues.
11. The Hospital
Air Date: 1952-12-08
A hospital kitchen employee gets drunk and shuts off the main power, throwing the hospital into darkness and total chaos and disarray.
12. The Great Lady
Air Date: 1952-12-15
A man travels to France on business and meets a beautiful but married woman whom he falls in love with. They plan to marry once she divorces, but her soon-to-be ex-husband attempts suicide, feeling there is no hope for them she stays with her husband.
13. The Play of the Nativity of the Child Jesus
Air Date: 1952-12-22
The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.
14. Young Man Adam
Air Date: 1952-12-29
A young singer is striving for success in her career. She also pushes for success in her boyfriend's.
15. Black Rain
Air Date: 1953-01-05
A happy but impoverished family has to decide on continuing their present happiness or having a secure financial future when their rich yet troublesome aunt comes to live with them.
16. The Trial of John Peter Zenger
Air Date: 1953-01-12
The story of John Peter Zenger who fought British rule in the American colonies and printed materials against England's King George. This case is important to American historians and champions of the First Amendment because it represented a strong repudiation of British libel law and also marked an important fissure in the relationship between the American colonies and the mother country.
17. Signal Thirty-Two
Air Date: 1953-01-19
The story of two rookie cops, one keeping to the straight and narrow and the other turning crooked.
18. To a Moment of Triumph
Air Date: 1953-01-26
A young man on parole after seven years in Sing Sing tries to start his life with a clean slate. While his mother and his girlfriend are glad to see him, his brother is less than warm.
19. Mark of Cain
Air Date: 1953-02-02
A young man on parole after 7 years in Sing Sing tries to start his life with a clean slate, but while his mother and his girlfriend are glad to see him, his brother is less than warm.
20. The River Garden
Air Date: 1953-02-09
The story, set in 1944 China, of a missionary teacher called ""Teacher Jane,"" who is recovering from an injury during a bombing in Chun King.
21. The Walsh Girls
Air Date: 1953-02-16
Two New England sisters reunite after the German husband of one of them dies in a concentration camp.
22. The Show Piece
Air Date: 1953-02-23
An egotistical boy's father tries to teach his son the blessings of life and good community spirit.
23. My Beloved Husband
Air Date: 1953-03-02
An aging, lonely widow buys a young man's love. When she is found dead, questions are asked. Is it an accident, suicide or murder?
24. The Garretson Chronicle
Air Date: 1953-03-09
The story of three generations of a Massachusetts family through conflicts, desires and triumphs and failures.
25. A Breath of Air
Air Date: 1953-03-16
After being thrown off course and landing on the island of Terraqueous, a man falls in love with the island's magical qualities as well as the people that inhabit the place.
26. The Edge of Evil
Air Date: 1953-03-23
A woman sets out to fathom the mystery of her sister's "suicide" and nearly loses her own life to a killer.
27. At Midnight on the Thirty-First of March
Air Date: 1953-03-30
A small town is cut off from the rest of the world to lead their own solitary existence.
28. Shadow of the Devil
Air Date: 1953-04-06
Julia Winston is left penniless and in debt in Rome when her young artist husband is killed in an accident. Desperate, she allows herself to be influenced by an evil woman.
29. The Magic Lantern
Air Date: 1953-04-13
A theatrical family heads out to Hollywood as the motion picture industry begins.
30. The Fathers
Air Date: 1953-04-20
An innocent family is brought near tragedy through the sin of a kinsman.
31. Along Came a Spider
Air Date: 1953-04-27
A petroleum engineer is sought by the police to testify in a law case.
32. Birthright
Air Date: 1953-05-04
A young man is stunned to learn of his connection with a sensational murder case as he prepares to accept his inheritance.
33. King Coffin
Air Date: 1953-05-11
A psychopathic writer bent on killing a stranger but winding up using a gun on himself.
34. The Laugh Maker
Air Date: 1953-05-18
Jerry Giles, a tortured comic who is afraid of failure, is being pestered by a magazine writer sent out to profile him.
35. Fly with the Hawk
Air Date: 1953-05-24
A young woman's car breaks down in front of an abandoned garage which is used as headquarters for a band of crooks. Her sudden appearance on the scene causes some unforeseen complications in the gang's plans and she unwittingly becomes an accomplice to a planned robbery.
36. Rendezvous
Air Date: 1953-06-01
A retired conductor of an American symphony orchestra arrives in France with his young composer-protege and meets a woman he had known many years before.
37. Conflict
Air Date: 1953-06-08
A prisoner of war returns home after being declared dead and finds that his money and property have been left by his father to his childhood sweetheart, who refuses to return it.
38. The Paris Feeling
Air Date: 1953-06-22
In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.
39. Greed
Air Date: 1953-06-29
An avaricious youth's inheritance from his grandfather lies behind a vault rigged up either to blow up when opened or not.
40. Beyond Reason
Air Date: 1953-07-06
A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.
41. End of the Honeymoon
Air Date: 1953-07-13
An English girl is desolated by the disappearance of her bridegroom on their Paris honeymoon trip.
42. The Shadow of a Man
Air Date: 1953-07-20
After the death of his mother, a young man begins his journey to maturity. His grief opens his eyes not only to himself but to his stepfather whom he's always disliked.
43. The King in Yellow
Air Date: 1953-07-27
A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.
44. The Roman Kid
Air Date: 1953-08-03
Tommy Thompson, a streetwise New York sportswriter, falls in love with beautiful, demure Carla, a receptionist and tour guide at a museum in Rome. Carla's father, the museum's curator, and her fiance, his associate, both oppose Tommy's attentions to Carla. Although the odds are against him, Tommy wins the girl by saving Carla's father from disgrace and ruin.
45. Flowers from a Stranger
Air Date: 1953-08-10
A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
46. Sentence of Death
Air Date: 1953-08-17
A woman witnesses a murder during a store robbery but claims the accused man is not the killer. After he is convicted and weeks away from his execution date, she sees the real killer, but the police are reluctant to reopen the case.
47. The Gathering Night
Air Date: 1953-08-24
The story of a lonely child, Dick Heldar, who grows up to become a war artist. Following the British Army into battle, he experiences many difficulties and internal struggles while providing some outstanding descriptions of the desert and desert warfare.
48. Letter from Cairo
Air Date: 1953-08-31
The mysterious disappearance of intelligence officer Steve Spence, after writing a letter to his wife in New York asking for a divorce comes under suspicion from his wife. She doesn't believe that he wrote the letter and a search for the agent is started.
49. Look Homeward, Hayseed
Air Date: 1953-09-04
A city-bred radio announcer begins to believe his own publicity when he finds himself a success as a crack-of-dawn rural broadcaster. He gets a rude awakening, but not from a mere rooster.
50. The Storm
Air Date: 1953-09-14
During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.
1. 1984
Air Date: 1953-09-21
An adaptation of the dystopic novel concerning one man's rebellion against a totalitarian society
2. Hound-Dog Man
Air Date: 1953-09-28
Twelve-year-old Cotton Kinney wants a dog for Christmas and gives hints when he buys his dad a dog collar for Christmas and his mom a bowl just the right size for dog food.
3. Silent the Song
Air Date: 1953-10-05
Opera diva Marcia Vernon loses her voice. Though Mark, her irresponsible husband, and Carol, her secretary, are both devoted to her, they otherwise oppose each other. Marica's surgery and the aftermath bring surprising revelations to all three.
4. Music and Mrs. Pratt
Air Date: 1953-10-12
A wealthy 70-year-old woman believes money can do everything, especially if one has as much as 70 million, the estimated fortune of Jenny Pratt. Piano tuner Jack O'Hara comes to Mrs. Pratt's home to tune her piano and finds himself living in her mansion, seven hours of daily piano practice for a year.
5. Letter of Love
Air Date: 1953-10-19
Captain Miles reads the pathetic appeals of his buddy to his young wife back home that she write to him. Miles finds himself hating the unknown woman, until he has the opportunity to meet her and discover the trouble.
6. Another Caesar
Air Date: 1953-10-26
A weak man masquerades as a hero in a Latin American republic.
7. Crime at Blossom's
Air Date: 1953-11-02
A double murder has taken place at the cottage of the Merrymans. When they arrive at their cottage, they are bombarded by inquisitive neighbors about what transpired to their former tenants.
8. Camille
Air Date: 1953-11-09
A modern dress adaptation of the classic story of a terminally ill prostitute who falls in love with a man of means.
9. A Bargain with God
Air Date: 1953-11-16
A priest working the Mission Church on Bowdoin Street in Boston is threatened with condemnation. The church is in such disrepair and with no funds to rebuild, the situation is hopeless. The Mission affects the lives of everyone in the neighborhood, even garage mechanic Johnny and his wife Jebby as well as the wealthy Lydia Brunall all come to see Father Ferris.
10. Buffalo Bill is Dead
Air Date: 1953-11-23
An old cowboy makes his living riding in a Wild West show and reminisces on the days when he fought side-by-side with Buffalo Bill Cody.
11. Confessions of a Nervous Man
Air Date: 1953-11-30
The story about how the success of Axelrod's play ""The Seven Year Itch"" affected him
12. Dry Run
Air Date: 1953-12-07
The heroic story of Captain Robert I. Olsen aboard the Angler, a submarine that rescued 135 people through heavily mined waters.
13. All My Love
Air Date: 1953-12-14
A spoiled rich girl matures into a lovely lady when she learns compassion and tenderness from three loves.
14. Cinderella '53
Air Date: 1953-12-21
A modernized musical of the classic story
15. Master of the Rose
Air Date: 1953-12-28
A small group of people in Belgium try to safeguard a painting of the Nativity from Nazi plundering.
16. The Runaway
Air Date: 1954-01-04
A Brooklyn bus driver drives off to Miami in a city bus and is apprehended by the police.
17. The Remarkable Incident at Carson Corners
Air Date: 1954-01-11
A group of school children perform what appears to be a play, but it progresses into a trial when the school janitor is accused of murder.
18. A Criminal Design
Air Date: 1954-01-18
An unemployed writer working as a press agent for an American dress designer in Italy becomes innocently involved in smuggling. [RF]
19. A Favor for a Friend
Air Date: 1954-01-25
An accountant meets an aged millionaire, who appoints him executor of a trust fund for the millionaire's dog, Shaftsbury.
20. Herman Came By Bomber
Air Date: 1954-02-01
A war orphan is smuggled into the U.S. by a pilot.
21. Man of Extinction
Air Date: 1954-02-08
The writer of murder mysteries acts out the crimes before putting them to paper. There's a real plot twist when a dead man turns up in her house.
22. Dark Possession
Air Date: 1954-02-15
An anonymous letter writer creates fear and havoc in the lives of three sisters.
23. The Role of a Lover
Air Date: 1954-02-22
A former child star disappears during a Broadway play.
24. Side Street
Air Date: 1954-03-01
A young married couple live in a New York neighborhood and share a babysitter and maid of all work with another couple. When this paragon of domesticity decides to wed the two husbands are hard put to break up the romance.
25. Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Air Date: 1954-03-08
A writer's undercover assignment backfires when he cannot produce the evidence needed to free himself from jail.
26. Thunder on Sycamore Street
Air Date: 1954-03-15
Neighbors attempt to run a respected citizen out of town when they learn he is a former convict.
27. The Expendables
Air Date: 1954-03-22
A story about Russian emigrants
28. Paul's Apartment
Air Date: 1954-03-29
Paul realizes that his beautiful new wife is more interested in his belongings than she is in him.
29. Stir Mugs
Air Date: 1954-04-05
Parolees in war service decide to escape on the night of V-J Day rather than return home.
30. Jack Sparling, Forty-Six
Air Date: 1954-04-12
A successful businessman's achievements aren't enough as he drives himself for a higher more powerful position.
31. A Handful of Diamonds
Air Date: 1954-04-19
When scandal and financial ruin threaten newspaper tycoon Frank Leslie, his wife Miriam uses cunning and imagination to restore her husband's reputation.
32. Romney
Air Date: 1954-04-26
A 9-year-old boy and his misunderstanding father come under close scrutiny as the drama delves into the deeper corners of a frightened boy's mind to search out the reasons for his fears. The story unravels a strong mood and mystery which centers around Romney.
33. Cardinal Mindszenty
Air Date: 1954-05-03
Opposed to communism and Nazi rule during World War II, the Hungarian Cardinal József Mindszenty was imprisoned as an enemy of the state and sent to prison. During his trial it was revealed that his confession was obtained by torture, hypnosis and drugs.
34. Fear Is No Stranger
Air Date: 1954-05-10
Two young women are found murdered in a small California town. A district attorney finds himself in a dilemma when he finds his daughter daring the man who is the prime suspect in the homicide case.
35. Castle in Spain
Air Date: 1954-05-17
A man and woman meet in town after both had been arguing with their respective spouses back home. They decide to team up and make a big day of it.
36. A Man and Two Gods
Air Date: 1954-05-24
A diplomatic attache of a military state is ordered by his government to kill a suspected spy. The government then arrests him for murder. The attache is torn between two "Gods": the decrees of his country and the commandments of God.
37. The Death and Life of Larry Benson
Air Date: 1954-05-31
Larry Benson was reported missing on the battlefield more than three years ago and the entire town is excited about his unexpected homecoming.
38. The Strike
Air Date: 1954-06-07
Major Gaylord recounts an experience during World War II when he was obliged to fire on an American soldier in the dead of night on a Pacific island.
39. A Letter to Mr. Gubbins
Air Date: 1954-06-14
A couple start receiving mysterious letters with hints on how to make money. They watch the accuracy of the advice, which is always perfect, then sell everything to follow a "hot tip."
40. Fandango at War Bonnet
Air Date: 1954-06-21
A man searches for the truth that may save another man's life in a Western showdown.
41. Screwball
Air Date: 1954-06-28
Despite age and limited skills, a garage mechanic pursues his dream of being a major league player.
42. The Small Door
Air Date: 1954-07-05
A reclusive man has troubles with a greedy gas meter man who thinks there is money hidden in the old apartment.
43. A Guest at the Embassy
Air Date: 1954-07-12
The case began with the impending marriage in Paris of the American ambassador's daughter to one of his attaches. Suddenly, a young woman appears professing to be the secret love of the attache. The young diplomat sets out to prove that he has never seen the intruder before.
44. Home Again, Home Again
Air Date: 1954-07-19
A girl returns to her hometown after failing to find stardom on Broadway. She finds herself growing bitter, avoiding her friends until she meets a drama coach at a nearby University who changes her life around.
45. The Hero
Air Date: 1954-07-26
A former Big League pitcher disappears from the fields after one of his pitches fatally injures a player. The pitcher turns gambler but a boy causes him to reform himself.
46. The Magic Monday
Air Date: 1954-08-02
The story of a typical American family and what happens when the parental generation yields to the typical yen of young folks in moderate circumstances to "get away from it all."
47. Sue Ellen
Air Date: 1954-08-09
A man searches for his missing fiancée following a shipboard romance.
48. The House of Gair
Air Date: 1954-08-16
During a storm in the Scottish moors at the House of Gair, a writer and his rich aunt become involved with a swindler which winds up in an unexpected murder.
49. Experiment Perilous
Air Date: 1954-08-23
A young pianist is ill with tuberculosis and is cured physically by a young scientist but the serum she takes causes a distortion of her mind.
50. The Secret Self
Air Date: 1954-08-30
An influential Washington hostess tramples ruthlessly on members of her society set to further the political career of a young lawyer.
51. U.F.O.
Air Date: 1954-09-06
An editor of a tiny newspaper with a circulation of eighty tries to put his small town "on the map" with an outrageous story.
52. The Cliff
Air Date: 1954-09-13
After the mysterious death of his brother, a man returns from South America to investigate.
1. Twelve Angry Men
Air Date: 1954-09-20
A jury must reach a verdict concerning a teenaged boy accused of murder.
2. The Education of HYMAN KAPLAN
Air Date: 1954-09-27
An irrepressible student at the American Night Preparatory School for Adults wages his personal war with the English language.
3. Prelude to Murder
Air Date: 1954-10-04
A mystery writer and his wife are searching for an isolated country home where he can work undisturbed. Instead, they meet up with an odd painter whose wife had recently died.
4. Melissa
Air Date: 1954-10-11
A young woman responds with deep devotion to her dominating father and upon his death she makes a postmortem discovery of a "secret" about him.
5. The Boy Who Changed the World
Air Date: 1954-10-18
The life story of the famous inventor
6. Fatal in My Fashion
Air Date: 1954-10-25
A Paris dressmaker's model is stabbed to death during the showing of new gowns.
7. The Man Who Owned the Town
Air Date: 1954-11-01
An arrogant gambler in Cripple Creek controls the village until a stranger comes along to usurp his powers.
8. An Almanac of Liberty
Air Date: 1954-11-08
When a stranger to a small town is beaten up by a locals, upright residents gather, inexplicably, against their will to the town hall. Once assembled, they find they can't leave and time has stopped. All talk about the stranger, (also present). Some express rage for his views and reveal their misguided ideas of American patriotism, which are really prejudices against freedom of thought and free speech.
9. Let Me Go, Lover
Air Date: 1954-11-15
A disc jockey is involved in a murder. As he played peekaboo with a psychopathic killer and tangled with the police, turntables all over the place kept spinning a record called "Let Me Go, Lover", the murderer's favorite song, of course.
10. Joey
Air Date: 1954-11-22
Joey, a clown and leader of a traveling circus, suddenly becomes depressed when his group plays the tiny town of Millville.
11. The Deserter
Air Date: 1954-11-29
After serving seven years in prison for desertion, a bitter soldier tries to start a new life.
12. Short Cut
Air Date: 1954-12-06
A crusading attorney finds that there are no short cuts to justice.
13. 12:32 A.M.
Air Date: 1954-12-13
A sensitive boy's relationship with his parents lacks the real understanding necessary to a happy life.
14. Two Little Minks
Air Date: 1954-12-20
A New England Christmas story
15. The Cuckoo in Spring
Air Date: 1954-12-27
A young art dealer visits the home of a miserly connoisseur and discovers a pretty girl as well as some very valuable paintings.
16. The Missing Men
Air Date: 1955-01-03
A young private investigator finds himself trapped by a web of circumstantial evidence and his name linked to that of a homicidal mugger. The tension mounts as he strives to clear himself.
17. Grandma Rolled Her Own
Air Date: 1955-01-10
Twelve-year-old orphan Bill Caldwell is sent to stay with his eccentric grandmother when his aunt and uncle go to Europe. Down on her luck in 1929 Detroit, Grandma rents out 22 rooms of her 25-room house. Every March, the circus comes to town and some of the more interesting characters stay at Grandma's. Young Bill learns much more about life interacting with his Grandma and her colorful boarders than living with his stuffy aunt and uncle.
18. Sail with the Tide
Air Date: 1955-01-17
A beautiful but icy singer is devoted exclusively to her art and her equally icy French officer who succumbs to her charms.
19. It Might Happen Tomorrow
Air Date: 1955-01-24
A test pilot sets out for a cruise through space and suddenly loses contact with Earth.
20. The Silent Women
Air Date: 1955-01-31
A sheriff travels to a rural Maine island to investigate the case of a missing young woman. While there, he learns many odd things about the place and it's inhabitants.
21. A Stranger May Die
Air Date: 1955-02-07
Police fight a desperate battle against time to prevent a would-be suicide from killing not only himself, but also the other tenants in the building.
22. The Broken Spur
Air Date: 1955-02-14
In a shabby western town about 1900, a stranger gets off the train, goes to the sheriff's office, and kills him. His mild-mannered son takes over his position and tries to find the killer and avenge his father's death.
23. The Eddie Chapman Story
Air Date: 1955-02-21
Eddie Chapman was the only Briton to win the Iron Cross in World War II. But was he really working for the Germans? Or was he a highly-placed double-agent?
24. Donovan's Brain
Air Date: 1955-02-28
The brain of a billionaire who dies in an accident is kept alive and makes plans for global domination.
25. Millions of Georges
Air Date: 1955-03-07
A "retread" Master Sergeant is called back into the service and it seems to his wife that most of their 10 years of marriage have been spent moving from base to base. When a young and lovely girl enters the picture the wife fears that love alone cannot hold her husband.
26. The Conviction of Peter Shea
Air Date: 1955-03-14
The dying words of a young woman, the victim of a hit-and-run driver, point towards stock-broker Peter Shea. He maintains his innocence, even as he's found guilty and sent to prison.
27. Miss Turner's Decision
Air Date: 1955-03-21
Spinster Melissa Turner is at a crossroads in life concerning her future. She must decide whether to pursue Forest, sad reclusive acquaintance or prepare for a life alone.
28. Dominique
Air Date: 1955-03-28
When a newly wed Italian bride named Dominique moves to Vermont, she suffers culture shock and is hesitant to continue her new life in the Americas.
29. Cross My Heart
Air Date: 1955-04-04
Feeling misunderstood and unwanted by her parents, a girl decides that she must run away.
30. Passage of Arms
Air Date: 1955-04-11
In 1948, while the captain of Czechoslovakia's championship hockey team is in Moscow, Russia annexes his home land. On his return, he and his fiancee plot to escape.
31. Affairs of State
Air Date: 1955-04-18
Irene is the plain niece of an elder statesman, who comes to Washington to aid her uncle. She seems an ideal match for a bachelor senator up for re-election. But her uncle and husband-to-be don't realize just how ideal she really is!
32. Mrs. Brimmer Did It!
Air Date: 1955-04-25
Mr. Brimmer did not go over that seaside cliff unaided. Sinister Cousin Julian from South Africa gave Mr. Brimmer a bit of help.
33. Summer Pavilion
Air Date: 1955-05-02
In an old Louisiana plantation, the the furnishings and the once great family are fading fast.The matriarch desperately tries to hold on the a gazebo that's slated for destruction as part of a building project, as well as holding her daughter to an unwanted marriage, though she loves the builder.
34. A Picture in the Paper
Air Date: 1955-05-09
A mild-mannered bookkeeper, belittled by his family and his coworkers, is to get his picture in the paper when he is named his company's head bookkeeper. The picture is in the paper all right, but he is mistakenly named the chairman of the city's anti-vice crusade.
35. Strange Companion
Air Date: 1955-05-16
The drab companion of an elderly hypochondriac is transformed into a lovely woman when she falls in love with a young man she met at the opera, but she lies to him about herself, claiming she's the educated daughter of a famed operatic diva.
36. Pigeons and People
Air Date: 1955-05-23
A man named Parker prefers the companionship of the pigeons in the park to that of the human race. One day, as he sits feeding his friends, Parker is approached by a gentleman who wishes to rehabilitate him.
37. Operation Home
Air Date: 1955-05-30
A scholarly officer, who has spent his 3 years of military service at a secluded desk job, is assigned to shepherd some 600 troops from California to New York at the end of World War II.
38. The Spongers
Air Date: 1955-06-06
An elderly man has lost touch with his son when he receives a surprise visit from his son and his wife who come for a visit. They find that a pair of parasitic drifters have moved in with the old man and are "sponging" off him.
39. The Incredible World of Horace Ford
Air Date: 1955-06-13
Horace Ford longs for his childhood but it was not as idyllic as he remembers it.
40. Heart Song
Air Date: 1955-06-20
He used to be a Hollywood bigwig but now Jonah Silver is a casting director at a small studio. A young woman seeking a job pays him a visit.
41. For the Defense
Air Date: 1955-06-27
A young lawyer bucks public opinion in his defense of an accused killer. When the killer suspect escapes while visiting the scene of the crime with the lawyer, life becomes very unpleasant for the defender.
42. The Day Before the Wedding
Air Date: 1955-07-04
A mother announces on the day before her daughter's wedding that she is going to divorce her husband.
43. Sane as a Hatter
Air Date: 1955-07-11
A man with a Robin Hood complex has a penchant for liquidating people whose lives he considers worthless in order to give their money to more deserving people.
44. A Terrible Day
Air Date: 1955-07-18
A ruthless landowner is terrorizing a small Western town, aided by his hired killers and the cowardice of the local gentry.
45. The Tall Dark Stranger
Air Date: 1955-07-25
A woman is found strangled in a plush hotel room and sitting dazedly by is an ex-convict who tells police he is guilty. Flashback to ten years before when the man and woman first met and events leading up to the slaying with a tall dark stranger.
46. Julius Caesar
Air Date: 1955-08-01
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
47. The Prince and the Puppet
Air Date: 1955-08-08
A pair of puppeteers seek funds for a trailer tour and do a show for a wealthy man's party with unusual results.
48. The Secret
Air Date: 1955-08-15
A young wife invites her rival to dinner and sees that her husband is still interested in the old flame. He takes the woman home and is gone for several hours. In the morning, the woman is found dead in her hallway, the victim of a fall down the stairs that could have been accidental or could have been murder.
49. The Voysey Inheritance
Air Date: 1955-08-22
In the early 1900s, a man who is about to take over the family investment firm finds that his father has played fast and loose with some of his clients' money.
50. A Chance at Love
Air Date: 1955-08-29
A store owner in a small Iowa town goes to New York and meets a model. He falls in love with her and tries to figure a way to let the model continue her work and still become his wife.
51. Mama's Boy
Air Date: 1955-09-05
A family is torn by divided and misplaced loyalties of a possessive mother who controls her two sons.
52. The Pit
Air Date: 1955-09-12
Two men trapped in a mine fear that the end is near and the one man confesses to the other about a crime that he committed. Upon their rescue, the man enters a new trap as his confidence might be exposed.
1. Like Father, Like Son
Air Date: 1955-09-19
An ex-football hero who's now a successful businessman tries to mold his son in his own image even though his wife opposes it.
2. Three Empty Rooms
Air Date: 1955-09-26
Two unhappy newlyweds are failing miserably in their relationship and find the only solidarity that they can find.
3. A Likely Story
Air Date: 1955-10-03
A broken down vaudeville actor sets out to collect $30,000 and almost makes it.
4. Uncle Ed and Circumstances
Air Date: 1955-10-10
Uncle Ed is a contestant on the game show ""The $64,000 Question""
5. A Most Contagious Game
Air Date: 1955-10-17
In order to get his story, a reporter joins an underworld gang.
6. Private History
Air Date: 1955-10-24
A son runs for public office based on nothing more than his famous father's reputation. Dad didn't think to much of him - and says so in his private diaries. The candidate's job now is to discreetly remove all of the unflattering references.
7. Split Level
Air Date: 1955-10-31
Despite the opposition of their families, two 65-year-olds plan to marry. Though their families share a split-level house, their lives are miles apart: the woman is from a once-prominent southern family, and the man is an Italian immigrant.
8. Shakedown Cruise
Air Date: 1955-11-07
A Navy crew is trapped in a crippled submarine on the ocean floor. The captain and his second in command must organize the men, who, before the accident, were torn by petty grievances.
9. The Judge and the Hangman
Air Date: 1955-11-14
In Bern, Switzerland, the commissioner of police solves the puzzling death of a fellow officer.
10. Julie
Air Date: 1955-11-21
A teenage girl tries to increase the understanding between her football hero boyfriend and his widower father.
11. The Man Who Caught the Ball at Coogan's Bluff
Air Date: 1955-11-28
A shy, middle-aged baseball fan becomes a national celebrity after making a spectacular catch of a homerun ball.
12. Blow Up at Cortland
Air Date: 1955-12-05
The warden of Cortland Prison is up against the psychopathic leader of a group of rioters.
13. The Strongbox
Air Date: 1955-12-12
After the death of a Foreign Aid official, the reputation of the American Embassy in London comes into question. Was he a traitor or philanthropist?
14. Miracle at Potter's Farm
Air Date: 1955-12-19
Brucie and his elder sister, Jen, are two of five children who face separation and removal from the family farm after their father's death.
15. Fair Play
Air Date: 1955-12-26
A young army officer (Dewey Martin) waiting assignment is picked to defend a soldier in a court martial. The soldier (James Gregory) is charged with a murder that was actually committed by the two MPs who arrested him. The officer risks his career in search of material that can exonerate the soldier.
16. Dino
Air Date: 1956-01-02
Dino, who has just been released from reform school, is sullen and uncooperative with his family and his guidance counselors, but he knows that, if he returns to his life of crime, his adoring kid brother will be with him.
17. The Talented Mr. Ripley
Air Date: 1956-01-09
Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to from New York to Italy to retrieve a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy, named Dickie Greenleaf. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.
18. Johnny August
Air Date: 1956-01-16
Johnny August is hesitant about helping track down a blackmailer in Mexico and winds up with a murder instead.
19. A Public Figure
Air Date: 1956-01-23
A successful TV actor becomes ensnared in an exposé in a scandal magazine.
20. My Son Johnny
Air Date: 1956-01-30
A magazine writer, married to his part-time editor, is vaguely discontented with his life. Then one night he learns that after many years of marriage, he is going to be a father. The news has an extraordinary effect on the lives of the couple.
21. The Silent Gun
Air Date: 1956-02-06
A famous gunfighter of the Wild West teaches his young ranch boy companion an important lesson in life. A team of men set out to sell a new Colt firearm and one is a sharpshooter, the other a salesman. One of the men is the famous Ringo Kid. When his identity is learned, there is trouble.
22. Manhattan Duet
Air Date: 1955-02-13
Two columnists cover the political scene and are practically identical twins. One is married, one is single and the wife of one wishes the other would get married and move to the suburbs. When the confirmed bachelor does announce plans for an impending marriage the two men decide to have adjoining penthouse apartments and the wives have other ideas.
23. Circle of Guilt
Air Date: 1956-02-20
A woman is found dead on a lonely beach outside a small town.
24. Always Welcome
Air Date: 1956-02-27
A widow takes in orphans and unwanted children with loving care. She finds her latest recruit is a little more troublesome than the others.
25. A Favor for Sam
Air Date: 1956-03-05
A quick-tempered cab driver picks up what appears to be two men and a drunk. On second look the drunk proves to be a corpse.
26. Flower of Pride
Air Date: 1956-03-12
A proud Florentine duchess's prayer to the Saint of the Impossible is answered in an unexpected manner. The Italian duchess has disowned her niece because the girl insists on living a gypsy-like life as a nightclub dancer. However, the arrival of a seemingly irreverent painter penetrates the stony facade of an archly unemotional duchess and humanizes her.
27. The Laughter of Giants
Air Date: 1956-03-19
A self-made man domineering in nature has a beautiful young wife who is interested in art. He introduces her to a young male artist to teach her to paint and learns a valuable lesson.
28. The Tale of St. Emergency
Air Date: 1956-03-26
An angel comes to Earth to help clean up a corrupt town.
29. This Will Do Nicely
Air Date: 1956-04-02
A man is dead. His wife calls in his best friend who is an amateur sleuth who calls it suicide but she calls it murder and says that he did it.
30. The Arena
Air Date: 1956-04-09
Arriving in Washington, a freshman senator gets an experienced advisor who warns him not to continue a heated feud with his state's senior salon, held over from his father. But later in a drunken jag, he blurts out secret evidence that can end the career of the older man.
31. Regarding File Number 4356
Air Date: 1956-04-16
A social worker is being forced to deprive a childless couple of a baby they have cared for and want to adopt.
32. I Do
Air Date: 1956-04-30
A young couple elope and try to hide in New York from their disappointed parents.
33. The Drop of a Hat
Air Date: 1956-05-07
The offices of Mode, a glossy women's magazine, is thrown into chaos when the owner suddenly shows up. The editor fears for her job--but who in the office might replace her?
34. The Genie of Sutton Place
Air Date: 1956-05-14
In New York City, a 13-year-old boy discovers the magic words that set a wish-granting genie free.
35. The Star-Spangled Soldier
Air Date: 1956-05-21
A not too sharp commandant of a military academy gets into some hilarious situations when he mistakes his father's invention for a war missile.
36. Family Protection
Air Date: 1956-05-28
A bank robber has an agreement with a suburban couple to use their home as his hideout in return for a share of the loot.
37. The Power
Air Date: 1956-06-04
A young professor must discover which of his colleagues possesses the diabolical ability to control the minds of others.
38. Flight
Air Date: 1956-06-11
A Mexican youth who lives on the California coast near Monterrey leaves his family to go on his first trip alone into town during fiesta time.
39. Snap Your Fingers
Air Date: 1956-06-18
A beautiful girl is a witch and her vain ex-suitor has been transformed into a peacock. She finally meets a nice young man from Boston.
40. Mr. Arcularis
Air Date: 1956-06-25
While a man lies unconscious on the operating table, he dreams that he has recovered and gone on a sea voyage to regain his health. However, death follows him in a recurrent dream in which he takes a journey through the heavens. The dream obsesses him, but Clarice, a pretty woman with whom he falls in love, forces him back to reality, at which point, he regains consciousness to find Clarice, his nurse, bending over him to say he is all right.
41. The Luck of Luke McTigger
Air Date: 1956-07-02
Luke McTrigger, proprietor of the Olympia saloon and hotel, has been thinking hard and has finally come up with a sure-fire plan to win the hand of the widow Baines. Now the widow is nothing to look at, and some folks say she's a bull-headed old battle-axe, but she has an estimated fortune of $900, and that's a lot of money in the Wyoming of 1880!
42. Song for a Summer Night
Air Date: 1956-07-09
A man who once played a hot trumpet in a band wants to break away from his successful law practice for a night and hear some good jazz. He and two other friends visit a nightclub and he manages to hit a "high" note of his own.
43. Emmaline
Air Date: 1956-07-16
A best selling novel leads everyone to wonder about who the author is.
44. An Incident of Love
Air Date: 1956-07-23
A young housewife befriends a withdrawn blind neighbor with beneficial results.
45. The Ballad of Yermo Red
Air Date: 1956-07-30
Yermo Red is a sadistic cop employed by a western railroad who delights in beating up hobos and finally kills one. The hobos want to avenge the dead man by killing Yermo. But one of them who hates violence prevails on them to try something else. He composes a song, "The Ballad of Yermo Red", which everybody up and down the railroad line begins singing.
46. Something Ventured
Air Date: 1956-08-06
A savage businessman is so hated by his employees that they band together and plan their own competing company.
47. Giulio
Air Date: 1956-08-27
In the Italian section of New York City, the talented Giulio Costello and Rose Pinato, spend the warm summer evenings on a park bench discussing Giulio's future. The young man is torn between love and the chance for a career in grand opera.
48. A Day Before Battle
Air Date: 1956-09-03
On the night before the Battle of Gettysburg, several Union soldiers capture a Southern spy and try to decide if it is morally permissible to shoot a prisoner.
49. Cauliflower Heart
Air Date: 1956-09-10
A small town businessman's son is killed and in order to fill the void he takes a tough youngster who needs a father under his wing.
50. Dark Morning
Air Date: 1956-09-17
A lumber baron is bent on revenge and intends to hang a man whom he believes responsible for his brother's death.
1. A Special Announcement
Air Date: 1956-09-24
An eccentric hobbyist inadvertently gets the original draft of the Gettysburg Address at an auction. He decides to burn the paper to bring a focus of attention on the ideals it contains but agrees to wait until after a TV debate.
2. A Man's World
Air Date: 1956-10-01
A cabin boy on an American yacht finds love in the French port of Cannes.
3. The Open Door
Air Date: 1956-10-15
When a man thumbs a ride and gets into an argument with the driver, he receives a 90-day jail sentence, but to his surprise, he is offered a job as counterman in a diner near the jail while serving his term, according to the ""open door"" policy of the prison.
4. The Crimes of Peter Page
Air Date: 1956-10-22
The museum curator's reputation comes under close scrutiny when several articles aren't what they appeared to be.
5. American Primitive
Air Date: 1956-10-29
A group of settlers on their way to Oregon stop for the night on a Western prairie. As the Indian tom-toms beat, tension in the small camp mounts, until finally the Indians themselves appear to demand justice.
6. The Pilot
Air Date: 1956-11-12
This episode depicts the story of Sister Mary Aquinas, who was the first nun ever to become a licensed aeroplane pilot.
7. The Landlady's Daughter
Air Date: 1956-11-26
When a smooth talking lawyer moves into the boarding house, tongues start wagging about the goings on with the landlady's daughter.
8. Portrait of a Citizen
Air Date: 1956-12-03
Lev Simon is in the U.S. illegally. As head of an immigrant family, he realizes his error when election time comes and he can't vote.
9. Rachel
Air Date: 1956-12-10
Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel makes a decision which impacts the entire country.
10. Career
Air Date: 1956-12-17
A 35-year-old ex-champion is goaded into the boxing ring by a sportscaster to fight the current champion.
11. A Christmas Surprise
Air Date: 1956-12-24
A special done like a "Person to Person" interview with a visit to a "typical" American home and family for a Christmas surprise.
12. Goodbye Piccadilly
Air Date: 1956-12-31
A secret agent is assigned to trail a brilliant scientist assuming that he is selling secrets to the enemy.
13. Love at Fourth Sight
Air Date: 1957-01-07
A young bachelor has a recurring dream about a girl named Pat who calls to him and then disappears. His mother is startled when he claims to have actually found the girl.
14. The Dark Corner
Air Date: 1957-01-14
Laura Morgan goes with her new husband to live in his mother's cheerless house. From her husband's mother, she learns a terrible secret about his past.
15. The Five Dollar Bill
Air Date: 1957-01-21
A sensitive young boy struggles to attain his own identity against the fumbling demands of his father and the solicitous affections of his mother.
16. Dead of Noon
Air Date: 1957-01-28
A western gunman obtains a law degree while serving time in jail. When released, he hopes to aid law and justice but learns that his days of gunslinging are not over yet.
17. Tale of the Comet
Air Date: 1957-02-04
Tim Tully has reached the top as a successful comic but is ruthless behind the scenes alienating many. Then as his ratings begin to slide he finds it difficult to get anyone, especially writers, to work for him.
18. A Walk in the Forest
Air Date: 1957-02-11
A young student with a promising career in science endangers his future in an immature college spree.
19. The Hollywood Complex
Air Date: 1957-02-18
When a young movie executive, with a distorted conception of the values and rewards of Hollywood, rejects his father as an embarrassing symbol of the past, the executive's two roommates and an exotic dancer give kindness to the bewildered old man, and in so doing, discover something important about themselves and their own need for love.
20. The Defender (Part 1)
Air Date: 1957-02-25
A young criminal attorney and his firm-owning father defend a 19 year-old on trial for a murder that he swears he did not commit. Personal conflicts arise with the attorney and his father while the prosecution puts on a dramatic and convincing argument of guilt.
21. The Defender (Part 2)
Air Date: 1957-03-04
A young criminal attorney and his firm-owning father defend a 19 year-old on trial for a murder that he swears he did not commit. Personal conflicts arise with the attorney and his father while the prosecution puts on a dramatic and convincing argument of guilt.
22. A Child Is Waiting
Air Date: 1957-03-11
Nurse Jean Horst, who works in a retarded children's home, is drawn to Reuben Widdicomb, a little boy whose mother hasn't come to visit him.
23. Walk Down the Hill
Air Date: 1957-03-18
During World War II, a Jewish American soldier questions his heritage when he is thrown in a German prison camp and learns that the Jewish GI's are to be put into a separate camp.
24. A Member of the Family
Air Date: 1957-03-25
Ellis is the wealthy, elder brother of the Davenport clan, who touches off a family conflict of jealousy and suspicion when he transfers his interest from one nephew to another.
25. The Years in Between
Air Date: 1957-04-01
A boy gets a date with the lovely girl who is visiting her relatives next door.
26. The Playwright and the Stars
Air Date: 1957-04-08
A Broadway producer signs a forgotten destitute one-time star in a pivotal role in his new play.
27. The Rice Sprout Song
Air Date: 1957-04-15
A Chinese peasant family's struggle for survival under Communist rule as obstacles and tragedy unfold.
28. The Traveling Lady
Air Date: 1957-04-22
Georgette and her little daughter arrive in a small Texas town to meet her husband, Henry, who has recently been released from prison. Georgette married Henry while he was a struggling singer, but soon after their marriage he was sent to prison for a 6-year term. Weak in character, Henry is now trying to make another start and is working as a gardener for one of the town's most trusting characters. But a new person enters Georgette's life, Slim Breedlove, a pleasant young man who offers to help her find her husband.
29. Eight Feet to Midnight
Air Date: 1957-04-29
A story about the outlawed Irish Republican Army
30. The Out-of-Towners
Air Date: 1957-05-06
A small-town postmistress, whose hopes are high when she makes her annual trip to the big city for a 3-day convention of Postal Employees, meets a middle-aged salesman and tries to encourage the acquaintanceship.
31. Babe in the Woods
Air Date: 1957-05-13
A tall handsome and extremely naive young man from the Midwest arrives in New York and is bewildered by the series of situations he stumbles into.
32. The Man Who Wasn't Himself
Air Date: 1957-05-20
Peter Hendon impersonated men in various professions as a surgeon, college professor and lawyer without any previous training in these fields.
33. The Weston Strain
Air Date: 1957-05-27
A young writer must decide if his first responsibility is to his family or his creative gift.
34. The Furlough
Air Date: 1957-06-03
A deranged soldier has escaped from the stockade vows to do away with his former platoon sergeant and trails him to the home of a dead buddy.
35. The Mother Bit
Air Date: 1957-06-10
A driven domineering career woman and her attempt to make a home in the country for her teen-age daughter. Kitty Sharpe is a popular television singer. Upon the death of her ex-husband, Kitty faces the problem of setting up housekeeping for the first time with her only child, Joy, a shy, attractive girl of seventeen.
36. The Staring Match
Air Date: 1957-06-17
Set in a small ranch town that is suffering from drought, townspeople gather to pray for rain in the schoolhouse. There is a knock at the door and a man dressed all in white greets everyone by name. He says that his name is Mr. White and that he has been sent to help them find a well. Then another knock at the door reveals a man dressed all in black, who claims that his name is Mr. Black and that he is an angel of the Lord sent to help them also. Not knowing which man to trust, the dilemma is resolved by a ""staring match"" between the two men. In the end, the angel is revealed and water is discovered.
37. The Goodwill Ambassadors
Air Date: 1957-06-24
An American agricultural expert and his wife are sent to a Latin-American country to help with its agricultural problems. The wife is distressed with the primitive native village where they are working and she misunderstands some of the villagers' customs and traditions.
38. Death and Taxes
Air Date: 1957-07-01
Henri and Marie own a bar in a small French town. They've been successfully cheating on their taxes for years, but that's about to end. A new tax collector's in town and the he's determined to make an example of slippery couple.
39. A Matter of Guilt
Air Date: 1957-07-08
A young wife is singled out as a hit-and-run driver through circumstantial evidence. Her husband desperately wages a battle to establish his wife's innocence.
40. Love Me to Pieces
Air Date: 1957-07-15
A publisher claims that he can make any song a hit. Drawing songs at random out of a file, he comes across a song by a teenage girl which she wrote when her romance had ended.
41. In Love with a Stranger
Air Date: 1957-07-22
Phyllis, a girl in her 20's, is just returning from her summer vacation, during which she has fallen in love with a struggling young musician. On the bus trip home Phyllis is telling her girlfriend of the difficulty she is going to have in breaking this news to her parents. Phyllis's parents and her aunt and uncle have made Phyllis the center of their lives. In their over-concern for her, they have naturally assumed she would marry George, the boy next door, whom she has known all her life. These four and George too, are on hand to welcome Phyllis home. Soon after their initial greeting, Phyllis tells them she intends to marry the young musician. They are shocked at the news and refuse to believe there can be anything to it.
42. The Human Barrier
Air Date: 1957-07-29
A test pilot suffers from shock, amnesia, and guilt after he crashes a new jet.
43. My Mother and How She Undid Me
Air Date: 1957-08-05
Baby Herman's view of adults as seen through his crib, looking in wide-eyed amazement into the faces of the people around him. He learns very early on how to wrap them around his finger with coos and howls.
44. The Unmentionable Blues
Air Date: 1957-08-12
A businessman feels life is all too soon passing him by. He seeks companionship from a young girl.
45. Rudy
Air Date: 1957-08-19
Rudy lives in a small New England town with his father. He begins to hang around a street gang called "The Eagles." These juvenile delinquents cause him problems with the law and his family. Rudy's loneliness and attempt to forget his crippled childhood turn his desperation into a new nightmare.
46. Guitar
Air Date: 1957-08-26
A classical guitarist is forced to take a job playing popular music after his son refuses to follow in his footsteps as a famous artist.
47. The Dark Intruder
Air Date: 1957-09-02
A music critic is mysteriously attacked in his Manhattan penthouse and thinks that a new composer whom he has panned is responsible.
1. The Night America Trembled
Air Date: 1957-09-09
Exploration of the panic caused by the radio broadcast of H.G. Wells ""War of the Worlds.""
2. First Prize for Murder
Air Date: 1957-09-16
At a Mystery Writers of America meeting, a government agent shows up, looking for a best selling author suspected of murder.
3. Mutiny on the Shark (Part 1)
Air Date: 1957-09-23
Commander Matt Donovan, the skipper of the newly commissioned atomic submarine "Shark" whose ruthless obsession for perfection leads him to expect his men to perform with the same cold precision as the incredible nuclear machine. Donovan has no patience with human frailty and he relentlessly drives his crew to be like himself. Donovan's two young officers Lt. Bill Meade and Lt. Joe Crane are assigned to be the dedicated men working for Donovan. Meade stands in awe of the "Iron Skipper" and dreams of commanding his own sub. Crane, a brilliant engineering officer is ...
4. Mutiny on the Shark (Part 2)
Air Date: 1957-09-30
Commander Matt Donovan, the skipper of the newly commissioned atomic submarine "Shark" whose ruthless obsession for perfection leads him to expect his men to perform with the same cold precision as the incredible nuclear machine. Donovan has no patience with human frailty and he relentlessly drives his crew to be like himself. Donovan's two young officers Lt. Bill Meade and Lt. Joe Crane are assigned to be the dedicated men working for Donovan. Meade stands in awe of the "Iron Skipper" and dreams of commanding his own sub. Crane, a brilliant engineering officer is ...
5. The Morning After
Air Date: 1957-10-07
A teenage student traps his Latin teacher into a compromise on grades by implying that she has made "advances" at him. Appalled and frightened by the implication that she is an immoral teacher at a private school for boys, she enlists the help of another teacher.
6. Act of Mercy
Air Date: 1957-10-14
A man lies in a coma for over a year as a result of a car accident. His brother, knowing the situation is hopeless, decides to end his existence.
7. The Deaf Heart
Air Date: 1957-10-21
A girl has lost her hearing as a result of an emotional disturbance. Her subconscious is probed by a team of psychologists who decide to try a daring experiment.
8. The Bend in the Road
Air Date: 1957-11-04
An elderly but energetic minister retires and lives with his overly attentive son and daughter-in-law.
9. Twenty-Four Hours Til Dawn
Air Date: 1957-11-11
An important political prisoner is awaiting execution by the men who have overthrown his country's government. The night before he is to face the firing squad, he is given a choice: if he will give up fighting for his cause, he will be set free.
10. Please Report Any Odd Characters
Air Date: 1957-11-18
An eccentric old man living at a boardinghouse begins concocting these stories and everyone becomes suspicious when young girls are found dead.
11. Escape Route
Air Date: 1957-12-02
A snobbish college professor finds implicated in the killing of a Latin American scholar. He finds himself hunted by a sinister ring of assassins.
12. No Deadly Medicine (Part 1)
Air Date: 1957-12-09
A conflict develops between Dr. Joseph Pearson and his young assistant, who attempts to introduce new methods in their pathology lab.
13. No Deadly Medicine (Part 2)
Air Date: 1957-12-16
Dr. Joseph Pearson and his young assistant clash over the circumstances of a premature birth and a cancer diagnosis.
14. The Brotherhood of the Bell
Air Date: 1958-01-06
A college fraternity will always help its members in later life - as long as they repay the fraternity by performing certain not-quite-legal tasks for other members.
15. The Other Place
Air Date: 1958-01-13
A Canadian engineer working in England rescues a rich elderly gentleman who changes his life.
16. Trial by Slander
Air Date: 1958-01-20
A schoolteacher gets in trouble. He is accused of having a romance in his educational dealings with his pupil. He gets trapped in a mess of circumstantial evidence.
17. Balance of Terror
Air Date: 1958-01-27
Harry Radcliff, a young British officer, sets out alone on a dangerous secret mission. He is to travel to Berlin and gain the confidence of Soviet agents by pretending to be traitor to England. But Radcliff finds himself in serious trouble when he misses an appointment with an important enemy contact. In desperation, he seeks aid from his friend Mike Fenby of the British Diplomatic Office in Berlin.
18. The Laughing Willow
Air Date: 1958-02-03
Belinda is one of the popular bachelor girls called on when guest lists are made up for Washington, D.C. parties. But beneath her gaiety, Belinda fears a life of loneliness, for she has frightened away suitors by her eagerness to marry. Then her friend Bunny introduces Belinda to handsome Jack Marshall.
19. Presence of the Enemy
Air Date: 1958-02-10
A religious widow fears that her beautiful and talented daughter may cause unrest and distrust in the small conservative Ohio community when she puts her love of art and career as a singer above the what the townspeople will think.
20. Tide of Corruption
Air Date: 1958-02-17
A young Senate investigator, Edward Roberts, begins digging into the racket empire of Mr. Antony. Then Mr. Antony investigates Roberts' background and discovers that at one time Roberts' mother accepted help from a crooked politician. In an attempt to deter the investigation, Antony approaches Roberts with blackmail in mind.
21. The Lonely Stage
Air Date: 1958-02-24
One of the greatest ladies of theater, Harriet Brand, decides to make a comeback but is hindered by her past indiscretions.
22. The Fair-Haired Boy
Air Date: 1958-03-03
A murder takes place in the public relations department of a motion picture company.
23. A Dead Ringer
Air Date: 1958-03-10
A businessman fed up with his invalid wife's tyrannical behavior finds a solution during a business trip. A man that looks exactly like him might be able to provide the alibi he needs to eliminate his wife.
24. Tongues of Angels
Air Date: 1958-03-17
A young man looking for work on a family farm indicates that he is not deaf and dumb but in fact suffers from a severe stuttering problem.
25. The Award Winner
Air Date: 1958-03-24
After years of hard work, Professor Theodore Koering, nuclear scientist has been awarded the Nobel Prize. Reporters sent to interview him are surprised at his apparent lack of interest in the honor accorded him, and baffled by his refusal to cooperate for pictures and stories. Their first lead develops when Kering forbids them to interview the widow of his former assistant.
26. The Shadow of a Genius
Air Date: 1958-03-31
After years of hard work, Professor Theodore Koering, nuclear scientist has been awarded the Nobel Prize. Reporters sent to interview him are surprised at his apparant lack of interest in the honor accorded him, and baffled by his refusal to cooperate for pictures and stories. Their first lead develops when Kering forbids them to interview the widow of his former assistant.
27. Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
Air Date: 1958-04-14
Ada Harris, a London charwoman in the 1950's, sees a Dior dress and decides that she's going to own one. First, she scrimps and saves her money, but when she has enough, and takes a trip to Paris, she learns that buying an original couture creation is a little harder than simply plunking down cash. Along the way to her goal, she manages to befriend a count, unite young lovers, and dodge customs.
28. The Desperate Age
Air Date: 1958-04-21
It is puzzling to the family and office friends of Letty Greene that she has little interest in men and apparently no concern over the prospect that she may never marry. But Letty has been seeing a co-worker, Will Robbins, who is unhappily married. She tries not to face the future of this romance.
29. The Edge of Truth
Air Date: 1958-04-28
A policeman apprehends the reckless driver of a vehicle when a little girl almost gets hit and finds himself being bribed by the driver, a wealthy playboy.
30. The McTaggert Succession
Air Date: 1958-05-05
When their elder spinster sister Rosie becomes bedridden, the three McTaggart brothers, all bachelors, hire their 19-year-old niece Kathleen to help out with the household chores. All goes well until she falls in love and, much to the alarm of her uncles, contemplates marriage.
31. Kurishiki Incident
Air Date: 1958-05-12
A GI kills a boy that he thought was stealing government property and is court martialed and acquitted of the crime. The boy's sister and uncle confront him and he seeks to make amends.
32. A Funny-Looking Kid
Air Date: 1958-05-19
In an attempt to help his shy son Frank to become more popular at school, Harry Breen suggest to Frank that he do some writing. The plot backfires when the boy embarks on a crusade to remedy juvenile delinquency. His article, naming parents as the real delinquents, appears in the local newspaper and overnight Frank becomes a national celebrity.
33. The Enemy Within
Air Date: 1958-05-26
An Air Force crew prepares for a rugged 2-week survival course and everyone is worried.
34. Ticket to Tahiti
Air Date: 1958-06-02
A widower's dreams of escaping his job and family with a trip to the South Seas fall through when his spoiled irresponsible son asks him for a large sum of money.
35. The Strong Man
Air Date: 1958-06-09
Ben Royce prides himself on being a self-made man who has become the most powerful cattle baron in the West. He rules his family and his ranch with an iron hand, and there are many clashes between him and his foreman Jace Farrow. After a particularly bitter quarrel, Jace tells Royce that he is quitting to go into the cattle business on his own. Believing that Jace will fail on his own, Royce makes no attempt to stop him. As Jace prepares to leave, he asks Marcy Royce, Ben's daughter to go with him.
36. The Left-Handed Welcome
Air Date: 1958-06-16
Buck Slater, youthful singing sensation, makes a return visit to his small home town in he south, accompanied by a woman magazine writer named Shirley. Shirley wants to write the real Story of Buck as he was before he left for the big-time. Buck has a score to settle with the town and when a youngster is accused of a series of thefts, Buck offers to take the boy under his wing.
37. The Man Who Asked for a Funeral
Air Date: 1958-06-23
Leo is a hard-working young man who owns and operates a wholesale produce firm, and is very much in love with his pretty young wife Annabelle. He doesn't know that Annabelle has been seeing a clerk who works for him. The clerk, Frankie, plans to murder Leo and implicate Annabelle.
38. The Undiscovered
Air Date: 1958-06-30
A medical researcher feels that he has made an important discovery.
39. Man Under Glass
Air Date: 1958-07-14
Tension inside the television director's control booth mounts to a breaking point when the television drama spills over into life and death reality.
40. A Delicate Affair
Air Date: 1958-07-28
An insurance company tries to marry off a girl within a week. Failure means the girl gets one million dollars.
41. The Last Summer
Air Date: 1958-08-04
A country boy is taken in by a scheming rich girl who is spending her vacation in the country.
42. Tag-Along
Air Date: 1958-08-11
Little Juan and his parents have moved to a new town to escape the prejudice they encountered as Mexicans. But things go badly in the new town too, reaching a climax when Juan and two teenage friends of his disappear while visiting a canyon outside town.
43. Birthday Present
Air Date: 1958-08-18
A young British businessman, attempting to smuggle a watch he purchased as a gift for his wife into the country, is arrested by customs officials and sent to prison.
44. Bellingham
Air Date: 1958-08-25
You wouldn't suspect that Bellingham is anything but what he appears to be, a conscientious and sensitive master in an English boys' school. Actually he also leads another life entirely. He hates evil political leaders, and belongs to a group determined to eliminate them by assassination.
45. The Lady Died at Midnight
Air Date: 1958-09-01
A convicted murderer vows that he will break out of prison and revenge himself on the people responsible for his capture. When he does escape, the police post a cordon around the home of his former girlfriend, who has married. But, despite their precautions, the girl is killed. A reporter learns that the dead girl's husband and the police chief have also been threatened.
46. No Place to Run
Air Date: 1958-09-15
The son of a prominent businessman is arrested for stealing a car. His father goes to great lengths to keep the matter private and out of the headlines. A reporter snaps their photo as they're leaving the courthouse, resulting in unwanted publicity. This is when the father starts getting blackmail threats.
47. Image of Fear
Air Date: 1958-09-29
After 20 years in exile in the United States, a royal family has hope that the monarchy will be able to return to power. But intrigue arises as someone tries to kill the queen. The prime suspect is her son, Prince Anthony, who was told that he must give up his wife if he returns to the throne.
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Rating
4.7/10
Release Date
1948-11-07
Episodes
466 (10 seasons)
Status
Ended