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An elderly couple tie the knot.
Two law enforcement officers and a dangerous young outlaw fight their way back against a common enemy to civilization and surprising justice.
A single father of three attempts to raise his children and decides to hire a mother for them.
British novelist Hilary Joyce comes to America to promote his book and encounters a beautiful woman who changes his beliefs in living.
A gambler who suffers a head injury is nursed back to health by non-traditional methods and the head doctor is not thrilled by it.
A husband suspects that his wife is plotting his murder.
How a young refugee learns about American patriotism from a bandit.
Story of a Dutch clockmaker whose nagging wife drives him to dream up tall tales about wealth and escape.
A drug so powerful is developed by a scientist can be bring peace or destroy the world.
A rejected boyfriend is 'all wet' in his plan to regain the attention of his lady love. The event had been engineered by a smooth-talking so-called pal.
A Mexican family one brother is murdered and the gems from his house are stolen. His brother comes to investigate the murder and theft. He gets to the most influential woman and there he finds the answer.
A film actress needs a glamourous personal life to go along with her stardom. She leaves it to a press agent to invent one for her.
A man has constant trouble when his wife wants a new car and then a new house.
Story of a recovering man in a mental hospital realizes he witnessed a murder in London.
The story of a young wife who decides to help her husband better his career and so she invites his boss to dinner.
Story about a young man acquitted of complicity in the death of a police lieutenant's wife.
A comedy about a romance writer who doesn't believe in the love stories.
Angie is out to put the marraige halter on boyfriend Joe, but Joe has dreams of adventure.
An artist's relationship with his model from differing, sometimes disturbing psychological perspectives.
A Wall Street maverick is sent south for health reasons and encounters a man who is his exact double.
A woman's curiosity uncovers a neatly executed murder.
A member of a comedy vaudeville team invests in the stock market.
A child's face helps to restore a disabled vet's self-confidence.
A man thinks his nutty aunt has killed someone.
A timid young man is forced to follow his father's footsteps as the "shootin' sheriff"
Story of a widowed actress who formerly teamed with her husband in all her performances. Finding it hard to get a solo acting job, she becomes a cosmetic saleswoman and tries to succeed at that.
A mother loses her husband and her sons and withdraws into herself, even shutting out her daughter.
A mother's fanatical attachment to her grown son causes a rift in his marriage, forcing his wife to take desperate measures to gain the approval of her husband and herself.
The story of a Hollywood couple on their way to Nevada for a divorce.
The story concerns a mother of a young college professor and her dreams for his future. Mrs. MacDowell makes daydream plans for her son in the belief that pretending will make them so.
Adapted from Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll House" An abusive husband gives his wife no choice but to retreat from her world of pain and degradation.
After the death of his son and his wife's abandonment, Hanly ventures forth on an ill-fated expedition to the Amazon jungle.
Adapted from the 1940 film scenario Fifty years after inventing the light bulb, Edison retells his story beginning with his arrival to New York at age 22.
Joan Crawford stars in "The Road to Edinburgh." An American newspaper- woman is driving to Edinburgh in order to cover a story. Her car breaks down and a man offers her some help. In return she gives him a lift but soon begins to regret her offer.
Played out on a stylized, dramatically lit set, I am a fool is a classic story of a heartsick and foolish farm boy who takes on a false identity to impress a beautiful girl and in so doing loses the love of his life forever.
A comedy about a man whose face no one could remember.
A news reporter looking for a big story, gets more then he bargains for when he loses his identity and is placed in a mental institution.
A thug holds a doctor and his wife hostage in their home.
Adapted from the Paul Vincent Carroll play.
Adapted from the Margaret Wade Campbell Deland story.
During the Irish rebellion of 1922, an Irish patriot turns informer to save his life from a military firing squad.
Johnny Pulaski going to New York to audition for a record company. Johnnie comes off well as an actor, and even slips a song or two into the story.
Story about boxer Jim Corbett's coming back to Earth to face co-star Joe Louis in the ring.
Based on Irving Stone's novel of the same name. When Lincoln and Mary Todd were married, he had the phrase, "Love is Eternal" inscribed in her wedding band. Though years of loneliness and disappointment seem to disprove this sentiment, the historic pair finally realize its truth.
When Lincoln and Mary Todd were married, he had the phrase, "Love is Eternal", inscribed in her wedding band. Though years of loneliness and disappointment seem to disprove this sentiment, the historic pair finally realize its truth.
A struggling photographer runs over a dog while driving near the home of an actress. Little does he know that this insignificant auto accident will lead to his involvement in murder.
A comedy-western version of Leo Tolstoy's War And Peace A film producer of B-movie Westerns has to hire a big-name actor's relative who is extremely incompetent for the chosen epic film.
A struggling photographer runs over a dog while driving near the home of an actress. Little does he know that this insignificant auto accident will lead to his involvement in murder.
Adapted from the Emmett Kelly autobiography An autobiographical story of the legendary circus clown Emmett Kelly. It begins in the 1930's when Kelly was performing a trapeze act.
A traveling lecturer wants to retire and spend more time with her son.
Adaptation of a short story by Bryan MacMahon Embittered by his wife's death during the birth of their eighth child, an Irishman refuses to set eyes on the girl and acknowledges only seven children.
Adapted from the Theodore Francis Powys story A down & out rancher has a plan to bring water to the farmers of a dry region of land in the old west. But he has to raise $500.00 to purchase a windmill & equipment to build the irrigation system. After the bank turns his loan down, he enters a 6 shooter contest in town. To win he will have to reveal a deadly secret from his past and loose his family. However, if he doesn’t win, he risks loosing his land & his family both.
Embittered by his wife's death during the birth of their eighth child, an Irishman refuses to set eyes on the girl and acknowledges only seven children.
The vacation plans of a young couple are suddenly altered by a fugitive gunman. After hiding in their car, he forces them to take him to his pal's hideout.
A ruthless film director bides his time and waits for his moment of victory, when he can pay back the movie star who once spurned him.
What better place for romance than in a classroom, especially a French class? That's the reasoning of a lonely boy and a lonely girl who enroll in a French class with hopes of learning anything but the language.
Pio, a bartender in Capri, has dreamed all his life of going to America. He asks two American tourists to help him find a way to make his dream come true.
One-time film star plans her anniversary to be as romantic as her honeymoon.
Pio, a bartender in Capri, has dreamed all his life of going to America. He asks two American tourists to help him find a way to make his dream come true.
A stagecoach driver and cavalry officer vie for the affections of a young lady traveling west with them.
The embittered son of a strict Army colonel in Germany shelters a deserter.
While on duty on a lonely beach, a sailor meets a beautiful girl. It's love at first sight, but he learns that the girl is blind, and pledged to marry another if her vision is restored.
Adapted from a Budd Schulberg short story A promising and intelligent youth has great success in the ring. His mother wants him to continue his education, his father and his manager want him to become a fighter.
A plainclothesman idolizes his fiancee's father. But he finds out that the older man, a captain of detectives, has become involved with a crooked gang. The plainclothesman has lost an idol. Duty must be done.
adapted from the Bret Harte story. Orphaned Prosper sets out from his mining camp for San Francisco. He's looking for a mother to bring back to the camp. And he finds one, a kindly old eccentric who drinks medicine liberally flavored with 'hootch.'
A manager and his big time singing protegee have been engaged a long time. But he's too busy booking her to take time off for marriage. Finally, the strain of overwork becomes too much for the songstress.
Based on a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. A scarecrow is brought magicially to life.
A man is torn between his conscience and loyalty when a friend shoots an Indian in the back. Even the Indian had been an idol of his son’s, the man at first refuses to aid local townspeople in the arrest of the murderer.
A writer stops at a sleepy southern town intending to debunk a legend concerning a confederate soldier leaving a local girl for the battlefields, never to return. He soon realizes that he and a girl he's fallen in love with are descendants of those people.
A retelling of the Nativity story from the viewpoint of the innkeeper's wife.
Set in 1882 Paris, a young girl gets her big break for the Paris Ballet after much sacrifice from her mother.
A carpenter returns to his village discouraged by his lack of success and respect.
A mysteriously familiar stranger sees fit to practice a bit of magic on a lazy, selfish Ozark hillbilly.
Adapted from the James B. Gidney 1948 story. Mr. Parkinson's life has followed a familiar pattern up to now. He commutes to his brokerage job during the week and plays golf on weekends and seems to be a happy, ordinary chap. The big change comes when the fact that he is secretly a poet is brought to light.
A young man becomes infatuated with the older Countess and the Countess falls for the young man unaware that the young man plans to wed his childhood sweetheart.
A piano tuner smitten with love gets inadvertently involved with gangsters, stolen jewels and trouble with a bevy of beauties.
Police detective Dan "Irish" Murphy has a more than professional interest in finding the murderer of a door-to-door salesman. The man is found stabbed in Murphy's home, with Mrs. Murphy lying unconscious nearby.
From the Sinclair Lewis story. Former Senator Ryder is in his 90's now. Oblivious to the passing of the years, Ryder's mind dwells only on his days of glory. Ryder does have one priceless treasure, a letter written to him by Queen Victoria. Word of its existence reaches Walter Shelley, an ambitious young history scholar. and Shelley determines to get access to the letter.
The story of scientist Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the man who "made" lightning.He did research for General Electric and then went on to become a professor of Union College in Schenectady.
An embittered spinster lives on her brother's ranch in Mexico. She becomes attracted to a young ranch hand, and when he doesn't return her affection she decides to get revenge.
Based on a play by George Kelly. A successful actress is torn between the desire to marry and settle down, and the urge to continue her career on the stage. Her producer is against her plans to leave the stage, for a number of reasons.
A family endure a difficult time and come together during Easter.
Concert Pianist Leonard Pennario performs "Bolero" Judy sings with Nelson Riddle and his orchestra.
Adapted from the Melville Davison Post story.
An Amish girl decides to find adventure in a big city before getting married.
A schoolteacher fails one of her students and tries to show her student compassion and understanding.
Adapted from the Ernest William Horning 'Crime Doctor's Story'. An aged railroad man breaks free of the doldrums of retirement with the help of a young boy's friendship.
Based On A Story By John Ehle. A frantic mother tries desperately to find her husband to inform him that their little girl has been hospitalized in severe shock after being hit by a car, and is asking for him.
A movie director has a grudge against an actor and makes life very hard on everyone.
Ann Harding plays Julia Courtney, a retired actress who becomes involved in a murder.Julia lives in a theatrical boarding house, and when one of the residents is murdered, all of the residents are under suspicion. The chief suspect is a young friend of Julia's, played by Vera Miles.
Adapted from the Liam O'Flaherty story. Ralph and Laura Whitemore have suffered many financial disappointments in their life together. But after all those "big deals" that fell through, at last a "sure thing" comes along, and they wait for the phone call that will bring their "pot of gold."
Yankees take over the Southern home of a young girl and her sick mother who are caring for an injured Confederate deserter.
After her baby dies in childbirth, Alice Kellen retreats into a world of her own. As she sinks deeper into fantasy, her husband tries a desperate measure to snap her back to reality.
A stranger enters a tavern to take shelter from the storm, the year is 1829, and finds the Inn crowded with townspeople, all celebrating tomorrow's hanging. He also finds an old friend from the war of 1812, and the two men have a drink. But they are the only ones not celebrating the coming execution.
A cancer therapist defends himself against a charge of fraud made by a newspaperwoman and a doctor.
Adapted from the Lula Vollmer 1939 Saturday Evening Post story. A young mountain girl marries a widower with four children and goes to live in his rustic cabin. Not only does she find the unfamiliar routine hard, but she must face the task of winning over the frightened youngsters.
Authoress Emily Marsden secludes herself in a small village after quarreling with her husband. There she learns quite a lot about her own difficulties by trying to help someone else.
A young homicide suspect who has escaped from the police, seeks refuge with Graham, an intellectual cynic. For reasons of his own, Graham decides to harbor the youngster.
A retelling of the Nativity story from the point of view of the Innkeeper's wife, her husband and their servants.
A teenager meets with a violent awakening to maturity. Evvy, who lives with her parents in New Mexico, has met few boys. Suddenly she finds herself in a situation which is both confusing and frightening when Ray Poole, the town bully, becomes interested in her.
Lydia Shaw, wife of a successful lawyer, is being blackmailed by a man who has some love letters she wrote before her marriage. Afraid to let her husband find out about the romance, Lydia agrees to pay off her former sweetheart.
Two brothers, one a doctor the other a fast-draw Sheriff, live in conflict with each other in a town that is run by a ruthless saloon owner.
An ex-boxer now trainer feels his over confident young fighter is winding up for a big fall.
Wandering cowboy Britt Ponset finds himself caught in the middle of a dispute between mine owner "Silver Annie" Huxley, the leaders of Virtue City, and the railroad, which wants to builds tracks across her property.
During World War 2, a ship's captain picked up the survivors of a torpedoed ship. Among those rescued were a pretty Eurasian girl and a sinister-appearing man.
A man about to retire from his job at a department story after years of service falls for a pretty blonde. He plots to make off with $50,000 from the store's safe, only to be discovered by his boss. Instead of reporting him, the boss tries to blackmail him into stealing an even larger amount of money.
A woman accountant who aspires to be a novelist is embittered by the number of rejection slips she receives. She decides to get vengeance on one publisher who holds her beloved novel up to ridicule. Ironically her book concerns an author who shoots a publisher when he rejects her novel.
Todays theme is The Victorian Chaise Longue.
A man tries to live down his reputation as a gunman by taking a job as a ranch hand. When he is forced to shoot a man in defense of another, an unusual sequence of events results.
A female taxicab driver finds a dead man in the back seat of her cab, and a persistent suitor in the person of the detective who investigates the case.
An Army nurse resorts to a cruel ruse in an attempt to rouse a young sergeant from complete apathy and possible death. But at the same time she arouses in him a deep hatred for her.
After he has invested in a publishing firm, a Broadway star is shocked to learn that it prints unsavory literature. He becomes involved in an argument with the publisher, and strikes the man. Convinced he is guilty of murder, the star does not know what to do. Should he confess and bring scandal upon himself and his family, or should he run away?
A cavalry captain and his small band are out-numbered by the surrounding Comanche Indians. The captain is faced with a difficult decision when the company surgeon offers to tend the fatally wounded son of the attacking chief. To let the surgeon go would mean his certain death - but safety for the rest.
George Hogan, undefeated middleweight champion of the world, retires from the ring. But new champion Eddie Seaboard wants him to force him out of retirement and taunts him in front of his young son. When Hogan refuses to fight, the youngster loses faith in his father.
Gunfighter Buchanan Smith's job is to get rid of a gang of outlaws.
Professor Arthur Barris is unsympathetic when Jack Evans, an Army veteran and a father, falls behind in his grades. Barris refuses to allow for Evans' adjustment from Army to college life. But Jack's mother, with womanly charm, intervenes.
After killing a man in a drunken brawl, wagonmaker Joe Turner swears that he will never drink again. Joe and his wife settle in a small town hoping to start a new life. But the vicious town boss starts a campaign to drive the Turners out of town.
J. Willingham Bardley is a staid and refined businessman with an eye on the presidency of his firm, until he is shaken by the arrival of a mischievous imp.
Adapted from the Christopher La Farge story. Katherine Belmont, a tyrannical society woman, casually meets Dr. Mark Andrews. He believes her caustic attitude is caused by a fear that she is losing her sight, and persuades her to undergo a cornea-transplant operation.
Based on Charles Dickens story, "A Christmas Carol." A boy is disillusioned by Christmas and runs away from home. He meets a man who narrates "A Christmas Carol", by Charles Dickens, but sets the story in the Old West.
Adapted from the Sholem Asch story.
Eight-year-old Frankie Morgan is terrified when his father collapses at the controls of the private plane he was piloting. Since there is no one else aboard, the little boy attempts desperately to maneuver the plane. A dispatcher at an airport intercepts the youngster's distress signal and tries to instruct the boy in landing the aircraft.
A happily married couple is separated when the husband is called to Cairo on a business trip. His letters to his wife tell her constantly of his devotion and she lives for his return. But the man is killed in a plane crash, and the wife, overcome with grief, turns her affairs over to her attorney. The attorney learns a startling fact about the husband's letters.
On the eve of an election, a frontier sheriff discovers that he is losing his hearing. Hoping that the lawless faction of the town will not learn of his affliction, he continues to campaign for office.
Adapted from the Jerome Weidman story. A woman is trying to nurse her desperately ill husband back to health, and finds herself faced with a powerful temptation when an author-friend of theirs comes to visit. Long in love with her, the author offers her a life of ease and luxury, something she knows she can never find with her husband.
Todays theme is Incident.
Edith Miller is convinced that she has seen an ancient limousine-taxi and its driver. She decides to go to a psychiatrist for help when she also becomes convinced that people of another era are connected with the car.
Second and concluding part. In last week's episode Edith Miller sought the help of a psychiatrist when she became convinced that she had seen an ancient limousine-taxi and its driver. In part two the psychiatrist convinces Edith that she must ride in the ancient vehicle. He feels that this is the only way to cure her of her hallucination.
Adapted from the R.E. Connell story.
A roving peddler becomes stranded in a rural community in the deep South. Attempting to make some money, he approaches a shack in the backwoods, convinced he can sell something to the tenants. Appalled by the pitiable existence of the family he meets, he finds himself performing the first unselfish deed of his life.
Returning home from work early on evening, a husband surprises his wife with another man. The husband demands a divorce and the two men fight. During the struggle the husband is killed and the wife and her friend try to establish an alibi.
A man is found clinging to a piece of driftwood off the New England coast. He is taken in by a farmer to help with the harvest, but he knows nothing of farm work and is terrified by the tractor.
An alcoholic reaches the bottom one night. Six weeks later, he is recovering and begins helping other alcoholics who believe they have nowhere to turn.
Todays theme is The Cold Touch.
When her daughter marries and goes to England, a widow decides that the time has come to set her life straight. She returns to the town where she lived when she was young and confesses to the murder of her husband, who had died there years before.
Stella Rutledge, traveling to the new frontier of the West, accepts temporary lodging with the Gaines family when the stagecoach breaks down. Noting the isolated family's hunger for news she entertains the two youngsters with tales about her former home, a Southern plantation, and discovers the girl plans to run away from home.
Benedict Arnold Brummel admits that he is a humorless stuffed shirt. But his routine life as a junior executive is suddenly changed one morning when it is announced in a New York gossip column that he is romancing the glamorous movie star Roselle King.
Adam Tenney is on the road to Virginia to deliver a wagonload of flour when he loses his town's income from the flour in a poker game.
The story of a young sailor who sees a pretty teenager struck by an older man in a railroad station. He restrains the man and the girl flees. Later he overtakes the girl and learns that the man is her foster father and she has run away because of his cruelty to her.
A meek plumber named Neal Andrews encounters some unusual developments when he receives an emergency call late one night. First he is instructed to wear a suit instead of his work clothes. The he is greeted by a pair of suspicious looking men who put his plumbing tools in a suitcase and insist that he register at their hotel.
Robert "Spider" Johnson is stationed in Germany in 1951, where he is "adopted" as a father by an orphaned boy. Spider is a taciturn man, preferring to remain alone to hide the pain of his own orphaned youth. When he encounters an abandoned boy nicknamed Joe Louis, however, Spider feels an emotional bond with the child. He becomes unnerved though, when the boy mistakenly believes that the soldier is his father. Spider leaves town, denying that he has become attached to the orphan. But when Joe hides in the back of Spider's jeep, the soldier must confront his paternal ...
Based on a story from Guy de Maupassant
Sam is thought of as the local hero. Mary left him when his football career hit the skids and his drinking became too much. He disappeared from town. He's really selling cars in LA, but he acts as if he's doing great, with all sorts of offers. He's been reluctant to come back, because since Mary inherited a bank, he doesn't think she'll want to see him again. He comes back because they purchased this rare Picasso for a song on their honeymoon and he needs cash.
Todays theme is At Miss Minner's.
Caradoc Williams is serving a jail term for a jewel theft. But Williams insists that he is innocent and was framed by his former fiancee and a man he worked with. Embittered by his imprisonment, Williams spends all his waking moments plotting revenge.
The small one-ring circus run by Anthony Mullins begins to prosper when Angeli, a handsome trapeze artist, joins the troupe. But Mullins realizes that this lovely fiancee, Sue Ellen, has become fascinated by the handsome Angeli.
A champion rodeo rider, though getting older, refuses to retire to a ranch house, even though his fiancée begs him to. After another rider and friend of them both is killed during a show, she gives him a choice, quit and marry her or she'll leave him.
Adapted from the Manuel Komroff story.
Paul Ashcroft a suave ne'er-do-well, is traveling through the French Riviera equipped with a bicycle and a kit for disguises. He gains entrance to a vacant mansion and passing himself off as one M. Durobat, proceeds to work his charm on local gambling devotees.
adapted from the Liam O'Flaherty story.
In this musical comedy set in the 1870s, Silas Haley wants his daughter to marry a city slicker. Matilda, however, has her eyes on a good looking trapper.
Based on the Alphonse Daudet story.
A ransom is demanded for a baby elephant missing from a hotel room.
Clete Weber, a young lawman for the railroad is married to Effie, the spoiled daughter of railroad Superintendent Bucknell, who does not particularly like his son-in-law, Clete's troubles are further complicated by his association with a childhood chum, Billy, who constantly refers disparagingly to Clete's marriage. When Billy draws four months pay to go to San Francisco, he gives the money to Clete to keep for him. Effie finds the money and spends it without telling her husband, causing Billy, in a fit of anger, to rob the Express office.
From a story by Philip MacDonald Setting out on his vacation, newspaper reporter Mike Hackett comes across an auto accident. The injured driver of the car is a well-known Hungarian scientist. His unharmed passenger, a young lady hitchhiker, blames the accident on the scientist.
The last appearance together of the three brothers on TV. If you watch the show you'll see a familiar face equipped with mustache and leer. Because of his contract terms, his name can't be mentioned, but he is not Jerry Colonna.
It is the year 1880, and Elizabeth a lovely miss from the East, is preparing to journey West to marry her fiance. Elizabeth's mother cautions her about the Wild West, but the young girl assures her that the pioneer country has been tamed.
Martha Allen's husband and teenage offspring seem to be taking her for granted. To win recognition, she decides to learn how to fly an airplane.
Adapted by George Bernard Shaw. While the Roman legions of conqueror Julius Caesar prepare to enter the Egyptian kingdom of Cleopatra, the terrified young queen is fleeing from the Roman barbarians she has heard about.
Based on Henry Ibsen's "A Doll's House" District Judge Wayne Douglas has plotted an unswerving course in his drive to win the post of district attorney. Nora, his wife, finds that she is unable to share his attitude.
Todays theme is Nobody's Child.
Adapted from the Katharine Brush story. A flock of TV actresses have roles in "Night Club". Mrs. Brady, powder room attendant in a large night club, has become a cynic. This is the result of years of watching and listening to the female patrons of the club.
In Korea, a Marine lieutenant is unpopular because he insists on adhering to the book even in the most crucial combat situations.
Miss Winoah Kelsey lives alone in her large Southern mansion. One night during a violent flood, a young man enters a second-story window of her home.He kills her dog and threatens her.
A man is considering running for national office and to clinch the deal his wife throws a party with a powerful Washington lawmaker in attendance.
Adapted from the Paul Horgan story.
The United States information officer in a small village in Southeast Asia has little faith in the fight against communism. His attitude provokes a conflict with Emily Skinner, the dedicated librarian.
Based on Crockett Johnson's comic strip "Barnaby." Six-year-old Barnaby Baxter longs to go hunting with his father. He wishes on a star for a fairy godmother who can make his dream come true and is answered by a cigar-smoking, pink-winged fairy godfather named O'Malley.
Stan Mayor is a well-known movie comic whose face fits his talents as a clown. When his girl friend refuses to take him seriously and expresses admiration for handsome men, Stan decides to make a drastic change.
A tailor is suffering through the depression has a dream to become a committeeman but being an Italian-American he feels his chances are slight.
Small-time comic Eddie Miller hears that a big producer is looking for an unknown comedian to star in his new Broadway review. Eddie begs his agent to get him an audition.
The product of a small Alabama town, mild-mannered Jacob Johnson is an ideal target for the practical jokesters in his Army platoon. Offered a transfer to another platoon, Johnson refuses, convinced that his fellow soldiers is really a form of affection.
Todays theme is The Story of Judith.
A small town girl who comes to New York to forget a recent tragedy, only to have her own life threatened by a masked stranger.
Adaptation from Groucho Marx's novel "Not as a Crocodile." Arthur Martin makes his living at home, writing articles for a monthly magazine. But working at home has its disadvantages: the family hardly ever leaves him at peace.
Dan Duryea stars as a newspaper columnist after "the story behind the story" in "Mystery at Malibu” a story of tragedy which plagues a multi-million dollar enterprise run by a woman. When the head of Simes Steel Company commits suicide immediately after his company is absorbed by the Lemaire Enterprises, newspaper columnist Barnaby Hooke is spurred into finding out more information about Olga Lemaire. Only a few years earlier her husband, the original owner of Lemaire Enterprises, had died in an accident and shortly after that their son, Reggie, had disappeared.
A new preacher comes to town and is not quite up to the challenges that lie ahead of him.
Adapted, in a modern variation, from the Hans Christian Andersen story.
Jonathan Love, TV news cameraman, is in Acapulco, Mexico, covering the mysterious torpedoing of a freighter. Not far behind is his inevitable competition - Hank Wahr, cameraman for a rival TV news service.
Steve Allen played a bank executive who woke up one morning to find all his actions governed by what his neighbors -and boss thought. In a burst of independence, he decided to paint his house barn red, and when his neighbors objected, he blew his cork and painted it red, white and blue. That raised the roof, and the neighborhood called a meeting to decide whether to sue him for creating a public nuisance. Allen didn't like the colors anyway, and was ready to give in and repaint, but not until he could make his point about conformity before the meeting. This he did so well, everybody congratulated him as a courageous, forward-thinking individualist and urged him to keep the house just the way it was. He started to do this until, with a jolt, he realized he'd fallen into the trap of conformity again, and if he didn’t like the house the way it was, he was darn well gonna change it.
From a story by William Faulkner.
Based on a story by Jessamyn West. Tom Parkes is still attached to the memory of his first wife. Jo, his new wife, vows to win his complete affection.
Harness racing driver Al Roberts fights viciously to bring in the big money. And at home he has no patience with his son Joey and pushes the boy around.
Adapted from the Henry Van Dyke story. A wealthy Persian nobleman, Artaban, sells all his earthly goods for three gems: a ruby, a sapphire and a pearl.
From a story by Ira Levin. A couple of city workmen lift a manhole cover and out climbs an elegantly dressed gentleman. He thanks them for their aid, then continues down the block and up the walk of the Willoughby home. To Mrs. Willoughby, the nattily dressed gentleman introduces himself as Nick Lucifer, alias Beelzebub, the Prince of Darkness.
Todays theme is A Little White Lye.
Todays theme is A Possibility of Oi
adapted from the P.G. Wodehouse story. New York Detective Joe McQueen would like to know how to get Grover Healy, his freeloading brother-in-law, out of his house. But it isn't until smalltime hoodlum Willy Zucks shows up at McQueen's home that Grover considers leaving.
from a story by John Collier. A shady operator named Pegosi tries to get a gullible actress, Leslie Blaine, to buy a miniature live elephant for a publicity stunt (cash before delivery naturally). A magician named Trapollini overhears the offer and tells Pegosi he'd like one too. Pegosi realizes he many have to produce the pachyderm.
A special showing of the Albert Lamorisse 1956 French film featuring Lamorisse's son Pascal. TIME magazine:"The Red Balloon, one of the greatest short motion pictures ever made. "
Connie Marlowe is responsible for orphaned younger brother Buzz. He hopes to win some money in a father-son bowling match, so he asks Connie to get a stand-in father for him.
Comic Sid Benton takes a hard-boiled, cynical view of life in his nightclub act - and finds that it pays off. But he runs this attitude over into his private life, and loses his wife's affections. His agent, long-suffering Ernie Kauffman, tries to reconcile the pair.
Judge Cyrus Dunn is determined to get away for a holiday fishing trip. At the last moment, however, his wife Betsy insists that the gardener's salary must be paid. This leaves the judge with no ready cash for his trip.
A prizewinning French film is shown. The story, which is without dialog, is about a boy who finds a red balloon. But instead of floating about like any normal balloon, this one follows the boy wherever he goes.
It's a Cold War tale, where two Soviets are in an occupied Eastern European country, one is the womanizing martinet who gets himself murdered and the other is the sympathetic Russian.
In the pioneering days of the 1760's in frontier Pennsylvania, a spirited Amish woman takes matters into her own hands when her husband-to-be refuses to bear arms against the Indians threatening the community.
In 1760, the peace loving people of an Amish settlement learn of an imminent attack by Indians. They prepare to evacuate their village rather than bear arms.
An office worker named Alma can't get her bookkeeper boyfriend Stanley to pop the question. His excuse: no nest egg.Her solution: make a killing at the races - with money from the office petty cash box.
Based on the story by George Milburn. Ellie Beckett is a young mountain girl who prefers whittlin' to socializin' until Grandpaw shows her all them purty clothes in the mail-order catalog. Soon Ellie figures on buyin' some of that finery with the prize money she might win for her woodcarving at the county fair.
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Madeline, the daughter of famed actress Lili Parrish, is on trial for murder. Lili, the key witness, is determined to make her testimony the most believable performance of her career.
Newlyweds Paul and Carol Madsen have scarcely settled in their new apartment when the phone begins ringing. The caller isa psychotic crank who drives Carol to near hysteria.
The late Glorietta Dwight, a wealthy recluse, felt that her last years had been made happier by the guidance of Reverend Theodore Carlisle, and she named him as the major beneficiary of her will.
George Harris, a successful businessman, is awakened in the middle of the night by a phone call from the police. His teen-age boy Sonny is being held for grand larceny.
The exploits of Robert Hale, a US Treasury Department agent. Hale recruits a civilian locksmith named Johnny Henderson to help retrieve stolen currency plates.
A lonely boy learns his beloved playmate Tippy-Top is imaginary.
The gridiron feats of Bud Austin are still talked about in his home town, but Bud's infant son will never grow up to follow in his father's footsteps. Tests have shown that the year-old baby is mentally ill.
The gridiron feats of Bud Austin are still talked about in his home town, but Bud's infant son will never grow up to follow in his father's footsteps. Tests have shown that the year-old baby is mentally retarded.
Teenagers Margie Graham and Fred Judson want to get married and they ask their parents for permission and for financial help.
Todays theme is Go Fight City Hall.
A high school basketball coach is concerned when his star player skips practice to study for an exam.
A basketball coach at Haynes High School is concerned when one of his students, the best hoop star skips practice to study for his exam.
Howard Douglas, an official of the Boy Scouts of America, is driving through a deserted section of the city when he notices a body lying in the street. Stopping to investigate, he finds himself surrounded by a gang of teenagers armed with zip guns and switchblades.
Max Grossblatt, an elderly Chicago tailor, dreams of being able to visit his son Larry in California. But on a tailor's salary, all that Max can afford is dreams
Max Grossblatt, an elderly Chicago tailor, dreams of being able to visit his son Larry in California. But on a tailor's salary, all that Max can afford is dreams.
Successful, attractive society-reporter Alice Lockman wouldn't mind being married. But the available eligible bachelors really don't measure up to Alice's standards - or her mother's either.
Story based on Marion Miller's autobiography "I WAS A SPY." Hazel Valance asks housewife Marion Miller to attend a meeting of the Alien Protection Committee- Hazel is upset because the government plans to deport a friend. After the meeting, the FBI agent Bill Edwards informs Marion that the Committee is suspected of being a Communist front organization and asks her to join as a spy.
story based on Marion Miller's autobiography "I WAS A SPY." After Marion testifies before a Congressional committee concerning her years as an anti-communists spy, she looks forward to a peaceful life as a housewife. But it seems the Communists have other ideas.
Based on Agatha Christie's short story "The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim." The Belgian master detective solves another puzzling crime.
Orlovsky, a janitor in a Manhatten office building, goes upstairs to the Jewish Vocational Guidance Center for a talk with the director, Miriam Raskin. Orlovsky has come to ask the widow Raskin to be his wife.
Western comedy about a pharmacist and his son at the turn of the 20th century.
Based on a story by William Saroyan.
The Story of Ben, an engineering student works nights in a supermarket to support his family.
(unsold comedy pilot) The Story of Ben, an engineering student works nights in a supermarket to support his family.
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