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The Polish-American father of three daughters takes great pride in entering the annual polka contest each year with one of the girls. Last year, when his oldest daughter married, the second daughter Theckla danced and won the contest with Papa. But this year Theckla is in love, and she refuses to put on the old-country costume and dance.
After confessing to the police his role in a narcotics gang, Joe flees from the wrath of the mob. He finally comes to a small town where he is convinced the gang will never find him. But after checking into the town's one hotel, he receives a phone call from the gang and realizes there is no hiding place. Joe goes to an all-night diner in an attempt to keep watch for the killers.
A beautiful woman, staying at an inn, plots the murder of the wife of the man she is in love with. A young girl, also a guest, learns of her plan, but is so fascinated with the older woman that she keeps the deadly secret.
This episode presented the following three plays by Tennessee Williams: ""This Property Is Condemned"" (with Zina Bethune as Willie and Martin Huston as Tom); ""The Last of My Solid Gold Watches"" (with Alonzo Bozan, Thomas Chalmers, and Gene Saks); and ""Moony's Kid Don't Cry"" (with Ben Gazzara and Lee Grant).
An obscure lawyer William Stark becomes governor of a Southern state and hires a newspaperman Jack Burden to protect him against his political enemies.
Governor Stark decides to run for the U.S. Senate. His secretary Sadie Burke and Jack Burden advise him against the move, but Stark refuses to listen.
Tracing the killer of Annie Boone, two detectives question her family and acquaintances in an attempt to learn what kind of person the victim was. They are given drastically conflicting descriptions of Annie. Her mother calls her dumb, her husband says she was brilliant. One man describes her as wild and tempestuous, another as shy and retiring.
A widow who repeatedly phones the police to complain is later found murdered.
A tough hardworking police officer, passed over for promotion, is assigned to a homicide case by his newly appointed superior. Though cautioned against using brutal methods, the officer shakes off his partner on the case and pays a visit to the suspect alone.
An ambitious politician who wants to run for Governor, is determined that nothing shall stand in the way of his nomination. When his wife says she's going to leave him, he warns her that she had better stay at his side until after the political campaign. Arriving home for dinner one evening, he finds his wife struggling with an intruder and he himself is struck on the head. When he regains consciousness, his wife has been murdered.
A lawyer defends a man who admits to writing ransom notes but denies charges of kidnapping and murder.
