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The Star and the Story

All Episodes 1955 - 1956

  • Ended
  • 1955-01-08T00:00:00Z
  • 30m
  • 19h 30m (39 episodes)
  • Drama
Each show features a different star or stars in this dramatic anthology produced by the successful team by Four Star Productions, there are many young actors and actresses that went onto bigger things.

39 episodes

Series Premiere

1955-01-08T00:00:00Z

1x01 Dark Stranger

Series Premiere

1x01 Dark Stranger

  • 1955-01-08T00:00:00Z30m

A writer's fiction becomes terrifying reality, sucking him into his own novel being played out. Ray Ericson writes of a lovely woman who leaves her steady boyfriend for a man out to kill her. Suddenly he realizes life is imitating art: he is in the killer role! How can the novelist prevent destroying the woman he's come to love?

1955-01-15T00:00:00Z

1x02 Honolulu

1x02 Honolulu

  • 1955-01-15T00:00:00Z30m

A ship's first mate is jealous of the captain because of his new bride. The 1st mate and captain's wife are native islanders who believe in voodoo. The bride is worried the 1st mate will harm her husband, but the captain is unconcerned.

1955-01-22T00:00:00Z

1x03 The Lie

1x03 The Lie

  • 1955-01-22T00:00:00Z30m

As a young girl, Laura's lie put a man in prison for twenty years, and now, years later, she wants to make up for it with the man she lied about, but he wants revenge.

1955-01-29T00:00:00Z

1x04 Ferry to Fox Island

1x04 Ferry to Fox Island

  • 1955-01-29T00:00:00Z30m

On the eve of her wedding, a waitress gives her life savings to her fiance to invest for their future. Not surprisingly, he vanishes without a trace. Except for one clue -- a time table for the Fox Island Ferry.

1955-02-05T00:00:00Z

1x05 Safe Journey

1x05 Safe Journey

  • 1955-02-05T00:00:00Z30m

A detective is escorting a convict on a train to testify in court. The two men are handcuffed to each other, the convict seems very calm, and the detective seems very nervous. Will this be a safe journey?

1955-02-15T00:00:00Z

1x06 Brief Affair

1x06 Brief Affair

  • 1955-02-15T00:00:00Z30m

A man's wife makes a deal for a divorce. If he doesn't see his mistress for three months, she will grant the divorce.

1955-02-19T00:00:00Z

1x07 Louise

1x07 Louise

  • 1955-02-19T00:00:00Z30m

A woman tries to destroy her daughter's romance by pretending to be an invalid.

1955-02-26T00:00:00Z

1x08 Total Recall

1x08 Total Recall

  • 1955-02-26T00:00:00Z30m

A couple vacationing in cabin in the wilderness encounter a madman bent on murder.

1955-05-05T00:00:00Z

1x09 The Back of Beyond

1x09 The Back of Beyond

  • 1955-05-05T00:00:00Z30m

A pompous official confronts his wife's infidelity.

Paddy Faneen is the town storyteller and McGinnis is his chief skeptic. Problem is, McGinnis' grandson Terry wants to marry Paddy's granddaughter Sheila and Paddy's latest yarn about a flying saucer is causing turmoil between the 2 clans.

1955-05-19T00:00:00Z

1x11 The Round Dozen

1x11 The Round Dozen

  • 1955-05-19T00:00:00Z30m

At a European resort, a writer encounters a seedy polygamist courting an unsuspecting girl.

1955-05-26T00:00:00Z

1x12 First Offense

1x12 First Offense

  • 1955-05-26T00:00:00Z30m

A man who has been in prison for a crime he didn't commit seeks out the rookie cop whose testimony sent him there.

1955-04-02T00:00:00Z

1x13 A Matter of Courage

1x13 A Matter of Courage

  • 1955-04-02T00:00:00Z30m

This entertaining anthology series was hosted by Henry Fonda during the Golden Era of TV. An American tourist is challenged to a duel by a Spanish swordsman after he innocently flirted with his wife.

1955-04-09T00:00:00Z

1x14 Her Crowning Glory

1x14 Her Crowning Glory

  • 1955-04-09T00:00:00Z30m

A young woman is trying to find a job in Chicago and is told she needs to learn short hand and wear a hat. She goes hat shopping but can't get excited about it because all she really wants is a husband.

1955-04-16T00:00:00Z

1x15 The Unforgivable

1x15 The Unforgivable

  • 1955-04-16T00:00:00Z30m

A man blames his wife's death on his soon to be son-in-law.

1955-04-23T00:00:00Z

1x16 The Lady's Game

1x16 The Lady's Game

  • 1955-04-23T00:00:00Z30m

A retired gentleman has been forbidden by his wife from going to the casino. He sneaks out anyway and wins 2 million francs. A young vixen observes his winnings and demands the 2 mil as blackmail.

1955-04-30T00:00:00Z

1x17 Virtue

1x17 Virtue

  • 1955-04-30T00:00:00Z30m

A married woman, afraid of growing old, plans to leave her husband when she is romanced by a much younger man.

1955-05-14T00:00:00Z

1x18 Hand to Hand

1x18 Hand to Hand

  • 1955-05-14T00:00:00Z30m

An aging matador and his little brother are to fight "Mano a Mano" in the bullring, the event having been organized by the brothers' two agents. Everyone is looking forward to the event except for the aging matador, for whom the event has triggered a mid-life crisis.

1955-05-21T00:00:00Z

1x19 Newspaper Man

1x19 Newspaper Man

  • 1955-05-21T00:00:00Z30m

A newspaperman, assigned to a murder story, discovers that the victim is a childhood pal who was trying to go straight after a career in the underworld.

1955-05-28T00:00:00Z

1x20 The Treasure

1x20 The Treasure

  • 1955-05-28T00:00:00Z30m

Jane is a flawless housekeeper to her government official employer, Mr. Harenger. In fact, he is so pleased, he would like to change her job title to "wife."

1955-06-04T00:00:00Z

1x21 Desert Story

1x21 Desert Story

  • 1955-06-04T00:00:00Z30m

A bored and frivolous heiress is out for a joy ride and kills a young mother of two. At her trial, the heiress receives a unique sentence.

1x22 The True Confessions of Henry Pell

  • 1955-06-11T00:00:00Z30m

A trespasser gets involved with a heiress.

1955-06-16T00:00:00Z

1x23 The Norther

1x23 The Norther

  • 1955-06-16T00:00:00Z30m

During "the norther," an old Western term for a blistering heat wave, Marshal Matt Galt goes after two desperadoes who robbed the Cimarron post office and killed the postmaster.

Season Premiere

1955-10-29T00:00:00Z

2x01 End of Flight

Season Premiere

2x01 End of Flight

  • 1955-10-29T00:00:00Z30m

A thief accidentally kills a man and then falls in love with the victim's widow.

1955-11-12T00:00:00Z

2x03 The Man Who Was Dead

2x03 The Man Who Was Dead

  • 1955-11-12T00:00:00Z30m

A man returns from the dead to help the living.

1955-12-03T00:00:00Z

2x05 The Creative Impulse

2x05 The Creative Impulse

  • 1955-12-03T00:00:00Z30m

A novelists' husband runs off with another woman.

1955-12-10T00:00:00Z

2x06 The Blue Landscape

2x06 The Blue Landscape

  • 1955-12-10T00:00:00Z30m

French Inspector Mondreau investigates the murder of an unknown artist and the theft of a masterpiece aided by a beautiful insurance investigator.

1956-01-07T00:00:00Z

2x09 A Point of Honor

2x09 A Point of Honor

  • 1956-01-07T00:00:00Z30m

In Spain, a man becomes the victim of a husband's insane jealousy.

1956-01-21T00:00:00Z

2x11 The Difficult Age

2x11 The Difficult Age

  • 1956-01-21T00:00:00Z30m

A young corporate executive wants everyone over 65 to retire.

1956-01-28T00:00:00Z

2x12 Payment in Kind

2x12 Payment in Kind

  • 1956-01-28T00:00:00Z30m

A doctor treating a police lieutenant's wife admits that he committed a murder. The lieutenant tries to pin the murder on someone else but has to arrest the dr. after the other suspect is proven innocent.

1956-02-11T00:00:00Z

2x14 Appearances and Reality

2x14 Appearances and Reality

  • 1956-02-11T00:00:00Z30m

The male secretary of a bachelor Parliamentarian is assigned to keep the man's girl happy.

1956-02-18T00:00:00Z

2x15 Arab Duel

2x15 Arab Duel

  • 1956-02-18T00:00:00Z30m

A producer thinks his wife is having an affair with one of his head writers.

1956-05-03T00:00:00Z

2x17 They

2x17 They

  • 1956-05-03T00:00:00Z30m

An elderly inmate of a sanitarium revolts against the unknown people in authority.

1956-05-10T00:00:00Z

2x18 Act of Decision

2x18 Act of Decision

  • 1956-05-10T00:00:00Z30m

The star player on a small college football team has been misbehaving. The coach wants to kick him off the team. But with the big game against State coming up the coach is under tremendous pressure to let the player slide.

1956-05-17T00:00:00Z

2x19 The Thin Line

2x19 The Thin Line

  • 1956-05-17T00:00:00Z30m

After losing the memory of a night that he tried to kill his wife, a man discovers the thin line between sane and insane when he finally goes home and remembers what really happened.

1956-05-24T00:00:00Z

2x20 The Force of Circumstance

2x20 The Force of Circumstance

  • 1956-05-24T00:00:00Z30m

A British woman in Borneo learns that the father of some of the native children is her husband.

1956-05-31T00:00:00Z

2x21 The Whizzer

2x21 The Whizzer

  • 1956-05-31T00:00:00Z30m

A light-hearted tale that took place in California more than 100 years ago. Jim is a storekeeper of a hardware store who offers to be the caretaker of a customer's relative named Nancy, an attractive 17-year-old girl. Pedigo, the Spanish bandit, fancies Nancy. In order to win her, Pedigo needs to settle a score with her handsome chaperone, Chuck. Jim and Chuck must stand up to the law to protect Nancy from this dangerous bandit!

1956-04-07T00:00:00Z

2x22 The Lonely Ones

2x22 The Lonely Ones

  • 1956-04-07T00:00:00Z30m

An episode about ones that are lonely

1956-04-14T00:00:00Z

2x23 The Senora

2x23 The Senora

  • 1956-04-14T00:00:00Z30m

The senora has arranged a fine marriage for her 18-year old daughter with the scion of one of France's most illustrious families.

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