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Episode 160 min1955-09-05
My Dear Emily
In the final summer stock performance of the season, a father's extreme possessiveness of his daughter ruins her life.
Episode 260 min1955-09-12
Woman in the Window
A reserved college professor is fascinated by the portrait of a woman that hangs near his mens' club. While admiring the picture one day, he happens to meet its gorgeous blonde subject. This leads to an invite to her apartment, some champagne, and a murder.
Episode 360 min1955-09-19
Mr. and Mrs. Monroe
On his own while his wife's away in Europe, henpecked Mr. Monroe decides he'll be the suave and adventurous man of his imagination. In his fantasies, he captures a diamond smuggler and a dangerous escaped convict.
Episode 460 min1955-09-26
Along Came Jones
A soft-spoken cowboy shows up in a small western town looking for work. The locals mistakenly assume he's a murderous troublemaker, causing great tension when he starts dating the real killer's girlfriend.
Episode 560 min1955-10-03
The Stranger
Authorities hope that their release a low-level war criminal will lead them to a Nazi Germany leader who "disappeared" after World War II. Following the released man, they're led to a small Connecticut town and a respected professor.
Episode 660 min1955-10-10
Paper Town
A family is at odds when the father, successful in the lumber business, insists his son take over the company. The son, married and expecting a child soon, wants to finish law school instead.
Episode 760 min1955-10-17
Tomorrow is Forever
An American soldier, whose disfigured face was reconstructed by Austrian plastic surgeons, returns home after twenty years, but no one recognizes him. His widow is married to another man, and his son is a grown young man.
Episode 860 min1955-10-24
Man Lost
A Navy man loses his will to live following the death of his wife. He witnesses an A-bomb test in the Pacific and then goes "on leave" in Hawaii where he makes positive discoveries about himself.
Episode 960 min1955-10-31
In a Foreign City
The truth eventually catches up with a sad man when his life is revealed to have been nothing but lies.
Episode 1060 min1955-11-07
The World to Nothing
Being an incredible actor is not enough as a performer feels nothing but loneliness even though he has a wife and daughter.
Episode 1160 min1955-11-14
Cry Silence
When a farmer's young wife dies in an "accident", the local police have doubts about how accidental her death actually was.
Episode 1260 min1955-11-21
Isobel
The successful writer of detective stories is the last person to see a young woman alive. The girl, Isobel, also shares the name of the heroine in one of the author's novels.
Episode 1360 min1955-11-28
End of the Rainbow
The heads of two immigrant families feud constantly, even though they are are neighbors and work at the same factory. It's practically inevitable that two of their youngsters would fall in love.
Episode 1460 min1955-12-05
Lucifer
A publishing manager who has caused a great deal of unhappiness throughout his career gets his turn in the hot seat.
Episode 1560 min1955-12-12
See the Man
A young mechanic hides a shameful secret-- he's unable to read, having left school early because of poverty. He believe his illiteracy is standing in the way of his success.
Episode 1660 min1955-12-19
Quality Town
A man who climbed the ladder from wildcatter to oil tycoon spoils his daughter with the material things he never had.
Episode 1760 min1955-12-26
The Second Day of Christmas
This is the story of the young Hans Christian Anderson's love for singer Jenny Lind and her refusal to give up her singing career.
Episode 1860 min1956-01-02
Three Men from Tomorrow
Three individual one-act stories are told, each involving young men facing moral or ethical decisions which will have profound effects on their futures. Act one profiles a high school student who's planning to elope with his girlfriend; Act two looks at a young man who's asked to deal drugs; Act three is the story of a college fraternity president who's supposed to expel one of the brothers.
Episode 1960 min1956-01-09
The End of the Tether
An elderly mariner is making his final voyage as the captain of a non-seaworthy boat owned by shady characters. Determined to retire with his dignity, the captain takes the ragged ship out to sea with the intention of wrecking the wreck.
Episode 2060 min1956-01-16
The Tyrant
A small town newspaper editor takes a stand against a powerful local citizen who acts with dictatorial rule.
Episode 2160 min1956-01-23
Aftermath
A lawyer who finds himself at a murder scene quickly leaves town, fearing that the crime will be pinned on him. He returns five years later with a shocking revelation.
Episode 2260 min1956-01-30
Mr. Tutt Baits the Hook
Eccentric lawyer Ephriam Tutt puts his unconventional methods to use to help a young man charged with murder.
Episode 2360 min1956-02-06
Good Friday 1865
A teen-aged boy gets a bit part in a play so he can meet his idol, Abraham Lincoln. Instead, he ends up witnessing the assassination of the president at the Ford Theater.
Episode 2460 min1956-02-13
The Man Who Vanished
A middle-aged man decides that the joys of youth were preferable to the success he now enjoys in business. As he retreats into the dreams of his carefree youth, he physically begins to fade away before the eyes of his friends and associates.
Episode 2560 min1956-02-20
An Excuse for Shanks
A shy, young man in a small town has been disliked by people his whole life. He makes his first real friend, the wife of the local pool hall owner, and falls madly in love with her. Shanks unwittingly becomes a factor is his own downfall.
Episode 2660 min1956-02-27
End of Morning
A school bus driver steers his vehicle into the path of an on-coming train and four children are killed. As a man who once believed he had all of life's answers finds himself struggling to make sense of anything.
Episode 2760 min1956-03-05
Adam's Son
A judge's campaign for the governorship has his son feeling that he can never live up to his father's achievements. At least that's the case until the judge makes a serious mistake.
Episode 2860 min1956-03-12
The Briefcase
A young couple's marriage is on the rocks because of the husband's failure to get ahead at work. He encounters obstacles from an underhanded office worker in the grocery business.
Episode 2960 min1956-03-19
The Secret
A lumberjack actively guards a mysterious black box in his possession. This piques the curiosity of the others in the logging camp. Everyone has a theory about its contents, ranging from love letters to evidence of a murder.
Episode 3060 min1956-03-26
The Long Way Home
A commuter suffers a heart attack in Grand Central Station as he's heading home to Connecticut.
Episode 3160 min1956-04-02
Death Insurance
An auto mechanic unhappy with his lot in life plans to kill his wife and collect on the insurance policy he just opened on her. When the "accident" he arranged for her fizzles, he cancels the policy. As luck would have it, his wife becomes seriously injured in a real accident. Now he's fighting to keep her alive because her recently deceased father left her a small fortune that goes to charity if she dies.
Episode 3260 min1956-04-09
Pistolero
A gas station owner in a small prairie town decides to expose the local political boss as the evil that he is. The angry strongman responds by hiring a hit man to kill the troublemaker.
Episode 3360 min1956-04-16
Portrait of a Man
The life of the genius Albert Einstein is highlighted in this biography. His early years in Prague, when he proposed his famed Theory of Relativity, are presented. The show then focuses on his later life when he lived modestly among the people of Princeton, New Jersey.
Episode 3460 min1956-04-23
The Baobab Tree
A South African plantation is home to a baobab tree, a large native plant which is said to kill all other life near it. The action centers on a woman who flirts shamelessly and the price she pays for her actions.
Episode 3560 min1956-04-30
Don't Do Me Any Favors
A singer discovers that success can carry a high price when he gets swept up by fast-talking con men. As he rises to the top, he finds the people around him are more interested in a piece of his income than in his welfare. Johnny Desmond sings "Please Don't Forget Me, Dear."
Episode 3660 min1956-05-07
Jack Be Nimble
A bigamist has two different wives in two different cities that he travels between for business. Neither knows about the other, until one fateful day. Unable to justify his behavior to either woman, he commits a crime he never thought he would have.
Episode 3760 min1956-05-14
The Right Thing
Following the death of a girl in a car accident, Bob Slater is tortured by the idea that he was somehow negligent in his driving that day.
Episode 3860 min1956-05-21
All Expenses Paid
A naive salesclerk is named "Miss Courtesy" by her store and is awarded an all-expenses paid trip to Nassau. While vacationing at the exotic locale, she falls under the spell of a suave and sophisticated man of the world.
Episode 3960 min1956-05-28
Who?
In this unusual drama, seven actors portray the same character as he's seen through the eyes of different people. The "Standard Who" is how the man sees himself, along with the "Ineffectual Who", the "Solid Who", the "Slob Who", the "Satyr Who", the "Nasty Who" and the "Godlike Who".
Episode 4060 min1956-06-04
Honored Guest
Krisons Rigo, a recent immigrant, settles in a small Long Island town. Though he taught in the old country, he cannot get a certificate here, so he takes a job as a school janitor.
Episode 4160 min1956-06-11
Storm Over Swan Lake
A teacher's opposition to dismissal by a tyrannical school superintendent throws a small town into turmoil.
Episode 4260 min1956-06-18
The Soldier Room
An unhappy wife is forbidden by her psychotic husband to even have friends. he's a man who retired early to play with his toy soldier collection. When she falls in love with another, she see the chance to leave this unhappy life behind. She's torn, however, because she knows her husband would be lost without her.
Episode 4360 min1956-06-25
An Elephant for Peanuts
A young boy nicknamed Peanuts desperately wants an elephant for a pet. He steals a purchase order from his father's work and buys a baby pachyderm that he hides in their garage.
Episode 4460 min1956-07-02
Dream No More
A college professor is obsessed with getting a piece of property owned by the mother of one of his students. He tries to charm the the property from her, before attempting to destroy the woman. The mother gets the last word, but pays a big price for it.
Episode 4560 min1956-07-09
A Matter of Conscience
A husband and wife have begun to drift apart after nine years of marriage. The husband spends more and more time at his law office, convincing his spouse that he's having an affair. She confronts him with her belief.
Episode 4660 min1956-07-16
Day of Grace
A meek editor at a religious publishing house believes that only a large sum of money could give him the life he wants and the nerve to propose to the woman he loves. Upon discovering the next day's newspaper at his doorstep, he becomes bold and aggressive trying to capitalize on the stock market and race track results the magic newspaper contains.
Episode 4760 min1956-07-23
Catch a Falling Star
Ken Reed, once a big name actor in Hollywood, refuses to accept that he's no longer the star he thinks he is. Even though he hasn't had a film role in two years, he continues to live lavishly, even refusing a supporting part on Broadway because it's beneath him. He is given one last chance at career redemption, and it hinges on a successful test for television.
Episode 4860 min1956-07-30
Southern Exposure
In this comedy set in Mississippi, an aging Southern belle grudgingly opens her mansion to tacky Yankee tourists during the annual azalea festival. Needing the money to keep the bank from foreclosing on her home, she also takes in a boarder, a young man who's written a popular but critical book about the Natchez way of life.
Episode 4960 min1956-08-06
Maybe Tomorrow
Bernice has spent her whole life working in her father's store and being dominated by her beautiful mother. When she finally finds love in the form of a salesman, her mother disapproves. Bernice is forced to choose between the man of her dreams and her controlling parent.
Episode 5060 min1956-08-27
The Company Wife
An accountant who's a rabid baseball fan is chosen to umpire the game between his office and their biggest competitor. When he makes a close call against his company's team, he finds himself a shunned outcast.
Episode 5160 min1956-09-03
Mr. Parker's Rhubarb
An accountant is picked to umpire the baseball game between his firm and it's competitor. The ump makes a critical decision against his own team and this doesn't make him a hero around the office or his home.
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