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Episode 160 min1952-09-22

The Kill

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.

Episode 260 min1952-09-29

The Square Peg

A psychologist evaluates a gangster's crew.

Episode 360 min1952-10-06

The Doctor's Wife

A doctor's wife suffers after he marries her as he's not yet over his previous love.

Episode 460 min1952-10-13

Little Man, Big World

A group of gangsters from a mid-sized city are getting squeezed out by their big city counterparts.

Episode 560 min1952-10-20

The Great Conspiracy

The dictator of an unnamed European country is unaware that his advisers are plotting to assassinate him.

Episode 660 min1952-10-27

The Love Letter

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.

Episode 760 min1952-11-10

The Incredible Mr. Glencannon

An adventurous sea captain, Mr. Glencannon, is a master at uncovering evil deeds.

Episode 860 min1952-11-17

Plan For Escape

A crooked club owner's wife witnesses his murder, and has to flee from gangsters.

Episode 960 min1952-11-24

The Formula

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.

Episode 1060 min1952-12-01

I Am Jonathan Scrivener

The tale of Jonathan Scrivener, told through his conversations with his secretary and his colleagues.

Episode 1160 min1952-12-08

The Hospital

A hospital kitchen employee gets drunk and shuts off the main power, throwing the hospital into darkness and total chaos and disarray.

Episode 1260 min1952-12-15

The Great Lady

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.

Episode 1360 min1952-12-22

The Play of the Nativity of the Child Jesus

The birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.

Episode 1460 min1952-12-29

Young Man Adam

A young singer is striving for success in her career. She also pushes for success in her boyfriend's.

Episode 1560 min1953-01-05

Black Rain

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.

Episode 1660 min1953-01-12

The Trial of John Peter Zenger

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.

Episode 1760 min1953-01-19

Signal Thirty-Two

The story of two rookie cops, one keeping to the straight and narrow and the other turning crooked.

Episode 1860 min1953-01-26

To a Moment of Triumph

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.

Episode 1960 min1953-02-02

Mark of Cain

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.

Episode 2060 min1953-02-09

The River Garden

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.

Episode 2160 min1953-02-16

The Walsh Girls

Two New England sisters reunite after the German husband of one of them dies in a concentration camp.

Episode 2260 min1953-02-23

The Show Piece

An egotistical boy's father tries to teach his son the blessings of life and good community spirit.

Episode 2360 min1953-03-02

My Beloved Husband

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?

Episode 2460 min1953-03-09

The Garretson Chronicle

The story of three generations of a Massachusetts family through conflicts, desires and triumphs and failures.

Episode 2560 min1953-03-16

A Breath of Air

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.

Episode 2660 min1953-03-23

The Edge of Evil

A woman sets out to fathom the mystery of her sister's "suicide" and nearly loses her own life to a killer.

Episode 2760 min1953-03-30

At Midnight on the Thirty-First of March

A small town is cut off from the rest of the world to lead their own solitary existence.

Episode 2860 min1953-04-06

Shadow of the Devil

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.

Episode 2960 min1953-04-13

The Magic Lantern

A theatrical family heads out to Hollywood as the motion picture industry begins.

Episode 3060 min1953-04-20

The Fathers

An innocent family is brought near tragedy through the sin of a kinsman.

Episode 3160 min1953-04-27

Along Came a Spider

A petroleum engineer is sought by the police to testify in a law case.

Episode 3260 min1953-05-04

Birthright

A young man is stunned to learn of his connection with a sensational murder case as he prepares to accept his inheritance.

Episode 3360 min1953-05-11

King Coffin

A psychopathic writer bent on killing a stranger but winding up using a gun on himself.

Episode 3460 min1953-05-18

The Laugh Maker

Jerry Giles, a tortured comic who is afraid of failure, is being pestered by a magazine writer sent out to profile him.

Episode 3560 min1953-05-24

Fly with the Hawk

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.

Episode 3660 min1953-06-01

Rendezvous

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.

Episode 3760 min1953-06-08

Conflict

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.

Episode 3860 min1953-06-22

The Paris Feeling

In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.

Episode 3960 min1953-06-29

Greed

An avaricious youth's inheritance from his grandfather lies behind a vault rigged up either to blow up when opened or not.

Episode 4060 min1953-07-06

Beyond Reason

A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.

Episode 4160 min1953-07-13

End of the Honeymoon

An English girl is desolated by the disappearance of her bridegroom on their Paris honeymoon trip.

Episode 4260 min1953-07-20

The Shadow of a Man

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.

Episode 4360 min1953-07-27

The King in Yellow

A seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.

Episode 4460 min1953-08-03

The Roman Kid

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.

Episode 4560 min1953-08-10

Flowers from a Stranger

A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.

Episode 4660 min1953-08-17

Sentence of Death

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.

Episode 4760 min1953-08-24

The Gathering Night

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.

Episode 4860 min1953-08-31

Letter from Cairo

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.

Episode 4960 min1953-09-04

Look Homeward, Hayseed

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.

Episode 5060 min1953-09-14

The Storm

During a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.

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