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51. Sunday Showcase (1959–1961)
Episode: Our American Heritage: Shadow of a Soldier (1960)

60 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

At age 63, Ulysses S. Grant learns he is dying of cancer. Mark Twain, his friend, remarked, "He was groping in the past to find himself, to salvage from the wreckage of his life some ... See full summary »

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: James Whitmore, Melvyn Douglas, Teresa Wright, John Baragrey

52. ABC Stage 67 (1966–1967)
Episode: The Confession (1966)

Comedy, Drama, Musical

When Carl and his fiancee Bonnie learn that she is pregnant, they agree on a suicide pact as a last resort. But plans go awry in the attempt, and Carl is later interrogated by Lt. Hammond, who's convinced that he's guilty of murder.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Arthur Kennedy, Brandon De Wilde, Dana Elcar, Hugh Franklin

53. Actor's Studio (1948–1950)
Episode: Joe McSween's Atomic Machine (1949)

Drama

Joe McSween is a factory worker who builds a machine in his basement. The machine doesn't do anything--it just runs. Naturally, everyone thinks that it's an atomic machine and the government gets involved.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Don Hanmer, William Redfield, Martin Balsam, Nancy Franklin

54. Actor's Studio (1948–1950)
Episode: Joe McSween's Atomic Machine (1950)

Drama

Joe McSween is a factory worker who builds a machine in his basement. The machine doesn't do anything--it just runs. Naturally, everyone thinks that it's an atomic machine and the government gets involved. (Re-staged from Season I)

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Marc Connelly, Conrad Janis, Nancy Franklin, Martin Balsam

55. Actor's Studio (1948–1950)
Episode: Salt of the Earth (1949)

Drama

A busybody believes sincerely that her interference in the lives of other people is all for the best. She is perhaps mistaken.

Directors: David Pressman, Alex Segal | Stars: Ann Shepherd, Edith King, Herbert Nelson, Marc Connelly

56. Actor's Studio (1948–1950)
Episode: Zone of Quiet (1949)

Drama

A hospital patient is driven berserk when his room becomes the hangout for scheming doctors and feuding nurses.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: John Sylvester, Eleanor Lynn, Anne Jackson

57. The Alcoa Hour (1955–1957)
Episode: Key Largo (1956)

60 min | Drama

A man visits his old friend's hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Alfred Drake, Lorne Greene, Victor Jory

58. The Alcoa Hour (1955–1957)
Episode: The Last Train to Pusan (1957)

Drama

World War 2 veteran, Johnny Davis, now a businessman in Korea, discovers that his factory and shipping interests are being sabotaged. He tries to enlist the help of a young secretary, Catherine, to spy on the suspected saboteurs.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Philip Ahn, Erlinda Cortes, Virginia Kaye, Gary Merrill

59. Alcoa Premiere (1961–1963)
Episode: People Need People (1961)

60 min | Drama

A drama about the rehabilitation of psychologically disturbed.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Fred Astaire, Lee Marvin, James Gregory, Arthur Kennedy

Votes: 9

60. Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963–1967)
Episode: A Killing at Sundial (1963)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A Native American seeks revenge on the man he holds responsible for his father's lynching.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Angie Dickinson, Melvyn Douglas, Joseph Calleia

61. Campbell Summer Soundstage (1952–1954)
Episode: Exit Laughing (1953)

Drama

A man disappears on his wife.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Patricia Breslin, Arnold Moss

62. Campbell Summer Soundstage (1952–1954)
Episode: Reville for Two Angels (1954)

Drama

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Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Robert Brown, Jo Van Fleet

63. Celanese Theatre (1951–1952)
Episode: Ah, Wilderness! (1951)

Drama

Story of small-town life in turn-of-the-century America, and a young boy's problems facing adolescence.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Philip Coolidge, Sandy Horn, Wright King, Roddy McDowall

64. Celanese Theatre (1951–1952)
Episode: Anna Christie (1952)

30 min | Drama

A young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Richard Burton, June Havoc, John Qualen, Doris Rich

Votes: 32

65. Celanese Theatre (1951–1952)
Episode: Brief Moment (1952)

Drama

A dissolute rich society boy marries a worldly nightclub singer, and she begins to have a wholly unexpected effect on him.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Veronica Lake, Burgess Meredith, Anthony Ross, Robert Sterling

66. Celanese Theatre (1951–1952)
Episode: Counsellor-at-Law (1951)

Drama

Successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns his wife has been unfaithful.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Alfred Drake, Ruth Hussey

67. Celanese Theatre (1951–1952)
Episode: No Time for Comedy (1951)

Drama

Playwright Gaylord Esterbrook scores a hit with his first Broadway play, both with the critics and with leading lady Linda Paige. He and Linda are happily married until a patroness of the ... See full summary »

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Sarah Churchill, Ronald Howard

68. Celanese Theatre (1951–1952)
Episode: Old Acquaintance (1951)

Drama

Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Edna Best, Ruth Chatterton

69. Celanese Theatre (1951–1952)
Episode: On Borrowed Time (1952)

Drama

Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his cantankerous old grandfather become inseparable friends. But Gramps is concerned for his grandson's ... See full summary »

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Ralph Morgan, Melville Cooper, Mildred Dunnock, Philip Coolidge

Votes: 8

70. Celanese Theatre (1951–1952)
Episode: Reunion in Vienna (1952)

30 min | Drama

An archduke who had been banished from Austria returns to Vienna for a reunion of his old fellow aristocrats and meets up with the former love of his life, who is now married to a psychoanalyst.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Signe Hasso, Ernest Truex

71. Celanese Theatre (1951–1952)
Episode: Saturday's Children (1952)

Drama

Pretty Bobby Halevy loves Rims Rosson, a dreamer and inventor without much going for him. Rims has a scheme of going to Manila to turn hemp into silk and become rich. But when one of her ... See full summary »

Directors: David Alexander, Alex Segal | Stars: Patricia Bright, Morrison Dowd, Doro Merande, Mickey Rooney

72. Celanese Theatre (1951–1952)
Episode: Street Scene (1952)

Drama

Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Ann Dvorak, Coleen Gray, Paul Kelly, Michael Wager

73. Celanese Theatre (1951–1952)
Episode: Susan and God (1951)

Drama

Susan Trexel is a wealthy socialite, who while vacationing in Europe undergoes a religious transformation. On her return to America, Susan takes on the task of spreading her new found ... See full summary »

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Pamela Brown, Wendell Corey, Helen Craig, Albert Dekker

74. Celanese Theatre (1951–1952)
Episode: The Animal Kingdom (1952)

Drama

Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, Tom is bored with the social scene and ... See full summary »

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Wendell Corey, Jorja Curtright, Karl Malden, Meg Mundy

75. Celanese Theatre (1951–1952)
Episode: The Joyous Season (1951)

Drama

The Farleys are worried when the maverick of the family, Sister Christina, arrives from the nunnery to spend Christmas. They think she may decide to claim, by their father's will, their town house instead of the farm.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Wesley Addy, Anne Burr, Matt Crowley, Lillian Gish

76. Celanese Theatre (1951–1952)
Episode: The Petrified Forest (1952)

Drama

A waitress, a hobo and a bank robber get mixed up at a lonely diner in the desert.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Maurice Burke, Art Carney, Lloyd Gough, Kim Hunter

77. Celanese Theatre (1951–1952)
Episode: Winterset (1951)

Drama

Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of the crime and to bring to account the gangster Trock Estrella.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Richard Carlyle, Joan Chandler, Eduardo Ciannelli, Royal Dano

78. Celanese Theatre (1951–1952)
Episode: Yellow Jack (1952)

Drama

In the fever-stricken areas of Cuba a brave band of scientists, doctors and U. S. Marines fight a losing battle against the deadly plague of 'Yello Jack,' until the great heroic risk taken by an Irish sergeant brings victory.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Walter Abel, Richard Kiley, Roger De Koven

79. The DuPont Show of the Month (1957–1961)
Episode: Heaven Can Wait (1960)

90 min | Comedy, Drama, History

A boxer is taken to the afterlife too early. When it proves impossible to return him to his body, he is allowed to inhabit the bodies of others until he finds one that matches his destiny.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Martin Ashe, Elizabeth Ashley, Joey Bishop, Wally Cox

80. The DuPont Show of the Month (1957–1961)
Episode: Years Ago (1960)

90 min | Comedy, Drama, History

Despite being raised in a financially strapped family, a young woman tries to make her dream of being a respected actress come true.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Robert Preston, Peggy Conklin, Sandra Church, Janice Mars

81. Kraft Theatre (1947–1958)
Episode: Angry Harvest (1958)

60 min | Drama

Two young Polish men are arrested by the Communist authorities in Warsaw and thrown in prison, where they spend the next five years. They are never told what their "crimes" were and, in ... See full summary »

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Ina Balin, Theodore Bikel, Ludwig Donath, George Voskovec

82. The Doctors and the Nurses (1962–1965)
Episode: A Kind of Loving (1964)

60 min | Drama

Student nurse Kitty Lee is a Southern belle with an Electra complex and completely dissimilar to the younger student nurses at Alden General. Left out among her peers, Kitty turns to a ... See full summary »

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Shirl Conway, Zina Bethune, Arlene Golonka, Dorrit Kelton

83. Playhouse 90 (1956–1961)
Episode: A Marriage of Strangers (1959)

90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Jerry and Louise are two shy types who meet and wed through a lonely hearts club. They soon learn that being a married couple is not like the movies or romance novels.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Red Buttons, Diana Lynn, Joan Blondell, Malcolm Atterbury

Votes: 13

84. Playhouse 90 (1956–1961)
Episode: A Quiet Game of Cards (1959)

90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A few friends meet each weekend for a quiet game of cards. But they're bored with poker and, in trying to find another diversion, gradually find themselves plotting a hypothetical murder. It is hypothetical, isn't it?

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: William Bendix, Pattee Chapman, Raymond Greenleaf, Irene Hervey

85. Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950–1952)
Episode: Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1950)

Drama

Humble Abraham Lincoln gains the respect of his Illinois neighbors, growing in stature and respect until he is elected President in 1860 and departs for Washington.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Casey Allen, Gus Aubrey, Richard Bishop, Elmer Davis

86. Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950–1952)
Episode: The End Game (1950)

Drama

A rigid colonel wants his two sons to go to West Point. One son is just like his father; the other also wants a life on the side. Conflict develops when the father orders his son to drop his girlfriend and concentrate only on the military.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Richard Bishop, Elmer Davis, Richard Derr, Richard Kiley

87. Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950–1952)
Episode: The Magnificent Ambersons (1950)

Drama

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Joan Chandler, Elmer Davis, Melvyn Douglas, Florence Eldridge

88. Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950–1952)
Episode: The Queen's Husband (1951)

Drama

A king outwits his domineering wife while dealing with a son who wants the throne and a daughter who's marrying a peasant plumber.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Barbara Baxley, Elmer Davis, Edith King, William Redfield

89. Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950–1952)
Episode: You Can't Take It with You (1950)

60 min | Drama

A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Charles Coburn, Ella Raines, Joan McCracken, Joseph Buloff

90. The United States Steel Hour (1953–1963)
Episode: Be My Guest (1958)

Comedy, Drama

Harvey Kent, a New York businessman, invites the Potters, a couple new to the city, to stay in his guest house while they house-hunt. But when they take over everything, including his friends, he schemes to get rid of them.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Larry Blyden, Augusta Dabney, Happy Felton, Robby Hayes

91. The United States Steel Hour (1953–1963)
Episode: Big Winner (1955)

Comedy, Drama

Life in an Italian-America family is continuously upset by Uncle Zi-Zi's schemes to appear as a contestant on a TV quiz program. Optimistic Zi-Zi is certain that, after one session, his fortune will be made.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Joe De Santis, George Ives, Augusta Merighi, Richard Morris

92. The United States Steel Hour (1953–1963)
Episode: Fearful Decision (1954)

Comedy, Drama

David Durfee's young son is kidnapped by desperate criminals, but he refuses to pay the ransom that the town feels would insure the boy's safety.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Paula Bauersmith, Ralph Bellamy, Edward Binns, Joey Fallon

93. The United States Steel Hour (1953–1963)
Episode: Freighter (1955)

Comedy, Drama

A captain with 25 years' service on the "Singapore" faces mental collapse as he takes his freighter out on its last voyage, a fateful trip to Hong Kong.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Mitchell Agruss, Martin Balsam, Jocelyn Brando, James Daly

94. The United States Steel Hour (1953–1963)
Episode: Goodbye... But It Doesn't Go Away (1954)

60 min | Comedy, Drama

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Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Neville Brand, Geraldine Brooks, Jack Carson, Jeff Donnell

95. The United States Steel Hour (1953–1963)
Episode: Hedda Gabler (1954)

60 min | Comedy, Drama

A scheming woman marries a nice but dimwitted intellectual out of convenience. She hears that her old lover is back in town. She decides to destroy his life, jealous of his love affair with another.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Luther Adler, Tallulah Bankhead, John Baragrey, Marie Corell

Votes: 12

96. The United States Steel Hour (1953–1963)
Episode: Hope for a Harvest (1953)

Comedy, Drama

An autobiographical story about the loss of the American work ethic and problems of racism during World War II.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Dino Di Luca, Faye Emerson, Robert Preston

97. The United States Steel Hour (1953–1963)
Episode: Hung for a Sheep (1955)

Comedy, Drama

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Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Royal Beal, Lucille Benson, Katherine Blaine, Donald Briggs

98. The United States Steel Hour (1953–1963)
Episode: King's Pawn (1954)

60 min | Comedy, Drama

John Forsythe and Jane Blair. Scientist with access to top-secret files is on the run.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: John C. Becher, Janet Blair, Heywood Hale Broun, John Forsythe

99. The United States Steel Hour (1953–1963)
Episode: Man in the Corner (1955)

Comedy, Drama

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Director: Alex Segal | Stars: Jack Carson, Treva Frazee, Betty Garde, Phyllis Hill

100. The United States Steel Hour (1953–1963)
Episode: One for the Road (1954)

60 min | Comedy, Drama

Fred Purdue, a lawyer, prepares to welcome into his home the father that he has not known, unaware that the man has a gambling problem.

Director: Alex Segal | Stars: John Alexander, Edward Andrews, Phillip Carter, Charles Coburn