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- Anthology series which ran on PBS throughout the 1980s.
- Dr. Andre Surtaine is a wealthy manufacturer of a patent medicine cure-all. He idolizes his son Hal, who knows little of his father's business and does not realize that their wealth has been built upon a fraud and on the pitiable weakness of sufferers throughout the nation. Hal falls in love with Esme, the daughter of Dr. Mark Elliott. Years before, Dr. Surtaine, while at the beginning of his career as a peddler of his nostrum, had been attacked by a man whose wife contracted the morphine habit through taking Surtaine's fake medicine. In his father's factory, Hal meets Milly Beal, who is ignorant of the tact that she is the daughter of this old-time enemy of Dr. Surtaine. "The Clarion" is a newspaper published in the city where Surtaine's medicine is manufactured. Through the influence of a minister "The Clarion" attacks editorially Dr. Surtaine and his business. Taking his father's explanation for granted, Hal believes the newspaper attack unjustified and in order to get a retraction, purchases "The Clarion." Hal conducts the newspaper along ideal lines but meets with all forms of opposition from the heavy advertisers and influential citizens. One of his attacks is against Kathleen Pierce, a wealthy girl guilty of reckless automobile driving. The editorial against her swamps "The Clarion" with libel suits and brings about the withdrawal of most of its important advertisements. The attack also estranges Hal and Esme, who is one of Kathleen's friends, and who tried in vain to keep the story out of the paper. Hal's father heads an attempt to suppress news in "The Clarion" of an outbreak of contagious disease in the poorer quarter of the city, lest the news interfere with an "Old Home Week" celebration then in progress. Hal bravely refuses to be influenced and reveals the conditions that brought about the epidemic. Milly Beal starts on the downward path. Under the influence of drink she visits Dr. Surtaine and denounces him as having been the cause of her mother's death, through his fake medicine. She shoots Dr. Surtaine, but Hal arrives just in time to spoil her aim and Surtaine is only slightly wounded. Hal then learns from Milly the truth about his father's medicine business. Torn between his love for his father and his duty as an editor, Hal leaves his home and goes to live in a hotel and work out his problem for himself. He finally publishes the names and pictures of the owners of the "Rookeries," as the district in which the epidemic started is called, and that section of the town is quarantined. Led by Veltman, an anarchist and old employee of "The Clarion," the mob of foreigners pours down to attack "The Clarion" in the belief that the newspaper is responsible for their troubles. Veltman burls a bomb into "The Clarion" office, wrecking the building and killing a number of the mob. This crime turns the sentiment of the mob against Veltman who is pursued furiously through the town and finally run down with Hal in lead of the pack of pursuers. Hal and Esme are reunited and Dr. Surtaine, to regain his son's affections and respect, abandons the manufacture of his notorious medicine.
- Dayton, who is the superintendent of the construction gang on the new railroad, is in love with the daughter of Big Bill Lambert, Angel. Dayton also has a double, Durand, a semi-outlaw, who watches with anger, the progress of civilization. One day Dayton starts out to see his sweetheart, and at the same time Dexter, the paymaster of the construction gang, sets out to get the payroll. In the meanwhile Durand has arrived at the lumber camp and hears that the payroll is to arrive. He also meets "Red Ida," a former flame, and agrees to get away to the States after completing one more "job." So he plans to get the payroll. In the woods Durand overtakes Dexter, and takes the gold. Dexter is dumbfounded as he thinks that it is Dayton who has robbed him, and goes to the camp to report the robbery. In the meanwhile Angel has seen Durand go into the cabin of "Red Ida," and mistaking him for Dayton, is incensed at the thought that her lover has been untrue. So when Dayton arrives she accuses him of infidelity and orders him out of the house. The poor fellow leaves, dumbfounded. When Dexter tells that he has been robbed by Dayton, the Mounted Police start out after him and soon overtake him and bring him back to the camp. Durand has gone to the saloon of the camp for a drink. There he is taken for Dayton and pursued, but he manages to hide in the cabin of "Red Ida." Here he is seen by Angel, and she tells the men looking for him where he is. The Mounted Police with Dayton meet the men with Durand in the saloon, and it is only then that it is discovered that there are two men who look exactly alike. Of course, Dayton's name is quickly cleared, and when Angel sees her mistake she at once begs forgiveness, which is readily granted.
- McTeague begins life in the mines. He later becomes an unlicensed practicing dentist. He is a man of violent physical passions, but until he meets little Trina, who visits his dental office, his love instincts have never been aroused. McTeague induces Trina to marry him through the sheer force of his domineering personality. The couple are not happy. Trina develops miserly instincts and when she wins a $5,000 lottery prize, she hoards the money and grows more and more avaricious. McTeague quarrels with Marcus, his former rival for Trina's affections, and the ill feeling between the two men leads to a fierce combat in which McTeague proves the victor. In revenge Marcus has McTeague prevented from practicing dentistry because he has no diploma. McTeague leans on Trina for support but she turns him away. Trina has a severe illness and while recuperating develops a mania for fondling her hoarded gold pieces. McTeague returns to find Trina showering handfuls of gold upon her bed. After a terrific scene he strangles her and steals the money. Marcus, determined to avenge Trina's death, trails the fugitive McTeague into the heart of Death Valley, where the two men come at last face to face in a final battle to the death under the blistering desert sun.
- About the recently widowed lady Estelle Parsons who is selling all her belongings to start a new life. Estelle believes she has powers to see into the future and to conduct seances. She moves to a boarding house and interacts with the strange residents.
- In 1915 Chicago, 21-year-old Myra Harper sets her sights on the wealthy and reserved Knowleton Whitney to get him to marry her. All goes well, but later when Myra gets to meet his wacky parents, it turns out to be much harder for Myra than simply landing the man of her dreams.