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- Alice Grayson's uncle develops a wireless torpedo that can be controlled by radio. After he announces his invention to several of his colleagues, two of them murder the scientist, steal the blueprints and prototype, and make plans to sell both to the highest bidder. When Alice discovers the identity of the thieves, the intrepid heroine, with the help of Bob Moore, her two-fisted boyfriend, desperately tries to recover the plans and torpedo before enemy countries can unleash the torpedoes against American ships.
- As a cartoonist draws a clown, a housefly harasses both the man and his pen-and-ink creation.
- Hot-headed Tommy Ryan agrees to give up his brawling ways if his cute girlfriend, Martha Murray, will marry him. After arriving in town, Tommy approaches his cousin and primary combatant, Steve Quinlan and offers to let bygones be bygones. Instead Steve accuses Tommy of hiding behind his fiancée's apron strings and provokes a brawl. Released from jail on the condition that he marry Martha immediately, he meets Steve outside of town and gets knocked down an embankment, temporarily losing his memory. A love-starved widow rescues him from the gully and, remembering only that he has to get married that day, agrees to wed the old woman.
- Jim Simpson rides into an area known locally as "The Valley of Badmen" to claim his father's ranch and learns from the county attorney, Mr. Horton, that it had been sold to pay back taxes. Simpson smells a rat, since his father had never had difficulty paying the taxes before. Simpson starts to snoop around with the help of a pretty cowgirl and his sidekick Half Pint and learns that the Horton and McQueen, another rancher have conspired to steal his ranch.
- A starving wolf leaves his home in the city dump and, after tying up Santa Claus and stealing his costume, breaks into the home of Pooch the Pup and his girlfriend to turn them into a tasty meal. Fortunately a regiment of toy soldiers is on duty and comes to their rescue.
- Betty Boop appears on stage with Freddie in an old-fashioned mortgage melodrama.
- A college rowing team's world tour is in jeopardy because a philosophy professor plans to flunk the entire crew. Ann, the instructor's niece, convinces him to tutor the team on the ocean liner. When the crew's coxswain develops laryngitis just before the big race, Ann substitutes for him at the last minute and sets the pace with her singing.
- Joe Palooka and Strangler Chokeovitch have set up training camps on adjacent beachfront sites. When Joe knocks out the Strangler after a misunderstanding, Chokeovitch's manager challenges the champ to a professional wrestling bout, with the winner taking all the gate receipts.
- Joe Palooka faces underdog Andy Brown in a championship bout and gangsters have wagered heavily on Joe's opponent. Just to make sure their bets have been placed on a sure thing, they kidnap Joe's manager, Knobby Walsh, and arrange for one of their stooges to take his place. During the fight, the crooked replacement encourages Joe to take swigs of drugged spring water, which diminishes his fighting prowess.
- It's bad enough that Clarice Kendall Andrews, Paula's irresponsible sister, comes home from celebrating Mardi Gras and drunkenly mentions that she got married during the festivities. What's worse is the fact that Paula knows that Clarice is still married to an equally irresponsible gigolo. Paula learns that the man Clarice married, Stephen Cormack, has skipped the country and his lawyer, thinking that Paula is Clarice, offers the older woman $5000 to annul the marriage. Paula's lawyer convinces her to pretend she's Cormack's husband until he can get Clarice's marriage annulled. Paula moves into Cormack's house and discovers he has two teen-aged children who consider her a gold-digger after their father's fortune. Meanwhile, Clarice's husband refuses to have their marriage annulled and tries to blackmail Paula into giving him to $10,000 for his silence.
- FBI agent Mac Richards takes his girlfriend, Helen Phillips, to a world championship boxing match only to learn that the event has been canceled because the titleholder has been kidnapped. Mac is entrusted with the ransom money, but the kidnappers discover that his fellow agents have surrounded the train station locker where the money was to be dropped and order the champ's manager to have the money delivered by an usher to a different location. With Helen disguised as the usher and Mac driving a cab, the pair set off to deliver the money. The gang isn't taking any chances, though - they waylay the cab and take both the ransom money and Helen to their hideout. Now Mac and his fellow agents must rescue both the champ and his sweetheart before they come to harm.
- Two FBI agents are sent to investigate sabotage at a lumber camp.
- Movietone News produced this short (two-minute) sing-along version of United States' national anthem featuring the popular chorus, "Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians." While the Star-Spangled Banner is sung, a patriotic montage of scenes appears in the background.
- Before it became the Oklahoma Territory, Rance Hudson, a crooked eastern-financier, schemes to steal their land from the ranchers for a railroad right-of-way. Clint Farrell returns from law school to find many of his friends illegally jailed by Hudsonm and his boyhood pal, Sheriff Bob Reynolds, unable to cope with the situation. Clint takes matters in his own capable hands, rounds up some fighting-mad ranchers, and plans and executes the complete routing of Hudson and his henchmen.
- A producer puts an unknown European princess (Constance Moore) in his show, and she falls for its author (Dennis O'Keefe).
- Girl looking for father who disappeared years before in a jungle, finds herself battling greedy civilized people and savages alike.
- Mine owner Jackson Decker orders his manager to obtain Tom Bailey's milling machinery no matter what the cost. When Bailey is found murdered, suspicion naturally falls upon the mine owner and his son, a Canadian Mountie, is ordered to find the real culprit. He joins forces with a French-Canadian constable, Bailey's beautiful daughter and a phony palm reader to learn the truth and discovers a secret gold mine, a double-crossing casino owner and a forger at the bottom of the conspiracy.
- Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, battles the evil Dr. Grood, who has placed a death ray aboard his spaceship orbiting Earth.
- Crad Hobbs, a Virginia waterman, is depressed over the decline in the shellfish trade and the gradual erosion of his former home, a barrier island off Virginia's Eastern Shore. Worse, his beautiful daughter and only child is engaged to a returning World War II veteran who forsakes the oystering trade to take a job with the local newspaper. The cub reporter's first job is interview a New York banker, and former resident, who has secretly come to the Eastern Shore to provide a loan for a beleaguered Latin-American president whose country is battling communist insurgents. Hobbs blames the banker for his home island's destruction; he believes if the banker had approved a loan for a system of breakwaters, the erosion, and resulting loss of fishing habitat, could have been prevented. When Hobbs gets the job of taking the banker to his secret rendezvous, he sails for his ocean-battered island, planning to lock him in the ruins of an abandoned cottage, where he'll be drowned by the incoming tide. The waterman's daughter and her fiancée learn of the kidnapping and borrow another boat to try to prevent the murder.
- Milton Berle welcome vaudeville comedian Bert Wheeler and singer Harry Richman to the program. Wheeler preforms some his venerable routines and Richman sings "Puttin' on the Ritz", the Irving Berlin song that he introduced in the film of the same name. The shows finale features Berle and Richman imitating Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson.
- "The Crystal Room" was short-lived variety series airing on WJZ-TV in New York City, whose format was part entertainment and part interview. The program was set in an imaginary nightclub, with the episode's guest stars would be setting at a table next to the stage. Host Maggi McNellis would approach and interview the guests and convince them to perform a musical number or comedy routine for the audience.
- Mighty Mouse is bound and gagged on the Mojave Desert, surrounded by vultures and Colonel Pureheart has been thrown off the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River swarming with crocodiles - all so the villainous Oil Can Harry can plight his troth to the pretty Pearl Pureheart without outside interference. But Pearl's no shrinking violet - she punches Harry, pummeling him with vases, irons and flower pots and then saws off the flag pole from which the villain is dangling. When the slimy villain finally gets the upper-hand, abducting Pearl and flying off into the sunset, Mighty Mouse rallies his last reserves of strength to defeat the villains and rescue Pearl and her father.
- 2 people - a middle-aged stockbroker and a young widow are passengers on the same flight from California to Hawaii. For different reasons, they've both fled the state with secrets. Neither knows of the others' situation and they both turn to each other for help.
- John Barnes, a young farmer recently returned from serving in World War II encounters Joe, his guardian angel, who saves him from a serious tractor accident when he didn't follow common-sense safety practices. Joe takes John into the future and shows him how many of his friends and fellow farmers will be killed or maimed in farm accidents and inspires him to become involved in the safety movement to prevent those catastrophes.
- Cheyenne Jones comes to the Blue River Ranch and asks for a job as a cowpuncher. Actually, Jones's real name is Buck McCloud and he's the new owner of the spread, having inherited it when his uncle died a year earlier. He's roaming the range incognito while trying to identify who's behind the cattle rustling that is afflicting his new business.
- Series regulars include comic performers Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, singer/actress Mary McCarty, and dancers Marge and Gower Champion.
- Milton's guests include comic actor Victor Moore, singer Jean Sablon, Gloria Colbert and a cameo by Basil Rathbone. The featured sketch cast Berle as Sherlock Holmes and Moore as Dr. Watson with Rathbone in the role of 'Rathbone of Scotland Yard'.
- Series regulars include comic performs Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, singer/actress Mary McCarty, and dancers Marge and Gower Champion.
- Series regulars include comic performs Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, singer/actress Mary McCarty, and dancers Marge and Gower Champion.
- Series regulars include comic performs Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, singer/actress Mary McCarty, and dancers Marge and Gower Champion.
- Suspense/Anthology series based on an ABC radio series which ran from 1946-48. The half-hour series mostly consisted of original dramas concerning murder, mayhem or insanity. Series narrator Larry Semon was the only regular; each week a new set of actors were featured. The title of the series was derived from a clock which was major plot element in each story. The show's musical theme was "The Sands of Time."
- Series regulars include comic performs Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, singer/actress Mary McCarty, and dancers Mata and Hari.
- 1948–1952TV EpisodeUncle Mistletoe and Aunt Judy are feverishly carving their jack-o-lanterns so they will be finished in time for Halloween. Mistletoe, in his role as a surgeon, is called to the hospital to treat a patient with a strange ailment. By administering "zippidy-do-dah medicine" he manages to affect a miraculous cure. Mistletoe then relates the story of several of his friends' misadventures trying to carve a huge pumpkin into the town's largest jack-o-lantern.
- Kenny Detmar's attempts to educate his students on the finer points of poetry, philosophy and opera aren't very successful, perhaps because the classmates are more interested in entertaining the audience by singing, dancing, juggling and playing the clarinet.
- Morey announces that the Silver Swan will be closing for renovations and hopes to open again after the New Year. For the last show, he and announcer Don Russell change roles, with Morey introducing Don as the show's emcee and Russell singing a chorus of Morey's popular song, "Yuk-a-Puk". Newton the waiter announces that oil has been discovered on his property and throws dollar bills into the audience, declaiming "Haircuts for Everybody" until Morey points out the importance of punctuation in a telegram. Informing Morey that his show's theme would never cut it at the Birdland jazz club, Johnny Guarnieri and his band play the show's theme Be-Bop style. Dottie Dean and Freddie Blair recreate their favorite dance number from previous shows ("It was the easiest"). The cadaverous, bug-eyed and usually mute comedian Leo Guarnini recites the nonsense poem "What Did He Say?" Blimpy Blank sings and plays the shows final musical number "All of Me". While playing his cello, Morey thanks the DuMont network and the viewing audience for their support over the past year and a half.
- Morey Amsterdam hosts an evening of variety entertainment from the mythical Silver Swan nightclub. Skits include the botched attempts of a photographer to take glamor photographs of a customer, Morey discovering that by twisting Newton's nose he can listen to all sorts of television shows and an elaborate ballet spoof.
- 1950–195830mNot Rated7.5 (53)TV EpisodeBlanche Morton becomes jealous when her husband, Harry, hires a new secretary because she assumes his new assistant is female. Meanwhile, a pretty high school student drops by the Burns home to interview George for her high school newspaper, Blanche and Gracie assume that the girl is the person Harry just hired.
- A peaceable man becomes marshal of his town at the end of a cattle trail and faces the problems of law enforcement with trail drovers and gunhands.
- In his first appearance on network television, Edgar Bergen hosts a Thanksgiving Day special featuring three of his partners in ventriloquism - Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd and the lesser known Podine Puffington (a life-size doll that Bergen would use as a comedy dancing partner). Orchestra leader Ray Noble becomes upset when Charlie tells him that Edgar has hired someone else as a pianist (who turns out to be the beautiful Diana Lynn) to perform a solo. In the last scene, Edgar and Charlie are the put on trial for witchcraft in Colonial Salem, Massachusetts and sentenced to be burned at the stake before escaping with the help of a fetching Indian maid.
- Salesgirl Joanie tries to impress a handsome man by joining a fitness club.
- Hockey star Ace Phillips dies suddenly in the middle of a game and Kane is called upon to determine if it was an accident or murder.
- Little Dagmar wants desperately to win the school-ending spelling bee in order to show how much her spelling has improved since the previous year, but also to beat her rival, Tommy Jordan. She pesters her parents and siblings to give her words to practice, so much so that Katrin becomes resentful of the attention she's getting. At work, Papa and Mr. Jordan argue over their children's chances of winning the contest. Jordan goads Papa into betting on the outcome with Papa using the money he was supposed to pay his life insurance premium as his stake.
- Joe Huckleberry, a gangster operating a protection racket in Manhattan's Lower East Side, kills a cop who spotted him beating up an old man, but no one will testify against him. Ellery Queen decides to help his father get the evidence he needs for a conviction. This involves beating the Huckleberry at cards so badly that the he needs to steal the money he lost back from Queen.
- Jackie Gleason convinces Frank to buy a "hunting lodge" he recently inherited sight unseen. Frank decides to spend the next weekend visiting his newly purchased property and invites Jackie, June Hutton and the Heathertones to join him with disastrous results.
- After suffering a concussion in a car accident on the Oregon coast, Stephen Elliott is carried to the home of an old man and his beautiful daughter-in-law to recover. The young woman tells Stephen that her husband, a World War II pilot, had died the year before and left an uncompleted musical composition, a model airplane and a piece of sculpture, as well as a strange will. Years later, Stephen has become famous as a sculptor and he meets two other men who had survived serious crashes near the same lighthouse, recovered in Allison's home and gone on to remarkable careers in music and aircraft design. Stephen decides he must learn if this was merely coincidence or whether Allison's husband's will might have some connection with the three men's subsequent brilliant careers.
- A committee investigating racketeering and political corruption in Chinatown fails to get Chan Sou, a local leader to cooperate. The district attorney convinces a detective and a newspaper reporter to probe further and the two men convince the old man to testify. Before Chan Zu can meet with the investigators he's murdered and his daughter becomes the target of the criminals because they believe her father confided in her before he died.
- 1951–195830m7.1 (14)TV EpisodeThe local townsfolk are furious when Wild Bill Hickok, who is serving as the U.S. Marshal based in a small Nebraska town, refuses to organize a posse to chase the remnants of the Quantrill gang after they attack the town. Bill is awaiting word of the outlaw's next raid from Jingles who has infiltrated the gang. The locals recognize the burly lawman as a member of the gang and try to lynch him before he can report to Hickok. Meanwhile McCanles, a local businessman, tries to keep Hickok off-balance while directing the gang to rustle valuable horses off nearby farms.
- Police in an upstate New York resort town have declared the death of pianist Bob Dawson a suicide, but his girlfriend, a singer at a local casino isn't convinced - especially because a counterfeit 10-dollar bill was found clutched in his hand. Ellery agrees to become Janine's accompanist to investigate Bob's suspicious death.
- Wild Bill Hickok and Jingles are ordered to break up a gang of cattle rustlers. The agent for the Osage Indians' reservation has been murdered and the local cattlemen are accusing the tribe of stealing from their herds. Bill becomes suspicious of the man who volunteered to serve as a new Indian agent can me appointed.
- Warren A. Smith, a gullible old man, is convinced by a fortune teller to move his life savings to a different bank. En route to the new establishment, the con woman's pickpocket confederate steals more than $10,000 from the mark's coat pocket. Smith hires Martin Kane to retrieve the stolen money without involving the police.