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- A formerly flamboyant hairdresser takes a long walk across a small town to style a dead woman's hair.
- A deformed man working for a marine biologist takes revenge on the people that mock him by experimenting with a deadly jellyfish.
- A TV news team of young kids investigates why students have been locked out of their lunchroom at Plumcrest School. Principal Frankfurter says the shutdown is the best news he's heard all year because of the way the kids behave in there. Children are shown fighting, throwing food and acting like uncivilized rowdies. The food, which is animated, informs the press that they've had enough of the bad behavior and refuse to reopen unless the punks start behaving.
- Teenager Ken is squandering his afternoon lying around his bedroom being bored. He's shown flashbacks of fifty and one hundred years ago when people had no real free time for themselves. The narrator shows him what his friends are doing right now: birdwatching, working a part time job, sewing, and learning to play the piano. Ken remembers that he got a new camera for Christmas and decides that photography would be a good hobby.
- The editor of the Sag-Harbor Bee exchanges banter with an unemployed man who wishes to place an ad for work. They're interrupted by a bill collector who demands Fred either pay for the coat and vest he bought on installment or return them now. Being broke, he takes them off and hands them over. The same collector returns demanding payment for the pants Fred's wearing. After removing his trousers, he emerges from behind a screen holding an open umbrella to hide his underwear.
- A little girl shows up a day late for a friend's birthday party. After wishing she could read a calendar, two spandex-clad people magically appear in her bedroom to teach her how. The duo explains how a calendar can help her keep track of important holidays like Christmas and Halloween. A vest-wearing, electric guitar-wielding rocker who looks like Jackson Browne sings several short songs about the months and the different number of days in each.
- Short film detailing how to make an outline.
- Arthur Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his business partner who ridicules him for keeping his money in his mattress. The Spirit of Banking appears and whisks him away to a contemporary bank. The spirit explains how checking and savings accounts work and that money is loaned out to generate even more wealth. Seeing the error of his ways, Scrooge vows to move his money to a banking institution.
- Mrs. Brown hires Mary to babysit her toddler and young daughter when she and her husband go out for the evening. Mary's duties include serving dinner to the older child and changing the diaper on the younger. THe older daughter throws a tantrum when the baby gets too much attention. After putting the kids to bed, she listens to music and works on her history homework.
- Edie Adams performs songs like "My Ship'' and "When My Sweetie Walks Down the Street."
- Short lived (2-1/2 months) live quiz show with members of the studio audience being selected as contestants to win cash.
- Three children drop by Bob's Fixit Shop with questions about nature. He explains reproduction to them using the fish in his aquarium. First is the Betta splendens, an aggressive fish breed where the male builds a nest and raises the babies. Then, Bob shows them the Egyptian mouthbrooders, a breed where the mother carries the eggs in her mouth until they hatch.
- Teenager Sally is starting to understand the power of emotions. Her teacher demonstrates how we sometimes become irrational without thinking by springing a rubber snake on the classroom. She realizes that by bringing reasoning to a situation, you don't have to let your feelings dictate your behavior. This knowledge allows her to make the right decision and not go with boyfriend Hank to "Lovers' Lane" after the big spring dance.
- A young suburban family, The Macaulays, gets to work on beautifying their yard. Mom Liz draws up plans for what goes where while husband Arthur stocks up on gardening tools. After dirt samples are analyzed by the county agent, the nursery supplies them with the right mixture of soil conditioners. Working on their rose bed, they add peat moss and fertilizer along with bushes. Gladiola bulbs and seeds for other flowers are planted elsewhere. Their son takes part in the fun.
- Careers in food preparation are available practically everywhere, from trains to hospitals to restaurants. Workers are seen performing the various jobs in a busy kitchen. Duties include vegetable cook, fry cook, broiler cook and roast cook. The dishes vary from simple to elaborate. A chef is concerned with presentation, making his food look as good as it tastes.
- This short film encourages children to keep reading.
- Young Tommy and his kid sister Peggy start their day by washing up and getting dressed. Tommy's loose tooth is the topic of conversation at the breakfast table. At school, his teacher explains how baby teeth fall out so that permanent teeth can push through. Returning home, Tommy and Peggy play outside until dinner time, Just before bedtime, Tommy pulls out his loose tooth.
- A young man in love with a sophisticated woman from the city is torn between his desires and those of his family. His parents wish him and his brother to stay and work on their small Minnesota wheat farm while both want to escape the tough life and move to the city. It's up to the mother to keep the family together in spirit during their Thanksgiving holiday reunion.
- An attractive, charming librarian is smitten with the movie director who's been hanging around the library. He enlists her help in tracking down a stunning woman he'd seen there days before; he describes her as having "a glow." Though she's glad to help, she hates that she hasn't captured his attention like the future movie star has.
- In a live show from San Francisco's Presido, Hope and McMurray play waterfront fishermen, two shop owners in Chinatown, and prisoners breaking out of Alcatraz. The Bell Sisters perform "Wheel of Fortune" and a comedy number, "June Night", with Bob. Rich prospector Hope drops by a Barbary Coast bar where everyone wants his gold. Bob and Fred do "Small Fry." Alpaka sings "Beyond the Reef."
- Noted scientist Dr. J. P. Hartley has been kidnapped by foreign agents. Captain Midnight, Ikky, and Tut determine he'd been working with extreme cold to make a metal that could withstand practically anything. An ice sheet in the desert tips the guys off to the doctor's location. As Captain Midnight tries to revive the frozen scientist in the spies' icy lair, the military drops an atomic bomb nearby at the government's atomic testing grounds.
- 1967–19781hTV-G7.6 (72)TV EpisodeCarol's guests are Lucille Ball, Eddie Albert, and Nancy Wilson. Harvey joins her for "The Old Folks." Roger brings home his new boss, a health fanatic, and forces Carol to act like she exercises. Carol and Lucy are popular funeral attendees in "As the Stomach Turns," Eddie is an undertaker, and Nancy integrates Canoga Falls. Nancy sings "The Folks Who Live on the Hill," teams with Carol for "The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener," and Eddie sings "Father of Girls." The finale is a tribute to the astrological sign Leo.
- 1967–19781hTV-G7.5 (68)TV EpisodeHighlights include a salute to Tin Pan Alley.
- 1949–1952TV EpisodeJerry Lester hosts the series' first anniversary. Guests include ventriloquist Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney, Jane Pickens and the Escourtiers, rumba dancers Horatio and Lana, and actors Kim Stanley and John Garfield. Winchell tries to get Mahoney to go to sleep; when he does, the dummy dreams about the two trading places. Pickens and her six Escourtiers' songs include "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and "St. Louis Blues." Lester is a greedy contestant on the radio quiz show "Take It or Lump It." Garfield and Stanley perform a dramatic scene from Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy". Lester also juggles.
- A band of gypsies settles down in the Montana Territory to take advantage of the copper stakes they've made in the region. In the nearby town of Bender, a group of shady locals believe the settlers should be stripped of their rights and take the matter to court. When it looks like the judge is going to rule for the gypsies, the outlaws kidnap him and lock him in the local jail.
- A sickly 14-year-old girl being raised by a domineering aunt is given a ferret by the gardener's son. The girl ascribes supernatural powers to the creature. When she wishes a toothache on her aunt, the woman coincidentally gets one. The girl then ups the ante and begs the animal to have her aunt killed.
- An land mine is stolen from a U.S. atomic testing lab in the Nevada desert. Steve hops on the next train out of the nearest town, believing the thief is escaping on board the Snowbird, the only transportation out of the area. What the robber and the other passengers don't realize is that the mine is armed and set to automatically explode in just a few hours.
- Steve travels to Tokyo to get evidence on an ex-girlfriend who's suspected in an outbreak of sabotage. He finds Marta as charming and dangerous as ever; an agent and a soldier who figured her out soon join her husband in death. Once Steve accuses her of sabotage and murder, he's in line to be her next victim.
- A foreign agent loses his life trying to steal a reel of film from a low-budget Italian movie. Steve is sent to Rome to find out why this footage is so valuable. He meets the flick's untalented producer, director and screenwriter and screens the film. Steve can't figure out why anyone would want this pretentious collection of shots. Then, the cameraman staggers in with a knife in his back.
- Steve is sent to Stockholm, Sweden, to investigate a group of European professors who go conduct worldwide lecture tours. One of them is though to be a foreign agent carrying secrets back with him or her. An informant asks Steve to retrieve his son from a boarding school there, but finds the child has disappeared.
- Steve hops on a French train to protect the head of an American plastics corporation who's traveling to a foreign conference. He finds the industrialist shot dead and missing are the man's documents detailing a new discovery in weapons. With the help of a French businessman, Steve goes undercover among the passengers looking for a suspect.
- Cops are swarming at opening night of Dante's Inferno because the D.A. refuses to believe Willie's really gone straight. An out-of-town mobster also figures the nightclub's a front for gambling and orders Willie to become his partner, or there will be a shooting in the club that night.
- Vickie and Gus quickly regret bringing along nephew Wheeler to their mountain cabin. The loudmouthed teen soon insults all the locals by calling them hillbillies and hicks and mistaking a chubby woman for a pot-bellied stove. The Angels are banished by the locals, but intend to go to the big dance anyway.
- A professional stage pick-pocket has fallen on hard times, unable to get a booking since he developed arthritis in his hands. Desperate for money, he puts his skills to work on the general public, but his conscience won't let him actually keep their money. Then suddenly, good things start coming his way.
- District Attorney Paul Nelson's Senate run seems a shoe-in after sending a punk to the gas chamber for murder. But then a man claiming he's the actual killer threatens to expose Nelson's blunder unless he's paid $20,000. Refusing to believe he sent an innocent man to his death, Nelson does some investigating on his own.
- Bill sells his gold claim for $100,000 so he invites long-lost relatives to an elaborate family reunion. Those that arrive are really grifters hoping to get some of his fortune. Not bitter, Bill treats them like they are really family.
- A psychotic husband has his wife shot by an innocent woman who thinks she's simply taking a photograph with an odd camera. He then goes to hide out at a hunting lodge in the mountains. Fearing he'll take the other hunters hostage, Casey goes undercover as a tourist to smoke him out.
- 1956–1963TV EpisodeDinah's guests are dancer Gwen Verdon, comedians Groucho Marx and Carl Reiner and boxer Ingemar Johansson. Dinah sings a medley of tunes from her new LP, and teams with Groucho for "Peasy Weasy." Verdon does her Irby Fitch production from "Redhead." Gwen and Dinah flirt shamelessly with Ingemar as he gives them boxing lessons.
- A gang of dimwitted kidnappers hold multi-millionaire Rodney Van Such for ransom. His office pays the crooks with a check which requires Van Such's signature, but he's such a cheapskate, he refuses to pay for his own release. Stuck with a hostage who'd rather be shot than spend money, the thugs start reducing their ransom demands.
- A bride is horrified when her husband changes their honeymoon plans at the last minute and takes them into the Everglades to camp. The groom's jealously and desire for secrecy makes her worry about his secretive past. Clues lead her to believe he's the infamous "Bluebeard killer" who murders his new brides in out of the way locations.
- Thomas Sullivan is a respected heart surgeon who clamors for even more recognition. He has the chance to perform a heart transplant on a fellow man of science when a laborer, killed in an automobile accident, is brought in. That man isn't quite as dead as he appears, but Sullivan takes his heart nonetheless and transplants it. Events take an eerie turn when the donor's body disappears and Sullivan begins getting unsettling phone calls.
- Popular advice columnist Cora Blake lives in fear knowing the car bomb that killed her husband was meant for her. She informs the police she's going into hiding, not even telling her close friend Harry where she's headed. Isolated at her brother's seaside home, she becomes terrorized by someone who inexplicably knows she's there.
- George Manners is awakened one night by his ex-wife Blanche and a man named Hammer who force him at gunpoint to go off with them. Eventually, George escapes from the pair and runs to a police station to tell them his story. The cops find George's story odd; they inform him that Blanche and Hammer died three years earlier.
- Alvin Hazeltine is a man bored with his life who visits the mystical Dr. Gornak who demonstrates an odd device -- a glass prism that reveals the infinite possibilities of every woman. He trains the glass on his boring wife, Selma, and is surprised by what he learns.
- Reverend Vincent arrives at a missionary outpost in remote Australian to find everyone missing. Following a series of unexplainable events, he's told that it's the work of a Kadaitcha, an Aboriginal "witch doctor," who's trying to take his soul. The reverend instead believes the hallucinations he once suffered have returned.
- Wealthy Lily Parkhurst has been living on borrowed time for years thanks to a bad heart. Her greedy cousin and companion Harold rushes her overdue demise with a well-planned poisoning, knowing there will be no autopsy. Harold hadn't planned on the old lady's cockatoo, Radcliffe, being such a blabbermouth about what he's witnessed.
- Constance knows that her much younger husband, Evan, is having an affair with her nurse, and that he's hastily stashed her in the closet. That why she demands that he immediately brick up it up. Not wanting to lose out on his rich wife's money, he does as she says. Constance thinks the nasty little problem is behind them until the supposedly dead nurse starts appearing around the house.
- When a actor who usually plays a villain in horror movies finds himself about to become a real-life victim, he learns what its like to be on the bad end of a fright.
- Rip Baker has always been hated in his hometown of Flatt Junction. He leaves to return years later as a rich man. During his his absence, the town has fallen onto hard times and most people have moved away. The few that remain are bitter when Baker refuses to share his fortune with those in community.
- The Webbers' dream vacation in Central America becomes a nightmare when their son, Scott, disappears off of a rural roadside merry-go-round. The strange couple that runs the attraction are of no help, nor is Police Captain Ortega who soon disappears. Someone who doesn't want them to find their son runs the couple's car off the highway. On foot, they stumble upon a ghost town where they find their son. He's on an altar, about to be sacrificed by a strange bird-worshiping cult.