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- Circus performer Tira seeks a better life pursuing the company of wealthy New York men with improbable comic complications along the way.
- Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.
- This is an earlier, much less successful version of the The Punch Bowl (1944), but the story is basically the same: The famous writer Hans Pfeiffer has problems in directing his latest play about a high-school class. He's told the reason is that he never attended a regular school, so he decides to swap roles with his younger brother Erich, who's a never-graduating, always kidding senior in a small-town high-school. When Erich aka Hans suddenly turns from class clown into the role model of a pupil, everyone believes it's just another prank. So Hans is practically forced to take over Erich's standard... and enjoys it.
- Vienna 1905: A risque drawing is published and threatens to compromise the model, a doctor's wife. Artist Heideneck protects her and invents a name. But the name exists, and this respectable lady is drawn into the artist's shady affairs.
- Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.
- Two rival newsreel photographers join forces to find an aviatrix's missing brother, who has disappeared in the Amazon rainforest.
- After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
- The day before chemist Dr. Hans Wynhold leaves for a six months business trip to Africa, he meets chemistry student Christa Weiden. They spend the evening together in St. Pauli and fall in love. She doesn't tell him that she'll start the next day at the chemistry laboratory he works at too, because he says he doesn't like women in "men's jobs". Only after his departure the next day Christa learns about Hans' reputation as a Don Juan. In fear that she'll lose him to another woman, she follows him... and starts a series of complications.
- The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
- To prevent a libel case against the paper, a reporter tries to compromise the reputation of a tycoon's slandered daughter.
- An escaped convict injured during a robbery falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
- After gang leader Rick is killed, his wife Molly takes over his gang but a robbery goes wrong and Molly finds herself in jail where she undergoes a personal transformation.
- Feud between the long-established stagecoach and steamship lines and the emergent railway companies trying to expand into the Midwest.
- After Professor Brookfield and his pretty daughters Peggy and Susan move into the small town Pasadena in California, their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding immediately takes over control, helps them moving in, and urges the girls to participate in the annual Rose Bowl beauty pageant. Although they're not thrilled, they enter the competition. Meanwhile Mrs. Fielding's son Tom makes eyes at Peggy, unaware that her heart already belongs to a famous football star. So she tries to redirect his interest to her sister Susan.
- An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director in 1929.
- A trail guide escorts a group of women from Chicago to California to marry men that have recently begun settling there.
- New Jersey couple Anna and Poppy Rose become foster parents to several kids born into less fortunate circumstances, including a desperately unhappy 13-year-old girl and a physically handicapped boy with a penchant for getting into serious trouble.
- Company owner Seibold has an affair with the younger Rita. When his wife starts having suspects due to a purse lost in a taxi, he comes up with the excuse she'd be his companion Max' girlfriend. This leads to the idea to generally "enhance" Max' past, to make him more interesting to Seibold's bold daughter.
- 1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right into the bedroom of his enemy's fiancée.
- In 1947, an American pilot returns to Germany to find a family that saved his life during WW2 but he stumbles upon a secret Neo-Nazi group.
- Christl's aunt urges her to marry Dr. Heider. Although she hardly knows him, Christl accepts - mainly to escape her overprotective aunt. But since she doesn't want to live with her new husband, she switches roles with her self-assured twin sister Annelie, who promises to get rid of him in just a week. Meanwhile Christl substitutes her in her job as secretary of a componist. Of course both get into their roles and start to like their exchanged men...
- This is the tear-jerking love story between young Pamela and casino owner Mayrhoefer. Pamela has just been released from hospital, incurably sick. Near the border to Switzerland she runs into Mayrhoefer, who's now on flight from the police. In flashbacks Pamela remembers the time they met, when she was 22 and they fell in love and had a great, but limited time together.
- A film about men's friendship and the complications of love: Karl and Peter are close buddies since they were pilots in defense of German cities during ww-ii. Now they are working together in a bomb disarm unit. During a vacation they visit Karl's mother and fiancée Helge in the heath-land. When Helge meets Peter, it's love on first sight. But Karl, who's considering quitting his job and buying a local gas station, fails to notice it. Torn between his feelings for Helge and his friendship to Karl, Peter accepts a dangerous job...
- The talented law student Corda has a severe traffic accident: in panic she fled after an argument with her older boyfriend, who told her he's married. Now, 8 years later without having seen him, she's the first woman in town to become district attorney. However in her first case she's to sue against landlord Neidard, who looks exactly like her old flame. Old memories are awakened, and make her neglect her professional duties.
- The program has three segments: (1) "Arms and the Man" (staging of George Bernard Shaw's play), (2) "Manufacturers - Machines and People" (a look at manufacturing processes), and (3) (Alistair Cooke summarizes Omnibus' first season).
- Kati is wooed by the rich sawmill owner Prackner since years, but she doesn't love the much older man. Only when her father's horse breeding is deep in financial trouble and his bank urges him to declare bankruptcy, she gives in and marries him, although she loves Martin, one of Prackner's workers.
- In South Tirol, shortly after ww-ii: Paul and Barbara Holzmann and their son Charlie own a small gasoline station. At their wedding anniversary, of all days, Barbara finds proof that Paul may again have cheated on her. At first she believes his explanations, but when she finds more proof later, she leaves and seeks comfort in the arms of her former friend Nicola in Italy. The story is told from the perspective of her diary.
- In north-western Canada,in the 1870s,American schooner captain Peter Keith hopes to return to America with a cargo of furs before winter but two local crooks plan to steal Keith's cargo,boat and wife.
- A beautiful but heartless television actress, uses seduction and tricks to blackmail the men in her life to a point, where she could get herself killed.
- While working as accountant in his uncle's factory, talented young pianist Peter dreams of becoming a famous composer. When he shows his work to a producer, he manages to convince him to give him a chance. From time to time he gets bigger contracts that keep him more and more away from home and his young wife Elisa. When he "discovers" and supports a pretty ballerina in Munich, a rumor starts that he's having an affair. He fails to realize that his marriage is threatened.
- Brief biopic of Wilhelm Canaris, army intelligence (Abwehr) chief of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1944.
- -In Montreal (Canada), a police inspector slowly discovers a plot to kidnap a nuclear physicist, American mobsters, foreign spies, and a blonde seductress, are all involved.
- Farmer Lemken doesn't accept the obligation to pay taxes and refuses to do so. In consequence his best breeding sow Jolanta shall be sold in forced auction. But the whole village stands together and helps him to hide the pig. The young teacher Dr. Meinert, who's in love with Lemken's daughter Anna, tries to help him too, in the formally correct way.
- Beautiful Dunja is bored to death at the post office of her father, far in the depths of Russia. When the dubious officer Minski arrives, she's fascinated by his stories about life in St. Petersburg and easily can be persuaded to accompany him there. Minski promises her father to marry her later. In truth he's soon tired of her and throws her out; she's passed around among the officers of the czar like a prostitute. When her father gets word of it, he wants to take revenge.
- The last day of a vacation at the sea, Thomas Ritter met two women: the shy and warm hearted Sabine and the rich Melanie. He settled with Melanie, who could help him with his career as a composer - but came to regret it much when she annoyed him with her unfounded jealousy and suicide threats during all the years of their marriage. When he finally overcomes his scruples and seeks refuge with Sabine, who he kept a friendship to, Melanie is found dead the next day, and it's arranged in a way that suggests Thomas as her murderer...
- Helene Willfuer is an ambitious student of medicine. She comes to the University of Berlin especially to write her doctoral thesis under Dr. Matthias. In his lab she meets young Dr. Rainer and falls in love with him. She doesn't know that he has an affair with Dr. Matthias' wife, who gave up her promising career as violinist for her husband and feels lonely now. Her jealousy is not to be underestimated.
- Her father urges Greta to marry the noble lawyer Dr. Hans von Spoerling. But her former boyfriend Fred Roland is informed of the planned engagement and arrives from America just in time. Put under pressure from both parties, Greta leaves and hits the road. She ends up in Schlaffenhofen, a small village in Southern Bavaria. The attractive woman and her modern car - with Berlin's number plate 'IA' on it - is a small sensation. But the two fiancée haven't given up on her, especially since her father promised her to the first who finds her.
- The day before Danny Ruland wants to marry, she learns that her expected husband is a marriage impostor, and has left with all of her money. But she's lucky and finds by chance a job as secretary of the famous fashion designer Hannes Pratt. One of her new tasks is to manage her boss' numerous love affairs. She feels exploited, until she learns that these affairs are just professional, and that he's really a nice guy...
- In the western frontier town of Cross Creek, storekeeper George Temple is a polite and soft spoken man with a secret past. When 3 bank robbers on the lam stop in town to change horses, George's past comes back to haunt him.
- Anny arrives in Munich to start a career as an actress, but soon ends up without money and job, sleeping on a park bench. When the police picks her up, she pretends to have amnesia and is taken to the police station. There she's surprised to get presented her alleged parents. Not knowing yet what kind of game they play, she goes home with them and lets the rich couple coddle her.
- When Liane, a lost girl worshiped by an African tribe, is returned to her native Hamburg, she becomes the center of a love quadrangle and a deadly tug-of-war over her grandfather's inheritance.
- After his step brother Jacob dies in an accident, farmer Matthias Ferner learns from Paula, Jacob's spouse of many years, that she and her two children will inherit the whole farm. She takes over command immediately, failing to realize that he must feel like her servant. So he searches and destroys his brother's will and even swears a perjury in court - but there's a witness he didn't count in.
- After high school the lover's Ursula and Gerhard paths part: she stays in the small town, while he attends university in Hamburg to become a composer. While she remains faithful to their love, he forgets more and more about her when he becomes successful as song writer for the famous singer Dahl. Disappointed, Ursula turns to Gerhard's former friend Peter.
- In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.
- An honest sheriff attempts to save an 11-year-old boy who helped him capture a notorious killer.
- Andrea is vacationing in the mountains. She employs the young mountain guide Bertl to accompany her on a tour to a mountain top - and falls in love with him. Because of a storm they have to spend the night on the mountain. When he's back home, Bertl's jealous fiancée demands a prove of his love. He shall get her an Edelweiss from the dangerous mountain "Gottesfinger".
- 1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right into the bedroom of his enemy's fiancée.
- His grandpa gives the orphan boy Robbie a foal that they call "little brother". The boy loves the animal and wants to train it as a racing horse - but then his grandpa dies. Robbie's sister isn't old enough to care for themselves, so they get a guardian who decides to sell all the horses. Robbie hides his "little brother" at a farm, but it's hard for him to come up with the rent regularly.
- A sportswriter and a fashion-designer marry after a whirlwind romance, and discover they have little in common.
- The pop singer Sonja has to perform an emergency landing with her two-seater in the mountains of Tirol. There she discovers the yodeling lumberjack Toni. She persuades him to come with her into town and to start a career in the music business. Toni's spouse Maria stays behind, worried, and with a broken heart. Will he ever come back?