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- A down-on-his luck newspaperman finds himself the center of an experiment being conducted by two daffy millionaires--to see if someone can spend $1000 a minute, every minute, for 12 solid hours. If he can do it, he gets $10,000. If he can't do it, he gets nothing.
- A retrospective of the classic TV series "Combat!", a drama about a US Army infantry squad fighting in France in World War II, which ran on ABC-TV from 1962-67. Included are clips from the show and interviews with some of the cast, directors and other crew members, who recall their experiences working on the series.
- Gold miner Jim Golden is in love with Miss Dot, the local postmistress, but he has a reputation for being somewhat lazy and shiftless. One day he finds a baby that had been abandoned by local Indians, adopts it, and begins to work his claim again. Parky, a local thief and swindler, finds out that Jim has finally struck gold, and schemes to trick Jim out of his claim and kidnap Miss Dot while he's at it.
- The East Side Kids uncover the body of a murder victim, but must protect the innocent girl accused of the crime.
- A documentary of the opening game of the 1905 National League baseball season, with the New York Yankees and the Boston team, playing in New York City. Featured are Yankees manager John J. McGraw and famed pitcher Christy Matthewson. The game was attended by more than 40,000 fans, making it the largest crowd in the history of the game up to that time.
- A husband takes his wife to a nightclub in Berlin. While there he breaks the news to her that he thinks they should divorce, and leaves her with a young girl on his arm. Angry and humiliated, the wife picks up a young nobleman and takes him home with her. Unfortunately, he turns out to be an international con man who drugs her drink and steals her jewelry. Luckily, the police have been following him and arrest him before he can get away. Meanwhile the husband is starting to have second thoughts about leaving his wife. Complications ensue.
- After a nuclear war, society breaks down into two groups, the evil Euraks and the rebel Federation. A mercenary named Parsifal is hired by the Federation to infiltrate New York City, which is controlled by the Euraks, to rescue the only fertile woman left on Earth.
- Five sexy females from the planet Venus are sent to Earth to bring back sperm samples to their planet. In Bavaria they use machines to extract the samples from resisting males but soon learn that sex is an easier way to get what they want.
- Three young Australians join the army at the beginning of World War I and are assigned to the Australian Light Horse cavalry, which is serving in Palestine. The three eventually take part in the attack during the Battle of Beersheba, which was the last cavalry charge in modern warfare.
- A psycho dressed as a hippie is killing couples in Lake Front. As the police search for more clues and the body count gets higher, they discover every five years, for five days, the killer kills 5 couples. Will they catch this madman or will he get away for another five years?
- A former hitman is blackmailed into doing one more job. The hit doesn't go as planned and he winds up with the police and a gang of Chinese hitmen hunting him down. He hides out at a beautiful young woman's place until he can figure out a way to elude all of his pursuers.
- An electronics expert creates a huge bookie broadcast system for his crime boss, and takes over operations when his boss is murdered. His greed leads him on a deadly destructive path.
- A stood-up bride uses her lawyer as a stand-in for her absent, unreliable fiancé, hoping to get a quick divorce after the media interest dies down. In time, she realizes that she might have wed the right man--but it might be too late.
- Irene, a young girl from a small town, arrives in New York City determined to make it on the Broadway stage. She meets Cookie, a worldly chorus girl who takes Irene under her wing. When Irene falls for young Ronald, his rival Crane sets out to break up the pair so he can have Irene himself--and he doesn't much care how he goes about it as long as he wins.
- Ranch hand Tommy Dawes has a special bond with little Rosemary, the crippled daughter of his boss Bill Nyall. When Tommy accidentally breaks Rosemary's favorite doll one day, he borrows a $20 gold piece from the foreman's mattress to go to town and buy a new doll. However, on the way there he is ambushed and robbed by an escaped convict, and later the sheriff mistakes Tommy for the con and arrests him. Complications ensue.
- A young white girl raised by an Arab family is promised in marriage to an Arab sheik. He persuades her to try to steal some important documents from a British secret agent. She and the agent fall in love and she refuses to steal the documents, but they wind up missing anyway. The sheik is angered at her betrayal. Complications ensue.
- In 1800s California, Patricio and Dolores are in love but are torn by politics--he believes California should join the US, while she believes it should remain a part of Mexico. Convinced that Patricio is a coward and a traitor, she becomes engaged to Juan Diego, an officer in the Mexican army. However, Juan has a dark secret that Dolores knows nothing about that will affect not only his relationship with her but put all of California in jeopardy.
- George, an "unathletic" young man, falls for Clarice, a healthy, athletically-inclined young woman. Unfortunately for George, a strapping, muscle-bound stud is also after Clarice, and she seems to prefer him to George. After reading an article by a female writer saying that women prefer the "caveman" type of man, George decides that if that what it takes to get Clarice, then that is what he will be.
- Robin, a young Norman nobleman, is falsely accused by his cousin of murdering another cousin. His accuser is actually in league with the corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham to seize control of the family lands, which Robin would inherit. Forced to flee into nearby Sherwood Forest, Robin begins to gather a band of rebels to fight against his scheming cousin and the evil sheriff.
- A struggling artist in Greewich Village is devastated when his wife dies. Left with two children and with little money to support them, in desperation he sells one of them to a childless but wealthy couple. When he realizes what he has done, he determines not to go through with the "deal".
- Schoolteacher Frances Angel finds herself attracted to wealthy rancher Jim McPherson but finds his rough-hewn ways objectionable, so when he proposes marriage she rejects him. Her father asks her to return to his home in the East, where her former boyfriend Chet Condon now holds the mortgage on the family home and is threatening to foreclose on it unless Frances marries him. When she also learns that her recently-widowed sister Jane is also moving back east with her newborn, Frances is torn between her duty to her family and her love for Jim.
- When the son of a leader of a Paris underworld family known as The Apaches is arrested and tried in court, the boy's mother asks the judge for mercy, but he refuses. In retaliation, the family kidnaps the judge's young daughter and raises her to be one of their own, schooling her in the ways of crime. One day she steals a valuable pin from a young American artist; he catches her, but an attraction develops between them--and her "Apache" family is not happy about it.
- 1970–19711h8.4 (16)TV EpisodeSen. Stowe chairs a commission that is investigating the shooting deaths of two college students by National Guard troops during an anti-war protest at a university. His task is complicated by the fact that the students, the administrators and the National Guardsmen all give different versions of what happened.
- A talk-radio host, who specializes in abusing and insulting his audience, gets a call from a disturbed teenage girl who says she is going to commit suicide. He frantically tries to get his listeners to help find the girl before she makes good on her threat.
- A new husband takes over his elderly father's hardware store, with the husband running the store and the wife taking care of the father and a somewhat dotty aunt who lives upstairs. However, when the father catches his daughter-in-law in a passionate kiss with another man, she decides it's time to get rid of the old man before he blabs to her husband.
- A young newspaperman bears a striking resemblance to the prince of a small European country. He falls for the daughter of the country's king, who is engaged to the prince. He finds himself caught up in a web of spies, mistaken identity, kidnapping, conspirators, and court intrigue.
- The commissioner of a remote outpost in Africa has a mistress who is so sexy and seductive that she has made several of the local white men kill themselves. She learns that the commissioner's brother is coming to the outpost to be his assistant, and she comes up with a plan to set her sights on him.
- During World War I, Louise, a French girl, refuses to leave her château after the invading Germans take it over for use as their headquarters. A German officer, Col. von Knorr, makes repeated advances on her, but she rebuffs him. When another German officer lures her to an inn and attacks her, the colonel kills him. When the colonel tries to apologize to Louise for his past behavior towards her, she gets the wrong idea and stabs him. Complications ensue.
- Wealthy Mary Fenton is the subject of a lawsuit, and she is temporarily denied access to her money. Circumstances result in her being forced to pose as Mary Cosgrove, an heiress living in the Walford mansion. Matters take a turn for the worse when the real Mary Cosgrove shows up, discovers Mary Fenton's impersonation of her, and demands that she be arrested.
- Eddie, the son of a police officer, gets involved with a criminal gang. His sister Nora finds him and tries to convince him to leave the gang, but he refuses, and his father will have nothing to do with him. Jim, Nora's boyfriend, discovers that the gang is planning to rob a house and he tips off the police. Things go horribly wrong, however, and the gang's members wind up kidnapping Nora and threatening to kill her unless her father helps free the rest of the gang from prison.
- A fur smuggler's daughter asks to accompany him on his trip to the US to sell his furs. She falls for Robert, a young man who has recently been dumped by his girlfriend for a rich man. She and Robert fall in love, but her father suddenly takes her back to Canada to avoid tax agents. Robert searcher for her for a year, and when he finally finds her, he must fight both her father and her father's gang for her. Complications ensue.
- At Thanksgiving, the Johnson family is awaiting the dinner hour, but Mom and Dad have some bad news--because of increased expenses that month, there's no money to buy a turkey. However, instead of feeling bad that they don't have a turkey for Thanksgiving, the family begins to think about all the things they do have to be thankful for.
- During World War I, Rin-Tin-Tin finds that he must rescue his master, a fighter pilot, from his wrecked aircraft. He also has to help him escape his rival, who has ordered him shot so he can have the girl they're competing for all to himself.
- A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in prison, and when they're let out they go back to the burial ground, only to find out that it's no longer a bucolic pasture but the site of a large department store. Despite that setback, they're still determined to dig up their stash.
- A short made by MGM to promote its release of A Christmas Carol (1938). Actor Lionel Barrymore traditionally read the 'Charles Dickens (I)' novel in a radio broadcast every Christmas; he didn't do it in 1938 so as not to conflict with the release of MGM's film. Instead, he made this short to discuss the novel--and the upcoming film--with the audience that would normally listen to his broadcast.
- John Briggs, an Englishman employed as a chauffeur to a member of the Russian nobility, is forced to escape Russia during the Bolshevik revolution. He comes across the dead body of a Russian officer identified as Alexis Triona and finds a diary on the body that details his exciting adventures among the Bolsheviks. Upon his return to England, Briggs continues to work as a chauffeur while trying to become a writer, but his manuscripts are met with rejections from every publisher. He decides to use some of the stories he found in Triona's diary. This time publishers are much more receptive, and "his" stories become best-sellers. To keep up the charade, he passes himself off as the real Triona. Complications ensue.
- Cora Dean's stepmother is planning to swindle the young girl out of the ranch she has just inherited. Cora loves Dick Sterling, but her stepmother tricks Cora into agreeing to marry her son in order to make it easier to steal the ranch from her Dick learns of the scheme and determines to foil the dastardly plot and win the girl he loves.
- A greedy woman turns in her husband, a jewel thief, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now attempting to blackmail their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.
- A prominent Parisian judge is a witness to a murder while he is at a rendezvous with his mistress. A woman is arrested for the crime and brought before him for trial. It turns out that the woman is his ex-mistress, and the judge knows that she is not the killer - but if he comes forward, he stands a good chance of ruining his marriage and his career.
- An English woman, psychotic and sexually repressed, murders her sadistic father, then moves to America. She soon secures a job as a maid for a wealthy family. Soon her severe psychosis and her attempts to keep her sexuality from asserting itself combine to cause trouble for all concerned.
- A scientist invites two students to collaborate on his new study. What they don't know is that his new study is on how to control the human mind to make people commit murders for him, and that he intends to use the couple as his "guinea pigs."
- A father serving time for murder convinces his three teenage sons that his life is being threatened by fellow inmates and that they should break him out of jail. However, when his sons succeed in the jailbreak attempt, the father brings along his cell-mate, a former two time killer, and soon the sons find themselves involved in the pair's murderous crime spree.
- A crazed killer escapes from an asylum and goes on a murder spree, all connected with his fetish for physical perfection. He assumes the identity of his twin brother, a famous and respected architect. A beautiful woman, unaware of his true identity, hires him to make some changes to her house. Complications ensue.
- Young Doris Kane suspects that her fiance, Paul Evans, doesn't love her anymore. She finds out that he is now infatuated with a "vamp", Jeanne DuPre. Paul's father is appalled at his son's behavior, and devises a plan to break up the romance between his son and the vamp by making her fall for him and exposing her perfidy to his son.
- A spoiled young girl manages to snag a wealthy older man as her husband, but soon becomes bored. She finally leaves him, but doesn't really know what she wants. A young man who is a friend--and, unbeknownst to her, an admirer--takes her in.
- A gunfighter's main hope lies in the trust of a beautiful woman who hides him out when he is wrongly suspected of a stagecoach massacre.
- Capt. Deering, a British war hero whose exploits in the Arabian desert have earned him the nickname "The Man of Stone", returns home to London to discover that his fiancé, the wealthy Lady Mary Fortescue, has left him for another man. Devastated, he returns to the desert and begins to drink heavily, which results in his becoming gravely ill. He is cared for by the lovely Laila, an Arab woman who falls in love with him. Meanwhile, Lady Mary has broken up with the man she dumped Deering for and travels to the desert, determined to get him back and to let nothing stand in her way.
- Dance-hall queen Kate Carewe is the toast of the gold-mining camp of Huxley's Gulch. One day a minister, Ralph Bowen, arrives to "clean up" the town. He is scorned by the miners, gamblers and "loose women" of the place, especially Kate, who resents that Bowen calls her a "scarlet woman". One day a plague hits the settlement and many of the townspeople abandon the disease's victims and head for the hills--except for Kate and Ralph, who begin to see each other in a new light.
- Because of a terrible drought the railroad has sent two men into North Fork to recruit workers. But when a water-witch gives the people hope, the railroad takes a different approach.
- Mary Thomas is a single mother with nine children in a rough Chicago neighborhood. She struggles through poverty, resisting gangsters, violence and drugs while battling an indifferent city bureaucracy. Her children thrive under her protection, despite the dangers and temptations of their neighborhood. Mary's youngest son, Isiah Thomas, grows up to be one of the greatest players in the history of the NBA, leading the Detroit Pistons to two championships.