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- A shy girl who lost her immigrant parents is taken in by a stranger, Joe, and nursed back to health. She lost her ability to speak in a concentration camp; Joe helps her to regain her words.
- Fred Staples is the newest executive in a large firm. He strikes up a friendship with Andy Sloane, the Vice President to whom he nominally reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, someone who has devoted his entire life to the company at the expense of his family. Sloane knows what Ramsey is up to but digs in his heels and refuses to quit. Tragedy ensues forcing Staples to make a choice.
- A private charter plane carrying two businessmen crashes and kills all aboard. While investigating the crash, police discover that a third passenger never boarded the plane, and begin to suspect that the crash may have not have been an accident after all but a scheme by the third passenger to fake his own death.
- A murder is committed on a Nile steamer, but Hercule Poirot is on board.
- On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
- Fred Staples is the newest executive in a large firm. He strikes up a friendship with Andy Sloane, the Vice President to whom he nominally reports. Staples is good at his job and the company's hard-nosed president, Walter Ramsey, is pleased with his choice. Staples has a crisis of conscience when Ramsey tells him that he's been recruited to replace Sloane, someone who has devoted his entire life to the company at the expense of his family. Sloane knows what Ramsey is up to but digs in his heels and refuses to quit. Tragedy ensues forcing Staples to make a choice.
- On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
- A returned Kansas soldier who loved a French girl in WW2 remembers her fondly while he works at his mundane job back home.
- A college student faces embarrassment and expulsion for having cheated on an exam. Her fiance is a member of the university's undergraduate honor board and could quietly make the matter "disappear." The young woman reconsiders, deciding that covering up for her bad behavior would be wrong and build a bad foundation for their marriage.
- A young country boy with a guitar skyrockets to the top as a rock 'n roll idol. With his religious background, he finds himself constantly at odds with his sleazy manager. This is especially evident at the funeral of the singer's grandmother. A hymn that he's supposed to sing turns into a rock'n tune.
- Just out of prison Joe Harris looks to restart his life. His wife Barbie has moved and the one man who can tell him where refuses to do so. Enraged, Joe beats the old man senseless and runs away to his father's home, where he also finds his wife. A police detective comes around about the beating (which will soon to become a murder) and Joe insists he's innocent. Joe tells his wife and father he's a changed man and he's only a suspect because of his prior conviction. Barbie and Fred struggle with their desire to believe Joe's plea versus their fear he'll never change.
- Episode: (1958)1947–19581h6.3 (45)TV EpisodeTodays theme is a Three Plays by Tennessee Williams: Moony's Kid Don't Cry/The Last of My Solid Gold Watches/This Property Is Condemned.
- During World War II, an American G.I., who went overseas and fell in love with a French girl, returns to Kansas and a job at a filling station, all the while never forgetting his French love. When he learns that she is coming to New York, he and his pals go to meet her. In New York, he and the French girl are suspected of illegal activities concerning some jewels picked up in the war and the story of their romance in France is told in flashback.
- Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way.
- Emma's a beautiful, intelligent heiress who cares for her elderly father. In desperate need of diversion, she involves herself in the romances and dalliances of her friends.
- A drunken mother and lazy, no-good father has made Ciske a troubled, and troublesome, student. A caring and concerned teacher and a handicapped classmate believe that they can help him turn his life around.
- An old bitter miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.
- A homeless man (Barton) and his friend are wandering down Park Avenue on Christmas Day when they encounter a dog. Barton takes the dog in tow and tries to talk the owner of a nearby diner (Bob) into giving him a free meal while the friend waits outside. After obtaining a cup of hot water from a very reluctant Bob, Barton pours catsup into it to make tomato soup and Bob gives him some crackers. In wanders a lonely boy whose wealthy parents are separated. He befriends Barton and invites him home to Christmas dinner. The boy takes Barton to a luxury apartment on Park Avenue (the friend doesn't make it past the doorman) and shows Barton the key that is always kept under the mat. Barton pockets the key intending to sneak back later and break into the apartment. Naturally the boy's parents are shocked when their son introduces them to Barton but his storytelling ability wins them over. In fact, Barton is more uncomfortable in this situation than the boy's parents are. Barton overhears the mother tell her husband that she is leaving for Florida soon with their son to obtain a divorce because she believes her husband has been unfaithful. The husband denies this but the mother says she has made up her mind. Shortly thereafter, the mother accuses Barton of stealing a brooch her husband gave her for Christmas. After her accusation is shown to be false, she begins to have doubts about the accusation of infidelity against her husband and they decide to give their marriage another chance. The mother even agrees to let her son accept Barton's dog as a Christmas present. The boy's parents insist that Barton eat dinner with them. When Barton finally leaves the apartment house, he meets his friend outside and gives him some sandwiches. Then to his friend's astonishment, Barton hands the doorman the key to the apartment.
- As a chef, a GI is a whiz in the kitchen. As a soldier, he's undisciplined and is constantly getting into trouble. His shenanigans bring a gruff general down with him.
- 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 grandmother brings in male boarders because she's looking for a man to marry her eldest daughter's daughter. The daughter, however, is very happy being a career woman. A battle between the old world ways and modern goals follows.
- Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
- After getting married, a jazz musician gets a "real" job in a department store. His true love, his music, continues to call to him.
- A cleaning woman who works in an artist's apartment has a vivid imagination. After running into some minor trouble with a young policeman, she has quite a romantic dream.
- During the fading days of the Klondike gold rush, a man loses all of his money to a gambler. Desperately wanting to impress his wife with his success, he steals a couple of bags of the ore from two miners. His expecting wife arrives and almost immediately goes into labor. A veterinarian steps up and helps save the woman's life.
- A man visiting the United States contracts a deadly blood disease that is curable only by a rare drug; there is only one dose of the drug remaining in the world and it's being rushed to the sick man. The taxi driver who is bringing the dosage is suffering from the same disease.
- A young man comes into the life of a childless married couple, functioning in many ways as a son. Trouble begins when he and the wife fall in love and begin plotting the death of the clueless husband.
- A young woman finds it hard to find a husband in a ghost town. She becomes friends with a grizzled old gold prospector who's being driven crazy by his nagging wife.
- This comic tale is a parody of life backstage at a Broadway show.
- Thaddeus Stevens, the powerful leader of the Radical Republicans in the House of Representatives, wishes to punish the South following the American Civil War. First it was President Abraham Lincoln and now his successor Andrew Johnson who opposes Stevens' plans of retribution. An angered Stevens begins the process of impeaching Johnson in 1868.
- On their first wedding anniversary, a young couple finds their marriage in trouble. Having their respective families on hand leads for the celebratory dinner only reignites old jealousy.
- A story about the university career of a young writing genius and the difficulties he has with his teachers and fellow students.
- This psychological drama centers on the problems of a college student who's a gifted, though unhappy, writer. He life reaches a turning point when he has an argument with a malevolent professor.
- Joe is accused by a powerful local figure of drunk driving. He brings a defamation of character lawsuit against the man but runs into problems with the lawyer he's hired. The attorney is less interested in defending Joe than he is in destroying the man who made the accusation.
- With no outlet in her community to lavish her energy, a take-charge woman so dominates her family that she begins to tear it apart. Her son, finally free of her iron hand, runs wild at college. After having broken up her daughter's romance, the girl causes a scandal by eloping.
- Totally devoted to her younger sister, a concert pianist, a woman's possessive nature causes family friction.
- An actor gets his long-sought "big break" playing Henry V at a sea-side theatre outside New York City. While there, his daughter falls in love with one of his fellow actors.
- An American salesman who is about to return home from Brussels after an unsuccessful business trip is offered $10,000 to smuggle diamonds to the U.S. He agrees and promptly has the gems stolen. He then frantically goes in search of the thief.
- A widow dreads the thought of losing her son to his prospective bride.
- Problems arise when a young secretary sets her sights on her successful, middle-aged playwright boss. By the time that he comes around to her advances, she's moved on to a man closer her age.
- Rather than causing frustration, a child-like wife endears herself to others.
- A man is accused of embezzling but, in the process of being acquitted, he destroys the reputation of the key witness. His wife then discovers evidence that proves her spouse actually did commit the crime.
- Daddy can't make money fast enough to keep up with Eva's spending, so he hires Adam to slow down her shopping by telling her that he's broke.
- A high fashion photographer of beautiful models has serious problems with his life and career, leading him to turn to drink. The faith of a young woman allows him to salvage both.
- The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.
- Only an assassin's bullet, it seems, will stop Willie Stark.
- An Italian immigrant has a strong desire to return to his hometown, but faces great opposition from his fellow émigrés.
- A disturbed young girl is in a school that is set up to turn troubled kids into well-adjusted, respectable citizens. However, she finds herself locking horns with some adults at the school she is convinced are against her.
- Two young Polish men are arrested by the Communist authorities in Warsaw and thrown in prison, where they spend the next five years. They are never told what their "crimes" were and, in fact, are never tried in court. While in prison they wrote a book, and that is the basis for this episode.
- Anna has been held under the thumb of her invalid father, being a virtual slave to his demands, for her whole life. With his death, she only sees more of the same from her three domineering brothers. Her only hope comes in the form of a charming repairman.
- An elderly man who is in love with a young woman discovers that too many people are interested in his romance. The love affair is the immediate concern of the middle-aged widower's daughter-in-law, his housekeeper, and the neighbors. Their interference almost deprives him of years of happiness.
- A middle-aged Iowa housewife finds romance with a poet in Europe. She decides to be "good" and returns home to her husband, only to have her almost-lover appear stateside.
- A middle-aged Iowa housewife finds romance with a poet in Europe. She decides to be "good" and returns home to her husband, only to have her almost-lover appear stateside.
- An old woman's family is torn apart by her lingering death--and its expenses.
- A mysterious man and woman check into a boarding house, arousing the attention of the old ladies who live there. They begin gossiping and convince themselves that the new boarder is the horrible "Bluebeard" murderer who has killed numerous women.
- A headstrong widower marries a young woman. His adult son and daughter must adjust to their father having another wife other than their mother.
- An spinster became caretaker of an orphan girl when she was a small child. The girl develops into a young adult and falls in love. The spinster offers useful insight for the lovebirds and rediscovers her own youth thanks to their romance.
- A broken-hearted woman who lost her child at birth desperately wants another child. She and her husband turn to the black market to adopt an infant because the legal route is so cumbersome and slow. They become attached to a particular child but its nurse tries to convince the couple to do things properly.
- In this slapstick farce, a husband, fed up with his wife's chronic lying, moves out. To get him back, she procures a child and sends word that the kid is theirs.
- An ambitious politician running for governor is informed by his wife that she's leaving him and getting a divorce. He tells her that, in order not to harm his chances in the election, she had better stay with him until after the campaign. When he arrives home one night shortly afterward, he finds his wife fighting with an intruder, and he is then struck on the head and knocked out. When he regains consciousness, he discovers his wife lying on the floor, dead.
- After 16 years of marriage, a couple chooses to divorce. Though they decide to conduct themselves in a "civilized" manner, they were clueless about the impact it would have on their three children.
- A Confederate soldier is injured in his escape from a Union prison. He finds refuge in a nearby farmhouse and falls in love with a young Yankee woman.
- A newlywed husband learns that his wife may have a criminal past. He becomes suspicious and evidence suggests she may be a serial killer--and he's her next victim.
- Aboard a New York to Chicago Express train, a master criminal pulls off a sensational heist. Posing as an insurance salesman, he steals a priceless collection of currency from a bonded messenger and then challenges the victim to prove he did it.
- A frantic father helps police search for his traveling wife and daughter. The child had been bitten by a rabid dog and needs medical attention immediately.
- This comedy tells the story of the ambassador Benjamin Franklin's visit to Paris from 1776 to 1777.
- A self-made blowhard prides himself on living plainly and cheaply - and forcing his family to do the same. After making a fool of himself at a dinner held for his daughter's future in-laws, he plans on bringing home an important client. His irritated wife replaces their nice stuff with junk and serves the plainest meal ever.
- A young man returns home and receives a somewhat cool reception. He's surprised to discover that he's not the black sheep of the family.
- An 18-year-old tomboy suddenly discovers her womanhood when her mother takes in a boarder. With the arrival of a traveling salesman in her home, the young woman packs up her sweatshirts and becomes quite the feminine girl.
- A 17-year-old boy feels unwanted living in cramped quarters with his brother's family. He sets out to find a place to call home with little success. He quickly learns that moving in with a pair of crabby old maid aunts is a mistake.
- A teenage informer serving in a reform school for juvenile delinquents fears for his life. He's been placed with members of a rival gang to gain information.
- A couple are afraid of losing their adopted teenage son to his heartless mother.
- A small town eccentric inherits a fortune and promptly enjoys his second childhood. He liberally spends cash on sodas, gum, and tickets to baseball games. His nephew, a lawyer, is horrified by his behavior, especially since he wants to get his hands on the money before it's all gone.
- An elderly New England spinster tries to convince her great-nephew that he should get married and move into her museum of a house.
- This comedy revolves around three co-eds who room together.
- An elderly man believes that his late daughter is still alive.
- A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail.
- Suffering from rheumatic fever, a boy's parents take him to the seashore to recover. It's there that he befriends an old sea dog named Cap'n Jonas. The captain suffers a major heart attack, but prior to dying assures the child that he will always be nearby if he needs his help. Cap'n Jonas makes good on his promise when the boy needs a dangerous operation.
- A British spy works in the Soviet sector of East Berlin. Her fiancé is arrested by Communists who wrongly suspect him of being a secret agent. The woman is faced with the dilemma of either exposing her own cover or allowing him to suffer needlessly.
- An uninhibited widow asserts her independence from her children.
- A psychotic actor goes to extremes to keep his ex-girlfriend from going out with another man. When she falls in love with a new man, the couple become the target of threats and violence from the berserk thespian.
- An old man who resides at a rest home mistakenly answers the summons for jury duty meant for another. Upon reporting, he discovers that he has important evidence in the murder trail he's deciding on.
- A love triangle develops behind the facade of a seemingly happy marriage. The situation seems destined for tragedy, but compassion and understanding keep that from happening.
- A respectable businessman is forced back into to a life of criminal activity, something that he thought that he had long since left behind.
- An emotionally unstable young man brings heartache into the lives of two sisters: one is a dress shop owner and the other a singer.
- A cop is killed on duty, reportedly while breaking up a gambling ring. When the investigation focuses on one particular suspect, the precinct captain wants to immediately charge the man with murder. However, a detective investigating the case begins to suspect that the dead officer wasn't quite as squeaky-clean as he was being made out to be.
- A former teacher runs the boarding house, surrounded by her long-time friends. Unexpectedly, a former student bent on revenge arrives and almost destroys the life of an innocent person.
- Inspectors are after a murderer who's on the loose in an old castle. This mystery is complicated by sleepwalking and a poisoning.
- A French village woman's day of judgment comes after the village is liberated from the Nazis. She was a collaborator and now the collective contempt of the populace comes down upon her.
- A supernatural vision appears to a woman and a group of children, vowing to return to them in 20 years. Although it doesn't reappear on schedule, the life problems of all the group members are solved.
- A man invites a several people to his house for an unusual get-together. Each will have a chance to relive a part of their life. He learns that it's not quite as amusing as he thought it would be.
- Death takes the form of a Spanish dancer. A young woman, unaware that her life will soon be over, is drawn to a dancer she sees in a club. Her overprotective father tries to keep her away from this fatal romance.
- Two college students hitching their way back to school. A fierce storm arises, and they take shelter in a local farmer's barn. The next day on the radio they hear that the daughter of the farmer who gave them shelter has been murdered, and the boys are shocked to hear that a description of the killers matches them perfectly.
- A wealthy publisher has come to regret his quick marriage to a beautiful woman once he realizes she's cheating on him. He meets a man who can get rid of his "problem", and hires him to kill his wife. Afterwards, however, he changes his mind, and how he must find the would-be assassin before he carries out his assignment.
- The wife of a Swiss delicatessen shop owner falls for a young man about to be called back to the Army duty. Her husband suspects the worst, but it really hasn't happened. The young man has been in love with someone else all the time.
- Exhausted by the constant fighting of their parents, a couple of sisters gaze from their window upon the Hudson River and dream of boarding a ship to Europe.
- A Nazi commando attempts to kidnap an important British statesman.
- The internal struggles for power in a family reaches such a fever pitch that a murder seems likely.
- Clara, though a child piano prodigy, is unable to compete in the adult concert world. Depressed over the sad state of her career, she meets a widower who's daughter was also a musical prodigy but, unlike Clara, she made a well adjusted transition into adulthood thanks to her caring father.
- Dr. Rainwater is an adventurous young man whose brings his traveling medicine show to tiny Las Gatos, Texas. When he's jailed for a minor offense, he talks his way out by agreeing to court a local lass on behalf of the sheriff. Soon, he's wooing her more for his benefit than he is for the sheriff.
- A pair of lonely souls fall in love and the man tries to reconcile his dreams with the reality of his life.
- In the drought-stricken Old West, a man protects his water supply with a hired gunman. A minister and his son intervene and try to make the water available to everyone in the area.
- An ambitious musician is driving hard to make it to the big time. He becomes enamored with an older singer, but she turns down his advances.
- Two pianists seek the opinion of a respected music critic regarding their talents. He advises both to give up music immediately. One decides the critic is wrong, goes ahead with his career, and becomes very successful. The one who follows the critic's advice and quits ends up miserable.
- A maimed poet is brought to the remote home of a surgeon who performs a transplant of new hands. The down side: the hands once belonged to a murderer and still behave that way.
- A well-liked policeman dreams that he will have a shoot-out with a criminal on a specific day. While walking his beat on that night, he encounters the thug of his dreams.
- Motivated by her desire for a better bedroom, an eight-year-old girl meddles in her older sister's love life. Before the girl's through, her sister is in a three-way love affair with a young doctor.
- A woman, in love with a young sailor, is confronted by her ex-husband. The vindictive man is determined that she will never have another lover. To prevent a showdown between the dangerous ex and her boyfriend, she races to get onboard a plane out of town with the sailor.
- In the upper middle class of England, a young man named Cheviot Hills is caught in a tangle of three engagements and several other promises of marriage.
- In 1804, a widow who couldn't pay off her bills was auctioned off. One woman finds herself in such a predicament and searches desperately for a new husband. Finding no takes, she is placed on the auction block.
- A prizefighter at the end of his career is persuaded to have one more "farewell" fight for some big money. There's only one catch: gangsters are behind the match, and they expect him to take a dive.
- A reporter becomes the story when he turns criminal and murders his newspaper's publisher. Another reporter finds out that he committed the crime.
- In the Old West, a good-hearted but irresponsible husband is finally set on the right path by a patient wife and courageous son.
- A robber marches into a bank president's office and demands that he cash a worthless $70,000 check. As an incentive, the criminal's partner has broken into banker's home and has a gun held to his wife's head. The thugs have given the banker exactly five minutes to decide between his money or his wife.
- The teenage son of a deported gangster is trying to map his future. The boy is debating whether to follow in his father's footsteps or follow his mother's advice and choose a legal occupation.
- A kind-hearted woman has sacrificed her personal life to care her invalid mother. When a romance develops and a marriage proposal follows, she's torn between family obligation and her personal well-being.
- A UFO crashes into an Air Force plane carrying top secret information. The reporter who witnessed the crash tries to get details for a news story, but is stone-walled at every turn by military brass.
- A reporter sets out to investigate the murder of a Pulitzer Prize-winning colleague. He discovers that the man wasn't quite as squeaky-clean as was commonly believed: it turns out that he was a blackmailer, and there are more than a few people who had reason to want to see him dead.
- A young woman can't make up her mind about who she wants to marry. She puts off the decision until her wedding day.
- A young man teaches drama at college rather than take to the stage and compete with his actor father's legendary talents. He takes out his frustrations on his students with disastrous results until he's forced on stage by circumstances and some trickery.
- One-time college football All-American Steve Gallin was blinded in a car accident with his son at the wheel. His guilt-ridden child tries to regain his father's confidence, while reassuring him that he will always be a great man to his family and friends.
- A husband's second marriage turns ugly when he tells his wife conflicting stories about the son from his first marriage.
- A successful businesswoman gives up her career to marry. She finds it impossible to make the adjustment and turns to alcohol.
- After doing some research on her own, the wife of a college president decides that her husband is unhappy in his work. She begins to encourage him to make changes and gets timely assistance by a front-page newspaper story.
- In a retelling of Arthur Godfrey's downfall, top TV producer Charley Faye hires his old friend "Boom Boom" Cannon to star in a show, and then unceremoniously fires him. The callous move endears Charley to no one; he finds himself under attack from network executives, the press, and even his wife.
- When her elderly landlady dies, a young woman inherits her house and the resident ghost: a soldier of the American Revolution who cannot go to Heaven because he failed to deliver a message to George Washington.
- Feuding families in mountains of Ireland put aside their differences to follow the law.
- At each of her older sisters' weddings, Celia was forced to wear the traditional green stockings of a single woman. Tired of the hideous hosiery, Celia makes up a fiancé, elaborating constantly on the lie to hide his absence.
- A modern day Romeo and Juliet story of teen love is set against a background of gang violence.
- The widowed mother of two children in their twenties ended up being unhappy because her husband was an idealistic dreamer. She tries to convince her daughter to marry a practical man, but the girl is in love with a man as unrealistic as her father was.
- In the Kentucky Hills during the 1920s, legends have grown about the Coxes, the surviving family of an old mountain feud. One day, their self-imposed isolation is rudely threatened by the arrest of the son on a charge of murder.
- A husband learns to appreciate his marriage when he recognizes that it's teetering on the verge of failure.
- A millionaire hoping to be appointed to a diplomatic post is distracted by his mischievous daughter. Her behavior so frustrates his household staff that they quit en masse, just as he's invited a powerful ambassador over for a dinner party. His daughter takes charge and, with the help of an inventor who just happened by, pose as the maid and butler.
- A hypochondriac wife decides to choose her husband's next wife. The astonished husband begins to take an interest in the process, to the wife's displeasure.
- A man is forced to pose as a handyman for his wife and his mother-in-law's rich aunt.
- Sometimes heroes happen by accident. In an Iron Curtain country, a non-political engineer accidental falls into a gutter during a rally. This unplanned mistake leads to him being declared a hero by the underground.
- The wife of a college professor has grandiose dreams for her husband. She has plans for him to be come the head of his department, but instead, her ex-fiance gets the position. This leads her to get rid of the ex because he's now blocking her husband's career.
- The wife of a university professor gets into a fight with the man who got a bigger promotion than her husband.
- A juvenile delinquent gives the wife of his father's boss a ride home. En route, he gets into a race with another boy, and accidentally runs over a woman. Members of his gang threaten his passenger to keep her from telling police what she knows about the accident.
- A man who in a drunken rage killed a neighbor is released from prison after serving five years. Paddo returns home and takes out his rage on his friends and family members. His son Willie stands up to the brute and proves that Paddo is neither needed nor wanted by the family.
- A former convict writes a hit novel about prison life and quickly decides that fame is even worse than a jail cell.
- A small-town Vermont girl wins a beauty contest and is quickly "discovered" by a movie studio. They change her name, publicize her as the daughter of a rich gentleman farmer, and groom her for stardom. She hits it big and is seems a sure bet to win an Academy Award. When her rustic father, a justice of the peace, arrives for a Hollywood visit, a gossip columnist catches wind and threatens to expose the woman's phoney high society background.
- During the Red Army's siege of Nazi-held Budapest in 1945, a 15-year-old girl witnesses a tense meeting between an Orthodox Jew and injured German, a Hungarian soldier finding his stolen food is useless and, amid the horrors, a couple becoming married.
- Willie is a refugee who works as a houseman at a professor's home. He's a lovable character who enjoys interfering in other people's lives.
- Despite having no political aspirations or experience, Mrs. Bibb is asked to fill the seat of her deceased husband. Aiding her is her husband's assistant, Ned, who is engaged to the Bibbs' daughter. Events take an ugly turn when it Ned is suspected of having taken a bribe from a contractor.
- A war correspondent, fatigued from working the front in Indochina, returns home to find his life in disarray. His arch-enemy has been named his editor and is now engaged to his ex-girlfriend.
- A college professor is about to be fired because few students are signing up for his advanced maths courses. Putting his knowledge of numbers to work, he cleans out the wallets of students by playing crap games. It isn't long before racketeers move in to take advantage of the benefits of higher maths.
- A young man trains his ten-year-old brother to be a boxer. The older brother's motivation is his own vanity and quest for success.
- An invisible elfin creature, a troll, teaches a hardened New Yorker about Christmas.
- The Endicotts' only daughter is about to be married, but the happy occasion is marred by scandal when Mr. Endicott is served with divorce papers.
- A "widow" remarries, only to discover that her supposedly dead first husband is anything but. She ends up being charged with the murder of a woman who knew all about husband number one.
- A bank teller who comes to believe the rules aren't fair to people. Implementing his new policy at the band, he juggles the books and gives money to people the bank normally wouldn't.
- A meek governess and her mysterious employer strike up a romantic relationship.
- Herbert and Marge Gage buy an old farmhouse in Connecticut and discover that two of the late owner's heirs have a legal right to live in the house. Soon after the Gages and their daughters move in, the Jonathan Rockwoods arrive to take advantage of their relative's will. Inevitable difficulties arise when two families live under one roof. A neighbor is expecting a child and has no one to attend to her needs. Mathilda Rockwood and Barbara Gage go to help until a nurse arrives. This incident leads the two families to iron out their problems.
- Jeannie is a 31-year-old woman who has lived an isolated life, having never traveled outside of her small Scottish town. When she comes into an inheritance, she sets sail for Europe, falls in love with a good man and a gold-digging count.
- After a life filled with drudgery, a young Scottish woman inherits £200 from her tightwad father and spends it all on a whirlwind tour of Paris. At first bowled over by a smooth-talking count, her natural good sense takes over and she falls for a kind washing machine salesman.
- This unusual episode attempts to provide some insight into the president's assassin, written and performed in blank verse. The ghost of Lincoln appears to confront his murderer.
- The hotel is the reform school where a rigid judge is accustomed to sending the wayward boys who appear before him. Life has an ironic twist in store when he's forced to pass judgement on his own son.
- A man who admits to forging a check asks the court for leniency because he did it to help a broke friend. Another man, however, is determined that he be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
- In Scotland in 1751, young David Balfour is shanghaied aboard a ship where he meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart with whom he escapes to the Scottish Highlands, dodging the redcoats.
- Investigating the murder of a young woman named Annie Boone, two homicide detectives are startled to discover that they are getting vastly different descriptions of the girl from people who knew her intimately--her mother says she wasn't very bright but her father says she was brilliant. A male friend describes her as a wild, carefree "party girl" type, but another says she was shy, withdrawn and retiring. The detectives set out to find out exactly who Annie really was.
- A dedicated bank employee is being hounded at home to ask for a raise. To prove to his family of five that he's not a coward, he meets with the boss and gets an unexpected reaction to his request.
- Two young girls from different social classes become close friends during the summer. When the daughter of a marquis has a party and wants to invite her new friend, her parents deem her "not good enough" to attend. The "rich" girl is so distraught that she almost commits suicide.
- A retired actress lets her housekeeper's two older sisters live with her. She learns too late that the sisters are lunatics, and she's horrified to find out that they are involved in blackmail and murder.
- A woman who still thinks of herself as a Southern belle deludes herself into believing that her unattractive daughter is a popular beauty. The girl's schoolmates stage a humiliating joke that make both women realize things are not as they liked to imagine.
- With the outbreak of World War II, a Polish girl, a French girl, an English girl, and two American girls are faced with the problem of living with Erna, a sensitive young German girl. When Warsaw is bombed and the Polish girl learns of the death of her parents, there is no concealing the feeling against Erna. The Polish girl had loved Erna's brother and he had been in a German plane near Warsaw. Soon Erna is trying to conceal her letters, unable to bear the anguish and bewilderment they cause her. Through it all the headmistress tries valiantly to preserve this kindly refuge where peace and tolerance may still have life. Finally, in a deeply moving scene, Erna is forced to read a letter which honestly describes her family's position. This letter tells of her brother's death: he chose to destroy himself and his plane rather than drop bombs on Warsaw. This absolves Erma and dispels forever the enmity which has displaced the girls' understanding and love.
- Lobblies, little invisible creatures, are seen only by Mr. Mergenthwirker, a sweet little man who's pure of heart. The Lobblies insist on doing kind things for him like bringing him his slippers; those not of "pure heart" see only the slippers floating mid-air. Friends that he tells of the Lobblies insist he see a psychiatrist.
- An attractive young woman flirts with a store clerk at a pawn shop, inviting him to join her for lunch. While he's gone, the store is robbed and the owner is killed. The clerk is without an alibi because the woman with whom he dined worked for the criminals.
- Bribery and corruption of public officials come into play in this story of underhanded building contractors. A corrupt inspector comes up against one honest contractor.
- A man places great value on the concept of one's honor.
- Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
- Two jealous women compete to be civic leaders in a wealthy British resort town.
- In the lawless Southwest of the United States in the 1850s, bounty hunters are on the rampage. With Mexico offering $500 cash for the scalps of Native Americans, Jed Heath risks his life and ranch to save them from a band of money-crazed marauders.
- On a morning that an investment banker's car won't start, he straps on his daughter's roller skates to catch his train. This turns out to be so convenient that he starts doing it every morning. Soon, this candidate for town council has attracted more attention than he ever wanted from his employer, political friends and the newspapers.
- An average citizen witnesses a murder. His family then faces intimidation from the killer.
- A vacuum cleaner salesman enters a home and overhears a plot to murder a wealthy businessman. The businessman's secretary asks the salesman to help protect her boss by investigating the plan further. Meanwhile, the intended victim thinks that they are making much ado about nothing.
- A young girl learns that she's adopted.
- The family patriarch, a tyrannical old hothead, becomes convinced that he will die if he ever loses his temper again. He attempts to keep a demeanor of peaceful serenity.
- A young woman, Mary, is about to take her life at a British museum. Michael enters, talks her out of it and the two fall in love. Sixteen happy years later, the couple face a murder rap thanks to a blackmailer who's suddenly appeared.
- After being deserted by her husband, Mary falls in love with Michael. After a few years, they marry, raise a son, and Michael becomes a successful writer. However, her first husband returns with plans of blackmail.
- A rookie pitcher's father was once a pitcher himself and his career was ruined when he beaned a player. Now, he is afraid his son will do the same thing, and his fear leads to a serious conflict among father, mother, and son.
- A doctor catches a real mermaid, finds her very attractive, and brings her home with him by passing her off to his wife as an invalid.
- A sweet little old lady forges her sister's will so that the whole town can share in her wealth. Then, there's also the tiny matter of a murder.
- As part of its law school training, a college stages mock trials for students to gain experience. One of its mock trials turns real when the city's mayor is put on the stand and the misuse of taxpayers' money is revealed.
- A poverty-stricken family struggles to improve their station in life.
- A hardened mountain man is lying wounded in a cave after killing the last member of the family with whom he's been feuding. A lovely young mute woman comes by and nurses the grizzled outdoorsman back to health. After his recovery, he comes down from the hills to win her over, showing surprising tenderness for a man with his history.
- Mr. Barry is a sweet old engraver who makes sizable donations to charities with his home-printed money.
- "Mr. Candido" is the name of a young orphan who chooses to live on the streets rather than endure the horrors of a boys' shelter. The young man so charms the tenants of a run-down New York tenement that four families of very different backgrounds (Ramirez, McGinty, Rosenbloom and Gomez) band together to help him find a permanent home with parents.
- Mr. Lazarus appears at the boarding house of the Sylvesters and claims that he is John Molloy, Mrs. Sylvester's first husband. He proves Dr. Sylvester to be a fraud and helps Pat, Mrs. Sylvester's daughter, and Booth, her fiancé, on the road to the altar. Mr. Lazarus suddenly leaves, but the family is undecided as to who he really is.
- Lobblies, little invisible creatures, are seen only by Mr. Mergenthwirker, a sweet little man who's pure of heart. The Lobblies insist on doing kind things for him like bringing him his slippers; those not of "pure heart" see only the slippers floating mid-air. Friends that he tells of the Lobblies insist he see a psychiatrist.
- When a woman's supposedly dead husband returns, she refuses to remarry her second husband until he consents to her niece's wedding.
- The plans of a young widow to remarry are in jeopardy because of rumors about her past. Mrs. Dane denies that she is the same woman who was involved in an scandal with a married man. She has plausible evidence to support her claim and she almost convinces everyone of her identity.
- A bride makes a wish on her wedding day to never look a day older than she does at that moment. Her wish becomes a curse as everyone and everything around her ages and she stays as youthful as ever.
- A woman and her father live along the New York waterfront in 1848.
- Unhappy and single Daisy visits her sister, whom she hasn't seen in a while. Daisy's sister decides that she needs a husband and goes about finding her one.
- After piloting planes during World War II, a Marine is recalled to serve in Korea. A number of the veterans begin to rebel against the marine squadron commander who's taking too long to train their replacements. They suspect it's because one of the fresh soldiers is the commander's brother.
- This comedy involves a family known in the area as "those crazy neighbors." The grandma tries to stop her granddaughter from marrying the son of a bank president.
- A teenage girl solves a "whodunit" murder game. Later she visits her uncle on the French Riviera and, buoyed by her success in the murder game, starts looking into a killing that occurred seven years previously, in which the suspects included a butler and a possibly corrupt cop.
- The traumatic effect of getting a "missing in action" telegram from the Korean front is dramatized. The stories of three different families that receive this unwelcome news are told: one is a bookie father; another, a wealthy man who distrusts his daughter-in-law; and the brother of a missing soldier.
- A tough veteran cop, expecting to be promoted to a supervisor position, is passed over, and finds himself assigned to a homicide by the man who took what he considered to be his job. His new boss warns him against using the brutal tactics he is infamous for, but the cop soon ditches his partner and pays a visit to the suspect in the case, in order to "interrogate" him--alone.
- A British pathologist conducts an autopsy on a corpse to discover the cause of death. He's shocked to discover that the unidentified man died of the bubonic plague. Scotland Yard is very interested, as are a couple of foreign agents.
- The death of their child almost wrecks the marriage of a truck driver and his wife. Then one night, he goes against company regulations and picks up a Mexican waif on the road.
- Wanting to add to his war glory and prove the ineffectiveness of civil defense, an ex-Army sergeant forms his own group of storm troopers. They stage a make-believe "invasion" of a small town to make their point. Things turn serious when the police arrive with their real bullets.
- Noah is an elderly man of deep faith. He deals with a wife who becomes restless and three sons who are quick to desert him once they reach land.
- A man schemes to win back his wife by using unusual and desperate methods. A pair of young newlyweds come to his aid.
- A television game-show contestant, who has won a lot of money, is scheduled to appear in an episode where he will be given the chance to win the show's $16,000 jackpot. Before the show goes on the air, however, he is found murdered.
- A divorced former lawyer, now a composer, sees that his second marriage is beginning to fail. He conveniently is struck with amnesia and loses track of both women and careers.
- The bullet-riddled body of a big-time gambler is brought to the morgue in this tongue-in-cheek comedy. Out of the blue, a naive young waitress steps forward to claim the dead man's remains. Soon, she finds herself with three boyfriends: a mortician, a tough police officer and the murdered crook's business partner. Soon she's being taken on her "last ride" and she manages to even charm the gunman.
- This episode highlights the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth, from her early twenties though old age as she built England into a great world power.
- An older doctor is saddened that his son won't be joining with him in practice. His hopes for a father-son team seem unlikely until the son joins Old Doc on a serious case.
- 67-year-old ex-major league player "Lefty" MacDonald regales fellow residents at the rest home with stories of his glory days in baseball. After injuring his arm throwing a horseshoe, "Lefty" finds he can now throw a freakish curve ball. He approaches the manager of his old team, the floundering Brooklyn Dodgers. The team is doing so poorly, the manager gives the old timer a spot on the roster.
- A playwright dreams that he's the star of one of his own plays when thing take an unexpected turn. The character come to life, stop following the script, and begin ad libbing their own lines.
- Although he hasn't made a film in years, an aging Viennese director, living in the United States, is fiercely proud of the great film that he made decades ago. He convinces himself that the ideal way to regain his vanished glory would be to remake that film, and even to have his wife play the role that she created in it.
- A professor is part of a team of spies who insure absolute conformity in a future society. When his blind allegiance begins to drift, the state makes efforts to put him back in his place.
- Following the American Civil War, a Southern soldier returns home with the Union soldier who saved his life. When the Yankee falls for a Southern Belle, the resentments of the soldier's southern family quickly bubble to the surface.
- A man's wife and two sons are killed in an automobile accident, and he is left alone with his daughter.
- A Vermont farmer applies for a loan from the U.S. government and gets a cheque for $1,000,000.
- A successful and religious rancher enjoys great prosperity as his cattle stock rises. The one thing he most wants, a son, is the very thing that he's denied. Frustrated and angry, he curses God. Soon, his property is threatened by fire and his wife walks out. He comes to believe that he is being punished for his blasphemy.
- A shrewish, domineering mother forces her daughter to marry a "proper" young man and then proceeds to try and rule over their lives.
- A young man searches for revenge.
- A father who always spent more money on himself than his family gets his payback. When his children grow up, they decide to run his life.
- A sergeant and two other soldiers are going stir crazy serving on an isolated South Pacific atoll. Needing more points to rotate back to the United States, the men fabricate their own small guerrilla war.
- Husband and wife writers in Hollywood have professional differences. His writing is unsuccessful but she sells everything that she pens. Eventually, the husband wants a divorce but he must put his plans on hold when a French orphan arrives at their home.
- While passing through a small New England town, a young woman is arrested for reckless driving. A law allows prisoners with minor offences to be hired out for light housework. This places her in the home of an attractive bachelor whose fiance puts a stop to this working relationship.
- A spinster and a young girl plan a "welcome home" party for the woman's brother, Jonathan. He's returning home after 20 years in Australia, but only a few steps ahead of the police. His sister refuses to believe he's a criminal and forges ahead with the party.
- Fearing his creditors, a man kills his visiting nephew and proceeds to spend the young man's money. His act brings about nothing but tragedy.
- A young man moves from his small hometown to the big city to make it as a playwright.
- In Victorian England, the scheming wife of a tavern-keeper uses a pharmacist's son to get her hands on poison. She wants to knock off her abusive husband.
- The Polish-American father of three daughters takes great pride in entering the annual polka contest each year with one of the girls. Last year, when his oldest daughter married, the second daughter Theckla danced and won the contest with Papa. However, this year, Theckla is in love, and she refuses to put on the old-country costume and dance.
- A comedian in Czechoslovakia discovers that the Communist government does not appreciate his jokes at their expense. He and his wife are forced to flee the country for their lives.
- A young Abraham Lincoln is keeping store in New Salem, Illinois, courting Ann Rutledge, and just beginning his political activities.
- A college track coach is on the verge of achieving his dream: a championship victory. At the big meet, his star athlete is deemed ineligible because of a technicality. When the coach is called away, his assistant bends the rules to let the athlete play and the team is victorious. Upon his return, he must decide whether to accept the success or practice honesty.
- After a long period of hatred with his father, a young man returns home and makes a desperate effort to end the unpleasantness.
- A sophisticated, upper-crust British lawyer turns to a much shadier colleague to clear him when he's charged with murdering a somewhat disreputable woman.
- Four dangerous desperadoes are heading into a peaceful Western town. The young sheriff gets no support from the merchants who fear a shoot-out will ruin the town's reputation or the locals who are simply afraid. He's left with just his gun and sense of duty to take on the deadly quartet.
- A mother refuses to come to terms with the fact that her daughter died in an earthquake.