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- 1948–19568.0 (10)TV EpisodeWilma a 15-year-old girl has dreams of becoming a movie star but after her mother's death she is sent to live with her aunt, her father is too weak and unreliable. She wishes to be back at her home with her father.
- An unscrupulous go-getter ascends to the heights of the movie business.
- Marty Pilletti is a 36 year-old butcher who lives with his mother. His brothers and sisters are all married and his dear mother - along with several other of her friends - is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl and get married. The truth is Marty is lonely and would like nothing better. He has very low self-esteem however and admits to his mother that he's ugly and no one wants him. He's tired of going to the Saturday night dance with his buddies and then going home more depressed than he was when the evening started. At one of those dances he meets Clara. They have a great deal in common but Marty will have to overcome peer pressure if he and Clara are to have a relationship.
- Axel, secretly AWOL from the army, joins a black waterfront worker in his fight against bigotry.
- 1948–19567.5 (17)TV EpisodeHow Pat Garrett hunted down and killed the legendary outlaw Billy The Kid.
- Alexander has been a faithful employee of Madame Pollard as maitre d' at her elegant resort. Eager to introduce his protege Rob, things go wrong when his wife Della finds an expensive bracelet lost by Pollard and begs to keep. The police are called and Alexander's dreams of his future begin to crumble.
- The skinflint Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.
- The story of John J. Audobon and his wife Lucy.
- The struggle of a middle-aged woman who tries to win an inheritance from a rich uncle.
- The manager of a former actor now running for Congress wants to exploit the fact that the opposition candidate's daughter is working on their campaign. However, the actor and his ghost writer hesitate to use the girl's hatred of her father to their advantage.
- A young ballplayer appreciates the value of home and family after a shaky start in professional baseball.
- A little boy's infatuation for a cowboy who boards at his home and another boarder who attempts to disillusion the child.
- The three children of a widowed woman scheme to get their mother a new husband, setting their sites on a middle-aged doctor.
- The camera becomes you and you become the narrator as the camera becomes a person and unfolds the story. Nelson Olmsted is the voice.
- Elizabeth Chapin is the belle of the town who is now approaching 40 as a spinster music teacher.
- 1948–19561hTV Episode
- A big league manager travels to Alabama to scout catcher Chub Evans but signs Evans' fireball pitching sister instead.
- In a theatre, there is an old legend which claims that a mute woman will appear on stage and reveal the identity of a murderer.
- An American ventures to Paris for artistic inspiration and gets caught up with a deceitful woman bent on destruction.
- A vicious woman is determined to see her niece wed for money and social position instead of for love.
- A young man is determined to rid a Western town of its domineering political boss.
- An editor of the major magazine "Throb" finds that he must either adapt to the high pressure life of a New York magazine or be without a job.
- In 1912, an upper crust English family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?
- A man is implicated in a murder while vacationing with his wife at a summer resort. The man recognizes a murdered woman as the one in love with his business partner. He hides her purse in order to delay identification but his wife threatens to expose him,
- A sixteen-year-old girl tries everything to attract the opposite sex.
- An understudy for a stage show's star takes over when an accident circumvents the stars performance. The understudy takes over and brings down the house.
- The short life of a girl loved by the young Abraham Lincoln.
- A Russian emigrant to America finds a new language, and strange manners bewildering but tries mightily to adapt to his new homeland.
- The Lockwoods are patronising toward their former neighbours, the Hunters, who are now living in the poorer district in town. The Hunters are saved from despair from the help of a young junk dealer named Oliver Read, who teaches the Lockwoods a lesson in humanity.
- Set against the background of the Battle of Waterloo, Becky Sharp is the story of Vanity Fair by Thackeray. Becky and Amelia are girls at school together, but Becky is from a "show biz" family, or in other words, very low class. Becky manages to insinuate herself in Amelia's family and gets to know all their friends. From this possibly auspicious- beginning, she manages to ruin her own life, becoming sick, broke, and lonely, and also ruins the lives of many other "loved ones". In the movie we get to see the class distinctions in England at the time, and get a sense of what it was like for the English military at the time of the Napoleonic wars.
- The story of a man who embezzles $18,000 from an estate in order to live up to the standards he likes and of the trap he finds himself in when another lawyer takes over the estate.
- A small-town girl named Bethel Merriday is determined to become an actress.
- A greedy skipper wants to make a big catch despite ice freezing on the ship threatening to capsize it.
- The residents of a Western ghost town won't admit that their gold rush "boom town" days ended long ago.
- Identical twins concoct a plan to defraud an insurance company and collect a large sum of cash.
- No Not Brett Favre- Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the identity of Patrick Ashby, heir to the Ashby fortune who disappeared when he was 13.
- In Mississippi in 1915, Dr. Joseph Goldberger works with a test group of convicts and discovers that pellagra is caused by a dietary deficiency and not infection.
- Vaudevillians Skid and Bonnie are partners onstage and off -- until success comes to Skip. He develops an oversized ego and a taste for booze, which alienates Bonnie. But his friends struggle to help him redeem himself.
- A bitter assistant foreign editor of a London newspaper commits murder in the newspaper office after being passed over yet again for a promotion.
- 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.
- A sleuthing psychiatrist probes a murder in his fiancee's home and stirs up a hornet's nest with his future in-laws.
- A frustrated mother is disappointed with her marriage and pushes her ten year old son into acting career.
- A poor family tries to make the best out of Christmas with little income.
- An arrogant woman whose self-centered tactics cause endless grief for her secretary, husband, sister and anyone who comes into contact with her.
- The final confession of the highest degree. A compelling story, told by the eyes of the beholder.
- Successful attorney has his Jewish heritage and poverty-stricken background brought home to him when he learns his wife has been unfaithful.
- The story of teenage violence and vandalism and the family problems that lead the culprits into their vicious acts.
- Embarrassed by his large nose, a romantic poet/soldier romances his cousin by proxy.
- A theater owner's daughter discovers his father's true nature and is shaken by the discovery. She moments jealousy backstage to expose him.
- In a remote part of Florida, Coral Platt, a sinister woman has married a man considerably older than she. For reasons sufficient to her, she wants him out of the way and plans an ingenious though slow murder by poison. She has succeeded in making it seem that Marvin is dying through natural causes. However, she is forced unexpectedly to play hostess to two women who have come to Florida. The women stay longer than they planned because they have begun to suspect what Coral is up to.
- A witch boy named John who falls in love with a beautiful girl named Barbara Allen. John has a conjure woman turn him into a human. The only condition of the spell is that Barbara must remain faithful to John for one full year after they are married. If Barbara is not faithful, then John will turn back into a witch boy.
- A mother receives help with her troublesome kids from a friendly ghost.
- The murder of a woman at a dinner party unveils a multitude of twists and turns as the murderer is uncovered.
- Affluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal.
- Dirty Eddie is a sleek black pig with a fat movie contract and Hollywood isn't too happy about it.
- A jury finds a woman not guilty of the murder of her husband, but some still believe her to be guilty of the crime.
- Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medical practice success by using the Good book as guidance.
- A tragic story of an innocent victim of justice based entirely on circumstantial evidence.
- A young writer hears that his friend has died so he writes an "Elegy - A Tribute to Larry" that brings him fame and fortune. A year later his friend turns up very much alive and with plans for blackmail.
- In this comedy, a self-absorbed opera diva works to save her marriage once her husband starts having an affair.
- Lawyer Tutt refuses to cross the street for a $5 million account, but goes clear to Pottsville to draw up a will for Jim Lawton, staying there until he successfully contests a claim to a woman's farm.
- A psychological drama about two brothers obsessed with the idea that he is going insane and later that his brother, a doctor is going to murder him.
- A young woman shows up during a thunderstorm at the country home of a famous actor.
- 3 women have just attended their college reunion, and are returning together when their vehicle crashes through a fence and over a cliff. As their husbands wait anxiously above the accident scene, they learn that only two of the women have survived, and they relive memories of their lives together as they await word as to who lives and who died.
- Two men fight for the affections of the fickle Gretel, who pits friend against friend.
- A shell-shocked WWI ex-soldier is unable to speak though doctors say the problem isn't physical. Tired of completing with his overbearing, doting mother, the woman he loves begins to withdraw from his life. It's then that he regains his ability to talk.
- Van Dorn is getting the hard sell from businessmen wanting to buy his mountain, High Tor, for commercial use. When the group becomes trapped by a landslide, Van Dorn goes for help and encounters a Dutchwoman who's been haunting the mountain for two centuries.
- Mitchell Hickok, an author from the country, comes to New York for a publicity build-up for his book. He meets a glamorous woman, who introduces him to the nightlife of Manhattan. He soon tires of cafés, cocktail parties, and public appearances, and returns to his simple way of living in the country and Eileen, his childhood sweetheart.
- Willie is a refugee who works as a houseman at a professor's home. He's a sweet and lovable man even when he's interfering in other people's lives. The Professor's daughter is in love with Brad, a young lawyer. Of course, Willie sees fit to give Brad all kinds of advice.
- The year is 1915 and the suffragettes cause a stir in the home of a zoology professor as his wife takes up the banner of "women's rights".
- A mousy teacher at a small school had written a swashbuckling story filled with international spies and adventure. Unbeknownst to him, the story is sold to a newspaper as a true account of his life. Suddenly, femme fatales and real gangsters are paying him visits.
- A British pilot who lost his sight during the Second World War deals with the problems caused by the injury.
- An Iron Curtain delegation is marooned in a small mid-western town.
- Daddy Tom, the camp director, is upset when he learns through the grapevine that one of his counselors, Mrs. Johnson, is infatuated with his 19-year-old office worker, Andy, and that she wants to give him $1,100 for his education. The first part of the rumour is not true but the second part is. She is unable to have children and thinks this is a constructive way to use the money they saved for a child. She and her husband squabble over this. Andy's parents are dead. Daddy Tom fires both Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. He later re-hires them on the condition that she not mention the money until the last day of camp. She does wait, but Andy wants to work his way through college. She is reconciled with Mr. Johnson, and they decide to adopt a child.
- The son of a rich soap manufacturer gets himself in predicaments trying to prove to his father that he's responsible enough for marriage.
- A charming young girl comes to live in a household of an elderly priest. The 18-year-old Jenny is the precise opposite of the kind of smart sophisticated young miss that puzzles and exasperates Father Moynihan. The priest makes clumsy endeavours to make Jenny attractive to the boys.
- The story of a naturalized immigrant's first experience with jury duty.
- A faded movie star schemes to keep her career at all costs.
- The life of a widow is likely to change the day a gentleman suitor proposes to her. For the better?
- Horace Greeley, volatile editor of The New York tribune, and Margaret Fuller, the mid-19th century feminist and first woman employed on the newspaper's staff.
- A governess's charm masks a disturbing and manipulative personality.
- An English poet searches for his son whom he has never seen. The child disappeared shortly after his mother was killed by the Gestapo.
- 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.
- A woman seeks success in her marriage as she had gained in her career.
- A big man on the campus turns out to be somewhat of a dud.
- Horace Mann Borden is an adult former child prodigy who has been exploited by his father to advance his own theories about education. Horace feels that people view him as a freak and expect things out of him. Horace shuts out the world. Greta Blake is the woman who has fallen in love with Horace and shows him that the world is not out to get him.
- A young woman has an unhealthy desire to get ahead, climbing the social ladder and stepping on people along the way. She's set to marry a wealthy man--just what's always wanted--when she finds herself in love with a "regular guy".
- A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.
- Blackmail terrorizes a couple because of an accident which was a terrible tragedy.
- After undergoing important surgery, Mr. Arcularis goes on a long ocean voyage - where increasingly strange things occur.
- Only Mr. Mergenthwirker, a person pure of heart, can see the lobblies, which are invisible fairy-like creatures.
- A dancer becomes so eager for success that her ambition nearly ruins her career.
- A wealthy matron is murdered at the Stork Club and the suspect list is growing.
- When an actor is murdered backstage, the cast of the production become the suspects, seems the actor had plenty of enemies.
- A young boy believes his father deserves a medal for being in the war and is heartbroken when he finds out the truth and how his father disgraced the family.
- In London in 1910, two sisters, Jenny and Emmy Blanchard, must support and care for their widowed, invalid father. Jenny, the younger, pretty sister, seeks to escape from the depressing reality of her poverty-stricken home, while Emmy, the older, plain sister, finds comfort and eventual happiness by serving their ailing father. At the end, both are engaged: Jenny will marry Keith Reddington and Emmy will wed Alf Rylett.
- Three crates, one contains a mummy, one a dead body and one an air-conditioning unit that gets shunted around with utter confusion.
- The story of the Berlin airlift, when the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. The success of the airlift humiliated the Soviets claiming that such a thing would never work.
- Othello, the Moor of Venice, is manipulated into believing his loving wife an adulteress.
- The members of a Pennsylvania Dutch family rise up against against the overbearing, tyrannical father.
- An ambitious professor wants to become President of his university. He is soon caught up in the political opportunism of the State Governor, the wiles of an unscrupulous newspaper publisher and the parlor tricks of his own meddling wife.
- In 1900's New England, Helen McGuill buys a horse-drawn, traveling bookstore, "Parnassus," from its owner, Roger McGuill. Roger travels with Helen in the beginning of her book-selling odyssey, and out of that comes adventure and romance.
- The case histories of several parolees and events that shaped the career of the parole director is told.
- The play suggested by the career of Hans VanMergeren called the master art forger.
- A singer who has teamed up with a comedian realises that he has become the comic's "straight man" both on and off the stage. Somehow, he must reassert his individuality.
- A debt collector searches for the woman who saved him from an armed holdup; he wants her to have a $1000 reward. As he talks with those who knew her, he learns that she was a siren with a couple of murders to her credit.
- The story of a British soldier and his buddy's widow as the two grow closer in their grief.
- A little soirée is interrupted by a murder and the guests are all suspect in the pretty little parlor.
- Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice, and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.
- Pride Dawson was one of those "Robber Barons", who started out his life in rags and turned his life to riches and women. His contempt for human decency or moral restraint left him ruthless and corrupt. He falls for Sharon O'Neill who is a woman filled with so much goodness in her soul, as much as he has evil in his.
- The story from incidents in the life of Benedict Arnold and how Arnold's family suffers by his traitorous acts against his country.
- An old typesetter in a printing works fears the new machinery which will make him redundant - and perhaps render his whole working life pointless.
- A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she disguises herself as her own niece in order to test his loyalty.
- An old maid librarian has saved her money for twenty years, in order to buy a hotel where she can meet interesting people. She purchases a strange rundown place near the ocean and gets what she bargains for.
- A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.
- After buying a very used car, a writer uncovers some very unusual items under one of the seat cushions. The story of the vehicle's former owners is told via flashbacks.
- Rich playboy Anson Hunter realizes too late that he has wasted his life by allowing the one woman he truly loved to slip out of his grasp.
- A polio victim's battle to conquer polio is a potent weapon for recovery.
- In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
- A reporter gets a confession of robbery from a man only to have the man then deny his guilt in a complex twist of events.
- An aspiring young actress loses her big chance on Broadway and returns home. Her mother shows why she may have failed and inspires her to try again.
- During a convention, a visiting family takes a hotel room. The father and Mother get ready while the daughter leaves. The wife nagging pushes the man over the edge and he is determined to kill her after he makes her listen to his list of reasons she's been cruel to him. Meanwhile police try to talk him out of it, and watch him with a television camera across the street.
- The factual story of Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis is dramatized. The Hungarian physician saved untold numbers of kids from "childbed fever" (puerperal fever) by the use of disinfectants on hands and equipment around pregnant women and newborns.
- Sisters left poor by the death of the family matriarch search for suitable husbands in Georgian England.
- A lonely woman feels she has one last shot at romance with a man who's content with being a flunky to a boxing champion.
- A country boy gets a job in the city as a bookkeeper. He meets a beautiful model and gets mixed up in a murder.
- A woman is disturbed when she is told that her barber husband is a bore.
- A couple of New England housewives disrupt their marriages by becoming an early morning radio team.
- On St. Helena, the exiled emperor Napoleon Bonaparte is grim when his faithful Corscian attendant Cipriani dies. In his confinement he's suffering from a bad liver and a sulking mistress all this begins to weigh heavy on him as he continues to be haunted by spectres of his mistakes. He cannot forget, he says, that if he had not attacked so soon at Waterloo, he would have had 12,000 more men. The imperial manners gradually give way to those of a lonely and embittered country squire. Feeling death upon him at last, he hears that a comet has appeared in the sky.
- The perpetrators of a million dollar robbery find themselves with five hours to go before the statute of limitations takes effect.
- Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interacts with each other during a summer heatwave.
- 20 years ago, a Scotswoman was accused of an ax murder and let off with the ignominious Scottish verdict of Not Proven. She changes her name and lives down her past, but when her son becomes engaged, his fiancée's godfather spots the mother and recognizes her. In his efforts to trap her, and hers not to be trapped trouble arises.
- A covetous young actress' career means more to her than marriage to a middle-aged actor who turns to TV after a successful career in other facets of show business only to find that his wife influences his work there.
- The story of two brothers and a missing uncle who returns suddenly bringing with him a chest which the brothers assume contains gold. The brothers want their share but so does the uncle's jilted bride and son.
- The tragic aspects of the so-called "lost generation" of the 20's is told.
- 1948–1956TV EpisodeA mild-mannered proof-reader goes on a world tour, and demonstrates several esoteric skills whilst undergoing exciting adventures.
- An American travelling in Europe finds clashes between the two cultures.
- The story of Jacques Mornard, the Russian secret police agent who buried a pickaxe in the skull of the fiery anti-Stalinist Leon Trotsky.
- In a family of eccentrics the five year old daughter stands out for her diva like behavior. Her mother, a retired actress, and her happy go lucky father accept her behavior while her older brother cares only about scouting.
- Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and hopes.
- The story of the marine assault on Iwo Jima leads a former veteran into a crackup with a bullying personality increased by a personal crisis.
- The story of a spoiled and jilted young novelist of intellectual pretensions, who is freshened up and made marketable and happy again by design of his sporting publisher.
- Boy can we relate to this PLOT TWIST from back in the 40's. Doctors are helpless in dealing with an epidemic that hits New York City. The answer is provided by an exterminator.
- Lillian Gish introduces this episode which dramatizes her experiences in the early days of movie-making while working with pioneering director D. W. Griffith.
- A reformed playboy has quite a time explaining his escapades to the mother of the girl he decides to marry.
- The commander of a military prep school brings near disaster to himself and his son, a pupil at the school. He pushes the boy beyond endurance in his effort to make him a better student than he was.
- The story of a middle-aged Frenchman in Algiers who decides to do something for his homeland during the Nazi occupation. He joins the underground and goes to the port of Marseilles to report on shipping.
- 1948–19561hTV EpisodeA bonk on the head turns a grouchy hothead into the sweetest man in town. Brannigan runs for mayor of his small town--and wins--with his "love everybody" campaign. He even wins over the crooked newspaper publisher.
- A husband's hobby threatens his marriage until he finds a suitable replacement, the wife that is.
- A poverty-ridden student feels out-of-place among his wealthy fraternity brothers. He eventually falls in love with a rich girl and leads a revolt against the President of the fraternity house.
- A meek young boy, still shy and unsure of himself, visits his sister in a small town and is persuaded by her to ask the most popular girl in town for a date. He asks her to a school dance, but, as she is going steady, she refuses his invitation. Believing himself to be the butt of ridicule by the young population of the town because of his awkwardness, he withdraws into himself. He later meets a young girl who is as shy as he, is and, because of the mutual understanding between them, they give each other the confidence each lacks.
- The story of the Marr family which is made up of a dominant mother who bates everyone, the vacillating son, his wife, and the blind son. Then a new maid arrives, a maid who has served a term in prison as an accessory to a murder.
- An embittered professor comes near to wrecking the lives of a young man and young woman whose love for each other has been accidentally revealed to him through a letter written by the boy to the girl. The professor uses this to humiliate the young people, unconsciously venting upon them his own perverse cruelty for the disappointment suffered in his own life.
- A comedy on the foibles of campus activities about a professor who can't understand why a football hero shouldn't be given an unsatisfactory grade especially when he slept thru the classes.
- A department store tycoon comes home and is nearly hit by a falling body. He then learns the suicide jumped from his apartment. A mystery surrounds a suicide.
- A humorous tale of life in a small town and its impact on a would-be confidence man.
- A seaside resort hotel brings together an odd assortment of people: a frustrated married couple, four young lovers, children and an grouchy old miser.
- A young war orphan is taken in by five men living along the Italian Riviera. Their hope is to find a wealthy American couple who will adopt Pepi and give him a proper upbringing. When the time comes to give the tyke up.
- 1948–1956TV EpisodeKatie Gordon, Richard's long suffering wife, has put up with his shenanigans to the point where she seeks a divorce. Her restless and bored spouse just keeps finding himself in hot water.
- The life of a middle-aged couple has become too complacent and empty.
- A scathing denunciation of gambling and feudal aristocrats of the 19th Century, this story relates how Philip, a young medical student, bargains away his career for the unsure success of high gambling stakes. His caution turns to uncontrollable greed when he learns that money can buy women and quick fame. His destiny is bound to Theresa's, a beautiful young woman who has been mortgaged in marriage for her stepfather's debt, and to her wealthy grandmother's, who chooses to gamble away her fortune so there will be no inheritors.
- Misaligned plot twists for this lost episode.
- A child has been given an exceptional gift by her fairy godmother, the gift of finding lost articles
- A woman of 30 is preoccupied with her work as a television script writer.
- 1948–19561hTV Episode
- The story of the biggest POW-camp escape of World War II.
- An American newspaperman in London believes that he is being pursued by agents from across the Iron Curtain.
- Three people are thrown together by the death of a man.
- Fighting over an inheritance, one Pyncheon brother frames the other for murder.
- Mike Galloway, a "nice guy", was an incurable practical joker--always passing out exploding cigars and perpetrating other silliness. His pranks made for a bad first impression on Dorie, but eventually they fell in love and married.
- The deposed King of Brandovia, whose inhabitants spend their time exporting bologna and repelling invasions by neighboring Carps and Gloats, finds his way to America, where he earns a living as a dancing instructor.
- A woman is on trial for espionage and has but a few hours to prove her innocence.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
- Abby, the maid, is left a small fortune by the late Mr. Bean who she had befriended. Her husband and wife employers scheme to get their hands on the wealth.
- 1948–19561hTV EpisodeThe tragic life story of the tormented artist.
- A woman from Kansas comes to Marlowe to help find her missing brother.
- An engaged Air Force lieutenant goes on a ten-day furlough to Scotland with a female friend. Their understanding is that the trip will be purely platonic; instead, they fall madly in love. At his first opportunity, the lieutenant flies back to America to break the news to his fiancé and family.
- A butcher purchases the town he calls home to preserve its quiet lifestyle.
- 1948–19561hTV Episode
- A gambler has nothing to lose as his shady past with women and cards catch up to him.
- 1948–1956TV EpisodeA member of an architect's firm is torn by internal conflict: his partners need his compliance if they are to cash in on an illicit deal they have made with a building contractor.
- In England in the 1890s, Colonel Chart, a widower with four children, falls in love with a charming, wealthy American widow, Mrs. Churchley, but his 27-year-old spinster daughter Adela contrives to ruin the relationship. She also turns two of the other three children against their intended stepmother and spoils the widow's plans to help Adela's brother Godfrey out of an unpleasant situation.
- A businessman commits an unpardonable breach of ethics in order to keep his business alive.
- Three unmarried women residing in a boarding house in a small town have watched life pass them by waiting for the right man to come into their lives. When a new stranger shows up and moves into the boarding house.
- The Philco Corporation and ABC network televised the first live Miss America broadcast on Saturday September 11, 1954. Twenty seven million viewers from coast to coast shared the thrills of the Boardwalk Hall audience as they watched from their own homes as California's Lee Meriwether captured the title for 1955. Bob Russell was the emcee. For the first time, the pageant also featured it's first "Illuminated Night Parade" down the Boardwalk.
- A reporter has undertaken the biography of a Confederate general to get the authentic version of his heroism at Bull Run.
- A widow tries not to be dependent on her children.
- During the First World War, an elderly cleaning lady without children of her own "adopts" a young soldier off to the Front.
- The work of US engineers in a South American country is disrupted by angry local people.
- A young man, held a failure by his father, is a juror in the murder trial of a gangland boss. When the trial is over, the son reveals that he held out for the acquittal of the defendant.
- Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medical practice success by using the Good book as guidance.
- A young attorney involves himself in many shady deals as he pursues political ambitions. His wife speaks up and demands he clean up his act. The threat of disbarment also contributes to his final decision.
- A husband and wife are drifting apart due to different goals in their individual careers.
- A tutor hired to instruct an uncontrollable 10-year-old soon recognizes the child's problem: it's his parents. The boy has had never received any affection from his negligent mother and father.
- A conniving and devious Southern socialite manipulates the lives of those around her with tragic results.
- Lizzie Curry is on the verge of becoming a hopeless old maid. Her wit and intelligence and skills as a homemaker can't make up for the fact that she's just plain plain! Even the town sheriff, File, for whom she harbors a secret yen, won't take a chance --- until the town suffers a drought and into the lives of Lizzie and her brothers and father comes one Bill Starbuck ... profession: Rainmaker!
- Classic definition of a recluse when an older man withdraws from the world to live in seclusion and often in solitude. Withdrawn from the world; due to heavy trauma in his life.
- A 67-year-old refugee deals with his fears and conflicted feelings as he's about to become an American citizen.
- Georgi, a kindly and honest immigrant from the Georgian area of Russia, experiences many difficulties as he tries to adapt to his adopted country. He works hard to make a place for himself in America, all the while fighting with the English language and the strange customs of an alien people.
- An amnesia victim is told by his alleged stepfather that he is heir to a fortune. When his so-called family greet him with reserve, however he gets busy to iron out the unreal problem.
- A social-climbing couple scheme to find a mate for their unromantic inclined daughter. She however prefers an unstable piano player over an established member of the tea and crumpet set, things build up with a tragic ending.
- An idealistic newspaper editor battles with his stubborn publisher.
- In this stirring "drama of an old lady's love for her grandson, Miss Gish plays the role of the wife of a poor Texas farmer who has raised her grandson, following the death of his parents.
- The lives of two sisters are disrupted by a psychopath who appears claiming to be their godson.
- A wife becomes exasperated with her husband who seems to have lost the will to work. She takes their child and leaves. He finds a menial job and asks her to come home. She seeks advice on the situation from her mother and father
- After the assassination of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth leaped to the stage below, his spur became entangled in the American flag draping the balcony causing Booth to break his leg.
- A boarding house keeper faces a military tribunal, charged as a conspirator for renting a room to John Wilkes Booth.
- A modern day Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to close his store on Christmas Day.
- A New England spinster Miss Leckton disregards her neighbours' cry for help and assistance during a hurricane. She resents the intrusion, especially since her neighbours happen to be Jews.
- Three decades in the life of the Confederate president are covered by three women: each of his two wives, and his daughter.
- A young wife fights to free her husband from the control of his manipulative and controlling father.
- A young girl's disappearance on the night of her engagement party leads investigators and her fiancee on a long perplexing case that ends in a London pub 24 years later.
- A scientist's life has been destroyed by another man's greed and takes out his anger on three innocent strangers, implicating them in his own death.
- A little girl returns from a fresh air camp to her slum district home and brings a sapling with her. The tree is planted in the parking. Ridicule of the family's efforts to keep it alive comes from all sources. Angered, the father sets out to get more trees planted, trouble brews.
- A jury foreman seeks to wreak personal vengeance on the murder defendant.
- Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940's Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish -- just once before she dies -- is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home." The trouble is her son, Ludie, is too concerned for her health to allow her to travel alone and her petty daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae, insists they don't have money to squander on bus tickets. This prompts "escape" attempts each month which coincide with the arrival of Mrs. Watts' Social Security check. Then, Mrs. Watts makes a successful escape and last trip home.
- A flirtatious woman has a difficult time settling down to her marital responsibilities.
- A man becomes entangled with a flighty woman during a convention.
- 1948–1956TV EpisodeSeeds planted in a New York City backyard grow into a magical plant that brings happiness to those living near it. Formerly unpleasant neighbors turn into caring, warm-hearted individuals.
- A young boy's disappearance when his mother remarries leads to a mystery when he is found and has forgotten who he is.
- A composer's reaction to his daughter's marriage to a middle-aged man brings changes in his own life.
- This plot revolves around American troops stationed in China after WWII.
- A female psychiatrist visits the home of a famous woman novelist and discovers unhappiness aplenty. She learns the novelist's ambitions and vanity are causes of the trouble.
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- A professional couple marry and the wife insists on celibacy for three months to see if they really are compatible or not. The husband tries to lure her with all kinds of excuses and tricks to the marital bed.
- The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materializes every year at the same time, at his tomb, Grant's Tomb.
- The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materialises every year at Grant's Tomb.
- Nellie Rimplegar has to tell her grown children that due to her bungled handling of their finances, the family has been wiped out by the Stock Market crash. Friend and family doctor, Alan Stevens, tells them they'll all need to eliminate their extravagant ways and get jobs. Stevens also rents a room in their house more as a way to be near pretty Elizabeth Rimplegar, than to help their finances. Stevens faces competition from Elizabeth's beau, Ronald, a free-loading writer who remains oblivious to her money woes.
- A criminal brings scandal to the family of a dead intelligence officer but eventually confesses his shoddy motives for creating the affair and absolves the dead man.
- A couple deeply in love find things changing when a third woman enters the picture and then it becomes a case of attempted murder.
- A 24-hour delay in mail delivery violently changes three lives. A postman collapses on his daily route and the delivery of his sack of mail is delayed for a day. In three dramatic situations which develop,
- A Czech scientist escapes from Prague with the aid of an American industrialist, who wants to hire him for his personal benefit. The scientist is followed by a former student, now a fanatic Communist, who insists that the scientist must return to his own country to work for the People's Republic. The scientist must decide whether to return or abandon his countrymen and accept personal freedom in America.
- A man who's stopped before committing suicide says he can remember nothing of his past. A police check reveals that he has a wife.
- A man must decide whether or not to expose the past of a candidate for the sheriff's office.
- The steward Malvolio is elaborately humiliated.
- The story of a young man struggling against his father's domination after his father has been dead for several years.