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- American prisoners of war in Korea have a hard time of it.
- Todays theme is Seed of Guilt.
- A young man who suffers from a speech impediment is having a hard time landing his first job after graduating from high school. His mother intervenes without his knowledge and helps him get a job in the mail room of a large company. He quickly gains confidence and some control over his stuttering and falls for a young woman who works at the same company.
- 1953–19638.3 (25)TV EpisodeCharlie Gordon, a mentally challenged man who is eager to learn, is given an experimental operation to increase his intelligence to genius level. The experiment seems to work, until one of the lab animals the procedure was tested on begins to lose its intelligence...
- A genius lives a life isolated from human companionship. A young woman tries to break through.
- A teenage girl falls in love with a much older man.
- A young beauty queen comes to New York City and joins the beatnik set. She falls in love with a young advertising copywriter, but he refuses to take their romance seriously.
- A pitcher on a major-league baseball team finds out that his catcher is desperately trying to hide something, he is dying of a terminal disease and he doesn't want the owner to find out and fire him.
- A decorated Korean War hero inexplicably collaborates with the enemy while interred in a POW camp and is court-martialed.
- A scheming woman marries a nice but dimwitted intellectual out of convenience. She hears that her old lover is back in town. She decides to destroy his life, jealous of his love affair with another.
- Will Stockdale is a country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and too dumb to realize he's driving everyone around him crazy -- no one more than Sgt. King.
- The son (James Dean) of a French aristocrat is accused of stealing his father's money and of stealing his step-sister's heart.
- Twenty years ago, a murder took place at the Fennel boarding house. A man was convicted of the murder and sentenced to a twenty year prison term. Now, he has returned to the scene of the crime.
- Season 3, Episode 6 of The United States Steel Hour (1953).
- 1953–19636.2 (10)TV EpisodeThough rough around the edges, a self-made man tries to get his daughter admitted to Boston's high society 400.
- Five men in an Italian village informally adopt an orphaned boy. They're doing a good job with the child's upbringing when an American couple shows up and wants to legally adopt the lad.
- A rookie cop shoots and kills a 14-year-old boy fleeing from a prank gone bad.
- A girl falls in love with a sophisticated New Yorker. Afraid to tell him her father is a farmer, she gives him the idea that they have a country estate and that her piano-teaching mother is a concert performer.
- Dorothy McGuire stars in the Henry James adaptation classic, "The Aspern Papers" in the U.S. Steel Hour production of "A Garden in the Sea." James' 1888 novella concerns the efforts of a biographer to obtain letters of Poet Algernon Charles Swinnburne from the woman who inspired much of his poetry. Directed by Alex Segal in New York.
- A young English priest encounters the hostility of the anti-British residents when he settles on a remote and lonely island off the coast of Ireland.
- A family is unable to afford a blue serge suit for their son's graduation. Instead he is given Grandpa's suit that he wore to his wedding. The boy is afraid of ridicule and does not want to go.
- An honest bookkeeper is daydreaming about snatching the company payroll and setting himself up in Paris with a reasonable facsimile of Brigitte Bardot.
- A youthful member of a revolutionary movement in a Latin American country is chosen to assassinate the brother of an important government official.
- A veteran of the Irish rebellion, now living in London, is informed by Scotland Yard that two Irishmen are in London to kill him. They say he betrayed a great hero of the rebellion before he left the country.
- Story of a 40-year-old pitcher who is facing his retirement from baseball.
- Harvey Kent, a New York businessman, invites the Potters, a couple new to the city, to stay in his guest house while they house-hunt. But when they take over everything, including his friends, he schemes to get rid of them.
- An elderly widower, who only had daughters, has too much time on his hands. He becomes a leader of a boy's troop and his inexperienced leadership becomes a concern to the parents.
- The daughter of a country doctor is contemptuous of the back-country folk who are her father's patients. This estranges her from a local minister whom she loves and attracts her to a young doctor who hopes to practice in a big city.
- Life in an Italian-America family is continuously upset by Uncle Zi-Zi's schemes to appear as a contestant on a TV quiz program. Optimistic Zi-Zi is certain that, after one session, his fortune will be made.
- A man has grown restless and bored with his marriage and begins an affair with his secretary.
- Incapable of earning an honest penny, a kindly Englishman turns to making counterfeit money instead - so expertly, in fact, that he baffles Scotland Yard for years.
- A woman is trying to keep her past a secret from her future husband. She was acquitted for the murder of her first husband.
- Colonel and Lady Morrigan were very nicely provided for in their brother's will. But when the Colonel studies the will, he discovers that in order to get the money he'll have to tell a lie, and he refuses to sign.
- Arnold Boult is determined to make his son a success at all costs. He commits arson, causes two suicides, and bribes people. His wife, unable to leave him, becomes alcoholic and dies. His son is killed. After doing time in prison he searches for his illegitimate grandson.
- Broadway has made songwriter Jordan Blake famous. But, now a widower, he wants his children to escape the dark side of show business. He asks Susan, his sister-in-law, to bring up his children along these lines. Carolina, a star singer, romances Jordan but couldn't Susan be vying for his affections as well? When Jerry, Jordan's son, declares he wants to follow in his father's steps, Carolina deliberately decides to support him against Jordan...
- Enoch McCabe is much closer to his youngest son, Pat, than he is to his older boy, Don. Don, who wants his father's affection, is bitter about it.
- David Durfee's young son is kidnapped by desperate criminals, but he refuses to pay the ransom that the town feels would insure the boy's safety.
- A young man wishes to marry, but because of his obligations to his invalid mother he is unable to do so.
- A captain with 25 years' service on the "Singapore" faces mental collapse as he takes his freighter out on its last voyage, a fateful trip to Hong Kong.
- 1953–19631hTV Episode
- 1953–19631hTV EpisodeA hapless salesman pretends to be a success and full of self-confidence, but his ruse nearly tears his family apart.
- A two-act comedy set in a restaurant in rural Texas. The play features 16 characters of white, Hispanic, and American Indian races with a myriad of occupations with subject matter ranging from economics and family, to health and romance.
- A comedy special based on the history of the American automobile.
- A gambling addict loses all her savings playing the horses. Not just her savings, but the combined savings that she and her boyfriend were saving for their marriage.
- An autobiographical story about the loss of the American work ethic and problems of racism during World War II.
- John Woodruffe has post-war horrors from his years in a Japanese prison camp during World War II. He vows to avenge the murder of a chaplain by camp adjutant Sakamura. More than a decade later, Woodruffe comes face-to-face with his enemy.
- John Forsythe and Jane Blair. Scientist with access to top-secret files is on the run.
- A woman who looks younger than she is acts younger than she should.
- 1953–1963TV EpisodeA mute spinster, Mary Ann, is a mail-order bride to widower, Mr. Hare. Both he and his younger son are won over by Martha Ann, but his older son, Elmo, feels his father is not being true to memory of the boys' mother.
- Phyllis and Arthur Bannister, teachers at Thoreau College, receive a real shock at a faculty meeting when they learn that a Madison Avenue expert has been hired to modernize the school image.
- Stan Koski, a patient in a tuberculosis sanitarium, is chiefly responsible for the high morale of his fellow patients and the hospital staff. Only one patient remains aloof and contemptuous of Koski's efforts to divert his fellow patients.
- A couple disagree over his chosen career. He wants to be a vaudeville performer, and she wants him to accept a teaching job.
- A down-and-out press agent brings his wife out west to his father's hometown and turns it into a tourist center. During a celebration of Pioneer Day, a holdup and killing occur, and the killer has a good chance of escaping into the crowd.
- Paul Gardiner, Latin teacher at a private school, was an adopted child who never bothered to inquire who his real parents were. But now his snobbish future mother-in-law insists that he learn their identities - before he gets married.
- A woman caring for her elderly, invalid husband is very lonely. When a truck driver barges into her life, she sees him as her salvation.
- The son of a wealthy French collaborator is secretly a member of the underground. He falls in love and marries a young girl who is hiding from the Gestapo.
- Bat Bethune, the legendary former marshal of his New Mexico town, has taken to to shooting at imaginary badmen in his old age, endangering the town's inhabitants. With no other options, the mayor decides that he must leave town.
- Mother Seraphim is looking forward to spending Christmas with her sister. A young orphan girl starts a fire at the orphanage, burning it down. As a result, Mother Seraphim's sister catches pneumonia and dies.
- Fred Purdue, a lawyer, prepares to welcome into his home the father that he has not known, unaware that the man has a gambling problem.
- During World War 2, Cpl. Neville, an intelligent young man awaiting appointment to officers candidate school is asked, much to his displeasure, to become an instructor to illiterates. His snobbish approach doesn't last long.
- A series of comedy sketches that spoof the then-current craze of detective stories.
- Two-part drama about the different worlds of a young couple who fall in love and decide to marry: Charlie Webb, whose family has never had much money, and Lucy Chalmers, whose mother's side of the family has been rich for many generations.
- Dr. Victor Payson, a widower for just six months and father of a teenage daughter, is slated for the post of Chief of Surgeons of Collins General Hospital. But his romance with a young divorcee causes doubt among Payson's colleagues as to his suitability for the job. The doubt is planted by the wife of the hospital's director.
- The wife of a small-town dentist and mother of two teenage children secretly writes a novel which is accepted by a New York publisher. This makes her something of a celebrity, and off to New York she goes for a gay round of parties and press interviews, while her husband is left at home to take care of their house and the children.
- The town's sheriff, possessed of an irrational hatred of outlaws, kills a young man, claiming that the youngster had made an attempt on his life.
- Blacksmith Jack Rigger wants to lynch the man he thinks killed his son. But the townspeople are persuaded to hold a trial. And Rigger is compelled to serve as defense counsel for the man he wants to string up.
- A romance comedy, where Teresa Brewer's theme song is played at times throughout the story, asking Cupid to shoot his arrow again to improve the luck.
- A woman widowed for a year begins receiving 6:00 Sunday phone calls from her deceased husband.
- An American senator's son and a lovely Soviet guide engage in a romance despite all objections from their families.
- Young Sue Dulaney and Gordon Killman go out for a drink, and on the way home Gordon runs another car off the road. Gordon calls the police, but refuses to give his name.
- 1953–19631hTV EpisodeA musical version of Mark Twain's classic story.
- Lily Forrester just can't stand the fact that her ex-husband Philip is getting along so well with his new wife, and decides to put a little marital strife back into Philip's life.
- A man buys a bottle with an imp inside that grants wishes. However, the bottle is cursed; if the holder dies bearing it, his or her soul is forfeited to hell.
- A Senator who has devoted his entire life to politics now has but one ambition: to be nominated for President. At the convention it appears that he will attain his goal, until one man decides to use his power for personal advantage.
- In British Malaya, Edmund Hobart reports his wife missing, apparently murdered by rebel bandits. Detective Plover suspects that Hobart is in love with a Jean Ferrier, and discovers that Hobart filed for divorce prior to his wife's death.
- Being a clown is not necessarily a pleasure cruise. This is what a hobo clown, known in the business as a 'Charlie', thinks. So quite logically, he makes sure to educate his ten-year-old son so as he will never become a big top artist.
- In an Australian penal colony on a Sunday afternoon, a young convict is flogged to unconsciousness. His crime? He rested a while during working hours.
- Living with her poet father in the small hotel he runs almost as a hobby in the French Riviera, 14-year-old Penelope enjoys an upbringing both loving and laid-back, mingling easily with eccentric guests who dote on her. She is not proud of herself or her environment, wishing that she were just ordinary-- like the Bradleys, the wholesome middle-class family of jocks staying in the villa next door. When the Bradleys first invite Penelope over to share in their activities, she is overjoyed. But it soon becomes clear that the parents are condescending, unimaginative, and narrow-minded, and are raising their childen to be likewise. One evening, with her father away, a crisis befalling one of the guests demands all of Penelope's maturity and poise. Will the Bradleys help or let her down?
- A father tries to bribe a judge to save his son from disgrace.
- A celebrated stage comedienne feels that her career needs a lift. Opportunity knocks in the form of a TV series in which she is to star while her husband handles the producing and writing end. All does not go smoothly in the process, however.
- An American girl working for the U.S. Army in Tokyo becomes entangled in an ancient Japanese custom.
- Zachary Scott and Julie Haydon star in Pulitzer Prize Winning author Elmer Rice's "The Grand Tour".
- Priam Farrel is a celebrated artist, but a social recluse. When his valet dies of a sudden illness, a mix-up leads to the body being identified as Farrel's. The timid artist then assumes the identity of his former servant, but finds himself faced with constant dilemmas as a result.
- A young college president must prove his merit to a board of trustees that compares his activities with those of his illustrious predecessor.
- Feeling that he's in a rut, a man can't bear to spend another summer in his cottage by the lake. Although his wife and kids are disappointed, he wants to sell the house and use the money for a long trip.
- Two brothers are implicated in the disappearance of a Resistance fighter in post-war France.
- An unexpected romance occurs when a visitor shows up at an isolated New England farmhouse.
- Ma Garfield, who has social ambitions for her son Joey, has always disapproved of her son's career as a high school football coach. But when he falls in love with Helen Baker, a fellow teacher, she throws up her hands in despair. Helen, realizing Ma's great influence over Joey, isn't hopeful about the future of their romance.
- A woman's husband has been missing for 6 years. She meets a bearded man in a hospital who claims to be him and she brings him home. Friends and relatives of the missing man test the stranger to prove his identity.
- An American woman becomes ill in Europe, and she and her husband stay at a French Inn while she recuperates. They notice a small boy at the inn and learn that he is the grandson of the woman who owns the establishment. When they see that the child is ill-treated, they try to help him.
- A writer discovers that he has the power to literally make his characters come to life.
- The sudden reappearance of charming scoundrel Raymond Dabnet annoys his relatives.
- Gary Merrill stars in "The Man with the Gun". Story centers around anti-Communist victims in a slave labor camp in Europe.
- Russell Hampshire hasn't spent much time with his son Teddy during summer vacation, but the youngster has found a substitute - Captain Walker, a retired airline pilot.
- A kind young man is taught the principles of meanness by his father, who demands that the mortgage of a defenseless old widow and a deserted orphan be foreclosed on, on Christmas Eve.
- A violinist who has devoted his life to his art is drafted into the Army. His personal conflict with the rigors of army life is a serious one.
- An old lady becomes friends with a group of mothers who have sons fighting overseas during World War I. She feels left out since she has no child serving the war effort. After seeing a photo in the newspaper of a soldier with her last name, she tells the other ladies that he is her son, even though she's never even met the man. An uncomfortable meeting between the two is inevitable.
- Alison Bradmoor is playing a tape recording of her favorite Bach concerto, when the recording is interrupted by another woman's voice with a message for Alison: "He's back - and together we must get him out of the way."
- A former vaudeville singer ambitiously makes preparations for her daughter's professional singing debut, unaware that the girl has secretly married and given up plans for a singing career.
- A ruthless prosecutor conducts his inquisitions with a reign of terror, following the French Revolution.
- A power mad business man finds true values in a desert utopia called Carthage.
- A man in bankruptcy becomes a migrant oil worker to repay his debts. Throughout their journeys, he and his family dream of returning to the home they once owned.
- A psychiatrist tries to work out which of the three men in her life has caused Francesca's breakdown.
- Paula Marsten is an attempted suicide who has been brought to a mental hospital in a state of nervous collapse. Dr. King, the head physician, seems to recognize Paula, and he refuses to become involved in the case.
- Twelve-year old Jeff Wheeler, whose father is an Army doctor stationed in Germany, wants to prove to the old man that he is self-reliant - so he sneaks into the attic at night to make a pipe rack for him.
- A jaded salesman finds that love and education can go together.
- A young mother of two small children and an active participant in her community's social life has been told that she has a serious heart defect - which even surgery may not correct.
- The head of the Paris Missing Persons Bureau disappears and his assistant searches for him, hoping to be promoted.
- Attractive widow Lizzie Newberry and a virtuous preacher Mr. Stockdale get involved with brandy smugglers.
- Two part drama about the different worlds of a young couple who fall in love and decide to marry: Charlie Webb, whose family has never had much money, and Lucy Chalmers, whose mother's side of the family has been rich for many generations.
- A young Dr. Freud tries to convince his colleagues that not all illnesses are physical.
- After 30 years in the army, a man decides against enlisting again. He soon learns that returning to civilian life presents more problems than he anticipated.
- The Civil War has been over for several years but in a small western town it lives on. The Randolph and the Carson families refuse to be conciliatory as they supported different sides in the conflict.
- In a small Missouri town in the 1840s, teenage Tom Sawyer and his best friend Huckleberry Finn witness a murder, run away to become pirates and return home in time for their own funeral.
- Just after World War 2, an English woman physicist is traveling to Venice with her fiance to be married. But an American Intelligence officer detains them in Vienna, asking that they aid in locating an escaped German atomic scientist, wanted by both the American and Russian governments. Although weary of the strife of war, they reluctantly agree to travel to the small Adriatic island where the scientist is hiding.
- A New York entertainer is arrested for speeding in a small town. Wile he's being held, it's discovered that his car seems to have run over and killed a local citizen.
- Mr. and Mrs. Pollard feel that their son-in-law, novelist Mark Davis, isn't a fit parent for their grandchild. Lawyer Ellen Reed is convinced the Pollards' charge is based on their disapproval of Mark's latest book.
- For years May Golden has ended every argument with her husband by threatening to get a job. When Mimi, her youngest married daughter, becomes exasperated with her mother's daily visits and free advice, May decides it's time to prove her value by making good her threat.
- TV editor Sam Spaulding eagerly anticipates the press junket to London, where he intends to renew his acquaintance with actress Millie Pinks. But Sam's boss assigns him to look after Dulie Hudson, a sweet young columnist who has never been out of Texas. Everyone's afraid that the wilds of London will be too much for Dulie to handle-everyone, that is, except Dulie.
- Toni, a beautiful young woman, seems likely to inherit the money that the Oberon brothers need rather badly. What can they do?
- A loyal and loved housekeeper faces dismissal when her employers decide to close down the house now that the children have grown up.
- A poor Mexican who wants to go to the U.S. seeks help from Mr. Torres in getting across the border.
- Musical version of the famous play.
- With his family gathered around him, Daniel announces that his newly inherited farm will go to his youngest son Jamie to cultivate. Daniel's son-in-law insists that to be fair, Daniel should sell the farm and divide the money among the children. This gives rise to growing tension in the family.
- Two girls agree to share an apartment in New York City. One is a carefree art student; the other is determined to become a great actress. But life in the big city produces a change in their aspirations and even in their personalities.
- Housewife Edna Huntington has no children. A pleasant, middle-aged woman, she relies on friendly neighbors (and her TV set) to provide interest in life. When Stella Lawrence, a sophisticated divorcée, moves in across the hall, Edna makes friendly overtures-only to be repulsed. It takes Stella's soldier son Hank to break the ice, and defend his mother's chilly behavior.
- Mrs. Dowey, a childless cleaning woman, "adopts" a young soldier who's off to war.
- David Durfee's young son is kidnapped by desperate criminals, but he refuses to pay the ransom that the town feels would insure the boy's safety. (Repeat from last season.)