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- A rural schoolteacher fights off a Minnesota blizzard.
- Troubled Mary Norrich embarks on her first voyage on her sea captain husband Robert Norrich's ship. Mary has a vision of a ghostly apparition who tries to tell her of some kind of impending danger. Alas, Mary can't convince her husband or the other crew members that something is amiss.
- A dramatization of the capture of German submarine U-505, the only German sub ever captured in World War II.
- Hugo Haas' own story of escape from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia.
- A famous author sets out to prove that a convicted murderer is innocent of his crimes.
- The story of the boys who fought against the Nazis in Occupied Denmark. They partake in various sabotage plots to their subsequent capture and internment. John Nesbitt also interviews one of the original members of the Club.
- A sad and lonely man, a Bowery bum, dies and the detectives probe his past to reveal he was a real hero of two World Wars.
- Homesteader, Steve Williams, is murdered in cold blood by land grabber, Pete Dawson. Steve's fiancee Eliza Stewart watches as his killer is acquitted by a local jury, but the circuit judge is disgusted by the verdict and makes his feelings known. Dawson gets his just deserts when he is later killed in a poker dispute but, encouraged by the judge, Eliza determines to further the cause of justice in her own way.
- The story of the relationship between Austrian pacifist Bertha Kinski von Suttner and Alfred Nobel.
- Once upon a time in Colonial America, publishers could be jailed for libel -- even if the libel was the truth. This is the story of Andrew Hamilton and the Zenger case, which would lead to the modernization of freedom of the press.
- A Greek immigrant to the US goes to work at a junkyard owned by his friend. As he becomes more successful, he brings his wife and sons over from Greece, but his wife dies in a flu epidemic, leaving him to raise his sons alone. The sons eventually win a scholarship to a prestigious military school, and when they return home they find that their father now has his own "empire" of more than 20 junkyards and is known as "The Golden Junkman". But his success is tempered by the scorn and ridicule heaped on his sons because their "junkman" father's lack of education. He resolves to solve that problem and make his sons as proud of him as he is of them.
- After the death of his spouse, Thomas Lincoln brings home a new wife. Young Abe resents his new stepmother, but she slowly wins him over with her kindness.
- In Paris at the time of the French Revolution, Dr. Pinel is assigned to oversee the lunatic asylum. He is shocked at the squalor in which the patients are forced to live and sets about to reform the asylum.
- After the Communist takeover of Poland following the end of World War II, a Polish nationalist is sent to a Soviet prison, where he is subjected to brutal psychological torture.
- A killer takes a mother and her young son hostage.
- A tunnel that carries water to a valley's farmers is buried in a landslide. Blasting crews have only a few months to carve out an entirely new channel to bring water to the valley before the area's farmers lose everything they have.
- Two sailors explored jagged cliffs overlooking a remote beach near Monterey California. The earth suddenly gives way and one sailor falls to the rocks below. The other man goes for help and finds five telephone linemen at a nearby lodge who rush to the scene. They find the injured sailor far below them with the tide coming in.
- In 1956, a Hungarian family whose son is a prominent revolutionary leader must flee their country during their abortive revolt against the Soviet Union before the Russians can capture them and use them as hostages to force the son to surrender. The daughter stumbles across a group of smugglers who she confuses with the Three Magi of the Bible and enlists their help in their race to the Austrian border.
- A look at the trials and tribulations of the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh from the point of view of his brother Theo. This episode of "Telephone Time" depicts Theo Van Gogh's life and how he suffered with his famous brother.
- The story is from an actual case history from the John Tracy Clinic in Los Angeles, the programme relates how a little "stranger', a girl born deaf to a working class family, is gradually brought out of her isolation, and learns to communicate.
- An champion light-heavyweight boxer batters a young challenger so severely that the youthful pugilist suffers brain damage. Remorseful, the champion decides to rig a rematch in a small gym and allow the punch drunk fighter the chance to achieve his dream of winning a boxing "title".
- When Rainmaker Charlie Hatfield contracts with the city of San Diego to fill the city's reservoir, he is a little too successful in doing so.
- Renowned chef Henri Charpentier--the man who invented Crepes Suzette--recalls the "good old days" with famed actress Sarah Bernhardt. He recalls for her how he went from being one of the world's most famous--and richest--chefs to his situation now, with his business gone and his once considerable fortune dissipated.
- Samuel Howe has the daunting task of teaching a young girl blind and deaf from her infancy. After about 200 lessons, he finally discovers the key to breaking through to her.
- A missionary in 1903 Philippines befriends a young island boy, Pit-a-Pit, teaching him English and the ways of civilization. As he matures, he attends medical school because he wants to become a modern doctor to his superstitious people. He is put to the test by the local leaders who present him with a very ill woman needing prompt surgery; if she dies, they plan to kill him in retribution.
- Lou Kirn, a Navy football star in 1931 and a Squadron Commander during WW2, is faced with his biggest challenge in 1954 - a dreaded form of paralysis. During this personal battle he reaches out to save a paralyzed boy.
- While in Shanghai a husband races against time to develop insulin for his wife.
- The story of William Sydney Porter's incarceration in a federal prison and adoption of the pseudonym, "O. Henry".
- Billy Halop plays Chaplin's Lt.Ray Hall in this true story. He battles his fear and a fellow soldiers of jumping out of an airplane. They both jump and conquer their fear and Chaplin Hall survives the war and becomes a doctor.
- Before her final parole from a prison school, Alice Martin, a shy and reserved young girl, is given a job to see how she adjusts to the outside world. She returns to tell the other girls at the school that she is going to be married.
- A potted account of the 1912 Titanic disaster, focused on Margaret "Maggie/Molly" Brown.
- A defiant farmer breaks the law of his New England town and grows a beard. Even after he's put on trial he refuses to shave it off.
- When a mailman in Cuba learns that Cuba has no entries in the 1904 Olympic Games, he vows to enter the Marathon and win.
- Bicycle riding Rabbi Henry Cohen pays a daily visit to the jail in Galveston, Texas. There, he hears the plea of Josef Demchuk, who is being held for deportation as an illegal immigrant. Rabbi Cohen has the man released into his custody.
- Joseph Priestley, a minister and scientist is up against much when his followers dismiss his scientific findings.
- An old man who fancies himself Emperor of the United and Protector of Mexico becomes an object of ridicule in his home town of San Francisco.
- At the end of the Civil War, Texas cattlemen find themselves facing disaster with too many cattle, a bad drought, and no market for their livestock.
- The owner of a ferry service across the Arno River in Italy decides to abandon his boat and build a bridge. But he can find no one to help him with his project.
- A cobbler posing as a captain absconds with the treasury of a Berlin suburb in 1906. Based upon a true story.
- The commandant of a 17th century Canadian fort in Indian Territory jokingly leaves his teenage daughter in command when he travels to Montreal. The daughter takes her duties seriously, much to the resentment of the soldiers.
- Battle of wills between surgeon and lieutenant of a cavalry unit in the Mexican American War. Lieutenant wants every available man - even the sick - to help take a key position. Surgeon tries to protect the sick men.
- In 1870 Santa Fe, a local priest takes in an unruly and rebellious orphan. Despite the daily fights and dust-ups in town, the father ignores the complaints of the locals; he even stands up to his bishop who wants the troublesome child sent back to the orphanage. The priest's faith in the young man is soon proven right as the boy turns out to be a quick student of reading and math skills.
- The true story of Major Tyson, the captain of a military plane with engine trouble, and his fight to keep the plane in the air after reaching the point of no return.
- A French immigrant travels to California in search of gold. But his claim doesn't pay off, and he decides the soil holds more promise for wealth in orchards.
- A boy and his old man stick up for each other.
- Composer Hoagy Carmichael relates the story of a song he wrote in 1938 that was inspired by an anonymous poem, "I get along without you very well."
- A dramatization of the story of Caspar Hauser, a tortured 17-year-old found lying on a street in Nuremberg in 1830.
- Ten convicts go to work in a Russian prison camp in place of the right men.
- A woman sets out to rehabilitate a slum urchin.
- Story of how Sam Houston "retreated to victory" and helped win the war for the Republic of Texas.
- The true story of the first woman to run for the Presidency of the U.S. In 1884, long before women were granted the right to vote, Belva Lockwood campaigned as the Equal Rights Party's candidate.
- Story of an unsung racing mechanic who, because of a club foot, has never dared to race himself. All he needs is the confidence to succeed.
- Joey and other orphanage boys are looking through a mail-order catalog, choosing the inexpensive gift they are allowed at Christmas. When the superintendent asks Joey what he wants, Joey tells him he would like a frying pan to fry eggs.
- During the Revolutionary War, a German baker becomes a secret agent of the Continental Army. He enters British camps as a civilian and talks to Hessian soldiers.
- A baby is born with an incurable ailment, and given only three months to live. The young mother decides that when the baby dies, its eyes must be donated to the eye bank.
- Renowned opera singer Nina Koshetz wants her daughter Marina to follow in her footsteps. But Marina does not believe that everything must be sacrificed to music.
- Story of Heinrich Schliemann's quest for truth and riches in the myths he read about.
- The U.S. Army has rejected an appeal to overturn the 1865 conviction of Dr. Samuel Mudd as an accomplice in the escape of John Wilkes Booth.
- An old Marine volunteers in the Korean War.
- Story of two orphan boys vs. juvenile court.
- Story of the deadly Vicksburg tornado of 1953 and the city paper's efforts to go to print despite the devastation.
- Lew Reese has worked hard for fifteen years when tragedy strikes his pottery plant in Scio, Ohio.
- The story of the seasick navigator ridiculed by sailors when he said that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line and would get them to where they were going.
- The story of an American engineer's rescue work after the earthquake of August 6, 1949 in Ecuador.