Four Star Playhouse
(1952)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 4
Success Story
Episode 41 - 7-26-1956
30m
A man is assigned to force a small-town newspaper out of existence.
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The Stand-In
Episode 40 - 7-19-1956
30m
An aspiring actress has spent 20 years in Hollywood, not gaining fame as she had hoped, but as a stand-in for a well-known actress. Her ambition turns to despair, and her affection to bitterness.
7.9/10Where to watch
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Yellowbelly
Episode 39 - 7-12-1956
30m
A military hero becomes circumspect as his wife expects their first child. In battle, he jumps into a protective hole instead of forging to the front of the line. His company nicknames him Yellowbelly, and he loses the respect of his men.
6.4/10Where to watch
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Distinguished Service
Episode 38 - 7-05-1956
30m
More interested in his career than in his duty as a physician, a noted doctor intentionally misdiagnoses a patient in an Asian city so he could get back to the U.S. and accept a major award. When his wife realizes that he abandoned a town needing his help to fight a Plague outbreak, she demands a divorce.
8.3/10Where to watch
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The Stacked Deck
Episode 37 - 6-28-1956
30m
Fresh out of prison, blackmailer Gus Anderson intends to use Willie's casino to launder his victims' money. To insure his cooperation, Gus' thugs are holding one of Willie's waiters hostage. Glamorous singer Betty Maxwell shows up at Dante's, as scheduled, to lose at blackjack and avoid having a risqué photo of her mailed to the tabloids. Knowing that Lt. Waldo will but his casino yet again, Willie invites to cop over to watch Gus violate his parole.
7/10Where to watch
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Woman Afraid
Episode 36 - 6-21-1956
30m
While her husband is laid up in a farm house with a broken leg, Nina sees a prowling burglar. She calls for help, but the hired hand that she calls for is the burglar - and he's also a murderer.
7.5/10Where to watch
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Second Chance
Episode 35 - 6-14-1956
30m
An experienced writer is in the middle of a professional slump when he is inspired by the story of an old long lost friend. While his career is reviving, he seems to be hindering the acting prospects of his novice young girlfriend.
6.5/10Where to watch
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Watch the Sunset
Episode 34 - 6-07-1956
30m
Philip Benton is entertaining thoughts of moving on from his wife, who has been in a sanitarium for five years. Just as he is starting a new relationship with his secretary, he receives news that his wife is better and will be released.
7.6/10Where to watch
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Beneath the Surface
Episode 33 - 5-31-1956
30m
In an effort to escape her past, a woman takes a job in a plant.
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One Forty-Two
Episode 32 - 5-24-1956
30m
Ruthless dictator Mendoza summons a priest when 300,000 people in his country announce that they will pray for him to die at 1:42 that day.
6.2/10Where to watch
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The Other Room
Episode 31 - 5-17-1956
30m
A teacher wanting to leave his unfulfilling job needs money to write the book he's dreamed of. A stranger enters and makes an unusual offer: $10,000 to take a physical for a dying man so he can get life insurance to take care of his widow when he passes on.
7.8/10Where to watch
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That Woman
Episode 30 - 5-10-1956
30m
A young widow, who is in denial that her husband has died, moves in with her brother-in-law's family down on the farm. Her city ways and manners clash with the simple, pious life of the farmers.
7/10Where to watch
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A Long Way From Texas
Episode 29 - 5-03-1956
30m
Two con men target a naive young oilman from Texas. They visit Willie's gambling hall, and the con men threaten Willie. He decides to get revenge, and teach a lesson to the oilman.
6.6/10Where to watch
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Touch and Go
Episode 28 - 4-26-1956
30m
Ted attacks old enemy Walter in a fit of rage. Stunned at the realization that Walter is dead, he hears a woman on the phone who overheard their conversation. Ted needs to find this woman and keep her from telling the police anything.
7.7/10Where to watch
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Wall of Bamboo
Episode 27 - 4-19-1956
30m
An undercover agent is dispatched to the anti-communist underground to search for an important contact. But when he's caught by the red Chinese, he's tortured in various ways for important information by a mysterious renegade white man who leads them known by the nom de guerre "Sampan Joe".
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Autumn Carousel
Episode 26 - 4-12-1956
30m
A TV writer finds inspiration from a little girl travelling to Los Angeles.
7.3/10Where to watch
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The Rites of Spring
Episode 25 - 4-05-1956
30m
An older husband tests the marital fidelity of his amorous young wife by anonymously sending her flowers from "a secret admirer".
5.8/10Where to watch
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The Case of Emily Cameron
Episode 24 - 3-29-1956
30m
Emily is an invalid who needs a caretaker. Her husband leaves her home alone one day, and she begins to stew over the low regard that he has for her. He, on the other hand, resents the opportunities that he's missed because of Emily.
6.6/10Where to watch
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Desert Encounter
Episode 23 - 3-22-1956
30m
A famous author gets embroiled in an unusual situation when he offers to drive a young Mexican girl to her ranch.
6.9/10Where to watch
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To Die at Midnight
Episode 22 - 3-15-1956
30m
The conflict of a prison warden who discovers exculpatory evidence on the eve of an execution.
7.9/10Where to watch
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Red Wine
Episode 21 - 3-08-1956
30m
A police detective travels to Borneo looking for an American who murdered his wife for a huge insurance payoff. There are only three Americans there, all on a rubber plantation, but none fits the physical description. Once his cover is blown, the detective comes clean and tells the men he thinks none of them are his man. But he knows the killer is a wine connoisseur and he uses that to set a trap.
7/10Where to watch
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Once to Every Woman
Episode 20 - 3-01-1956
30m
At a particularly vulnerable time in her life, Carol is wooed by charming David. They fall in love, but Carol then learns that David is married. He says that he will get divorced for her, but Carol is visited by David's wife.
5.6/10Where to watch
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Command
Episode 19 - 2-23-1956
30m
The first mate on a merchant ship has been waiting for years to take command of the ship. When the elderly captain makes a mistake at a time when the ship is in danger the first mate sees his chance.
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No Limit
Episode 18 - 2-16-1956
30m
Suave restaurateur-gambler Willie Dante rebuffs the attempt of racketeers to cash in on his gambling activities. He appears to change his mind, however, due to the influence of a beautiful woman.
7.4/10Where to watch
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Safe Keeping
Episode 17 - 2-09-1956
30m
The chancellor of a foreign university gives newspaperman Frank Carstairs a document to smuggle out of the country. He anticipates being charged with treason by the totalitarian government and he wants the free world to know he did not willingly join their side. Meanwhile, Frank carries on an affair with a sexy foreign spy who seems to be playing both sides of the fence.
6.7/10Where to watch
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The Listener
Episode 16 - 2-02-1956
30m
Sheila and her brother engineer a gas leak to kill her husband so they can split the insurance money. Overhearing the plot is the husband's invalid father, but it's no concern because he can't speak or write. Sheila doesn't realize he is able to communicate with his nurse through his eyes.
7/10Where to watch
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High Stakes
Episode 15 - 1-26-1956
30m
An employee catches attractive Mrs. Raymond making a pass at Willie, then Mr. Raymond comes to the club with a gun to get even. Willie shoots him in self defense, but Willie is framed when Mr. Raymond's gun disappears.
7/10Where to watch
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Tunnel of Fear
Episode 14 - 1-19-1956
30m
While traveling alone in a train compartment, an elderly, wealthy, wheelchair-bound man (Cedric Hardwicke) is confronted by a younger man (David Niven), whom he had double-crossed over twenty years ago. The younger man, now bent on revenge, tells the elderly man that he intends to kill him when the train passes through an upcoming tunnel. A battle of wits ensues.
8/10Where to watch
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Magic Night
Episode 13 - 1-12-1956
30m
Upset that his 25 years of service for the company are unappreciated, Henri treats himself to an expensive night on the town, on the company's dime. He then comes to his senses, distraught that his embezzlement will be discovered.
8/10Where to watch
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Dark Meeting
Episode 12 - 1-05-1956
30m
When her long-time pin-boy retires, bowling proprietress hires the one guy who answers her want-ad right away. He turns out to be an escaped committed psychotic who, lonely and always lacking in the social skills, never received the nurturing of a friend [you think]. We know it but it takes some time before she becomes aware. While waiting for the police to come to apprehend him, she lets him walk her home through the park while lending him her sympathetic ear. Dealing with a psychotic might take some finesse. How will HE take it? And how will he take IT?
7/10Where to watch
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One Way Out
Episode 11 - 12-15-1955
30m
A wealthy woman separates from her fortune-hunting husband. She rents a swanky New York penthouse in a building so new that she is the only one living there. When she awakens from a nap, she finds herself trapped in the apartment. Her estranged husband and his girlfriend are after her money and are hoping this will drive her crazy.
7.6/10Where to watch
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A Place Full of Strangers
Episode 10 - 12-08-1955
30m
Industrialist Fleet Mason, a workaholic who doesn't realize how many lives he effects with his stressed-out working habits. When he thinks his loving wife has hung up on him in disgust, he re-evaluates his life by taking an imaginary bus trip to Meadville"". The trip is to nowhere and is full of psychological imagery. In a smoke shrouded bus terminal he meets all the people in his life as total strangers. When he meets his wife and realizes she doesn't recognize him, he becomes despondent. Only when his father appears and guides him to the exit does he realize how he must alter his life.
7.5/10Where to watch
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Something Very Special
Episode 9 - 12-01-1955
25m
Alan moves to America when his wife dies, leaving his young daughter with her grandmother in Paris. When he returns after five years, his daughter has difficulty believing that he loves her.
7.4/10Where to watch
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Looking Glass House
Episode 8 - 11-24-1955
30m
A woman is surprised when her fiancé turns out to have been married before.
6.2/10Where to watch
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Here Comes the Suit
Episode 7 - 11-17-1955
30m
A milquetoast employee at a novelty company is overlooked by everyone from his boss to the woman he crushes on. But after being suckered by a shady tailor into getting a shockingly garish suit, he's whistled at by woman and mistaken for a gangster. His newly found self-confidence fits him well.
6.5/10Where to watch
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The Devil to Pay
Episode 6 - 11-10-1955
30m
In Hell, the administrating office is hopelessly out of date and incompetent, so Satan enlists the help of an exceptionally aggressive and heartless businessman to modernize the place. He installs an IBM system and soon it's the picture of efficiency, much, it turns out, to the businessman's regret.
6.1/10Where to watch
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A Spray of Bullets
Episode 5 - 11-03-1955
30m
A former sheriff, Will Sonnett, known for his fast draw shows up in Mesa to see an optometrist; he's become nearsighted and badly needs glasses. Also in town is a punk gunfighter who wants to make a name for himself. Knowing Sonnett has vision problems, he challenges the lawman to a duel.
7/10Where to watch
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Full Circle
Episode 4 - 10-27-1955
30m
A particularly bad review causes a Broadway actress to scheme to humiliate the drama critic.
6.9/10Where to watch
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Let the Chips Fall
Episode 3 - 10-20-1955
25m
A reformed card sharp is recruited to unmask a suspected poker cheat among a group of wealthy gamblers. He finds it difficult to be impartial when the suspect enthusiastically befriends him.
7.1/10Where to watch
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The Face of Danger
Episode 2 - 10-13-1955
30m
A 100-year-old woman who recalls her romance with a desperado during the days of the old West.
6.6/10Where to watch
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The Firing Squad
Episode 1 - 10-06-1955
30m
A WWII captain must oversee an execution he doesn't want to happen.
6.3/10Where to watch
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Season 3
Award
Episode 38 - 6-30-1955
30m
Valerie is a world famous movie actress who just bombed on her first attempt at live acting on Broadway. She goes to Ben, renowned acting instructor, to teach her how to be a live actress. He refuses unless she can succeed at a challenge.
7.2/10Where to watch
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The Frightened Woman
Episode 37 - 6-23-1955
30m
A woman's loneliness leads her to re-experience her long repressed (20-year old) pain-associated memories (albeit benign themselves). The mystery: is she (Oberon) insane (hallucinations or phantasms?), will her busy businessman husband (Stevens) rediscover his more nurturing side (in other words will he ever finally land the account), and will a therapist (Beaumont) help bring it all together for the better and for us to make good sense of it?
6.6/10Where to watch
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The Executioner
Episode 36 - 6-09-1955
30m
A complex web of deception is revealed during the investigation of the assassination of a police official. In a foreign country during the Cold War, an American doctor is accused to being a spy and targeted for murder, but the wrong man is killed. But, perhaps, the right man died after all.
7.1/10Where to watch
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Broken Journey
Episode 35 - 6-02-1955
30m
Two cops transporting prisoner Cookie decide on a layover in the city of Westover, temporarily placing Cookie in the local jail while they freshen up elsewhere. Cookie devises a plot to snooker the locals into releasing him.
7/10Where to watch
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Trudy
Episode 34 - 5-26-1955
30m
A young woman is planning her wedding to a groom whom no one believes exists outside her own wishful dreams.
7.4/10Where to watch
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Alias Mr. Hepp
Episode 33 - 5-12-1955
30m
Frank Hepp has made his career charming rich, unhappy women out of their fortunes. His parole officer orders him avoid all women, but he can't help himself when a single wealthy woman moves in next door. Mr. Hepp's plan to fleece his new victim runs afoul when he actually falls for her.
8.3/10Where to watch
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Uncle Fred Flits By
Episode 32 - 5-05-1955
30m
Uncle Fred descends upon a suburban home, completely disrupts the lives of the family by his eccentric behaviour, and brings two young lovers together. His unwilling accomplice, and a horrified spectator of this chaos, is his nephew, Pongo.
6.8/10Where to watch
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The House Always Wins
Episode 31 - 4-28-1955
30m
Willie Dante, the tough but suave owner of a nightclub and illegal back room casino. One evening, Willie sees an old flame with a man and another couple, The woman, still caring for Willie, tells him that the people she's with are planning to rob his casino. Willie outwits them and keeps his former love from being arrested.
7/10Where to watch
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With All My Heart
Episode 30 - 4-21-1955
30m
An overweight woman watches her doctor boyfriend marry someone else.
6.7/10Where to watch
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Madeira, Madeira
Episode 29 - 4-14-1955
30m
The untimely death of his artist friend causes a failing writer to visit the widow to pay his condolences and pursue suspicions about her. When he arrives, the cheerful widow presents him with an offer he finds both puzzling and attractive. His acceptance leads him to the discovery of the fate of his friend.
7.4/10Where to watch
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The Collar
Episode 28 - 4-07-1955
30m
The night before the military plans to massacre a warring tribe of Blackfoot Indians, an imprisoned and tortured priest comes out from the tribe to ask for mercy.
7/10Where to watch
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The Girl On The Bridge
Episode 27 - 3-31-1955
30m
After drawing and painting an unknown young woman he met on a bridge near his vacation retreat, an artist (Dick Powell) is desperate to find her again when the painting begins calling to him.
6.8/10Where to watch
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Nightmare At Lark Cottage
Episode 26 - 3-24-1955
30m
A woman with no companion other than her young daughter knows that an escaped convict is on his way to kill her.
6.8/10Where to watch
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Henry And The Psychopathic Horse
Episode 25 - 3-17-1955
30m
After falling for a medical student, a New York City psychiatrist travels to her family ranch to announce their engagement. Her father hates city slickers and expect her to marry a rancher to run the estate. To win his woman's hand, Henry's challenged to ride an unbroken stallion known as a "killer." He puts his professional skills to work on the horse.
6.1/10Where to watch
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Eddie`s Place
Episode 24 - 3-10-1955
30m
Ellen is released from a punitive work farm without means, but Eddie befriends her and gives her a job at his restaurant. She wants to go straight, but Eddie pressures her to cover for some of his own shady activities.
7.1/10Where to watch
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The Returning
Episode 23 - 3-03-1955
30m
An American professor in Japan falls in love with a half-breed former student in 1941. He is fired for violating school policy, so he returns to America, resolved to bring his intended to America once settled. World War II intervenes.
7.6/10Where to watch
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Tusitala
Episode 22 - 2-24-1955
30m
The true story of Robert Louis Stevenson's stay on the island of Tahiti. The islanders have come to revere him as Tusitala-Teller of Tales. They believe he is magical and powerful. When the two opposing chiefs of the island plan war against one another out of petty jealousy, Tusitala uses his wits to convince both chiefs to make peace and save the tranquility of the island.
6.1/10Where to watch
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The Wild Bunch
Episode 21 - 2-17-1955
30m
After a charmer sweeps a pretty widow off her feet and marries her in haste, she confesses that she has money and three children. He has no problem with the money, but the thought of instant fatherhood gives him pause.
7/10Where to watch
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Fair Trial
Episode 20 - 2-10-1955
30m
Chicago television newsman Dave Sheridan (Dick Powell) arrives in a small Ohio town, Hadenville, where Richard Fulton has just been lynched. The chief of police (Edward R. Platt) tells Sheridan he confessed to killing sweet old Mrs. Winslow and the town went wild. Sheridan plans on doing a piece exposing how sick the town is. Hotel clerk Carol (Jean Howell) wants him to give the town a "fair trial".
6.5/10Where to watch
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A Kiss for Mr. Lincoln
Episode 19 - 2-03-1955
30m
A young woman teaches her timid husband some things about love when he tries to show her the importance of supporting Abraham Lincoln for the Presidency.
6.5/10Where to watch
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The Good Sister
Episode 18 - 1-27-1955
30m
A nun in German orphanage during World War II will is determined to marry her oldest orphan to an American serviceman in order to secure a future for her.
7/10Where to watch
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Breakfast in Bed
Episode 17 - 1-20-1955
30m
An artist is enticed away from his lucrative commercial advertising contracts by a young model who shows obvious disappointment that he is not striving to achieve his potential as a creative artist.
7.1/10Where to watch
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Stuffed Shirt
Episode 16 - 1-11-1955
30m
A seemingly cuckolded working-class husband (Boyer), in tropical setting, must resort to a life-risking ruse (in court) to rid himself of his bigamous, greedy and potentially blackmailing wife who would not otherwise reveal her own lack of virtuosity.
7.3/10Where to watch
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A Bag Of Oranges
Episode 15 - 1-06-1955
30m
Believing her husband innocent of the crime he is to be executed for, his wife takes up a vigil the night of the scheduled execution at a nearby café. A curious reporter wonders about the bag of oranges she carries with her.
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Go Ahead And Jump
Episode 14 - 12-30-1954
30m
Eddie, a cab driver, picks up a sad looking fare and brings him to a hotel where he witnesses the man being humiliated by his ex-wife. When the man asks to be taken to the middle of the biggest bridge, Eddie uses some every day, hard-nosed psychology, and a little lie, to make the man see that life is worth living.
7.9/10Where to watch
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The Answer
Episode 13 - 12-23-1954
26m
A cynical Hollywood writer returns to his hometown. At a bar he meets a drunken, disillusioned playwright. The writer challenges the playwright to relate his play, which he does, holding the audience rapt in his gripping recital.
7.2/10Where to watch
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A Championship Affair
Episode 12 - 12-16-1954
30m
A renowned professional bridge champion (Boyer) returns to (openly) woo his long lost, but married, love (Miles). In circuitous fashion, his unselfish love leads him to (secretly) help her bridge-addicted husband (Ross Elliott) choose to finally gain success in life.
7/10Where to watch
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Bourbon Street
Episode 11 - 12-09-1954
30m
A musician returns to New Orleans after breaking into the bigtime. Though his ex-wife deserted him, he is bent on revenge after receiving an anonymous letter telling him she committed suicide after being mistreated by her lover.
8.3/10Where to watch
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Meet A Lonely Man
Episode 10 - 12-02-1954
30m
An attractive young lady mistakes a lonely hotel desk clerk for a Texas oil millionaire she'd once met. Loving the attention she's lavishing on him, he plays along...until his big spending catches up with him.
7.7/10Where to watch
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Marked Down
Episode 9 - 11-25-1954
30m
A woman who works at a fancy dress shop is determined to meet and marry the millionaire whose office is next door. Once she is asked out, she realizes that money doesn't make a person. Meanwhile, a young boy is buying a dress on layaway for his mother's birthday, but there's more to his story.
6.7/10Where to watch
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My Own Dear Dragon
Episode 8 - 11-18-1954
30m
A successful playwright does his best to avoid reading the script written by his young new wife. She can't understand why he refuses to encourage her. At a party celebrating his 25th year in the theatre, he reveals the incident from his past that causes him to discourage her writing.
6.9/10Where to watch
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Vote Of Confidence
Episode 7 - 11-11-1954
30m
A con man, recently released from prison, attempts to recoup his fortunes by convincing an heiress' secretary that he needs funds to run an orphanage.
7.2/10Where to watch
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The Contest
Episode 6 - 11-04-1954
30m
The head of detectives runs into problems when he suspect his fiancé has committed murder.
6.5/10Where to watch
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The Adolescent
Episode 5 - 10-28-1954
30m
A school teacher on the disciplinery board, finds herself investigating her nephew's misconduct.
6.2/10Where to watch
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The Wallet
Episode 4 - 10-21-1954
30m
A French waiter with more pride than money will not stand for his sickly wife to be admitted to a free public hospital. When a wealthy customer leaves behind a wallet containing thousands of dollars, the server takes it to upgrade his wife's medical care. Their son also becomes a thief to pay the bills.
6.8/10Where to watch
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Interlude
Episode 3 - 10-14-1954
30m
A young woman from a wealthy family is graduating from an exclusive school with neither her parents nor close friends attending. In her lonliness, she becomes infatuated with an older man, a divorced newspaper reporter.
7.6/10Where to watch
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Never Explain
Episode 2 - 10-07-1954
30m
A novice social worker is dispatched to the home of a widower who refuses to send his children to school.
7.1/10Where to watch
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Man in the Cellar
Episode 1 - 9-30-1954
30m
A little girl who regularly talks to imaginary friends grows frustrated when her parents refuse to believe that there is a real man in the cellar.
6.8/10Where to watch
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Season 2
The Doctor and the Countess
Episode 31 - 4-29-1954
30m
A famous plastic surgeon is recruited to severely disfigure the face of a beautiful countess, in order to relate to her husband, who was burned and disfigured in a serious accident and has become a recluse.
6.1/10Where to watch
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Village In The City
Episode 30 - 4-22-1954
30m
An artist turns detective to find out who murdered his favorite model and left the body in his studio.
7/10Where to watch
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Masquerade
Episode 29 - 4-15-1954
30m
A costume ball during the New Orleans Mardi Gras turns sour when the family hosting the festivities discovers that their cousin has escaped from jail.
6.8/10Where to watch
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A Study In Panic
Episode 28 - 4-08-1954
30m
Wise-guy newspaperman Fred Jordan writes a column making fun of "normal" men who panic during a fire. Soon afterward he gets a letter from a deranged man who promises Jordan that he will soon know the "real" meaning of the word "panic"--because within 24 hours, the man is going to kill Jordan.
7/10Where to watch
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The Book
Episode 27 - 4-01-1954
30m
A stranger tussles with John over a library book and is struck and killed by a passing car. John discovers a message in the book and follows it to a blind meeting, only to be mistaken for a hit man with an assassination team.
8/10Where to watch
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Lady of the Orchids
Episode 26 - 3-18-1954
30m
An architect's wife endangers his career when she is involved in a car accident. While on a ride to a roadhouse, she accidentally spills brandy on the driver, with whom she has been flirting. The driver is assumed to be responsible for the fatal crash, and only the wife's testimony can save him.
7.1/10Where to watch
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Operation In Money
Episode 25 - 3-11-1954
30m
The chief teller of a bank openly embezzles a large sum of money to extort a pay raise from the bank's board of directors.
7.5/10Where to watch
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Detective`s Holiday
Episode 24 - 3-04-1954
30m
A detective (Dick Powell) takes a trip to a cabin in the woods to get away from it all. A man, his wife, and his two kids entertain him. When one of the kids let's it slip that their step-mother just got her blond hair, the detective predicts she is running from the law and decides to check it out.
7.5/10Where to watch
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Meet McGraw: Long Count
Episode 23 - 2-25-1954
30m
McGraw, a private eye, is hired by Lila Lamont to protect her from her threatening husband Louis.
7.3/10Where to watch
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The Bomb
Episode 22 - 2-18-1954
30m
An engaged couple and the woman's former suitor take shelter in an abandoned house, too late to notice an unexploded bomb. Their retreat is cut off by a cave-in, and they must defuse the bomb with instructions delivered over a phone line.
8.1/10Where to watch
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The Gun
Episode 21 - 2-11-1954
30m
A police detective returns home to his family one morning only to have his meal interrupted by a constant stream of people: the milkman, his neighbor, the postman, the grocery boy, and a salesman. Afterwards, he finds that his gun is missing. In a panic that slowly turns to paranoia, he realizes that each of the visitors had said something that makes them a suspect.
7/10Where to watch
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Second Dawn
Episode 20 - 2-04-1954
30m
A blind man has a chance for surgery to restore his sight, but it may last for just a few minutes.
6.9/10Where to watch
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Indian Taker
Episode 19 - 1-28-1954
30m
A comedy of errors about an insurance executive’s wife. At a party, the impulse suddenly comes over her and she proceeds to steal the jewels of all wealthy guests, who happen to be insured by her husband’s firm.
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A String of Beads
Episode 18 - 1-21-1954
30m
Joan Robinson works as a governess for a wealthy family. She attends a party thrown by her employer and, although she is an attractive young woman, she is completely ignored until one of the guests, Count Borselli, appraises the beads she is wearing as a valuable string of pearls. She proteststo no avail, knowing they are imitations. Her whole life changes. She is invited to parties, and wooed by a fortune hunter. When it's finally learned that the beads are worthless, she is fired and her suitor loses interest. The count admits that, provoked by the snobbish socialites, he deliberatly lied about the beads. In the end, he and the governess fall in love.
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The Bad Streak
Episode 17 - 1-14-1954
30m
An honest professional casino owner runs into bad luck with impending insolvency or sale of his property. He also runs into his ""long-lost"" never forgotten misdirected son who is obsessed to better his hated father at gambling for having abandoned (rejected) him in infancy when it was all the doing of his guardian, one-time socialite, protective maternal grandmother who has fallen from her lofty position as well. Honor, love and pride play their roles.
7/10Where to watch
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The Test
Episode 16 - 1-07-1954
30m
A test pilot learns that it's possible that his sick daughter could have polio, just before he tests a new military plane.
6.3/10Where to watch
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House For Sale
Episode 15 - 12-31-1953
30m
A woman visits an isolated house expecting to meet with the realtor. Instead, she encounters a murderer who's escaped from a mental hospital. When a couple drops in to tour the home, she tries to escape with them, but they refuse to believe her story of a killer with a body in the fireplace.
7.7/10Where to watch
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The Gift
Episode 14 - 12-24-1953
30m
Businessman Carl Baxter is a good boss for 364 days a year, but his memories of his estrangement with his son causes his mood to change at Christmas.
7.1/10Where to watch
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A Man Of The World
Episode 13 - 12-17-1953
30m
Predictable Andy Bush is taking a train to his annual three week vacation without his wife. A young woman in trouble approaches him and asks him to help her by pretending to be her husband.
7.1/10Where to watch
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The Room
Episode 12 - 12-10-1953
30m
A doctor encounters suspicion and a dark secret when he rents a house in Cuba.
7/10Where to watch
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The Girl On The Park Bench
Episode 11 - 12-03-1953
30m
A beautiful, intelligent, and politically savvy young woman takes up residency in the city park to protest the Mayor's decision to end rent control on apartments. The comically ornery mayor seems to have met his match! Sparks fly as the Mayor dispatches the city's handsome attorney in an attempt to oust the young woman, who gives her a friendly warning that she will get evicted and lose in court. The tables get turned as the woman proves she is also good at law, but after some very interesting negotiations, all's well that ends well.
7/10Where to watch
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For Art`s Sake
Episode 10 - 11-26-1953
30m
Ted Parker enlists his friend Addy, a famous art expert, into an elaborate ruse to portray his budding love interest as a break-out artist, despite her lack of talent.
7.3/10Where to watch
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The Hard Way
Episode 9 - 11-19-1953
30m
Vic breaks the bank at Willie's gambling hall, and Willie unknowingly pays him off with counterfeit money. When Vic threatens him, Willie convinces him that they've both been duped, and they cooperate to track down the real culprit.
7.3/10Where to watch
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Moorings
Episode 8 - 11-12-1953
30m
A sickly aging shipping magnate falls in love with a blind mother.
8.5/10Where to watch
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Out of the Night
Episode 7 - 11-05-1953
30m
A newspaper reporter is intrigued as to why a woman hired a dive team to retrieve her purse from the Chicago River.
7.1/10Where to watch
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A Matter Of Advice
Episode 6 - 10-29-1953
30m
Weary Dr. Gentry gets no rest from his irritating patients. The pediatrician deals with ill-mannered kids and parents who can't make a move without checking with him first. An evening out with his wife to watch their oldest daughter star in "Romeo and Juliet" becomes a disaster when a panicked new mother interrupts the balcony scene with a silly phone call.
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The Witness
Episode 5 - 10-22-1953
30m
A suave attorney is hired to defend a man on trial for robbery and murder. The attorney finds the real culprit and solves the mystery in the courtroom.
7.2/10Where to watch
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Love At Sea
Episode 4 - 10-15-1953
30m
A journalist's wife who, while alone on a sea voyage, becomes the center of male attention.
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A Place Of His Own
Episode 3 - 10-08-1953
30m
The Commander, a mildly brain injured war hero, lives with his greedy family. All he wants is his own house, while all they want is to preserve their failing wealth, at all costs. When Frank, his younger brother, kills a man over a gambling debt, the family convinces Claude that he is the one that did it. He takes the blame, but instead of being arrested, he is given a $10,000 reward because the dead man was a most wanted criminal.
7.5/10Where to watch
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The Squeeze
Episode 2 - 10-01-1953
30m
Another of the great Willie Dante stories. Stan, the son of the DA, is a secret gambler. He loses big in Willie's joint and pays by check. Stan's pretty sister shows up to ask Willie's help. Deras, a gangster up before the Grand Jury, wants to get hold of Stan's check to blackmail the DA. He shows up at Dante's and Willie turns over the check at gunpoint. Never to be out-witted, Willie has Lt. Waldo waiting in the wings to get the checks back, have Deras arrested, and win Stan's sister.
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Finale
Episode 1 - 9-24-1953
30m
Steve Carlyle is an actor who can't find work because his famous nearly identical cousin Roger takes measures to keep him from getting any parts that would gain Steve any public exposure, because Roger knows that Steve is a better actor.
7.3/10Where to watch
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To Whom It May Concern
Episode 18 - 6-04-1953
30m
A bank employee mails a letter to his boss confessing to stealing $7000 and includes the stocks he bought with the money. As he puts a gun to his head, he sees in the paper that the stocks' worth have gone through the roof. Now he wants to live and goes on a frantic chase to get the letter back from the post office before it gets delivered.
7.8/10Where to watch
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The Ladies On His Mind
Episode 17 - 5-21-1953
30m
A psychiatrist listens to his female patients go on about their troubles. As they talk, he imagines himself within each of their stories.
5.4/10Where to watch
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Night Ride
Episode 16 - 5-07-1953
30m
Five people, one a murderer, are trapped on subway.
7/10Where to watch
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The Last Voyage
Episode 15 - 4-23-1953
30m
Sea captain discovers a time bomb is planted on his ship.
7.3/10Where to watch
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The Man Who Walked Out On Himself
Episode 14 - 3-26-1953
30m
After separating from his wife, a wealthy clubman is about to marry a much young woman -- whereupon his mirror image walks out on him in disgust.
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No Identity
Episode 13 - 3-12-1953
30m
Young boy fights to win his foster mother's love.
7/10Where to watch
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The Man in the Box
Episode 12 - 2-26-1953
30m
Boyer plays four roles in story of a director and his woes.
7/10Where to watch
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Sound Off, My Love
Episode 11 - 2-12-1953
30m
Woman buys hearing aid and hears husband plot her murder.
7.4/10Where to watch
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Trail's End
Episode 10 - 1-29-1953
30m
A famous marshal of Dodge City sets out in search of the murderous Sonoma Kid and runs into a tragedy of the desert.
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Man on a Train
Episode 9 - 1-15-1953
30m
William encounters an old acquaintance, John Dwerrihouse, on a train with 75,000 pounds. Only later did William learn that Dwerrihouse had disappeared four months earlier after embezzling 75,000 pounds from the train company.
7.5/10Where to watch
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Knockout
Episode 8 - 1-01-1953
30m
Middleweight boxer finds his big bout has been fixed.
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The Officer and the Lady
Episode 7 - 12-18-1952
30m
A reformed pickpocket in Paris obtains the purse of an attractive woman. He reads a letter telling about her dying son, and he decides to grant the boy's wish to meet his father.
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The Island
Episode 6 - 12-04-1952
30m
Rebellious physician on an island in the South Pacific.
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Welcome Home
Episode 5 - 11-20-1952
30m
A notorious criminal returns to his home town after 15 years away, and a young man wants to join him in notoriety and, probably, death at the hands of police.
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Backstage
Episode 4 - 11-06-1952
30m
An actor named Paul is out on an evening stroll when he sees a young woman attempting to jump off a bridge. After a struggle, he discovers her name is Amy and she is homeless. Paul believes $5 could mean the difference between decency & despair so he pays for Amy to stay in a hotel for the night, agreeing to meet her the next day. Amy is nowhere to be found when Paul returns. He worries and begins the search for this mysterious woman.
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The Lost Silk Hat
Episode 3 - 10-23-1952
30m
Englishman must retrieve his hat after visiting his love.
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Dante's Inferno
Episode 2 - 10-02-1952
30m
Willie Dante owns a bar and gambling house called Dante's Inferno. One night, the wife of an acquaintance tells Willie that her husband has threatened her. Willie comforts her and sends her home, but she turns up dead the next day.
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My Wife Geraldine
Episode 1 - 9-25-1952
30m
Man invents a wife, then accused of murdering her.
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Moorings
Episode 8 - 11-12-1953
30m
A sickly aging shipping magnate falls in love with a blind mother.
8.5/10Where to watch
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Bourbon Street
Episode 11 - 12-09-1954
30m
A musician returns to New Orleans after breaking into the bigtime. Though his ex-wife deserted him, he is bent on revenge after receiving an anonymous letter telling him she committed suicide after being mistreated by her lover.
8.3/10Where to watch
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Alias Mr. Hepp
Episode 33 - 5-12-1955
30m
Frank Hepp has made his career charming rich, unhappy women out of their fortunes. His parole officer orders him avoid all women, but he can't help himself when a single wealthy woman moves in next door. Mr. Hepp's plan to fleece his new victim runs afoul when he actually falls for her.
8.3/10Where to watch
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Distinguished Service
Episode 38 - 7-05-1956
30m
More interested in his career than in his duty as a physician, a noted doctor intentionally misdiagnoses a patient in an Asian city so he could get back to the U.S. and accept a major award. When his wife realizes that he abandoned a town needing his help to fight a Plague outbreak, she demands a divorce.
8.3/10Where to watch
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The Bomb
Episode 22 - 2-18-1954
30m
An engaged couple and the woman's former suitor take shelter in an abandoned house, too late to notice an unexploded bomb. Their retreat is cut off by a cave-in, and they must defuse the bomb with instructions delivered over a phone line.
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