The Philco Television Playhouse
(1948)Streaming Episode Guide
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Season 8
Kyria Katina
Episode 12 - 2-12-1956
The life of a widow is likely to change the day a gentleman suitor proposes to her. For the better?
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The Starlet
Episode 11 - 1-29-1956
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This Land is Mine
Episode 10 - 1-15-1956
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Rise Up and Walk
Episode 9 - 1-01-1956
A polio victim's battle to conquer polio is a potent weapon for recovery.
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Christmas 'Til Closing
Episode 8 - 12-18-1955
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A poor family tries to make the best out of Christmas with little income.
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The Trees
Episode 7 - 12-04-1955
1h 0m
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.
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One Mummy Too Many
Episode 6 - 11-20-1955
Three crates, one contains a mummy, one a dead body and one an air-conditioning unit that gets shunted around with utter confusion.
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The Mechanical Heart
Episode 5 - 11-06-1955
A businessman commits an unpardonable breach of ethics in order to keep his business alive.
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A Business Proposition
Episode 4 - 10-23-1955
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A Man is Ten Feet Tall
Episode 3 - 10-02-1955
Axel, secretly AWOL from the army, joins a black waterfront worker in his fight against bigotry.
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The Outsiders
Episode 2 - 9-18-1955
The work of US engineers in a South American country is disrupted by angry local people.
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The Miss America Story
Episode 1 - 9-04-1955
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.
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Season 7
Gretel
Episode 25 - 8-21-1955
Two men fight for the affections of the fickle Gretel, who pits friend against friend.
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A Room in Paris
Episode 24 - 8-07-1955
An American ventures to Paris for artistic inspiration and gets caught up with a deceitful woman bent on destruction.
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The Death of Billy the Kid
Episode 23 - 7-24-1955
How Pat Garrett hunted down and killed the legendary outlaw Billy The Kid.
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Incident in July
Episode 22 - 7-10-1955
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...
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Black Frost
Episode 21 - 6-26-1955
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A greedy skipper wants to make a big catch despite ice freezing on the ship threatening to capsize it.
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Total Recall
Episode 20 - 6-12-1955
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.
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The Ghost Writer
Episode 19 - 5-29-1955
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.
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The Pardon-Me Boy
Episode 18 - 5-15-1955
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.
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Letter of Recommendation
Episode 17 - 5-01-1955
A governess's charm masks a disturbing and manipulative personality.
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The Bold and the Brave
Episode 16 - 4-17-1955
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.
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Watch Me Die
Episode 15 - 4-03-1955
He can't simply divorce his wife to marry a young starlet since he wants her money, too. So he begins his search for the ideal way to kill his unsuspecting spouse.
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Shadow of the Champ
Episode 14 - 3-20-1955
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.
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Play Me Hearts and Flowers
Episode 13 - 3-06-1955
A singer who has teamed up with a comedian realizes that he has become the comic's ""straight man"" both on and off the stage, and that somehow he must reassert his individuality.
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The Assassin
Episode 12 - 2-20-1955
The story of Jacques Mornard, the Russian secret police agent who buried a pickaxe in the skull of the fiery anti-Stalinist Leon Trotsky.
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A Sense of Justice
Episode 11 - 2-06-1955
A young man is determined to rid a Western town of its domineering political boss.
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Anatomy of Fear
Episode 10 - 1-23-1955
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,
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Walk Into the Night
Episode 9 - 1-09-1955
A story of a bonded messenger and a briefcase containing $60,000.
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Run, Girl, Run
Episode 8 - 12-26-1954
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.
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Catch My Boy on Sunday
Episode 7 - 12-12-1954
A frustrated mother is disappointed with her marriage and pushes her ten year old son into acting career.
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Beg, Borrow or Steal
Episode 6 - 11-28-1954
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.
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Crime Without Motive
Episode 5 - 11-14-1954
The story of teenage violence and vandalism and the family problems that lead the culprits into their vicious acts.
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Time of Delivery
Episode 4 - 10-31-1954
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,
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Man on the Mountaintop
Episode 3 - 10-17-1954
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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.
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Time Bomb
Episode 2 - 10-03-1954
A couple deeply in love find things changing when a third woman enters the picture and then it becomes a case of attempted murder.
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Middle of the Night
Episode 1 - 9-19-1954
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A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.
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Season 6
Run Like a Thief
Episode 26 - 9-05-1954
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.
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The Man in the Middle of the Ocean
Episode 24 - 8-08-1954
A member of an architect's firm is torn by internal conflict. His partners need his compliance if they are to cash in on a deal they have made with a building contractor.
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The Catamaran
Episode 23 - 7-25-1954
A husband's hobby threatens his marriage until he finds a suitable replacement, the wife that is.
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Man Drowning
Episode 22 - 7-11-1954
A big man on the campus turns out to be somewhat of a dud.
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Friday the Thirteenth
Episode 21 - 6-27-1954
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.
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Adapt or Die
Episode 20 - 6-13-1954
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.
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The Shadow of Willie Greer
Episode 19 - 5-30-1954
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.
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And Crown Thy Good
Episode 18 - 5-16-1954
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.
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The Joker
Episode 17 - 5-02-1954
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.
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The King and Mrs. Candle
Episode 16 - 4-18-1954
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.
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The Mother
Episode 15 - 4-04-1954
A widow tries not to be dependent on her children.
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The Broken Fist
Episode 14 - 3-21-1954
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.
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The Dancers
Episode 13 - 3-07-1954
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.
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Statute of Limitations
Episode 12 - 2-21-1954
The perpetrators of a million dollar robbery find themselves with five hours to go before the statute of limitations takes effect.
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A Game of Hide and Seek
Episode 11 - 2-07-1954
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Smoke Screen
Episode 10 - 1-24-1954
A country boy gets a job in the city as a bookkeeper. He meets a beautiful model and gets mixed up in a murder.
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The Hangman in the Fog
Episode 9 - 1-10-1954
An American newspaperman in London believes that he is being pursued by agents from across the Iron Curtain.
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The Glorification of Al Toolum
Episode 8 - 12-27-1953
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The Midnight Caller
Episode 7 - 12-13-1953
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.
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The Sixth Year
Episode 6 - 11-29-1953
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
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Up Above the World So High
Episode 5 - 11-22-1953
A middle-aged woman seemingly has the gift of second sight.
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The Train to Trouble
Episode 4 - 11-08-1953
A man must decide whether or not to expose the past of a candidate for the sheriff's office.
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The Girl With the Stopwatch
Episode 3 - 10-25-1953
A woman of 30 is preoccupied with her work as a television script writer.
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The Bachelor Party
Episode 2 - 10-11-1953
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.
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0 for 37
Episode 1 - 9-27-1953
A young ballplayer appreciates the value of home and family after a shaky start in professional baseball.
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Season 5
Holiday Song
Episode 33 - 9-20-1953
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A cantor's faith is renewed.
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Othello
Episode 32 - 9-06-1953
Othello, the Moor of Venice, is manipulated into believing his loving wife an adulteress.
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The Rainmaker
Episode 31 - 8-16-1953
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!
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Ernie Barger is 50
Episode 30 - 8-09-1953
Ernie Barger has a startling revelation when he turns 50. The discovery that he is no longer needed by anyone sends him over the edge.
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The Cipher
Episode 29 - 8-02-1953
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The Big Deal
Episode 28 - 7-19-1953
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The House in Athens
Episode 27 - 7-05-1953
Three people are thrown together by the death of a man.
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Expectant Relations
Episode 26 - 6-21-1953
The struggle of a middle-aged woman who tries to win an inheritance from a rich uncle.
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Baby and Me
Episode 25 - 6-14-1953
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.
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The Way of an Eagle
Episode 24 - 6-07-1953
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The story of John J. Audobon and his wife Lucy.
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Marty
Episode 23 - 5-24-1953
51m
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 ...
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A Little Something in Reserve
Episode 22 - 5-10-1953
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Printer's Measure
Episode 21 - 4-26-1953
An old typesetter in a printing works fears the new machinery which will make him redundant - and perhaps render his whole working life pointless.
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The Recluse
Episode 20 - 4-19-1953
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.
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A Young Lady of Property
Episode 19 - 4-05-1953
Wilma 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.
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The Velvet Mitten
Episode 18 - 3-22-1953
A man becomes entangled with a flighty woman during a convention.
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The Gesture
Episode 17 - 3-15-1953
Misaligned plot twists for this lost episode.
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The Trip to Bountiful
Episode 16 - 3-01-1953
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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. ...
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Wings on My Feet
Episode 15 - 2-22-1953
30m
DANCE- DANCE- DANCE- The struggle is real for this young dancer.
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Mr. Pettengill Here
Episode 14 - 2-15-1953
A dancer becomes so eager for success that her ambition nearly ruins her career.
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The Reluctant Citizen
Episode 13 - 2-08-1953
A 67-year-old refugee deals with his fears and conflicted feelings as he's about to become an American citizen.
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Elegy
Episode 12 - 1-25-1953
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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.
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Two for One
Episode 11 - 1-18-1953
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Pride's Way
Episode 10 - 1-11-1953
The story from incidents in the life of Benedict Arnold and how Arnold's family suffers by his traitorous acts against his country.
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Double Jeopardy
Episode 9 - 1-04-1953
A jury finds a woman not guilty of the murder of her husband, but some still believe her to be guilty of the crime.
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Magic Morning
Episode 8 - 12-28-1952
A woman seeks success in her marriage as she had gained in her career.
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Tempest of Tick Creek
Episode 7 - 12-14-1952
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.
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The Gift
Episode 6 - 11-30-1952
A child has been given an exceptional gift by her fairy godmother, the gift of finding lost articles
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Parole Chief
Episode 5 - 11-16-1952
The case histories of several parolees and events that shaped the career of the parole director is told.
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The Winter of the Dog
Episode 4 - 11-02-1952
This plot revolves around American troops stationed in China after WWII.
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Uncertain Heritage
Episode 3 - 10-19-1952
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The story of a young man struggling against his father's domination after his father has been dead for several years.
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The Black Sheep
Episode 2 - 10-05-1952
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A reformed playboy has quite a time explaining his escapades to the mother of the girl he decides to marry.
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The Thin Air
Episode 1 - 9-21-1952
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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.
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Season 4
Holiday Song
Episode 25 - 9-14-1952
The night before Rosh Hashonah, a cantor suffers a spiritual crisis. That same night, he is sent by someone to see a rabbi out in Brooklyn, A mysterious train station attendant gives him directions after which he stops a woman from committing suicide because she is despondent over the death of her husband in the war. On his way home, the cantor meets up with the husband. He thought his wife had died. The cantor reunites them. After trying to find the station guard, the cantor learns that no one has ever worked there fitting the man's description. thus the cantor realizes that some sort of 'celestial conductor' must have had a hand in the matter. His faith restored, the cantor is able to resume his life's work.
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The Last Hour
Episode 24 - 9-07-1952
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A woman is on trial for espionage and has but a few hours to prove her innocence.
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Three Sundays
Episode 23 - 8-24-1952
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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.
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The Five Fathers of Pepi
Episode 22 - 8-10-1952
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.
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Bratt Farrar
Episode 21 - 7-27-1952
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.
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A Letter to Mr. Priest
Episode 20 - 7-13-1952
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The camera becomes you and you become the narrator as the camera becomes a person and unfolds the story. Nelson Olmsted is the voice.
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The Monument
Episode 19 - 6-29-1952
A reporter has undertaken the biography of a Confederate general to get the authentic version of his heroism at Bull Run.
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Flight into Darkness
Episode 18 - 6-15-1952
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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.
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A Man's Game
Episode 17 - 6-01-1952
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A big league manager travels to Alabama to scout catcher Chub Evans but signs Evans' fireball pitching sister instead.
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A Cowboy for Chris
Episode 16 - 5-18-1952
A little boy's infatuation for a cowboy who boards at his home and another boarder who attempts to disillusion the child.
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We Were Children
Episode 15 - 5-04-1952
A close knit family learns that a man who was the son of their family gardener is related to them thru an indiscretion.
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The Basket Weaver
Episode 14 - 4-19-1952
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.
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The Room Next Door
Episode 13 - 4-05-1952
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.
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The Best Laid Schemes
Episode 12 - 3-23-1952
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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.
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Dusty Portrait
Episode 11 - 3-09-1952
A tragic story of an innocent victim of justice based entirely on circumstantial evidence.
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Tender Age
Episode 10 - 2-24-1952
The tragic aspects of the so-called "lost generation" of the 20's is told.
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Rich Boy
Episode 9 - 2-10-1952
This well-received adaptation of the 1924 F. Scott Fitzgerald short story starred Gene Lyons as rich playboy Anson Hunter, who realizes too late that he has wasted his life by allowing the one woman he truly loved (Kelly) to slip out of his grasp.
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Segment
Episode 8 - 1-27-1952
1h 0m
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.
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Without Fear or Favor
Episode 7 - 1-13-1952
Modern day corruption investigations (film of the Kefauver investigation is shown) has a parallel in 1870s New York, where the New York Times crusades against the crooks in City Hall headed by Boss Tweed and his thieving cronies, which included judges, police officials and even the Mayor.
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The Sisters
Episode 6 - 12-30-1951
The lives of two sisters are disrupted by a psychopath who appears claiming to be their godson.
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Perspective
Episode 5 - 12-16-1951
The play suggested by the career of Hans VanMergeren called the master art forger.
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Incident at Golden's Creek
Episode 4 - 12-02-1951
An Iron Curtain delegation is marooned in a small mid-western town.
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A Little Night Music
Episode 3 - 11-18-1951
Elizabeth Chapin is the belle of the town who is now approaching 40 as a spinster music teacher.
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The Education of a Fullback
Episode 2 - 11-04-1951
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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.
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Marcia Akers
Episode 1 - 10-21-1951
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".
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Season 3
Requiem for a Model A
Episode 56 - 10-07-1951
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.
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By-Line for Murder
Episode 55 - 9-30-1951
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A bitter assistant foreign editor of a London newspaper commits murder in the newspaper office after being passed over yet again for a promotion.
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The Spur
Episode 54 - 9-23-1951
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.
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The Wayward Season
Episode 53 - 9-16-1951
A composer's reaction to his daughter's marriage to a middle-aged man brings changes in his own life.
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Women of Intrigue
Episode 52 - 9-09-1951
In this tale of Communist intrigue set in England, a man who works for the foreign office disappears.
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This Time Next Year
Episode 51 - 9-02-1951
The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materializes every year at the same time, at his tomb, Grant's Tomb.
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Night at the Vulcan
Episode 50 - 8-26-1951
When an actor is murdered backstage, the cast of the production become the suspects, seems the actor had plenty of enemies.
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Come Alive
Episode 49 - 8-19-1951
An arrogant woman whose self-centered tactics cause endless grief for her secretary, husband, sister and anyone who comes into contact with her.
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Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands
Episode 48 - 8-12-1951
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.
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The Return
Episode 47 - 8-05-1951
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.
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Television Story
Episode 46 - 7-29-1951
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.
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Pretend I Am A Stranger
Episode 45 - 7-22-1951
The story of a British soldier and his buddy's widow as the two grow closer in their grief.
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I Want to March
Episode 44 - 7-15-1951
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".
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Case History
Episode 43 - 7-08-1951
A sleuthing psychiatrist probes a murder in his fiancee's home and stirs up a hornet's nest with his future in-laws.
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The Plot
Episode 42 - 7-01-1951
Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medical practice success by using the Good book as guidance.
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Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal
Episode 41 - 6-24-1951
Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medical practice success by using the Good book as guidance.
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Operation: Airlift
Episode 40 - 6-17-1951
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.
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The Fast Dollar
Episode 39 - 6-10-1951
A humorous tale of life in a small town and its impact on a would-be confidence man.
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The Adventures of Hiram Holliday
Episode 38 - 6-03-1951
A mild-mannered proof-reader goes on a world tour, and demonstrates several esoteric skills whilst undergoing exciting adventures.
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Rescue
Episode 37 - 5-27-1951
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Justice and Mr. Pleznik
Episode 36 - 5-20-1951
The story of a naturalized immigrant's first experience with jury duty.
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The Visitors
Episode 35 - 5-13-1951
A young boy's disappearance when his mother remarries leads to a mystery when he is found and has forgotten who he is.
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A Secret Island
Episode 34 - 5-06-1951
A vicious woman is determined to see her niece wed for money and social position instead of for love.
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Mr. Arcularis
Episode 33 - 4-29-1951
After undergoing important surgery, Mr. Arcularis goes on a long ocean voyage - where increasingly strange things occur.
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The Birth of the Movies
Episode 32 - 4-22-1951
Drama on the career of D.W. Griffith. Producer Fred Coe briefly talks with Lillian Gish before and following the drama.
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Hour of Destiny
Episode 31 - 4-15-1951
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Routine Assignment
Episode 30 - 4-08-1951
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.
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Parnassus on Wheels
Episode 29 - 4-01-1951
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.
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Bulletin 120
Episode 28 - 3-25-1951
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.
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The Dark Corridor
Episode 27 - 3-18-1951
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.
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No Medals on Pop
Episode 26 - 3-11-1951
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.
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The Man Who Bought a Town
Episode 25 - 2-25-1951
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A butcher purchases the town he calls home to preserve its quiet lifestyle.
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Let Them Be Sea Captains
Episode 24 - 2-18-1951
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.
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Kitty Doone
Episode 23 - 2-11-1951
A faded movie star schemes to keep her career at all costs.
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A Matter of Life and Death
Episode 22 - 2-04-1951
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The Great Escape
Episode 21 - 1-28-1951
1h 0m
The story of the biggest POW-camp escape of World War II.
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Confession
Episode 20 - 1-21-1951
The final confession of the highest degree. A compelling story, told by the eyes of the beholder.
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The Lost Diplomat
Episode 19 - 1-14-1951
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The Symbol: Jefferson Davis
Episode 18 - 1-07-1951
Three decades in the life of the Confederate president are covered by three women: each of his two wives, and his daughter.
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Leaf out of a Book
Episode 17 - 12-31-1950
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The Pupil
Episode 16 - 12-24-1950
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.
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Decoy
Episode 15 - 12-17-1950
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Bonanza
Episode 14 - 12-10-1950
The residents of a Western ghost town won't admit that their gold rush "boom town" days ended long ago.
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Wacky, the Small Boy
Episode 13 - 12-03-1950
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Torch for a Dark Journey
Episode 12 - 11-26-1950
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.
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I'm Still Alive
Episode 11 - 11-19-1950
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.
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The Man Who Got Away With It
Episode 10 - 11-12-1950
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The Power Devil
Episode 9 - 11-05-1950
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.
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The Gambler
Episode 8 - 10-29-1950
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.
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Portrait in Smoke
Episode 7 - 10-22-1950
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.
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A Husband for Mama
Episode 6 - 10-15-1950
1h 0m
The three children of a widowed woman scheme to get their mother a new husband, setting their sites on a middle-aged doctor.
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The Vine That Grew on Fiftieth Street
Episode 5 - 10-08-1950
Seeds 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.
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The Touch of a Stranger
Episode 4 - 10-01-1950
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.
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Dear Guest and Ghost
Episode 3 - 9-24-1950
A mother receives help with her troublesome kids from a friendly ghost.
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The Long Run
Episode 2 - 9-17-1950
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High Tor
Episode 1 - 9-10-1950
1h 0m
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.
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Season 2
The Tentacles
Episode 45 - 7-09-1950
A young wife fights to free her husband from the control of his manipulative and controlling father.
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The Reluctant Landlord
Episode 44 - 7-02-1950
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.
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Hear My Heart Speak
Episode 43 - 6-25-1950
1h 0m
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.
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Anything Can Happen
Episode 42 - 6-18-1950
A Russian emigrant to America finds a new language, and strange manners bewildering but tries mightily to adapt to his new homeland.
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The Bump on Brannigan's Head
Episode 41 - 6-11-1950
1h 0m
A 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.
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Sense and Sensibility
Episode 40 - 6-04-1950
Sisters left poor by the death of the family matriarch search for suitable husbands in Georgian England.
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Semmelweis
Episode 39 - 5-28-1950
Story of the great physician who saved millions of lives due to his discovery of the cause of childbed fever (puerperal fever) and eliminated its danger by prescribing the absolute sterlization of all instruments and the cleanliness of all persons coming in contact with the mother.
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The Charmed Circle
Episode 38 - 5-21-1950
1h 0m
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.
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Brat Farrar
Episode 37 - 5-14-1950
Identical twins concoct a plan to defraud an insurance company and collect a large sum of cash.
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The Feast
Episode 36 - 5-07-1950
A seaside resort hotel brings together an odd assortment of people: a frustrated married couple, four young lovers, children and an grouchy old miser.
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The American
Episode 35 - 4-30-1950
An American travelling in Europe finds clashes between the two cultures.
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The Man in the Black Hat
Episode 34 - 4-23-1950
A gambler has nothing to lose as his shady past with women and cards catch up to him.
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The End is Known
Episode 33 - 4-16-1950
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.
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Dirty Eddie
Episode 32 - 4-09-1950
1h 0m
Dirty Eddie is a sleek black pig with a fat movie contract and Hollywood isn't too happy about it.
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Nocturne
Episode 31 - 4-02-1950
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.
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The Second Oldest Profession
Episode 30 - 3-26-1950
An idealistic newspaper editor battles with his stubborn publisher.
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The Trial of Steven Kent
Episode 29 - 3-19-1950
A jury foreman seeks to wreak personal vengeance on the murder defendant.
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The Uncertain Molly Collicutt
Episode 28 - 3-12-1950
A flirtatious woman has a difficult time settling down to her marital responsibilities.
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The Life of Vincent Van Gogh
Episode 27 - 3-05-1950
1h 0m
The tragic life story of the tormented artist.
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Hometown
Episode 26 - 2-26-1950
1h 0m
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.
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A Letter to Mr. Priest
Episode 25 - 2-19-1950
An attorney, voted most likely to succeed in college, looks back on his life.
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Ann Rutledge
Episode 24 - 2-12-1950
1h 0m
The short life of Ann Rutledge, Abraham Lincoln's one true love who passed
away at age 22 of typhoid fever.
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The Sudden Guest
Episode 23 - 2-05-1950
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.
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Uncle Dynamite
Episode 22 - 1-29-1950
Uncle Fred wants Pongo to marry Sally Painter, an unsuccessful American sculptor. They had been engaged but she broke it off when Pongo refused to smuggle jewellery into America for a friend of hers.
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The Marriages
Episode 21 - 1-22-1950
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.
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Murder at the Stork Club
Episode 20 - 1-15-1950
A wealthy matron is murdered at the Stork Club and the suspect list is growing.
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Bethel Merriday
Episode 19 - 1-08-1950
A small-town girl named Bethel Merriday is determined to become an actress.
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Little Boy Lost
Episode 18 - 1-01-1950
An English poet searches for his son whom he has never seen. The child disappeared shortly after his mother was killed by the Gestapo.
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In Beauty Like the Night
Episode 17 - 12-25-1949
A British pilot who lost his sight during the Second World War deals with the problems caused by the injury.
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The Strange Christmas Dinner
Episode 16 - 12-18-1949
A modern day Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to close his store on Christmas Day.
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The Beautiful Bequest
Episode 15 - 12-11-1949
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.
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Mist on the Waters
Episode 14 - 12-04-1949
Blackmail terrorizes a couple because of an accident which was a terrible tragedy.
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The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram
Episode 13 - 11-27-1949
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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Medical Meeting
Episode 12 - 11-20-1949
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The Promise
Episode 11 - 11-13-1949
A husband and wife are drifting apart due to different goals in their individual careers.
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The House of Seven Gables
Episode 10 - 11-06-1949
With the ownership of Seven Gables, the opulent family estate, at stake, a man frames his brother for murder.
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Damion's Daughter
Episode 9 - 10-30-1949
A theater owner's daughter discovers his father's true nature and is shaken by the discovery. She moments jealousy backstage to expose him.
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Because of the Lockwoods
Episode 8 - 10-23-1949
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.
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The Last Tycoon
Episode 7 - 10-16-1949
A 1930's brilliant and efficient movie mogul and the story behind the Hollywood Dream Factory.
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Something's Got to Give
Episode 6 - 10-09-1949
A couple of New England housewives disrupt their marriages by becoming an early morning radio team.
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The Queen Bee
Episode 5 - 10-02-1949
A conniving and devious Southern socialite who manipulates the lives of those around her with tragic results.
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The Lonely
Episode 4 - 9-25-1949
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.
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The Little Sister
Episode 3 - 9-18-1949
A woman from Kansas comes to Marlowe to help find her missing brother.
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Pride's Castle
Episode 2 - 9-11-1949
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.
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What Every Woman Knows
Episode 1 - 9-04-1949
A Victorian Scotswoman of far-reaching ambition. Using her supposedly frail feminine wiles, she maneuvers her fatuous husband into a successful political career. He rises to a parliamentary seat, never quite realizing that he hasn't done it alone.
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Season 1
Three Cornered Moon
Episode 45 - 8-28-1949
Nellie Rimpleger tries to hold together her eccentric family (including her children, saucy daughter Elizabeth, law student Kenneth, and Eddie, a would-be actor) after they lose their fortune in the stock-market crash. While Elizabeth works in a shoe factory and tries to help her brothers find jobs, she falls in love with a melancholy writer, but marries a wealthy doctor.
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Pretty Little Parlor
Episode 44 - 8-21-1949
A little soirée is interrupted by a murder and the guests are all suspect in the pretty little parlor.
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A Murder Has Been Arranged
Episode 43 - 8-14-1949
A ghost story set in a theatre, legend claims a dumb woman will appear on stage and reveal the identity of a murderer.
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Enter Madame
Episode 42 - 8-07-1949
A grand opera prima donna who practically deserts her husband to follow her career, even though she loves her better half. While the pampered pet of a suite of servants and receiving the homage of operatic mad foreigners, she believes he is sitting at home in Boston immersed in his work. Instead he has fallen for a designing widow and has about decided to divorce his songbird wife.
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The Fourth Wall
Episode 41 - 7-31-1949
The life of a middle-aged couple has become to complacent and empty.
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You Touched Me!
Episode 40 - 7-24-1949
The adopted son of a drunken former sea captain returns to the household as an adult. He asks the old man for his eldest daughter's hand in marriage. Everyone believes it's an attempt to secure an inheritance.
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The Five Lives of Richard Gordon
Episode 39 - 7-17-1949
Katie 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.
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For Love or Money
Episode 38 - 7-10-1949
A young woman shows up during a thunderstorm at the country home of a famous actor.
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Dark of the Moon
Episode 37 - 7-03-1949
1h 0m
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.
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Jenny Kissed Me
Episode 36 - 6-26-1949
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.
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Summer Formal
Episode 35 - 6-19-1949
A charming young girl comes to live in a household of an elderly priest. Jenny, 18, is the precise opposite of the kind of smart sophisticated young miss that puzzles and exasperates Father Moynihan. The plot is concerned with the priest's clumsy endeavors to make Jenny attractive to the boys.
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It Pays to Advertise
Episode 34 - 6-12-1949
With the aide of his secretary and an ad man, he creates an enormously popular product and cant keep up with the demand.
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This Time, Next Year
Episode 33 - 6-05-1949
The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materialises every year at Grant's Tomb.
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Romeo and Juliet
Episode 32 - 5-15-1949
Star crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet are doomed from the start by the hatred of their families.
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Macbeth
Episode 31 - 5-01-1949
1h 0m
Scottish nobleman who prompted by his own prophecy and ambitions, kills a king to wear his crown.
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Burlesque
Episode 30 - 4-24-1949
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.
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Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies
Episode 29 - 4-17-1949
Only Mr. Mergenthwirker, a person pure of heart, can see the lobblies, which are invisible fairy-like creatures.
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What Makes Sammy Run?
Episode 28 - 4-10-1949
The story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New York's East Side, through newspaper ranks and finally through Hollywood, leaving in his wake the wrecked careers of his associates; for this is his tragedy and his chief characteristic-his congenital incapacity for friendship.
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And Never Been Kissed
Episode 27 - 4-03-1949
A sixteen-year-old girl tries everything to attract the opposite sex.
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Becky Sharp
Episode 26 - 3-27-1949
A scheming illegitimate girl trying to claw her way up in English society. However, fate never seems to give her an even break.
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Dinner at Antoine's
Episode 25 - 3-20-1949
The murder of a woman at a dinner party unveils a multitude of twists and turns as the murderer is uncovered.
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Quality Street
Episode 24 - 3-13-1949
Because she's nearly 30 and still unwed, Phoebe Throssel is regarded as an over-the-hill spinster. Thus, when offered the opportunity for a reunion with Captain Brown, whom she hasn't seen in years, Phoebe desperately wants to rekindle his affections.
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The Druid Circle
Episode 23 - 3-06-1949
1h 0m
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.
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St. Helena
Episode 22 - 2-27-1949
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.
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Twelfth Night
Episode 21 - 2-20-1949
Viola, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work as a page in the court of Count Orsino. Orsino is hopelessly in love with a woman named Olivia, and soon Viola finds herself hopelessly in love with Orsino. But Orsino thinks she's a man, and her predicament worsens when she realizes that Olivia has fallen in love with her.
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The Story of Mary Surratt
Episode 20 - 2-13-1949
After the death of her husband Mary opened a boardinghouse to pay the debts owed by her husband. .. There she began a respectable boardinghouse business and met the man who would ultimately lead to her inglorious place in history - John Wilkes Booth.
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The Late Christopher Bean
Episode 19 - 2-06-1949
Dr. Haggett and his family, who have some of Bean's canvases, suddenly realize their value, and become hard, selfish, and ill-tempered. It is Abby, the family servant, who ultimately holds them all in her power; she has one of the greatest paintings, which she cannot be persuaded into selling or giving away. She is the only one who really understood the artist -- besides, she had been married to him!
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Dark Hammock
Episode 18 - 1-30-1949
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. In a series of exciting scenes they discover just what is going on and prevent Marvin's death.
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Pride and Prejudice
Episode 17 - 1-23-1949
The trials of a woman trying to find husbands for her five daughters in 18th-century England.
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Papa Is All
Episode 16 - 1-16-1949
Papa is an ugly tempered, overly strict, scrupulously religious Pennsylvanian Dutch, his wife and children rebel.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Episode 15 - 1-09-1949
The poetry-spouting soldier with the oversized nose, Cyrano uses the handsome but inarticulate Christian as a conduit for his feelings, the ugly but eloquent Cyrano pours his heart out to the lovely Roxanne. And she, wooed by the beauty of the words, falls in love with Christian, not realizing that it is Cyrano whose voice has aroused her passion.
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Ramshackle Inn
Episode 14 - 1-02-1949
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.
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The Old Lady Shows Her Medals
Episode 13 - 12-26-1948
The basement flat of Mrs Dowey, a Scottish charwoman who lives and works in London, during World War I, and Mrs Dowey and her guests - three other charwomen whom she has invited for tea - are discussing the tactics of trench warfare with the confidence of people who have never been near the Front.
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A Christmas Carol
Episode 12 - 12-19-1948
The skinflint Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.
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Parlor Story
Episode 11 - 12-12-1948
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.
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Suspect
Episode 10 - 12-05-1948
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.
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I Like It Here
Episode 9 - 11-28-1948
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.
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An Inspector Calls
Episode 8 - 11-21-1948
When Inspector Goole calls unexpectedly on the prosperous Birling family, his startling revelations not only shatter the very foundations of their lives, but challenge us all to examine our consciences.
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Camille
Episode 7 - 11-14-1948
Camille, a beautiful courtesan and Armand Duval, a young man in the foreign service, are in love. Their relationship jeopardizes his career and prevents the marriage of his sister into a ""respectable"" family, if Duval marries Camille. Camille becomes ill and dies.
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This Thing Called Love
Episode 6 - 11-07-1948
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.
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Street Scene
Episode 5 - 10-31-1948
Abraham Kaplan lives with his family in a row house populated by a kaleidoscope of characters looking to break out of poverty. Kaplan's revolutionary, socialist views grate against some of his neighbors.
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Angel in the Wings
Episode 4 - 10-24-1948
1h 0m
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.
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Counsellor-at-Law
Episode 3 - 10-17-1948
An upscale Manhattan attorney torn between his greedy practices of insider trading and embezzlement and his desire to help the working-class Jews from his old neighborhood.
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Rebecca
Episode 2 - 10-10-1948
Brooding and moody Maxim deWinter returns from an extended trip to the continent with a young bride, less than a year after the tragic death of hi first wife, Rebecca. The staff of Manderley, his country home, including Mrs Danvers the housekeeper who rules over the house, are still devoted to their former mistress, the socialite Rebecca and they find it difficult to accept the new, shy Mrs deWinter who is inexperienced running a large home.
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Dinner at Eight
Episode 1 - 10-03-1948
Social-climbing Mrs. Oliver Jordan, whose husband's firm is in financial trouble, feels obligated to reciprocate hospitality for a visiting British aristocratic couple by arranging a small dinner party. The guests are chosen both to impress--a faded stage star, a well-known if over-the-hill alcoholic actor--and to meet certain social obligations. This means the necessary inclusion of a philandering doctor and his wife, and a gauche, nouveau-riche couple who are loathed but powerful.
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What Makes Sammy Run?
Episode 28 - 4-10-1949
The story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New York's East Side, through newspaper ranks and finally through Hollywood, leaving in his wake the wrecked careers of his associates; for this is his tragedy and his chief characteristic-his congenital incapacity for friendship.
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A Young Lady of Property
Episode 19 - 4-05-1953
Wilma 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.
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Marty
Episode 23 - 5-24-1953
51m
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 ...
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A Man is Ten Feet Tall
Episode 3 - 10-02-1955
Axel, secretly AWOL from the army, joins a black waterfront worker in his fight against bigotry.
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The Death of Billy the Kid
Episode 23 - 7-24-1955
How Pat Garrett hunted down and killed the legendary outlaw Billy The Kid.
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