Ratings
7.5
Series Details
Seasons: 4
Total Episodes: 134
Creators: Frank Stanton , Hubbell Robinson
Networks: CBS
Status: Ended
First Air Date: Oct 4, 1956
Recent Air Date: May 16, 1960
Run Time: m
In Production: No
Original Language: English
Age Rating: NR
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Synopsis
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Episodes
Episode 1
25 September 1958 - The Plot to Kill Stalin
In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with anti-Semitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.
Episode 2
02 October 1958 - Days of Wine and Roses
An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
Episode 3
09 October 1958 - The Time of Your Life
William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the characters drift in and out of the bar and each other's lives, giving voice to Saroyan's philosophies as they randomly comment about the impending world war, the beauty of art, and traditional notions of good and evil.
Episode 4
16 October 1958 - The Long March
No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.
Episode 5
23 October 1958 - Shadows Tremble
An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.
Episode 6
30 October 1958 - Word from a Sealed-Off Box
A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.
Episode 7
06 November 1958 - Heart of Darkness
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
Episode 8
20 November 1958 - Old Man
To fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts.
Episode 9
27 November 1958 - The Return of Ansel Gibbs
After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.
Episode 10
04 December 1958 - Free Weekend
No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.
Episode 11
11 December 1958 - Seven Against the Wall
The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.
Episode 12
25 December 1958 - The Nutcracker
This telecast of George Balanchine's famous production was broadcast only four years after it was premiered by the New York City Ballet. This was the only episode of the series televised in color.
Episode 13
01 January 1959 - Face of a Hero
No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.
Episode 14
08 January 1959 - The Wings of the Dove
An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.
Episode 15
15 January 1959 - The Blue Men
No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.
Episode 16
22 January 1959 - The Velvet Alley
Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.
Episode 17
29 January 1959 - A Quiet Game of Cards
A few friends meet each weekend for a quiet game of cards. But they're bored with poker and, in trying to find another diversion, gradually find themselves plotting a hypothetical murder. It is hypothetical, isn't it?
Episode 18
05 February 1959 - Child of Our Time
War deprives Tanguy of his childhood. When his mother returns to Spain to oppose the Franco regime, he is left in Nazi-occupied Marseilles, France.
Episode 19
12 February 1959 - The Second Man
No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.
Episode 20
19 February 1959 - The Raider
A corporate raider plans a hostile takeover. To stall him, pressure is put on a scientist to rush through a new type of engine before all necessary tests have been completed.
Episode 21
26 February 1959 - The Ding-A-Ling Girl
A housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her.
Episode 22
05 March 1959 - Made in Japan
A young soldier in occupied Japan after World War II falls in love with a lovely Japanese girl, but is horrified about what his prejudiced family in Philadelphia will think if he takes her home with him.
Episode 23
12 March 1959 - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
Episode 24
19 March 1959 - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2
The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.
Episode 25
26 March 1959 - A Trip to Paradise
No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.
Episode 26
02 April 1959 - In Lonely Expectation
No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.
Episode 27
09 April 1959 - The Day Before Atlanta
No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.
Episode 28
16 April 1959 - Judgment at Nuremberg
In the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice.
Episode 29
23 April 1959 - A Corner of the Garden
No Synopsis For This Episode Yet.
Episode 30
30 April 1959 - Dark December
During World War II, an army doctor struggles to convert a Franciscan monastery into a field hospital.
Episode 31
07 May 1959 - Diary of a Nurse
The daily emergencies and stresses of a major city's hospital ward as seen through the eyes of nurse Gail Lucas.
Episode 32
14 May 1959 - A Marriage of Strangers
Marry in haste, repent at leisure? Well, maybe.
Episode 33
21 May 1959 - Out of Dust
On a cattle drive across the prairie, the sons of a wealthy cattle baron plot his death.
Episode 34
28 May 1959 - The Rank and File
A powerful union leader is interrogated by a Senate committee.
Episode 35
04 June 1959 - The Killers of Mussolini
As the Salo Republic crumbles around him, Mussolini, along with his mistress and several of his ministers flee with retreating Nazi soldiers, but are caught at the town of Dongo by red partisans. All are brutally executed without trial.
Episode 36
11 June 1959 - Project Immortality
Key defense scientist Doner has cancer. Schramm is assigned to code Doner's thinking into a computer. He gets to know him as a friend, a husband and father. The project is successful, but he now knows identity is not programmable.
Episode 37
18 June 1959 - Dark as the Night
A British politician finds himself open to blackmail because of the indiscretion of his American wife.
Episode 38
25 June 1959 - The Second Happiest Day
A man about to be married recalls the day his life changed permanently.
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