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Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 35
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Status: Ended
First Air Date: Oct 5, 1955
Recent Air Date: Sep 12, 1956
Run Time: m
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Original Language: English
Age Rating: NR
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Episodes
Episode 1
05 October 1955 - Meet The Governor
A "bumpkin-type" lawyer runs for governor until the opposition digs into his past.
Episode 2
12 October 1955 - Day is Done
During the catastrophic 1951 retreat of American troops in Korea, a recruit finds a Chinese bugle. His sargeant then attempts to use it to instill the fighting spirit in his men.
Episode 3
19 October 1955 - Midsummer Daydream
A young man who wants desperately to get married finds "The Girl" in, of all places, a marriage license bureau. But the happy ending is threatened by the appearance of a suave, smooth, sophisticated gambling man.
Episode 4
26 October 1955 - Arroyo
A small New Mexican town enjoys a reasonably peaceful existence under the rule of self-appointed judge Lamar Kendall. This state of affairs is disrupted by the appearance of a wounded young woman, who reports that an Indian raid has wiped out her wagon train.
Episode 5
02 November 1955 - Want ad Wedding
A young naval officer, alone in a strange city, is planning to be married. Having no friends in town, he places an ad in the newspaper advertising for wedding guests.
Episode 6
09 November 1955 - The Life of Vernon Hathaway
A meek little watch repairman daydreams himself into exciting adventures. When his alter ego takes over, he begins living his dreams in real life.
Episode 7
16 November 1955 - The Final Tribute
A nurse in a small-town doctor's office protests the attitude of the new young physician. His cold, impersonal treatment of patients is exactly opposite that of the kindly and gentle elderly doctor he will someday replace.
Episode 8
23 November 1955 - The Brush Roper
Grandpa Atkins tries to live up to his tales of former glory as a cowpoke. He learns a dangerous bull is at large in the brush, saddles up, and goes after him with his rope.
Episode 9
30 November 1955 - Tom and Jerry
It's Christmas Eve at the Macy house. Tom Macy plays Santa for he and wife Jerry's little boy, Tommy. It is obvious that Jerry is not happy with her husband Tom. Jerry knows Tom has a woman on the side named Lola. Their dear friends, Father O'Dowd and attorney Mr. Garrity coax Tom and Jerry into seeing sense and save the couple's marriage.
Episode 10
07 December 1955 - Rookie of the Year
A small-town newspaper sports writer harbors an ambition to work for a big city daily. He sees his chance to achieve his goal while attending the World Series: one of the rookies shows a style reminiscent of a former all-time great banned from baseball for accepting a bribe.
Episode 11
14 December 1955 - Lincoln's Doctor's Dog
Discouraged and saddened by the War Between the States, President Lincoln is cheered by the gift of a puppy from his physician.
Episode 12
21 December 1955 - The Silent Partner
Watching the TV broadcast of the Academy Awards presentation, a faded actress realizes that the patron at another table in the restaurant was once a well-known comic. Her happy discovery is marred, however, by a man who calls both of them has-beens.
Episode 13
28 December 1955 - Titanic Incident
A cardsharp and his wife aboard the Titanic on its fateful last voyage pick a wealthy Britisher as their pigeon. The cardsharp sets up the Britisher for a climactic card session, but the tables seem to turn as the ship goes down.
Episode 14
04 January 1956 - Hot Cargo
A chorus girl, stranded in a waterfront town in the Orient, is befriended by the skipper of a freighter. She marries the skipper and then meets a good-looking young harbor policeman who falls in love with her.
Episode 15
11 January 1956 - It's Always Sunday
A kindly minister who believes in doing good for the unfortunate befriends a pair of itinerants who arrive in town.
Episode 16
18 January 1956 - Number Five Checked Out
A young deaf woman is left alone to look after the resort cabins owned by her father. Two dangerous bank robbers move in, using the secluded spot as a temporary hideout.
Episode 17
01 February 1956 - Prima Donna
A philanthropic concert artist takes an interest in a 13-year-old newsboy with an outstanding singing voice. She runs into difficulties when the boy also shows a marked preference for baseball.
Episode 18
15 February 1956 - Cry Justice
Bitter because his law partner married the woman he loved, a man plots his own disappearance, making it appear he has been murdered by his partner. Ten years later, the partner is released from prison and seeks revenge.
Episode 19
22 February 1956 - Affair in Sumatra
A beautiful half-caste girl is torn between love for her people and love for a man.
Episode 20
07 March 1956 - One Against Many
A scientist devoted to saving lives is faced with a difficult decision: he may be forced to kill in order to prevent a state-wide livestock epidemic.
Episode 21
14 March 1956 - It's a Most Unusual Day
A married couple take in a night club show starring Jimmy McHugh, and are prompted by his melodies to relive their past.
Episode 22
04 April 1956 - The Sword Of Villon
The swashbuckling poet Francois Villon fights for love and liberty while preventing the assassination of the King of France by a scheming count and countess.
Episode 23
11 April 1956 - Markheim
Late on Christmas Day, a man coaxes an antiques shopkeeper to let him in under the pretense of needing a gift for his fiancée, but it is soon clear he wants something else. To his surprise, what he gets is a battle with his own conscience.
Episode 24
25 April 1956 - Claire
A young doctor brings his second wife to his lakeside home to live. She is taunted by the presence of his pet cat, which serves to remind her that because she couldn't swim, she stood helplessly by while the first wife drowned.
Episode 25
09 May 1956 - A Ticket For Thaddeus
A humble refugee from war-torn Poland has never been able to shed his fear of anyone in uniform. When the immigrant is involved in a minor traffic altercation, he tries to prove to the police he was at fault even though he wasn't.
Episode 26
16 May 1956 - The Dream
In France in 1887 an impressionable youth gives his mother cause for alarm. The young man has a recurrent dream in which he searches for his dead father. The mother is further upset when the boy tells her of meeting a baron who offers to take him aboard ship for a journey to the West Indies.
Episode 27
06 June 1956 - What Day is it?
A husband and wife dance team bicker backstage when the husband can't remember what special date his wife is observing. Between song and dance numbers, the arguments escalate until a singing telegram arrives. Music by Leon Klatzkin. Songs: Yankee doodle boy, Mary's a grand old name by George M. Cohan; When you're a clown by Jeff Bailey, Jack Latimer; arrangements by Walter Sheets, Russell Garcia
Episode 28
13 June 1956 - Every Man Had Two Wives
In the spring, when one gentleman's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of a former love, his wife decides to take drastic action. She and hubby make a trip back to the old home town, determined to come face to face with his childhood sweetheart.
Episode 29
04 July 1956 - Partners
A rodeo star befriends an orphan boy who yearns to compete.
Episode 30
11 July 1956 - White Corridors
An American tourist in London accompanies a friend to the hospital for an emergency operation. At the hospital, she claims she has witnessed a murder, but the doctors think she is imagining things.
Episode 31
18 July 1956 - The Carroll Formula
A college professor stumbled across a fantastic formula for reducing the size of things in the unpublished mathematical works of C.L. Dodgson, who, as Lewis Carroll, wrote Alice in Wonderland.
Episode 32
25 July 1956 - Apples on the Lilac Tree
A couple's peculiar marital arrangement is the talk of the town. It seems that the husband loves to do the housework, while his wife spends the day at the office.
Episode 33
01 August 1956 - Bitter Waters
In a fashionable German resort at the turn of the century, a wealthy young American touring Europe with his uncle meets a woman and her widowed mother. A romance develops between the young couple, until the society matron mother brings her own past to bear on their relationship.
Episode 34
05 September 1956 - The Day I met Caruso
On a train between Boston and New York, a ten-year-old Quaker girl meets Enrico Caruso. She takes him to task for his worldliness and extravagances, but is eventually won over by his voice, as he sings arias from Aida, La Boheme, Tosca, and Pagliacci, as well as the World War I tune ""Over There.""
Episode 35
12 September 1956 - High Air
Long separated, a river-tunnel foreman and his son come face to face during an under-river disaster which almost takes their lives.
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