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Seasons: 8
Total Episodes: 267
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Networks: NBC
Status: Ended
First Air Date: Oct 3, 1948
Recent Air Date: Feb 12, 1956
Run Time: m
In Production: No
Original Language: English
Age Rating: NR
Website: Link
Production Companies: Showcase Productions
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Episodes
Episode 1
19 September 1954 - Middle of the Night
A widowed businessman becomes obsessed with one of his employees, the divorcée Betty Preisser.
Episode 2
03 October 1954 - Time Bomb
A couple deeply in love find things changing when a third woman enters the picture and then it becomes a case of attempted murder.
Episode 3
17 October 1954 - Man on the Mountaintop
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.
Episode 4
31 October 1954 - Time of Delivery
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,
Episode 5
14 November 1954 - Crime Without Motive
The story of teenage violence and vandalism and the family problems that lead the culprits into their vicious acts.
Episode 6
28 November 1954 - Beg, Borrow or Steal
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.
Episode 7
12 December 1954 - Catch My Boy on Sunday
A frustrated mother is disappointed with her marriage and pushes her ten year old son into acting career.
Episode 8
26 December 1954 - Run, Girl, Run
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.
Episode 9
09 January 1955 - Walk Into the Night
A story of a bonded messenger and a briefcase containing $60,000.
Episode 10
23 January 1955 - Anatomy of Fear
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,
Episode 11
06 February 1955 - A Sense of Justice
A young man is determined to rid a Western town of its domineering political boss.
Episode 12
20 February 1955 - The Assassin
The story of Jacques Mornard, the Russian secret police agent who buried a pickaxe in the skull of the fiery anti-Stalinist Leon Trotsky.
Episode 13
06 March 1955 - Play Me Hearts and Flowers
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.
Episode 14
20 March 1955 - Shadow of the Champ
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.
Episode 15
03 April 1955 - Watch Me Die
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.
Episode 16
17 April 1955 - The Bold and the Brave
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.
Episode 17
01 May 1955 - Letter of Recommendation
A governess's charm masks a disturbing and manipulative personality.
Episode 18
15 May 1955 - The Pardon-Me Boy
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.
Episode 19
29 May 1955 - The Ghost Writer
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.
Episode 20
12 June 1955 - Total Recall
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.
Episode 21
26 June 1955 - Black Frost
A greedy skipper wants to make a big catch despite ice freezing on the ship threatening to capsize it.
Episode 22
10 July 1955 - Incident in July
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...
Episode 23
24 July 1955 - The Death of Billy the Kid
How Pat Garrett hunted down and killed the legendary outlaw Billy The Kid.
Episode 24
07 August 1955 - A Room in Paris
An American ventures to Paris for artistic inspiration and gets caught up with a deceitful woman bent on destruction.
Episode 25
21 August 1955 - Gretel
Two men fight for the affections of the fickle Gretel, who pits friend against friend.
Episode 26
04 September 1955 - The Miss America Story
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Episode 27
18 September 1955 - The Outsiders
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Episode 28
02 October 1955 - A Man is Ten Feet Tall
An AWOL soldier befriends a black waterfront worker, and together they battle hatred and oppression.
Crew
Department | Role | Name |
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Writing | Writer |
Robert Alan Aurthur
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Production | Producer |
Robert Alan Aurthur
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Department | Role | Name |