Alcoa Premiere Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

People Need People

Tue, Oct 10, 196160 mins

A drama about the rehabilitation of psychologically disturbed.

Episode 2

The Fugitive Eye

Tue, Oct 17, 196160 mins

Paul Malone (Charlton Heston) wakes up in a forest to find an empty limousine, a dead chauffeur and three unsavory characters staring at him.

Episode 3

The Fortress

Tue, Oct 24, 196160 mins

Lloyd Bridges stars as a US fighter pilot shot down during the Korean War who is tortured and imprisoned in solitary confinement. To resist his captors he uses his mind to design a house that he always wanted to build for his wife and children while blocking out their attempts to break him.

Episode 4

Moment of Decision

Tue, Nov 7, 196160 mins

A landowner has odd ways of showing his dislike for his new neighbor.

Episode 5

Family Outing

Tue, Nov 14, 196130 mins

Six astronauts have been trained for the first one-man space flight and the day of the final choice has arrived.

Episode 6

The Witch Next Door

Tue, Nov 28, 196130 mins

While Helen Collins is busy settling her family into their new home, her little girl Julie strikes up a friendship with Emily Potter.

Episode 7

The Breaking Point

Tue, Dec 5, 196130 mins

An ex-convict seems to be guilty of murder until a cop realizes that only the victim's wife profits from his death.

Episode 8

Delbert, Texas

Tue, Dec 12, 196130 mins

Frank and Ruth Willoughby are determined to find out why their son's college grades have suddenly dropped.

Episode 9

The End of a World

Tue, Dec 19, 196160 mins

A docudrama about the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the event that triggered World War I.

Episode 10

The Cake Baker

Tue, Jan 2, 196230 mins

Millie Norman (Shelley Winters), a lonely and bored young housewife, tries to escape the drudgery of her day-to-day existence by withdrawing into fantasy. Recognizing her problem, Millie tries to pull herself out of this morass by throwing herself into PTA work, but is thwarted by her inconvenienced but clueless husband (Ed Nelson).

Episode 11

Pattern of Guilt

Tue, Jan 9, 196260 mins

A reporter covers a series of murders, all perpetrated against spinsters.

Episode 12

The Hour of the Bath

Tue, Jan 16, 196260 mins

American agricultural expert Henry Detweiler is a prisoner in Vietnam under sentence of death.

Episode 13

The Jail

Tue, Feb 6, 196260 mins

In this future time a young man was charged with an offense against the state and marshaled into a huge building crammed with banks and banks of computers. These computers would absorb and assess the evidence.

Episode 14

Mr. Easy

Tue, Feb 13, 196260 mins

Fred Astaire plays a swamped investment broker who retires early, only to become involved to the point of overwork in another career as a cartoonist.

Episode 15

The Man with the Shine on His Shoes

Tue, Feb 20, 196230 mins

An elderly drifter tries to get work on the town newspaper, because he thinks he's the greatest typesetter in the world.

Episode 16

The Doctor

Tue, Feb 27, 196230 mins

Dr. Jonathan Bent happens upon a car accident on the highway and acting as a Good Samaritan stops to help injured motorist Bob Page. Shortly thereafter Page sues him for malpractice. Although Page agrees to an out of court settlement, Dr. Bent doesn't want to concede since he's done nothing wrong.

Episode 17

Of This Time, of This Place

Tue, Mar 6, 196260 mins

The story of Joseph Howe, an English professor at Channing University whose new job is made difficult by a brilliant, uncompromising student.

Episode 18

Second Chance

Tue, Mar 13, 196260 mins

Professional bronco rider Hoby Dunlap was acquitted of treason during the Korean War, but his efforts to enter a rodeo contest are blocked by officials who fear audiences won't want a "traitor" in the rodeo. Rodeo star Mitch Guthrie fights to support Hoby.

Episode 19

The Tiger

Tue, Mar 20, 196230 mins

Someone is trying to kill Jim Hunter (Gary Merrill), and it may be one of his daughter's boy friends.

Episode 20

Seven Against the Sea

Tue, Apr 3, 196260 mins

A US Navy sailor must deal with the hardships of World War II - his name is Quinton McHale.

Episode 21

The Very Custom Special

Tue, Apr 10, 196230 mins

J.B. Marshall (J. Pat O'Malley ) is wiped out by the 1929 stock-market crash on the night of his daughter's debutante party.

Episode 22

All My Clients Are Innocent

Tue, Apr 17, 196230 mins

Criminal lawyer Max McIntire (Barry Morse) tries to stop his partner's marriage. He's convinced a wife can ruin a career.

Episode 23

The Rules of the Game

Tue, May 1, 196260 mins

A dying man's startling confession to a murder arouses deep consternation in the people directly responsible for the conviction of the man who has already been executed for this crime.

Episode 24

Once a Bachelor

Tue, May 8, 1962

Episode 25

Cry Out in Silence

Tue, May 15, 196230 mins

Actress Laura Bennett (Celeste Holm) must undergo a serious throat operation that may end her career.

Episode 26

A Place to Hide

Tue, May 22, 1962

Sue Wilson (Joan Hackett) has answered an ad for a job as housekeeper, but her nervousness arouses suspicions.

Episode 27

The Boy Who Wasn't Wanted

Tue, Jun 5, 196260 mins

Dana Andrews stars as a detective who arrests a burglar and feels responsible for the welfare of the robber's little boy.

Episode 28

It Takes a Thief

Tue, Jun 19, 196230 mins

Frank and Rose Shelton arrive home one evening to find their apartment has been robbed. Frank is worried: If the police find out about one item stolen from his safe - he'll be in hot water.

Episode 29

The Time of the Tonsils

Mon, Jun 25, 196230 mins

An orphanage director (Eddie Albert) takes two children to have their tonsils out, only to discover that his must go too.

Episode 33

Episode #1.33

Sun, Feb 11, 1962