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Alcoa Theatre Season 3 Episodes

Season 3 Episode Guide

22 Episodes 1959 - 1960

Episode 1

Another Day, Another Dollar

Mon, Sep 21, 195930 mins

Engaging comedy-drama about a toy salesman who chooses family responsibilities over a business deal.

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Episode 3

Day the Devil Hid

Mon, Nov 2, 195930 mins

J. Dunkin Wynn has a foster daughter, far away from San Francisco where he lives, in Korea actually. The Korean girl believes her American daddy is in the Navy. This is at least what he has kept telling her in his mail. The trouble is that in real fact he is a ... bookmaker. So just imagine how things turn out when she sets foot on American soil.

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Episode 4

Operation Spark

Mon, Oct 5, 195930 mins

Faced with imminent defeat, several high ranking Wehrmacht officers plot to kill Hitler by luring him to a forward headquarters on the Russian front for a strategy meeting. There, they plan to blow him up with a bomb hidden in a bottle of rare wine, yet unforeseen complications get in the way.

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Episode 5

Shadow of Evil

Mon, Nov 30, 195930 mins

Aspiring Dixiecrat politician is tempted by corrupt kingmaker, a former rival of his late father, in order to get party's nomination for governor.

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Episode 6

The Long House on Avenue A

Mon, Dec 14, 195930 mins

Contemporary drama about a rising young construction worker whose career ambitions come into conflict with tribal loyalties.

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Episode 7

Tom, Dick, and Harry

Mon, Oct 26, 195930 mins

Working girl is proposed to by three different men and must make a choice.

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Episode 8

Girls About Town

Mon, Nov 2, 195930 mins

New York City roommates Jo and Lacey accept an invitation to look after Marybelle, a blonde bombshell who is a friend of the family, when she arrives in the city looking to become a model. Unsold pilot for a proposed series.

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Episode 10

Small Bouquet

Mon, Nov 16, 195930 mins

Reporter Joe Kane does a story on a recently deceased rock and roll singer, and finds a mysterious bouquet with a message in Japanese at his grave site. Investigating the source, he interviews people who knew him, including a studio executive and his agent, finally finding he had secretly married a Japanese girl in Tokyo.

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Episode 11

Face to Face

Mon, Feb 22, 196030 mins

Domestic tragedy where the wife of a farmer (James Gregory) wishes to run off with their hired hand, but the farmer is determined to prevent her at all costs.

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Episode 13

333 Montgomery

Mon, Dec 7, 195930 mins

Jake Brittin is a San Francisco defense attorney opposed to the death penalty. He agrees to defend a wrongly accused man.

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Episode 18

Action Off Screen

Mon, Jan 11, 196030 mins

George Maharis plays Johnny Cesare, a singing idol, who with his entourage makes a spectacular arrival in Las Vegas. With a reputation as a lady's man, he pursues a rich woman who gives him the shoulder.

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Episode 20

The Last Flight Out

Mon, Jan 25, 196030 mins

U.S. Army officer has the unenviable task of choosing which refugees can take the last flight out of China during the civil war between the communists and nationalists. Those on the list include the woman he loves, and he can only take 3.

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Episode 21

Capital Gains

Mon, Feb 1, 1960

Television screen writer, bankrupted by alimony payments, is encouraged to sell stock in himself.

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Episode 22

Minister Accused

Mon, Feb 8, 196030 mins

A young minister brings modern theology and practices into an old-fashioned church, much to the dismay of some of the members.

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Episode 23

Morning Boat to Africa

Mon, Feb 15, 196030 mins

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Episode 24

The Silent Kill

Mon, Feb 22, 196030 mins

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Episode 26

Chinese Finale

Mon, Mar 7, 196030 mins

Two women, one a missionary and the other a doctor, fight for control at an outpost as a vicious Chinese warlord with his forces approach. Things only get worse when the mission is overrun.

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Episode 28

The Tweed Hat

Mon, Mar 21, 196030 mins

Poignant little comedy about a comely widow who reminisces with the spirit of her late husband about their wartime courtship.

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Episode 30

The Glorious Fourth

Mon, Apr 4, 196030 mins

Mixing comedy and pathos, this story tells of a decimated confederate regiment trying to hold its position on the line as it welcomes a handful of new recruits.

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Episode 32

The Observer

Mon, Apr 18, 196030 mins

First rate cast heads inspirational tale about a French civilian who risks his life to spy on the German army by disguising himself as a church statue on the front lines of World War One's western Front.

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Episode 34

Forced Landing

Mon, May 2, 196030 mins

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Episode 36

You Should Meet My Sister

Mon, May 16, 196030 mins

"You Should Meet My Sister," is based on the Broadway comedy "My Sister Eileen," by Ruth McKenney.and is the pilot film for a situation comedy scheduled for next fall. Eileen and Ruth Sherwood have left Ohio behind and taken an apartment in New York's Greenwich Village. While Ruth seeks a career as a writer, the city's male population seeks Eileen.

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