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41 Episodes 1954 - 1955
Episode 1
Tue, Aug 31, 195430 mins
A housewife upsets her husband when she enters the Mrs. Universe beauty pageant.
Episode 2
Tue, Sep 7, 195430 mins
A family learns of the mistake it has made in obtaining a baby through an illegal adoption ring.
Episode 3
Tue, Sep 14, 195430 mins
A widowed father is doing his best to raise his nine-year-old daughter Judy. He tries to convince the young girl not to spend her allowance money on a hat that is "too adult".
Episode 4
Tue, Sep 21, 195430 mins
A mining disaster leads two brothers to react differently towards the responsibility of the explosion.
Episode 5
Tue, Sep 28, 195430 mins
A boy's military school comes under fire when the school's commandant decides to severely punish on his own son.
Episode 6
Tue, Oct 5, 195430 mins
Tired of the pressures of being a lawyer, a man returns to his boyhood home and his aunt and uncle who raised him.
Episode 7
Tue, Oct 12, 195430 mins
A cab driver wants to prove that he's not a coward to a girl he's smitten with who's currently dating a detective.
Episode 8
Tue, Oct 19, 195430 mins
A young jewelry store employee is accused of stealing from his firm.
Episode 9
Tue, Oct 26, 195430 mins
Episode 10
Tue, Nov 9, 195430 mins
The first of the play-lets, "The Hour of Letdown," based on a story by E.B. White, deals with an amusing incident in which a bartender becomes thoroughly confused and annoyed by quite an extraordinary "customer." This particular customer happens to be a machine which not only plays chess but cheats at it, talks, does difficult math problems and drinks rye-and-water. The second of the trio, "The Private Life of Mr. Bidwell," by James Thurber, takes on as its subject the battle of the sexes. Mr. Bidwell, an extremely unconventional and enterprising man, employs some rather unusual antics at cocktail parties as a means of alienating his wife. The last sketch, "Twenty Horses," is from a story by Nunnally Johnson. It delineates the ironic tale of a man who fires his secretary for telling a riddle to her co-workers during office hours. However, the man finds that he cannot get the riddle out of his mind nor can he figure out its answer. Finding the solution to the riddle by finding the secretary serves only to make him feel tricked and defeated by what he considers a very unfair answer.
Episode 11
Tue, Nov 16, 195430 mins
A man who has lost interest in life finds new hope when he makes a strange purchase.
Episode 12
Tue, Nov 23, 195430 mins
Tired of dealing with is immature wife and her family, a man reaches his breaking point.
Episode 13
Tue, Nov 30, 195430 mins
Paul Newman plays a boxer who begins to question his career path.
Episode 14
Tue, Dec 7, 195430 mins
A woman is trapped in her apartment during a hurricane. Without power or phone, she must find help for her very sick child.
Episode 15
Tue, Dec 14, 195430 mins
A jazz artist returns to the scene to make a name for himself.
Episode 16
Tue, Dec 21, 195430 mins
A couple of thieves posing as Santa and his helper attend a party at an affluent home and make off with bags full of valuables.
Episode 17
Tue, Dec 28, 195430 mins
A young man must make a choice between his immature romantic ideas and the responsibilities of life and love when a dream of adventure is put to the test.
Episode 18
Tue, Jan 4, 195530 mins
An embittered prisoner of war in Korea decides to turn traitor as a means of revenge against his heartless father.
Episode 19
Tue, Jan 11, 195530 mins
A scheming mother's plans to marry her daughter off to wealth go awry.
Episode 20
Tue, Jan 18, 195530 mins
Episode 21
Tue, Jan 25, 195530 mins
A story of a family in conflict.
Episode 22
Tue, Feb 1, 195530 mins
A luckless young suitor finds himself caught in a nightmare of lies perpetrated to impress his prospective father-in-law.
Episode 23
Tue, Feb 8, 195530 mins
A shy librarian befriends a hobo who comes to the library one wintry day. Though they are of vastly different backgrounds, they share the common bond of loneliness.
Episode 24
Tue, Feb 15, 195530 mins
The true story of uranium-prospector Charles Steen and his single-minded battle against intense poverty and desert hardships to find, at last, a 60-million-dollar uranium lode.
Episode 25
Tue, Feb 22, 195530 mins
When 14 man are feared lost on a fishing boat, two women appear at the dock to keep a vigil for the same man.
Episode 26
Tue, Mar 1, 195530 mins
Old World tradition and New World non-conformity are dashed when the eldest daughter of a poor Portuguese-American fishing family threatens to marry the man of her choice.
Episode 27
Tue, Mar 8, 195530 mins
A fire in a theater gives a down-and-out entertainer a big break and a chance to regain his prominent place in show biz.
Episode 28
Tue, Mar 15, 195530 mins
A bitter 'old maid' sister lives in fear that her brother will fall in love and leave her side.
Episode 29
Tue, Mar 22, 195530 mins
The husbands are feeling neglected when coming home from work as their families are transfixed by the television. They join together in banning them but aren't prepared for the consequences of so much attention.
Episode 30
Tue, Apr 5, 195530 mins
Clay Cochran's reputation as a gunslinger has preceded him to his new post as the Wells Fargo man in Meade City, Kansas. But when he arrives, it is observed that he isn't carrying any guns.
Episode 31
Tue, Apr 12, 195530 mins
One of the members of a ski team from behind the Iron Curtain injures himself while preparing for an international meet in Vermont. Though he must stay in bed, he has been warned not to talk with the family with whom the team is lodged.
Episode 32
Tue, Apr 19, 195530 mins
Emily's husband has made her such a household drudge that she almost forgets the days before her marriage when an artist loved and painted her 'beauty.' A collector arrives to find the now-dead artist's works. Set in the jungles of Malaya.
Episode 33
Tue, Apr 26, 195530 mins
A woman has believed that it was her husband's memories of his first wife that were destroying their marriage. Now she discovers that there is another reason for the tension she feels.
Episode 34
Tue, May 3, 195530 mins
Episode 35
Tue, May 31, 195530 mins
A disabled hero abandons hope of ever walking again and resigns himself to a life of comfort and acclaim until his wife has other ideas.
Episode 36
Tue, May 17, 195530 mins
The taciturn captain of a Finnish tanker has brought his lovely young wife along on a voyage to an undisclosed port. Suspicions about the destination of its cargo have made the crew rebellious.
Episode 37
Tue, May 24, 195530 mins
A young college president must decide whether or not to accept a donation that carries with it certain conditions. If he does not accept, the college must close. If he does accept, his integrity and the school's will be deeply affected.
Episode 38
Tue, May 31, 195530 mins
A former DP, now living in the United States, spends an anxious night in the hospital, where his very sick wife is about to give birth.
Episode 39
Tue, Jun 14, 195530 mins
What happens when a congresswoman is faced with telling her husband that she has decided to leave hearth and home to rerun for election on her party's ticket?
Episode 40
Tue, Jun 21, 195530 mins
A small town girl meets and falls in love with a traveling salesman during carnival time.
Episode 41
Tue, Jun 28, 195530 mins
The story of a man who must believe either his son or his boss when a football is stolen.