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Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

27 Episodes 1963 - 1964

Episode 1

A Killing at Sundial

Fri, Oct 4, 196360 mins

A Native American seeks revenge on the man he holds responsible for his father's lynching.

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Episode 2

Something About Lee Wiley

Fri, Oct 11, 196360 mins

Lee Wiley was a jazz singer. This episode dramatizes certain incidents in her life. She had suffered from temporary blindness as a teenager after a fall from a horse, and her eyesight troubled her ever since.

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Episode 3

Seven Miles of Bad Road

Fri, Oct 18, 196360 mins

A hitchhiker runs into trouble in a small town.

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Episode 4

Four Kings

Fri, Nov 1, 196360 mins

During World War II, intelligence pulls four "lifers" out of prison and sends them to steal top-secret rocket plans.

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Episode 5

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Fri, Nov 8, 196360 mins

An ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences.

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Episode 6

The House Next Door

Fri, Nov 15, 196360 mins

A husband looking for a new house for him and his wife comes across the perfect place: it's big, beautiful, in a nice neighborhood, the owner is "motivated" and the asking price is far less than it's really worth. Seeing a chance to get a real bargain, the husband quickly buys the house. Then he finds out why the former owner was so anxious to leave--a notorious gangster has moved into the house next door, and he has so many enemies that living in the house next to him can be bad for your health.

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Episode 7

The Fifth Passenger

Fri, Nov 29, 196360 mins

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Episode 8

The Candidate

Fri, Dec 6, 196360 mins

Campaign manager Parker Hite (Milton Berle) is at his wits end. He can't get support for his candidate, and his marriage is falling apart.

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Episode 9

It's Mental Work

Fri, Dec 20, 196360 mins

Longtime bar owner Ernie Wigman (Lee J. Cobb) wants to sell out, preferably to his bartender Rich (Harry Guardino), who has a yen to own a bar but lacks the cash.

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Episode 10

Corridor 400

Fri, Dec 27, 196360 mins

A club owner falls in love with his new singer (Suzanne Pleshette), unaware that she's out to prove him a key figure in a dope ring.

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Episode 11

War of Nerves

Fri, Jan 3, 196460 mins

An American grapples with an assassin for the OAS (Secret Army Organization) in Paris during the Algerian conflict. The story explores terrorism, its motivations, and the moral issues it raises.

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Episode 12

Runaway

Fri, Jan 10, 196460 mins

When a folksinger fails to show up for a performance, his girlfriend thinks the club owner (Hugh O'Brien) should put his expensive guitar in his safe -- a good idea, because two customers are planning to steal the instrument.

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Episode 13

The Seven Little Foys

Fri, Jan 24, 196460 mins

After the young wife of vaudevillian Eddie Foy passes away, he incorporates their seven children into the act and takes it on the road.

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Episode 14

Two Is the Number

Fri, Jan 31, 196460 mins

A middle-aged woman (Shelley Winters) is suspected of murdering a hoodlum.

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Episode 15

A Wind of Hurricane Force

Fri, Feb 7, 196460 mins

In Cuba, a manhunt is under way to recapture Douglas Vinson (Dana Andrews), an American who was rescued moments before he was to face a firing squad.

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Episode 16

Wake Up, Darling

Fri, Feb 21, 196460 mins

An advertising executive (Barry Nelson) wants his wife (Janet Blair) to forget about show business - so he's far from happy when she lands the lead in a new Broadway musical.

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Episode 17

The Meal Ticket

Fri, Feb 28, 196460 mins

A broken down ex-fighter (Cliff Robertson) attempts to prevent his brother from making the boxing big-time.

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Episode 18

The Square Peg

Fri, Mar 6, 196460 mins

Comedy about a gangster who hires a "personnel psychologist" to evaluate the aptitudes of his gang.

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Episode 19

White Snow - Red Ice

Fri, Mar 13, 196460 mins

An American skier is approached by a beautiful girl while shooting movie scenes in Yugoslavia-she wants to defect.At the same time, he's met by an oily KGB agent there to make a trade, a kidnapped U.S. scientist for a military-use chemical formula. But it soon becomes apparent he's more interested in the girl.

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Episode 20

Her School for Bachelors

Fri, Mar 20, 196460 mins

A girlie magazine publisher is denounced by the candidate he is secretly supporting.

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Episode 21

A Slow Fade to Black

Fri, Mar 27, 196460 mins

An old-time movie studio executive is the victim of a corporate takeover. In his waning days, he takes his anger out on everyone around him, from family to movie stars, and vainly attempts to push through an outdated movie project.

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Episode 22

A Case of Armed Robbery

Fri, Apr 3, 196460 mins

An angry young man, alienated from family and friends, plans to rob a filling station. A vague underworld character persuades him to hire an aged safe-cracker to help him.

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Episode 23

Time for Elizabeth

Fri, Apr 24, 196460 mins

After enduring a pompous and tyrannical boss for 28 years, Ed Davis (Groucho Marx) has a brief argument with him, gets fired, and decides to retire to Florida with his wife.

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Episode 24

The Game with Glass Pieces

Fri, May 1, 196460 mins

Struggling actor Frank Carson has a messy personal life that matches his unpromising career.

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Episode 25

The Command

Fri, May 22, 196460 mins

Korea, 1951: members of a unit, ordered to hold an untenable position, feel they are being left to die.

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Episode 26

The Sojourner

Fri, May 29, 196460 mins

John Ferris has found success and fame as a foreign correspondent. But his career has left him with a number of failed relationships and he reflects on what has led him to be alone.

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Episode 27

Echo of Evil

Fri, Jun 5, 196460 mins

A retired and reformed gangster is hounded by the DA's office to testify against the underworld dope ring he once ruled.

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