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Conflict

  • 1956-1957
  • 1 season
  • ABC
  • Drama

This anthology series focused on characters at odds or having struggles in life. Alternating with Warner Brothers westerns, the episodes were set in various centuries and different casts.

Season 1 Episode Guide

20 Episodes 1956 - 1957

Episode 1

Shock Wave

Tue, Sep 18, 1956 60 mins

A reckless test pilot disregards the advice of a jet plane's designer that the craft should stay grounded until a safety device can be perfected.

Episode 2

Condemned to Glory

Tue, Oct 2, 1956 60 mins

An old yarn concerning the Spanish Main where the original Queen Elizabeth, a troupe of mangy looking buccaneers and several paper mache galleons are floating in a bathtub.

Episode 3

The Magic Brew

Tue, Oct 16, 1956 60 mins

Dandy Summers is a medicine show huckster who arrives in a small town hoping to make some money. But events take a sudden turn and Dandy is in a bind.

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Episode 4

Captain Without a Country

Tue, Oct 30, 1956 60 mins

Although Peter Scott was England's most feared buccaneer, He met his match when the lovely Arabella decides to tame the captain without a country.

Conflict Season 1 Captain Without a Country

Episode 5

The People Against McQuade

Tue, Nov 13, 1956 60 mins

A soldier is charged with murder and also on trial in this case is the right to use testimony gained from a person under the influence of sodium pentothal, "truth serum" as court evidence.

Episode 6

Man from 1997

Tue, Nov 27, 1956 60 mins

It is 1956. Immigrant janitor Johnny Vlakoz yearns for success. He also wishes to marry pretty tenant Maureen, who lives with her shiftless brother Red, played by James Garner. Maureen is set on marrying a rich man, so Johnny wants to be rich, and he attends night school while working two jobs. To learn English better, Johnny buys a book from a local shop, which turns out to be an almanac of America in 1997. Maureen's brother Red, a degenerate gambler, blows a horse racing tip Johnny gives him and inadvertently gives up Johnny's secret to a mobster. There's chasing and violence until a mysterious man from the future named B.O. Boyne, played by Charlie Ruggles, shows up to try to convince Johnny to sell the book back to him for the single dollar he paid for it. Maureen has other ideas, and Johnny is forced to choose.

Episode 7

Stranger on the Road

Tue, Dec 11, 1956 60 mins

A young man, wanted by the law, seeks shelter under a new name on a cattle ranch.

Episode 8

Silent Journey

Tue, Dec 25, 1956 60 mins

Jesus Berruezo, a 10-year-old Mexican boy, has an obstruction in each ear. Alone, he makes a 1000 mile journey to Guadalajara, so doctors can perform a minor operation. This will allow him to be able to hear, then talk, like everyone else.

Episode 9

Girl on the Subway

Tue, Jan 8, 1957 60 mins

Conflict Season 1 Girl on the Subway

Episode 10

Blind Drop: Warsaw

Tue, Jan 22, 1957 60 mins

Episode 11

Passage to Maranga

Tue, Feb 5, 1957 60 mins

Episode 12

The Money

Tue, Feb 19, 1957 60 mins

Episode 13

Capital Punishment

Tue, Mar 5, 1957 60 mins

A young man who leads the life of a roving vagabond is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit.

Episode 14

Law vs. Gangster

Tue, Mar 19, 1957 60 mins

Episode 15

A Question of Loyalty

Tue, Apr 2, 1957 60 mins

A man arrested for bookmaking is faced with a difficult decision. Should he turn state's evidence only to face reprisal by racketeers, or keep silent and serve out a long prison term?

Episode 16

Anything for Money

Tue, Apr 16, 1957 60 mins

A man is hired secretly as bodyguard to a yachtsman for a pleasure cruise to Hawaii. When an attempt is made on the man's life, his daughter, his wife, a friend of his wife's, and the bodyguard himself are suspects.

Episode 17

No Man's Road

Tue, Apr 30, 1957 60 mins

Episode 18

Pattern for Violence

Tue, May 14, 1957 60 mins

When his wife is stabbed to death, a banker is suspected of the crime. His friendship with his beautiful secretary shows he had a motive for the murder.

Episode 19

Execution Night

Tue, May 28, 1957 60 mins

Episode 20

The Velvet Cage

Tue, Jun 11, 1957 60 mins

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