Crossroads Season 1 Episodes

Episode 1

Shadow of God

Fri, Oct 7, 195530 mins

A priest attempts to prove the innocence of a man.

Episode 2

Cleanup

Fri, Oct 14, 195526 mins

A pastor exhorts his parishioners to take back their city from the gangsters and corrupt politicians who have taken it over.

Episode 3

The Unholy Trio

Fri, Oct 21, 1955

A rabbi discovers that he is the only one who can save an innocent man from being sent to the electric chair to be executed for a murder he didn't commit.

Episode 4

With All My Love

Fri, Oct 28, 195530 mins

Chaplain and two soldiers go on a mission into the Philippine jungle to rescue two American civilians from advancing Japanese forces. However, Hulda Lind refuses to return until native Jose is converted to Christianity.

Episode 5

Hostage

Fri, Nov 4, 195530 mins

Catholic Priest is summoned to the state penitentiary to hear the Confession of an inmate in solitary. Trouble ensues.

Episode 6

Broadway Trust

Fri, Nov 11, 195530 mins

A man embezzles $5,000 from his employer to pay for a land deal. When the deal falls through, he has until 3:00 the next day topay it back before the bank examiners discover the loss.

Episode 7

Mr. Liberty Bell

Fri, Nov 18, 1955

American Missionary Dr. Roy Bell leads a resistance force on the Philippine island of Negros during the Japanese occupation.

Episode 8

The Good Thief

Fri, Nov 25, 1955

A Red prison is a priest's parish. Father Joseph Kapaun, a U.S. Army chaplain, must strive to bring meaning and inspiration to the lives of a small group of POWs.

Episode 9

Mightier Than the Sword

Fri, Dec 2, 1955

A Baptist minister prints copies of the Bible in order to smuggle them behind the Iron Curtain.

Episode 10

The Gambler

Fri, Dec 9, 1955

Unemployed man with a gambling problem becomes suicidal.

Episode 11

Chinese Checkers

Fri, Dec 16, 1955

Episode 12

Vivi Shining Bright

Fri, Dec 23, 1955

A young bride meets with an accident which leaves her paralyzed.

Episode 13

A Bell for O'Donnell

Fri, Dec 30, 1955

A pastor struggles with his trust in a con artist.

Episode 14

Through the Window

Fri, Jan 6, 1956

Episode 15

Calvary in China

Fri, Jan 13, 1956

An American Missionary in China endures the persecutions of the brutal Communists.

Episode 16

The Mountain Angel

Fri, Jan 20, 1956

A minister finds it difficult to convince the people of the Tennessee hills the value of modern medicine.

Episode 17

St. George and the Dragon

Fri, Jan 27, 195630 mins

Fr. Slee works with the young hoodlums in the neighborhood to straighten out their lives.

Episode 18

The Inner Light

Fri, Feb 3, 1956

Fr. Raymond, a Missionary in China, helps villager Po Ling deal with his blindness after a fireworks manufacturing accident.

Episode 19

The Little Herald

Fri, Feb 10, 1956

Presbyterian Missionary establishes an air link to a remote Brazilian village.

Episode 20

The Strange Bequest

Fri, Feb 17, 1956

A death row inmate makes a strange bequest.

Episode 21

The Pavement Pastor

Fri, Feb 24, 1956

A pastor who was born and raised in the tenements develops a dim view of the draft laws, resulting in his imprisonment.

Episode 22

The Rebel

Fri, Mar 2, 1956

Rabbi Seixas is on the run from the Redcoats and their Hessian mercenaries after New York falls to the British. The British want to see the Rabbi hang for his support for the American Revolutionaries.

Episode 23

Mother O'Brien

Fri, Mar 9, 195625 mins

A police detective is torn between his duty to his family and his duty to his job when he finds out that his brother, a drug addict, is committing crimes to support his habit.

Episode 24

The Sacred Trust

Fri, Mar 16, 1956

A courtroom drama depicting the historic legal decision in 1813, upholding the inviolability of religious confession.

Episode 25

The Bowery Bishop

Fri, Mar 23, 1956

The minister of a Bowery mission has his donations stolen. A transient working in the mission kitchen knows who did it, and threatens revenge, but the minister persuades him not to, and give himself up to serve an old charge he's still wanted on. In Sing Sing, both men meet, and when the first is stabbed, it looks like a revenge murder.

Episode 26

Dig or Die, Brother Hyde

Fri, Mar 30, 195630 mins

An itinerant pastor traveling the prairie tries to restore a woman's faith, and save her child's life, by using a little amateur psychology.

Episode 27

Two-Fisted Saint

Fri, Apr 6, 1956

Episode 28

Deadly Fear

Fri, Apr 13, 1956

Ellis Lyman has a nervous breakdown during choir practice at Dr. Seale's house. When Dr. Seale contacts Ellis' mother, he finds that she too is going nuts. Dr. Seale must determine what is wrong with the Lymans and how he can help them.

Episode 29

Anatole of the Bayous

Fri, Apr 20, 195630 mins

A minister in the bayou country risks his life to bring about peace between two communities.

Episode 30

The White Carnation

Fri, Apr 27, 195630 mins

A priest tries to help restore a man's faith in God when he turns to alcohol in his grief.

Episode 31

Home Is the Sailor

Fri, May 4, 1956

Episode 32

Lifeline

Fri, May 11, 195630 mins

A woman goes to work recruiting girls (as paid dance companions) for a handsome but oily criminal. Then she realizes her own little sister is being drawn in to the racket. A radio evangelist intervenes.

Episode 33

The Judge

Wed, Jan 28, 202630 mins

In a wide-open, lawless town, the local minister has another job--he's the judge.

Episode 34

God in the Street

Fri, May 25, 1956

A veteran, broke and at the end of his rope, turns to the Salvation Army as his last hope.

Episode 35

Man on the Totem Pole

Fri, Jun 1, 195630 mins

A Presbyterian missionary of the 1880's risks his career and reputation by advocating the return of Alaska to Russia.

Episode 36

The Rabbi Davis Story

Fri, Jun 8, 195630 mins

A courageous rabbi goes up against the crooked political machine that's victimizing the poor in his county.

Episode 37

The Singing Preacher

Fri, Jun 15, 1956

An Episcopal priest helps a man who is estranged from his daughter and has been accused of committing a brutal crime.

Episode 38

A Holiday for Father Jim

Fri, Jun 22, 1956

A courageous priest takes his life in his hands trying to save both a dangerous bandit and the teller he holds as hostage.

Episode 39

False Prophet

Fri, Jun 29, 195630 mins

The minister who married a young couple tries to expose a phony medium who is trying to break up their marriage.