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Damon Runyon Theater Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

21 Episodes 0 - 1955

Episode 0

Unaired pilot

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Episode 1

Pick the Winner

Sat, Apr 16, 195530 mins

A killing at a dice game enables Lucky Farrar and his girl to take a trip south to Hialeah. But Lucky's luck at the race track is all bad until he meets a young Princeton professor and a sure-fire system.

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Episode 2

Dancing Dan's Christmas

Sat, Apr 23, 195530 mins

The romance between dapper young Dancing Dan and his girl, Judy O'Neill, hits a snag when a very influential mobster decides that Judy reminds him of his mother. Judy, however, is not happy with the change.

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Episode 3

All Is Not Gold

Sat, Apr 30, 195530 mins

A gambler tries to raise money to buy a bank that wouldn't cash his check.

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Episode 4

The Lacework Kid

Sat, May 7, 195530 mins

A Broadway cardsharp is captured by the Germans during World War II. In the prison camp he gives an excellent exhibition of his skill, this time making a sadistic Nazi colonel his victim.

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Episode 5

Numbers and Figures

Sat, May 14, 195530 mins

A lucky win in a numbers game starts a wealthy socialite on a whirlwind adventure. She goes into business on her own in competition with one Numbers Dorson, an old hand at the numbers racket.

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Episode 6

Tobias the Terrible

Sat, May 21, 195530 mins

A meek diaper service delivery man suffers because his girlfriend yearns for the movie-gangster type. In hopes of getting some pointers, Tobias visits the local mobster hangout, just in time for a raid.

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Episode 7

Old Em's Kentucky Home

Sat, May 28, 195530 mins

Four fugitives from Broadway, two guys, a doll and a broken down nag take a trip down to the Blue Grass State to visit a colonel who's lost his prize mare. Object: a slight swindle.

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Episode 8

Lonely Heart

Sat, Jun 4, 195530 mins

A man marries a rich widow through a lonely hearts ad and goes to her secluded farm for a honeymoon.

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Episode 9

It Comes Up Money

Sat, Jun 11, 195530 mins

A real-estate agent (Will Wright) will stop at nothing to get rid of an antique dealer who's blocking the construction of a skyscraper.

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Episode 10

The Big Umbrella

Sat, Jun 18, 195530 mins

A fight promoter helps a deposed king regain his throne and the girl he loves.

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Episode 11

Big Shoulders

Sat, Jun 25, 195530 mins

When a bookie borrows $10,000 to open a commission brokerage, he gives his daughter as security.

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Episode 12

Teacher's Pet

Sat, Jul 2, 195530 mins

An elderly schoolteacher inherits a bookmaking empire.

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Episode 13

The Mink Doll

Sat, Jul 9, 195530 mins

A Broadway chorus girl, who's married to s con artist, comes into a lot of money and uses it to try to break into New York "high society".

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Episode 14

Bunny on the Beach

Sat, Jul 16, 195530 mins

As payment for a debt, two gamblers force Fatso Zimpf to help them rob a charity affair.

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Episode 15

The Big Fix

Sat, Jul 23, 1955

Bill Randall, once a Broadway big shot, tries to keep his son from finding out that he's now a Bowery bum.

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Episode 16

A Light in France

Sat, Jul 30, 195530 mins

Shortly before world War 2, two mobsters are forced to flee to France where they hide in a fishing village.

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Episode 17

A Nice Price

Sat, Aug 6, 195530 mins

Unexpected aid from three small-time gamblers helps Harvard in the Harvard-Yale boat race.

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Episode 18

Small Town Caper

Sat, Aug 13, 195530 mins

Two con men unload a statue on the people of Centerhaven, claiming it's of the town's most famous son.

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Episode 19

There's No Forever

Sat, Aug 20, 195530 mins

Three bank robbers hide out in the home of an unsuspecting young widow.

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Episode 20

Earthquake Morgan

Sat, Aug 27, 195530 mins

A safe-cracker is unwittingly involved in murder and kidnapping.

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