Decision
This 1958 summer replacement series for "The Loretta Young Show" consisted of pilots for other series such as a short version of "The Virginian" starring James Drury and "Man Against Crime", a failed pilot for Darrin McGavin. The dramatic anthology series ran on the NBC Network on Sunday evenings for 13 episodes.
- 1958-1958
- 1 season
- NBC
- Drama
This 1958 summer replacement series for "The Loretta Young Show" consisted of pilots for other series such as a short version of "The Virginian" starring James Drury and "Man Against Crime", a failed pilot for Darrin McGavin. The dramatic anthology series ran on the NBC Network on Sunday evenings for 13 episodes.
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 1958
Episode 1
The Virginian
Sun, Jul 6, 1958
Judge Henry asks the Virginian to investigate mysterious setbacks in his efforts to bring a railroad spur branch to his ranch. The Virginian finds logical suspects in the judge's disgruntled son, the ranch foreman and some ranch hands. The only helpful person is Dora, the ranch cook.
Episode 2
Fifty Beautiful Girls
Sun, Jul 13, 1958
Taxi dancers are being rubbed out by some madman and a good-looking dancer is convinced she's next. She keeps on dancing, however, hoping to identify the killer.
Episode 3
The Danger Game
Sun, Jul 20, 1958
A spy tries to undercover an assassination plot.
Episode 4
The Tall Man
Sun, Jul 27, 1958 30 mins
A man becomes suspect in the mysterious death of a minor.
Episode 5
Sudden Silence
Sun, Aug 3, 1958
An Eastern born Marshal's wife nurses her ill son while her husband hunts a vengeful outlaw in the Old West.
Episode 6
Idemnity
Sun, Aug 10, 1958
An armored truck containing a large payroll disappears while one of its three guards is having lunch in a roadside diner. The other two guards vanish as well. Paul Scott, an authority on insurance fraud, is given the job of recovering the money.
Episode 7
Stand and Deliver
Sun, Aug 17, 1958
A Highwayman, a gallant champion of righteousness, saves a young boy from the gallows.
Episode 8
Night of the Stranger
Sun, Aug 24, 1958
Following the death of his wife, John York decides to leave his troubles behind with an extended vacation away from home, but unable to rest, takes sleeping pills the night before he leaves. Shortly thereafter, he's awakened by a stranger pounding furiously on his front door. The visitor claims to be a psychiatrist who is being pursued by her deranged patient. York must then fight the effects of the sleeping pills as he tries to protect the psychiatrist and himself as the hulking psychopath attempts to gain entry to the house.
Episode 9
Fear Has Many Faces
Sun, Aug 31, 1958 30 mins
During the Korean War, a sergeant was forced to shoot another soldier who made a break for the rear. The sergeant finds it impossible to forget the experience even after he returns to civilian life.
Episode 10
High Air
Sun, Sep 7, 1958
A veteran sand hog fights to keep his son from working with him in a tunnel under the Hudson River.
Episode 11
Markheim
Sun, Sep 14, 1958 30 mins
While attempting to rob the corpse of a man he has killed on Christmas Day, a degraded and prideless man meets a mysterious stranger who offers a tempting proposition.
Episode 12
Man Against Crime
Sun, Sep 21, 1958
A gang war leads Dan Garrett to defend a youth accused of killing a young punk.
Episode 13
Man on a Raft
Sun, Sep 28, 1958
A pretty young widow hires Mike to investigate the mysterious death of her husband who was about to come into a substantial inheritance when he reached his 30th birthday. She believes his stepfather, who urged him to go on a sailing cruise arranged for the boat to sink and bribed the deckhands to lie about the date her husband died. When the diary of the cruise kept my one of mariners is stolen from a newspaper reporter covering the story, Mike is convinced that the young man died from foul play.