Matinee Theatre

Episode 1

The Jewel Box

Mon, Sep 2, 1957 60 mins

A ghost writer finds the courage to cast off his bonds.

Episode 2

Molly Morgan

Tue, Sep 3, 1957

Episode 3

Woman Alone

Wed, Sep 4, 1957

Episode 4

Among Strangers

Thu, Sep 5, 1957

Set in 1962. An ambitious salesman uses a conscientious secretary in his climb to success after he meets a man who claims to be a member of a superhuman race that has come to Earth to prevent the human race from destroying itself.

Episode 5

The Broom and the Groom

Fri, Sep 6, 1957

A young wife claims she is descended from a long line of witches.

Episode 6

The Adjustable Mr. Willing

Mon, Sep 9, 1957 60 mins

A bachelor falls in love with the widowed mother of six children.

Episode 7

Freedom Comes Later

Tue, Sep 10, 1957 60 mins

Episode 8

In the Fog

Wed, Sep 11, 1957 60 mins

Four men relate details of a baffling mystery to detain a fifth man, so that he cannot make a speech in Parliament.

Episode 9

Son of Thirty-Seven Fathers

Thu, Sep 12, 1957

A series of mysterious incidents makes a group of American soldiers in Korea distrust a 12-year-old boy whom they have practically adopted.

Episode 10

Hand-Me-Down

Fri, Sep 13, 1957

A 15-year-old boy's loyalty to his older brother is put to the test.

Episode 11

Emma

Mon, Sep 16, 1957 60 mins

While matchmaking for friends and neighbours, a young 19th Century Englishwoman nearly misses her own chance at love.

Episode 12

The Personal Equation

Tue, Sep 17, 1957

An ambitious young husband re-woos an old flame in order to dissuade her tycoon grandfather from moving his factory to another town.

Episode 13

Night Cry

Wed, Sep 18, 1957

An embittered detective kills a young murder suspect, lets suspicion fall on the victim's girl friend, then falls in love with her.

Episode 14

Mysterious Disappearance

Thu, Sep 19, 1957

An English professor and his aunt encounter two visitors from another planet who have just landed in a space ship.

Episode 15

The Impersonal Touch

Fri, Sep 20, 1957

Two women, one a stockholder and the other a secretary, vie for the affections of a young magazine publisher.

Episode 16

The Story of Sarah

Mon, Sep 23, 1957 60 mins

A live colorcast of the "Story of Sarah" to commemorate Rosh Hoshanah, the high Holy day and start of the new year among the world's Jewry.

Episode 17

The Waiting Swan

Tue, Sep 24, 1957

An aging playboy chief of a film studio is repudiated by his son for foiling his dissolute ways.

Episode 18

One Mummy Too Many

Wed, Sep 25, 1957

A young American in Egypt gets involved in a murder when an Egyptian politician is killed and wrapped up like a mummy.

Episode 19

Hearthstones

Thu, Sep 26, 1957

Four ancient sisters, hermit daughters of a Confederate deserter, find a young doughboy unconscious on the cobwebbed doorstep.

Episode 20

The Reluctant Heiress

Fri, Sep 27, 1957

A scheming backwoods woman tries to marry off her younger sister to one of two bachelor brothers she thinks might soon come into an inheritance.

Episode 21

Father Came Home

Tue, Oct 15, 1957

A lighthearted story of a suave father who returns from the continent to meet his 20-year-old daughter for the first time.

Episode 22

Villa of the Angels

Wed, Oct 16, 1957

At a lonely inn a writer falls for a woman who is convinced she has been a kiss of death to everyone who has loved her.

Episode 23

The Tone of Time

Thu, Oct 17, 1957

A woman painter is commissioned by a woman of means to do the portrait of a man who has meant much to both of them.

Episode 24

Almost Any Man Will Do

Fri, Oct 18, 1957

To land the starring role in a big TV series a bachelor girl must land a husband in three weeks.

Episode 25

Sing for Me

Mon, Oct 21, 1957

The story of a laundress who gains fame as a radio singer.

Episode 26

Run for the Money

Tue, Oct 22, 1957

An eloping couple of modest means have their first argument when they clash over what to do with $18,000 they win at a race track.

Episode 27

Crusade for Freedom

Wed, Oct 23, 1957

A Hungarian Freedom Fighters story of a Hungarian worker who flees the country to elude the secret police, only to learn that the police chief has moved in with the worker's pregnant wife on the pretense of waiting for the rebel to return.

Episode 28

The Glass Hill

Thu, Oct 24, 1957

A brooding widower succumbs to the mysterious attraction of his only friend's supposedly insane niece.

Episode 29

Out of the Frying Pan

Fri, Oct 25, 1957

Well known actors and actresses children played the roles of the stagestruck youngsters who drive a Broadway producer crazy trying to get parts in his new production.

Episode 30

The Last Stop

Mon, Oct 28, 1957

Episode 31

The Weak and the Strong

Tue, Oct 29, 1957

The problems of being an unwed mother are examined.

Episode 32

Nine-Finger Jack

Wed, Oct 30, 1957 60 mins

John Smith has made money as a professional lady-killer. He has collected nine insurance policies on as many wives, and is currently working on number 10, Hester. But Hester proves to be a little more difficult to do away with.

Episode 33

Elementals

Thu, Oct 31, 1957

A professor taunts his aide in order to win a bet.

Episode 34

A Plumber in Paradise

Fri, Nov 1, 1957

A former Spanish boy, now the plumbing king of the U.S. must choose between the girl he went home to claim and the English girl he meets aboard ship on the way back to his native land.

Episode 35

Something About a Dollar

Mon, Nov 4, 1957

When a boys' camp counselor finds his favorite youngster has become the prime suspect in a petty theft. Remembering this boyhood experience teaches a jealous husband how to deal with his wife.

Episode 36

Return in Winter

Thu, Nov 7, 1957

A young dedicated doctor jeopardizes his marriage to pursue his work in the New York flu epidemic of 1918.

Episode 37

Grandmama and the Grandfather Clock

Fri, Nov 8, 1957

Greed possesses a Frenchman who decides to hasten his inheritance.

Episode 38

Aesop and Rhodope

Mon, Nov 11, 1957

Episode 39

All Over the World

Tue, Nov 12, 1957

British war brides try to get along with in-laws.

Episode 40

The Ransom of Sigmund Freud

Wed, Nov 13, 1957 60 mins

The story of Freud 's difficulties in trying to leave Austria after the Nazis take over. President Roosevelt intercedes to help him.

Episode 41

Iris

Thu, Nov 14, 1957

A marriage-hungry spinster feels that this is her last chance at matrimony.

Episode 42

Remember Me Kindly

Fri, Nov 15, 1957

Alicia is positive her daughter's next visit will end her stay at the retirement home where she is unhappy. This contrasts with Bert and Meg who enjoy the companionship they have found among theirs peers.

Episode 43

Embassy House

Mon, Nov 18, 1957

A young secretary in Washington, D.C. falls in love with a man who passes himself off as a rising young diplomat. Only a cynical treasury agent has doubts about the young man's truthfulness.

Episode 44

Witness to Murder

Tue, Nov 19, 1957

The prime suspect in a robbery-murder is an accountant who handled the murdered man's finances. In a race against time, the accountant tries to locate the real murderer before the police pick him up.

Episode 45

The Johnson House

Wed, Nov 20, 1957

A small college town divides against itself over the romance of a college girl and a handsome student from Iraq. Prejudice threatens to put a blight on the couple's plans of marriage.

Episode 46

Out of My Darkness

Thu, Nov 21, 1957 60 mins

The true story of a man blind since the age of eight. As a young man he marries a woman he has never seen and becomes the father of a boy. Then he learns that a delicate operation may enable him to see again.

Episode 47

The Tender Leaves

Fri, Nov 22, 1957

A motion-picture executive learns that he is seriously ill, just as he is about to begin production on a movie he has wanted to film all his life.

Episode 48

Cadenza

Mon, Nov 25, 1957

A Hungarian violinist is planning a concert in the U. S. as a benefit for the Hungarian rebels. A young girl, acting as the musician's press agent, is disturbed by two strange men who turn up everywhere the musician appears.

Episode 49

Green Shores

Tue, Nov 26, 1957

A student doctor leaves America to visit his aunt in Ireland.

Episode 50

Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent

Fri, Nov 29, 1957 60 mins

Presidential candidate Daniel Webster seeks respite from the duties of state by going deep-sea fishing. To his amazement, he hooks but loses an oversized sea serpent.

Episode 51

The Conversation Table

Mon, Dec 2, 1957

A penniless countess is offered a job at a boarding school.

Episode 52

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Wed, Dec 4, 1957

A mysterious stranger descends on the small town of Hadleyburg to teach its deceitful residents a lesson. Inspired by writer Mark Twain's short story.

Episode 53

A Cloud for Jeni

Fri, Dec 6, 1957

The lonely life of a show business daughter is brightened when she falls in love.

Episode 54

The Consul

Mon, Dec 9, 1957

During the administration of President Lincoln, a highly principled but lowly stationed American diplomat finds he can win a coveted promotion if he will compromise his integrity.

Episode 55

The Old Friend

Tue, Dec 10, 1957

A humdrum book reviewer yearns for the life he reads about.

Episode 56

Give Me a Wand

Wed, Dec 11, 1957

A prep school boy is snubbed and set up for a crime he didn't commit.

Episode 57

The Sure Thing

Thu, Dec 12, 1957

A black sheep son convinces the members of his family that, they should bet their life savings on a race horse. The elderly family member believes he has a sure thing in a friendly giant horsefly which buzzes horse race winners in Morse code.

Episode 58

Dark of the Moon

Fri, Dec 13, 1957

A supernatural story set in the hills of the Smoky Mountains. A witch-boy begs to become human after having his way with a mortal. There is one thing that the irrepressible Barbara must do: be faithful to him for a full year.

Episode 59

The Gift and the Giver

Mon, Dec 16, 1957

A strong-willed woman purposely breaks up her family.

Episode 60

No Time for Comedy

Tue, Dec 17, 1957

Playwright Gaylord Esterbrook scores a hit with his first Broadway play, both with the critics and with leading lady Linda Paige. He and Linda are happily married until a patroness of the arts convinces Esterbrook to forget about comedy and concentrate on writing a tragedy. The end result nearly destroys his career and his marriage.

Episode 61

A Gentleman of Fortune

Wed, Dec 18, 1957 60 mins

At a country fair, a retired con man sizes up a young couple who, he discovers, have just eloped.

Episode 62

The Gentleman Caller

Thu, Dec 19, 1957 60 mins

Miss Emmy Rice, a lonely old woman, is befriended by a young man she meets in the park. Grateful for his attentions, she finds an old magazine picture resembling her new friend and hangs it in her room.

Episode 63

In Twenty-Five Words or Less

Mon, Dec 23, 1957

A woman wins a contest and finds her dream prize isn't what it's cracked up to be.

Episode 64

Sara Crewe

Tue, Dec 24, 1957

A young girl is relegated to servitude at a boarding school when her father goes missing and is presumed dead.

Episode 65

Amahl and the Night Visitors

Wed, Dec 25, 1957

One night in Judea, a disabled shepherd boy-turned-beggar and his mother are visited by three strangers. They are the Three Kings, and they are on their way to Bethlehem to visit the Christ Child, who has just been born.

Episode 66

The Little Minister

Thu, Dec 26, 1957

In rural 1840's Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the soldiers after she incites a Luddite riot. But unknown to Gavin, Babbie is more than she seems. And they must overcome her secret, the villagers' fears of her, and worst of all, Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities, before they can openly declare their love.

Episode 67

Daughter of Kings

Tue, Dec 31, 1957

A small town girl believes she is descended from royalty.

Episode 68

Survival Kit

Thu, Jan 2, 1958

Based on true story of a U.S. airman scheduled to fly a mission to test a new survival kit. For the first time, the flier's wife expresses fear for her husband's safety.

Episode 69

A House with Golden Streets

Fri, Jan 3, 1958

The wife of an oil worker wants to settle down.

Episode 70

The Europeans

Mon, Jan 6, 1958 60 mins

It's the fall of 1850, a few miles outside Boston. The household of the dour Mr. Wentworth receives two unannounced visitors from Europe, Eugenia and Felix, the daughter and son of his half sister. Gertrude, one of Wentworth's two daughters, is instantly infatuated with her cousins, thinking them sophisticated and worldly. She turns her back on the local Unitarian minister, Mr. Brand, who has been calling on her, to delight in the pleasure and amusement Felix offers. Another wealthy neighbor, Mr. Acton, is attracted to Eugenia, who is going through a divorce with a European aristocrat. Are the Americans being used by the penniless Europeans? Or is there real affection?

Episode 71

The Collected Letters of Mr. Sage

Tue, Jan 7, 1958

A business tycoon tries to top competitors.

Episode 72

Two-Picture Deal

Wed, Jan 8, 1958

A movie queen forsakes Hollywood for the more intellectual Broadway her husband prefers.

Episode 73

The Great Obstacle Courtship

Thu, Jan 9, 1958

A gambling man tries to win the hand of the town beauty and the consent of her thrift-conscious banker father.

Episode 74

A Chance to Die

Fri, Jan 10, 1958

A woman convicted of murder makes a deal with the doctor.

Episode 75

Home on the Range

Mon, Jan 13, 1958

Episode 76

The Makropoulos Incident

Tue, Jan 14, 1958

Episode 77

More Than a Man

Wed, Jan 15, 1958

An ex-prizefighter is angry when he learns that his son plans to forsake his law studies to take up boxing.

Episode 78

Something Stolen, Something Blue

Thu, Jan 16, 1958 60 mins

Dolores Hart portrays a uoung woman left waiting at the altar. She suspects there is more involved than the usual jilting and investigates with her mother.

Episode 79

The Thunderbolt

Fri, Jan 17, 1958

In 1905 the Mortimore family gathers at Linchpool, England, following the death of a wealthy but long-estranged brother. Though no will has yet been found, the covetous relatives learn that their brother has a daughter living in Paris.

Episode 80

Daisy Mayme

Mon, Jan 20, 1958

A man and woman, workhorses for their respective families, meet and discover romance midway through their lives of servitude.

Episode 81

The Man Who Wanted to Hate

Tue, Jan 21, 1958

A father and son run the risk of identifying hoodlums.

Episode 82

The Golden Fleecing

Wed, Jan 22, 1958

A greedy sister-in-law's scheme to prove a supposedly wealthy widow mentally incompetent verges on paying off, until the latter takes her inheritance to the Las Vegas gambling tables.

Episode 83

Forever and Ever

Thu, Jan 23, 1958 60 mins

Episode 84

Decision

Fri, Jan 24, 1958

A father and son, both chance witnesses of a holdup killing, must each decide whether to run the risk of identifying the guilty hoodlums.

Episode 85

Soldier's Boy

Mon, Jan 27, 1958 60 mins

Gen. Stanton Brisk, on the day of his retirement from the Army, visits his wife Edith in a sanitarium. Ever since the day their son Edward was killed in the war, she has blocked off her mind to 24 years of married life and returned to the time when Edward was 12 and her husband was just a captain.

Episode 86

The 10th Muse

Thu, Jan 30, 1958

Writer Linda Stone is thrilled at the opportunity to write the biography of her idol, the great poetess Mathilda Morrell. But she is disturbed by dark hints dropped by Miss Morrell's nephew about his aunt's writing.

Episode 87

Love Out of Town

Fri, Jan 31, 1958 60 mins

An out-of-town play headed for Broadway runs into some difficulties. A local critic berates the performers as inadequate. The leading lady is in love with the director. And the director wants to change the play from drama to comedy.

Episode 88

Cave-In

Mon, Feb 3, 1958 60 mins

Two children accidentally expose an affair between one's mother and the other's dad.

Episode 89

The Iceman

Tue, Feb 4, 1958 60 mins

Clyde, sore over being fired by his brother-in-law, takes his anger out on his wife -- by not allowing her to adopt a child.

Episode 90

The Long, Long Laugh

Wed, Feb 5, 1958 60 mins

A secretary tries to aid Ernie Barton, whose efforts to please everyone he works with have resulted in his becoming the office clown.

Episode 91

Charcoal Pink

Mon, Feb 10, 1958

A soldier and a girl conspire to peddle a dead GI's novel as their own.

Episode 92

Monsieur Beaucaire

Tue, Feb 11, 1958 60 mins

When M. Beaucaire, a handsome barber, catches the Duke of Winterset cheating at gambling, Beaucaire exacts Winterset's cooperation in sneaking Beaucaire into a great ball, disguised as the Duke de Chartres, and to introduce him to the beautiful Lady Mary. The disguised barber successfully pulls off the masquerade and is soon the toast of society. But Winterset is embittered at having been blackmailed so, and he sets out to destroy Beaucaire if he can do so without revealing his own duplicity.

Episode 93

Life Upon a Wicked Stage

Wed, Feb 12, 1958

A young man and a woman profess affection for an employer.

Episode 94

Without Fear or Favor

Thu, Feb 13, 1958

The story of the politician Boss Tweed, who in 1870 runs New York City and its officials to suit himself.

Episode 95

The Third Person

Fri, Feb 14, 1958 60 mins

Episode 96

Eden End

Mon, Feb 17, 1958

With the return of young Wilfred Kirby from his job in British West Africa, the Kirby family is still not completely reunited. Stella, who left nine years ago for a career in the theater, still remains out of the family fold.

Episode 97

Goodbye on Thursday

Thu, Feb 20, 1958

A girl who lives on a boat with her father and brother feels that a newspaper editor's attentions toward her are a means of getting her father to stay in town and to continue his job as a linotype operator with the newspaper.

Episode 98

Marriage of Convenience

Mon, Feb 24, 1958

Two young people are among a group trekking across the Oregon territory in 1865. They are drawn to each other when the girl's father dies and when, later, she saves the young man's life.

Episode 99

The Suicide Club

Tue, Feb 25, 1958 60 mins

A prince and a Colonel, traveling incognito, meet a young man in a bar. When he says he is planning to join a secret organization called the Suicide Club, the prince begs to be taken along.

Episode 100

The Sixty-Fifth Floor

Wed, Feb 26, 1958

After receiving a promotion, a young man accepts an offer by a female co-worker to help him learn his new duties. He is unaware that the woman is trying to break up his marriage.

Episode 101

The Hickory Heart

Thu, Feb 27, 1958

A mother of 12, interferes with her oldest son's romance, when he becomes interested in the new school teacher.

Episode 102

The Devil's Violin

Fri, Feb 28, 1958

A U.S. Army officer's daughter becomes an international pawn when she wanders from West to East Germany.

Episode 103

The Prophet Hosea

Mon, Mar 3, 1958 60 mins

Story of the Hebrew prophet, his wife Gomer and the unethical priest Dagnon. Gomer leaves her husband for the love of Dagnon, who is eventually won over by Hosea's ethical precepts and deserts Gomer.

Episode 104

The Vigilante

Tue, Mar 4, 1958

A father is devastated when his son ignores the law to suit his own purpose.

Episode 105

Wednesday's Child

Wed, Mar 5, 1958

A boy of divorced parents is sent to military school, where he learns about life.

Episode 106

Journey Into Darkness

Thu, Mar 6, 1958

The story of an amnesia victim who is charged with murder tries to trace his identity. He learns it wasn't amnesia alone that led to his condition.

Episode 107

Mrs. Moonlight

Fri, Mar 7, 1958

A charmed necklace worn on her wedding day, keeps a young bride from growing old.

Episode 108

The Mask of Venus

Mon, Mar 10, 1958

A great beauty's face is disfigured in a crash, when she leaves her unfaithful husband. He tries for reconciliation and their lives take a new turn when she refuses to undergo plastic surgery.

Episode 109

With Love We Live

Tue, Mar 11, 1958

A young woman who is rescued from a suicide attempt is sent to a mental care hospital, where she meets a young man with similar emotional problems.

Episode 110

You and I

Wed, Mar 12, 1958

A business man who gave up his dream of becoming an artist sees a similar situation developing in the life of his son.

Episode 111

Career Angel

Thu, Mar 13, 1958

A Catholic boy's school, on the verge of financial ruin, is saved by the guardian angel of its beloved but scatterbrained director.

Episode 112

The Contingent Fee

Fri, Mar 14, 1958

A convicted murderer asks a blind lawyer to probe his case, promising to will his eyes to the blind man if he cannot set him free.

Episode 113

Anxious Night

Tue, Mar 18, 1958

A mother over-indulges her son to the point where he steals.

Episode 114

On Approval

Wed, Mar 19, 1958

Two couples about to be married agree to wait until they can make a more thorough evaluation.

Episode 115

Dandy Dick

Thu, Mar 20, 1958

A church vicar tries to come up with 1,000 pounds to fix the church's crooked steeple. After a variety of schemes fails to raise the required amount of money, he decides to bet what little savings he has on Dandy Dick, a nag running at the local racetrack who's a 10-to-1 shot.

Episode 116

Hush, Mahala, Hush

Fri, Mar 21, 1958

A woman lapses into a comatose state after the death of her daughter. Her husband decides that seeing her granddaughter will bring her back to consciousness.

Episode 117

O'Rourke's House

Tue, Mar 25, 1958

The story of a dying mother of two sons who tries to show her husband - a stern and harsh policeman - that he must change in order to look after the sons when she is gone.

Episode 118

The Alleyway

Wed, Mar 26, 1958

A handsome young man becomes involved with an older married woman whose husband is in prison.

Episode 119

The Vagabond

Thu, Mar 27, 1958

A dancer falls in love with a wealthy man and finds herself involved with a higher class of society.

Episode 120

The Silver Spider

Fri, Mar 28, 1958

An aging actress vies with a lovely female writer for the love of her youthful husband.

Episode 121

Design for Glory

Tue, Apr 1, 1958

A young singer tries to pass herself off as the daughter of a producer.

Episode 122

The Inspector General

Wed, Apr 2, 1958

Story concerns a provincial town in the 1900's, so worried about a warning of a visit from the Inspector General, that they assume a stranger in town is the Inspector traveling incognito.

Episode 123

The Two Mrs. Carrolls

Thu, Apr 3, 1958 60 mins

Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally whilst on holiday in the country. A romance develops but he doesn't tell her he's already married. Suffering from mental illness, Geoffrey returns home where he paints an impression of his wife as the angel of death and then promptly poisons her. He marries Sally but after a while he finds a strange urge to paint her as the angel of death too and history seems about to repeat itself.

Episode 124

The Velvet Glove

Fri, Apr 4, 1958

The story of a Mother Hildebrand, head of a convent school, who is ordered by her bishop to dismiss a teacher.

Episode 125

Death Takes a Holiday

Tue, Apr 8, 1958

Death decides to take a holiday from his usual business to see what it is like to be a mortal. Posing as Prince Sirki, he spends 3 days with Duke Lambert and his guests at his estate. Several of the women are attracted to the mysterious prince, but shy away from him when they sense his true nature. But Grazia, the beautiful young woman whom the Duke thought was to marry his son, loves him even when she knows who he is.

Episode 126

Man of the House

Wed, Apr 9, 1958

A husband quits work because of an accident. His wife goes into business and makes it a success and he runs the house with an efficiency she never had. He submits a recipe to a TV contest under his wife's name wins a $50,000 prize.

Episode 127

A Case of Fear

Thu, Apr 10, 1958

An employee of the American Cancer Society undergoes dangerous treatments to expose a quack.

Episode 128

Walk the Sky

Fri, Apr 11, 1958

An American pilot at loose ends in India, becomes involved with Red China agents in an attempt to help Tibet's Dalai Lama escape.

Episode 129

The Canterville Ghost

Tue, Apr 15, 1958

In the 1600s, cowardly Sir Simon of Canterville flees a duel and seeks solace in the family castle. His ashamed father seals him in the room where he is hiding and dooms him to life as a ghost until one of his descendants performs a brave deed. Simon believes he may be saved when he meets Cuffy Williams, an American kinsman stationed with a troop of soldiers at the castle in 1943. Will this blood relative save the family honor, or will his blood be as yellow as the rest of the Cantervilles?

Episode 130

Found Money

Thu, Apr 17, 1958

A skid row drunk inherits a thief's loot.

Episode 131

Washington Whispers Murder

Fri, Apr 18, 1958

The congressman is murdered at a party and five guests are suspects.

Episode 132

A Boy Grows Up

Tue, Apr 22, 1958 60 mins

A 14-year-old boy guides his younger sisters and brother to the Northwest Territory.

Episode 133

The Phony Venus

Wed, Apr 23, 1958

Story of an American curator of a museum in France, and of a hoax to get his museum, to buy a'phony statue.

Episode 134

Some Blessed People

Thu, Apr 24, 1958

A story concerning an old woman, living in poverty and sending greeting cards to a son long lost and the young people who try to help her.

Episode 135

The Quiet Street

Fri, Apr 25, 1958

Story of a young Israeli girl, a soldier in her country's struggle to hold the Negev against the Arab snipers, who has the kind of courage that inspires a cynical American youth to participate in her cause.

Episode 136

Great Big Guy

Tue, Apr 29, 1958

Jim Mannix takes great pride in the athletic ability of both his sons and is pleased when they win football scholarships to the same college, although one of them has an obvious distaste for such glory.

Episode 137

It Came from Out of Town

Wed, Apr 30, 1958

A man from another planet who lands on Long Island ends up wanting to stay after falling love.

Episode 138

Prosper's Old Mother

Thu, May 1, 1958

An ignorant young gold prospector hires a mother to take care of his house, so the boys at the saloon will have a real home to come to.

Episode 139

End of a Sentence

Fri, May 2, 1958

A father's past causes dissension between himself and his son when the boy becomes involved in a robbery at college.

Episode 140

Top Platter

Tue, May 6, 1958

Story of how a teenage girl's love of rock 'n' roll turns her father into America's newest singing sensation.

Episode 141

The Guest of Quesnay

Wed, May 7, 1958

A millionaire playboy vanishes and mysteriously reappears after two years in another identity at the Country Inn.

Episode 142

Good Housekeeping

Thu, May 8, 1958

A woman restless with her quiet life, tries to persuade her husband to run for Governor.

Episode 143

Angel Street

Fri, May 9, 1958

Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret that he will do anything to protect, even if means driving his wife insane.

Episode 144

The Cause

Mon, May 12, 1958

A Civil War story about a Southern girl who falls in love with a Union officer. She meets opposition from her father who is better against the North.

Episode 145

Much Ado About Nothing: Part I

Tue, May 20, 1958 60 mins

The Shakespeare classic, done live for this daytime color series, the first time a two part story was offered. It tells of a woman, a rich merchant's daughter about to be married to a man she loves, but a devious rival to the groom sets up an incident to fool him into thinking she's been sleeping around just before the wedding day.

Episode 146

Much Ado About Nothing: Part II

Wed, May 21, 1958 60 mins

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.

Episode 147

Day of Discoveries

Thu, May 22, 1958

A young businessman almost ruins his life trying to live up to his father-in-law's formula for success.

Episode 148

The Young and the Fair

Fri, May 23, 1958

A college girl tries to prove that a girl she dislikes has stolen money.

Episode 149

The Riddle of Mary Murray

Tue, May 27, 1958

Story about Mary Murray who aided the rebels during the American Revolution.

Episode 150

The Gardenia Bush

Wed, May 28, 1958

An unmarried schoolteacher becomes involved in a romance with a retired business man.

Episode 151

Button, Button

Thu, May 29, 1958

Fantasy about a spaceship which patrols the Earth and sets off a bomb on Latin America.

Episode 152

Hands

Fri, May 30, 1958

A widow doubts that the death her husband met while mountain climbing was accidental.

Episode 153

The End of the Season

Tue, Jun 3, 1958

The life of a once well-known concert pianist, blinded 10 years ago in an accident, takes on new meaning when an eye surgeon tells him his sight might be restored.

Episode 154

Look Out for John Tucker

Wed, Jun 4, 1958

A teenager is wanted by the law for some petty robberies he committed in an attempt to help his crippled father. He decides that escape is the only thing that will save him, so he hops a freight train in an attempt to outrun the law.

Episode 155

The Road to Recovery

Thu, Jun 5, 1958 60 mins

A writer meets a doctor at a dude ranch. He hopes the doctor can help him recover from tuberculosis.

Episode 156

The Nightbird Crying

Fri, Jun 6, 1958

Cassie Richwood, the wife of an executed prisoner, an expectant mother, agrees to give up the baby and leave her mother-in-law's home where she is blamed for her husband's misfortune.

Episode 157

The Story of Marcia Gordon

Tue, Jun 10, 1958

Marcia Gordon has her successful mother's talent for fashion designing. But Marcia has decided she doesn't want to follow in her mother's footsteps; instead wants to fulfill her role as a wife and mother, something her mother never did.

Episode 158

Town in Turmoil

Wed, Jun 11, 1958

A woman vigorously campaigns with members of the League of Women Voters for a new school in their town. But she runs into violent opposition from older citizens who feel the new school would be much too expensive.

Episode 159

Washington Square

Thu, Jun 12, 1958

A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.

Episode 160

Course for Collision

Fri, Jun 13, 1958

The story of a presidential airliner which nearly bumps into a Soviet bomber over the North Pole.