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Matinee Theatre Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

200 Episodes 1955 - 1956

Episode 1

Beginning Now

Mon, Oct 31, 195560 mins

John Kelsey deprives his son Pete, of a pattern for responsible living, by setting a poor example by his own carelessness and philandering ways.

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Episode 2

The Make Believe Mother

Tue, Nov 1, 195560 mins

Married several years and unable to bear children, a woman begs her husband they adopt a homeless boy.

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Episode 3

The Persistent Image

Wed, Nov 2, 195560 mins

Story of a jilted man who meets again the woman who refused to marry him.

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Episode 4

I'm Straight with the World

Thu, Nov 3, 195560 mins

Story about a housewife who faces loss of security in her husband's quest for success.

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Episode 5

Progress Jr. and Minnie Sweeney

Fri, Nov 4, 195560 mins

An old-fashioned schoolteacher, whose antiquated methods are the despair of her progressive school board refuses to retire.

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Episode 6

The House on Wildwood Lane

Mon, Nov 7, 195560 mins

A middle-aged couple hide their own problems from each other and from their children.

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Episode 7

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Tue, Nov 8, 195560 mins

A Professor is implicated in the murder of a female teacher at a girl's boarding school.

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Episode 8

One for the Road

Wed, Nov 9, 195560 mins

A man who left his wife and infant son turns up years later. He drops in for a visit at the home of his now married son and grandchildren. His sudden appearance and penchant for gambling wreak havoc in his son's home.

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Episode 9

An Apple for Miss Myrtle

Thu, Nov 10, 195560 mins

A schoolteacher (Geraldine Page) in a small town is frowned on by the parents for her unorthodox behavior.

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Episode 10

Man Without a Country

Fri, Nov 11, 195560 mins

A man who damns his country is subjected to a strange sentence.

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Episode 11

Jigsaw

Mon, Nov 14, 195560 mins

A middle-aged woman lives in a dream world.

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Episode 12

She's the One with the Funny Face

Tue, Nov 15, 195560 mins

A down-and-out entertainer zooms back to stardom on television.

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Episode 13

All the Hoffmeyers in the World

Wed, Nov 16, 195560 mins

A janitor working in an apartment building joins the social club for friendship.

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Episode 14

The Aspern Papers

Thu, Nov 17, 195560 mins

An publisher insinuates himself into the mouldering mansion of the centenarian lover of a renowned but long-dead poet in order to find his lost love letters.

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Episode 15

Roman Fever

Fri, Nov 18, 195560 mins

Two young girls are rivals for the affection of a young painter.

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Episode 16

Midsummer

Mon, Nov 21, 195560 mins

The daughter of a well-to-do family in New England is bored with her aristocratic life. While her parents are abroad, the teenager takes up with a man whose background is the exact opposite.

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Episode 17

The Lady Chooses

Tue, Nov 22, 195560 mins

A New York Publisher is astounded to learn of his wife's dabbling in politics. When she decides to run for office, her husband tries to convince her she's being used as a figurehead.

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Episode 18

The Courtship of Miles Standish

Wed, Nov 23, 195560 mins

A dramatization of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' this is the story of the Pilgrims who fled religious persecution in England and came to America aboard the Mayflower. John Alden, after numerous adventures at sea and with Indians on land, is asked by his friend Myles Standish to seek for him the romantic favor of his secret beloved, Priscilla Mullens. But Priscilla has eyes for another--John Alden.

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Episode 19

The Dispossessed

Fri, Nov 25, 1955

Evil pervades the once happy atmosphere of a spinster's cottage. A strange and domineering woman moves in unexpectedly and proceeds to rule the spinster's life.

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Episode 20

One for the Road (II)

Mon, Nov 28, 1955

A man who left his wife and infant son turns up years later. He drops in for a visit at the home of his now married son and grandchildren. His sudden appearance and penchant for gambling wreak havoc in his son's home.

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Episode 21

The Touchstone

Tue, Nov 29, 1955

A once successful writer, now verging on alcoholism, makes one last attempt to sell his latest work. When this fails, he must decide which is more important, personal integrity or money.

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Episode 22

Wuthering Heights

Wed, Nov 30, 195560 mins

Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.

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Episode 23

The Brass Ring

Thu, Dec 1, 1955

A young intern tries to convince his fiancee she shouldn't have the responsibility of supporting her divorced sister and the sister's child.

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Episode 24

Jason

Fri, Dec 2, 1955

An intellectual New York drama critic takes a personal interest in a young playwright. Then he discovers the younger man has more than a casual interest in the critic's wife.

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Episode 25

Arrowsmith

Mon, Dec 5, 1955

Based on Sinclair Lewis's novel "Arrowsmith". A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.

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Episode 26

Passing Strange

Tue, Dec 6, 1955

A man leaves the religious confines of his upbringing to journey around the world.

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Episode 27

For These Services

Wed, Dec 7, 1955

A small town doctor believes medicine is like any other business and should be exploited for cash.

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Episode 28

Cordially - with Bombs

Thu, Dec 8, 1955

Comedy about a sewing machine repairman who attempts to blackmail the city.

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Episode 29

The White-Oaks

Fri, Dec 9, 1955

A young woman feels country life is robbing her of true happiness.

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Episode 30

O'Toole from Moscow

Mon, Dec 12, 195560 mins

Comedy about the adventures of two Russians who escape from their embassy and seek asylum with the Cincinnati Reds.

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Episode 31

The Milwaukee Rocket

Tue, Dec 13, 195560 mins

Story of the Black Rapids (Wis.) river boatmen and their struggle to keep the area from being served by the building of the Greater Wisconsin Railroad.

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Episode 32

This One Is Different

Wed, Dec 14, 1955

An architect meets a wealthy Wall Street broker's daughter and has to compete for her attentions with an unsavory beau.

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Episode 33

The Sins of the Fathers

Thu, Dec 15, 1955

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Episode 34

See You on Sunday

Fri, Dec 16, 1955

A timid man finds it difficult to confront his in-laws until one weekend when he invites them over so his wife can see what they are really like.

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Episode 35

Coming of Age

Mon, Dec 19, 1955

When the vivacious sister takes advantage of the shy meek one sparks start to fly.

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Episode 36

Technique

Tue, Dec 20, 1955

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Episode 37

Gallin, All-American

Wed, Dec 21, 1955

The story of an All-American football player and his father, himself once a great athlete, who are involved in an auto accident. The father, blinded in the crash retreats from his son and from life.

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Episode 38

The Unwelcomed

Fri, Dec 23, 1955

The story of three shepherds who journey to Bethlehem with a young child to welcome the Christ Child.

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Episode 39

Santa Is No Saint

Thu, Dec 22, 195560 mins

A stern business man believes his children should be told the truth about Santa Claus.

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Episode 40

The Red Sanders Story

Mon, Dec 26, 195560 mins

This is the story of UCLA's football coach, Red Sanders, who gave up a life of security to gamble on his convictions.

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Episode 41

Elisha and the Long Knives

Tue, Dec 27, 195560 mins

Three uneducated fur traders "adopt" a small boy and as he grows they discover that he can read to them from the only book in the cabin, "The Collected Works of Shakespeare".

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Episode 42

Horns of Dilemma

Wed, Dec 28, 1955

A schoolteacher tries to collect a hundred year old debt from the Mayor.

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Episode 43

It Sometimes Happens Twice

Thu, Dec 29, 1955

A young mother, bitter over an enforced acting career as a child, is disturbed when her own daughter entertains aspirations to be an actress.

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Episode 44

The Shot

Fri, Dec 30, 195560 mins

A duel for a woman leads to many complications during the Civil War.

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Episode 45

Mr. Krane

Tue, Jan 3, 195660 mins

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Episode 46

Yesterday Is Gone

Wed, Jan 4, 1956

The story of the love affair between Thomas Jefferson and the married Maria Casway in France before his election as President of the United States.

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Episode 47

Double Door

Thu, Jan 5, 1956

A domineering woman meddles when her half-brother marries a girl beneath her level. Between innuendo and near murder, she tries to break them up, and she almost succeeds.

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Episode 48

The Happy Rest

Fri, Jan 6, 1956

A young farm mother struggles to do what is best for her unborn baby.

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Episode 49

The Gate

Mon, Jan 9, 1956

A wealthy young woman defies her family by marrying a salesman.

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Episode 50

One Left Over

Tue, Jan 10, 1956

After the death of his wife and two-children in a car crash, a man is left with one child. His neighbors offer a lot of advice, but it takes an Air Force veteran to really straighten him out.

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Episode 51

All the Trees in the Field

Wed, Jan 11, 195660 mins

An old rancher tries to save his orange grove from real estate interests.

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Episode 52

The Century Plant

Thu, Jan 12, 1956

The idyllic existence of an American college professor, who has moved with his second wife and two children to Mexico, is menaced by the sudden appearance of his first wife, who is determined to win him back.

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Episode 53

Friday the 13th

Fri, Jan 13, 1956

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Episode 54

The Old Maid

Mon, Jan 16, 195660 mins

The arrival of an ex-lover on a young woman's wedding day sets in motion a chain of events which will alter her and her cousin's lives forever.

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Episode 55

Mother Was a Bachelor

Tue, Jan 17, 195660 mins

A woman begins a life of her own after devoting years to caring for her dead sister's family.

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Episode 56

Bottom of the River

Wed, Jan 18, 1956

The story of a gang of unmanageable boys who are channeled into a new boys' club by a social worker.

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Episode 57

Company Manners

Thu, Jan 19, 1956

Company rules dominate the private lives of a young couple who live in a housing development. Complications result when they learn that one rule forbids children.

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Episode 58

The Child and the Muse

Fri, Jan 20, 1956

A domineering mother and her 9-year-old genius submits her daughters poems to a magazine.

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Episode 59

The Big Box

Mon, Jan 23, 1956

A top-rated radio comedian feels he has come to the end of his career because of television and goes into seclusion after his wife dies.

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Episode 60

Sincerely Yours, Charlie Fisher

Tue, Jan 24, 1956

A young postal clerk incessantly daydreams that he is visiting all the places he sees on the postmarks. This causes him to be fired which upsets his mother and his girlfriend .

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Episode 61

Doc

Wed, Jan 25, 1956

A father tries to get his daughter to postpone her marriage. Because of his own past experience, he fears that the career of the groom-to-be will be hampered by marriage.

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Episode 62

The Amateur

Thu, Jan 26, 195660 mins

A young garment worker wants to be an actor.

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Episode 63

Light and Shadow

Fri, Jan 27, 1956

A social worker reports that a middle-aged woman is mentally unbalanced. But the woman's friends and neighbors stand behind her, knowing that her delusion about a son she never had is only her way of clinging to a small shred of happiness.

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Episode 64

Romney

Mon, Jan 30, 1956

A boy broods over the accidental death of his older brother.

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Episode 65

O Promise Me

Tue, Jan 31, 1956

When a middle-aged doctor has been courting his sweetheart for 43 years advises two young lovers to wait before marrying until they are financially prepared, his angry fiancee files suit against him for breach of promise.

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Episode 66

Hold My Hand and Run

Wed, Feb 1, 1956

An unhappily married couple whose visiting daughter sees through their pretense of happiness.

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Episode 67

Dark Possession

Thu, Feb 2, 1956

A poison-pen letter accuses a widow of murder.

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Episode 68

The Diamond

Fri, Feb 3, 1956

A plain, unsophisticated secretary whose life thus far has been quite ordinary, finds herself the center of attention when she becomes heir to a huge diamond.

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Episode 69

Susan and God

Mon, Feb 6, 1956

Susan Trexel is a wealthy socialite, who while vacationing in Europe undergoes a religious transformation. On her return to America, Susan takes on the task of spreading her new found religious experience with her closest friends - only to drive them crazy. Meanwhile, her husband Barrie, and daughter Blossom yearn for a stable family life. Barrie will even become sober, hoping that Susan will heed her own advice, and save their marriage and family.

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Episode 70

As Young as You Feel

Tue, Feb 7, 1956

A 65-year-old printer hatches an elaborate scheme to avoid forced retirement.

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Episode 71

The White Knight

Wed, Feb 8, 1956

A biographer falls in love with the daughter of the man he is writing about.

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Episode 72

The Anxious Years

Thu, Feb 9, 1956

A doting mother almost ruins the lives of her grown children.

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Episode 73

The Heart of Mary Lincoln

Fri, Feb 10, 1956

After the death of Abraham Lincoln, Mary's mental state declines further as she struggles to come to grips with the loss of her beloved husband and her young son.

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Episode 74

The Middle Son

Mon, Feb 13, 1956

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Episode 75

Valentine's Day

Tue, Feb 14, 1956

The daughter and sister of a pretty widow decide to play Cupid. Both want to marry her off to a likely suitor.

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Episode 76

Summer Cannot Last

Wed, Feb 15, 1956

A mother discovers she is falling in love with the man her daughter has married.

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Episode 77

The Last Battlefield

Thu, Feb 16, 1956

A Polish merchant learns that his teen-age son and daughter have been won over to communism. He laboriously arranges an escape from the country, with his rebellious son virtually his prisoner.

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Episode 78

The Catbird Seat

Fri, Feb 17, 1956

A meek little file clerk turns into a veritable tiger when his boss hires an efficiency expert. His file system has worked for 30 years. and he's not going to change it for an efficiency expert.

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Episode 79

Dream House

Mon, Feb 20, 1956

Having always dreamed of a rose-covered cottage and prosperity a woman is sadly disillusioned with her new husband and her life.

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Episode 80

The Runaways

Tue, Feb 21, 1956

The story of a young man who evades giving police evidence and a girl tries to escape a serious operation.

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Episode 81

The Ledger

Wed, Feb 22, 1956

An investment counselor is sued by a fortune hunter for embezzlement.

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Episode 82

When the Bough Breaks

Thu, Feb 23, 1956

A family's sacrifices everything for a musically talented son.

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Episode 83

I Want to March

Fri, Feb 24, 1956

Two New York biology professors in the infancy of the 20th century are horrified when the wife of one and the daughter of the other join the suffragette movement.

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Episode 84

Skylark

Mon, Feb 27, 195660 mins

As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at the moment when she is trying to decide what to do, she meets a handsome attorney, and their innocent flirtation begins to turn into something a bit more serious.

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Episode 85

Tall, Dark Stranger

Tue, Feb 28, 195660 mins

A man is hired to follow the wife of his boss, who suspects she is involved in a romance with a tall dark stranger. Unwillingly, he falls in love with her, and murder seems the only way out.

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Episode 86

Anything But Love

Wed, Feb 29, 1956

Even though he does not believe in romance, a producer is attracted to his latest star. There's a small hitch however, he is willing to marry her in order to keep her in the theater. She wants to marry and retire from the theater.

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Episode 87

Robin Daw

Thu, Mar 1, 1956

A sophisticated Hollywood commentator is bored with most of her suitors. She finally falls in love, but with a scientist who plans to isolate himself on an island to study an incurable illness.

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Episode 88

Letter to a Stranger

Fri, Mar 2, 1956

The curiosity of a woman novelist is aroused by a letter from a young girl, who claims her father keeps her a virtual prisoner in their home

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Episode 89

Dinner at Antoine's

Mon, Mar 5, 195660 mins

A beautiful young New Orleans socialite is found murdered. The police captain is certain someone in her family is guilty.

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Episode 90

The Mating of Watkins Tottle

Tue, Mar 6, 195660 mins

A middle-aged bachelor has thus far avoided matrimony. His friends, knowing he is in need of money, arrange a meeting with a prospective bride who might be willing to support a husband.

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Episode 91

Her Son's Wife

Wed, Mar 7, 1956

When three generations come together to celebrate the grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary, many true family relationships are revealed for the first time.

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Episode 92

The Shining Palace

Thu, Mar 8, 1956

A man feels his way of life on an isolated island is better than letting his offspring be subjected to education and other cruelties of civilization.

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Episode 93

The Odd Ones

Fri, Mar 9, 195660 mins

A woman art instructor entering her 30's falls in love with a pupil younger than she. Her overbearing brother tries to convince the woman that the artist is only using her to further his career.

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Episode 94

A Cowboy for Chris

Mon, Mar 12, 1956

A once-famous movie cowboy takes a room in a boarding house run by a very attractive widow.

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Episode 95

The Rocking Chair

Tue, Mar 13, 1956

On the eve of his daughter's return from her honeymoon, the father of the bride dies suddenly. The grief-stricken mother transfers her dependence to her daughter, endangering the marriage of the newly-wedded couple.

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Episode 96

The Big Guy

Wed, Mar 14, 1956

A man still rests on his laurels as a big-time football player, but he is brought up short when he realizes his business success is due only to his former athletic glory.

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Episode 97

Statute of Limitations

Thu, Mar 15, 195660 mins

A professor masterminds a million-dollar holdup and splits the loot three ways with his accomplices. Years later, before the statue of limitations runs out, the police get a strange clue when one of the thieves is committed to a hospital.

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Episode 98

The Baron and the Banshees

Fri, Mar 16, 1956

Four good friends share living quarters. Their friendship is put to the test when one of them brings home his intended bride.

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Episode 99

Notebook Warrior

Mon, Mar 19, 1956

A concert violinist is drafted into the Army over his father's strenuous objections.

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Episode 100

Temptation for a King

Tue, Mar 20, 1956

An exiled king must decide between abdication or an attempt to regain his power.

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Episode 101

The Antidote

Wed, Mar 21, 1956

The son of a beloved country doctor doesn't seem to be big enough to follow in his father's giant footsteps.

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Episode 102

Shadows

Thu, Mar 22, 1956

A movie star's wife has cried wolf so often that he doubts her when she reports another man is romancing her.

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Episode 103

'M' Is for the Many...

Fri, Mar 23, 1956

A woman who has been married multiple times hopes this one is the final one.

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Episode 104

Silent Partner

Mon, Mar 26, 1956

A friend of a grief-stricken widow, a woman he's loved for many years, tries to convince her that she is making a mistake by treating the shop as a shrine to her husband's memory.

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Episode 105

Winter in April

Tue, Mar 27, 1956

An elderly man of letters supports his orphaned teen-age granddaughter. When he hires a young male secretary, the girl believes she has fallen in love.

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Episode 106

Bread Upon the Waters

Wed, Mar 28, 195660 mins

A young couple moves into the ground floor apartment of a mansion owned by an elderly woman. The husband at first resents the fact that the old lady imposes on his wife to do household chores. Then they learn they have been made sole heirs in her will.

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Episode 107

The Giant Killer

Thu, Mar 29, 1956

A father is determined to prevent his teenage daughter from leaving home and entering a convent.

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Episode 108

The Book of Ruth

Fri, Mar 30, 195660 mins

The well-known story of Biblical times about Ruth, whose devotion to her mother-in-law takes her into a new land among strangers.

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Episode 109

Singer in the Valley

Mon, Apr 2, 1956

A temporary school teacher faces the dilemma of leaving the school or remaining to help her troubled students.

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Episode 110

Heart of a Husband

Tue, Apr 3, 1956

A lawyer's wife is successful in her own right, which drives her husband to another woman who is equally aggressive.

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Episode 111

From the Desk of Margaret Tyding

Wed, Apr 4, 195660 mins

Margaret, a pushy, quick-tempered lady executive, manages to make enemies at the office and a stranger out of her husband and son. When she keeps fainting and feeling ill, her doctor reveals she's being slowly poisoned.

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Episode 112

But You Look Like Sisters

Thu, Apr 5, 1956

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Episode 113

The House of the Seven Gables

Fri, Apr 6, 195660 mins

Fighting over an inheritance, one Pyncheon brother frames the other for murder.

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Episode 114

Fiddlin' Man

Mon, Apr 9, 1956

When Dr. Rainwater rides his medicine show wagon into town, he's thrown into jail by the sheriff, who will release him only if Rainwater aids him in acquiring a horse from a young lady who refuses to have any dealings with him.

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Episode 115

The Hollow Woman

Tue, Apr 10, 195660 mins

A young woman hides her sensitivity about not being attractive to men behind a facade of sophistication and sarcasm. Her elderly aunt, once a musical-comedy star, tries to help the girl break away from her domineering mother.

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Episode 116

People in Glass

Wed, Apr 11, 1956

The matriarch of an aristocratic but now penniless family is aghast when she learns her widowed daughter plans to marry a "common" man who owns a greenhouse.

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Episode 117

One of the Family

Thu, Apr 12, 195660 mins

A girl who has helped to build a talent agency into a successful business is, in spite of a good salary and the respect of her colleagues, disturbed by the feeling that she has to do all the dirty work.

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Episode 118

Young Hands, Young Feet

Fri, Apr 13, 1956

A middle-aged couple, successful in business, are unsuccessful when it comes to holding their marriage together.

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Episode 119

The Lark Shall Sing

Mon, Apr 16, 1956

When an English bride puts her house up for sale, her five brothers and sisters, whom she has not seen for years, descend upon her from all corners of the British Isles to try to prevent the sale.

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Episode 120

The Doctor's Wife

Tue, Apr 17, 1956

A doctor marries on the rebound and after 20 years meets the woman he has always loved.

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Episode 121

In Dread of Winter

Wed, Apr 18, 1956

When a governess, in love with the father of her charge, learns the widower plans to marry another woman, she turns the young boy against his prospective stepmother in an effort to prevent the marriage from taking place.

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Episode 122

The Babylonian Heart

Thu, Apr 19, 195660 mins

The fifth wealthiest woman in the world hires detectives to trail her fifth husband and ensure his faithfulness. The husband decides to regain his freedom by arranging his own "death."

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Episode 123

Ask Me No Questions

Fri, Apr 20, 1956

When a confirmed bachelor who owns a restaurant tries to sell his special recipe for a salad dressing, he gets involved with a beautiful girl FBI agent.

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Episode 124

Whom Death Has Joined Together

Mon, Apr 23, 1956

A matinee idol's advances toward a married woman help rouse her husband's romantic impulses.

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Episode 125

Tin Wedding

Tue, Apr 24, 1956

A busy-body spinster enlightens her married sister about her husband's infidelity.

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Episode 126

The Reckoning

Wed, Apr 25, 1956

A newlywed couple's honeymoon is marred by an ailing father.

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Episode 127

A Woman Named Ruby

Thu, Apr 26, 1956

Ruby decides to run for a political office even with her family against her.

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Episode 128

The Bright Boy

Fri, Apr 27, 1956

A boy's prep school life turns around when a wise young class president takes the sting out of a bright boy's vengeance.

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Episode 129

The Carefree Tree

Mon, Apr 30, 195660 mins

Centuries ago in the Orient, war seems imminent between rival family factions. A young royal couple, whose son may someday occupy the throne, tries an unusual scheme to avert hostilities.

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Episode 130

Greybeards and Witches

Tue, May 1, 1956

A mother tries to protect her mentally ill son from the consequences of his behavior.

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Episode 131

The Legend of Jenny Lind

Wed, May 2, 195660 mins

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Episode 132

Daughter of the Seventh

Thu, May 3, 1956

A ward-of the commander of the aristocratic seventh regiment in the New York State militia in 1860 causes trouble when she falls for a lieutenant from the Brooklyn squadron of cavalry.

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Episode 133

Night Must Fall

Fri, May 4, 1956

When a rich woman on an isolated estates hires an engaging handyman, her niece/companion becomes suspicious of his motives.

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Episode 134

The 25th Hour

Mon, May 7, 1956

A young mother becomes distraught with her domestic routine and runs away, leaving a bewildered husband behind.

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Episode 135

A Man and a Maid

Tue, May 8, 1956

A candidate for Governor accepts an invitation to dine at the home of one of his backers and finds that one of the other guests is his ex-wife.

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Episode 136

Perspective

Wed, May 9, 1956

A troubled artist fears she has lost her craft.

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Episode 137

The Catamaran

Thu, May 10, 1956

A daughter follows her mother's cue in marital separation, only to find the mother's footsteps turning back to reconciliation.

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Episode 138

Johnny Came Marching Home

Fri, May 11, 1956

A young veteran is changed by the war and his struggle to escape his unchanging home town, family and girl.

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Episode 139

A Family Affair

Mon, May 14, 1956

A struggling artist, now a successful businessman, is upset over the play his son has written.

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Episode 140

Blind Date

Wed, May 16, 1956

A blind date who almost didn't show up changes a backward girl's life.

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Episode 141

To Have and to Hold

Thu, May 17, 1956

A remarried Korean War widow learns that her first husband is still alive but dying.

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Episode 142

Edwina Black

Fri, May 18, 1956

Both the caregiver and the husband of an invalid woman are prime suspects when she suddenly dies from poisoning.

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Episode 143

The Spare Room

Mon, May 21, 1956

A nurse tries to bring together two heart-scarred victims of life's struggles, a mysterious young man and a cynical young widow.

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Episode 144

The Bottle Imp

Tue, May 22, 1956

A man buys a bottle with an imp inside that grants wishes. However, the bottle is cursed; if the holder dies bearing it, his or her soul is forfeited to hell.

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Episode 145

Brief Music

Wed, May 23, 1956

Two college girls are in love with their professor.

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Episode 146

The Girl from Boro Park

Thu, May 24, 1956

A mother tries everything to marry off her daughter.

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Episode 147

To Whom It May Concern

Fri, May 25, 1956

A middle-aged man, stricken with terminal cancer, is prevented from making plans for his own death by his family.

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Episode 148

Bachelor Buttons

Mon, May 28, 1956

A seamstress falls in love with a dashing gent only to overlook a less glamorous man who loves her.

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Episode 149

The Children of Papa Juan

Tue, May 29, 195660 mins

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Episode 150

Herself Alone

Wed, May 30, 1956

A young wife, alone at a mining camp, finds herself in danger.

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Episode 151

Three for the Money

Thu, May 31, 1956

A man has to find the poisoner of his wife and son before the police accuse him of the crime.

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Episode 152

Taxi to the Moon

Fri, Jun 1, 1956

A successful middle-aged career woman has everything, but what she seeks most: the renewed love of her bored and much younger husband.

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Episode 153

The Good-Time Boys

Mon, Jun 4, 195660 mins

The retired founder of a publishing company doesn't agree with his son's business decisions.

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Episode 154

The American

Tue, Jun 5, 1956

A man believes the woman in a portrait is his lost love.

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Episode 155

The Luck of Amos Currie

Wed, Jun 6, 1956

Old Amos Currie lives in a rest home and is allegedly getting rich by playing the horses.

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Episode 156

Fight the Whole World

Thu, Jun 7, 195660 mins

A young orphan, raised on a farm, runs away and joins the Navy.

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Episode 157

Autumn Crocus

Fri, Jun 8, 1956

A vacationing old maid schoolteacher has a tender but tentative summer romance with the married proprietor of an Austrian Inn.

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Episode 158

George Has a Birthday

Mon, Jun 11, 195660 mins

Two spinster sisters plot to do away with their meek brother as soon as he receives his inheritance on his next birthday.

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Episode 159

The Serpent's Tooth

Tue, Jun 12, 195660 mins

When a father tells his two boys to earn their spending money, he doesn't anticipate they will write a newspaper article accusing him of being a tyrant.

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Episode 160

Crime at Blossom's

Wed, Jun 13, 1956

A woman is persuaded by an aunt to move into a house in which a murder was recently committed.

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Episode 161

Cause for Suspicion

Thu, Jun 14, 1956

One romance blossoms among four men and two women who are thrown together for a week of testing in their training to become spies for the U.S.

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Episode 162

Alison's House

Fri, Jun 15, 1956

The house of Alison Stanhope, the country's foremost poet who's been dead for 18 years, must now be sold. But it may hold secrets that could harm those she loved. Based upon Susan Glaspell's Pulitzer Prize winning play inspired by the life of Emily Dickinson.

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Episode 163

A Safe Place

Mon, Jun 18, 1956

A bitter rivalry revolves around two brothers, one the chief of police and the other the mouthpiece for a group of gamblers who decide to take over the city.

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Episode 164

The Guest Cottage

Tue, Jun 19, 1956

A young psychiatrist parlays confusion among the house guests of his fiancee's stubborn father into a reconsideration of his quest for the girl's hand in marriage.

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Episode 165

Forsaking All Others

Wed, Jun 20, 1956

A chronicle of what happens when circumstances bring together a beautiful woman and a handsome man, each of whom is married to an invalid.

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Episode 166

Love, Honor and O'Day

Thu, Jun 21, 1956

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Episode 167

The Damask Cheek

Fri, Jun 22, 1956

A comedy about a distant cousin whose visit disrupts the life of her relatives.

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Episode 168

The Lighted Window

Mon, Jun 25, 1956

An unhappily married New York executive's wife involves herself in the romantic and financial problems of an artist.

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Episode 169

But Fear Itself

Tue, Jun 26, 1956

The story of a former movie star's anxiety over trying a comeback via television.

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Episode 170

The Birthday Present

Wed, Jun 27, 1956

A woman refuses to face up to the fact that she has reached her 50th birthday.

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Episode 171

The Ghost of Greenwich Village

Thu, Jun 28, 1956

The only clues to a young man's disappearance from Greenwich Village is an antique shop, an old map of the village and a strange man who dresses in the clothes of Colonial days.

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Episode 172

The Young and the Damned

Fri, Jun 29, 1956

A college boy accidentally kills a girl who is trying to blackmail him.

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Episode 173

There's Always Juliet

Mon, Jul 2, 1956

Romance between an English girl and an American have the couple in disbelief.

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Episode 174

Seasoned Timber

Tue, Jul 3, 1956

A Vermont Academy principal opposes a school trustee's idea of changing the curriculum in order to make the academy more exclusive in this story dealing with social and racial discrimination.

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Episode 175

The Declaration

Wed, Jul 4, 1956

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Episode 176

High Places

Thu, Jul 5, 1956

A newspaper editor battles against compromise except in his own private life.

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Episode 177

Black Chiffon

Fri, Jul 6, 1956

A woman who has an absolutely untarnished reputation unaccountably steals a black-chiffon nightgown, days before her son's marriage.

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Episode 178

Class of '58

Mon, Jul 9, 195660 mins

A college freshman is expelled from school and is returning home to uncertainty when he meets a business man who changes his life.

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Episode 179

Marriage by the Millions

Wed, Jul 11, 1956

A marriage counselor whose newest book is about to be published is confronted by a divorce demand from her husband.

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Episode 180

Backfire

Thu, Jul 12, 1956

A professor whose theories on criminology are put to a severe test when he improperly identifies a criminal.

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Episode 181

The Bishop Misbehaves

Fri, Jul 13, 1956

On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester asks Donald to help her in a robbery she has planned. Thinking it a joke, he plays along; but Hester is serious, and hearing that she plans to rob Mr. Waller, the man who has cheated her father out of thousands of pounds, Donald agrees. A robbery at a pub is arranged, but the Bishop of Broadminster, an avid mystery fan, and his sister stumble into it. Playing detective the Bishop complicates matters and each side, the Bishop, the unscrupulous Waller, the gang Hester hires, and Hester and Donald, each get the upper hand along the way.

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Episode 182

The Remittance Man

Mon, Jul 16, 1956

An imaginative old man's fanciful anecdotes change the lives of the family with whom he boards.

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Episode 183

Beg, Borrow or Steal

Tue, Jul 17, 1956

A respected attorney's career of embezzlement catches up with him on the eve of his daughter's marriage to his junior law partner.

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Episode 184

Summer Pavilion

Wed, Jul 18, 1956

An outwardly docile Southern girl falls in love with the engineer who is tearing up the heirloom summer house of her matriarchal mother.

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Episode 185

The Feast

Thu, Jul 19, 1956

Story of a woman who tries to bring a breath of fresh air into the lives of 12 persons in a tottering old mansion.

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Episode 186

The Rich Full Life

Fri, Jul 20, 1956

A mother defies the rest of her family to make certain of her daughter's happiness.

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Episode 187

The Reverberator

Mon, Jul 23, 195660 mins

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Episode 188

Woman at the Window

Tue, Jul 24, 1956

A plain young woman is about to free herself from the limitation of her outwardly charming sister' when tragedy turns the latter into a dependent invalid.

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Episode 189

Another Sky

Wed, Jul 25, 195660 mins

A young girl's silent adoration of a missionary, then a sea captain, brings the fulfillment of her dreams.

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Episode 190

Letter of Introduction

Thu, Jul 26, 1956

An American divorcee, transplanted to Paris, receives a letter stating that she is about to be visited by a young man who doesn't know she is his mother.

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Episode 191

Home at Seven

Fri, Jul 27, 1956

A bank employee suffers a 24-hour lapse of memory.

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Episode 192

The Cypress Tree

Mon, Jul 30, 1956

A recently widowed woman is determined to rebuild her own life despite her sister's strange insistence on a mournful respect for the dead.

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Episode 193

Belong to Me

Tue, Jul 31, 1956

A young governess to a child of divorced parents is attracted to the father.

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Episode 194

Pygmalion Jones

Wed, Aug 1, 1956

An accidental photograph catapults an obscure young woman from school teacher to pin-up girl and playgirl.

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Episode 195

Gretel

Thu, Aug 2, 1956

A young man must explain his reasons for marrying an immigrant girl to his parents.

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Episode 196

Some Man Will Want You

Fri, Aug 3, 1956

A girl is tossed into the tension of a presidential nominating convention.

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Episode 197

The Fall of the House of Usher

Mon, Aug 6, 195660 mins

A traveler arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guest of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.

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Episode 198

Cupid Rode a Horse

Tue, Aug 7, 1956

An old man will be sent back to Iowa if he doesn't stop betting on the horses. His grandsons want to keep him around, so they try to fix him up with a wealthy woman in town.

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Episode 199

The Old Payola

Wed, Aug 8, 1956

At his manager's request, a crooner turns rock 'n' roll hipster to pick up a fast buck.

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Episode 200

Perfect Alibi

Fri, Aug 10, 1956

The young ward of a man who police believe committed suicide sets out to prove that it was murder.

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