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Ponds Theater Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

50 Episodes 1953 - 1954

Episode 1

Johnny Came Home

Thu, Oct 15, 195360 mins

A prisoner of war has trouble adjusting to civilian life when he returns to Massachusetts.

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Episode 2

Alias Jimmy Balentine

Thu, Oct 22, 195360 mins

Safecracker Jimmy Valentine and his pal Swede are in the process of planning a "bank job" with Avery and other thieves, but Jimmy falls in love with Rose and decides to go straight.

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Episode 3

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Thu, Oct 29, 195360 mins

Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

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Episode 4

Next Year

Thu, Nov 5, 195360 mins

A successful lawyer finds out he has just six months to live.

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Episode 5

The Bitter Wind

Thu, Nov 12, 195360 mins

A romance between a doctor and nurse turns sour when they blame themselves for the death of a patient.

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Episode 6

The Apple Tree

Thu, Nov 19, 195360 mins

Returning to his hometown with his wife, he learns that his childhood sweetheart died of a broken heart and is buried under the old Apple tree.

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Episode 7

The White Carnation

Thu, Nov 26, 195360 mins

A deceased stockbroker refuses to believe he's been dead for seven years.

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Episode 8

The Patsy

Thu, Dec 3, 195360 mins

Pat Harrington, the neglected daughter of a society matron and her brow-beaten father expect her to marry a wealthy bachelor.

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Episode 9

The Amazing Mr. Gladstone

Thu, Dec 10, 195360 mins

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Episode 10

Smilin' Through

Thu, Dec 17, 195360 mins

A widower cares for his niece into young adulthood, disapproving of her choice of a husband with potentially devastating consequences.

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Episode 11

A Christmas Carol

Thu, Dec 24, 195360 mins

An old bitter miser is given a chance for redemption when he is haunted by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.

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Episode 12

Candlelight

Thu, Dec 31, 195360 mins

A maid pretends to be a lady, a Prince poses as his valet and his valet pretends to be him, the Prince. In this comedy of errors.

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Episode 13

Babylon Revisited

Thu, Jan 7, 195460 mins

Flashbacks of stories set in the "Jazz Age."

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Episode 14

Burlesque

Thu, Jan 14, 195460 mins

A comedian allows success to separate him from his wife.

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Episode 15

Wednesday's Child

Thu, Jan 21, 195460 mins

A boy is miserable when his parents get divorced and can't seem to fit him into their new lives.

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Episode 16

The Shining Palace

Thu, Jan 28, 195460 mins

An advertising man and his wife, an ex-actress, retire to a home in the Florida Keys, but a TV program tempts her out of retirement.

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Episode 17

Elisha and the Long Knives

Thu, Feb 4, 195460 mins

A small boy survives a massacre and three hunters become his caretakers.

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Episode 18

The Thinking Heart--A Lincoln Biography

Thu, Feb 11, 195460 mins

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Episode 19

Icewater Please

Thu, Feb 18, 195460 mins

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Episode 20

Night Must Fall

Thu, Feb 25, 195460 mins

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

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Episode 21

Delicate Story

Thu, Mar 4, 195460 mins

The wife of a Swiss delicatessen shop owner falls for a young man about to be called back to the Army duty. Her husband eventually suspects the worst, but it really hasn't happened. The young man has been in love with someone else all the time.

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Episode 22

Dark Victory

Thu, Mar 11, 195460 mins

A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether she'll meet her final days with dignity.

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Episode 23

Home at Seven

Thu, Mar 18, 195460 mins

A mild-mannered London bank clerk fears he had unwittingly committed murder during a period of amnesia.

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Episode 24

Angel Street

Thu, Mar 25, 195460 mins

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.

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Episode 25

Glorious Morning

Thu, Apr 1, 195460 mins

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Episode 26

The Old Maid

Thu, Apr 8, 195460 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 27

A Marriage Made in Heaven

Thu, Apr 15, 195460 mins

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Episode 28

Spring 1600

Thu, Apr 22, 195460 mins

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Episode 29

Unequal Contest

Thu, Apr 29, 195460 mins

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Episode 30

Arrowsmith

Thu, May 6, 195460 mins

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 31

The Worried Songbirds

Thu, May 13, 195460 mins

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Episode 32

All Our Yesterdays

Thu, May 20, 195460 mins

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Episode 33

Dodsworth

Thu, May 27, 195460 mins

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

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Episode 34

The House on Wildwood Lane

Thu, Jun 3, 195460 mins

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Episode 35

Blind Alley

Thu, Jun 10, 195460 mins

A fugitive fleeing the police takes over the suburban home of a psychology professor and his wife. But the professor is convinced that his own trained brain is more than a match for the fugitive's brawn.

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Episode 36

Deliver Me from Evil

Thu, Jun 17, 195460 mins

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Episode 37

See You on Sunday

Thu, Jun 24, 195460 mins

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Episode 38

Mr. Simmons

Thu, Jul 1, 195460 mins

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Episode 39

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Thu, Jul 8, 195460 mins

A singing mechanic from 1912 finds himself in Arthurian Britain.

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Episode 40

Petticoat Fever

Thu, Jul 15, 195460 mins

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Episode 41

Forty Weeks of Uncle Tom

Thu, Jul 22, 195460 mins

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Episode 42

The Dashing White Sergeant

Thu, Jul 29, 195460 mins

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Episode 43

Nothing Personal

Thu, Aug 5, 195460 mins

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Episode 44

The Bishop Misbehaves

Thu, Aug 12, 195460 mins

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 45

The Shining Hour

Thu, Aug 19, 195460 mins

A nightclub dancer marries into society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law.

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Episode 46

Uncle Harry

Thu, Aug 26, 195460 mins

A man's spinster sisters goad him to murder.

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Episode 47

Philip Goes Forth

Thu, Sep 2, 195460 mins

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Episode 48

Albert

Thu, Sep 9, 195460 mins

A prisoner of war in a German camp during World War II builds a life-sized dummy called, "Albert". The prisoners are allowed outside the wires of the camp once a week to bath. This permits one prisoner a week to make his escape because Albert, the dummy becomes his stand-in when roll call is taken upon the return of the prisoners.

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Episode 49

Guest in the House

Thu, Sep 16, 195460 mins

A young manipulative woman moves in with her fiancé's family and turns a happy household against itself.

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Episode 50

Professor Jones and the Missing Link

Thu, Sep 23, 195460 mins

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