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Telephone Time Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
17 Episodes 1956 - 1956
Episode 1
The Golden Junkman
Sun, Apr 8, 195630 mins
A Greek immigrant to the US goes to work at a junkyard owned by his friend. As he becomes more successful, he brings his wife and sons over from Greece, but his wife dies in a flu epidemic, leaving him to raise his sons alone. The sons eventually win a scholarship to a prestigious military school, and when they return home they find that their father now has his own "empire" of more than 20 junkyards and is known as "The Golden Junkman". But his success is tempered by the scorn and ridicule heaped on his sons because their "junkman" father's lack of education. He resolves to solve that problem and make his sons as proud of him as he is of them.
Episode 2
Man with a Beard
Sun, Apr 15, 195630 mins
A defiant farmer breaks the law of his New England town and grows a beard. Even after he's put on trial he refuses to shave it off.
Episode 3
Captain from Kopenick
Sun, Apr 22, 195630 mins
A cobbler posing as a captain absconds with the treasury of a Berlin suburb in 1906. Based upon a true story.
Episode 4
Boarders Away
Sun, Apr 29, 195630 mins
A dramatization of the capture of German submarine U-505, the only German sub ever captured in World War II.
Episode 5
Mystery of Caspar Hauser
Sun, May 6, 195630 mins
A dramatization of the story of Caspar Hauser, a tortured 17-year-old found lying on a street in Nuremberg in 1830.
Episode 6
The Stepmother
Sun, May 13, 195630 mins
After the death of his spouse, Thomas Lincoln brings home a new wife. Young Abe resents his new stepmother, but she slowly wins him over with her kindness.
Episode 7
Time Bomb
Sun, May 20, 195630 mins
While in Shanghai a husband races against time to develop insulin for his wife.
Episode 8
Emperor Norton's Bridge
Sun, May 27, 195630 mins
An old man who fancies himself Emperor of the United and Protector of Mexico becomes an object of ridicule in his home town of San Francisco.
Episode 9
The Man Who Believed in Fairy Tales
Sun, Jun 3, 195630 mins
Story of Heinrich Schliemann's quest for truth and riches in the myths he read about.
Episode 10
Harry in Search of Himself
Sun, Jun 10, 195630 mins
A drama about Harry Bergh, the founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Episode 11
Felix the Fourth
Sun, Jun 17, 195630 mins
When a mailman in Cuba learns that Cuba has no entries in the 1904 Olympic Games, he vows to enter the Marathon and win.
Episode 12
Smith of Ecuador
Sun, Jun 24, 195630 mins
The story of an American engineer's rescue work after the earthquake of August 6, 1949 in Ecuador.
Episode 13
The Gingerbread Man
Sun, Jul 1, 195630 mins
During the Revolutionary War, a German baker becomes a secret agent of the Continental Army. He enters British camps as a civilian and talks to Hessian soldiers.
Episode 14
The Joyful Lunatic
Sun, Jul 8, 195630 mins
Joseph Priestley, a minister and scientist is up against much when his followers dismiss his scientific findings.
Episode 15
The Key
Sun, Jul 15, 195630 mins
Samuel Howe has the daunting task of teaching a young girl blind and deaf from her infancy. After about 200 lessons, he finally discovers the key to breaking through to her.
Episode 16
Grandpa Changes the World
Sun, Jul 22, 195630 mins
Once upon a time in Colonial America, publishers could be jailed for libel -- even if the libel was the truth. This is the story of Andrew Hamilton and the Zenger case, which would lead to the modernization of freedom of the press.
Episode 17
Again the Stars
Sun, Jul 29, 195630 mins
In Paris at the time of the French Revolution, Dr. Pinel is assigned to oversee the lunatic asylum. He is shocked at the squalor in which the patients are forced to live and sets about to reform the asylum.