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35 Episodes 1956 - 1957
Episode 1
Sun, Sep 16, 195630 mins
Episode 2
Sun, Sep 23, 195630 mins
After the Communist takeover of Poland following the end of World War II, a Polish nationalist is sent to a Soviet prison, where he is subjected to brutal psychological torture.
Episode 3
Sun, Sep 30, 195630 mins
Episode 4
Sun, Oct 7, 195630 mins
Story of the deadly Vicksburg tornado of 1953 and the city paper's efforts to go to print despite the devastation.
Episode 5
Sun, Oct 14, 195630 mins
The story of the boys who fought against the Nazis in Occupied Denmark. They partake in various sabotage plots to their subsequent capture and internment. John Nesbitt also interviews one of the original members of the Club.
Episode 6
Sun, Oct 21, 195630 mins
John Nesbitt narrates this story whose title"She Sette Her Little Foote" is taken from the grave marker of Betsy Arley, who with a group of women sent from London to become wives of the Virginia colonists in 1619.
Episode 7
Sun, Oct 28, 195630 mins
When Rainmaker Charlie Hatfield contracts with the city of San Diego to fill the city's reservoir, he is a little too successful in doing so.
Episode 8
Sun, Nov 4, 195630 mins
The true story of the first woman to run for the Presidency of the U.S. In 1884, long before women were granted the right to vote, Belva Lockwood campaigned as the Equal Rights Party's candidate.
Episode 9
Sun, Nov 11, 195630 mins
Episode 10
Sun, Nov 18, 195630 mins
In 1870 Santa Fe, a local priest takes in an unruly and rebellious orphan. Despite the daily fights and dust-ups in town, the father ignores the complaints of the locals; he even stands up to his bishop who wants the troublesome child sent back to the orphanage. The priest's faith in the young man is soon proven right as the boy turns out to be a quick student of reading and math skills.
Episode 11
Sun, Nov 25, 195630 mins
Episode 12
Sun, Dec 9, 195630 mins
A French immigrant travels to California in search of gold. But his claim doesn't pay off, and he decides the soil holds more promise for wealth in orchards.
Episode 13
Sun, Dec 16, 195630 mins
Lew Reese has worked hard for fifteen years when tragedy strikes his pottery plant in Scio, Ohio.
Episode 14
Sun, Dec 23, 195630 mins
An old Marine volunteers in the Korean War.
Episode 15
Sun, Dec 30, 195630 mins
A tunnel that carries water to a valley's farmers is buried in a landslide. Blasting crews have only a few months to carve out an entirely new channel to bring water to the valley before the area's farmers lose everything they have.
Episode 16
Sun, Jan 6, 195730 mins
Ten convicts go to work in a Russian prison camp in place of the right men.
Episode 17
Sun, Jan 13, 195730 mins
Billy Halop plays Chaplin's Lt.Ray Hall in this true story. He battles his fear and a fellow soldiers of jumping out of an airplane. They both jump and conquer their fear and Chaplin Hall survives the war and becomes a doctor.
Episode 18
Sun, Jan 20, 195730 mins
The story is from an actual case history from the John Tracy Clinic in Los Angeles, the programme relates how a little "stranger', a girl born deaf to a working class family, is gradually brought out of her isolation, and learns to communicate.
Episode 19
Sun, Jan 27, 195730 mins
Episode 20
Sun, Feb 3, 195730 mins
The story of William Sydney Porter's incarceration in a federal prison and adoption of the pseudonym, "O. Henry".
Episode 21
Sun, Feb 10, 195730 mins
A boy and his old man stick up for each other.
Episode 22
Sun, Feb 24, 195730 mins
A potted account of the 1912 Titanic disaster, focused on Margaret "Maggie/Molly" Brown.
Episode 23
Sun, Mar 3, 195730 mins
A killer takes a mother and her young son hostage.
Episode 24
Sun, Mar 17, 195726 mins
An champion light-heavyweight boxer batters a young challenger so severely that the youthful pugilist suffers brain damage. Remorseful, the champion decides to rig a rematch in a small gym and allow the punch drunk fighter the chance to achieve his dream of winning a boxing "title".
Episode 25
Sun, Mar 24, 195730 mins
Hugo Haas' own story of escape from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia.
Episode 26
Sun, Mar 31, 195730 mins
The commandant of a 17th century Canadian fort in Indian Territory jokingly leaves his teenage daughter in command when he travels to Montreal. The daughter takes her duties seriously, much to the resentment of the soldiers.
Episode 27
Thu, Apr 11, 195730 mins
Lou Kirn, a Navy football star in 1931 and a Squadron Commander during WW2, is faced with his biggest challenge in 1954 - a dreaded form of paralysis. During this personal battle he reaches out to save a paralyzed boy.
Episode 28
Thu, Apr 18, 195730 mins
Episode 29
Thu, Apr 25, 195730 mins
Bicycle riding Rabbi Henry Cohen pays a daily visit to the jail in Galveston, Texas. There, he hears the plea of Josef Demchuk, who is being held for deportation as an illegal immigrant. Rabbi Cohen has the man released into his custody.
Episode 30
Thu, May 2, 195730 mins
Episode 31
Thu, May 9, 195730 mins
A rural schoolteacher fights off a Minnesota blizzard.
Episode 32
Thu, Jun 6, 195730 mins
A woman sets out to rehabilitate a slum urchin.
Episode 33
Tue, Jun 11, 195730 mins
Episode 34
Tue, Jun 18, 195730 mins
A missionary in 1903 Philippines befriends a young island boy, Pit-a-Pit, teaching him English and the ways of civilization. As he matures, he attends medical school because he wants to become a modern doctor to his superstitious people. He is put to the test by the local leaders who present him with a very ill woman needing prompt surgery; if she dies, they plan to kill him in retribution.
Episode 35
Tue, Jun 25, 195730 mins
Renowned opera singer Nina Koshetz wants her daughter Marina to follow in her footsteps. But Marina does not believe that everything must be sacrificed to music.