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The Alcoa Hour Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

24 Episodes 1955 - 1956

Episode 1

The Black Wings

Sun, Oct 16, 1955

A German physician who had been a Luftwaffe pilot during WWII secretly endows a clinic for the treatment of victims of a bombing raid he led over England, then falls in love with an English girl who was crippled by the bombing.

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Episode 2

The Small Servant

Sun, Oct 30, 195560 mins

A young girl becomes the servant of the proprietor of an old curiosity shop and falls for the man who lives above the shop.

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Episode 3

A Girl Can Tell

Sun, Nov 13, 1955

Looking over the scrapbook containing pictures of all the men she ever kissed, a mother tells her daughter of her hectic younger days and the beaux who made them so.

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Episode 4

Thunder in Washington

Sun, Nov 27, 1955

Inspired by recent capital-city doings, this is the story of a successful businessman who comes to work for the government. He tries to use his newfound influence to benefit the private business in which he still has an interest..

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Episode 5

Undertow

Sun, Dec 11, 1955

Cap'n Hallock and his taciturn hardworking wife and their two sons live in Nova Scotia. It takes a near-tragedy to get the family to drop its reserve and reveal their true feelings.

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Episode 6

Amahl and the Night Visitors

Sun, Dec 25, 195546 mins

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.

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Episode 7

Man on a Tiger

Sun, Jan 8, 1956

The story of success and failure, where admen fight for their accounts, TV comedians fight for prestige, and the small fry of television fight for their very existence.

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Episode 8

A Patch of Faith

Sun, Jan 22, 1956

A schoolmaster in a small Italian town suffers when his pupils are taunted because they are too poor to afford football uniforms. He tries to raise money by staging a benefit concert starring a young Dutch pianist.

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Episode 9

Long After Summer

Sun, Feb 5, 1956

On Cape Cod, New England, a cynical sculptor hires a young orphan girl as a housekeeper. She falls in love with the son of his best friend, but an ensuing tragedy arouses her employer's concern.

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Episode 10

Tragedy in a Temporary Town

Sun, Feb 19, 1956

Fifteen-year-old girl Dotty Fisher is assaulted at a construction camp. In the wake of this incident, the construction workers form a vigilante group led by the hot-headed Frank Doran in order to find the person responsible for the attack. After the group erroneously assume that innocent Puerto Rican Raphael Infante is guilty of the crime, only one lone man named Alec Beggs dares to stand up to the angry mob.

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Episode 11

Man on Fire

Sun, Mar 4, 195660 mins

A successful business man agrees to a divorce but insists on retaining custody of the couple's young boy. Later, after remarrying, his wife tries for and wins custody of the child. This so disillusions and embitters the man that he turns against his friends, associates and finally the law.

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Episode 12

Doll Face

Sun, Mar 18, 1956

An aging beauty queen discovers that her fading looks no longer charm her husband's bosses and friends. Her daughter tries to tell her that she is making a public spectacle of herself, but the former "doll face" cannot part with the image of herself as a young and attractive girl.

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Episode 13

Finkle's Comet

Sun, Apr 1, 1956

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Episode 14

Even the Weariest River

Sun, Apr 15, 1956

The story of a frontier village as mirrored in the final day of it's sheriff, a 70-year-old lawman whose failing eyesight and hearing tries to put off the inevitable realization that he's obsolete.

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Episode 15

Paris and Mrs. Perlman

Sun, Apr 29, 195660 mins

A lovable middle-aged widow unexpectedly finds romance with a Gaelic charmer during a European trip, but the Frenchman admits he is a fortune-hunter.

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Episode 16

The President

Sun, May 13, 1956

Paul Westman, a candidate for president of the United States, is faced with an ethical tug-of-war over whether to offer a patronage job to a party boss in return for votes assuring the nomination. Westman grows more and more entangled in compromise until he defends an aide charged with having Communist sympathies.

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Episode 17

The Confidence Man

Sun, May 27, 1956

Sam, a con artist, poses as a clergyman and insinuates himself into a men's club where he takes up collection for a bogus missionary project. When he is found out, he ends up in the streets and meets a wealthy spinster, Olivia, whom he sets up as his next pigeon.

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Episode 18

The Magic Horn

Sun, Jun 10, 1956

A story of Jazz musicians in Chicago during the Twenties.

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Episode 19

The Archangel Harrigan

Sun, Jun 24, 195660 mins

A young man in rural Kentucky claims that he can fly--not as in flying a plane, but that he himself can fly.

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Episode 20

The Piper of St. James

Sun, Jul 8, 195660 mins

Jamie, the heir of a Canadian shipping family spends his time pursuing "wine, women and song" until he meets a Scottish bagpiper who declares he has been willed to Jamie.

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Episode 21

Sister

Sun, Jul 22, 1956

A spinster still hasn't recovered from the loss of her identical twin when her nephew weaves a web of deceit in order to take advantage of her fragile state.

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Episode 22

Kiss and Tell

Sun, Aug 5, 1956

The antics of 15-year-old Corliss Archer in keeping her brother's marriage a secret cause a series of hilarious events.

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Episode 23

The Big Vote

Sun, Aug 19, 1956

Defeat comes as a surprise to an old-line politician in this drama of local politics.

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Episode 24

The Girl in Chapter One

Sun, Sep 2, 1956

A Pulitzer Prize novelist's talent has faded. He returns to his small hometown and meets a young girl who greatly admires him. Romance blossoms, and it appears that she will become his fourth wife. Suddenly he discovers that she is the daughter of the woman he jilted 20 years ago.

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