The Alcoa Hour

Episode 1

Flight Into Danger

Sun, Sep 16, 1956

A small plane pilot takes control of a large passenger plane after the pilots fall victim to food poisoning.

Episode 2

The Big Wave

Sun, Sep 30, 1956

A wise old Japanese man teaches a young boy who has lost his family because of a tidal wave, how to move forward in life.

Episode 3

Key Largo

Sun, Oct 14, 1956 60 mins

A man visits his old friend's hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.

Episode 4

Morning's at Seven

Sun, Nov 4, 1956

In a small Midwestern town the lives of four sisters are turned upside down when one sister's son brings his fiancée home to meet his eccentric family for the first time.

Episode 5

Merry Christmas, Mr. Baxter

Sun, Dec 2, 1956 60 mins

A stingy man tries to shop for his family's gifts with the least amount of cash.

Episode 6

Adventure in Diamonds

Sun, Dec 9, 1956 60 mins

During World War 2, Walter Keyser is chosen to go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to let him take their industrial diamonds back to London before they fall into Nazi hands.

Episode 7

The Stingiest Man in Town

Sun, Dec 23, 1956 60 mins

This is a musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol". Ebenezer Scrooge is given a chance to reform and save his soul. He is visited by 4 ghosts and is shown visions of his past life and the consequences of his life on others.

Episode 8

A Double Life

Sun, Jan 6, 1957

Anthony John is an actor whose life is strongly influenced by the characters he plays. When he's playing comedy, he's the most enjoyable person in the world, but when he's playing drama, it's terrible to be around him. That's the reason why his wife Brita divorced him; although she still loves him and works with him, she couldn't stand living with him anymore. So when Anthony accepts to play Othello, he devotes himself entirely to the part, but it soon overwhelms him and with each day his mind gets filled more and more with Othello's murderous jealousy.

Episode 9

Ride the Wild Mare

Sun, Jan 20, 1957

A man's gambling problem affects his family as well as their finances, especially when he couldn't be bothered going to work.

Episode 10

No License to Kill

Sun, Feb 3, 1957 60 mins

A highway accident leads to a new safety law.

Episode 11

The Animal Kingdom

Sun, Feb 17, 1957 60 mins

Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, Tom is bored with the social scene and the obligations of his life. He publishes books that will sell, not books that he wants to write. Even worse, he has his old friend working as a butler and Cecelia wants him fired. When Tom tries to get back together with Daisy to renew the feelings that he once felt, Daisy turns the tables on him and leaves to protect both of them.

Episode 12

The Last Train to Pusan

Sun, Mar 3, 1957

World War 2 veteran, Johnny Davis, now a businessman in Korea, discovers that his factory and shipping interests are being sabotaged. He tries to enlist the help of a young secretary, Catherine, to spy on the suspected saboteurs.

Episode 13

The Original Miss Chase

Sun, Mar 17, 1957

A singer becomes a socialite in the ultimate scam of deceit.

Episode 14

The Big Build-Up

Sun, Mar 31, 1957

Young actor Bert Palmer is led to believe he has a promising future by studio bigwigs. But he quickly learns that in Hollywood talk is cheap and he's disillusioned about his future.

Episode 15

Nothing to Lose

Sun, Apr 14, 1957

Episode 16

Mechanical Manhunt

Sun, Apr 28, 1957

Episode 17

Protege

Sun, May 19, 1957

Episode 18

Mrs. Gilling and the Skyscraper

Sun, Jun 9, 1957 60 mins

An elderly lady tries to save her apartment from the owners of her building who intend to demolish it to make way for a skyscraper.

Episode 19

Awake with Fear

Sun, Jun 23, 1957

White-collar worker, Charlie Joyce, lives a quiet, almost humdrum life with his wife and two children. One morning he receives a poison-pen letter which he passes off as a practical joke sent by Ed Krieber, one of his office buddies. But when he confronts Ed with the threatening letter, Ed convinces him that he wasn't the one who sent it.

Episode 21

Hostages to Fortune

Sun, Jul 7, 1957

Episode 22

He's for Me

Sun, Jul 21, 1957 60 mins

Two boys spy on two pretty girls who live in the same apartment building and naturally decide they must get acquainted. The boys don't know it, but the girls are as anxious to meet them as they are to meet the girls. And the plans begin.

Episode 23

Weekend in Vermont

Sun, Aug 4, 1957

When two couples get away for the weekend in Vermont, their trip turns into a comedy of errors.

Episode 24

The Trouble with Women

Sun, Aug 11, 1957

After twenty years of neglect from his wife a man takes up with his much younger and prettier secretary.

Episode 25

The Littlest Little Leaguer

Sun, Aug 25, 1957

Young Brooklyn resident Benjie Hauptmann loves baseball, but he's too small to play with the other boys in his neighborhood. But when he falls asleep at a Dodger game at Ebbets Field, he suddenly finds a friend in pitcher Sal Maglie.

Episode 26

No License to Kill (II)

Sat, Sep 1, 1956 60 mins

Governor Abraham A. Ribicoff of Connecticut narrates the story of the 24 hours in the lives of persons to be involved in a fatal accident on the Merritt Parkway.

Episode 27

15 October 1864

Sun, Sep 15, 1957

Episode 28

Night

Sun, Sep 22, 1957