The Barbara Stanwyck Show
An anthology series usually starring Miss Stanwyck with her character either facing difficulties or overcoming peril. Several of the episodes were pilots, none of them turned into series.
- 1960-1961
- 1 season
- NBC
- Drama
An anthology series usually starring Miss Stanwyck with her character either facing difficulties or overcoming peril. Several of the episodes were pilots, none of them turned into series.
Season 1 Episode Guide
37 Episodes 1960 - 1961
Episode 0
Hong Kong and Little Joe
Thu, Sep 15, 1960 30 mins
A world-weary gambling woman in the far east is hoping that her sea captain boyfriend will marry her and take her to a romantic island home, yet he always comes up short. When the reds kidnap him, she secures the ransom money by cheating at a high stakes poker game with her old employer.
Episode 1
The Mink Coat
Mon, Sep 19, 1960 30 mins
While her husband was still alive, Syd Charing enjoyed her life as a well-to-do socialite. Since his death, she has fallen on hard times. Now all she has left to remind of her of her halcyon days is a mink coat.
Episode 2
Good Citizen
Mon, Oct 3, 1960 30 mins
Celebrated pianist Margot LaChelle is asked to perform in a charitable concert which will benefit a struggling youth center. She declines the invitation, telling her manager that she has no desire to be involved with the children.
Episode 3
Discreet Deception
Mon, Oct 10, 1960 30 mins
Amelia Lambert, a theatrical producer, finds herself growing increasingly attracted to Simon, her dead husband's brother. Just one thing stands in Amelia's way: Simon's wife Vivian.
Episode 4
The Seventh Miracle
Wed, Oct 19, 1960 30 mins
Mary McShane is about to give birth to her seventh child, but her husband George has a broken leg and can't drive. It's up to their teenage son Joe to get his mother to the hospital safely.
Episode 5
The Key to the Killer
Mon, Oct 31, 1960 30 mins
Stella fills in for her sheriff husband with herself and deputy Homer transporting a killer Leroy. He gets the upper hand and escapes but with Stella handcuffed to him.
Episode 6
House in Order
Mon, Nov 7, 1960 30 mins
Elizabeth Mowry is told by her doctor to prepare her family and arrange her affairs, as she needs an emergency heart operation. Her daughter Susan though is resentful and is prepared to elope with her beau Jed.
Episode 7
The Miraculous Journey of Tadpole Chan
Mon, Nov 14, 1960 30 mins
Josephine Little stays busy with her business in post war Hong Kong but falls for the charms of a young boy Tadpole, who is homeless. She works to get him stateside clashing with government official Dobson in the process.
Episode 8
The Secret of Mrs. Randall
Mon, Nov 21, 1960 30 mins
A conservative oil drilling company is run by a lady president, the widow of the man who started it. She upsets her board of executives by insisting that a former employee who was sent to prison for embezzling the company's payroll be paroled, but refuses to explain why.
Episode 9
Ironbark's Bride
Mon, Nov 28, 1960 30 mins
Crusty old farmer and wealthiest man in town, Ironbank, sends for a bride and draws a middle aged woman and teen aged son. The boy gives him cool reception, and repeatedly displeases him. Soon his real father, a gunman, whom was assumed dead all along, shows up looking to blackmail his wife.
Episode 10
We Are the Women Who Wait
Mon, Dec 5, 1960 30 mins
Three wives of Strategic Air Command pilots, all of different temperaments, come together to wait for their men to return from a dangerous flight. We see how one (Barbara) has had a difficult time arguing with her husband, trying to get him to quit and take a higher paying, far safer civilian job.
Episode 11
Out of the Shadows
Mon, Dec 19, 1960 30 mins
A lady psychiatrist is assigned to evaluate a scruffy horn player with a violent streak. Though much younger than the doctor, he becomes obsessed with her and humiliating her. His psychotic fixation leads to stalking her to her apartment.Trouble is she can't get the other doctors to believe her.
Episode 12
No One
Mon, Dec 26, 1960 30 mins
Summer stock producer Cara Lester is seeking financial backing to move a new play to Broadway. She finds a willing patron in Jack Harrison. There's just one hitch: Harrison wants an established star to take over the lead.
Episode 13
The Cornerstone
Mon, Jan 2, 1961 30 mins
Sister Thomas Aquinas has finally acquired the funds to build a new high school. But just as the cornerstone is about to be laid, a detective shows up, investigating a recent jewel robbery.
Episode 14
Night Visitor
Mon, Jan 9, 1961 30 mins
Through with her marriage to a doctor, a self-centered woman prepares to close up her beachfront home and fly off to Paris. She leaves the last details to her butler. A woman is let in who claims to be her husband's paramour, but turns out to be in cohoots with the butler, and plan to kill the woman and take her money and valuables.
Episode 15
Size 10
Mon, Jan 16, 1961 30 mins
In the high-pressure world of the garment industry, one woman runs a successful company of her own, yet her best designs suddenly appear being produced by her competitors, as her boyfriend keeps trying to get her to leave the business and marry him.
Episode 16
Dear Charlie
Mon, Jan 23, 1961 30 mins
Two wealthy old spinster sisters put an ad in the paper for a man to board with them, and it's answered by a grifter named Charlie. They fall for him, and soon are jealously vying for his attentions. He plays them off one another until both are ready to poison the other.
Episode 17
Dragon by the Tail
Mon, Jan 30, 1961 30 mins
Josephine Little, an expatriate American importer-exporter of sometimes unscrupulous dealings, is recruited by Central Intellegence Agency operatives in Hong Kong to help recover an American born scientist away from the communists, holding him him in North Viet Nam.She goes through with the dangerous mission, in hopes of securing a scrap metal deal with the U.S. government.
Episode 18
The Sisters
Mon, Feb 6, 1961 30 mins
when her sister's little boy becomes serious ill and must go into hospital for a dangerous operation, she visits the estranged father while pretending to be a wealthy eccentric.The hard part is that he has no idea he is a father, the fact kept from him by a spiteful spouse.
Episode 19
Big Career
Mon, Feb 13, 1961 30 mins
Harriet Melvane is a successful business woman, choosing work over time with her husband. After his tragic death she has regrets until a discussion with her mother-in-law.
Episode 20
Confession
Mon, Feb 20, 1961 30 mins
Her overbearing and jealous husband drives a woman to leave him and seek a divorce with a sleazy lawyer. They begin an affair and the plan grows into a plot to frame the husband for her murder as the illicit couple skip the country with valuable documents.
Episode 21
Along the Barbary Coast
Mon, Feb 27, 1961 30 mins
In 1890's San Fransisco, saloon keeper Trixie is reunited with an old lover, a returning prisoner of war. She finds his ardor cooled when he finds her partners with a notorious hijacker. After shooting a detective, the crook hides in Trixie's house-but will she protect him?
Episode 22
Shock
Mon, Mar 6, 1961 30 mins
After the sudden death of her little girl, a nervous woman goes into a trance-like catatonic state. Her friends and family debate what to do with her.After friends and doctors are stumped, the solution is found in the form of a Hawaiian doll.
Episode 23
The Golden Acres
Mon, Mar 13, 1961 30 mins
In a small Midwestern town in 1905, a scheming woman dominates her two weak- willed brothers. She has her deceased father's will forged to give her control over the family fortune and risks it all on a plot of land she believes will be needed for a factory that will be built.
Episode 24
Adventure on Happiness Street
Mon, Mar 20, 1961 30 mins
As countless old and sick people are forced to leave Red China, they seek medical help from a small free clinic run by an American in Hong Kong. He's running out of needed medicine, but a wealthy friend secures some through her black market contact, but he double crosses them when the bottles are switched.
Episode 25
High Tension
Mon, Mar 27, 1961 30 mins
Escaping a cruel husband, socialite Fran Elick and her deaf son take a bus in the rural countryside during a stormy night. An accident throws the boy out of the bus,and leaves a power line spitting a deadly electric current on it's metal frame, lethal if touched.
Episode 26
Sign of the Zodiac
Mon, Apr 3, 1961 30 mins
After the death of her husband, Madge Terry goes to a psychic accompanied by her sister-in-law Helene. Pierre claims to be in touch with the deceased's spirit, which Madge fears will reveal something she wants kept secret.
Episode 27
Call Me Annie
Mon, Apr 10, 1961 30 mins
When a well off family hires a nurse to care for a new baby, she discovers that the mother has no interest in it, and is in fact scared of being a mother. Her husband is a childish, hard to handle dolt, and the mother-in-law is mean and overbearing.
Episode 28
The Choice
Mon, Apr 17, 1961 30 mins
Past closing time at an out of the way nightclub, the woman that runs it waits for the last customer to leave, then hears on the radio of an escaped killer mental patient is in the area. When another man shows up,she enlists his help-but then realizes HE might actually be the wanted man.
Episode 29
Frightened Doll
Mon, Apr 24, 1961 30 mins
Hazel Wexley, a downcast woman, is befriended by a mobster who makes her happy. But after his unexpected death she is left with a mysterious briefcase.
Episode 30
Yanqui Go Home
Mon, May 1, 1961 30 mins
Just ahead of vicious revolutionaries, an American engineer and his wife escape from their home, a jungle oil field. Soon, they are hijacked by counter revolutionaries, and get caught in a gunfight and chase. They join one in his quest to keep religious items from falling into the wrong hands, and along the way the man reveals intimate secrets about his past to his wife.
Episode 31
Little Big Mouth
Mon, May 8, 1961 30 mins
Famous newspaper woman Nelly Bly goes to a far western Indian reservation looking for a story, and finds a doctor in charge, one that seems to start fights more than solve problems. She threatens to write a damning story on him, but has a change of heart after talking to his niece and accompanying him on an errand of mercy.
Episode 32
Assassin
Mon, May 15, 1961 30 mins
After her boss dies, Louise Forest is accused of embezzlement by Mr. Carlisle, one of the partners. After admitting it, she leaves to think over her options, then meets Joe who has been sent to cause her harm.
Episode 33
Triple C
Mon, May 22, 1961 30 mins
Jim Costain has built a fine ranch in New Mexico. His happy life is shattered when Carolyn Callander, a music teacher from the East, shows up with an old land grant that purportedly entitles her to Costain's property.
Episode 34
The Hitch-Hiker
Mon, May 29, 1961 30 mins
A lady lawyer and her author husband encounter a starving young woman and her baby, and take them in. Soon they discover she's a Czech refugee that is hiding from a local rich woman she worked for as a maid, and who wants to take away the child.The lawyer takes up the case and discovers secrets about the vindictive matron.
Episode 35
Big Jake
Mon, Jun 5, 1961 30 mins
A craggy old police detective and a young reporter investigate a safe cracking. They suspect an old ex-con offender, now living with his daughter's family. He turns himself in, confessing everything, though the detective smells a rat. Meanwhile, the actual perpetrators plan another job.
Episode 36
A Man's Game
Mon, Jul 3, 1961 30 mins
In a semi-comedic tale of frontier times, a woman named "Chris Mathews" is sworn in as a pro tempore sheriff, but she decides she'll run for the office in an upcoming election. The men of the town decide to show her up with a fake robbery, but the robber double crosses them.
