The DuPont Show with June Allyson

Episode 1

The Lie

Thu, Sep 29, 1960 30 mins

A handsome young beach-bum worms his way into a family on vacation, but is not all he seems.

Episode 2

The Dance Man

Thu, Oct 6, 1960 30 mins

A young man moves to a new town and starts a job as a dance instructor, but things become awkward when his demanding boss insists he charm his dance partners.

Episode 3

Dark Fear

Thu, Oct 13, 1960 30 mins

Sent by his company to the Caribbean, a businessman dismisses the voodoo beliefs of the local people at his peril.

Episode 4

The Test

Thu, Oct 20, 1960 30 mins

After a quantity of diamonds go missing from a jewelry firm, the boss's secretary is the only member of staff to refuse to take a lie-detector test, and refuses to divulge the reason.

Episode 5

Play Acting

Thu, Oct 27, 1960 30 mins

Grade school psychologist Ben Ellison is given a tough case in Johnnie, a vicious little juvenile delinquent, not yet a teenager. To gain his confidence, the doctor plays along with Johnnie's fantasies about planning an armed jewelry store robbery, that might include killing witnesses.

Episode 6

The Women Who

Thu, Nov 3, 1960 30 mins

The campaign and marriage of a senatorial candidate are jeopardized by the honest, outspoken views of his bubbly wife.

Episode 7

I Hit and Ran

Thu, Nov 10, 1960 30 mins

Following a frustrating business meeting, an architect hits a boy on a bicycle with his car and flees the scene. He must then face the reaction of his family and community.

Episode 8

Love on Credit

Thu, Nov 17, 1960 30 mins

A woman from Yugoslavia joins her fiancé in the US, and discovers the advantages and pitfalls of credit.

Episode 9

The Visitor

Thu, Nov 24, 1960 30 mins

While planning to leave her scientist husband, a neglected wife is held at gunpoint by one of his deranged former colleagues.

Episode 10

A Thief or Two

Thu, Dec 1, 1960 30 mins

An advertising executive is released from prison after a conviction for embezzlement. After his work with fellow inmates, he wishes nothing more than to be a librarian in a small town, to the consternation of his wife, daughter and former boss. But faced with a dishonest account for a casino owner, he decides to teach everyone a lesson.

Episode 11

Emergency

Thu, Dec 8, 1960 30 mins

A carefree trainee surgeon risks his career by operating on a former love, against the instructions of her father, his supervisor.

Episode 12

The Desperate Challenge

Thu, Dec 15, 1960 30 mins

Warned to go on the run with an incriminating letter a teacher is cornered in an isolated cabin and must decide which of two men is the genuine law officer.

Episode 13

A Silent Panic

Thu, Dec 22, 1960 30 mins

A deaf-mute witnesses a murder but is unable to tell the police what he knows. Meanwhile the killer and his accomplice seek to find the deaf-mute in order to eliminate him.

Episode 14

End of a Mission

Mon, Jan 2, 1961 30 mins

Two OSS officers, sent to destroy a train in occupied France, are helped by a young boy but must also deal with his formidable grandmother whose loyalties seem ambiguous.

Episode 15

The Defense Is Restless

Mon, Jan 9, 1961 30 mins

Two lawyers question their engagement to each other when they represent opposing sides in the divorce of mutual friends.

Episode 16

The Guilty Heart

Mon, Jan 16, 1961 30 mins

A man returns to the lake resort where, as a boy, he was responsible for the accidental shooting of a friend. Townsfolk as well as the victim's mother and sister have varied reactions.

Episode 17

Affair in Athens

Mon, Jan 23, 1961 30 mins

Episode 18

The School of the Soldier

Mon, Jan 30, 1961 30 mins

An undisciplined group of Union soldiers in the Civil War learns their craft thanks to a heroic Captain from Austria - who is not what he seems.

Episode 19

Without Fear

Mon, Feb 6, 1961 30 mins

An army wife on a military base tries to solve differences between her young, sensitive son and his taciturn, brutal father. The relationships are tested when the older, soldier brother is killed near their home.

Episode 20

A Great Day for a Scoundrel

Mon, Feb 13, 1961 30 mins

At a small California college, with a great job, fiancée and peer honors, everything is going Professor Brent's way until one day when an old man drops in, angry for stealing his identity years earlier, and demanding he expose this to everyone.

Episode 21

The Old-Fashioned Way

Mon, Feb 20, 1961 30 mins

An author with writer's block finds the birth of his first child much more stressful than his fashion-designer wife. With help from a nurse, she juggles work and parenthood with ease until she has an evening alone with the baby.

Episode 22

The Moth

Mon, Feb 27, 1961 30 mins

An American woman visiting an orphanage in France finds herself particularly drawn to a seven year old boy, but he can only be adopted with permission from his birth mother, who is missing.

Episode 23

The Haven

Mon, Mar 6, 1961 30 mins

A man believes that his son's death was not just a straightforward boating accident.

Episode 24

The Man Who Wanted Everything Perfect

Mon, Mar 13, 1961 30 mins

An office worker, reliant on a computer he created and considers infallible, is shocked when it turns him down for a promotion because he is single. Unfortunately, he decides to rely on computer tests when selecting the perfect woman to date because human emotion is irrational.

Episode 25

The Country Mouse

Mon, Mar 20, 1961 30 mins

A cartoonist finds it impossible to concentrate on his next commission either at the family home in the country or in the chaos of the city. Also aired as "The Secret Life of James Thurber."

Episode 26

Our Man in Rome

Mon, Mar 27, 1961 30 mins

An Italian lawyer in Rome annoys his US firm by also playing amateur sleuth, and puts aside the recovery of stolen bonds to defend a shoeshine boy who witnessed a murder against a tribunal of street-urchins.

Episode 27

Death of the Temple Bay

Mon, Apr 3, 1961 30 mins

As sea captain Anderson's vessel is sinking, he begins to question his motives for going down with his ship.