The Elgin Hour
A drama series that ran every other week, attracted top notch actors and actresses, and was broadcast from New York City.
- 1954-1955
- 1 season
- ABC
- Drama
A drama series that ran every other week, attracted top notch actors and actresses, and was broadcast from New York City.
Season 1 Episode Guide
19 Episodes 1954 - 1955
Episode 1
Floodtide
Tue, Oct 5, 1954
Jeff Clark tries valiantly to save his old plantation from a flood, keep his ex-waitress wife at home, and bail out his amoral brother-in-law who had a tendency to shoot upstate troopers.
Episode 2
Family Crisis
Tue, Oct 19, 1954
Teenager Nancy decides to host a party for her friends; meanwhile, her father Jim, an attorney, prepares for the most important case of his career. The pressures and anxieties of first-time experiences threaten to upset the household dynamic. It's up to sensible matriarch Blanche to avert a serious family crisis.
Episode 3
High Man
Tue, Nov 2, 1954
High Man explores the pressure cooker environment of industrial executives in the corporate world. Flourishing businessman Walter receives the offer of a promotion elevating him to the vice-presidency of the company, but he soon realizes that being a man on top carries with it another set of problems which affect not only his career, but his personal relationships, too.
Episode 4
Warm Clay
Tue, Nov 16, 1954 60 mins
Attractive suburban housewife Fran Tillman's life is suddenly changed by a chance encounter with seductive sculptor Ben Cory who encourages Fran to pursue her own facility for sculpting. Her devotion to a newfound art, as well as her closeness to attractive Ben, places her marriage and family in jeopardy.
Episode 5
Hearts and Hollywood
Tue, Nov 30, 1954
A widow moves from Pennsylvania to California to be with her son, who is an assistant director in Hollywood. Lonely and neglected by her son, she seeks companionship in the lonely hearts column of a newspaper.
Episode 6
Yesterday's Magic
Tue, Dec 14, 1954
Episode 7
Falling Star
Tue, Dec 28, 1954
Episode 8
The Bridge
Tue, Jan 11, 1955
French girl and American Engineer struggle to find love in war-torn France.
Episode 9
Family Meeting
Tue, Jan 25, 1955
Episode 10
Days of Grace
Tue, Feb 8, 1955 60 mins
An advertising executive loses his job after 20 years with the same agency.
Episode 11
Sting of Death
Tue, Feb 22, 1955
Silchester is academic on summer vacation in a cottage in rural England with a taste for honey for breakfast and tea. He finds it increasingly difficult to obtain it as beekeepers in the area are going out of business with the exception of Mr. Hargrove, a sinister local apiarist. His neighbor, Mr. Mycroft, a retired public official, tries to warn Silchester that Hargrove has bred his bees to become deadly. Among the victims of these killer bees are other colonies in the neighborhood, Mycroft's dog, and Hargrove's own wife. When an attempt is made on his own life, the doubting Silchester joins forces with Mycroft to turn the tables on him.
Episode 12
Crime in the Streets
Tue, Mar 8, 1955
Frankie Dane is the leader of a teenage gang, the Hornets. The gang makes trouble for people in the neighborhood, but Frankie carries a darker nature, one so filled with anger that murder is not beyond him. Ben Wagner, a social worker, tries to help the boys see the possibilities of a better life, but the task seems futile. When a neighborhood man turns one of the gang into the police, Frankie decides to kill him. Ben learns of the plot from Frankie's kid brother and hopes to stop it before Frankie ruins his life forever.

Episode 13
The $1,000 Window
Tue, Mar 22, 1955 60 mins
The pompous and dapper gentleman behind a race-track window is himself taken in by his bank president manner.
Episode 14
Black Eagle Pass
Tue, Apr 5, 1955
The pretty young wife of an older rancher discovers that her husband had never bothered to divorce his first wife. Now, that lady is back in town as the companion of a notorious gambler.
Episode 15
Midsummer Melody
Tue, Apr 19, 1955
A whimsical musical about a young man who is searching for his place in life and he discovers that all he needs is right in his own backyard.
Episode 16
Driftwood
Tue, May 3, 1955
Episode 17
San Francisco Fracas
Tue, May 17, 1955
An unsuspecting accountant gets caught in a web of diamond theft and double crosses.
Episode 18
Mind Over Momma
Tue, May 31, 1955
Episode 19
Combat Medics
Tue, Jun 14, 1955