The Lloyd Bridges Show
Each week Adam Shepherd introduces a news event, either current or the past, discussing its relevance. Then he becomes part of the story, portraying the lead character in the reenactment.
- 1962-1963
- 1 season
- CBS
- Drama
Each week Adam Shepherd introduces a news event, either current or the past, discussing its relevance. Then he becomes part of the story, portraying the lead character in the reenactment.
Season 1 Episode Guide
34 Episodes 1962 - 1963
Episode 1
Wheresoever I Enter...
Tue, Sep 11, 1962 30 mins
While covering a coal mine accident in West Virginia, Adam learns that a doctor passing through the town is treating injured workers miles below the earth's surface and wonders what could have motivated him to risk his life for strangers.
Episode 2
El Medico
Tue, Sep 18, 1962 30 mins
Adam accompanies an U.S. Army officer to pick up the personal effects of an American doctor killed for aiding an attempted revolution. He wonders what brought the man to this country and what he experienced in the last hours before he was killed.
Episode 3
My Child Is Yet a Stranger
Tue, Sep 25, 1962 30 mins
Adam travels to a small Southern town to meet with the pretty newspaper editor. He hears the story of a poor uneducated couple who adopt a daughter who is discovered to be a genius. State officials decide that her adoptive parents are now unsuited to raise such a child and attempt to have the girl returned to state custody so a more suitable environment can be found for her.
Episode 4
A Pair of Boots
Tue, Oct 2, 1962 48 mins
Adam Shepherd visits a Civil War museum commemorating the Centennial and is attracted to one of its artifacts, a pair of old boots. He imagines what the man who wore them felt during the battle. In his vision, he becomes a Confederate sergeant for a ceasefire with Union soldiers after a bloody battle to treat their wounded and bury their dead. The truce is violated by a Confederate private who covets a pair of boots worn by a Union soldier. The rebel sneaks into enemy lines, kills the Yankee and steals the boots only to discover the footwear of huge holes in their soles. Furious over the violation, the Yankees hurl themselves against the Confederate lines resulting in massive casualties for both sides.
Episode 5
Mr. Pennington's Machine
Tue, Oct 9, 1962 30 mins
While visiting Hong Kong, an American businessman and his wife are appalled by the living conditions they find the villagers living in. Their attempts to help the local population are hindered by black marketeers who force the villagers to buy their noodles at exorbitant prices.
Episode 6
Just Married
Tue, Oct 16, 1962 30 mins
While driving in the desert, Adam comes upon a tow truck pulling a Model A Ford from a lake with a "Just Married" sign on the bumper. He imagines why the vehicle ran off the road and what happened to the inhabitants.
Episode 7
Testing Ground
Tue, Oct 23, 1962 30 mins
While attending the launch of a NASA rocket at Cape Canaveral, Adam imagines what it would be like to be the leader of a team of astronauts that has just landed on a planet that might not be as desolate as they were led to believe.
Episode 8
War Song
Tue, Oct 30, 1962 30 mins
While looking for a story in modern-day Normandy, Adam imagines himself the leader of a squad of paratroopers on D-Day who find a baby alone in a battered farmhouse.
Episode 9
Yankee Stay Here
Tue, Nov 13, 1962 30 mins
Communists try to incite a full-scale revolt when Japanese farmers balk at moving to make way for an American air base.
Episode 10
The Miracle of Mesa Verde
Tue, Nov 20, 1962 30 mins
Adam imagines himself a bandit who stashed his last haul in a statue of the Virgin Mary.
Episode 11
Little Man, Big Bridge
Tue, Nov 27, 1962 30 mins
Blaming a bridge for the destruction of his flowers, an old man plots to destroy the massive structure.
Episode 12
Permission Granted
Tue, Dec 4, 1962 30 mins
Seaman McMasters encounters suspicion and hostility as he attempts to befriend a group of Vietnamese refugees.
Episode 13
Gentleman in Blue
Tue, Dec 11, 1962 30 mins
While researching the final days of the Civil War in Appomattox, Virginia, Shepherd stumbles upon a grave at the gate of a grand home and learns that it contains the body of a Union soldier, which is nevertheless tended with utmost respect. Shepherd is curious about the soldier's date of death on - April 10, 1865, the day after Lee's surrender - and the unusual epitaph, "His life in vain" carved on it's headstone, and wonders how the soldier met his end.
Episode 14
The Sound of Angels
Tue, Dec 18, 1962 30 mins
A Christmas parable. Fred's daughter Cindy is convinced she can hear angels, and tells everybody she meets. But Fred doesn't believe her, and determines to find out from whence these voices came.
Episode 15
Now, You Take Your Average Rock...
Tue, Dec 25, 1962 30 mins
While his car is being repaired at a garage bordering an Arizona ghost town, Adam learns that a large rock falling off a mountain onto Main Street caused its demise. He imagines the steps the townspeople would attempt to move the granite boulder and how a clever Easterner might outwit the town boss for the everyone's benefit.
Episode 16
The Scapegoat
Tue, Jan 1, 1963 30 mins
Commander Tyrone has been order to complete a construction of a new naval base on Okinawa, but has difficulty hiring local laborers due to the village elder's hatred of all things American. The labor situation goes from bad to worse when the elder's grandson is shot trespassing on the unfinished base.
Episode 17
The Wonder of Wanda
Tue, Jan 8, 1963 30 mins
Adam imagines himself a Norwegian underground leader ordered to assassinate a traitor.
Episode 18
My Daddy Can Lick Your Daddy
Tue, Jan 22, 1963 22 mins
An aging boxing champ is challenged to a title fight by his own son whom he hates.
Episode 19
A Game for Alternate Mondays
Tue, Jan 29, 1963 30 mins
A widow has been awaiting the return of her sweetheart---for four years.
Episode 20
A Personal Matter
Tue, Feb 5, 1963 30 mins
A wealthy businessman who has been diagnosed with an incurable disease develops the will to live when he falls in love with a beautiful woman.
Episode 21
The Skippy Mannox Story
Tue, Feb 12, 1963 30 mins
Mickey Madden struggles to maintain his baseball team despite mounting debts including a mortgage held by Mr. Rogers. His last chance is his signing of a brilliant pitcher called Skippy Maxxox. Skippy, however, is a hypochondriac.
Episode 22
The Rising of the Moon
Tue, Feb 19, 1963 30 mins
On his wedding day, an Irish revolutionary undertakes a dangerous mission.
Episode 23
To Walk with the Stars
Tue, Feb 26, 1963 30 mins
In 1928, young Dave is most interested when aerial stuntman, Bill Wade, comes to town for an exhibition. Dave wants to be a stunt pilot like his father, who was recently killed in a plane crash.
Episode 24
The Courtship
Tue, Mar 5, 1963 30 mins
A painfully shy girl living with her grandmother and worried she would be forever left on the shelf due to her blindness, is flattered when a man asks for her hand in marriage, even though he is a virtual stranger.
Episode 25
Gym in January
Tue, Mar 12, 1963 30 mins
An offbeat love story set in the early 1930s about an ex-con and the girl he left behind.
Episode 26
The Sheridan Square
Tue, Mar 19, 1963 30 mins
Peace and quiet elude writer Archie Hammond (Lloyd Bridges) as he searches for a place to work in his Greenwich Village apartment.
Episode 27
The Last Lion
Tue, Apr 2, 1963 30 mins
In Africa, engineer Jack Bell (Lloyd Bridges) stalks the lion that killed three of his men.
Episode 28
The Tyrees of Capitol Hill
Tue, Apr 9, 1963 30 mins
A small town in North Carolina has a hero: Boford Tyree has been summoned to the Senate -- to serve as a page boy.
Episode 29
The Waltz of the Two Commuters
Tue, Apr 16, 1963 30 mins
Fed up with his job, suburbia and married life, Frank Brenner is drawn to a beautiful fellow commuter.
Episode 30
Freedom Is for Those Who Want It
Tue, Apr 30, 1963 30 mins
In 1963 Breznova, Czechoslovakia, two men work for months to create a tank out of an old truck in a attempt to escape with their families through the iron curtain.
Episode 31
The Ramp
Tue, May 7, 1963 30 mins
Driving along the same busy freeway he does every day at the same time, a man decides to break his routine by stopping and entering a bar to change the days of strangers too.
Episode 32
Without Wheat, There Is No Bread
Tue, May 14, 1963 30 mins
An American archaeologist, grateful for the assistance that poor Bolivian villagers provided for his dig, decides to provide them with badly needed sacks of wheat. Bandits operating in the area are convinced that the bags are full of treasure and are determined to waylay the scientist on his trip.
Episode 33
The Epidemic
Tue, May 21, 1963 30 mins
A photographer, travelling with his wife, goes to Yugoslavia to cover a village festival but arrives during an epidemic.
Episode 34
Afternoon of a Champion
Tue, May 28, 1963 30 mins
A race-car driving champion is seeing a millionairess who wishes he would retire, but because he has had crashes, he feels the need to continue to stubbornly prove himself.