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39 Episodes 1953 - 1953
Episode 1
Sun, Jan 11, 195330 mins
The ruler of a country agreed to give a greedy man all of the land that he could stake out on foot within a 24-hour period. The man ran the entire time and staked out a huge area. After he drove the last stake, things changed drastically.
Episode 2
Sun, Jan 18, 195330 mins
A famous magician and escape-artist feels he is about to die and promises his fiancee and two friends that he will communicate with them after death. But things are complicated when he becomes a ghost who can't return.
Episode 3
Sun, Jan 25, 195330 mins
Two former Confederate soldiers on a desolate island bemoan their bad fortune.
Episode 4
Sun, Feb 1, 195330 mins
An embezzler is fleeing to Tasmania aboard a ship after a large theft that implicates him. His conscience troubles him and at Gibraltar he jumps overboard and finds he has made quite an error.
Episode 5
Mon, Feb 15, 195430 mins
"Leopard man" stalks the city and kills person after person. Finally a trap is sprung that turns up a surprise climax.
Episode 5
Sun, Feb 8, 195330 mins
Adolphe Menjou takes viewers to the exotic city of Simla in India. Based on Rudyard Kipling's "Phantom Ricksaw," the play details the life of Jack Lindsay, Major in Her Majesty's India Army, and of the two women in his life.
Episode 6
Sun, Feb 15, 195330 mins
A Scotland Yard Detective trails a former client to England, unaware that the man witnessed a murder.
Episode 7
Sun, Feb 22, 195330 mins
Professor Bonnard helps a girl escape from an orphanage in Paris and is thus committed to a charge of kidnapping.
Episode 8
Sun, Mar 1, 195330 mins
On a small island off the coast of Italy a fisherman tries to romance a timid girl in the village.
Episode 9
Sun, Mar 8, 195330 mins
A story of fear, romance and gratitude.
Episode 10
Sun, Mar 15, 195330 mins
A young man waits at a casino for his rich mother to die but instead she shows up at the club.
Episode 11
Sun, Mar 22, 195330 mins
Mr. Bartleby, the scrivener, does what he wants to do, even if it means his death.
Episode 12
Sun, Mar 29, 195330 mins
Adolphe Menjou plays the part of a penniless painter who bets a millionaire a million dollars he can voluntarily imprison himself for 10 years.
Episode 13
Sun, Apr 5, 195330 mins
A New England station master finds a penny which creates a chain of events that almost leads to a man being electrocuted for a crime.
Episode 14
Sun, Apr 12, 195330 mins
In Ireland the rebels bring in a professional saboteur to carry out their next act against the government.
Episode 15
Sun, Apr 19, 195330 mins
A professional gambler Captain Rake is accused by Alex Gifford of cheating by talking the jack of hearts. Feeling his honor questioned Rake challenges the man to a duel.
Episode 16
Sun, Apr 26, 195330 mins
In the 1600s, cowardly Sir Simon of Canterville flees a duel and seeks solace in the family castle. His ashamed father seals him in the room where he is hiding and dooms him to life as a ghost until one of his descendants performs a brave deed. Simon believes he may be saved when he meets Cuffy Williams, an American kinsman stationed with a troop of soldiers at the castle in 1943. Will this blood relative save the family honor, or will his blood be as yellow as the rest of the Cantervilles?
Episode 17
Sun, May 3, 195330 mins
An ex-convict's efforts to live within the law are continually being thwarted.
Episode 18
Sun, May 10, 195330 mins
For three bed-ridden GI's in a German prison, knowledge of the world outside is confined to the observations of a lieutenant whose bed is next to a window.
Episode 19
Sun, May 17, 195330 mins
The fateful tale of three young people who settle on desolate "Turtle Island" and whose lives become as storm-tossed as the skies and seas during a typhoon.
Episode 20
Sun, May 24, 1953
A professor and a sailor exchange identity.
Episode 21
Sun, May 31, 195330 mins
A tattered derelict returns after 20 years to find his hometown busy raising a memorial statue to his heroic "death" in the first battle of Sudan.
Episode 22
Sun, Jun 7, 195330 mins
I WAS TEN YEARS OLD AT THE TIME THIS EPISODE AIRED. IF MEMORY SERVES ME CORRECTLY, THE DEVIL, PLAYED BY ADOLPH , APPROACHED A MAN AND OFFERED HIM A DEAL THE MAN COULD NOT REFUSE. SAID GENTLEMAN COULD , AT ANY TIME, FIND $20.00 PIECES OF GOLD IN HIS OWN POCKET----ON THE CONDITION THAT HE FORFEIT 'HIS SHADOW'. CONSIDER THE RAMIFICATIONS OF THIS EXCHANGE. THE SETTING TOOK PLACE IN LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY. LOCATION COULD HAVE BEEN ANYWHERE!!!
Episode 23
Sun, Jun 14, 195330 mins
A fanatical physician has devoted his studies preparing for his own vivisection so that his beating heart can be studied. The incision is made which allows the study of the normal heartbeat to be studied for the first time.
Episode 24
Sun, Jun 21, 195330 mins
A judge rules his home as he does his courtroom.
Episode 25
Sun, Jun 28, 195330 mins
A strange family feud between two brothers and a great sin that has repercussions are the basic ingredients for the Guy de Maupassant story.
Episode 26
Sun, Jul 5, 195330 mins
Tells the tale of a man who becomes overwhelmingly preoccupied with finding the right lens for a microscope. All else in his life is tossed aside and neglected, for what he discovers under his precious diamond lens is something unworldly and barely believable.
Episode 27
Sun, Jul 12, 195330 mins
The story tells of how the men of the village made Betsy Baker the postmistress, then began to regret the action until a strange ending occurs.
Episode 28
Mon, Jul 27, 195330 mins
A boy and his father swap bodies, causing mayhem all round.
Episode 29
Mon, Aug 3, 195330 mins
A young sentry falls asleep on guard duty in the Civil War and sees the "Horseman in the Sky"
Episode 30
Mon, Aug 10, 195330 mins
Stranded when floods wash out a trestle, a group of friends are safe in a switchman's hut with two strangers. When the prison bell sounds in the distance a third stranger joins the group, one is known to be an escaped convict.
Episode 31
Mon, Aug 17, 195330 mins
An ambitious copy boy plots the capture of a killer his editor wants a story on.
Episode 32
Mon, Aug 24, 195330 mins
The new Duke must choose between losing either his beautiful young wife or a fortune.
Episode 33
Mon, Sep 7, 195330 mins
A man suffers in prison for decades for a crime he didn't commit. Then the actual murderer is sentenced to the same prison in another trial leading to the two men meeting.
Episode 34
Mon, Sep 14, 195330 mins
A sea captain is given a sealed trunk and sealed orders both to be opened at sea.
Episode 35
Mon, Sep 21, 195330 mins
A retired electrician invents a gravity defying machine which causes a sensation with his family, the press, and more problematic the United States army.
Episode 36
Mon, Sep 28, 195330 mins
Rick Tymperley takes a trip from Skid Row to the Stock Exchange and back in "Turning Point".
Episode 37
Mon, Oct 5, 1953
Three playing cards form the triangle that causes one death and the loss of a gambler's luck.
Episode 38
Mon, Oct 12, 1953
The man in the lighthouse supposedly is murdered on two different evenings as two different witnesses' watch. The third night another murder attempt is made and this is seen by a visitor as he travels to the lighthouse.
Episode 39
Mon, Oct 19, 195330 mins
A former French underground agent finds that a friend she'd thought dead is still alive, but he refuses to recognize her.