The Best Episodes of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre Season 1

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   #1 - A Killing At Sundial

   S1:E110/4/1963

   A young interloper comes between a disgruntled wife and her older husband.

   Director:Alex Segal

   Writer:Rod Serling

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   Writer:Rod Serling
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   8.3/10(18 votes)

   #2 - Something About Lee Wiley

   S1:E210/11/1963

   The story of jazz singer Lee Wiley, her failed marriage to bandleader Jess Stacy.

   Director:Sydney Pollack

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.1/10(25 votes)

   #3 - Seven Miles of Bad Road

   S1:E310/18/1963

   In a small southern town, the sheriff's wife is attracted to handsome Gabe Flanders, who is hitchhiking to California. Trouble ensues.

   Director:Douglas Heyes

   Writer:Douglas Heyes

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   Director:Douglas Heyes

   Writer:Douglas Heyes
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   7.3/10(13 votes)

   #4 - Bob Hope Variety Special

   S1:E410/25/1963

   Also appearing in this variety special are Beryl Davis and and Los Angeles Dodger stars Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Tommy Davis.

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   7.9/10(16 votes)

   #5 - Four Kings

   S1:E511/1/1963

   Four Kings is a World War II drama where four prisoners are serving life sentences. They are pulled out of jail by the US military and given an opportunity for a pardon. The ""brass"" isn't asking for much: all the four lifers are expected to do is sneak into Germany and steal the secret plans for the V2 missile.

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   #6 - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

   S1:E611/8/1963

   Under Stalin, it was inconceivable that anyone could publish a book attacking Soviet injustice. But under Khrushchev, a limited but distinct thaw has taken place. Prime evidence of this change was open publication of One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, an exposé of Stalin's labor camps where the author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, himself did time. Tonight's adaptation of the novel is set in 1951 in Siberia. A group of prisoners persuade the authorities to transfer them to warmer work by promising to top the previous work record on the first day. But if they fail, it's back to laying barbed wire in the snow. One officer, Lieutenant Volkovoi, would like nothing better.

   Director:Daniel Petrie

   Writer:Unknown

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   #7 - The House Next Door

   S1:E711/15/1963

   Easterner George Warren thinks he has made quite a steal when he purchases a home in fashionable Waverly Hills, Cal. George is unaware that his next-door neighbor is mobster Ernie Santee.

   Director:Jack Arnold

   Writer:Unknown

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   #8 - The Fifth Passenger

   S1:E811/29/1963

   A British Intelligence Officer suspects a Naval War Hero of giving secret information to the Soviets.

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   7.5/10(20 votes)

   #9 - The Candidate

   S1:E912/6/1963

   Things seem to be closing in on campaign manager Parker Hite: he can't get any supporters for his candidate, and his marriage is beginning to collapse.

   Director:Stuart Rosenberg

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    #10 - It's Mental Work

    S1:E1012/20/1963

    Ernie Wigman is tired of the bar he owns and wants to get rid of it. Rich, his bartender, might be a good customer for it, only Rich doesn't seem to have the cash.

    Director:Alex March

    Writer:Unknown

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    5.5/10(19 votes)

    #11 - Corridor 400

    S1:E1112/27/1963

    Anita King, an undercover FBI agent. Posing as a nightclub singer, Anita gets a job in a nightclub owned by Ralph Traven. He takes quite a fancy to her; she wants to prove that he's a kingpin in a narcotics ring.

    Director:Unknown

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    8.6/10(10 votes)

    #12 - War of Nerves

    S1:E121/3/1964

    Two suitors drive a beautiful woman crazy with their pursuit of her.

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    7.5/10(16 votes)

    #13 - Runaway

    S1:E131/10/1964

    When folksinger Richie Darden fails to show up for a performance, his girlfriend Cress thinks club owner Mig Semple should put Richie's expensive guitar in his safe. And Cress has the right idea--two customers are planning to steal the instrument.

    Director:Paul Stewart

    Writer:Unknown

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    #14 - The Seven Little Foys

    S1:E141/24/1964

    The story of vaudeville performer Eddie Foy, widowed father of a brood of good-natured but exasperating children who are trying to get an education while at the same time continuing to perform with him on stage.

    Director:David Butler

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    #15 - Two is the Number

    S1:E151/31/1964

    Hoodlum Joey Rome is electrocuted in his home, and police suspect that middle-aged spinster Jenny Dworak is responsible. The murder investigation brings together two lonely people: Jenny Dworak, who runs a pawnshop, and a police investigator who is a widower.

    Director:Sydney Pollack

    Writer:Unknown

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    #16 - A Wind of Hurricane Force

    S1:E162/7/1964

    During a terrible storm in Mexico two men come to heads for the treasure they both seek.

    Director:Unknown

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    #17 - Wake Up Darling

    S1:E172/21/1964

    Polly Emerson, has aspirations to be an actress. Her husband, Don, is a successful advertising man, who yearns to be a playwright, and has a shelf of unproduced plays to his credit. Don, understandably, isn't too happy when Polly comes home with Deerfield Prescott, a very young man who has written Broadway's next musical hit - or so he tells Polly and Don.

    Director:Unknown

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    #18 - The Meal Ticket

    S1:E182/28/1964

    Eddie a fly by night kind of guy, finds romance with a wealthy woman.

    Director:Stuart Rosenberg

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.2/10(13 votes)

    #19 - The Square Peg

    S1:E193/6/1964

    Comedy about a gangster who hires a ""personnel psychologist"" to evaluate the aptitudes of his gang.

    Director:Unknown

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    #20 - White Snow, Red Ice

    S1:E203/13/1964

    Secret agent Piper finds beauty and brains intriguing and disruptive to his assignment.

    Director:Buzz Kulik

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.0/10(15 votes)

    #21 - Her School For Bachelors

    S1:E213/20/1964

    Miss Westcott runs her agency with the finese of the best businessmen and runs several clients ragged with her demands.

    Director:Unknown

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    5.8/10(10 votes)

    #22 - A Slow Fade to Black

    S1:E223/27/1964

    Mike Kirsch built his studio from nothing in the 1920s; now, four decades later, he is on the way out, the victim of a corporate takeover. We follow Kirsch as he exercises his waning authority on a temperamental movie star, browbeats his alcoholic wife, rebellious daughter and longtime yes-man associate Landers, and vainly attempts to push through an outdated pet movie project. Finally he is wrenched off his throne by a former assistant, who is now in cahoots with the conglomerate buying the studio. Kirsch is left alone to weep in his projection room as one of his past hits plays upon the screen.

    Director:Ron Winston

    Writers:Rod Serling, Steven Bochco

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    Writers:Rod Serling, Steven Bochco
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    5.9/10(14 votes)

    #23 - A Case of Armed Robbery

    S1:E234/3/1964

    Montrose is an angry young man whose bitterness alienates him from his father, Alfred, his girlfriend, Jean, and his work foreman. He blames his ex-wife, Carol, for their marriage failure and clumsily attempts to show love for his son Danny. In his resentment he plans to rob a gas station, ends up getting involved with unsavory characters and doing worse.

    Director:Herschel Daugherty

    Writer:Unknown

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    #24 - Bob Hope Comedy Special

    S1:E244/17/1964

    The first 45 minutes is all entertainment, opening with a Hope monolog. Martha and Bob team up for a spoof of the movie Tom Jones, and Tony and Jack join in to present a new act--The Japanese Beatles. In the awards portion, TV Guide publisher James T. Quirk and Bob make the presentations in Hollywood.

    Director:Jack Shea

    Writer:Unknown

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    #25 - Time For Elizabeth

    S1:E254/24/1964

    After enduring a pompous and tyrannical boss for 28 years, Ed Davis has a brief argument with him, gets fired, and decides to retire to Florida with his wife.

    Director:Ezra Stone

    Writer:Unknown

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