Season 1
6.3/1012 votesThe Long Goodbye
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/7/1954
Private Detective Philip Marlowe decides to help out a friend Lennox when his wife is found brutally murdered. Marlowe winds up in jail accused of her murder and tries to solve the case after his release.
Director: William H. Brown Jr.
Writer: E. Jack Neuman
- N/A/100 votes
The Thirteenth Chair
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/1954
When his friend is murdered, Edward Wales sets out to capture the killer. He stages a seance and invites 13 people, any one of who may have killed the dead man, but it ends in chaos when the killer strikes again during a blackout.
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: Walter Newman
5.6/101,613 votesCasino Royale
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1954
American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions. The first dramatization of a James Bond novel.
Director: William H. Brown Jr.
Writer: Charles Bennett
- N/A/100 votes
Sorry, Wrong Number
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/4/1954
A neurotic invalid whose only contact with the outside world is her phone. One night, because of a crossed wire, she hears plans for a murder which turns out to be her own. Her frantic efforts to get help and her growing terror and realisation of the truth chill you to the bone.
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: Unknown
- 5.5/1023 votes
An Error in Chemistry
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/2/1954
A carnival huckster ingratiates himself with an elderly farmer and his naïve daughter; she soon falls for her new suitor and marries him, only to wind up dead shortly afterwards, the husband quick to confess.
Director: William H. Brown Jr.
Writer: David Dortort
- N/A/100 votes
Epitaph for a Spy
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/9/1954
An unsuspecting Iron Curtain refugee is used as a pawn by two French traitors while he is at a resort in France.
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The White Carnation
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/16/1954
A woman receives some mysterious white carnations, which seem to be an innocent gift but lead to terror.
Director: Jack Smight, John Frankenheimer, Don Medford
Writer: Raymond Chandler
- N/A/100 votes
Escape From Fear
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/1955
An American engineer in Germany crosses over into the Soviet Zone on business and becomes entangled with the secret police.
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Mojave Kid
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/27/1955
The Mojave Kid is warned to stay away from a small town feud.
Director: William H. Brown Jr., Tony Barr
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Leaf Out of the Book
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/3/1955
The story revolves around two women, one a successful career woman, the other an ambitious girl. After giving the daughter of an old friend a job, the successful businesswoman realizes the drawbacks of her generosity.
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
South of the Sun
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/3/1955
They were strangers to each other, even the married ones, and they all dreamed in human ways. But the least of these eight persons did something about his little dream. In so doing, he bound the strangers in an intimate circle, whether they knew it or not. He touched them all in passing and changed their lives and dreams forever, according to their own choices. In one turn of the earth something happened.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Great Impersonation
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/10/1955
The action of this tale of intrigue and espionage takes place in the jungles of East Africa in 1914. The destinies of Germany and Great Britain are dependent upon one man whose decision is influenced by one of the two women in his life.
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Darkest Hour
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/24/1955
An ex-cop is released from San Quentin after five years and sets out on revenge against the men who framed him for manslaughter.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Champion
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/31/1955
The famous story deals with a boxer whose rise to fame has been at the expense of friends and associates. Through flashbacks, we see how Midge Kelly rose from the Chicago slums to a world championship.
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: Rod Serling
- N/A/100 votes
Private Worlds
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/7/1955
A woman doctor probes the twisted minds of her patients in a mental institution.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Flight 951
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 4/21/1955
A doctor forsakes the medical profession following a court trial where he was the defendant. Now a successful businessman travelling under an assumed name, he must decide between keeping his secret and saving the eyesight of a fellow passenger.
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The First and the Last
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 4/28/1955
The threat of scandal, revolving around the death of a man in London, prompts an ambitious lawyer to disregard both legan and moral principles. His concern for his own career puts an innocent man's life in jeopardy.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
No Stone Unturned
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 5/19/1955
A Scottish student has the historical Stone of Scone stolen from Westminster Abbey. His purpose is to get England to recognize Scotland's independence.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
A Farewell to Arms
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 5/26/1955
An American, in the Italian Army during World War I, who meets a nurse and falls in love with her. Together they try to find a haven from the turbulence around them.
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Unimportant Man
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 6/2/1955
The life of an ordinary, mild-mannered man is changed when he identifies the murderer of his employer's brother.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
To Wake at Midnight
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 6/23/1955
All the pent-up prejudices and hatreds of postwar Europe are revived when a Nazi lieutenant recovers consciousness in a British hospital after being in a coma for years.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
The Dance
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 6/30/1955
No description available
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: Unknown
- 6.1/1018 votes
Wild Stallion
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 7/7/1955
A handsome, devil-may-care fortune hunter [from South America] makes his home with a well-to-do Southern family. He is attracted at first to the daughter, until he discovers the mother is the one who holds the key to the family fortune.
Director: Unknown
Writer: DeWitt Bodeen
- N/A/100 votes
The Escape of Mendes-France
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 7/14/1955
No description available
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: Unknown
- 6.6/1094 votes
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 7/28/1955
Classic Stevenson tale of a scientist whose experiments into the duality of man transform him into the misshapen, murderous Mr. Hyde.
Director: Allen Reisner
Writer: Gore Vidal
- N/A/100 votes
One Night Stand
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 8/4/1955
In 1937, the members of a jazz ensemble come to the aid of one of their colleagues who is stricken with tuberculosis.
Director: Bernard Girard
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Edge of Terror
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 8/11/1955
A small town banker and his family are threatened with death if he identifies the leader of the gang that tried to rob his bank.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes
Deal a Blow
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 8/25/1955
A teenage boy gets into a dispute with an abusive movie theater manager Mr. Grubbs. The boy's father Tom Ditmar accepts the manager's somewhat twisted version of the incident and doesn't give his son a chance to explain his side of the matter.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Unknown