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Season 1
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Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/1953
The first episode of the series, explaining the letter anthology format. A shop girl is courted by a man whose family looks down upon her, so she feigns crassness to teach them a lesson. One of a few episodes with a laugh track.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
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Prisoner at One O'Clock
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1953
A young man is accused of murder in a small Western town, but the sheriff's wife believes him innocent, while the townspeople form a mob to storm the jail.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
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Earthquake
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1953
A man using an iron lung who has lost hope regains his will through the efforts of his wife to keep him breathing when an earthquake causes a power failure.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
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The One That Got Away
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1953
The glowing, tiresome reminisces of a wife and mother about her now-famous former beau and his devotion to her comes to a head.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
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Kid Stuff
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1953
Two widowed parents fall in love but feel their relationship might be hampered by their lively young children.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
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The Bronte Story
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1953
Charlotte Bronte struggles to cope with her controlling and oppressive father even as it interferes with her courtship with and marriage to Arthur Nicholls.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Hugh Beaumont
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Love Story
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1953
An aspiring actress falls in love with a clown and marries him, but then she's ashamed to be publicly associated with him.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
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Laughing Boy
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1953
Glass-jawed Walter Stone attempts to rescue Kay Coughlin from a purse snatcher, but he gets hurt instead. Kay nurses him back to health and asks Walter to help her get her boyfriend jealous to goad him into proposing.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
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The Faith of Chata
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1953
A little girl in a Mexican village falls desperately ill and places her faith in God through her patron saint, regardless of whether she survives or not.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
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The Night My Father Came Home
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/20/1953
Charming holiday story about a small boy who frequents a postal station, chatting incessantly with a disillusioned laborer.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
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Hotel Irritant
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 12/27/1953
Corporate hotel snoop Sally Webster creates unpleasant situations in a hotel to test its operation while becoming impressed with the character and ambition of hotel clerk Newton Ralston.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
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Inga
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/3/1954
Indomitable Inga Helborg convinces a bank president to conditionally reverse the foreclosure of the family farm and takes labor from the prison farm by which both actions she successfully demonstrates her resolute and trusting nature.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
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Lady Killer
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/10/1954
A mystery writer discovers she is marked for death.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
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The Hollywood Story
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 1/31/1954
Madge Mason based on her prowess as a local actress in a small Iowa town goes to Hollywood and meets with only modest success but when it appears she is on verge of major success she has second thoughts about the price of fame.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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A Family Out of Us
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/7/1954
The son of an affluent couple, whose father has little time for him, joins the Cub Scouts.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
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The New York Story
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/28/1954
A glamorous mother and wife who dallies with other men's attention takes her own husband and son for granted. Clever opening schoolroom sequence in which the moms comment in theirs heads about each other. The climax in which the woman's mind races with impending terror about her son's lateness might seem melodramatic, but it's all too real for many of us who worry about loved ones. Mabel Albertson of "Bewitched" and so many other series plays the PTA spokesperson.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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Nobody's Boy
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/7/1954
Fictionalized story of a Chicago juvenile delinquent who meets Jack Robbins, founder of the BBR, a boy's club that still exists today. A familiar face in one scene is the ubiquitous Argentina Brunetti, to whom Dean Martin sang "That's Amore" in "The Caddy." At the end of the story, Young introduces actor Chick Chandler and the real-life Jack Robbins.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
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The Count of Ten
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/14/1954
Tiger Tipton retired from a successful boxing career at his wife's insistence. Now broke from her expensive medical care, he arranges one last fight with the champ, but he can't let his wife find out.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
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The Clara Schumann Story
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/21/1954
The great composer and his concert pianist wife, whose seemingly idyllic marriage descends into mental breakdown.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
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Son, This is Your Father
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/28/1954
Flashbacks tell the story of a charming but irresponsible ex-husband who re-enters the lives of his wife and son. The father/son relationship is similar to that of Gloria's son and her first husband on the series, "Modern Family." In this episode, Young's character's name is "Ginger," a decade before her co-star, Alan Hale Jr., addressed Tina Louise by the name on "Gilligan's Island."
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
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The First Man to Ask Her
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/4/1954
Offbeat comic tale of a sheltered young woman whose house is turned upside down by an eccentric lady, her cowboy son -- and his horse. Jock Mahoney makes the first of his many appearances in the series, playing nephew "Andy" to Frances Bavier, who would ironically play Aunt Bee to Andy Griffith less than a decade later.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
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Forest Ranger
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/18/1954
A forest ranger's wife unknowing allows into her house an escaped convict who seeks revenge on her husband.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
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Oh, My Aching Heart
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/9/1954
Nora is hired as a secretary under the condition that she disguise herself to be old and unattractive, so as not to distract her boss. When her boss has need to drop in to Nora's home, he is taken with the young lady he finds there, who claims to be Nora's sister.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
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Dear Midge
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/16/1954
Midge is an unmarried social worker with an overactive imagination, including having a curmudgeonly fairy to guide her. Her fairy gets her into sticky situations, and she is afraid of making a poor impression on her attractive neighbor.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Unknown
- N/A/100 votes