The tale of a nurse who is hired by a surgeon to care for his mentally unbalanced wife and dead child.

The Shadowy Third

Season 5

The Happy Housewife

Two sisters move to a remote village in France to work for a retired English clergyman and his wife. They soon discover that there is an evil that pervades the home and attempt to overcome the evil that faces them.

The Angelic Avengers

The story deals with the heroic efforts of nearly 40 years ago of Charles Seymour Whitman, New York County district attorney, to suppress attempts by gambling elements to gain control of city government. Whitman's prosecution of Police Lt. Becker after the officer was found to be implicated in the 1913 assassination of gambling boss Herman Rosenthal.

The Little Black Bag

The story of General Andreas della Rovere who was imprisoned by the Nazis and inspired fellow prisoners, despite the fact that he never existed!

The Idol of San Vittore

A western comedy about the dingy wife of an outlaw who takes the rap for him and goes to prison, coming home with some new ideas.

Mighty Like A Rogue

A Czech ballerina, whose family is still trapped behind the Iron Curtain, is blackmailed into trapping a British spy for the Russians, but the spy is really a double agent.

Colonel Judas

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

Macbeth

A woman is torn between her love for the life of a professional tennis player and that of being a wife, a young lady finds herself on the horns of a domestic dilemma.

They Serve the Muses

The Hero

The story of James Otis, a Boston attorney and American patriot who contested the right of British troops to search colonists' homes during The Revolutionary War.

A Bolt of Lightning

A  seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops,   double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.

The King in Yellow

The contrast of 1950s parents raised in the Roaring Twenties with their children of the Atomic Age comes with new challenges.

The Dangerous Years

A man discovers that the good ship Nicolette is carrying weapons as cargo, and in order to prevent a war, he stages a mutiny with the crew against the Captain.

Mutiny on the Nicolette

P.T. Barnum hires the Swedish nightingale Jenny Lind to perform her music as part of "The Greatest Show on Earth".

The Legend of Jenny Lind

The friend of a pleasant minister has invented a camera that takes a strange kind of photo, and with it, he plans to put Germany in a position to rule the world.

The Innocence of Pastor Muller

When Sara's father goes off to fight in the First World War, she is sent to Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, an expensive and elite school. However, when her father is feared dead, she is relegated to menial duties.

Sara Crewe

In post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.

The Paris Feeling

A professor goes back in time to the 17th Century to save a woman from poisoning.

The Devil in Velvet

The story of the infamous John M. Dunn's rise and fall as a notorious gangster on New York's Waterfront from 1934 to 1949.

Waterfront Boss

Andrew Dynes, suffers from nearly every frustration a male can be expected to harbor. Bullied at his underpaid job, no longer in love with his wife but lacking strength to tell her, Dynes finds solace with a woman 20 years younger.

The Other Father

The turf wars of crooked politicians and rival gangs of mobsters

Burden of Guilt

The story of young, talented ballet dancers

A Candle for St. Jude

The owner of a charter airline must cope with disease and betrayal in war-torn Burma.

Pagoda

Novelist Horatio Alger's life is full of accomplishments and huge disappointments as he reassesses his 'Rags to Riches' life.

Success Story

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.

Letter from an Unknown Woman

James Dean and John Forsythe star in this story of a wealthy orphan who meets a shy airline owner aboard a plane and later discovers that a corpse has been stowed there.

Ten Thousand Horses Singing

An American journalist falls in love with a Londoner.

The Wings of the Dove

A baker retires at the insistence of his two successful sons.

The Vintage Years

Miss Constance Hargreaves is an imaginary woman, invented and documented by two young men during a holiday in Ireland.

Miss Hargreaves

The mayor's daughter, who is kidnapped, falls in love with one of her captors.

The Story of Meg Mallory

The story, set 15 years after the Crucifixion, of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who is depicted as a victim of circumstances

Pontius Pilate

A group of Marines reminisce about home as they try to hold onto a North Korean mountain pass in 1950.

Hold Back the Night

Lily's electrician boyfriend sees red when Lily is pursued by a wealthy suitor.

Lily, the Queen of the Movies

A terrible disaster at a coal mine devastates the community.

The Deep Dark

The search is on for the pirate Flint's buried treasure on the treacherous ship of Long John Silver.

Treasure Island

In the Middle East, Victoria Jones, a girl with a yearning for adventure, gets more than she bargains for when a wounded agent dies in her hotel room during an important conference, which an underground organization is planning to sabotage.

They Came to Baghdad

Classic tale of a modern New Englander who travels back to the days of King Arthur and battles Merlin the Magician.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

The story of court-martialed Union soldier William Scott, who is slated for execution for sleeping on duty after he was sent for by Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

A maladjusted child is threatened by an invasion of his hometown by a racketeer.

Captain-General of the Armies

A man jeopardizes his marriage by wanting to marry another woman. When he changes his mind, it's too late because now his wife wants to marry another man.

Lovers and Friends

An air liner flying over a middle eastern desert is forced to land in a remote spot and the passengers locked up. All are Americans or Britons. A man from the U.S. Embassay is interrogated and threatened unless he convinces another prisoner, an oil company executive, to collaborate with a new (unsaid but implied Soviet) regime.

International Incident

A whodunnit set in a boarding house where fat, jolly, and crippled Mr. Otis is found murdered

There Was a Crooked Man

An arrogant conman who sells a fraudulent household cleaner takes a young woman under his wing without realizing she's a reporter.

The Blonde Comes First

To keep her former fiancé from leaving her, a beautiful but neurotic young woman fakes a riding accident, and feigns paralysis of her lower body. When her nurse discovers her treachery, she resorts to a final desperate act of revenge.

The Rockingham Tea Set

An irascible curator of a rare book collection plans the destruction of a rival professor whose research had discredited some of his most cherished theories 20 years before.

The Last Thing I Do

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.

Jane Eyre

After a doctor is acquitted of poisoning his evil invalid wife, he runs into complications in his attempt at a new life in Ireland.

The Man They Acquitted

A bizarre plot falls apart at the seams because of a trip through a subway. Seems that the plotters are riding on the 1,000,000th car to drive through the tunnel and thus their plot is uncovered as officials seek to honor them.

One in a Million

A touring concert party named 'The Dinky Doos' are stranded in Rawsley because their manager has absconded with the funds and the lady pianist.

The Good Companions

A French inspector and his Polish assistant must stop a murderer in Paris.

Stan, the Killer

The story of the problems incurred by a couple when two careers become important instead of just one.

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

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