A mystery writer and his wife are searching for an isolated country home where he can work undisturbed. Instead, they meet up with an odd painter whose wife had recently died.

Prelude to Murder

Franklin J. Schaffner

Melissa

The Education of HYMAN KAPLAN

A jury must reach a verdict concerning a teenaged boy accused of murder.

Twelve Angry Men

An irrepressible student at the American Night Preparatory School for Adults wages his personal war with the English language.

A young woman responds with deep devotion to her dominating father and upon his death she makes a postmortem discovery of a "secret" about him.

The Boy Who Changed the World

A Paris dressmaker's model is stabbed to death during the showing of new gowns.

Fatal in My Fashion

An arrogant gambler in Cripple Creek controls the village until a stranger comes along to usurp his powers.

The Man Who Owned the Town

When a stranger to a small town is beaten up by a locals, upright residents gather, inexplicably, against their will to the town hall. Once assembled, they find they can't leave and time has stopped. All talk about the stranger, (also present). Some express rage for his views and reveal their misguided ideas of American patriotism, which are really prejudices against freedom of thought and free speech.

An Almanac of Liberty

A disc jockey is involved in a murder. As he played peekaboo with a psychopathic killer and tangled with the police, turntables all over the place kept spinning a record called "Let Me Go, Lover", the murderer's favorite song, of course.

Let Me Go, Lover

Joey, a clown and leader of a traveling circus, suddenly becomes depressed when his group plays the tiny town of Millville.

Joey

After serving seven years in prison for desertion, a bitter soldier tries to start a new life.

The Deserter

A crusading attorney finds that there are no short cuts to justice.

Short Cut

A sensitive boy's relationship with his parents lacks the real understanding necessary to a happy life.

12:32 A.M.

Two Little Minks

A young art dealer visits the home of a miserly connoisseur and discovers a pretty girl as well as some very valuable paintings.

The Cuckoo in Spring

A young private investigator finds himself trapped by a web of circumstantial evidence and his name linked to that of a homicidal mugger. The tension mounts as he strives to clear himself.

The Missing Men

Twelve-year-old orphan Bill Caldwell is sent to stay with his eccentric grandmother when his aunt and uncle go to Europe. Down on her luck in 1929 Detroit, Grandma rents out 22 rooms of her 25-room house. Every March, the circus comes to town and some of the more interesting characters stay at Grandma's. Young Bill learns much more about life interacting with his Grandma and her colorful boarders than living with his stuffy aunt and uncle.

Grandma Rolled Her Own

A beautiful but icy singer is devoted exclusively to her art and her equally icy French officer who succumbs to her charms.

Sail with the Tide

A test pilot sets out for a cruise through space and suddenly loses contact with Earth.

It Might Happen Tomorrow

A sheriff travels to a rural Maine island to investigate the case of a missing young woman. While there, he learns many odd things about the place and it's inhabitants.

The Silent Women

Police fight a desperate battle against time to prevent a would-be suicide from killing not only himself, but also the other tenants in the building.

A Stranger May Die

In a shabby western town about 1900, a stranger gets off the train, goes to the sheriff's office, and kills him. His mild-mannered son takes over his position and tries to find the killer and avenge his father's death.

The Broken Spur

Eddie Chapman was the only Briton to win the Iron Cross in World War II. But was he really working for the Germans? Or was he a highly-placed double-agent?

The Eddie Chapman Story

The brain of a billionaire who dies in an accident is kept alive and makes plans for global domination.

Donovan's Brain

A "retread" Master Sergeant is called back into the service and it seems to his wife that most of their 10 years of marriage have been spent moving from base to base. When a young and lovely girl enters the picture the wife fears that love alone cannot hold her husband.

Millions of Georges

The dying words of a young woman, the victim of a hit-and-run driver, point towards stock-broker Peter Shea. He maintains his innocence, even as he's found guilty and sent to prison.

The Conviction of Peter Shea

Spinster Melissa Turner is at a crossroads in life concerning her future. She must decide whether to pursue Forest, sad reclusive acquaintance or prepare for a life alone.

Miss Turner's Decision

When a newly wed Italian bride named Dominique moves to Vermont, she suffers culture shock and is hesitant to continue her new life in the Americas.

Dominique

Feeling misunderstood and unwanted by her parents, a girl decides that she must run away.

Cross My Heart

In 1948, while the captain of Czechoslovakia's championship   hockey team is in Moscow, Russia annexes his home land. On his return, he and his fiancee plot to escape.

Passage of Arms

Irene is the plain niece of an elder statesman, who comes to Washington to aid her uncle. She seems an ideal match for a bachelor senator up for re-election. But her uncle and husband-to-be don't realize just how ideal she really is!

Affairs of State

Mr. Brimmer did not go over that seaside cliff unaided. Sinister Cousin Julian from South Africa gave Mr. Brimmer a bit of help.

Mrs. Brimmer Did It!

In an old Louisiana plantation, the the furnishings and the once great family are fading fast.The matriarch desperately tries to hold on the a gazebo that's slated for destruction as part of a building project, as well as holding her daughter to an unwanted marriage, though she loves the builder.

Summer Pavilion

A mild-mannered bookkeeper, belittled by his family and his coworkers, is to get his picture in the paper when he is named his company's head bookkeeper. The picture is in the paper all right, but he is mistakenly named the chairman of the city's anti-vice crusade.

A Picture in the Paper

The drab companion of an elderly hypochondriac is transformed into a lovely woman when she falls in love with a young man she met at the opera, but she lies to him about herself, claiming she's the educated daughter of a famed operatic diva.

Strange Companion

A man named Parker prefers the companionship of the pigeons in the park to that of the human race. One day, as he sits feeding his friends, Parker is approached by a gentleman who wishes to rehabilitate him.

Pigeons and People

A scholarly officer, who has spent his 3 years of military service at a secluded desk job, is assigned to shepherd some 600 troops from California to New York at the end of World War II.

Operation Home

An elderly man has lost touch with his son when he receives a surprise visit from his son and his wife who come for a visit. They find that a pair of parasitic drifters have moved in with the old man and are "sponging" off him.

The Spongers

Horace Ford longs for his childhood but it was not as idyllic as he remembers it.

The Incredible World of Horace Ford

He used to be a Hollywood bigwig but now Jonah Silver is a casting director at a small studio. A young woman seeking a job pays him a visit.

Heart Song

A young lawyer bucks public opinion in his defense of an accused killer. When the killer suspect escapes while visiting the scene of the crime with the lawyer, life becomes very unpleasant for the defender.

For the Defense

A mother announces on the day before her daughter's wedding that she is going to divorce her husband.

The Day Before the Wedding

A man with a Robin Hood complex has a penchant for liquidating people whose lives he considers worthless in order to give their money to more deserving people.

Sane as a Hatter

A ruthless landowner is terrorizing a small Western town, aided by his hired killers and the cowardice of the local gentry.

A Terrible Day

A woman is found strangled in a plush hotel room and sitting dazedly by is an ex-convict who tells police he is guilty. Flashback to ten years before when the man and woman first met and events leading up to the slaying with a tall dark stranger.

The Tall Dark Stranger

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

Julius Caesar

A pair of puppeteers seek funds for a trailer tour and do a show for a wealthy man's party with unusual results.

The Prince and the Puppet

A young wife invites her rival to dinner and sees that her husband is still interested in the old flame. He takes the woman home and is gone for several hours. In the morning, the woman is found dead in her hallway, the victim of a fall down the stairs that could have been accidental or could have been murder.

The Secret

In the early 1900s, a man who is about to take over the family investment firm finds that his father has played fast and loose with some of his clients' money.

The Voysey Inheritance

A store owner in a small Iowa town goes to New York and meets a model. He falls in love with her and tries to figure a way to let the model continue her work and still become his wife.

A Chance at Love

A family is torn by divided and misplaced loyalties of a possessive mother who controls her two sons.

Mama's Boy

Two men trapped in a mine fear that the end is near and the one man confesses to the other about a crime that he committed. Upon their rescue, the man enters a new trap as his confidence might be exposed.

The Pit

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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