An ex-football hero who's now a successful businessman tries to mold his son in his own image even though his wife opposes it.

Like Father, Like Son

Three Empty Rooms

Season 7

Two unhappy newlyweds are failing miserably in their relationship and find the only solidarity that they can find.

A broken down vaudeville actor sets out to collect $30,000 and almost makes it.

A Likely Story

Uncle Ed is a contestant on the game show ""The $64,000 Question""

Uncle Ed and Circumstances

In order to get his story, a reporter joins an underworld gang.

A Most Contagious Game

A son runs for public office based on nothing more than his famous father's reputation. Dad didn't think to much of him - and says so in his private diaries. The candidate's job now is to discreetly remove all of the unflattering references.

Private History

Despite the opposition of their families, two 65-year-olds plan to marry. Though their families share a split-level house, their lives are miles apart:  the woman is from a once-prominent southern family, and the man is an Italian immigrant.

Split Level

A Navy crew is trapped in a crippled submarine on the ocean floor. The captain and his second in command must organize the men, who, before the accident, were torn by petty grievances.

Shakedown Cruise

In Bern, Switzerland, the commissioner of police solves the puzzling death of a fellow officer.

The Judge and the Hangman

A teenage girl tries to increase the understanding between her football hero boyfriend and his widower father.

Julie

A shy, middle-aged baseball fan becomes a national celebrity after making a spectacular catch of a homerun ball.

The Man Who Caught the Ball at Coogan's Bluff

The warden of Cortland Prison is up against the psychopathic leader of a group of rioters.

Blow Up at Cortland

After the death of a Foreign Aid official, the reputation of the American Embassy in London comes into question. Was he a traitor or philanthropist?

The Strongbox

Brucie and his elder sister, Jen, are two of five children who face separation and removal from the family farm after their father's death.

Miracle at Potter's Farm

A young army officer (Dewey Martin) waiting assignment is picked to defend a soldier in a court martial.  The soldier (James Gregory) is charged with a murder that was actually committed by the two MPs who arrested him.  The officer risks his career in search of material that can exonerate the soldier.

Fair Play

Dino, who has just been released from reform school, is sullen and uncooperative with his family and his guidance counselors, but he knows that, if he returns to his life of crime, his adoring kid brother will be with him.

Dino

Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to from New York to Italy to retrieve a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy, named Dickie Greenleaf. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Johnny August is hesitant about helping track down a blackmailer in Mexico and winds up with a murder instead.

Johnny August

A successful TV actor becomes ensnared in an exposé in a scandal magazine.

A Public Figure

A magazine writer, married to his part-time editor, is vaguely discontented with his life. Then one night he learns that after many years of marriage, he is going to be a father. The news has an extraordinary effect on the lives of the couple.

My Son Johnny

A famous gunfighter of the Wild West teaches his young ranch boy companion an important lesson in life. A team of men set out to sell a new Colt firearm and one is a sharpshooter, the other a salesman. One of the men is the famous Ringo Kid. When his identity is learned, there is trouble.

The Silent Gun

Two columnists cover the political scene and are practically identical twins. One is married, one is single and the wife of one wishes the other would get married and move to the suburbs. When the confirmed bachelor does announce plans for an impending marriage the two men decide to have adjoining penthouse apartments and the wives have other ideas.

Manhattan Duet

A woman is found dead on a lonely beach outside a small town.

Circle of Guilt

A widow takes in orphans and unwanted children with loving care. She finds her latest recruit is a little more troublesome than the others.

Always Welcome

A quick-tempered cab driver picks up what appears to be two men and a drunk. On second look the drunk proves to be a corpse.

A Favor for Sam

A proud Florentine duchess's prayer to the Saint of the Impossible is answered in an unexpected manner. The Italian duchess has disowned her niece because the girl insists on living a gypsy-like life as a nightclub dancer. However, the arrival of a seemingly irreverent painter penetrates the stony facade of an archly unemotional duchess and humanizes her.

Flower of Pride

A self-made man domineering in nature has a beautiful young wife who is interested in art. He introduces her to a young male artist to teach her to paint and learns a valuable lesson.

The Laughter of Giants

An angel comes to Earth to help clean up a corrupt town.

The Tale of St. Emergency

A man is dead. His wife calls in his best friend who is an amateur sleuth who calls it suicide but she calls it murder and says that he did it.

This Will Do Nicely

Arriving in Washington, a freshman senator gets an experienced advisor who warns him not to continue a heated feud with his state's senior salon, held over from his father. But later in a drunken jag, he blurts out secret evidence that can end the career of the older man.

The Arena

A social worker is being forced to deprive a childless couple of a baby they have cared for and want to adopt.

Regarding File Number 4356

A young couple elope and try to hide in New York from their disappointed parents.

I Do

The offices of Mode, a glossy women's magazine, is thrown into chaos when the owner suddenly shows up. The editor fears for her job--but who in the office might replace her?

The Drop of a Hat

In New York City, a 13-year-old boy discovers the magic words that set a wish-granting genie free.

The Genie of Sutton Place

A not too sharp commandant of a military academy gets into some hilarious situations when he mistakes his father's invention for a war missile.

The Star-Spangled Soldier

A bank robber has an agreement with a suburban couple to use their home as his hideout in return for a share of the loot.

Family Protection

A young professor must discover which of his colleagues possesses the diabolical ability to control the minds of others.

The Power

A Mexican youth who lives on the California coast near Monterrey leaves his family to go on his first trip alone into town during fiesta time.

Flight

A beautiful girl is a witch and her vain ex-suitor has been transformed into a peacock. She finally meets a nice young man from Boston.

Snap Your Fingers

While a man lies unconscious on the operating table, he dreams that he has recovered and gone on a sea voyage to regain his health. However, death follows him in a recurrent dream in which he takes a journey through the heavens. The dream obsesses him, but Clarice, a pretty woman with whom he falls in love, forces him back to reality, at which point, he regains consciousness to find Clarice, his nurse, bending over him to say he is all right.

Mr. Arcularis

Luke McTrigger, proprietor of the Olympia saloon and hotel, has been thinking hard and has finally come up with a sure-fire plan to win the hand of the widow Baines. Now the widow is nothing to look at, and some folks say she's a bull-headed old battle-axe, but she has an estimated fortune of $900, and that's a lot of money in the Wyoming of 1880!

The Luck of Luke McTigger

A man who once played a hot trumpet in a band wants to break away from his successful law practice for a night and hear some good jazz. He and two other friends visit a nightclub and he manages to hit a "high" note of his own.

Song for a Summer Night

A best selling novel leads everyone to wonder about who the author is.

Emmaline

A young housewife befriends a withdrawn blind neighbor with beneficial results.

An Incident of Love

Yermo Red is a sadistic cop employed by a western railroad who delights in beating up hobos and finally kills one. The hobos want to avenge the dead man by killing Yermo. But one of them who hates violence prevails on them to try something else. He composes a song, "The Ballad of Yermo Red", which everybody up and down the railroad line begins singing.

The Ballad of Yermo Red

A savage businessman is so hated by his employees that they band together and plan their own competing company.

Something Ventured

In the Italian section of New York City, the talented Giulio Costello and Rose Pinato, spend the warm summer evenings on a park bench discussing Giulio's future. The young man is torn between love and the chance for a career in grand opera.

Giulio

On the night before the Battle of Gettysburg, several Union soldiers capture a Southern spy and try to decide if it is morally permissible to shoot a prisoner.

A Day Before Battle

A small town businessman's son is killed and in order to fill the void he takes a tough youngster who needs a father under his wing.

Cauliflower Heart

A lumber baron is bent on revenge and intends to hang a man whom he believes responsible for his brother's death.

Dark Morning

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.

Like Father, Like Son

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