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The Best Episodes of Telephone Time

Genre:Drama
Network:CBS

Every episode of Telephone Time ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Telephone Time!

Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays...
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  • Stranded
    7.8/10(287)
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    #1 - Stranded

    Season 2 Episode 31

    Aired 5/9/1957

    No description available

    Director: Allen H. Miner

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Vestris
    7.3/10(63)
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    #2 - The Vestris

    Season 3 Episode 25

    Aired 2/25/1958

    In the spring of 1828, the bark Vestris, is 16 days out enroute from England to Boston. The weather is fair, but the captain's ailing wife suddenly has a vision telling her (in a message written on a blackboard) to have the ship change course. At first the captain refuses, but when the weather changes and his wife becomes sicker, he reluctantly agrees. As a result, they find and rescue three survivors of a shipwreck. One of the three is a doctor, and appears to be the ""spirit"" seen by the wife. He saves her life. As it turns out, the message on the blackboard is in his handwriting. Curiously, the doctor is as puzzled as everyone else by the wife's vision.

    Director: Arthur Hiller

    Writer: N/A

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  • Borders Away
    7.1/10(9)
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    #3 - Borders Away

    Season 1 Episode 4

    Aired 4/29/1956

    The WW2 story of Captain Dan Gallery. He convinced his superiors he could capture a German U-boat. See the top secret preparation, the planning for booby traps, and the actual boarding and capturing of the U-505 German submarine. This harrowing feat led to the capture of the German code books which helped shorten the war.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Escape
    7.1/10(9)
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    #4 - Escape

    Season 2 Episode 25

    Aired 3/24/1957

    No description available

    Director: Hugo Haas

    Writer: N/A

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  • Novel Appeal
    7.1/10(27)
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    #5 - Novel Appeal

    Season 3 Episode 13

    Aired 12/3/1957

    An author frees an innocent man from prison.

    Director: Arthur Hiller

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Churchill Club
    7.0/10(11)
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    #6 - The Churchill Club

    Season 2 Episode 5

    Aired 10/14/1956

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • She Sette Her Little Foote
    7.0/10(1)
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    #7 - She Sette Her Little Foote

    Season 2 Episode 6

    Aired 10/21/1956

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    Director: Justus Addiss

    Writer: Norman Lessing

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  • Death of a Nobody
    7.0/10(11)
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    #8 - Death of a Nobody

    Season 3 Episode 17

    Aired 12/31/1957

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Man of Principle
    6.9/10(11)
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    #9 - Man of Principle

    Season 3 Episode 28

    Aired 3/25/1958

    Hiero II, king of ancient Syracuse, orders a gold crown to be made as an offering to the gods. The gold is delivered to a goldsmith and the man's wife persuades him to substitute silver for some of the gold.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Revenge
    6.6/10(12)
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    #10 - Revenge

    Season 3 Episode 1

    Aired 9/10/1957

    A school teacher from Massachusetts comes to a small western town to marry a young homesteader, but finds that he's been murdered. The jury frees the murderer on a phony plea of self-defense. Determined to see justice done, she decides to stay in town as a constant irritant to the murderer's conscience. She makes him so crazy, he picks a fight with one of his friends and is killed. Dismayed by her own vengefulness, the teacher decides that justice would be better served by true social reform. She campaigns successfully for women to be selected as jurors, which results in the second murderer being convicted and sent to prison.

    Director: Lewis Allen

    Writer: N/A

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  • Abby, Julia and the Seven Pet Cows
    6.6/10(9)
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    #11 - Abby, Julia and the Seven Pet Cows

    Season 3 Episode 18

    Aired 1/7/1958

    No description available

    Director: Arthur Hiller

    Writer: N/A

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  • War Against War
    6.6/10(9)
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    #12 - War Against War

    Season 3 Episode 26

    Aired 3/4/1958

    No description available

    Director: Don Taylor

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Stepmother
    6.4/10(13)
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    #13 - The Stepmother

    Season 1 Episode 6

    Aired 5/13/1956

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Golden Junkman
    6.3/10(71)
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    #14 - The Golden Junkman

    Season 1 Episode 1

    Aired 4/8/1956

    True story of an Armenian immigrant who overcomes all odds to become a wealthy and educated man: after his wife's death, he rears his beloved sons in old-world simplicity, only to have them turn on him and call him an ignorant peddler. Hurt, but not discouraged, he begins to educate himself by studying the encyclopedia and ultimately returns to college to earn his degree and the respect of his children. A hardworking, old-world immigrant raises two sons by himself while becoming very succesfull in the junkyard business. His sons attend the best college, but to the father's dismay, they resent and are embarrassed by his crude style and mannerisms. Undaunted, the man sends himself to college and proves to be a brilliant student with an enclyclopedic mind. The family is lovingly reunited when the boys see their father for the kind, loving, generous, happy, well-liked man that he has become.

    Director: Roy Kellino

    Writer: Donald S. Sanford

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  • Grandpa Changes the World
    6.1/10(14)
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    #15 - Grandpa Changes the World

    Season 1 Episode 16

    Aired 7/22/1956

    Far more than courtroom drama, this TRUE STORY about how Alexander Hamilton, attorney to William Penn and the only colonial admitted to the English Bar, came out of retirement to defend a printer accused of libelling the Governor by printing the truth in his newspaper about his corrupt activities. The principals established in this case, as so eloquently argued by Hamilton, had a profound influence on the drafting of the Bill of Rights several years latter. ""Gentlemen, with an impartial, uncorrupted verdict we assure ourselves, our posterity, the right, the liberty of speaking and writing the truth."" As author and host, John Nesbitt says at the conclusion of this drama, ""The great footnote to this story, of course, lies in the Bill of Rights. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Old Andrew Hamilton that day in court was not so much defending his client with law that was already in existence, but was actually creating law that would not be clearly written down for generations to

    Director: Lewis Allen

    Writer: N/A

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  • Again the Stars
    6.0/10(9)
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    #16 - Again the Stars

    Season 1 Episode 17

    Aired 7/29/1956

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • I Am Not Alone
    6.0/10(17)
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    #17 - I Am Not Alone

    Season 2 Episode 2

    Aired 9/23/1956

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Mountain That Moved
    6.0/10(10)
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    #18 - The Mountain That Moved

    Season 2 Episode 15

    Aired 12/30/1956

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    Director: Felix E. Feist

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Intruder
    6.0/10(22)
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    #19 - The Intruder

    Season 2 Episode 23

    Aired 3/3/1957

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Rescue
    5.9/10(15)
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    #20 - The Rescue

    Season 3 Episode 12

    Aired 11/26/1957

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • A Picture of the Magi
    5.9/10(45)
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    #21 - A Picture of the Magi

    Season 3 Episode 16

    Aired 12/24/1957

    No description available

    Director: Robert B. Sinclair

    Writer: N/A

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  • Parents of a Stranger
    5.8/10(13)
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    #22 - Parents of a Stranger

    Season 2 Episode 18

    Aired 1/20/1957

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Other Van Gogh
    5.8/10(14)
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    #23 - The Other Van Gogh

    Season 3 Episode 8

    Aired 10/29/1957

    No description available

    Director: Robert B. Sinclair

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Key
    5.7/10(9)
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    #24 - The Key

    Season 1 Episode 15

    Aired 7/15/1956

    No description available

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Uncle Fred Flits By
    5.7/10(13)
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    #25 - Uncle Fred Flits By

    Season 2 Episode 7

    Aired 10/28/1956

    No description available

    Director: Erle C. Kenton

    Writer: N/A

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Best Episodes Summary

"Stranded" is the best rated episode of "Telephone Time". It scored 7.8/10 based on 287 votes. Directed by Allen H. Miner and written by N/A, it aired on 5/9/1957. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Vestris".