7.9/10286 votesLoading...#1 - Stranded
Season 2 Episode 31 - Aired 5/9/1957
No description available
Director: Allen H. Miner
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1061 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.1/109 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.1/1027 votesLoading...
#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
- 7.0/1011 votesLoading...
#6 - The Churchill Club
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1956
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/101 votesLoading...
#7 - She Sette Her Little Foote
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1956
No description available
Director: Justus Addiss
Writer: Norman Lessing
- 7.0/1011 votesLoading...
#8 - Death of a Nobody
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 12/31/1957
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1011 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.6/1012 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.6/109 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.6/109 votesLoading...
#12 - War Against War
Season 3 Episode 26 - Aired 3/4/1958
No description available
Director: Don Taylor
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/1013 votesLoading...
#13 - The Stepmother
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 5/13/1956
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1070 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.1/1014 votesLoading...
#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
- 6.0/109 votesLoading...
#16 - Again the Stars
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 7/29/1956
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/1017 votesLoading...
#17 - I Am Not Alone
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1956
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/1010 votesLoading...
#18 - The Mountain That Moved
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/30/1956
No description available
Director: Felix E. Feist
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/1022 votesLoading...
#19 - The Intruder
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/3/1957
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.9/1015 votesLoading...
#20 - The Rescue
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 11/26/1957
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.9/1044 votesLoading...
#21 - A Picture of the Magi
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 12/24/1957
No description available
Director: Robert B. Sinclair
Writer: N/A
- 5.8/1013 votesLoading...
#22 - Parents of a Stranger
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/20/1957
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.8/1014 votesLoading...
#23 - The Other Van Gogh
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/29/1957
No description available
Director: Robert B. Sinclair
Writer: N/A
- 5.7/109 votesLoading...
- 5.7/1013 votesLoading...
#25 - Uncle Fred Flits By
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1956
No description available
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Telephone Time
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...
Genre:Drama
Network:CBS
Best Episodes Summary
"Stranded" is the best rated episode of "Telephone Time". It scored 7.9/10 based on 286 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".