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The Best Episodes of Telephone Time

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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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  1. Background image for The Vestris
    7.3/10(63 votes)

    #1 - The Vestris

    S3:E25

    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.

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    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Novel Appeal
    7.1/10(27 votes)

    #2 - Novel Appeal

    S3:E13

    An author frees an innocent man from prison.

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    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for She Sette Her Little Foote
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - She Sette Her Little Foote

    S2:E6

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  4. Background image for Death of a Nobody
    7.0/10(11 votes)

    #4 - Death of a Nobody

    S3:E17

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Man of Principle
    6.9/10(11 votes)

    #5 - Man of Principle

    S3:E28

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Revenge
    6.6/10(12 votes)

    #6 - Revenge

    S3:E1

    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.

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    Director:Lewis Allen
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Abby, Julia and the Seven Pet Cows
    6.6/10(9 votes)

    #7 - Abby, Julia and the Seven Pet Cows

    S3:E18

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    Director:Arthur Hiller
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for War Against War
    6.6/10(9 votes)

    #8 - War Against War

    S3:E26

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    Director:Don Taylor
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for The Man Who Discovered O. Henry
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - The Man Who Discovered O. Henry

    S2:E20

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for The Rescue
    5.9/10(15 votes)

    #10 - The Rescue

    S3:E12

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for A Picture of the Magi
    5.9/10(45 votes)

    #11 - A Picture of the Magi

    S3:E16

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  13. Background image for The Other Van Gogh
    5.8/10(14 votes)

    #12 - The Other Van Gogh

    S3:E8

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  14. Background image for Recipe for Success
    5.7/10(18 votes)

    #13 - Recipe for Success

    S3:E23

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    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Alice's Wedding Gown
    5.3/10(24 votes)

    #14 - Alice's Wedding Gown

    S3:E11

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Campaign For Marriage
    5.2/10(7 votes)

    #15 - Campaign For Marriage

    S3:E3

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Trail Blazer
    3.6/10(7 votes)

    #16 - Trail Blazer

    S3:E29

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    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for The Golden Junkman
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    #17 - The Golden Junkman

    S1:E1

    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.

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    #18 - Man with a Beard

    S1:E2

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #19 - Captain from Kopenick

    S1:E3

    Based on a real scandal where a cobbler posing as a captain absconded with the treasury of a Berlin suburb in 1906.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #20 - Borders Away

    S1:E4

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Mystery of Caspar Hauser
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    #21 - The Mystery of Caspar Hauser

    S1:E5

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #22 - The Stepmother

    S1:E6

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #23 - Time Bomb

    S1:E7

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Emperor Norton's Bridge
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    #24 - Emperor Norton's Bridge

    S1:E8

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    Director:Roy Kellino
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for The Man Who Believed in Fairy Tales
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    #25 - The Man Who Believed in Fairy Tales

    S1:E9

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Vestris" is the best rated episode of "Telephone Time". It scored 7.3/10 based on 63 votes. Directed by Arthur Hiller and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/25/1958. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Novel Appeal".