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The Best Episodes of The 20th Century Fox Hour

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The Best Episodes of The 20th Century Fox Hour

The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the...

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  1. Background image for Stranger in the Night
    9.5/10(26 votes)

    #1 - Stranger in the Night

    S2:E2

    A sensitive widow of delicate constitution falls in love with a cottage by the sea previously owned by Captain Robert Wilton who commited suicide. Feeling a ghostly prescence she becomes enchanted with him and he helps her to overcome her fears.

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    Director:Lewis Allen
  2. Background image for Smoke Jumpers
    8.9/10(10 votes)

    #2 - Smoke Jumpers

    S2:E4

    Only the leader of a firefighter unit survives a forest fire and is accused of saving himself at his men's expense. After his recovery he goes out again this time to prove everyone wrong.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    7.1/10(64 votes)

    #3 - Operation Cicero

    S2:E7

    Based on the true story of a World War II spy with access to top secret information in the British embassy in Turkey, this episode follows the brief but bright career of an English valet, code-named Cicero, who seized his chance to sell expensive secrets to the Germans, including details about D-Day's Operation Overlord. The Nazi government, the British ambassador, and a Polish countess all dance on strings even as British counteragents close in.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #4 - Cavalcade

    S1:E1

    The story opens with the family patriarch marching off to the Boer war at the turn of the century, and ends thirty years later, with the now-aged principal characters coping with the Depression and the bleak days following Queen Victoria's death.

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    Director:Lewis Allen
    Writer:Unknown
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    #5 - Laura

    S1:E2

    Detective Mark McPherson is assigned to the case of a murdered fashion model only to find that the murder victim is someone else. During the investigation he finds himself taking a more than professional interest in the intended victim, the mysterious Laura.

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    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for The Ox-Bow Incident
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    #6 - The Ox-Bow Incident

    S1:E3

    A cattle rustling and the murder of the rancher leads the town on a mob lynching. While the sheriff is away the Major takes over and assumes control of the Posse.

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    Director:Gerd Oswald
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    #7 - The Late George Apley

    S1:E4

    The daughter of a socially prominent family rebels against her father's snobbery. He opposes the marriage of his daughter to a young man from the wrong side of the tracks.

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    Director:Jules Munshin
    Writer:Unknown
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    #8 - Christopher Bean

    S1:E5

    A country doctor learns his housekeeper is in possession of valuable painting given to her from an artist she befriended. Art collectors and swindlers attempt to get hold of these paintings.

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    Director:Lewis Allen
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for The Miracle on 34th Street
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    #9 - The Miracle on 34th Street

    S1:E6

    One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this is nothing to the stir he causes by announcing that he is not merely a make-believe St. Nick, but the real McCoy.

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    #10 - Man on the Ledge

    S1:E7

    Sure and it's a fine St. Paddy's dawn in New York City, and beat cop Bragan is finishing up his all-night midtown shift and heading back to his family. Mrs. Bragan is making waffles today, and there's no school for young Mike, and they're all looking forward to the big parade. It's Bragan's day. He's got his buttons already polished. But he won't make it home after all. A scream pierces the daybreak, and Bragan looks up and gasps: Way up high, near the top of one of the avenue's fine hotels, there's a guy standing on a ledge, clinging to a cornice, looking down, teetering. Jumper. Bragan breaks into a run, straightaway gets up to the hotel's 15th floor, collides with the manager who's fretting that his suicidal guest is going to bring unwelcome publicity. ""This is the worst possible thing that can happen to a hotel!"" the manager moans. Bragan disgustedly shoos him out, and now he's alone with the man on the ledge, the first cop on the scene, and he leans out the window, high over the d

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    Director:Lewis Allen
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Yacht on the High Sea
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    #11 - Yacht on the High Sea

    S1:E8

    After years of neglect from her abrasive husband, Joan has decided to leave him. He asks that she come to his last business meeting in Nassau, and tells her what she needs is a child. After being repeatedly warned to turn back because of the hurricane, he is biligerent and refuses to let anyone tell him what to do. Coast guard requests his help in aiding a stranded fisherman and his son, but his hard and selfish demeanor denies any help except for himself. A rude awakening to his wife and a strong will not to let him continue to control her.

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    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for One Life
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    #12 - One Life

    S1:E9

    A bored housewife unhappy with her professor husband who is too busy with work to pay attention to her, ends up with her best friends husband, before realizing the consequences and how good her life actually is.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #13 - Crack-Up

    S1:E10

    Bed ridden invalid Marie is visited by Trask, the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed her husband.

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    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown
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    #14 - In Times Like These

    S1:E11

    The death of his only son makes it difficult for him to go on living.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #15 - Deception

    S1:E12

    A British Intelligence officer is captured and forced to divulge information, after which he moves to the West Indies in shame.

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    #16 - Gun in His Hand

    S1:E13

    An outlaw's son is torn between affection for his father and his own belief in law and order. While riding with the outlaw band, he is captured and imprisoned, and then learns the gang abandoned his wife to die, leaving his newborn son homeless. Furious, he turns against the gang and joins forces with the law.

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    Director:Lewis Allen
    Writer:Unknown
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    #17 - Mr. Belvedere

    S1:E14

    All is not well on Hummingbird Hill, the King's are at their wits end. Their three children are full of mischief and trouble that desperate measures are needed. When an ad is placed in the paper, Lynn Belvedere responds, thinking that Lynn Belvedere is a woman, the King's are surprised yet pleasantly pleased by the self-proclaimed genius Mr. Lynn Belvedere, who takes on the task of looking after the King children. With a nosy busybody of a neighbor and jealous husband and a Boss who is not happy with the scandalous behavior of his employs family, all is still not well on Hummingbird Hill.

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    #18 - Broken Arrow

    S1:E15

    Jeffords talks to Cochise about letting the mail carriers thru the pass without being attacked. During which time he falls in love with the ""White Painted Lady"". After an attack both sides are unwilling to agree until General Howard arranges for peace talks. Jeffords asks Cochise for Sonseeahrays hand in marriage. A set up from the towns people leads to death for some.

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    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Overnight Haul
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    #19 - Overnight Haul

    S1:E16

    When his young stepson is accidentally pinned under a truck, the driver frantically tries to rouse help in a nearby town. But he is caught taking equipment from a closed service station and is unable to convince anyone the boy is in trouble.

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    #20 - The Empty Room

    S1:E17

    A young Englishwoman and her American husband become entangled when Audrey's divorced mother comes to visit, the girl's natural warning system begins buzzing. Audrey endeavors to keep her scheming mother from being reunited with her father, who has been perfectly happy since the split.

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    Director:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Hefferan Family
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    #21 - The Hefferan Family

    S1:E18

    A well-meaning do-gooder spends so much time doing favors for others that he falls behind in his personal obligations. Meanwhile his long suffering wife has had enough of his money-making schemes she decides to take in boarders.

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    Director:Jules Munshin
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Child of the Regiment
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    #22 - Child of the Regiment

    S2:E1

    After his wife suffers a miscarriage during an earthquake in Japan, he finds that a young Japanese girl is parentless and homeless and decides to take her in. Hoping of course that his wife will overcome her grief over the loss of their own child. He is reassigned to Honolulu and there he encounters problems with his superior who is extremely racist against his daughter and causes trouble for him and his outfit.

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    Director:Lewis Allen
  24. Background image for The Money Maker
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    #23 - The Money Maker

    S2:E3

    Mrs. Miller is elderly with no money, she makes a living by counterfeiting one dollar bills. This leads to trouble with the US government who can't believe it.

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    Director:Jerry Thorpe
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for The Last Patriarch
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    #24 - The Last Patriarch

    S2:E5

    Emil Markheim employs the same ruthless authority in running the bank he founded that he imposes on his own family. His sons hate him enough to want to destroy him. The son who loves him ends up in jail for trying to bride a juror after his father winds up on the bank examiners wrong side. After doing 5 years in Sing Sing upon his release the other brothers try to destroy him.

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    Director:Lewis Allen
    Writer:Unknown
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    #25 - Men Against Speed

    S2:E6

    A family auto-racing team, father and two sons, intent upon proving that their American vehicle is the superior to any foreign job. The trio enters an important Italian road competition. A press agent upsets things, when she can't choose between brothers.

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    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Stranger in the Night" is the best rated episode of "The 20th Century Fox Hour". It scored 9.5/10 based on 26 votes. Directed by Lewis Allen and written by DeWitt Bodeen, it aired on 10/17/1956. This episode scored 0.6 points higher than the second highest rated, "Smoke Jumpers".