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   9.5/10(215 votes)

   #1 - Crack-Up

   S1:E102/8/1956

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

   Director:Ted Post

   Writer:Unknown

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   9.5/10(26 votes)

   #2 - Stranger in the Night

   S2:E210/17/1956

   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.

   Director:Lewis Allen

   Writer:DeWitt Bodeen

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   Director:Lewis Allen

   Writer:DeWitt Bodeen
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   8.9/10(10 votes)

   #3 - Smoke Jumpers

   S2:E411/14/1956

   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.

   Director:Albert S. Rogell

   Writer:Unknown

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   8.3/10(25 votes)

   #4 - Christopher Bean

   S1:E511/30/1955

   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.

   Director:Lewis Allen

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Lewis Allen

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   7.9/10(19 votes)

   #5 - Broken Arrow

   S1:E155/2/1956

   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.

   Director:Robert Stevenson

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.8/10(25 votes)

   #6 - Deception

   S1:E123/7/1956

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

   Director:Jules Munshin

   Writer:William Spier

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   Director:Jules Munshin

   Writer:William Spier
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   7.6/10(18 votes)

   #7 - The Late George Apley

   S1:E411/16/1955

   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.

   Director:Jules Munshin

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.5/10(31 votes)

   #8 - The Ox-Bow Incident

   S1:E311/2/1955

   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.

   Director:Gerd Oswald

   Writer:David Dortort

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   Director:Gerd Oswald

   Writer:David Dortort
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   7.2/10(63 votes)

   #9 - Operation Cicero

   S2:E712/26/1956

   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.

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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    7.1/10(69 votes)

    #10 - Man on the Ledge

    S1:E712/28/1955

    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

    Director:Lewis Allen

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.2/10(44 votes)

    #11 - Laura

    S1:E210/19/1955

    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.

    Director:John Brahm

    Writer:Unknown

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    6.1/10(373 votes)

    #12 - The Miracle on 34th Street

    S1:E612/14/1955

    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.

    Director:Robert Stevenson

    Writer:John Monks Jr.

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    Writer:John Monks Jr.
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    4.8/10(9 votes)

    #13 - Gun in His Hand

    S1:E134/4/1956

    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.

    Director:Lewis Allen

    Writer:Unknown

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    4.8/10(9 votes)

    #14 - The Great American Hoax

    S2:E175/15/1957

    John Hodges has been a printer devoted to his work. Now, at 65, he is automatically retired by his firm. But Hodges isn't ready for retirement -he feels he has many years of productivve employment ahead. Furthermore,life without a job becomes tedious. He feels unwanted in the house and finally flees to the park where he sits, contemplates the injustice of his retirement, and plots ways to be reinstated. Finally he hits on a daring maneuver. Knowing that the president of the parent company is a mysteriously remote figure, Hodges decides to impersonate him, change some of the rules and get his job back. Excited, he starts to compose an interesting letter!

    Director:Don Weis

    Writer:Unknown

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    #15 - Cavalcade

    S1:E110/5/1955

    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.

    Director:Lewis Allen

    Writer:Unknown

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    #16 - Yacht on the High Sea

    S1:E81/11/1956

    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.

    Director:Ted Post

    Writer:Unknown

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    #17 - One Life

    S1:E91/25/1956

    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.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    #18 - In Times Like These

    S1:E112/22/1956

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

    Director:William A. Seiter

    Writer:Unknown

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    #19 - Mr. Belvedere

    S1:E144/18/1956

    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.

    Director:James V. Kern

    Writer:John L. Greene

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    Writer:John L. Greene
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    #20 - Overnight Haul

    S1:E165/16/1956

    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.

    Director:Jules Munshin

    Writer:Leonard Freeman

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    #21 - The Empty Room

    S1:E175/30/1956

    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.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Dale Eunson

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    #22 - The Hefferan Family

    S1:E186/13/1956

    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.

    Director:Jules Munshin

    Writer:Unknown

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    #23 - Child of the Regiment

    S2:E110/3/1956

    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.

    Director:Lewis Allen

    Writer:DeWitt Bodeen

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    Writer:DeWitt Bodeen
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    #24 - The Money Maker

    S2:E310/31/1956

    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.

    Director:Jerry Thorpe

    Writer:Unknown

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    #25 - The Last Patriarch

    S2:E511/28/1956

    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.

    Director:Lewis Allen

    Writer:Unknown

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