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The Best Episodes of The 20th Century Fox Hour

Every episode of The 20th Century Fox Hour ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The 20th Century Fox Hour!

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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 shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 1 Episode 10 - Crack-Up
    9.5/10(191 votes)

    S1:E10

    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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  2. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 2 Episode 2 - Stranger in the Night
    9.5/10(20 votes)

    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.

    Director:Lewis Allen
    Writer:DeWitt Bodeen

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  3. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 2 Episode 4 - Smoke Jumpers
    8.9/10(10 votes)

    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.

    Director:Albert S. Rogell
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 1 Episode 5 - Christopher Bean
    8.4/10(28 votes)

    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.

    Director:Lewis Allen
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 1 Episode 4 - The Late George Apley
    7.8/10(19 votes)

    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.

    Director:Jules Munshin
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 1 Episode 12 - Deception
    7.8/10(25 votes)

    S1:E12

    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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  7. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 1 Episode 15 - Broken Arrow
    7.6/10(22 votes)

    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.

    Director:Robert Stevenson
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 1 Episode 3 - The Ox-Bow Incident
    7.5/10(32 votes)

    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.

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:David Dortort

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  9. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 2 Episode 7 - Operation Cicero
    7.2/10(64 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 1 Episode 7 - Man on the Ledge
    7.1/10(71 votes)

    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

    Director:Lewis Allen
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 2 Episode 16 - Deep Water
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E16

    The ruthless head of an underwater demolition team, aka the frogmen, is unpopular with his men when he comes head to head with his chief petty officer just as an enemy torpedo lodges, unexploded, in a section of the ship's sick bay.

    Director:Roy Del Ruth
    Writer:Oscar Millard

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  12. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 1 Episode 2 - Laura
    6.3/10(47 votes)

    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.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 1 Episode 6 - The Miracle on 34th Street
    6.1/10(388 votes)

    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.

    Director:Robert Stevenson
    Writer:John Monks Jr.

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  14. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 2 Episode 17 - The Great American Hoax
    5.6/10(11 votes)

    S2:E17

    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. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 1 Episode 13 - Gun in His Hand
    4.8/10(9 votes)

    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.

    Director:Lewis Allen
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 1 Episode 1 - Cavalcade
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    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.

    Director:Lewis Allen
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 1 Episode 8 - Yacht on the High Sea
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    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.

    Director:Ted Post
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 1 Episode 9 - One Life
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 1 Episode 11 - In Times Like These
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E11

    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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  20. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 1 Episode 14 - Mr. Belvedere
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    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.

    Director:James V. Kern
    Writer:John L. Greene

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  21. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 1 Episode 16 - Overnight Haul
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    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.

    Director:Jules Munshin
    Writer:Leonard Freeman

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  22. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 1 Episode 17 - The Empty Room
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Dale Eunson

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  23. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 1 Episode 18 - The Hefferan Family
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    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.

    Director:Jules Munshin
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 2 Episode 1 - Child of the Regiment
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    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.

    Director:Lewis Allen
    Writer:DeWitt Bodeen

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  25. The 20th Century Fox Hour Season 2 Episode 3 - The Money Maker
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    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.

    Director:Jerry Thorpe
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Crack-Up" is the best rated episode of "The 20th Century Fox Hour". It scored 9.5/10 based on 191 votes. Directed by Ted Post and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/8/1956. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Stranger in the Night".