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All Episodes of The 20th Century Fox Hour

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All 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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Season 1

  • Cavalcade
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    Cavalcade

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/1955

    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: N/A

  • Laura
    6.2/1045 votes
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    Laura

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/19/1955

    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: N/A

  • The Ox-Bow Incident
    7.6/1029 votes
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    The Ox-Bow Incident

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/2/1955

    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

  • The Late George Apley
    7.4/1017 votes
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    The Late George Apley

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/16/1955

    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: N/A

  • Christopher Bean
    8.3/1022 votes
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    Christopher Bean

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/30/1955

    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: N/A

  • The Miracle on 34th Street
    6.1/10352 votes
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    The Miracle on 34th Street

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/14/1955

    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.

  • Man on the Ledge
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    Man on the Ledge

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/28/1955

    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: N/A

  • Yacht on the High Sea
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    Yacht on the High Sea

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/11/1956

    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: N/A

  • One Life
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    One Life

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/25/1956

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Crack-Up
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    Crack-Up

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 2/8/1956

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

    Director: Ted Post

    Writer: N/A

  • In Times Like These
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    In Times Like These

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/22/1956

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

    Director: William A. Seiter

    Writer: N/A

  • Deception
    7.8/1024 votes
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    Deception

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/7/1956

    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

  • Gun in His Hand
    4.8/109 votes
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    Gun in His Hand

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/4/1956

    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: N/A

  • Mr. Belvedere
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    Mr. Belvedere

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/18/1956

    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

  • Broken Arrow
    7.9/1019 votes
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    Broken Arrow

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 5/2/1956

    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: N/A

  • Overnight Haul
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    Overnight Haul

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 5/16/1956

    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

  • The Empty Room
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    The Empty Room

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 5/30/1956

    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: N/A

    Writer: Dale Eunson

  • The Hefferan Family
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    The Hefferan Family

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 6/13/1956

    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: N/A