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The Best Episodes of The United States Steel Hour

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The Best Episodes of The United States Steel Hour

The United States Steel Hour is an anthology series which brought hour-long dramas to television from 1953 to 1963. The television series and the radio...

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  1. 8.4/10(20 votes)

    #1 - The Pink Burro

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    S6:E24

    Former vaudeville singer Lil Andrews ambitiously makes preparations for her daughter's professional singing debut. She is unaware that the girl, who is living out of town with an aunt while taking singing lessons, has secretly married and given up plans for a singing career.

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  2. 8.4/10(10 votes)

    #2 - The Inner Panic

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    S10:E2

    A young man with a speech impediment who is having a hard time landing his first job gets a job in the mailroom of a big company through his mother's intervention and quickly gains confidence, loses his stutter, and finds love with a young woman who works at the same company.

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  3. 8.3/10(26 votes)

    #3 - The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon

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    S8:E13

    Charlie Gordon, a retarded man working in a bakery, is made a genius through medical technology.

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  4. 8.0/10(10 votes)

    #4 - POW

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    S1:E1

    The story of the psychological torment of American soldiers after they return home from Commmunist prison camps.

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    Director:Alex Segal
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  5. 7.9/10(10 votes)

    #5 - Man on the Mountaintop

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    S9:E6

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  6. 7.7/10(20 votes)

    #6 - Dangerous Interlude

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    S6:E11

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  8. 7.3/10(181 votes)

    #7 - Bang the Drum Slowly

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    S4:E2

    The powerful moving story of the friendship between the star pitcher of a baseball team and a catcher who is dying from Hodgkin's Disease.

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    Director:Alex Segal
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  9. 7.0/10(13 votes)

    #8 - Hedda Gabler

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    S1:E6

    In a small backward Norwegian town in the 1860s, a woman who is married to a scholar whom she does not love subtly asserts her power over the people in her life.

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  10. 6.9/10(14 votes)

    #9 - Scene of the Crime

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    S9:E22

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  11. 6.5/10(6 votes)

    #10 - No Time for Sergeants

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    S2:E15

    A country bumpkin is drafted into the Air Force and wreaks havoc.

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    Director:Alex Segal
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  12. 6.4/10(127 votes)

    #11 - A Wind from the South

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    S3:E6

    A story about an Irish country girl's first love

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  13. 6.2/10(10 votes)

    #12 - The Rise and Fall of Silas Lapham

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    S1:E14

    Though rough around the edges, a self-made man tries to get his daughter admitted to Boston's high society 400.

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  14. 5.6/10(10 votes)

    #13 - Sideshow

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    S3:E31

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  15. 4.6/10(9 votes)

    #14 - Never Know the End

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    S5:E11

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  16. 4.4/10(11 votes)

    #15 - Incident in an Alley

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    S3:E11

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    Director:Sidney Lumet
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    #16 - Hope for a Harvest

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    S1:E2

    A story examining the seeming loss of the American work ethic, as well as the issues of racism and prejudice.

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    #17 - The Wedding

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    #18 - The Man in Possession

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    S1:E4

    A penniless society girl falls in love with the handsome sheriff's man sent to keep an eye on her belongings.

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    #19 - The Vanishing Point

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    S1:E5

    In Paris, the Head of the Missing Persons Bureau disappears and his assistant, hoping for a promotion, searches for him.

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    #20 - The Rise of Carthage

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    S1:E7

    A power-mad businessman finds true values in a desert utopia called Carthage.

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    #21 - Papa Is All

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    S1:E8

    A story about a Pennsylvania Dutch Mennonite family in the 1940s, in which the parents adhere to their faith while their two children desire to be more ""worldly"" until they feel the personal call to the Mennonite faith.

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    #22 - Highway

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    #23 - Morning Star

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    S1:E10

    A story revolving around a widow and her extended family on New York's Lower East Side, spanning the years 1910-1931, including such historic events as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, World War I, and the Great Depression, events that shaped the lives and destinies of the family.

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    #24 - Welcome Home

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    S1:E11

    The story of a beloved housekeeper and nanny who doesn't want to retire.

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    #25 - The Last Notch

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    S1:E12

    A story about a gunfighter who didn't particularly care for gunfighting.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Pink Burro" is the best rated episode of "The United States Steel Hour". It scored 8.4/10 based on 20 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 7/15/1959. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Inner Panic".