- 8.4/1020 votesLoading...
#1 - The Pink Burro
Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 7/15/1959
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1010 votesLoading...
#2 - The Inner Panic
Season 10 Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1962
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1025 votesLoading...
#3 - The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 2/22/1961
Charlie Gordon, a retarded man working in a bakery, is made a genius through medical technology.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1010 votesLoading...
#4 - POW
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/27/1953
The story of the psychological torment of American soldiers after they return home from Commmunist prison camps.
Director: Alex Segal
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1020 votesLoading...
#5 - Dangerous Interlude
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 1/14/1959
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/109 votesLoading...
#6 - Man on the Mountaintop
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 11/15/1961
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1015 votesLoading...
#7 - Act of Terror
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 12/30/1959
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10179 votesLoading...
#8 - Bang the Drum Slowly
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1956
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.
Director: Alex Segal
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1017 votesLoading...
#9 - Scandal at Peppernut
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 3/29/1955
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1013 votesLoading...
#10 - Hedda Gabler
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/5/1954
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1062 votesLoading...
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#12 - Man in the Corner
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 3/1/1955
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1013 votesLoading...
#13 - Scene of the Crime
Season 9 Episode 22 - Aired 6/27/1962
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/106 votesLoading...
#14 - No Time for Sergeants
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 3/15/1955
A country bumpkin is drafted into the Air Force and wreaks havoc.
Director: Alex Segal
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/10123 votesLoading...
#15 - A Wind from the South
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 9/14/1955
A story about an Irish country girl's first love
Director: Daniel Petrie
Writer: James Costigan
- 6.2/1010 votesLoading...
#16 - The Rise and Fall of Silas Lapham
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/27/1954
Though rough around the edges, a self-made man tries to get his daughter admitted to Boston's high society 400.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.6/1010 votesLoading...
- 4.6/109 votesLoading...
#18 - Never Know the End
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 1/29/1958
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 4.4/1011 votesLoading...
#19 - Incident in an Alley
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1955
No description available
Director: Sidney Lumet
Writer: Rod Serling
- NaN/100 votesLoading...
#20 - Hope for a Harvest
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/10/1953
A story examining the seeming loss of the American work ethic, as well as the issues of racism and prejudice.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#21 - The Wedding
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/24/1953
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#22 - The Man in Possession
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/8/1953
A penniless society girl falls in love with the handsome sheriff's man sent to keep an eye on her belongings.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#23 - The Vanishing Point
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/22/1953
In Paris, the Head of the Missing Persons Bureau disappears and his assistant, hoping for a promotion, searches for him.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#24 - The Rise of Carthage
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/19/1954
A power-mad businessman finds true values in a desert utopia called Carthage.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#25 - Papa Is All
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/2/1954
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The United States Steel Hour
Every episode of The United States Steel Hour ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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...
Network:ABC
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".