Season 3

E1. Man in the Cellar

Sep 30, 1954 · 30m

A little girl who regularly talks to imaginary friends grows frustrated when her parents refuse to believe that there is a real man in the cellar.

E2. Never Explain

Oct 7, 1954 · 30m

A novice social worker is dispatched to the home of a widower who refuses to send his children to school.

E3. Interlude

Oct 14, 1954 · 30m

A young woman from a wealthy family is graduating from an exclusive school with neither her parents nor close friends attending. In her lonliness, she becomes infatuated with an older man, a divorced newspaper reporter.

E4. The Wallet

Oct 21, 1954 · 30m

A French waiter with more pride than money will not stand for his sickly wife to be admitted to a free public hospital. When a wealthy customer leaves behind a wallet containing thousands of dollars, the server takes it to upgrade his wife's medical care. Their son also becomes a thief to pay the bills.

E5. The Adolescent

Oct 28, 1954 · 30m

A school teacher on the disciplinery board, finds herself investigating her nephew's misconduct.

E6. The Contest

Nov 4, 1954 · 30m

The head of detectives runs into problems when he suspect his fiancé has committed murder.

E7. Vote Of Confidence

Nov 11, 1954 · 30m

A con man, recently released from prison, attempts to recoup his fortunes by convincing an heiress' secretary that he needs funds to run an orphanage.

E8. My Own Dear Dragon

Nov 18, 1954 · 30m

A successful playwright does his best to avoid reading the script written by his young new wife. She can't understand why he refuses to encourage her. At a party celebrating his 25th year in the theatre, he reveals the incident from his past that causes him to discourage her writing.

E9. Marked Down

Nov 25, 1954 · 30m

A woman who works at a fancy dress shop is determined to meet and marry the millionaire whose office is next door. Once she is asked out, she realizes that money doesn't make a person. Meanwhile, a young boy is buying a dress on layaway for his mother's birthday, but there's more to his story.

E10. Meet A Lonely Man

Dec 2, 1954 · 30m

An attractive young lady mistakes a lonely hotel desk clerk for a Texas oil millionaire she'd once met. Loving the attention she's lavishing on him, he plays along...until his big spending catches up with him.

E11. Bourbon Street

Dec 9, 1954 · 30m

A musician returns to New Orleans after breaking into the bigtime. Though his ex-wife deserted him, he is bent on revenge after receiving an anonymous letter telling him she committed suicide after being mistreated by her lover.

E12. A Championship Affair

Dec 16, 1954 · 30m

A renowned professional bridge champion (Boyer) returns to (openly) woo his long lost, but married, love (Miles). In circuitous fashion, his unselfish love leads him to (secretly) help her bridge-addicted husband (Ross Elliott) choose to finally gain success in life.

E13. The Answer

Dec 23, 1954 · 30m

A cynical Hollywood writer returns to his hometown. At a bar he meets a drunken, disillusioned playwright. The writer challenges the playwright to relate his play, which he does, holding the audience rapt in his gripping recital.

E14. Go Ahead And Jump

Dec 30, 1954 · 30m

Eddie, a cab driver, picks up a sad looking fare and brings him to a hotel where he witnesses the man being humiliated by his ex-wife. When the man asks to be taken to the middle of the biggest bridge, Eddie uses some every day, hard-nosed psychology, and a little lie, to make the man see that life is worth living.

E15. A Bag Of Oranges

Jan 6, 1955 · 30m

Believing her husband innocent of the crime he is to be executed for, his wife takes up a vigil the night of the scheduled execution at a nearby café. A curious reporter wonders about the bag of oranges she carries with her.

E16. Stuffed Shirt

Jan 11, 1955 · 30m

A seemingly cuckolded working-class husband (Boyer), in tropical setting, must resort to a life-risking ruse (in court) to rid himself of his bigamous, greedy and potentially blackmailing wife who would not otherwise reveal her own lack of virtuosity.

E17. Breakfast in Bed

Jan 20, 1955 · 30m

An artist is enticed away from his lucrative commercial advertising contracts by a young model who shows obvious disappointment that he is not striving to achieve his potential as a creative artist.

E18. The Good Sister

Jan 27, 1955 · 30m

A nun in German orphanage during World War II will is determined to marry her oldest orphan to an American serviceman in order to secure a future for her.

E19. A Kiss for Mr. Lincoln

Feb 3, 1955 · 30m

A young woman teaches her timid husband some things about love when he tries to show her the importance of supporting Abraham Lincoln for the Presidency.

E20. Fair Trial

Feb 10, 1955 · 30m

Chicago television newsman Dave Sheridan (Dick Powell) arrives in a small Ohio town, Hadenville, where Richard Fulton has just been lynched. The chief of police (Edward R. Platt) tells Sheridan he confessed to killing sweet old Mrs. Winslow and the town went wild. Sheridan plans on doing a piece exposing how sick the town is. Hotel clerk Carol (Jean Howell) wants him to give the town a "fair trial".

E21. The Wild Bunch

Feb 17, 1955 · 30m

After a charmer sweeps a pretty widow off her feet and marries her in haste, she confesses that she has money and three children. He has no problem with the money, but the thought of instant fatherhood gives him pause.

E22. Tusitala

Feb 24, 1955 · 30m

The true story of Robert Louis Stevenson's stay on the island of Tahiti. The islanders have come to revere him as Tusitala-Teller of Tales. They believe he is magical and powerful. When the two opposing chiefs of the island plan war against one another out of petty jealousy, Tusitala uses his wits to convince both chiefs to make peace and save the tranquility of the island.

E23. The Returning

Mar 3, 1955 · 30m

An American professor in Japan falls in love with a half-breed former student in 1941. He is fired for violating school policy, so he returns to America, resolved to bring his intended to America once settled. World War II intervenes.

E24. Eddie`s Place

Mar 10, 1955 · 30m

Ellen is released from a punitive work farm without means, but Eddie befriends her and gives her a job at his restaurant. She wants to go straight, but Eddie pressures her to cover for some of his own shady activities.

E25. Henry And The Psychopathic Horse

Mar 17, 1955 · 30m

After falling for a medical student, a New York City psychiatrist travels to her family ranch to announce their engagement. Her father hates city slickers and expect her to marry a rancher to run the estate. To win his woman's hand, Henry's challenged to ride an unbroken stallion known as a "killer." He puts his professional skills to work on the horse.

E26. Night At Lark Cottage

Mar 24, 1955 · 25m

A woman with no companion other than her young daughter knows that an escaped convict is on his way to kill her.

E27. The Girl On The Bridge

Mar 31, 1955 · 30m

After drawing and painting an unknown young woman he met on a bridge near his vacation retreat, an artist (Dick Powell) is desperate to find her again when the painting begins calling to him.

E28. The Collar

Apr 7, 1955 · 30m

The night before the military plans to massacre a warring tribe of Blackfoot Indians, an imprisoned and tortured priest comes out from the tribe to ask for mercy.

E29. Madeira, Madeira

Apr 14, 1955 · 30m

The untimely death of his artist friend causes a failing writer to visit the widow to pay his condolences and pursue suspicions about her. When he arrives, the cheerful widow presents him with an offer he finds both puzzling and attractive. His acceptance leads him to the discovery of the fate of his friend.

E30. With All My Heart

Apr 21, 1955 · 30m

An overweight woman watches her doctor boyfriend marry someone else.