Season 3

Directed by John Frankenheimer · George Roy Hill · Franklin J. Schaffner

1958–1959

Sep 25, 1958 · 90m

In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with anti-Semitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.

E2. Days of Wine and Roses

Oct 2, 1958 · 90m

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

E3. The Time of Your Life

Oct 9, 1958 · 90m

William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the characters drift in and out of the bar and each other's lives, giving voice to Saroyan's philosophies as they randomly comment about the impending world war, the beauty of art, and traditional notions of good and evil.

An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.

E6. Word from a Sealed-Off Box

Oct 30, 1958 · 90m

A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.

E7. Heart of Darkness

Nov 6, 1958 · 90m

A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.

E8. Old Man

Nov 20, 1958 · 90m

To fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts.

E9. The Return of Ansel Gibbs

Nov 27, 1958 · 90m

After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.

E10. Free Weekend

Dec 4, 1958 · 90m

E11. Seven Against the Wall

Dec 11, 1958 · 90m

The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.

E12. The Nutcracker

Dec 25, 1958 · 90m

This telecast of George Balanchine's famous production was broadcast only four years after it was premiered by the New York City Ballet. This was the only episode of the series televised in color.

E13. Face of a Hero

Jan 1, 1959 · 90m

E14. The Wings of the Dove

Jan 8, 1959 · 90m

An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.

E15. The Blue Men

Jan 15, 1959 · 90m

E16. The Velvet Alley

Jan 22, 1959 · 90m

Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.

E17. A Quiet Game of Cards

Jan 29, 1959 · 90m

A few friends meet each weekend for a quiet game of cards. But they're bored with poker and, in trying to find another diversion, gradually find themselves plotting a hypothetical murder. It is hypothetical, isn't it?

E18. Child of Our Time

Feb 5, 1959 · 90m

War deprives Tanguy of his childhood. When his mother returns to Spain to oppose the Franco regime, he is left in Nazi-occupied Marseilles, France.

A corporate raider plans a hostile takeover. To stall him, pressure is put on a scientist to rush through a new type of engine before all necessary tests have been completed.

E21. The Ding-A-Ling Girl

Feb 26, 1959 · 90m

A housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her.

E22. Made in Japan

Mar 5, 1959 · 90m

A young soldier in occupied Japan after World War II falls in love with a lovely Japanese girl, but is horrified about what his prejudiced family in Philadelphia will think if he takes her home with him.

E23. For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1

Mar 12, 1959 · 90m

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.

E24. For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2

Mar 19, 1959 · 90m

The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.

E25. A Trip to Paradise

Mar 26, 1959 · 90m

E26. In Lonely Expectation

Apr 2, 1959 · 90m

E27. The Day Before Atlanta

Apr 9, 1959 · 90m

E28. Judgment at Nuremberg

Apr 16, 1959 · 90m

In the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice.

E29. A Corner of the Garden

Apr 23, 1959 · 90m

E30. Dark December

Apr 30, 1959 · 90m

During World War II, an army doctor struggles to convert a Franciscan monastery into a field hospital.