Season 3

1950–1951

Aug 28, 1950 · 60m

A former OSS officer, Chris Jackson, is now teaching at a small university. Just as he's named head of the history department, an OSS agent asks him to rejoin. His services are needed by the government in "zone four."

E2. Look Homeward, Hayseed

Sep 4, 1950 · 60m

A city-bred radio announcer thinks that he's the best thing that happened to the rural broadcasting station where he is now working until he gets a rude country style awakening.

E3. Mist with the Tamara Geba

Sep 11, 1950 · 60m

A young couple out for a romantic evening find themselves caught up in a mysterious encounter leading to murder.

E4. Trilby

Sep 18, 1950 · 60m

The story of a young woman Trilby who is hypnotized by Svengali into becoming a great singer

E5. Away from It All

Sep 25, 1950 · 60m

A Navy Lieutenant pilot and a Sergeant crash land on an island and stumble upon a lavish estate where a group of wealthy people all thought to have died now live.

E6. The Passionate Pilgrim

Oct 2, 1950 · 60m

The story of Sister Elizabeth Wheeler, who accompanied Florence Nightingale to Crimea to help the British wounded. Dismissed for speaking out against the atrocities, she was later honored by Robert E. Lee for her service to the Confederate Army.

E7. The Spectre of Alexander Wolff

Oct 9, 1950 · 60m

A French newsman returns to Marseilles to relive his killing of a suspected Gestapo agent when he was a member of the French Underground.

E8. Good for Thirty Days

Oct 16, 1950 · 60m

An innocent gets caught up in a plot involving kidnapping, bribery and skulduggery.

E9. The Road to Jericho

Oct 23, 1950 · 60m

A woman has a clandestine meeting with a man, other than her husband and uncovers some murder evidence that will prevent an innocent man from going to prison. The woman's husband is the assistant district attorney who is trying to send the innocent man to prison.

E10. Wuthering Heights

Oct 30, 1950 · 60m

Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.

E11. The Blonde Comes First

Nov 6, 1950 · 60m

An arrogant conman who sells a fraudulent household cleaner takes a young woman under his wing without realizing she's a reporter.

E12. The Last Cruise

Nov 13, 1950 · 60m

Story about submariners

E13. The Floor of Heaven

Nov 20, 1950 · 60m

The story of young love and family pride.

E14. The Shadow of a Man

Nov 27, 1950 · 60m

After the death of Persis Bradford, both her son Francis and her second husband Alan are left with the cold empty life which leaves them to deal with their grief in an even colder atmosphere.

E15. Letter from Cairo

Dec 4, 1950 · 60m

Two members of the U. S. Intelligence Service become involved with Czechoslovakian patriots in exile in Austria. Their journey with this underground group takes them from the dungeons of Vienna to the high society world of New York City.

E16. Mary Lou

Dec 11, 1950 · 60m

A rich old woman is determined to give her eight-year-old granddaughter a happy childhood.

E17. Little Women (Part 1)

Dec 18, 1950 · 60m

Classic tale of the March Sisters; Part 1 concentrates on Meg's story.

E18. Little Women (Part 2)

Dec 25, 1950 · 60m

Classic tale of the March Sisters; Part 2 tells Jo's story.

E19. Collector's Item

Jan 1, 1951 · 60m

An antiques dealer makes his own rare items when he cannot find them

E20. England Made Me

Jan 8, 1951 · 60m

Kate persuades her brother Anthony, who has lied to get jobs, borrows things and then leaves in a hurry, to be her boyfriend's bodyguard, a powerful Swedish financier.

E21. Track of the Cat

Jan 15, 1951 · 60m

While Curt Bridges tracks down the panther that killed his brother Arthur, his family argues and bickers over whether younger brother Harold should marry a much-despised neighbor girl.

E22. The Trial of John Peter Zenger

Jan 22, 1951 · 60m

The story of John Peter Zenger who fought British rule in the American colonies and printed materials against England's King George. This case is important to American historians and champions of the First Amendment because it represented a strong repudiation of British libel law and also marked an important fissure in the relationship between the American colonies and the mother country.

E23. Public Servant

Jan 29, 1951 · 60m

Pops Thatcher, an elderly resident of a rundown county poor farm, is appointed to the town council. His battle to save the farm exposes the corruption on the council and breaths new life into the local newspaper.

E24. The Target

Feb 5, 1951 · 60m

A strained marriage is brought to the breaking point when the wife's former lover arrives and a target shooting incident ends in tragedy.

E25. None But My Foe

Feb 12, 1951 · 60m

A man writes an anonymous letter claiming he is going to poison a town's water supply, setting off a panic.

E26. The Way Things Are

Feb 19, 1951 · 60m

When Lucy and Barkley Cooper summon their grown children to announce that the bank has foreclosed the mortgage on their house, they are sure the children will provide a remedy.

E27. The Ambassadors

Feb 26, 1951 · 60m

A man sent to Paris to retrieve a woman's son from his corrupt life there is profoundly changed by the city.

E28. One Pair of Hands

Mar 5, 1951 · 60m

A bored debutante decides to become a cook, because she once took a French cuisine class. What ensues is a comedic "Upstairs, Downstairs" tale between the wealthy upper class and the servants.

E29. A Chill on the Wind

Mar 12, 1951 · 60m

A couple encounter troubles aroused by selfish love and deceit.

E30. Hangman's House

Mar 19, 1951 · 60m

In 1911, two young Irishmen compete for the hand of the daughter of Ireland's Chief Justice.