Season 8

1955–1956

Sep 19, 1955 · 60m

An ex-football hero who's now a successful businessman tries to mold his son in his own image even though his wife opposes it.

E2. Three Empty Rooms

Sep 26, 1955 · 60m

Two unhappy newlyweds are failing miserably in their relationship and find the only solidarity that they can find.

E3. A Likely Story

Oct 3, 1955 · 60m

A broken down vaudeville actor sets out to collect $30,000 and almost makes it.

E4. Uncle Ed and Circumstances

Oct 10, 1955 · 60m

Uncle Ed is a contestant on the game show ""The $64,000 Question""

E5. A Most Contagious Game

Oct 17, 1955 · 60m

In order to get his story, a reporter joins an underworld gang.

E6. Private History

Oct 24, 1955 · 60m

A son runs for public office based on nothing more than his famous father's reputation. Dad didn't think to much of him - and says so in his private diaries. The candidate's job now is to discreetly remove all of the unflattering references.

E7. Split Level

Oct 31, 1955 · 60m

Despite the opposition of their families, two 65-year-olds plan to marry. Though their families share a split-level house, their lives are miles apart: the woman is from a once-prominent southern family, and the man is an Italian immigrant.

E8. Shakedown Cruise

Nov 7, 1955 · 60m

A Navy crew is trapped in a crippled submarine on the ocean floor. The captain and his second in command must organize the men, who, before the accident, were torn by petty grievances.

E9. The Judge and the Hangman

Nov 14, 1955 · 60m

In Bern, Switzerland, the commissioner of police solves the puzzling death of a fellow officer.

E10. Julie

Nov 21, 1955 · 60m

A teenage girl tries to increase the understanding between her football hero boyfriend and his widower father.

E11. The Man Who Caught the Ball at Coogan's Bluff

Nov 28, 1955 · 60m

A shy, middle-aged baseball fan becomes a national celebrity after making a spectacular catch of a homerun ball.

E12. Blow Up at Cortland

Dec 5, 1955 · 60m

The warden of Cortland Prison is up against the psychopathic leader of a group of rioters.

E13. The Strongbox

Dec 12, 1955 · 60m

After the death of a Foreign Aid official, the reputation of the American Embassy in London comes into question. Was he a traitor or philanthropist?

E14. Miracle at Potter's Farm

Dec 19, 1955 · 60m

Brucie and his elder sister, Jen, are two of five children who face separation and removal from the family farm after their father's death.

E15. Fair Play

Dec 26, 1955 · 60m

A young army officer (Dewey Martin) waiting assignment is picked to defend a soldier in a court martial. The soldier (James Gregory) is charged with a murder that was actually committed by the two MPs who arrested him. The officer risks his career in search of material that can exonerate the soldier.

E16. Dino

Jan 2, 1956 · 60m

Dino, who has just been released from reform school, is sullen and uncooperative with his family and his guidance counselors, but he knows that, if he returns to his life of crime, his adoring kid brother will be with him.

E17. The Talented Mr. Ripley

Jan 9, 1956 · 60m

Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to from New York to Italy to retrieve a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy, named Dickie Greenleaf. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.

E18. Johnny August

Jan 16, 1956 · 60m

Johnny August is hesitant about helping track down a blackmailer in Mexico and winds up with a murder instead.

E19. A Public Figure

Jan 23, 1956 · 60m

A successful TV actor becomes ensnared in an exposé in a scandal magazine.

E20. My Son Johnny

Jan 30, 1956 · 60m

A magazine writer, married to his part-time editor, is vaguely discontented with his life. Then one night he learns that after many years of marriage, he is going to be a father. The news has an extraordinary effect on the lives of the couple.

E21. The Silent Gun

Feb 6, 1956 · 60m

A famous gunfighter of the Wild West teaches his young ranch boy companion an important lesson in life. A team of men set out to sell a new Colt firearm and one is a sharpshooter, the other a salesman. One of the men is the famous Ringo Kid. When his identity is learned, there is trouble.

E22. Manhattan Duet

Feb 13, 1955 · 60m

Two columnists cover the political scene and are practically identical twins. One is married, one is single and the wife of one wishes the other would get married and move to the suburbs. When the confirmed bachelor does announce plans for an impending marriage the two men decide to have adjoining penthouse apartments and the wives have other ideas.

E23. Circle of Guilt

Feb 20, 1956 · 60m

A woman is found dead on a lonely beach outside a small town.

E24. Always Welcome

Feb 27, 1956 · 60m

A widow takes in orphans and unwanted children with loving care. She finds her latest recruit is a little more troublesome than the others.

E25. A Favor for Sam

Mar 5, 1956 · 60m

A quick-tempered cab driver picks up what appears to be two men and a drunk. On second look the drunk proves to be a corpse.

E26. Flower of Pride

Mar 12, 1956 · 60m

A proud Florentine duchess's prayer to the Saint of the Impossible is answered in an unexpected manner. The Italian duchess has disowned her niece because the girl insists on living a gypsy-like life as a nightclub dancer. However, the arrival of a seemingly irreverent painter penetrates the stony facade of an archly unemotional duchess and humanizes her.

E27. The Laughter of Giants

Mar 19, 1956 · 60m

A self-made man domineering in nature has a beautiful young wife who is interested in art. He introduces her to a young male artist to teach her to paint and learns a valuable lesson.

E28. The Tale of St. Emergency

Mar 26, 1956 · 60m

An angel comes to Earth to help clean up a corrupt town.

E29. This Will Do Nicely

Apr 2, 1956 · 60m

A man is dead. His wife calls in his best friend who is an amateur sleuth who calls it suicide but she calls it murder and says that he did it.

E30. The Arena

Apr 9, 1956 · 60m

Arriving in Washington, a freshman senator gets an experienced advisor who warns him not to continue a heated feud with his state's senior salon, held over from his father. But later in a drunken jag, he blurts out secret evidence that can end the career of the older man.