Episodes
1. A Thing to Fight For
September 26, 1958
A peace-loving Civil War veteran seeks refuge from the violence of war as overseer on a Florida plantation.
Guest Stars:
Rod Taylor, Kim Charney, Rod Steiger, Chick Chandler, Martin Landau
3. The Hasty Hanging
October 10, 1958
A man and his wife are sentenced to hang without a trial.
Guest Stars:
Fess Parker, John Smith, Emmett Lynn, Robert Middleton
5. The Trouble With Ruth
October 24, 1958
Not even her husband knows that Ruth Elliot is a kleptomaniac. But hoodlum Joseph Libo finds out about her illness and threatens to tell her husband unless she helps him carry out a robbery.
Guest Stars:
George Macready, Jeanne Crain, Adam Kennedy
7. False Impression
November 7, 1958
A crippled dental technician falls in love with a pretty girl who refuses to have anything to do with him. He decides to steal a fortune in jewels in order to force the girl to overlook his physical handicap and marry him.
Guest Stars:
Patricia Breslin, Macdonald Carey, Steven Geray
9. Last Edition
November 21, 1958
Newspaper editor Sheldon Black is being shoved aside for the publisher's slimy protégé, Dean Lowell, who passed Black's ideas off as his own. Before exiting, Black orders Lowell to cover the execution of a condemned man that Lowell was friends with in the war. If the reptile Lowell had been willing to soil his "war hero" reputation and testify, he could have saved the man from the electric chair. Instead, he remains quiet and turns in quite a news story.
Guest Stars:
Eddie Albert
10. Coney Island Winter
November 28, 1958
Guest Stars:
Robert Fuller, Kathleen Crowley, Edmond O'Brien
11. Third Son
December 5, 1958
The youngest brother is torn between whether to follow in the footsteps of his brother who is a frontier marshal or the other one who is a dashing gambler.
Guest Stars:
Steve Forrest, Virginia Gregg
13. No Answer
December 19, 1958
A swindler who's known for separating rich widows from their money is the lead suspect in the murder of this latest "pigeon." His alibi seems pretty air tight: he was with the investigating cop when the murder supposedly took place.
Guest Stars:
Donald Cook, Keenan Wynn, Angela Greene
15. A Fistful of Love
January 2, 1959
Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.
Guest Stars:
Barbara Stuart, Lee Marvin, Joseph Mell, John Hart, Herbert Ellis
17. You Can't Win 'Em All
January 16, 1959
A professional football player refuses to admit that his playing days are over.
Guest Stars:
Karen Steele, Guy Madison, Burt Reynolds
18. And Practically Strangers
January 30, 1959
From childhood Alan Mitchell has always felt his abilities and achievements overshadowed by those of his younger brother Hugh. When Hugh requisitions Alan to work with him on a nuclear bomb project it puts an additional strain on their already tense relationship.
Guest Stars:
John Dall, Herbert Anderson, Ivan Triesault, Richard Carlson, Paula Raymond
20. The Man Who Had No Friends
February 13, 1959
Champion Barry Brannon retires from a successful career as a fighter and goes into the restaurant business with his long-time manager, Charlie. When Barry proposes to his girl, he finds that she is in love with Charlie.
Guest Stars:
Jacqueline Scott, Anthony Caruso, Jeanne Cooper, Ralph Meeker
22. On the Brink
February 27, 1959
Story of an intense hatred between father and son.
Guest Stars:
Mercedes McCambridge, Richard Beymer, Barry Kelley
24. Ivy League
March 13, 1959
After 30 years in the Marine Corps, Bull Mitchell retires and enrolls as a college freshman.
Guest Stars:
Arte Johnson, Bartlett Robinson, Sheila Bromley, Mary Tyler Moore, Doug McClure
26. The Salted Mine
March 27, 1959
In the Old West, a beautiful mine owner hires a detective to discover if she has been swindled when she bought a mine.
Guest Stars:
Ernie Kovacs, Marie Windsor, Scott Brady, Frank Ferguson, Jean Allison
27. The Dreamer
April 3, 1959
Guest Stars:
Sue Ane Langdon, John Cassavetes, Miriam Colon, Herbert Anderson
29. The Case of the Two Sisters
May 1, 1959
Guest Stars:
Michael Wilding, Phyllis Coates, Fred Clark
32. The Rumor
June 5, 1959
The guys of the billing department at Brittanica Insurance heard that one of them is about to be let go. After breaking up with his girlfriend-of-the-week, office playboy Eddie shoots off his mouth and says he's gonna quit and leave town. Of course, he reconsiders as soon as he meets another woman.
Guest Stars:
Hal March, Pat Crowley, Herbert Anderson, Richard Collier, Alice Backes
33. The Miss and the Missiles
June 12, 1959
Guest Stars:
Michael J. Pollard, Jocelyn Brando, Gisele MacKenzie, Kathleen Freeman
34. Hostage
June 19, 1959
A motorcycle cop becomes hostage to a cold-blooded slayer who plans to use him to escape police roadblocks.
Guest Stars:
Charles Seel, John Hart, Olive Sturgess, Russell Thorson, Robert Vaughn
35. Cowboy Five Seven
July 17, 1959
This dramatization was about a typical day in the lives of the men of SAC, was made by Stewart, a reserve officer in the air force, at Westover (Mass.) Air Base. No professional actors are used; officers and enlisted men and their families portray themselves.
Guest Stars:
James Stewart
