An unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.
Guest Stars:
Gene Barry, Dorothy McGuire
Guest Stars:
Bill Goodwin, J.M. Kerrigan, Elizabeth Patterson, Martha Hyer, Alexander Campbell
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize. As a result, he gets a promotion, buys presents for all of his family and friends, and proposes to his girl. When the truth comes out, he's not prepared for the consequences.
Guest Stars:
Peter Leeds, Harry Hayden, Sally Corner, James Mason, Alex Nicol
Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.
Guest Stars:
Leonid Kinskey, Fernando Lamas, George Eldredge
A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.
Guest Stars:
James Mason, Vincent Price, Ellen Corby, Marilyn Erskine
Guest Stars:
Joan Freeman, Beverly Garland, Virginia Bruce, Bruce Bennett
Young Master Lacy must make up his mind between a daughter of the Old South and a Northern hussy.
Guest Stars:
Carole Mathews, Olin Howland
Guest Stars:
Jayne Mansfield, Bobby Jordan, George Nader, Joanne Dru
Guest Stars:
Patricia Medina, Robin Hughes, Henry Daniell, Phyllis Stanley
The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case - with tragic results.
Guest Stars:
Joanne Woodward, George Eldredge, Edmond O'Brien, Pierre Watkin, Mae Clarke
Guest Stars:
Murray Hamilton, Onslow Stevens, Gig Young, Betsy Palmer, Louis Jean Heydt
Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when the townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.
Guest Stars:
Rick Jason, Jay Novello, Byron Foulger, Anne Bancroft, J. Carrol Naish
A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.
Guest Stars:
Lillian Bronson, Ruth Hussey, Philip Ober, Paul Bryar, Kathryn Givney
The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results.
Guest Stars:
Elsa Lanchester, Edith Barrett, Sean McClory, Claire Trevor, Isobel Elsom
An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.
Guest Stars:
Shepard Menken, Herbert Heyes, Ray Collins, Laraine Day, Frank Lovejoy
An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.
Guest Stars:
Arlene Dahl, John Howard, Irene Hervey, Robert Arthur
Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.
Guest Stars:
Frances Bavier, James Arness, Ruth Roman, Pat O'Brien
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Guest Stars:
Miriam Hopkins, James Daly, John Wengraf
A couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unexpected sadness and unexpected joy.
Guest Stars:
Chubby Johnson, Paul Birch, Don Taylor, Helen Kleeb, Lauren Chapin
Guest Stars:
Ludwig Stössel, Dan O'Herlihy, Judith Evelyn, Doris Lloyd, James Mason
Olivia Harwood, missionary's widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. When Olivia opens a lodging house Mark becomes her lodger, then her lover. Olivia falls so completely under amoral Mark's spell that he's able to overcome her scruples, and soon she's his willing tool in an ambitious scheme of theft and blackmail...maybe too ambitious.
Guest Stars:
Louis Hayward, Paula Duncan, James Mason, Isobel Elsom, Marilyn Erskine
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
Guest Stars:
Charles Meredith, Ellen Drew, Hugh Marlowe, Malcolm Atterbury, James Mason
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life. The relations between the lovable U.S. officers and equally lovable natives of occupied countries is interesting. Edmond O'Brien was effective as the idealistic Major Joppolo, and Charles Bronson played that familiar folk hero, the tough sergeant with the heart of gold.
Milt Shanks lives a shamed life, hated by his neighbors for having been a traitor to the North in the American Civil War. But Shanks carries with him a secret, one he promised Abraham Lincoln to tell no one.
Guest Stars:
Ian Wolfe, Paul Harvey, John Ireland, William Schallert, Betty Field
A renowned and relentless Paris detective takes his first vacation in eleven years at a small inn in the French countryside. There he meets and falls in love with the hotelier's daughter, who had been betrothed to a neighboring farmer, but who hopes to marry him and move to Paris. On the evening of their engagement, both the fiancée and the farmer disappear. What has happened to them? Who is responsible? Can the famed detective apply his talents to a rural mystery?
Guest Stars:
Ann Codee, Joseph Schildkraut, Edgar Barrier
Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
Guest Stars:
Paul Douglas, Hoagy Carmichael, Dan Seymour, John Hoyt, Ivan Triesault
The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.
Guest Stars:
William Bakewell, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Warwick, Gloria Holden, Paul Richards
What happens when an American family gets two trees that grow spendable money.
Guest Stars:
Lauren Chapin, Pierre Watkin, Ruth Hussey, Robert Preston, David Janssen
A young woman discovers her visiting "Uncle Charlie" may not be the man he seems to be.
Guest Stars:
Charles Meredith, Barbara Rush, Frank Lovejoy, George Chandler
Julia Ross is a young woman alone in the world and is in search of a job. She is hired by an elderly woman named Mrs. Hughes to act as her live-in personal secretary. One of Mrs. Hughes' stipulations is that whomever she hire treat this job as one of a long term nature, meaning no current boyfriends or marriage on the horizon. The closest person to Julia was Dennis Bruce, who lived at the same boarding house and who was somewhat sweet on Julia but left to get married to another woman. As such, Julia is grateful for her new job. When Julia awakens after her first night...
Guest Stars:
Terence de Marney, Paul Richards, Fay Bainter, Phyllis Stanley, Beverly Garland
Forced to retire from an English public school. a disliked professor must confront his utter failures as a teacher, a husband, and a man.
Guest Stars:
Robert Douglas, Paul Cavanagh, Rod Taylor, Herbert Marshall, Judith Evelyn
Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every moment of her life count, but her effort is weakened by the discovery that Brad is interested in his assistant, Chris Radner. But when she learns that Brad does indeed love her and not Chris, and that Chris is leaving town, she realizes what she must do to ensure the future happiness of Brad and Polly. She persuades Chris to stay, makes a genuine friend of her and watches Polly grow ...
Guest Stars:
William Hopper, Maidie Norman, Claire Trevor, Selmer Jackson
A hard-line judge is tempted toward mercy-killing by his wife's terminal cancer.
Guest Stars:
Ray Danton, Howard St. John, Ruth Warren, Thomas Mitchell, Ann Harding
Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics. But endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.
Guest Stars:
Thomas Gomez, Jesse White, Brian Donlevy, Paul Harvey, William Schallert
Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent. He postpones the trial because it is hard to get a conviction at Christmas time. But he feels sorry for her and arranges for her bail, and ends up taking her home to his mother for Christmas. Surrounded by a loving family (in stark contrast to Lee's own family background) they fall in love. This creates a new problem: how do they handle the upcoming trial?
Guest Stars:
Jan Sterling, Bob Wehling, Don DeFore, Elizabeth Patterson, Lyle Talbot
Tensions arise when a WW II squadron is ordered not to rescue a squad mate pinned down by the enemy, for fear of risking more lives.
Guest Stars:
Paul Gilbert, Gene Reynolds, Russell Johnson, Carl Switzer, Alex Nicol
An elderly couple are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
Guest Stars:
Ernest Truex, William Bakewell, Lynn Bari, Sheila Bromley, Sylvia Field
Convicted murderess Valerie Carns is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. Nurse Sister Mary becomes convinced of her innocence and sets out to find the real killer.
Guest Stars:
Rex Reason, Rhys Williams, Nana Bryant, Phyllis Thaxter, Phyllis Stanley
A middle aged man commits murder when he feels that his happiness is threatened. Without remorse the man continues on believing he's executed the perfect crime and won't be caught.
Guest Stars:
John Dehner, Richard Lupino, Robert Newton, John Hoyt, Bobby Hale
Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
Guest Stars:
Lorna Thayer, Janet Blair, Leo Penn, Robert Clarke, Dan O'Herlihy
When money is inadvertently removed from an hotel safe, it leads to all kinds of problems.
Guest Stars:
Taylor Holmes, Ray Bennett, Carroll McComas, James Barton, George Chandler
An aging actress refuses to admit she is too old to play the ingénue role anymore.
Guest Stars:
Anita Louise, Fred Clark, Anne Bancroft, Maidie Norman, Bob Hope
Guest Stars:
Philip Abbott, Chubby Johnson, Beverly Garland, Paul Bryar, Jack Kelly
Murder mystery in which a woman who has won the sweepstakes is found murdered.
Guest Stars:
Robert Coote, Rod Taylor, Gage Clarke
A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.
Guest Stars:
Ron Randell, Ralph Sanford, Eddie Marr, Alexander Campbell, Florenz Ames
A dream of winning a penny pool is realized by the meek owner of an English pub, but the prestige he expected eludes him.
Guest Stars:
Liam Sullivan, Lloyd Corrigan, Lyle Talbot
A man murders his wife then makes his interest known to her best friend.
Guest Stars:
David Janssen, April Kent, Karen Kadler, David Alpert, Eve Brent
A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong.
Guest Stars:
Marguerite Chapman, Walter Baldwin, Isobel Elsom, Helene Stanley
Guest Stars:
Otto Kruger, Eduard Franz, Edward Binns, John Eldredge, Phil Karlson
A man finds a wallet in a taxicab with a lot of money in it. He turns it in to the police, who--according to the law--will hold it for 90 days, and if no one claims it, the wallet and its content will be given to the person who found it. However, when his friends and neighbors find out that he turned in the wallet, they ridicule him mercilessly, and he begins to wonder if he did the right thing or not.
Guest Stars:
Kurt Kasznar, Judith Evelyn, Herbert Ellis, Robert Emhardt, Marilyn Erskine
Guest Stars:
Alan Napier, J. Pat O'Malley, Edith Barrett
Guest Stars:
Frank Puglia, Charles Bronson, Elliott Reid, James Mason, Edmond O'Brien
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