Huck and Jim once again embark on their adventure-filled trek down the Mississippi .
Guest Stars:
Walter Catlett, Elizabeth Patterson, Thomas Mitchell, John Carradine
Cafeteria worker Rusty is cheated by stock swindlers and winds up in jail, but the crooks have to break him out in order to recover their loot, which was stashed in Rusty's safety deposit box.
Guest Stars:
Mari Blanchard, Ann Rutherford, Brad Dexter, Red Skelton, Ralph Sanford
A surgeon finds out about his wife's unfaithfulness and takes matters into his own hands.
Guest Stars:
Betty Furness, Franchot Tone
A mother watches her cruel and destructive husband continually expose their young son to all kinds of violence. Finally she feels she must take steps to save her son from this sinister influence.
Guest Stars:
Kathryn Card, Harry Bellaver, Amzie Strickland, Nina Foch, Dick Foran
As Jack London's reputation as a writer grows, his fame causes conflicts with his sister Eliza and his wife Charmain.
Guest Stars:
Mercedes McCambridge, Lloyd Nolan
An advertising executive's wife disappears during a summer vacation.
Guest Stars:
Robert Sterling, Marguerite Chapman, Pat O'Brien
A woman keeps her elderly uncle locked up as a prisoner in his own home when a man decides to investigate the story himself.
Guest Stars:
James Daly, Ernest Truex, Diana Lynn, Jane Darwell
An ex-con returns to New York looking for the man responsible for the crime he did time for.
Guest Stars:
Jay C. Flippen, Sally Forrest, Brian Donlevy, Doris Dowling
An insurance underwriter and his secretary are both disgruntled over their dull, monotonous routine. They fall in love, and then discover a way to cash in on a $70,000 insurance claim.
Guest Stars:
Dennis O'Keefe, Phyllis Thaxter
At his wealthy aunt's insistence, a rising young London barrister submits to having his palm read. The prophecies come true with alarming accuracy.
Guest Stars:
Ann Harding, Louis Hayward, Peter Lorre
Art Shaddick, formerly a writer, now a writer's agent, sits in his gaudy, pretentious office, on the bookcase reposes an Oscar, won by Art for his last picture. That was in 1929. Since then he has gone steadily downhill, shouting all the way. When suddenly a young writer appears with a great script, it is just what Art needs, a golden opportunity to rise again to greatness.
Guest Stars:
Jack Carson, Kim Hunter, Audrey Totter, Don Taylor
A cultured Englishman, living in Paris, becomes interested in art for purely mercenary reasons. He sponsors a young artist and goes to great lengths to keep his protege's canvases valuable.
Guest Stars:
John Kerr, Werner Klemperer, Michael Rennie, Zsa Zsa Gabor
An American correspondent, assigned to Europe shortly after World War II, is offered part of a fortune in confiscated gems in return for letting a former Nazi officer use his passport.
Guest Stars:
Frank Lovejoy, Viveca Lindfors, Charles Korvin
While decorating a Christmas tree, narrator Joan Evans recalls the story of the Christmas of her ancestors during the 1860s in Wisconsin. A 12-year old boy becomes the head of his family when both parents die. On Christmas Eve he finds a way to provide homes for his five younger brothers and sisters.
Guest Stars:
Leif Erickson, Mimi Gibson, Brandon De Wilde, Barbara Hale, Tiger Fafara
Three men prepare to test the ejector seat of a jet bomber. As they wait for favorable weather conditions, each reacts differently.
Guest Stars:
Nancy Reagan, Richard Boone, Lee Marvin, Charlton Heston
A rancher's wife is bored with her monotonous life. One night when her husband is away, her mother-in-law inadvertently suggest the "perfect escape" .
Guest Stars:
Claire Trevor, Blanche Yurka, Cameron Mitchell, Pat O'Brien, Wallace Ford
One of the most despised men in the legal profession clings tenaciously to the belief that English law is infallible. Because of his fixation he even stands trial for a murder he did not commit.
Guest Stars:
Reginald Denny, Hurd Hatfield, Queenie Leonard, Raymond Massey, John Williams
The son of a respected lawyer is involved in a case of homicide over the shooting of a schoolmate. Even though the father suspects his son's guilt, he tries to protect him. The entire town is indignant when charges are not brought against the boy immediately for lack of sufficient evidence.
Guest Stars:
Bobby Driscoll, Beulah Bondi, James Dunn, Gigi Perreau, Lon Chaney Jr.
A dedicated parole officer makes a daring effort to help a two-time loser who has violated the conditions of his parole.
Guest Stars:
Dewey Martin, Macdonald Carey, Phyllis Kirk, Elizabeth Patterson
Two sports-minded priests, off for a fishing holiday, become involved with thieves, a stolen car and stolen money!
Guest Stars:
Arthur Treacher, James Gleason, Hume Cronyn, Buddy Baer, Bonita Granville
The parents of a recently married young woman, whose husband claims she's taken a trip to New York, slowly become convinced she's been murdered.
Guest Stars:
Coleen Gray, Katy Jurado, Warner Anderson, Gene Nelson, Mary Astor
A priest becomes involved in murder when the killer confesses his crime to him.
Guest Stars:
Jean-Pierre Aumont, Raymond Burr, Dorothy Adams, Lloyd Bridges
The Louella Parsons story, based on incidents in her autobiography ""The Gay Illiterate"", is a series of flashbacks. Teresa Wright portrays Miss Parson in the drama. As she speaks with the stars the cameras will re-create incidents in her long career. The time span is from the early twenties to 1948. We see Miss Parsons' early days as a newspaper reporter in Chicago. Here she loses her job and departs for New York. In New York she resumes her career, only to be stricken with tuberculosis. When she recovers from her illness, she meets the man who is to become her second husband, and her rise as Hollywood columnist begins. As a climax to tonight's drama, there will be a tribute from the stars of the movie industry.
Guest Stars:
William Talman, Nestor Paiva, Tyler McVey, Teresa Wright, Whit Bissell
A young woman lives in fear that a recurring dream foretells real tragedy. The premonition persists when she falls in love with a young soldier about to leave for overseas duty.
Guest Stars:
Dorothy McGuire, Ann Rutherford, John Forsythe, Byron Foulger
An 11-year old girl whose home has always been the slums, steals a packet of flower seeds from a playmate. In her search for a small bit of earth in which to grow flowers, she is befriended by a youthful gang leader.
Guest Stars:
Lynn Bari, J. Carrol Naish, Jessie Royce Landis, Brandon De Wilde
After gambling away the money her pilot husband gave her for the down payment on a plane, a woman takes a job as nurse to an alcoholic, who in a drunken stupor gives her $5,000 to recoup her losses and later reports to the police that the money was stolen.
Guest Stars:
Charles Drake, Virginia Grey, Ruth Roman, Vincent Price
Baseball's ""Iron Horse,"" whose brilliant career was ended by a terminal illness, and who struggled valiantly against adversity.
Guest Stars:
Jean Hagen, James Gregory, Harry Carey, Jr., Wendell Corey
A dinner party turns into a guest's nightmare as a murder plot is uncovered.
Guest Stars:
Ralph Bellamy, Constance Ford, William Talman, John Williams
When her husband disappears with their savings and their son, a woman fears for the child's life. But she can't convince her friends or the police that the man is a pathological liar and a menace.
Guest Stars:
Gerald Mohr
Ten men are assigned to a drifting ice floe near the North Pole to test the effect of subzero weather on men supplied only with tents and meager rations. One of the men goes berserk from the strain and wrecks the group's radio so that no one can notify headquarters of their location.
Guest Stars:
Jack Warden, Richard Carlson, Royal Dano, Shepperd Strudwick, Sidney Blackmer
The unsuspecting girlfriend of a young man whose brother is the head of a Rome narcotics ring arrives from the United States with an investigator at her heels.
Guest Stars:
Eduardo Ciannelli, Skip Homeier, Jan Sterling, Elizabeth Montgomery, Richard Boone
After agreeing to defend an irrational old man charged with murder, an attorney finds that his partner believes he took the case for publicity reasons.
Guest Stars:
Henry Hull, Edmond O'Brien, Lloyd Bridges
A man suspected of a young woman's murder denies even knowing her and claims he's being framed.
Guest Stars:
Farley Granger, Peter Hansen, Jay C. Flippen, Phyllis Kirk
A wealthy young woman breaks down and is placed in a sanitarium after being thrown over by the man she loves. Her psychiatrist becomes suspicious when the man reappears and claims he wants to marry her.
Guest Stars:
Richard Jaeckel, Diana Lynn, Dewey Martin
A middle aged spinster decides to go to the country for the summer with her friend. They end up becoming involved in a murder mystery.
Guest Stars:
Judith Anderson, Rhys Williams, Kathleen Crowley, Kevin McCarthy
A Babe Ruth League team is perpetually in last place, because its compassionate manager tends to pick youngsters no other team wants. When the team has a chance to place in the finals, he turns down a boy's plea to pitch in the big game, and the boy then runs away from home.
Guest Stars:
Gale Gordon, Dennis O'Keefe, Ruth Hussey
A retired construction firm executive seeks a respite from enforced idleness and oncoming old age. While waiting for a phone call that will confirm or deny his request for a job back at his old firm, Matthew Quade relives his past.
Guest Stars:
Everett Sloane, Mona Freeman, Arthur Franz, Mary Astor
A young man comes to the town of Brewster, his car in need of repairs, and is ordered to leave at once. He soon learns that the ruthless man after whom the town is named looks on any stranger as his potential murderer.
Guest Stars:
Anne Bancroft, Albert Dekker, Steve Cochran
When an atomic bomb mounted on a 200-foot-tall steel tower fails to detonate, a veteran nuclear physicist and his aides have to climb the rickety tower to disarm the bomb.
Guest Stars:
Jeff Morrow, Henry Jones, Howard Duff
A young sailor collapses on the estate of a wealthy Englishman in the Orient and, upon reviving, is offered a strange bargain in exchange for his life.
Guest Stars:
Debra Paget, John Ericson, Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre
Guest Stars:
Agnes Moorehead, Marshall Thompson, Susan Kohner
A starving author tests his theory about people who think they are above the law by killing a pawnbroker.
Guest Stars:
Terry Moore, John Cassavetes, Joe Mantell, Robert H. Harris
On a foggy afternoon just before a plane strikes the Empire State Building, a businessman recently gone blind is in one office dictating a suicide note to his wife, while in another office a young man is trying to persuade his fiancee to help him rob the firm she works for so they can be married.
Guest Stars:
Pat Crowley, Otto Kruger, Scott Brady, Rosemary DeCamp
A popular singer whose earnings are supporting his entire family returns to his home town for a visit and proceeds to make a play for the girlfriend of his twin brother, an aspiring concert pianist.
Guest Stars:
Beverly Garland, Harry Townes, John Kerr, Eduardo Ciannelli
An extreme form of disassociative reaction to stress in which two or more separate personalities exist. The person may shift from one personality to another, which is often very different. Each personality has no memories of the other's thoughts and actions.
Guest Stars:
William Talman, Harry Townes, Shepperd Strudwick, Shelley Winters