Mrs. MacDowell makes daydream plans for her young college professor son in the belief that pretending will make them so.
Guest Stars:
George D. Wallace, Parley Baer, Audrey Totter, Norma Varden
Guest Stars:
Donald Woods, Thomas Mitchell, Robert Hutton
An abusive husband gives his wife no choice but to retreat from her world of pain and degradation.
Guest Stars:
Luther Adler, Phyllis Thaxter
Having survived a plane crash in the jungle, Henty finds a fortress-like home in the middle of nowhere, belonging to the affable Mr. McMaster. The latter doesn't want Henty to leave.
Guest Stars:
Thomas Gomez, Joseph Cotten, Maurice Marsac, Marshall Bradford, Ward Wood
82 year old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty year career of scientific achievement.
Guest Stars:
Burgess Meredith
Todays theme is The Road to Edinburgh.
Guest Stars:
Joan Crawford, John Sutton, Chuck Connors, Christopher Cook, Jack Raine
Played out on a stylized, dramatically lit set, I am a fool is a classic story of a heartsick and foolish farm boy who takes on a false identity to impress a beautiful girl and in so doing loses the love of his life forever.
Guest Stars:
Gloria Castillo, James Dean, Eddie Albert, Natalie Wood, Fiona Hale
A man who has a face no one can remember is suckered into serving as the stooge for a bank robbery.
Guest Stars:
Kem Dibbs, Joi Lansing, Jack Benny, Jesse White, Benny Rubin
Guest Stars:
Eva Marie Saint, Lee Marvin, John Smith
Newspaper reporter turned novelist Dan Holiday is kidnapped, framed for murder, and held in an asylum before he escapes and proves his innocence
Guest Stars:
Alan Ladd, Gene Reynolds, Whit Bissell, John Howard, Frank Ferguson
A hood forces a doctor and his wife to remove a bullet from the hood's partner.
Guest Stars:
Constance Ford, James Dean
Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians perform an program of Christmas music.
Guest Stars:
Dan O'Herlihy, Barry Fitzgerald, Kathryn Card
1922, civil war in Ireland. A suspect is captured after a bloody ambush.
Guest Stars:
Brian Aherne, J.M. Kerrigan, James McCallion, Lee Marvin, Noel Drayton
Singer Johnnie Pulaski goes on an important audition and impresses. There is one condition that makes him want to refuse their offer--they ask him to change his last name. His girlfriend convinces him that the name is unimportant if he can sing. Ray, as Pulaski, introduces a new single, "Path to Paradise."
Guest Stars:
Johnnie Ray, Steven Geray
Boxer Jim Corbett returns to face Joe Louis in the ring.
Guest Stars:
Joe Louis, George Montgomery, Jesse White
When Lincoln and Mary Todd were married, he had the phrase, "Love is Eternal", inscribed in her wedding band. Though years of loneliness and disappointment seem to disprove this sentiment, the historic pair finally realize its truth.
Guest Stars:
Richard Boone, Teresa Wright
Guest Stars:
Pat Crowley, Larry Keating, Fred MacMurray, Virginia Field
A struggling photographer runs over a dog while driving near the home of an actress. Little does he know that this insignificant auto accident will lead to his involvement in murder.
Guest Stars:
Jean Wallace, Cornel Wilde, Robert Middleton, David Bruce
A film producer of B-movie Westerns has to hire a big-name actor's relative who is extremely incompetent for the chosen epic film.
Circus clown Emmett Kelly creates his famous character Weary Willie.
Guest Stars:
Emmett Kelly, Dorothy Malone, Billy Barty, Henry Fonda, Barry Kelley
A traveling lecturer wants to retire and spend more time with her son.
Guest Stars:
Myrna Loy, Robert Preston
Embittered by his wife's death during the birth of their eighth child, an Irishman refuses to set eyes on the girl and acknowledges only seven children.
Guest Stars:
Neva Patterson, Margaret Wycherly, Maureen Stapleton, E.G. Marshall
An ex-gunfighter, after hiding his identity for years, enters a shooting contest to raise money for a windmill in hopes he can provide water to his family farm.
Guest Stars:
John McIntire, Barbara Hale, Edgar Buchanan, James Stewart, James Millican
Guest Stars:
Susan Strasberg, Anthony Perkins, Boris Karloff, Bramwell Fletcher, H.M. Wynant
A husband and wife are driving on a trip to Palm Springs. They stop for gas and are kidnapped by a pair of criminals, who have just killed a store clerk during a robbery. They plan to flee to Mexico and need the couple to help get them through police roadblocks.
Guest Stars:
Jerry Mathers, Dane Clark, Ruth Roman, Jeanne Bates, Robert Armstrong
A movie director has a grudge against an actor and makes life very hard on everyone.
Guest Stars:
George Voskovec, Barry Sullivan, Neva Patterson, Luther Adler
What better place for romance than in a classroom, especially a French class? That's the reasoning of a lonely boy and a lonely girl who enroll in a French class with hopes of learning anything but the language.
Guest Stars:
Wally Cox
Pio, a bartender in Capri, has dreamed all his life of going to America. He asks two American tourists to help him find a way to make his dream come true.
Guest Stars:
Ezio Pinza, Joan Copeland
One-time film star plans her anniversary to be as romantic as her honeymoon.
Guest Stars:
Joan Blondell, Madge Kennedy, Ellen Corby, Susan Whitney

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