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- A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
- The jurors in a murder trial take their seats in a small, drab room to decide the defendant's fate. At first, all the men vote guilty bar one, who still has many questions not answered in court. Through theories and re-enactments, others change their minds, but one man is adamant that he'll never change his vote and won't listen to reason.
- In an old Louisiana plantation, the the furnishings and the once great family are fading fast.The matriarch desperately tries to hold on the a gazebo that's slated for destruction as part of a building project, as well as holding her daughter to an unwanted marriage, though she loves the builder.
- In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
- Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
- A young criminal attorney and his firm-owning father defend a 19 year-old on trial for a murder that he swears he did not commit. Personal conflicts arise with the attorney and his father while the prosecution puts on a dramatic and convincing argument of guilt.
- A young criminal attorney and his firm-owning father defend a 19-year-old on trial for a murder that he swears he did not commit. Personal conflicts arise with the attorney and his father while the prosecution puts on a dramatic and convincing argument of guilt.
- A sensitive boy's relationship with his parents lacks the real understanding necessary to a happy life.
- In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
- A priest working the Mission Church on Bowdoin Street in Boston is threatened with condemnation. The church is in such disrepair and with no funds to rebuild, the situation is hopeless. The Mission affects the lives of everyone in the neighborhood, even garage mechanic Johnny and his wife Jebby as well as the wealthy Lydia Brunall all come to see Father Ferris.
- The story of James Otis, a Boston attorney and American patriot who contested the right of British troops to search colonists' homes during the American Revolutionary War.
- After being thrown off course and landing on the island of Terraqueous, a man falls in love with the island's magical qualities as well as the people that inhabit the place.
- The story of young, talented ballet dancers.
- A store owner in a small Iowa town goes to New York and meets a model. He falls in love with her and tries to figure a way to let the model continue her work and still become his wife.
- A middle-aged British traveling salesman befriends and eventually marries a displace Pole who is hiding from Russians.
- Jean Horst comes to a school for disabled children to work there as a teacher. She becomes particularly interested in young Reuben, an autistic boy whose parents have not visited him for several years. But the school principal, Dr. Clark does not appreciate her keen interest.
- A couple encounter troubles aroused by selfish love and deceit.
- A special done like a "Person to Person" interview with a visit to a "typical" American home and family for a Christmas surprise.
- 1948–19581h5.6 (68)TV EpisodeA modern New England man travels back to the days of King Arthur and battles Merlin the Magician.
- A press agent for an American designer in Italy becomes involved in smuggling against his will.
- On the night before the Battle of Gettysburg, several Union soldiers capture a Southern spy and try to decide if it is morally permissible to shoot a prisoner.
- A businessman fed up with his invalid wife's tyrannical behavior finds a solution during a business trip. A man that looks exactly like him might be able to provide the alibi he needs to eliminate his wife.
- An insurance company tries to marry off a girl within a week. Failure means the girl gets one million dollars.
- 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.
- An accountant meets an aged millionaire, who appoints him executor of a trust fund for the millionaire's dog, Shaftsbury.
- In an attempt to help his shy son Frank to become more popular at school, Harry Breen suggest to Frank that he do some writing. The plot backfires when the boy embarks on a crusade to remedy juvenile delinquency. His article, naming parents as the real delinquents, appears in the local newspaper and overnight Frank becomes a national celebrity.
- The case began with the impending marriage in Paris of the American ambassador's daughter to one of his attaches. Suddenly, a young woman appears professing to be the secret love of the attache. The young diplomat sets out to prove that he has never seen the intruder before.
- When scandal and financial ruin threaten newspaper tycoon Frank Leslie, his wife Miriam uses cunning and imagination to restore her husband's reputation.
- A couple start receiving mysterious letters with hints on how to make money. They watch the accuracy of the advice, which is always perfect, then sell everything to follow a "hot tip."
- A broken down vaudeville actor sets out to collect $30,000 and almost makes it.
- A diplomatic attache of a military state is ordered by his government to kill a suspected spy. The government then arrests him for murder. The attache is torn between two "Gods": the decrees of his country and the commandments of God.
- A cabin boy on an American yacht finds love in the French port of Cannes.
- A young wife is singled out as a hit-and-run driver through circumstantial evidence. Her husband desperately wages a battle to establish his wife's innocence.
- Ellis is the wealthy, elder brother of the Davenport clan, who touches off a family conflict of jealousy and suspicion when he transfers his interest from one nephew to another.
- In order to get his story, a reporter joins an underworld gang.
- A mild-mannered bookkeeper, belittled by his family and his coworkers, is to get his picture in the paper when he is named his company's head bookkeeper. The picture is in the paper all right, but he is mistakenly named the chairman of the city's anti-vice crusade.
- A successful TV actor becomes ensnared in an exposé in a scandal magazine.
- An eccentric hobbyist inadvertently gets the original draft of the Gettysburg Address at an auction. He decides to burn the paper to bring a focus of attention on the ideals it contains but agrees to wait until after a TV debate.
- Police fight a desperate battle against time to prevent a would-be suicide from killing not only himself, but also the other tenants in the building.
- A ruthless landowner is terrorizing a small Western town, aided by his hired killers and the cowardice of the local gentry.
- A young student with a promising career in science endangers his future in an immature college spree.
- Camilla feels lonely and insecure that her husband is more interested in painting than spending time with her. Camilla steps into an unlikely affair with Richard Elton, a dangerous liar.
- The story of court-martialed Union soldier William Scott, who is slated for execution for sleeping on duty after he was sent for by Abraham Lincoln.
- A man lies in a coma for over a year as a result of a car accident. His brother, knowing the situation is hopeless, decides to end his existence.
- The plain and simple niece of an elder statesman goes to Washington to aid her uncle and is immediately set up with an ideal match with a bachelor senator, who is also up for re-election.
- A spoiled rich girl matures into a lovely lady when she learns compassion and tenderness from three loves.
- A petroleum engineer is sought by the police to testify in a law case.
- A widow takes in orphans and unwanted children with loving care. She finds her latest recruit is a little more troublesome than the others.
- A group of settlers on their way to Oregon stop for the night on a Western prairie. As the Indians beat, tension in the small camp mounts, until finally the Indians themselves appear to demand justice.
- When a stranger to a small town is beaten up by a locals, upright residents gather, inexplicably, against their will to the town hall. Once assembled, they find they can't leave and time has stopped. All talk about the stranger, (also present). Some express rage for his views and reveal their misguided ideas of American patriotism, which are really prejudices against freedom of thought and free speech.
- A young housewife befriends a withdrawn blind neighbor with beneficial results.
- A weak man masquerades as a hero in a Latin American republic.
- A small town is cut off from the rest of the world to lead their own solitary existence.
- At the height of the Bluebeard panic, a mysterious young couple from Paris raise fears at a London boarding house.
- When a mysterious pair from Paris arrive at the boardinghouse, gossip and wild events take place.
- A Navy Lieutenant pilot and a Sergeant crash land on an island and stumble upon a lavish estate where a group of wealthy people all thought to have died now live.
- A tall handsome and extremely naive young man from the Midwest arrives in New York and is bewildered by the series of situations he stumbles into.
- Harry Radcliff, a young British officer, sets out alone on a dangerous secret mission. He is to travel to Berlin and gain the confidence of Soviet agents by pretending to be traitor to England. However, Radcliff finds himself in serious trouble when he misses an appointment with an important enemy contact. In desperation, he seeks aid from his friend Mike Fenby of the British Diplomatic Office in Berlin.
- Two weeks after its maiden voyage on May 13, 1941, the battleship Bismarck was spotted, torpedoed and sunk by the British in the North Atlantic. This was a crucial point in World War II for the Germans, taking more than 2,000 lives.
- You wouldn't suspect that Bellingham is anything but what he appears to be, a conscientious and sensitive master in an English boys' school. Actually he also leads another life entirely. He hates evil political leaders, and belongs to a group determined to eliminate them by assassination.
- An elderly but energetic minister retires and lives with his overly attentive son and daughter-in-law.
- A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
- An innocent gets caught up in a plot involving kidnapping, bribery and skulduggery.
- A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.
- A young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.
- A writer's undercover assignment backfires when he cannot produce the evidence needed to free himself from jail.
- A young British businessman, attempting to smuggle a watch that he purchased as a gift for his wife into the country, is arrested by customs officials and sent to prison.
- A young man is stunned to learn of his connection with a sensational murder case as he prepares to accept his inheritance.
- A happy but impoverished family has to decide on continuing their present happiness or having a secure financial future when their rich yet troublesome aunt comes to live with them.
- A psychopathic killer escapes from prison and comes under the care of a noted psychiatrist.
- The warden of Cortland Prison is up against the psychopathic leader of a group of rioters.
- A pair of screenwriters are ordered to concoct a comeback screenplay for a cowboy star whose star is on the wane.
- An old cowboy makes his living riding in a Wild West show and reminisces on the days when he fought side-by-side with Buffalo Bill Cody.
- The turf wars of crooked politicians and rival gangs of mobsters.
- A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail.
- A maladjusted child is threatened by an invasion of his hometown by a racketeer.
- Opposed to communism and Nazi rule during World War II, the Hungarian Cardinal József Mindszenty was imprisoned as an enemy of the state and sent to prison. During his trial it was revealed that his confession was obtained by torture, hypnosis and drugs.
- A 35-year-old ex-champion is goaded into the boxing ring by a sportscaster to fight the current champion.
- A man and woman meet in town after both had been arguing with their respective spouses back home. They decide to team up and make a big day of it.
- A small town businessman's son is killed and in order to fill the void he takes a tough youngster who needs a father under his wing.
- A musical version of the French fairy tale that begins once upon a time in the slightly mythical city of New York where a young woman named Jean lives on a very real street called Tenth Avenue. Jean is so beautiful that everyone loves her, but she is in love with a Prince Charming she has never met, TV crooner Borden Crane.
- A woman is found dead on a lonely beach outside a small town.
- An antiques dealer makes his own rare items when he cannot find them.
- A Czech ballerina, whose family is still trapped behind the Iron Curtain, is blackmailed into trapping a British spy for the Russians, but the spy is really a double agent.
- A literary agent seeks to represent the author of a sensational new screenplay and is surprised to find out that the author is only nine years old.
- On opening night, a playwright sits in a bar interacting with well-wishers and remembering the problems of getting a play ready for Broadway while anxiously awaiting the verdicts of the eight newspaper reviewers.
- A prisoner of war returns home after being declared dead and finds that his money and property have been left by his father to his childhood sweetheart, who refuses to return it.
- A double murder has taken place at the cottage of the Merrymans. When they arrive at their cottage, they are bombarded by inquisitive neighbors about what transpired to their former tenants.
- Feeling misunderstood and unwanted by her parents, a girl decides that she must run away.
- A lumber baron is bent on revenge and intends to hang a man whom he believes responsible for his brother's death.
- A woman is accused by a poison-pen letter of murdering her husband.
- A western gunman obtains a law degree while serving time in jail. When released, he hopes to aid law and justice but learns that his days of gunslinging are not over yet.
- Henri and Marie own a bar in a small French town. They've been successfully cheating on their taxes for years, but that's about to end. A new tax collector's in town and the he's determined to make an example of slippery couple.
- Dino, who has just been released from reform school, is sullen and uncooperative with his family and his guidance counselors. However, he knows that, if he returns to his life of crime, his adoring young brother will be with him.
- When a newly wed Italian bride named Dominique moves to Vermont, she suffers culture shock and is hesitant to continue her new life in the Americas.
- A doctor living in the quiet desert of Arizona experiments with keeping monkeys' brains alive after the animals have died. When a plane crash occurs nearby the doctor brings a seriously injured, ruthless millionaire to his home and it is apparent that the man is dying. The doctor then preserves the man's brain and it begins to exert a malignant influence.
- The heroic story of Captain Robert I. Olsen aboard the Angler, a submarine that rescued 135 people through heavily mined waters.
- A jewel robbery is the basis used by the underground Irish Republican Army in Belfast to confront and strip their political enemies.
- A best selling novel leads everyone to wonder about who the author is.
- An English girl is devastated by the disappearance of her husband on their Paris honeymoon trip.
- Kate persuades her brother Anthony, who has lied to get jobs, borrows things and then leaves in a hurry, to be her boyfriend's bodyguard, a powerful Swedish financier.
- A snobbish college professor finds implicated in the killing of a Latin American scholar. He finds himself hunted by a sinister ring of assassins.
- A young pianist is ill with tuberculosis and is cured physically by a young scientist but the serum she takes causes a distortion of her mind.
- A young army officer waiting assignment is picked to defend a soldier in a court martial. The soldier 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.
- A bank robber has an agreement with a suburban couple to use their home as his hideout in return for a share of the loot.
- A man searches for the truth that may save another man's life in a Western showdown.
- A Paris dressmaker's model is stabbed to death during the showing of new gowns.
- The story of a minister whose church is sandwiched between a firehouse and a brewery and who desires to build a new house of worship in a better place.
- Two young women are found murdered in a small California town. A district attorney finds himself in a dilemma when he finds his daughter daring the man who is the prime suspect in the homicide case.
- At a Mystery Writers of America meeting, a government agent shows up, looking for a best selling author suspected of murder.
- A Mexican youth who lives on the California coast near Monterrey leaves his family to go on his first trip alone into town during fiesta time.
- 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.
- The mental condition of psychiatrist's wife Lorna Baylor begins to deteriorate as an anonymous delivery of flowers arrives at her home, awakening her phobia of white carnations.
- A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
- A psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
- A young woman's car breaks down in front of an abandoned garage which is used as headquarters for a band of crooks. Her sudden appearance on the scene causes some unforeseen complications in the gang's plans and she unwittingly becomes an accomplice to a planned robbery.
- A young lawyer bucks public opinion in his defense of an accused killer. When the killer suspect escapes while visiting the scene of the crime with the lawyer, life becomes very unpleasant for the defender.
- A widow named Mrs. Marsan lives in an apartment complex and pries into her neighbors' personal affairs. She is happiest when unsuspecting lovers argue and she can focus her opera glasses on them. Her innocently disingenuous nosiness helps to bring about a marriage between two cripples, a therapeutic romance for a depressed war widow, a happy ending in a sordid triangle affair. Even her death from heart trouble helps a friend, radical and fanatic, somehow learns a lesson in elementary humanity.
- A secret agent is assigned to trail a brilliant scientist assuming that he is selling secrets to the enemy.
- In 1929, twelve-year-old orphan Bill Caldwell is sent to stay with his eccentric grandmother when his aunt and uncle go to Europe. Down on her luck in Detroit, Grandma rents out 22 rooms of her 25-room house. Every March, the circus comes to town and some of the more interesting characters stay at Grandma's. Young Bill learns much more about life interacting with his Grandma and her colorful boarders than living with his stuffy aunt and uncle.
- An avaricious youth's inheritance from his grandfather lies behind a vault rigged up either to blow up when opened or not.
- A classical guitarist is forced to take a job playing popular music after his son refuses to follow in his footsteps as a famous artist.
- In the Italian section of New York City, the talented Giulio Costello and Rose Pinato, spend the warm summer evenings on a park bench discussing Giulio's future. The young man is torn between love and the chance for a career in grand opera.
- In 1911, two young Irishmen compete for the hand of the daughter of Ireland's Chief Justice.
- He used to be a Hollywood bigwig but now Jonah Silver is a casting director at a small studio. A young woman seeking a job pays him a visit.
- A wealthy eccentric Italian gentleman believes himself to be 11th-century Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV.
- A young wife becomes infatuated with another man while her husband is overseas and her father tries to save her by bringing her supposedly dead mother out of obscurity.
- A war orphan is smuggled into the U.S. by a pilot.
- GIs retreating during a cold Korean night hate their captain.
- A young man falls in love with a girl from a rich family. His unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life is met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée's eccentric sister and long suffering brother.
- A girl returns to her hometown after failing to find stardom on Broadway. She finds herself growing bitter, avoiding her friends until she meets a drama coach at a nearby University who changes her life around.
- Twelve-year-old Cotton Kinney wants a dog for Christmas and gives hints when he buys his dad a dog collar for Christmas and his mom a bowl just the right size for dog food.
- The story of Jonathan Scrivener is told through his conversations with his secretary and his colleagues.
- A young couple elope and try to hide in New York from their disappointed parents.
- After 20 years in exile in the United States, a royal family has hope that the monarchy will be able to return to power. However, intrigue arises as someone tries to kill the queen. The prime suspect is her son, Prince Anthony, who was told that he must give up his wife if he returns to the throne.
- Phyllis, a girl in her 20s, is just returning from her summer vacation, during which she has fallen in love with a struggling young musician. On the bus trip home, Phyllis is telling her girlfriend of the difficulty she is going to have in breaking this news to her parents. Phyllis' parents and her aunt and uncle have made Phyllis the center of their lives. In their over-concern for her, they have naturally assumed she would marry George, the boy next door, whom she has known all her life. These four and George too, are on hand to welcome Phyllis home. Soon after their initial greeting, Phyllis tells them she intends to marry the young musician. They are shocked at the news and refuse to believe there can be anything to it.
- An air liner flying over a middle eastern desert is forced to land in a remote spot and the passengers locked up. All are Americans or Britons. A man from the U.S. Embassay is interrogated and threatened unless he convinces another prisoner, an oil company executive, to collaborate with a new (unsaid but implied Soviet) regime.
- A test pilot sets out for a cruise through space and suddenly loses contact with Earth.
- A successful businessman's achievements aren't enough as he drives himself for a higher more powerful position.
- After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter.
- After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.
- Joey, a clown and leader of a traveling circus, suddenly becomes depressed when his group plays the tiny town of Millville.
- Johnny August is hesitant about helping track down a blackmailer in Mexico and winds up with a murder instead.
- A teenage girl tries to increase the understanding between her football hero boyfriend and his widower father.
- The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
- The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
- The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
- A naive Schenectady shipping clerk comes to Manhattan with dreams of becoming a lyricist, befriends a one-hit wonder composer and meets the girl of his dreams.
- A psychopathic writer bent on killing a stranger but winding up using a gun on himself.
- A GI kills a boy that he thought was stealing government property and is court martialed and acquitted of the crime. The boy's sister and uncle confront him and he seeks to make amends.
- Kyra Zelas is a very unusual girl, the doctor diagnoses her as being in the final stages of tuberculosis, when young Dr. Scott gives her an untested injection which miraculously heals her, leaving everyone surprised.
- A young agent in the publishing business wheels and deals his way up the ladder, stepping on a few too many toes along the way.
- A disc jockey is involved in a murder. As he played peekaboo with a psychopathic killer and tangled with the police, turntables all over the place kept spinning a record called "Let Me Go, Lover", the murderer's favorite song, of course.
- Two members of the U. S. Intelligence Service become involved with Czechoslovakian patriots in exile in Austria. Their journey with this underground group takes them from the dungeons of Vienna to the high society world of New York City.
- The mysterious disappearance of intelligence officer Steve Spence, after writing a letter to his wife in New York asking for a divorce comes under suspicion from his wife. She doesn't believe that he wrote the letter and a search for the agent is started.
- Captain Miles reads the pathetic appeals of his buddy to his young wife back home that she write to him. Miles finds himself hating the unknown woman, until he has the opportunity to meet her and discover the trouble.
- A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.
- An ex-football hero who is now a successful businessman tries to mold his son in his own image even though his wife opposes it.
- Lily's electrician boyfriend sees red when Lily is pursued by a wealthy suitor.
- A group of gangsters from a mid-sized city are getting squeezed out by their big city counterparts.
- Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
- Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.
- A grieving father must try and get his son over his wife's death. He swears that he talks to his mother all the time.
- A city-bred radio announcer thinks that he's the best thing that happened to the rural broadcasting station where he is now working until he gets a rude country style awakening.
- A city-bred radio announcer begins to believe his own publicity when he finds himself a success as a crack-of-dawn rural broadcaster. He gets a rude awakening, but not from a mere rooster.
- A publisher claims that he can make any song a hit. Drawing songs at random out of a file, he comes across a song by a teenage girl which she wrote when her romance had ended.
- A young bachelor has a recurring dream about a girl named Pat who calls to him and then disappears. His mother is startled when he claims to have actually found the girl.
- A man jeopardizes his marriage by wanting to marry another woman. When he changes his mind, it's too late because now his wife wants to marry another man.
- Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
- A family is torn by divided and misplaced loyalties of a possessive mother who controls her two sons.
- Tension inside the television director's control booth mounts to a breaking point when the television drama spills over into life and death reality.
- The writer of murder mysteries acts out the crimes before putting them to paper. There's a real plot twist when a dead man turns up in her house.
- 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.
- A man is released from prison only to find a new kind of prison: society's judgment of an ex-con's continuing guilt. He now lives with his mother, his critical brother, and the story his mother told that he joined the army.
- A rich old woman is determined to give her eight-year-old granddaughter a happy childhood.
- A nanny of special talents is hired by George Banks, an old-fashioned London banker who is trying to raise his two naughty children.
- A small group of people in Belgium try to safeguard a painting of the Nativity from Nazi plundering.
- A young woman responds with deep devotion to her dominating father and upon his death she makes a postmortem discovery of a "secret" about him.
- A western comedy about the dingy wife of an outlaw who takes the rap for him and goes to prison, coming home with some new ideas.
- A "retread" Master Sergeant is called back into the service and it seems to his wife that most of their 10 years of marriage have been spent moving from base to base. When a young and lovely girl enters the picture the wife fears that love alone cannot hold her husband.
- 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.
- Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
- Spinster Melissa Turner is at a crossroads in life concerning her future. She must decide whether to pursue Forest, sad reclusive acquaintance or prepare for a life alone.
- A young couple out for a romantic evening find themselves caught up in a mysterious encounter leading to murder.
- Five refugees vie for a seat on a flight to escape a Communist occupied Britain.
- Following surgery, Mr. Arcularis has been rather badly shaken up, and he needs a long rest. An ocean voyage seems just the thing, but it proves anything but restful.
- A female cook is known to have been poisoning her patrons, and Mr. Mummery, an elderly man who doesn't quite trust his young wife, begins to suspect that she has jut hired the killer chef. He finds an open can of arsenic in the garden shed and convinces himself that the cook and his wife are in fact tampering with his tea in a plot to kill him. What he doesn't know is that, in actuality, the situation is much more serious than even he suspects it is.
- Ada Harris, a London charwoman in the 1950's, sees a Dior dress and decides that she's going to own one. First, she scrimps and saves her money, but when she has enough, and takes a trip to Paris, she learns that buying an original couture creation is a little harder than simply plunking down cash. Along the way to her goal, she manages to befriend a count, unite young lovers, and dodge customs.
- Mr. Brimmer did not go over that seaside cliff unaided. Sinister Cousin Julian from South Africa gave Mr. Brimmer a bit of help.
- Miss Constance Hargreaves is an imaginary woman, invented and documented by two young men during a holiday in Ireland.
- A bride makes a wish on her wedding day to never look a day older than she does at that moment. Her wish becomes a curse as everyone and everything around her ages and she stays as youthful as ever.
- A wealthy 70-year-old woman believes money can do everything, especially if one has as much as 70 million, the estimated fortune of Jenny Pratt. Piano tuner Jack O'Hara comes to Mrs. Pratt's home to tune her piano and finds himself living in her mansion, seven hours of daily piano practice for a year.
- A man discovers that the good ship Nicolette is carrying weapons as cargo, and in order to prevent a war, he stages a mutiny with the crew against the Captain.
- Commander Matt Donovan, the skipper of the newly commissioned atomic submarine "Shark" whose ruthless obsession for perfection leads him to expect his men to perform with the same cold precision as the incredible nuclear machine. Donovan has no patience with human frailty and he relentlessly drives his crew to be like himself. Donovan's two young officers Lt. Bill Meade and Lt. Joe Crane are assigned to be the dedicated men working for Donovan. Meade stands in awe of the "Iron Skipper" and dreams of commanding his own sub. Crane, a brilliant engineering officer is more worried about his expectant wife.
- Commander Matt Donovan, the skipper of the newly commissioned atomic submarine "Shark" whose ruthless obsession for perfection leads him to expect his men to perform with the same cold precision as the incredible nuclear machine. Donovan has no patience with human frailty and he relentlessly drives his crew to be like himself. Donovan's two young officers Lt. Bill Meade and Lt. Joe Crane are assigned to be the dedicated men working for Donovan. Meade stands in awe of the "Iron Skipper" and dreams of commanding his own sub. Crane, a brilliant engineering officer is more worried about his expectant wife.
- An aging, lonely widow buys a young man's love. When she is found dead, questions are asked. Is it an accident, suicide or murder?
- Orphaned at a young age, George, one of twelve siblings went to live with his grandmother, a woman with tremendous spirit and natural dignity in the wild west, which inspired George to become a writer of those less fortunate.
- Baby Herman's view of adults as seen through his crib, looking in wide-eyed amazement into the faces of the people around him. He learns very early on how to wrap them around his finger with coos and howls.
- 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.
- The cops, his girlfriend and his gang members are wondering why Vanning won't leave his room, especially since he's sitting on $300,000.
- A conflict develops between Dr. Joseph Pearson and his young assistant, who attempts to introduce new methods in their pathology lab.
- Dr. Joseph Pearson and his young assistant clash over the circumstances of a premature birth and a cancer diagnosis.
- The son of a prominent businessman is arrested for stealing a car. His father goes to great lengths to keep the matter private and out of the headlines. A reporter snaps their photo as they're leaving the courthouse, resulting in unwanted publicity. This is when the father starts getting blackmail threats.
- A major in the Armed Forces attempts to clear his pal who is accused of murdering his wife.
- A man writes an anonymous letter claiming he is going to poison a town's water supply, setting off a panic.
- An elderly woman remembers back to a time in her youth when she was pursued by two gentlemen.
- A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.
- A bored debutante decides to become a cook, because she once took a French cuisine class. What ensues is a comedic "Upstairs, Downstairs" tale between the wealthy upper class and the servants.
- A bizarre plot falls apart at the seams because of a trip through a subway. Seems that the plotters are riding on the 1,000,000th car to drive through the tunnel and thus their plot is uncovered as officials seek to honor them.
- A scholarly officer, who has spent his three years of military service at a secluded desk job, is assigned to shepherd some 600 troops from California to New York at the end of World War II.
- The owner of a charter airline must cope with disease and betrayal in war-torn Burma.
- In 1948, while the captain of Czechoslovakia's championship hockey team is in Moscow, Russia annexes his homeland. On his return, he and his fiancee plot to escape.
- Captain English permits Mr. Walkes to board his ship bound for Bali, only to learn Walkes is unwelcome at virtually every port - forcing English to endure his increasingly unwelcome guest.
- Paul realizes that his beautiful new wife is more interested in his belongings than she is in him.
- A man named Parker prefers the companionship of the pigeons in the park to that of the human race. One day, as he sits feeding his friends, Parker is approached by a gentleman who wishes to rehabilitate him.
- A crooked club owner's wife witnesses his murder, and has to flee from gangsters.
- An eccentric old man living at a boardinghouse begins concocting these stories and everyone becomes suspicious when young girls are found dead.
- The story, set 15 years after the Crucifixion, of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate, who is depicted as a victim of circumstances.
- The struggling years of the great artist Rembrandt's career are dramatized.
- Lev Simon is in the U.S. illegally. As head of an immigrant family, he realizes his error when election time comes and he can't vote.
- A mystery writer and his wife are searching for an isolated country home where he can work undisturbed. Instead, they meet up with an odd painter whose wife had recently died.
- A religious widow fears that her beautiful and talented daughter may cause unrest and distrust in the small conservative Ohio community when she puts her love of art and career as a singer above the what the townspeople will think.
- 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.
- Pops Thatcher, an elderly resident of a rundown county poor farm, is appointed to the town council. His battle to save the farm exposes the corruption on the council and breaths new life into the local newspaper.
- Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel makes a decision which impacts the entire country.
- Victor Karenin is devastated when his fiancée Lisa leaves him for Fedya but is happily surprised when Fedya falls for a young reckless gypsy girl.
- A social worker is being forced to deprive a childless couple of a baby they have cared for and want to adopt.
- A retired conductor of an American symphony orchestra arrives in France with his young composer protégé and meets a woman whom he had known many years before.
- Set in the French Riviera, this romantic love triangle occurs when the daughter of a wealthy Parisian widower vacations at the villa.
- A 9-year-old boy and his misunderstanding father come under close scrutiny as the drama delves into the deeper corners of a frightened boy's mind to search out the reasons for his fears. The story unravels a strong mood and mystery which centers around Romney.
- Rudy lives in a small New England town with his father. He begins to hang around a street gang called "The Eagles." These juvenile delinquents cause him problems with the law and his family. Rudy's loneliness and attempt to forget his crippled childhood turn his desperation into a new nightmare.
- A World War II veteran is framed for his wife's murder.
- A beautiful but icy singer is devoted exclusively to her art and her equally icy French officer who succumbs to her charms.
- A man with a Robin Hood complex has a penchant for liquidating people whose lives he considers worthless in order to give their money to more deserving people.
- When Sara's father goes off to fight in the First World War, she is sent to Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, an expensive and elite school. However, when her father is feared dead, she is relegated to menial duties.
- Despite age and limited skills, a garage mechanic pursues his dream of being a major league player.
- Despite age and limited skills, a garage mechanic pursues his dream of being a major league player.
- A woman witnesses a murder during a store robbery but claims the accused man is not the killer. After he is convicted and weeks away from his execution date, she sees the real killer, but the police are reluctant to reopen the case.
- A true believer brings others, through the uncorrupted purity and simplicity of her own faith, back to first principles.
- Julia Winston is left penniless and in debt in Rome when her young artist husband is killed in an accident. Desperate, she allows herself to be influenced by an evil woman.
- A beautiful housewife turns career girl to help her husband but he doesn't want her help and trouble starts.
- 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.
- A detective's investigation into a bookie's death and the missing $25,000 in cash, leads him to a corrupt cop thanks to a witness.
- An unscrupulous politician takes all kinds of short cuts to get what he wants, until a crusading attorney seeking justice stands in his way.
- A young married couple live in a New York neighborhood and share a babysitter and maid of all work with another couple. When this paragon of domesticity decides to wed the two husbands are hard put to break up the romance.
- The story of two rookie cops, one keeping to the straight and narrow and the other turning crooked.
- Opera diva Marcia Vernon loses her voice. Though Mark, her irresponsible husband, and Carol, her secretary, are both devoted to her, they otherwise oppose each other. Marica's surgery and the aftermath bring surprising revelations to all three.
- "Smoke" is the story of European community roots and changes, reflected both in Russian politics and in the lives of two individuals who find philosophies diverging.
- A beautiful girl is a witch and her vain ex-suitor has been transformed into a peacock. She finally meets a nice young man from Boston.
- A savage businessman is so hated by his employees that they band together and plan their own competing company.