Robert Montgomery Presents(1950–1957)

Arrowsmith

Dr. Arrowsmith works his way up the medical ladder to become a respected scientist who discovers how to kill bacteria. He is sent along with his wife to the Caribbean to stop the bubonic plague.

The Petrified Forest

A failed writer who's hitchhiking wanders into an Arizona diner and befriends a young girl whose family runs the business. Events take an unexpected turn withe the arrival of a killer who takes everyone hostage.

Rio Rita

The Canterville Ghost

A young girl moves with her family into ancient Canterville Hall, and begins seeing a ghost. The spirit is that of Sir Simon de Canterville, an ancestor from the 17th century cursed because of an act of cowardice during his life.

The Philadelphia Story

In this screwball comedy, a wealthy Philadelphia socialite's impending marriage is complicated by blackmail, a tabloid reporter, an ex-husband, drinking, and many misunderstandings.

Mrs. Mike

A young Boston woman is sent to live with her uncle in the wilds of Canada. While there, she falls in love with and marries Mike Flannagan, a Mountie. The hardships of frontier life spent with the man she loves proves to be exciting and fulfilling for Mrs. Mike.

Kiss And Tell

An average American teen-aged girl, Corliss Archer, vows to keep her mouth closed about her brother's secret marriage.

Victoria Regina

Helen Hayes recreates her famed Broadway role in this adaptation of the Laurence Housman play. This dramatic biography offers insight into the life of the beloved Queen Victoria beginning with her ascension to the throne in 1837.

Quicksand

A young man finds himself sinking deeper in the "quicksand" of suspicion and fear.

A Star is Born

Young unknown Esther Blodgett comes to Hollywood to be a star and marries matinée idol Norman Maine. As her popularity begins to rise, he follows a downward path into oblivion thanks to his alcoholism.

The Last Tycoon

A Hollywood film producer seems to be living the American dream. Though he has an impressive career, he suffers health problems and is not married to the woman he really loves.

The Young in Heart

The Carlton family are impostors--con artists who make their living with shady card games and mooching off of rich suckers. Traveling by train, they latch onto lonely and rich old Miss Fording, saving her life during a derailment. Full of gratitude, she invites them to live with her in London home. The Carltons believe they have finally struck it rich.

Dark Victory

A wealthy young society woman faces blindness and death when she's diagnosed with a brain tumor. Thinking she's cured, she falls in love with and marries the doctor who performed her surgery. Later, she suffers an emotional breakdown upon learning that she has just months to live.

Stairway to Heaven

In this fantasy, a pilot learns that his life has been predetermined to end at a certain time. He temporarily evades his fate because of a snafu on the part of his heavenly emissary and his love of a WAC.

The Bishop's Wife

A bishop has become obsessed with building a new cathedral and asks heaven for some help. The angel sent to Earth to help the bishop ends up falling in love with his wife.

Ladies in Retirement

A retired actress' housekeeper also cares for her two deranged, older sisters. It's not long before the actress regrets allowing the loonies into her home as murder and blackmail follow.

The House of Seven Gables

Fighting over an inheritance, one Pyncheon brother frames the other for murder.

For Love or Money

In this comedy, a young woman seeks shelter during a thunderstorm at the country home of middle aged actor Preston Mitchell. She stays on as his secretary and the two eventually fall in love.

Three O'Clock

Convinced that his wife is having an affair, a husband plants a bomb that will kill her and destroy the house. Before he can leave, a couple of burglars break in and tie him to a post in the basement as the clock on the bomb ticks away.

The Fairfield Lady

An ambitious woman is determined to rise to the top of the publishing business and will not let anything, or anyone, stand in her way. An ambitious woman is determined to rise to the top of the publishing business and will not let anything, or anyone, stand in her way.

There Once Was a Diamond Ring

A man, still in love with his wife, tries to save his crumbling marriage by giving her a diamond ring. She could care less and loses it down the drain. A plumber eventually finds the ring as it begins a trip stretching over several thousand miles. Everyone who comes in contact with the piece of jewelry finds happiness.

Precinct

A police lieutenant working in a big city department takes his duties seriously. He is so dedicated, in fact, that he neglects his 18-year-old son who becomes involved in drugs.

Senora Isobel

A rising political figure faces a crisis at home thanks to years of neglecting his wife while pursuing his career.

The Fall Guy

A college football star is offered a lucrative contract to play in the professional leagues. He's torn between going for the sports career or staying in school and entering a more stable career. His girlfriend votes for school.

Keane vs. Keane

A wealthy heiress discovers that her husband was merely a gold-digger so she sues him for divorce.

The Sheffield Story

A trusted German general during World War II was actually a secret agent for the British.

The Bench in the Park

A man's sour outlook on life brings about important changes in the lives of those who encounter him.

The Biarritz Scandal

An American loses everything gambling in a French casino. This leads to his involvement in a dangerous scheme.

The Davidian Report

A secret document known as the "Davidian Report" smuggled out of Berlin and for sale to the highest bidder. In this spy tale set on a flight from New York to Los Angeles, any one of the passengers may be after the report; it's wanted by everyone from the FBI to the Communists.

The Valari Special

An Italian racer is distraught after learning that he has been replaced. The race team went with someone younger--his own son. His mechanic still has faith in "old man" Valeri and builds another car for him to race.

The Post Road

Emily Madison owns a Connecticut tourist home on Boston's Post Road. One night, mysterious Dr. Spender arrives with his nurse, chauffeur and a patient--a young woman who surprisingly gives birth. The household members become suspicious when they're kept from seeing the baby for a week, and they hear on the radio that an infant has been kidnapped from its cradle.

The Inward Eye

A mother is caught up in a bizarre case of mistaken identity that results in her seven-year-old son being kidnapped.

Victory

A baron living on a remote South Pacific island seldom travels to the mainland. On a rare occasion that he does, he rescues a girl from her job working for a hateful hotel owner. The two live happily ever after...until the the hotelier sends a couple of thugs to bring the girl back.

The Christmas Cards

A lonely man purchases three Christmas cards and mails each to someone chosen at random.

The Closed Door

Detective Peter Handley is in the hospital for treatment of a memory block after his girlfriend is found murdered. He's unable to recall if he did or didn't kill the young woman so he is administered sodium amytal, the "truth serum."

Keep Your Head Up, Mr. Putnam

This episode is based on the autobiography of Peter Putnam, a young man who lost his sight in a hunting accident. Wanting to pursue his education, he attends the Seeing Eye Institute in Morristown, New Jersey before attending and graduating from Princeton University.

Ricochet

A sleazy reporter makes his name exposing the skeletons in other people's closets. Eventually, all of his dirt-digging backfires on him.

Maggie, Pack Your Bags

An ex-Army officer is enjoying his retirement in Mexico with his second wife--until his son and a general arrive to disrupt his quiet life.

The Outer Limit

The military sends up a pilot in a rocket-boosted plane to reach the outer limit of the atmosphere. They lose communication with him as he travels beyond their radar's upper range. He's presumed dead, yet he lands safely an hour after he would have run out of oxygen and fuel.

Element of Risk

While taking a supposedly relaxing country vacation, a famous actor gets anything but rest. His gorgeous next door neighbor has just been acquitted of murdering her husband. The actor starts asking questions about the case and finds himself in serious danger.

The Shadow Line

A young sailor who's had his fill of the sailing life announces his retirement from the sea. For his final voyage, he agree to captain a ship back home from the Siam Sea.

The Burtons

The owner of a carriage shop in 1910 New England is informed that his business stands in the path of a proposed new highway. he chooses to ignore the state's orders and refuses to vacate.

Dinah, Kip, and Mr. Barlow

A man from a small town, a career woman, and an unemployed-but-talented older man are each unknowingly competing for the same advertising agency job. The two younger people end up falling in love but their relationship starts takes a back seat to professional competition.

Betrayed

The widow of a Korean war soldier works in an isolated mountain laboratory where research on atomic weapons is being conducted. She befriends a couple that tells her that her husband is not dead, but being held by the Communists. They offer a deal: in exchange for atomic secrets, they will insure his safe return.

The Centrifuge

A research scientist joins a team working at a secret lab in Britain. Their project is to beat the Communists in developing deadly bacteria for use in biological warfare. The doctor inadvertently becomes involved in espionage.

Tomorrow We'll Sing

A United States airman tries to change the resentment that Italians villagers have towards Americans during their occupation of the town in World War II.

The Big Night

A former pilot in the Air Force finds it tough making the adjustment to the boring life of the civilian world.

Burden of Proof

In a British courtroom, a spoiled son is on trial for the murder of his father. Also on hand are his shrewish wife and loving daughter.

Second-Hand Sofa

After recovering from a nervous breakdown, Lacey Holden and her husband, Gates, move into an apartment in the city. The previous tenant is in a hurry to catch a boat out of the country and sells her old sofa to the couple. Lacey seems happy and healthy until she fines a note stashed in the sofa that reads, "If I am missing, I have been killed on this sofa."

The Glass Gage

Adam Foster is such a punctual and predictable employee that co-workers refer to him as "Mr. Tick Tock, the Human Clock". Everyone is surprised when the meticulous man is accused of embezzling company funds. A secretary in the office who has been put off by his blandness is the one person who can help him clear his name.

World by the Tail

In this romantic comedy, a ballerina and foreign attaché call off their romance. So do the ballerina's roommate and her boyfriend. The two lovers who just got dumped happen to meet.

Summer Tempest

A war widow must decide whether to live in the past or begin a new life in the present. She faces serious objections on re-marriage from the mother-in-law of her late husband.

Linda

Broadway star Linda Coles gives the performance of a lifetime to the press when her husband dies in a small plane crash. What they don't know is that Linda and her husband's best friend, her lover, are behind the tragedy.

Appointment in Samarra

Set against the middle upper class of a small Pennsylvania town in 1930, a man's world self-destructs as the Great Depression takes its toll.

The Wind Cannot Read

A pilot for the Royal Air Force is lucky to be alive after his plane goes down in a Burmese jungle. While in India during World War II, he falls in love with his Japanese tutor.

All Things Glad and Beautiful

The story of a devoted mother and her son is told from his birth until he becomes a GI during World War II.

No Head for Midnight

This light comedy chronicles the romantic misadventures of an airline pilot on vacation at the beach. Before it's over, he's proposed to two different women, one right after the other.

The Woman Who Hated Children

A woman wants to have nothing to do with any children following the death of her son. Concerned over his wife's continued grief, her husband warms up to a friendly tyke from the slums.

Half a Kingdom

One man convinces the rest of the jury to vote "not-guilty" on charges against a wealthy industrialist. Now, he feels the cleared man owes him big.

The Half Millionaire

A boarding house is the setting for a murder, underworld criminals, the police, and $500,000 in cash.

Two of a Kind

In this comedy, a husband does his best to prevent jealousy between his home and his office.

A Summer Love

The star of a theater group, an aging Lothario with several marriages to his credit, falls for a younger actress in the cast. After meeting her family, he realizes that his past will stand in the way of their happiness. He pretends to romance one of his ex-wives so the girlfriend will be able to dump him.

Anne's Story

Anne was raised in a tawdry environment and constantly overshadowed by her successful, sexy younger sister. She enrolls in an art class for relief from her drudgery and meets a handsome, but jaded, playboy. He finds her a breath of fresh air, but Anne can't believe a good-looking man would have any interest in her,

Duet for Two Hands

A pianist has lost both of his hands in a tragic accident. A respected surgeon performs the impossible by grafting the hands of a recently-hanged killer onto the disabled musician. The musician's new hands prefer murdering to playing sonatas.

Red Robin Rides Again

A woman who lives with her brother and his daughter decide to reach out across the ocean and invite a British exchange student to stay with them. The visitor is an American actor, posing as a Britain, who proceeds to charm the young daughter of the household. The girl's fiancé is jealous of the would-be European's class, even though he's no slouch himself.

Pierce 3098

A husband who's carrying on an affair cannot get his wife to give him a divorce. Harold arranges for Alice to have an "accident"; he tampers with phone lines so that when he calls her from his office, there will be a deadly explosion. His well-engineered plan does not come off as expected.

Diary

A small-town girl leaves her unhappy home to find her way in a large city. There she meets an unsavory character who, nevertheless, offers her the only understanding help she has ever known.

A Dreamer of Summer

A Brooklyn bookkeeper falls in love with a Bronx shipping clerk at a summer resort. Meanwhile, each fears that the other will discover their secret; it seems they both exaggerated greatly about their careers.

Two Wise Women

A married American banker falls for a French reporter while in Berlin.

Autumn Crocus

When love finally arrives for a spinster school teacher, she must reject it. The young innkeeper she's fallen for is already married.

A Foreign Affair

This comic romance begins in the post-war rubble of 1947 Berlin, Germany. Captain Pringle is in love with a U. S. Congresswoman on an investigation and the woman being investigated.

Remote

In this fictional documentary, a man campaigning for the governorship of a Southern state goes on trial for the murder of his secretary. The effects of television coverage on justice are highlighted as facts get distorted along party lines and the cameras cover the "event" inside and outside the courtroom.

The Gentleman

A man is obsessed with the way things used to be. Rather than accepting and appreciating the present, he sadly retreats to living his life in the past.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Part 1)

Subtitled "The Beastliness of Beauty", Victor Hugo's classic is adapted for television. It's the story of the hideous bell-ringing Quasimodo at the Cathederal of Notre Dame and the beautiful woman he loves, Esmeralda.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Part 2)

Subtitled The Beauty of the Beast, Victor Hugo's classic is adapted for the small screen. It's the story of the hideous bell-ringing Quasimodo at the Cathederal of Notre Dame and the beautiful woman he loves, Esmeralda.

Homecoming

On the weekend of the big homecoming game, a college football star plans for an improved future. The rich co-ed he's dating could be his ticket to an upgrade in his status.

Judith

Judith is a beautiful woman who proceeds to destroy the man she claims to have loved. She receives a well-earned retribution for her actions.

Dr. Ed

This inspirational story is based on real-life physician Dr. Edward Conner of Pennsylvania. In his life, he was able to start a clinic for handicapped kids, despite his personal battle with multiple sclerosis.

End of a Mission

A pilot who's thought to have died during a crash decides to "play dead" so he can remain near the woman he loves. Eventually, he wishes to return to the United States, as both a deserter and a casualty.

David Copperfield: the Search (Part 1)

In the first of two parts, young and motherless David is sent by his uncaring stepfather to live with the impoverished Micawbers in London. He barely survives, working at a warehouse gluing labels on bottles.

David Copperfield: the Reward (Part 2)

In the second of two parts, David conducts his romance with the spoiled Dora Spenlow and, with the help of Micawber, unmasks Uriah Heep as a scheming thief. This episode is subtitled "The Reward".

Death and the Sky Above

An innocent man convicted for the murder of his wife escapes to search for the guilty party, but is ultimately recaptured. Back in the death house, the moments tick by as the time of his execution gets nearer.

A Night for Dreaming

Three girls share a New York apartment, each with a dream they're pursuing. One wants to meet someone to love, one wants to marry a rich man, and last wishes to become a star. Each learns that their dreams come with high prices.

The Cypress Tree

A widow tries to move on following the death of her husband, but her sisters stand in the way. One wants her to forge ahead while the other wants her to go into seclusion in memory of her departed spouse.

Joe's Boy

A self-centered father is determined to see that his son, the soldier, gets married to a proper girl and starts a respectable career.

Deadline

A small town girl moves to the city and falls in love with her ruthless, cut-throat boss. During the time she awaits his proposal, she transforms into a hard-boiled career woman. When she returns to her hometown, she finds she doesn't fit in anymore.

The Lost Weekend

Robert Montgomery takes the starring role in this version of the famous film about a man slowly dying from alcoholism.

The Breaking Point

A pre-med college professor, whose wife died on the operating table, makes exams especially difficult for his students. His aim is to weed out those unworthy of the trust of the medical profession.

Coming of Age

Fears lead to upheaval in Terry Ballard's life as he suffers a mid-life crisis at his 40th birthday. His wife wants them to buy a new house and he's been offered a new position at work. Terry afraid to risk the security of his current position for the better-paying offer, fearful of being out of work if the new job doesn't work out.

A Very Special World

On the eve of his debut as a major league baseball player, a man is committed to a tuberculosis sanatorium. He tries to adjust to his new life with the help of two women who love him.

A Matter of Dignity

An arrogant man who has treated family, friends, and employees with disrespect and abuse finds his life threatened and no one to turn to for help.

A Stone for His Son

Prejudice almost destroys a family when a successful rancher disowns his only son for marrying a woman who's grandmother was a Sioux. The secret of the man's bigotry is revealed because of an unexpected tragedy.

N.Y. to L.A.

This show business story tells of an actor who ruthlessly pursues a studio contract with no regard for whom he steps on or uses along the way. His girlfriend is the last to realize his true nature.

The Iron Cobweb

An author returns to the hospital following the loss of her new-born. While there, she realizes that someone wants to make her seem unhinged by the infant's death.

The Tender Leaves of Hope

After suffering a serious accident, an accomplished surgeon fears that his skills are lost. He turns to a psychiatrist for help.

P. J. Martin and Son

A domineering mother controls the family business with a steely grip--the same one she uses to control her two sons.

The Tall Dark Man

A girl known for spinning fanciful stories witnesses a murder outside of her schoolroom window. Because of her reputation, no one believes her. What's worse, she realizes that the murderer saw her watching.

Bella Fleace Gave a Party

Octogenarian Bella Fleace decides to have one last fling and give a great ball, but no one attends.

The Great Gatsby

In an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "roaring twenties" book, a man pines for the woman who discarded him years earlier.

The Cage

In London during World War II, British counter intelligence agents track down a wily Nazi spy.

The Drifter

In the Old West, a Civil War veteran and a dance hall gal are awarded a stage coach line by its dying owner.

Now or Never

Jack and Liz meet on the Stamford, Connecticut express train. Through flashbacks, we learn they first met at the same location and began a torrid, though short-lived, love affair.

The Killers

Guilt plagues a number of people who feel that, perhaps, their indifference was a cause for a man's death.

Second Chance

A son feels so indebted to his family for having sacrificed to send him to college that he almost ruins his academic career.

There's No Need to Shout

Real-life newspaperwoman Frances Warfield jeopardizes her success by not addressing her hearing loss.

Towhead

The young new teacher in a small town tries to gently let down a young student who has a crush on her.

The Fourth of July

A determined police detective works to force a crooked former politician to face the music.

The Paper Hero

An unmarried middle-aged clerk at a marriage license bureau is a true romantic. He's always writing poems and bringing flowers for the young lovers who visit his office. He eventually falls for a widow, but starts to have second thoughts about marriage because of her superficial and self-centered ways.

The Diamond Curtain

A young woman moves to New York City and becomes a success, only to become entrapped by a life of superficiality.

Decision by Morning

A tough moral and professional decision faces a gifted eye surgeon. He can chose an action that may save a child's vision, but it would compromise medical standards.

A Slightly Important Man

A shrewish wife considers her husband's theater career to be competition for his affections. She forces him to make a choice.

Uncle Snowball

Two worldly gentlemen vie for the affections of an equally cosmopolitan woman in this light comedy.

Late Love

Rosie escapes her dull life as an office secretary engaged for a decade to a dentist through her elaborate daydreams. When Rosie loses her job, she indulges her imagination by heading for Mexico armed with a Geiger counter.

Rosie

An office secretary has been engaged to a dentist for 10 years. The doctor feels he must have security before he settles down to wed and start a family.

Lost and Found

Dr. Robert Collis works to rehabilitate children, both physically and spiritually, who were held at Belsen, the notorious Nazi prison camp. He invests special efforts to win over Eva, who guards her younger brother so tightly that they can't treat his tuberculosis. This is based on actual events.

September Time

Marion Shaw, a premiere concert vocalist, takes a forced summer rest in Cape Cod to give her strained voice a chance to recover. The truth slowly becomes obvious to both Marion and her voice coach that her singing days are over. The burden of losing her career is lightened by a handsome man she meets in the resort town.

The Big Money

A World War I hero operates on the belief that money, and lots of it, buys happiness. He jumps into the airplane business, believing it will offer big bucks, but soon fails. He plunges into the stock market and meets a woman, but she soon leaves him because of his iffy finances. His single minded goal of money continues to negatively influence his career choices and his relationships.

Breakdown

Scientist Philip Armstrong returns to England to conduct tests on a top secret government weapon. Dr. Allen, whom he doesn't know, is assigned to work with him. The doctor confides that he's in love with a woman he's just recently met. It turns out that the woman is Armstrong's wife. With the stress of his work and his marriage in shambles, the scientist is on the verge of a crack-up.

A Criminal Assignment

Wanting to catch other criminals, the British secret service gains the release of a counterfeiter who's dropped into France. He is to produce bills that contain a tiny flaw to be used to pay off the suspected double-dealers. With the plan a success, the ex-con is free to go. Following the war, the counterfeiter disappears and authorities find two perfect plates. Clearly, he couldn't resist the temptation to print a little for himself.

The Sunday Punch

A one-time big name fighter, Tony Marino, is on his way down the boxing ladder, but he still can throw his powerful "Sunday punch." Tony's manager tries to bribe him to take a dive in a fight with up-and-comer Kid Walker. Tony is infuriated and almost wins the fight, though he suffers a dangerous head injury that could have lasting repercussions.

Cakes and Ale

Upon the death of a famed writer, two colleagues competing to write his biography visit his country estate. While there, they meet a charming local barmaid, Rosie, with quite a story to tell: she had married an unsuccessful middle-aged writer and was a major influence that guided him to being a better man and noted author.

No Picnic at Mount Kenya

Based on a true story from World War II, Felice Benuzzi was one of 10,000 prisoners of war held at the Kenya camp. Benuzzi and two others manage to escape by successfully scaling down the 17,000-foot high Mt. Kenya.

Weekend Pass

A soldier on a three-day weekend pass is determined to paint the town. With $200 and his fiancé, he hits the nightspots in New York City. His girlfriend, though, soon tires of the party life and becomes irritated by his refusal to name a wedding date. After she storms off, he decides to connect with another girl, unaware of what adventures she has in store for him.

The Deep Six

After far too many months at sea, tensions build among the men and officers of the cruiser U.S.S. Atlantis during World War II. Lt. Alec Austen is already irritated by the constant meddling of his executive and gunnery officers. After months of tedium and threatened danger, the ship encounters a Japanese force in the Aleutians and is thrust into a furious battle for survival.

Harvest

A young man in love with a sophisticated woman from the city is torn between his desires and those of his family. His parents wish him and his brother to stay and work on their small Minnesota wheat farm while both want to escape the tough life and move to the city. It's up to the mother to keep the family together in spirit during their Thanksgiving holiday reunion.

The Soprano and the Piccolo Player

An overweight piccolo player's accompaniment to a soprano's aria is so well-received that the two are suddenly in demand as a duo. As their fame and popularity grow, so does the piccolo player's love for his beautiful partner. As he's trying to muster up the courage to ask her to marry him, he learns that she has become engaged to another. Heartbroken, he disappears, never to be seen or heard from again.

Really the Blues

Jackie Cooper stars in this biography of jazz great Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow. An unruly youth, his parents put him in a reform school where he first encountered jazz. He eventually became a talented clarinetist and fronted his own combo during the 1920s, but when music trends moved towards big bands, he suffered a rapid decline in fortunes. Mezz endured much mental suffering during this period before being reintroduced to the public by friends like musician Gene Krupa.

No Visible Means

Tom, a smooth talking gigolo, makes the rounds through the speakeasies of 1920s New York. He's loved by Veronia, a woman with a lot of money, but he loses interest when he meets Iris. She presents herself as a person of society on the verge of big film career. Wedding plans quickly follow, until their lies catch up with both of them.

What About Christmas?

Individuals throughout an American city end up touching one another in unexpected ways during the holiday season. Among the unrelated people are a lonely old man and his cat, a movie actor hoping to make it home for Christmas, a businessman, and a scientist who chooses to work in his lab on Christmas Eve.

The Greatest Man in the World

A publicity-loving mechanic causes a sensation when he flies solo around the world. A newspaper reporter is assigned the job of uncovering this unknown person's secretive past.

The Steady Man

A couple whose child died at birth face a problem adopting a child. The husband, proud of the fact that he can account for every penny they spend, is horrified by the expense and the long wait involved. It's up to the patient wife to talk her husband into dealing with the adoption process.

A Case of Identity

While taking the subway home from the Stork Club, a musician is detained by police for a robbing a loan office. One of the clerks identifies him as the criminal and he's eventually sentenced to jail. It is only through the determination of his lawyer that he is finally freed.

Machinal

Giving in to the advice of her calculating mother, Helen marries her highly successful and thoroughly revolting boss. Since his very touch repulses her, she ends up in an affair with a young man who eventually betrays her. The climax to her sad life is being sentenced to the electric chair.

Richard Said No

A ad-man for a perfume company meets his female counterpart at a party when his jealous wife is away.

The 17th of June

Based on a true story, a man performs heroic acts against Communists in East Berlin during an uprising on June 17th of the previous summer.

Mr. Whittle and the Morning Star

After much study, a history professor has decided that the end of the world is upon us.

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay

The adventures of the young Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough are dramatized from the bestseller of the same title. The girls board a luxury ship bound for Europe and are flirted with by a couple of Yankees, but much prefer the company of two sophisticated society men.

Land of Happiness

In 1895, a sophisticated woman of Copenhagen accompanies her husband, a pastor to his new parish. It's located on the rustic and isolated Faero Islands of the North Atlantic.

Such a Busy Day Tomorrow

A senior citizen who's successfully raised a family feels he has nothing remaining to contribute to their lives. He meets a group of people at an senior center and fears he'll never be as happy again as they seem to be.

The Paradise Cafe

A honky-tonk piano player with big plans is surrounded by a diverse group of dreamers in this character study set in a bistro.

The Quality of Mercy

A couple innocently leave their baby home alone for a night out in the Big Apple. Authorities learn of this, take the child and place it in a children's home. Confused and frightened, the parents become violent, however the nun who heads the facility bestows mercy upon the couple.

Pink Hippopotamus

A blockade runner, himself an escapee from behind the Iron Curtain, deals in the transport of human cargo in and out of that region. His current mission is to reunite a young boy and his parents.

My Little Girl

A reporter father thinks he's done a good job of raising his child. Unfortunately, he starts to have doubts about her integrity.

For These Services

Father and son physicians are at odds over how to practice medicine.

The Pale Blonde of Sand Street

A young sailor meets a blonde and give her his lucky coin. With it, she makes a wish for him to disappear from her life. When the wish comes true, she begins to haunt ships looking for the man she really loves.

Big Boy

The conflict between generations is played out between an old railroad man and his son over steam powered trains versus the new diesel engine.

No Need of Favor

A young artist who has lost his vision falls for and marries his secretary, a woman of great inner beauty but "plain Jane" looks. When an operation restores the artists' sight, his wife becomes insecure because she can never match the vision of beauty he had of her in his mind.

The Wages of Fear

Four men face danger at every turn driving truckloads of nitroglycerin through jungle country to Guatemala's to oil fields.

Pilgrim's Pride

A businessman takes his number one client to the country for meetings, but finds his daughter already there with a house full of party guests.

Sky Block

Farmland across the Midwest is turned into desert by someone wielding a destructive "drought machine".

The Power and the Prize

When in Europe, an American businessman falls for a refugee from behind the Iron Curtain. He brings the girl back with him and must deal with the prejudices of the people he works with.

Once Upon a Time

A bride and groom greeting guests at their wedding encounter loves from their pasts. Each remembers their dating days and thinks about the one they might have married.

The Patriot from Antibes

A baron and baroness are swindled out of a small fortune by group of impressive con men in a true story from the Paris police files.

Great Expectations: the Promise (Part 1)

In the first of this two-part adaptation, Pip, a young man with an inheritance, suffers through problems that arise due to his friendship with an escaped criminal.

Great Expectations: the Reality (Part 2)

In part two, Pip gets his own apartment, falls in love, and has another encounter with the criminal Magwitch.

In His Hands

A young doctor's true love suffers an incurable, deadly disease.

The Expert

A noted author and lecturer on the subject of marital bliss can not speak from personal experience. He has a hard time explaining why a strange woman in her pajamas is feeding him breakfast.

Story on 11th Street

A lonely widower with a seven-year-old son wants to rebuild a happy home for the child.

It Happened in Paris

An American couple broadcast a weekly radio show from Paris, enthralling their listeners back home with stories of their extended honeymoon in France. In reality, the man and woman are not married, can't stand each other, and bicker constantly. That's why they're unhappy when the sponsor wants to renew their contracts.

Patricia

A young society woman follows her own path and enrolls in a bohemian art school. She immediately falls for an older instructor, but he does not return her affections.

Home Town

A gullible man leaves his home town for the big city. He falls prey to a flashy public relations man who plots a big build-up for his debut.

About Sara Caine

An overbearing young female reporter is determined to better her father, competing against him in the coverage of a news story.

Invitation to Murder

A publisher gets a manuscript full of damning statements about a number of important people. He invites its author and those mentioned in the book to the same party, suggesting to his guests that murdering the author might be a suitable option.

Personal Story

At the peak of his career, an architect suffers an heart attack. He takes the doctor's advice to slow down to such an extreme, he's barely living his life.

Mr. and Mrs. Monroe

On his own while his wife's away in Europe, henpecked Mr. Monroe decides he'll be the suave and adventurous man of his imagination. In his fantasies, he captures a diamond smuggler and a dangerous escaped convict.

Along Came Jones

A soft-spoken cowboy shows up in a small western town looking for work. The locals mistakenly assume he's a murderous troublemaker, causing great tension when he starts dating the real killer's girlfriend.

The Stranger

Authorities hope that their release a low-level war criminal will lead them to a Nazi Germany leader who "disappeared" after World War II. Following the released man, they're led to a small Connecticut town and a respected professor.

Paper Town

A family is at odds when the father, successful in the lumber business, insists his son take over the company. The son, married and expecting a child soon, wants to finish law school instead.

Tomorrow is Forever

An American soldier, whose disfigured face was reconstructed by Austrian plastic surgeons, returns home after twenty years, but no one recognizes him. His widow is married to another man, and his son is a grown young man.

Man Lost

A Navy man loses his will to live following the death of his wife. He witnesses an A-bomb test in the Pacific and then goes "on leave" in Hawaii where he makes positive discoveries about himself.

In a Foreign City

The truth eventually catches up with a sad man when his life is revealed to have been nothing but lies.

The World to Nothing

Being an incredible actor is not enough as a performer feels nothing but loneliness even though he has a wife and daughter.

Cry Silence

When a farmer's young wife dies in an "accident", the local police have doubts about how accidental her death actually was.

Isobel

The successful writer of detective stories is the last person to see a young woman alive. The girl, Isobel, also shares the name of the heroine in one of the author's novels.

End of the Rainbow

The heads of two immigrant families feud constantly, even though they are are neighbors and work at the same factory. It's practically inevitable that two of their youngsters would fall in love.

Lucifer

A publishing manager who has caused a great deal of unhappiness throughout his career gets his turn in the hot seat.

See the Man

A young mechanic hides a shameful secret-- he's unable to read, having left school early because of poverty. He believe his illiteracy is standing in the way of his success.

Quality Town

A man who climbed the ladder from wildcatter to oil tycoon spoils his daughter with the material things he never had.

The Second Day of Christmas

This is the story of the young Hans Christian Anderson's love for singer Jenny Lind and her refusal to give up her singing career.

Three Men from Tomorrow

Three individual one-act stories are told, each involving young men facing moral or ethical decisions which will have profound effects on their futures. Act one profiles a high school student who's planning to elope with his girlfriend; Act two looks at a young man who's asked to deal drugs; Act three is the story of a college fraternity president who's supposed to expel one of the brothers.

The End of the Tether

An elderly mariner is making his final voyage as the captain of a non-seaworthy boat owned by shady characters. Determined to retire with his dignity, the captain takes the ragged ship out to sea with the intention of wrecking the wreck.

The Tyrant

A small town newspaper editor takes a stand against a powerful local citizen who acts with dictatorial rule.

Aftermath

A lawyer who finds himself at a murder scene quickly leaves town, fearing that the crime will be pinned on him. He returns five years later with a shocking revelation.

Mr. Tutt Baits the Hook

Eccentric lawyer Ephriam Tutt puts his unconventional methods to use to help a young man charged with murder.

Good Friday 1865

A teen-aged boy gets a bit part in a play so he can meet his idol, Abraham Lincoln. Instead, he ends up witnessing the assassination of the president at the Ford Theater.

The Man Who Vanished

A middle-aged man decides that the joys of youth were preferable to the success he now enjoys in business. As he retreats into the dreams of his carefree youth, he physically begins to fade away before the eyes of his friends and associates.

An Excuse for Shanks

A shy, young man in a small town has been disliked by people his whole life. He makes his first real friend, the wife of the local pool hall owner, and falls madly in love with her. Shanks unwittingly becomes a factor is his own downfall.

End of Morning

A school bus driver steers his vehicle into the path of an on-coming train and four children are killed. As a man who once believed he had all of life's answers finds himself struggling to make sense of anything.

Adam's Son

A judge's campaign for the governorship has his son feeling that he can never live up to his father's achievements. At least that's the case until the judge makes a serious mistake.

The Briefcase

A young couple's marriage is on the rocks because of the husband's failure to get ahead at work. He encounters obstacles from an underhanded office worker in the grocery business.

The Secret

A lumberjack actively guards a mysterious black box in his possession. This piques the curiosity of the others in the logging camp. Everyone has a theory about its contents, ranging from love letters to evidence of a murder.

The Long Way Home

A commuter suffers a heart attack in Grand Central Station as he's heading home to Connecticut.

Death Insurance

An auto mechanic unhappy with his lot in life plans to kill his wife and collect on the insurance policy he just opened on her. When the "accident" he arranged for her fizzles, he cancels the policy. As luck would have it, his wife becomes seriously injured in a real accident. Now he's fighting to keep her alive because her recently deceased father left her a small fortune that goes to charity if she dies.

Pistolero

A gas station owner in a small prairie town decides to expose the local political boss as the evil that he is. The angry strongman responds by hiring a hit man to kill the troublemaker.

Portrait of a Man

The life of the genius Albert Einstein is highlighted in this biography. His early years in Prague, when he proposed his famed Theory of Relativity, are presented. The show then focuses on his later life when he lived modestly among the people of Princeton, New Jersey.

The Baobab Tree

A South African plantation is home to a baobab tree, a large native plant which is said to kill all other life near it. The action centers on a woman who flirts shamelessly and the price she pays for her actions.

Don't Do Me Any Favors

A singer discovers that success can carry a high price when he gets swept up by fast-talking con men. As he rises to the top, he finds the people around him are more interested in a piece of his income than in his welfare. Johnny Desmond sings "Please Don't Forget Me, Dear."

Jack Be Nimble

A bigamist has two different wives in two different cities that he travels between for business. Neither knows about the other, until one fateful day. Unable to justify his behavior to either woman, he commits a crime he never thought he would have.

The Right Thing

Following the death of a girl in a car accident, Bob Slater is tortured by the idea that he was somehow negligent in his driving that day.

All Expenses Paid

A naive salesclerk is named "Miss Courtesy" by her store and is awarded an all-expenses paid trip to Nassau. While vacationing at the exotic locale, she falls under the spell of a suave and sophisticated man of the world.

Who?

In this unusual drama, seven actors portray the same character as he's seen through the eyes of different people. The "Standard Who" is how the man sees himself, along with the "Ineffectual Who", the "Solid Who", the "Slob Who", the "Satyr Who", the "Nasty Who" and the "Godlike Who".

Honored Guest

Krisons Rigo, a recent immigrant, settles in a small Long Island town. Though he taught in the old country, he cannot get a certificate here, so he takes a job as a school janitor.

Storm Over Swan Lake

A teacher's opposition to dismissal by a tyrannical school superintendent throws a small town into turmoil.

The Soldier Room

An unhappy wife is forbidden by her psychotic husband to even have friends. he's a man who retired early to play with his toy soldier collection. When she falls in love with another, she see the chance to leave this unhappy life behind. She's torn, however, because she knows her husband would be lost without her.

An Elephant for Peanuts

A young boy nicknamed Peanuts desperately wants an elephant for a pet. He steals a purchase order from his father's work and buys a baby pachyderm that he hides in their garage.

Dream No More

A college professor is obsessed with getting a piece of property owned by the mother of one of his students. He tries to charm the the property from her, before attempting to destroy the woman. The mother gets the last word, but pays a big price for it.

A Matter of Conscience

A husband and wife have begun to drift apart after nine years of marriage. The husband spends more and more time at his law office, convincing his spouse that he's having an affair. She confronts him with her belief.

Day of Grace

A meek editor at a religious publishing house believes that only a large sum of money could give him the life he wants and the nerve to propose to the woman he loves. Upon discovering the next day's newspaper at his doorstep, he becomes bold and aggressive trying to capitalize on the stock market and race track results the magic newspaper contains.

Catch a Falling Star

Ken Reed, once a big name actor in Hollywood, refuses to accept that he's no longer the star he thinks he is. Even though he hasn't had a film role in two years, he continues to live lavishly, even refusing a supporting part on Broadway because it's beneath him. He is given one last chance at career redemption, and it hinges on a successful test for television.

Southern Exposure

In this comedy set in Mississippi, an aging Southern belle grudgingly opens her mansion to tacky Yankee tourists during the annual azalea festival. Needing the money to keep the bank from foreclosing on her home, she also takes in a boarder, a young man who's written a popular but critical book about the Natchez way of life.

Maybe Tomorrow

Bernice has spent her whole life working in her father's store and being dominated by her beautiful mother. When she finally finds love in the form of a salesman, her mother disapproves. Bernice is forced to choose between the man of her dreams and her controlling parent.

The Company Wife

An accountant who's a rabid baseball fan is chosen to umpire the game between his office and their biggest competitor. When he makes a close call against his company's team, he finds himself a shunned outcast.