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Season 9

47 Episodes1956

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Ep 1

A Special Announcement

1956-09-2460m
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.
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Ep 2

A Man's World

1956-10-0160m
A cabin boy on an American yacht finds love in the French port of Cannes.
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Ep 3

The Open Door

1956-10-1560m
When a man thumbs a ride and gets into an argument with the driver, he receives a 90-day jail sentence, but to his surprise, he is offered a job as counterman in a diner near the jail while serving his term, according to the ""open door"" policy of the prison.
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Ep 4

The Crimes of Peter Page

1956-10-2260m
The museum curator's reputation comes under close scrutiny when several articles aren't what they appeared to be.
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Ep 5

American Primitive

1956-10-2960m
A group of settlers on their way to Oregon stop for the night on a Western prairie. As the Indian tom-toms beat, tension in the small camp mounts, until finally the Indians themselves appear to demand justice.
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Ep 6

The Pilot

1956-11-1260m
This episode depicts the story of Sister Mary Aquinas, who was the first nun ever to become a licensed aeroplane pilot.
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Ep 7

The Landlady's Daughter

1956-11-2660m
When a smooth talking lawyer moves into the boarding house, tongues start wagging about the goings on with the landlady's daughter.
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Ep 8

Portrait of a Citizen

1956-12-0360m
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.
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Ep 9

Rachel

1956-12-1060m
Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel makes a decision which impacts the entire country.
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Ep 10

Career

1956-12-1760m
A 35-year-old ex-champion is goaded into the boxing ring by a sportscaster to fight the current champion.
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Ep 11

A Christmas Surprise

1956-12-2460m
A special done like a "Person to Person" interview with a visit to a "typical" American home and family for a Christmas surprise.
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Ep 12

Goodbye Piccadilly

1956-12-3160m
A secret agent is assigned to trail a brilliant scientist assuming that he is selling secrets to the enemy.
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Ep 13

Love at Fourth Sight

1957-01-0760m
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.
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Ep 14

The Dark Corner

1957-01-1460m
Laura Morgan goes with her new husband to live in his mother's cheerless house. From her husband's mother, she learns a terrible secret about his past.
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Ep 15

The Five Dollar Bill

1957-01-2160m
A sensitive young boy struggles to attain his own identity against the fumbling demands of his father and the solicitous affections of his mother.
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Ep 16

Dead of Noon

1957-01-2860m
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.
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Ep 17

Tale of the Comet

1957-02-0460m
Tim Tully has reached the top as a successful comic but is ruthless behind the scenes alienating many. Then as his ratings begin to slide he finds it difficult to get anyone, especially writers, to work for him.
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Ep 18

A Walk in the Forest

1957-02-1160m
A young student with a promising career in science endangers his future in an immature college spree.
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Ep 19

The Hollywood Complex

1957-02-1860m
When a young movie executive, with a distorted conception of the values and rewards of Hollywood, rejects his father as an embarrassing symbol of the past, the executive's two roommates and an exotic dancer give kindness to the bewildered old man, and in so doing, discover something important about themselves and their own need for love.
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Ep 20

The Defender (Part 1)

1957-02-2560m
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.
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Ep 21

The Defender (Part 2)

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1957-03-0460m
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.
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Ep 22

A Child Is Waiting

1957-03-1160m
Nurse Jean Horst, who works in a retarded children's home, is drawn to Reuben Widdicomb, a little boy whose mother hasn't come to visit him.
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Ep 23

Walk Down the Hill

1957-03-1860m
During World War II, a Jewish American soldier questions his heritage when he is thrown in a German prison camp and learns that the Jewish GI's are to be put into a separate camp.
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Ep 24

A Member of the Family

1957-03-2560m
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.
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Ep 25

The Years in Between

1957-04-0160m
A boy gets a date with the lovely girl who is visiting her relatives next door.
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Ep 26

The Playwright and the Stars

1957-04-0860m
A Broadway producer signs a forgotten destitute one-time star in a pivotal role in his new play.
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Ep 27

The Rice Sprout Song

1957-04-1560m
A Chinese peasant family's struggle for survival under Communist rule as obstacles and tragedy unfold.
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Ep 28

The Traveling Lady

1957-04-2260m
Georgette and her little daughter arrive in a small Texas town to meet her husband, Henry, who has recently been released from prison. Georgette married Henry while he was a struggling singer, but soon after their marriage he was sent to prison for a 6-year term. Weak in character, Henry is now trying to make another start and is working as a gardener for one of the town's most trusting characters. But a new person enters Georgette's life, Slim Breedlove, a pleasant young man who offers to help her find her husband.
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Ep 29

Eight Feet to Midnight

1957-04-2960m
A story about the outlawed Irish Republican Army
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Ep 30

The Out-of-Towners

1957-05-0660m
A small-town postmistress, whose hopes are high when she makes her annual trip to the big city for a 3-day convention of Postal Employees, meets a middle-aged salesman and tries to encourage the acquaintanceship.
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Ep 31

Babe in the Woods

1957-05-1360m
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.
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Ep 32

The Man Who Wasn't Himself

1957-05-2060m
Peter Hendon impersonated men in various professions as a surgeon, college professor and lawyer without any previous training in these fields.
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Ep 33

The Weston Strain

1957-05-2760m
A young writer must decide if his first responsibility is to his family or his creative gift.
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Ep 34

The Furlough

1957-06-0360m
A deranged soldier has escaped from the stockade vows to do away with his former platoon sergeant and trails him to the home of a dead buddy.
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Ep 35

The Mother Bit

1957-06-1060m
A driven domineering career woman and her attempt to make a home in the country for her teen-age daughter. Kitty Sharpe is a popular television singer. Upon the death of her ex-husband, Kitty faces the problem of setting up housekeeping for the first time with her only child, Joy, a shy, attractive girl of seventeen.
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Ep 36

The Staring Match

1957-06-1760m
Set in a small ranch town that is suffering from drought, townspeople gather to pray for rain in the schoolhouse. There is a knock at the door and a man dressed all in white greets everyone by name. He says that his name is Mr. White and that he has been sent to help them find a well. Then another knock at the door reveals a man dressed all in black, who claims that his name is Mr. Black and that he is an angel of the Lord sent to help them also. Not knowing which man to trust, the dilemma is resolved by a ""staring match"" between the two men. In the end, the angel is revealed and water is discovered.
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Ep 37

The Goodwill Ambassadors

1957-06-2460m
An American agricultural expert and his wife are sent to a Latin-American country to help with its agricultural problems. The wife is distressed with the primitive native village where they are working and she misunderstands some of the villagers' customs and traditions.
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Ep 38

Death and Taxes

1957-07-0160m
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.
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Ep 39

A Matter of Guilt

1957-07-0860m
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.
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Ep 40

Love Me to Pieces

1957-07-1560m
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.
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Ep 41

In Love with a Stranger

1957-07-2260m
Phyllis, a girl in her 20's, 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's 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.
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Ep 42

The Human Barrier

1957-07-2960m
A test pilot suffers from shock, amnesia, and guilt after he crashes a new jet.
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Ep 43

My Mother and How She Undid Me

1957-08-0560m
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.
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Ep 44

The Unmentionable Blues

1957-08-1260m
A businessman feels life is all too soon passing him by. He seeks companionship from a young girl.
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Ep 45

Rudy

1957-08-1960m
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.
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Ep 46

Guitar

1957-08-2660m
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.
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Ep 47

The Dark Intruder

1957-09-0260m
A music critic is mysteriously attacked in his Manhattan penthouse and thinks that a new composer whom he has panned is responsible.
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