Alcoa Hour: Episode Guide
1. Season 1, Ep 1: The Black Wings
A German physician who had been a Luftwaffe pilot during WWII secretly endows a clinic for the treatment of victims of a bombing raid he led over England, then falls in love with an English girl who was crippled by the bombing.
Aired: 10/16/19552. Season 1, Ep 2: The Small Servant
An orphan becomes the servant of a well-to-do family.
Aired: 10/30/19553. Season 1, Ep 3: A Girl Can Tell
A cynical mother shows her naive daughter her scrapbook of all the men she has kissed and tells her daughter what to look out for.
Aired: 11/13/19554. Season 1, Ep 4: Thunder In Washington
Charles Turner a highly competent business executive answers a call from the President of the United States to come to Washington to introduce efficiency into numerous sprawling government agencies. Soon Turner's efforts at reform offend almost everyone and he finds himself defending his actions before a House Appropriations committee.
Aired: 11/27/19555. Season 1, Ep 5: Undertow
Aired: 12/11/19556. Season 1, Ep 6: Amahl and the Night Visitors
A widowed shepherd woman and her crippled son Amahl, who are out of food, wood for the fire, and oil for their lamp when the Three Wise Men arrive at their cottage needing a place to stay for the night.
Aired: 12/25/19557. Season 1, Ep 7: Man on a Tiger
The story of success and failure, plunging deep into the Madison Avenue jungle, where admen fight for accounts, TV comedians fight for prestige and the small fry of television fight for their very existence.
Aired: 1/8/19568. Season 1, Ep 8: A Patch of Faith
A schoolmaster tries to raise money for his poor pupils who cannot afford football uniforms.
Aired: 1/22/19569. Season 1, Ep 9: Long After Summer
The scene is Cape Cod, New England. A cynical sculptor hires a young orphan girl as a housekeeper. She falls in love with the son of his best friend, but an ensuing tragedy arouses her employer's concern.
Aired: 2/5/195610. Season 1, Ep 10: Tragedy in a Temporary Town
A vigilante group is formed after a girl is assaulted at a construction camp. The mob descends on an innocent Puerto Rican victim and the hero opposes the frightening mob.
Aired: 2/19/195511. Season 1, Ep 11: Man On Fire
A businessman divorce's his wife and remarries with custody of their son. When the matter goes to court again and his ex-wife receives custody the man disillusioned with the court system turns his back on his friends, associates and the law.
Aired: 3/4/195612. Season 1, Ep 12: Doll Face
Aired: 3/18/195613. Season 1, Ep 13: Finkle's Comet
A candy store owner looks out his window and finds he is the only one who saw the comet.
Aired: 4/1/195614. Season 1, Ep 14: Even the Weariest River
Aired: 4/15/195615. Season 1, Ep 15: Paris and Mrs. Perlman
Aired: 4/29/195616. Season 1, Ep 16: The President
A party is set to select its presidential candidate at it's convention. Supreme Court justice Paul Westerman will clinch the nomination if he makes a deal with corrupt Governor Cowlin, whose delegates' votes he needs. Westerman's campaign manager says him he must make the shady deal to get the necessary votes. Close friend Fulton Willis, however, advises him to avoid Cowlin's overtures at all costs. The nomination and his future political career hinge upon his decision.
Aired: 5/13/195617. Season 1, Ep 17: The Confidence Man
A con artist poses as a clergyman and insinuates himself into a men's club where he takes up collection for a bogus missionary project. Sam ends up in the streets once he is found out and meets a wealthy spinster named Olivia whom he sets up as his next pigeon.
Aired: 5/27/195618. Season 1, Ep 18: The Magic Horn
Aired: 6/10/195619. Season 1, Ep 19: The Archangel Harrigan
Harrigan claims that he can fly but everyone believes him crazy and go about having him locked up.
Aired: 6/24/195620. Season 1, Ep 20: The Piper of St. James
A Scottish bagpipe player is willed to the lazy heir of a Canadian shipping family. He finds himself wanting to do good deeds whenever he hears the inspiring sound of the bagpipes.
Aired: 7/8/195621. Season 1, Ep 21: Sister
Aired: 7/22/195622. Season 1, Ep 22: Kiss and Tell
The seemingly monumental problems of a teen-aged girl, Corlis Archer, are the subject of this comedy. Naturally, she feels her parents just don't understand her; she doesn't understand their being upset by the kissing booth she ran with her friend Mildred at a Red Cross bazaar. She also has to keep the secret of Mildred's marriage to her brother Lenny.
Aired: 8/5/195623. Season 1, Ep 23: The Big Vote
Defeat comes as a surprise to an old-line politician in this drama of local politics.
Aired: 8/19/195624. Season 1, Ep 24: The Girl in Chapter One
Aired: 9/2/1956
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