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Season 1

1. Forbidden Area  

Community Score

7.7 Good
First aired: 10/4/1956    Production Code: 56-01

Heston stars as a one-eyed colonel intent of solving the mystery of the exploding bombers. Soviet agents have infiltrated a secret air base and are busy doing away with American aircraft.

2. Requiem For A Heavyweight  

Community Score

8.4 Great
First aired: 10/11/1956    Production Code: 56-2

A professional heavyweight boxer (Palance) is burned out after fourteen years in the ring. When during his last fight he is sold out by his devious manager (Keenan Wynn), he struggles to find new meaning in his life.

3. Sizeman and Son  

First aired: 10/18/1956    Production Code: 56-3

Sizeman owns a dress-manufacturing business in New York City. When his son was born, he addded the words "and Son" to the name of the company, hoping that they would work together some day. Then the son returns from the Korean War a changed man. Regarding himself as a savior of the common man from the greed of the bosses, he disrupts the happy working atmosphere at Sizeman and Son´s.

4. Rendezvous In Black  

First aired: 10/25/1956    Production Code: 56-4

The unexplainable death of a young man's fiancee while waiting for him on a street corner sets off a series of seemingly unrelated murders in the city.

5. The Country Husband  

First aired: 11/1/1956    Production Code: 56-5

After a close brush with death, a businessman intends to live each and every day to the fullest without regard to his wife and child. When he falls for the babysitter he considers running off with her but returns after a lot of soul-searching to his wife who forgives him.

6. The Big Slide  

First aired: 11/8/1956    Production Code: 56-6

When a second-rate vaudeville comic becomes a silent movie star, the conflict between his love for an actress and the demands of his career brings tragedy and heartbreak to the clown.

7. Heritage of Anger  

First aired: 11/15/1956    Production Code: 56-07

Industrial mogul Eddie Hanneman finds that his two sons are uninterested in taking over the family business though they want the rewards.

8. Eloise  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 11/22/1956    Production Code: 56-8

A threatened divorce by Eloise's parents, causes the little mischievous imp to act out and spy on her tutor who is having a romance with the chambermaid. Eloise who lives in the Plaza Hotel in New York causes all kinds of uproar without really meaning to.

9. Confession  

First aired: 11/29/1956    Production Code: 56-9

After the death of a wealthy community leader, a reporter is preparing a series on his life. When he interviews the deceased´s son and daughter, they are withholding information from him. Investigations get dangerous when attempts on his life are made. The deceased´s valet reveals that a letter was left which contains evidence of the politician´s participation in a public swindle.

10. Made in Heaven  

First aired: 12/6/1956    Production Code: 56-10

A married couple get into a petty quarrel that leads to their separation, after which the wife entertains a handsome European from the cocktail party and the husband begins to fall for an attractive stranger.

11. Sincerely, Willis Wade  

First aired: 12/13/1956    Production Code: 56-11

Wealthy mill owner, Henry Harcourt, finances the college education of a poor but ambitious boy, Willis Wayde. The young man is in love with Bess, Harcourt's daughter.

12. The Family Nobody Wanted  

First aired: 12/20/1956    Production Code: 56-12

A Methodist Minister, Carl Doss and his wife Helen, unable to have their own children, are told that they are not financially secure enough to raise a child. The solution offered to them is to adopt several children of mixed race, otherwise known as unwanted. Instead of adopting one misfit, they wind up adopting a total of twelve children.

13. Massacre at Sand Creek  

First aired: 12/27/1956    Production Code: 56-13

A drama set in 1860s Colorado about the tragically manipulative ways of a U.S. Army colonel who forces the Cheyenne to fight a battle they want to avoid. Seeking fame and the rank of a general, the self-serving colonel drives the Cheyenne warriors into an unprotectable region known as Sand Creek. Despite the efforts of a young U.S. soldier intent on saving them, the Indians were massacred.

14. Snowshoes. A Comedy of People and Horses.  

First aired: 1/3/1957    Production Code: 56-14

Two scam artists try everything in the book to fill their pockets with other people's money.

15. The Ninth Day  

Community Score

9.7 Superb
First aired: 1/10/1957    Production Code: 56-15

After World War III a small group of people live in the desert. A young man rebels against the group and tries to run away, hoping to find other communities of survivors, but is told by the elders that he must stay and marry the group's only young woman.

16. So Soon To Die  

First aired: 1/17/1957    Production Code: 56-16

An unemployed actor is hired to kill a young girl and becomes curious why someone would want her dead.

17. The Star Wagon  

First aired: 1/24/1957    Production Code: 56-17

Story about a timid inventor who works for an exploitive boss and spends company time collaborating with his boyhood friend on a time machine. When the boss fires the inventor and orders the machine destroyed, the two friends decide to go back in the machine to 1926 when they were young and full of dreams.

18. The Greer Case  

First aired: 1/31/1957    Production Code: 56-18

An elderly rich widow dies without signing her new will, leaving behind a struggle for money she begun over 60 years ago.

19. The Miracle Worker  

Community Score

9.4 Superb
First aired: 2/7/1957    Production Code: 56-19

The episode retells the first encounter of Annie Sullivan and young Helen Keller, unable to hear or see since the age of two. It was later remade for theatrical release.

20. The Comedian  

Community Score

9.7 Superb
First aired: 2/14/1957    Production Code: 56-20

Sammy Hogarth has reached the top of his profession as a TV comedian. But though his audience loves him, his co-workers hate him. They know him as an egotistical, petty tyrant. What keeps them from quitting is money--his salaries are the best in the business. Hogarth's head writer is Al Preston, and Al is in a jam. He has run out of ideas, can't think up anything Sammy will accept for the next show. In fact, Sammy threatens to fire Al unless he comes up with some especially clever and unusual material for that show.

21. One Coat of White  

First aired: 2/21/1957    Production Code: 56-21

After the death of her husband Betsy goes on a trip to Europe where she meets a charming French artist.

22. The Blackwell Story  

First aired: 2/28/1957    Production Code: 56-22

A drama about the numerous obstacles faced by a young student who is intent on becoming the first woman doctor in the United States. Set in the late 1830's, the program examined her dedication, her love interests, and her efforts to modernize antiquated O.R. procedures which she feels are life-threatening.

23. Invitation to a Gunfighter  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 3/7/1957    Production Code: 56-23

A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter to drive him out of town. The townsfolk thought they had it bad until they handed the reigns over to the new terror. Pooling their money again, this time to hire Jeffers to get rid of Dancer.

24. The Last Tycoon  

Community Score

8.8 Great
First aired: 3/14/1957    Production Code: 56-24

Monroe Stahr heads a movie studio apparently headed for financial trouble. He is under pressure from the stockholders to produce a box-office hit. While he turns his attention to their latest film, he finds that financial expert Lou Myrick will play a crucial role in his business as well as in his personal life.

25. The Hostess with the Mostest  

Community Score

9.4 Superb
First aired: 3/21/1957    Production Code: 56-25

True story about the wife of prominent steel manufacturer and political adviser George Mesta of Washington, D.C. Perle Mesta's legendary lavish parties turned the political world upside down.

26. Charley's Aunt  

Community Score

8.2 Great
First aired: 3/28/1957    Production Code: 56-26

Fancourt must pose as the elderly aunt of his roommate Charley Wyckeham so that Charley and his friend Jack Chesney will have a proper escort for their two dates. This of course causes problems when the real Auntie shows up.

27. Clipper Ship  

Community Score

8.0 Great
First aired: 4/4/1957    Production Code: 56-27

A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shpping magnate, and her growing love for a handsome young political prisoner who was scheduled to be put to death when the vessel reached its destination. Though unyielding at first, the ship's stern captain eventually helped the woman to make a clean getaway, with the condemned man in tow.

28. If You Knew Elizabeth  

First aired: 4/11/1957    Production Code: 56-28

College professor Walter Hubbard searches for his missing fiancee after she learns of his true purpose in wanting to marry her.

29. Three Men on a Horse  

First aired: 4/18/1957    Production Code: 56-29

Poor Erwin Trowbridge becomes entangled in horse-betting to escape his nag of a wife and ends up with a different kind of nag.

30. Four Women in Black  

First aired: 4/25/1957    Production Code: 56-30

A true story of four nuns who journeyed to a mission hospital and become stranded until gunslinger Carbine Webb shows them the way.

31. Child of Trouble  

First aired: 5/2/1957    Production Code: 56-31

The teenage daughter of a convict comes home from school to hear the news reports of a prison uprising led by her father, who has threatened to kill he guards.

32. Homeward Borne  

First aired: 5/9/1957    Production Code: 56-32

A drama of a refugee orphan, who was both wanted and unwanted in the family of a returning war hero. The wife fought against her own happiness to take in the orphan. To the orphan, the husband is a killer of his people and resentment burns deep. The husband is equally inflamed against the orphan and is determined he must go. It becomes a family divided, but ends when scorn turns to love.

33. The Helen Morgan Story  

First aired: 5/16/1957    Production Code: 56-33

Torch singer Helen Morgan did not only sing about the blues she lived them. Finding out her beloved father was still alive and a drunk finds that life is full of disappointments and men who lie.

34. Winter Dreams  

First aired: 5/23/1957    Production Code: 56-34

A successful young man has just announced his engagement to a good sensible women when the sudden reappearance of the rich girl he has dreamed of and loved for years leads him to rethink his life.

35. Circle of the Day  

First aired: 5/30/1957    Production Code: 56-35

Suspecting her husband of infidelities her suspicions become a reality when her husband's fling is killed in a plane crash.

36. Without Incident  

First aired: 6/6/1957    Production Code: 56-36

Captain Russell Bidlack, commander of a U.S. Cavalry unit in 1870, determines to complete a rescue mission through dangerous Indian territory. In the course of the mission, he rescues the wives of two slain traders and captures the Indian chief accused of the murders. When he returns to the fort, he's faced with a revolt among his own men.