Crossroads (1955)

A young boy is being held by a gang of tough criminals and an Episcopal minister fights to free him.

Rev. and Bernice Slone, an Illinois minister and his wife, take homeless children into their parish.

A rabbi saves a young heiress from an elopement which would result in her death.

Dr. Large helps with the healing of a paralyzed woman and salvaging her son's marriage.

Father Joseph Brophy is the priest who builds the first Catholic Church in the New York resort when it was still a rowdy carnival town in the early 1900s.

A clergyman/college president in Los Angeles saves a former co-ed from destroying her marriage. She's been contacted by a former boyfriend-turned-gunman who tries to force her into crime. Tipped off by the girl, the reverend contacts the police to set up a trap.

Following a preventable catastrophe, hostile miners in West Virginia opposes a Presbyterian minister's safety measures.

Father Edward Flanagan of Boys Town fame fights for the freedom of a young boy sentenced to life in prison.

A Methodist minister performing the burial service of a supposed "bum" reveals the man's true story. For years, he had been the secret donor of Christmas gifts for children living in a frontier town in Idaho.

Rev. Jacob Stucki spent almost 50 years ministering to the Winnebego tribe of Wisconsin. He translated the Bible into their language and established the Winnebago Indian Mission during the 1880s. A young Winnebago convert, John, works with the minister to restore tribal lands back to the group.

A Catholic priest who acts as chaplain at the Colorado State Prison Penitentiary at Canyon City risks his life to save others during a violent revolt by the prisoners.

The Congregational minister in California is mystified by the large donation his small church receives from a mysterious rancher.

This is the second of two episodes spotlighting the life of the U. S. Army's most decorated chaplain, Lt. Col. Francis L. Sampson, and the paratroopers he served with. In this segment, he's trapped with soldiers, caught in the crossfire between American and German soldiers.

A hospital chaplain tries to untangle the story of a young woman's suicide attempt. He learns the seriously injured girl was suffering from a romance that ended.

The man who brought religion to Texas cow towns almost loses his faith when he accidentally kills a friend in a hunting accident.

Rev. William Wendt, a priest in New York City's lower east side, becomes friends with neighborhood hoodlums and works to reform them.

The setting is a Nevada gold town near the end of the Civil War. A Catholic priest tries to quell the violence between Union and Confederate war veterans.

A Pennsylvania minister goes to Washington to get the government to acknowledge its faith. He begins a campaign to establish "In God We Trust" as the United States' motto.

A young girl, feeling hopeless at a welfare school begins hanging with a group of juvenile delinquents. Rabbi Avraham Soltes takes an interest in the girl and works to give her hope.

In the jungles of India, an American medical missionary and his wife face life-threatening danger working with worshippers of a huge cobra.''This is based on the memoirs of Rev. Jacob Chambers of the Reformed Church of America.

This episode is based on the true events involving the Battle of the Bulge. General George Patton's Army became bogged down in the French mud during the fall of 1944. He directs Chief Chaplain O'Neill to lead the men in a mass prayer asking for a break in the weather.

A church pator brings together two feuding fathers so that their kids can get married.

Father George Ford promises a dying man he'll keep an eye on his son who's about to be released from prison. Former associates of the ex-con have other ideas and kidnap the priest and the former criminal, wanting to get at money he supposedly stole and hid.

An elderly woman confined to a wheelchair acts as friend and adviser to the other residents in a city apartment building. She moves to a rest home after her daughter and son-in-law move in with her and make hurtful remarks. A minister convinces her that she's needed in her building.

This is the story of a rugged Jesuit priest during the early days of Idaho. In a chance encounter, Father Joseph Cataldo meets gold prospector Bart Alden. The two become close friends, having experienced many of the same struggles on the frontier.

An Episcopal minister helps bridge the gap between an estranged mother and daughter.

A pastor reunites a father and his spoiled son.

A preacher goes to the woods to be a lumberjack and ends up ministering to the other lumbermen.

Rabbi Arnold Fischel appealed all the up way to Abraham Lincoln to become named the United States Army's first Jewish chaplain.

A Methodist minister brings peace to two feuding families in the isolated mountains of Kentucky.

A young Methodist minister in Texas is settling in at his first church. He begins on the wrong foot by indirectly accusing the small town's "first lady" of entering someone else's orchid in the flower show. He attempts to bring unity and understanding to the divided congregation.

Monseigneur Harold Engle, the director of the Catholic Youth Organization of New York, wants a law to forbid fighters from going pro before they turn eighteen.

Father Sullivan travels with and ministers to circus people around the world. In one incident, he foils a plan by a trapeze artist to "accidentally" kill a man.

This episode is based on real-life baseball player Lou Brissie who returned to the major leagues after being seriously injured during WWII.

A fake psychic medium who preys on sad, lonely women is put out of business by a Methodist minister.

A priest risks being shot by a cornered fugitive to keep him from killing his hostages.

An Episcopal chaplain armed with a banjo and a song attempts to establish a church in a gang-controlled waterfront neighborhood. His ballads help reunite a father and daughter, helps and old man, and brings about a wedding.

A young rabbi goes to battle against corrupt officials to help the neglected patients of a county home and mental hospital.

A Presbyterian missionary to the Alaskan Eskimos in the 1880s stages his own arrest to shame government officials into action. The wholesale slaughter of seals and walruses by illegal hunting will bring about starvation of the people unless something is done.

Recalling the words of a Salvation Army member prevents a veteran from committing two homicides.

A Presbyterian minister takes over as municipal judge when the previous man quits in disgust. He discovers that their Kentucky town has no civic pride and that, in turn, attracts trouble-makers. His solution: appoint the town's roughest hooligan as the town's marshall.

A priest works with a man to improve his spirit following the death of his son during war maneuvers. The two are making progress when another tragedy occurs--his daughter has also died.

Rev. Martin dedicated himself to spreading God's word to the residents of the Louisiana bayous. His task at hand is to bring peace between two feuding fishing villages.

A preacher helps a brilliant young singer hold onto his sanity and the vocalist's sick mother's hold on to her life.

Father Timothy Dempsey risks his life to avert a gang war and save a young man charged with murder.

In the Dakota Territory of the 1880s, a prarie preacher instills hope and the will to live in an ill little girl and her widowed mother.

The bishop who operates a mission in the Bowery district feels he's failed in his mission to convert the fallen.

This courtroom episode dramatizes the 1813 legal decision in New york which upheld the sacred trust of religious confessionals.

A police detective enlists a parish priest in trying to stop his younger brother's drug use and contact with a bad crowd. The officer hopes they can achieve success without getting his mother involved.

During the Revolutionary War, Rabbi Seisax flees from his New York synagogue when the British take over the city. A Hessian major heads him off and brings him across enemy lines to preside at the officer's wedding.

A young clergyman, disillusioned by tough times and the injury of a friend, takes out his anger against the military and is jailed for draft evasion.

Father Boyle has devoted his life's work to helping the down-and-out and criminals of Reno, Nevada get on the right path. Even a career killer and gangster, Truck Adams, turns to the compassionate Father for guidance.

Rev. Rodger Perkins lobbies for an aircraft so he can bring the Word and medical treatments to the natives living deep in the Brazilian jungles.

Father Slee's good insight into the minds of youth allows him to bring a gang of teenagers back from the world of crime.

A Methodist minister attempts to bring the miracles of modern medicine to the backwoods of the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. While trying to help these people, he must constantly fight their unbending superstitions.

Father Robert W. Greene, a Catholic missionary in China, has his mission school and hospital destroyed by the Communists in 1949. He's then imprisoned and sentenced to death after they convict him of spying in a phony trial.

Reverend Zaccara befriends an insecure and lonely ex-convict.

A minister is the mark for a con man who talks him into giving the church's money to a phony charity organization.

A marriage is saved by a Lutheran minister who shows a straying husband and his lover the consequences that their behavior will have.

A gutsy New York City minister brings about the fall of a group of racketeers.

A man loses his eye in an accident and is unable to find work. Down on his luck, he moves in with his unsympathetic, rich brother in-law. Desperate, he turns to gambling and mounts up a huge debt. Considering suicide, he seeks help from Rev. Donald Runyon.

A baptist minister makes it his job to print copies of the Bible and then smuggle them into countries behind the iron curtain.

Father Emil Kapaul, a U.S. Army Chaplain, was held in a Chinese prison camp. He endured the horrors of torture and brainwashing before finally being killed by his captors. His bravery through his ordeal provided inspiration to the other prisoners.

Dr. Roy Bell leads a group of Filipino and American guerrillas in war against the Japanese during their takeover of the island during World War II.

A bank teller has embezzled money and he asks a priest to help him quickly return the funds before a bank inspector arrives.

In this prison drama, three convicts attempt an escape and take a guard hostage. A young priest faces death when he volunteers to change places with the guard.

A mission is undertaken to rescue an American planter and a female missionary from the Philippines during the Japanese occupation. The planter almost unwittingly gives away their escape plan.

A rabbi offers spiritual support and guidance to a congregation member whose son has been convicted of murder. The mother believes her child is innocent, though he's slated for execution.

Vincent Price portrays a Protestant minister waging a one-man war against local corruption and vice.

In the series debut, Father Riggs, a Catholic priest and college professor, reaches out to a former student. The young man's accused of setting a bomb which killed someone.