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Season 2

45 episodes · Sep 1, 1955

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  • S2E1

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Sep 1, 195560m

    Huck and Jim once again embark on their adventure-filled trek down the Mississippi .

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  • S2E2

    Public Pigeon #1

    Sep 8, 195560m

    Cafeteria worker Rusty is cheated by stock swindlers and winds up in jail, but the crooks have to break him out in order to recover their loot, which was stashed in Rusty's safety deposit box.

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  • S2E3

    Silent Decision

    Sep 15, 195560m

    A surgeon finds out about his wife's unfaithfulness and takes matters into his own hands.

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  • S2E4

    Night of Execution

    Sep 22, 195560m

    A mother watches her cruel and destructive husband continually expose their young son to all kinds of violence. Finally she feels she must take steps to save her son from this sinister influence.

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  • S2E5

    Sailor on Horseback

    Sep 29, 195560m

    As Jack London's reputation as a writer grows, his fame causes conflicts with his sister Eliza and his wife Charmain.

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  • S2E6

    Thin Air

    Oct 13, 195560m

    An advertising executive's wife disappears during a summer vacation.

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  • S2E7

    House of Shadows

    Oct 20, 195560m

    A woman keeps her elderly uncle locked up as a prisoner in his own home when a man decides to investigate the story himself.

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  • S2E8

    The Pink Cloud

    Oct 27, 195560m

    An ex-con returns to New York looking for the man responsible for the crime he did time for.

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  • S2E9

    Scheme to Defraud

    Nov 10, 195560m

    An insurance underwriter and his secretary are both disgruntled over their dull, monotonous routine. They fall in love, and then discover a way to cash in on a $70,000 insurance claim.

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  • S2E10

    A Promise to Murder

    Nov 17, 195560m

    At his wealthy aunt's insistence, a rising young London barrister submits to having his palm read. The prophecies come true with alarming accuracy.

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  • S2E11

    Portrait in Celluloid

    Nov 24, 195560m

    Art Shaddick, formerly a writer, now a writer's agent, sits in his gaudy, pretentious office, on the bookcase reposes an Oscar, won by Art for his last picture. That was in 1929. Since then he has gone steadily downhill, shouting all the way. When suddenly a young writer appears with a great script, it is just what Art needs, a golden opportunity to rise again to greatness.

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  • S2E12

    A Man of Taste

    Dec 1, 195560m

    A cultured Englishman, living in Paris, becomes interested in art for purely mercenary reasons. He sponsors a young artist and goes to great lengths to keep his protege's canvases valuable.

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  • S2E13

    The Passport

    Dec 8, 195560m

    An American correspondent, assigned to Europe shortly after World War II, is offered part of a fortune in confiscated gems in return for letting a former Nazi officer use his passport.

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  • S2E14

    The Day They Gave the Babies Away

    Dec 22, 195560m

    While decorating a Christmas tree, narrator Joan Evans recalls the story of the Christmas of her ancestors during the 1860s in Wisconsin. A 12-year old boy becomes the head of his family when both parents die. On Christmas Eve he finds a way to provide homes for his five younger brothers and sisters.

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  • S2E15

    Bailout at 43,000 Feet

    Dec 29, 195560m

    Three men prepare to test the ejector seat of a jet bomber. As they wait for favorable weather conditions, each reacts differently.

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  • S2E16

    The Prowler

    Jan 5, 195660m

    A rancher's wife is bored with her monotonous life. One night when her husband is away, her mother-in-law inadvertently suggest the "perfect escape" .

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  • S2E17

    The Hanging Judge

    Jan 12, 195660m

    One of the most despised men in the legal profession clings tenaciously to the belief that English law is infallible. Because of his fixation he even stands trial for a murder he did not commit.

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  • S2E18

    The Secret of River Lane

    Jan 26, 195660m

    The son of a respected lawyer is involved in a case of homicide over the shooting of a schoolmate. Even though the father suspects his son's guilt, he tries to protect him. The entire town is indignant when charges are not brought against the boy immediately for lack of sufficient evidence.

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  • S2E19

    Gamble on a Thief

    Feb 2, 195660m

    A dedicated parole officer makes a daring effort to help a two-time loser who has violated the conditions of his parole.

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  • S2E20

    The Fifth Wheel

    Feb 9, 195660m

    Two sports-minded priests, off for a fishing holiday, become involved with thieves, a stolen car and stolen money!

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  • S2E21

    Nightmare by Day

    Feb 23, 195660m

    The parents of a recently married young woman, whose husband claims she's taken a trip to New York, slowly become convinced she's been murdered.

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  • S2E22

    The Sound of Silence

    Mar 1, 195660m

    A priest becomes involved in murder when the killer confesses his crime to him.

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  • S2E23

    The Louella Parsons Story

    Mar 8, 195660m

    The Louella Parsons story, based on incidents in her autobiography ""The Gay Illiterate"", is a series of flashbacks. Teresa Wright portrays Miss Parson in the drama. As she speaks with the stars the cameras will re-create incidents in her long career. The time span is from the early twenties to 1948. We see Miss Parsons' early days as a newspaper reporter in Chicago. Here she loses her job and departs for New York. In New York she resumes her career, only to be stricken with tuberculosis. When she recovers from her illness, she meets the man who is to become her second husband, and her rise as Hollywood columnist begins. As a climax to tonight's drama, there will be a tribute from the stars of the movie industry.

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  • S2E24

    Pale Horse, Pale Rider

    Mar 22, 195660m

    A young woman lives in fear that a recurring dream foretells real tragedy. The premonition persists when she falls in love with a young soldier about to leave for overseas duty.

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  • S2E25

    An Episode of Sparrows

    Mar 29, 195660m

    An 11-year old girl whose home has always been the slums, steals a packet of flower seeds from a playmate. In her search for a small bit of earth in which to grow flowers, she is befriended by a youthful gang leader.

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  • S2E26

    Spin into Darkness

    Apr 5, 195660m

    After gambling away the money her pilot husband gave her for the down payment on a plane, a woman takes a job as nurse to an alcoholic, who in a drunken stupor gives her $5,000 to recoup her losses and later reports to the police that the money was stolen.

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  • S2E27

    The Lou Gehrig Story

    Apr 19, 195660m

    Baseball's ""Iron Horse,"" whose brilliant career was ended by a terminal illness, and who struggled valiantly against adversity.

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  • S2E28

    Sit Down with Death

    Apr 26, 195660m

    A dinner party turns into a guest's nightmare as a murder plot is uncovered.

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  • S2E29

    The Empty Room Blues

    May 3, 195660m

    When her husband disappears with their savings and their son, a woman fears for the child's life. But she can't convince her friends or the police that the man is a pathological liar and a menace.

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  • S2E30

    Flame-Out on T-6

    May 17, 195660m

    Ten men are assigned to a drifting ice floe near the North Pole to test the effect of subzero weather on men supplied only with tents and meager rations. One of the men goes berserk from the strain and wrecks the group's radio so that no one can notify headquarters of their location.

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  • S2E31

    The Shadow of Evil

    May 24, 195660m

    The unsuspecting girlfriend of a young man whose brother is the head of a Rome narcotics ring arrives from the United States with an investigator at her heels.

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  • S2E32

    Figures in Clay

    May 31, 195660m

    After agreeing to defend an irrational old man charged with murder, an attorney finds that his partner believes he took the case for publicity reasons.

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  • S2E33

    Faceless Adversary

    Jun 7, 195660m

    A man suspected of a young woman's murder denies even knowing her and claims he's being framed.

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  • S2E34

    To Scream at Midnight

    Jun 14, 195660m

    A wealthy young woman breaks down and is placed in a sanitarium after being thrown over by the man she loves. Her psychiatrist becomes suspicious when the man reappears and claims he wants to marry her.

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  • S2E35

    The Circular Staircase

    Jun 21, 195660m

    A middle aged spinster decides to go to the country for the summer with her friend. They end up becoming involved in a murder mystery.

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  • S2E36

    A Trophy for Howard Davenport

    Jun 28, 195660m

    A Babe Ruth League team is perpetually in last place, because its compassionate manager tends to pick youngsters no other team wants. When the team has a chance to place in the finals, he turns down a boy's plea to pitch in the big game, and the boy then runs away from home.

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  • S2E37

    Phone Call for Matthew Quade

    Jul 5, 195660m

    A retired construction firm executive seeks a respite from enforced idleness and oncoming old age. While waiting for a phone call that will confirm or deny his request for a job back at his old firm, Matthew Quade relives his past.

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  • S2E38

    Fear is the Hunter

    Jul 12, 195660m

    A young man comes to the town of Brewster, his car in need of repairs, and is ordered to leave at once. He soon learns that the ruthless man after whom the town is named looks on any stranger as his potential murderer.

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  • S2E39

    Fury at Dawn

    Jul 19, 195660m

    When an atomic bomb mounted on a 200-foot-tall steel tower fails to detonate, a veteran nuclear physicist and his aides have to climb the rickety tower to disarm the bomb.

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  • S2E40

    The Man Who Lost His Head

    Jul 26, 195660m

    A young sailor collapses on the estate of a wealthy Englishman in the Orient and, upon reviving, is offered a strange bargain in exchange for his life.

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  • S2E41

    Child of the Wind

    Aug 2, 195660m
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  • S2E42

    No Right to Kill

    Aug 9, 195660m

    A starving author tests his theory about people who think they are above the law by killing a pawnbroker.

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  • S2E43

    The 78th Floor

    Aug 16, 195660m

    On a foggy afternoon just before a plane strikes the Empire State Building, a businessman recently gone blind is in one office dictating a suicide note to his wife, while in another office a young man is trying to persuade his fiancee to help him rob the firm she works for so they can be married.

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  • S2E44

    Throw Away the Cane

    Aug 23, 195660m

    A popular singer whose earnings are supporting his entire family returns to his home town for a visit and proceeds to make a play for the girlfriend of his twin brother, an aspiring concert pianist.

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  • S2E45

    Dark Wall

    Aug 30, 195660m

    An extreme form of disassociative reaction to stress in which two or more separate personalities exist. The person may shift from one personality to another, which is often very different. Each personality has no memories of the other's thoughts and actions.

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