Season 1
36 episodes · Sep 20, 1953
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- S1E1
Trial Run
Sep 20, 1953The first episode of the series, explaining the letter anthology format. A shop girl is courted by a man whose family looks down upon her, so she feigns crassness to teach them a lesson. One of a few episodes with a laugh track.
- S1E2
The Mirror
Sep 27, 1953A spoiled and selfish woman goes without her husband to a vacation home and is tormented by a woman escaped from a mental institution which makes her confront her own mental challenges.
- S1E3
Prisoner at One O'Clock
Oct 4, 1953A young man is accused of murder in a small Western town, but the sheriff's wife believes him innocent, while the townspeople form a mob to storm the jail.
- S1E4
Girl on a Flagpole
Oct 11, 1953A teacher publicly opposes a candidate, only to be romanced by him, much to the chagrin of her boyfriend.
- S1E6
Earthquake
Oct 25, 1953A man using an iron lung who has lost hope regains his will through the efforts of his wife to keep him breathing when an earthquake causes a power failure.
- S1E7
The One That Got Away
Nov 1, 1953The glowing, tiresome reminisces of a wife and mother about her now-famous former beau and his devotion to her comes to a head.
- S1E8
Kid Stuff
Nov 8, 1953Two widowed parents fall in love but feel their relationship might be hampered by their lively young children.
- S1E9
The Bronte Story
Nov 15, 1953Charlotte Bronte struggles to cope with her controlling and oppressive father even as it interferes with her courtship with and marriage to Arthur Nicholls.
- S1E10
Thanksgiving in Beaver Run
Nov 22, 1953The kidnapping of a boy by young toughs takes an unexpected turn when one of the hoodlums befriends the boy.
- S1E11
Love Story
Nov 29, 195330mAn aspiring actress falls in love with a clown and marries him, but then she's ashamed to be publicly associated with him.
- S1E12
Laughing Boy
Dec 6, 1953Glass-jawed Walter Stone attempts to rescue Kay Coughlin from a purse snatcher, but he gets hurt instead. Kay nurses him back to health and asks Walter to help her get her boyfriend jealous to goad him into proposing.
- S1E13
The Faith of Chata
Dec 13, 1953A little girl in a Mexican village falls desperately ill and places her faith in God through her patron saint, regardless of whether she survives or not.
- S1E14
The Night My Father Came Home
Dec 20, 1953Charming holiday story about a small boy who frequents a postal station, chatting incessantly with a disillusioned laborer.
- S1E15
Hotel Irritant
Dec 27, 195330mCorporate hotel snoop Sally Webster creates unpleasant situations in a hotel to test its operation while becoming impressed with the character and ambition of hotel clerk Newton Ralston.
- S1E16
Inga
Jan 3, 1954Indomitable Inga Helborg convinces a bank president to conditionally reverse the foreclosure of the family farm and takes labor from the prison farm by which both actions she successfully demonstrates her resolute and trusting nature.
- S1E18
Secret Answer
Jan 17, 1954A spirited wife challenges the stodgy attitudes of researcher husband by refusing to respond to one of his survey questions: "If you had it to do all over again, would you marry the same person?"
- S1E19
Big Little Lie
Jan 24, 1954Beverly Washburn plays a lonely schoolgirl whose decision to start a rumor about her mother turns into classroom blackmail. Jeannette Nolan portrays her stern Aunt.
- S1E20
The Hollywood Story
Jan 31, 1954Madge Mason based on her prowess as a local actress in a small Iowa town goes to Hollywood and meets with only modest success but when it appears she is on verge of major success she has second thoughts about the price of fame.
- S1E21
A Family Out of Us
Feb 7, 1954The son of an affluent couple, whose father has little time for him, joins the Cub Scouts.
- S1E22
Act of Faith
Feb 14, 1954Eddie Albert plays a mild-mannered soul whose happy marriage to an earthy woman seems to be coming to an end.
- S1E23
The New York Story
Feb 28, 1954A glamorous mother and wife who dallies with other men's attention takes her own husband and son for granted. Clever opening schoolroom sequence in which the moms comment in theirs heads about each other. The climax in which the woman's mind races with impending terror about her son's lateness might seem melodramatic, but it's all too real for many of us who worry about loved ones. Mabel Albertson of "Bewitched" and so many other series plays the PTA spokesperson.
- S1E24
Nobody's Boy
Mar 7, 1954Fictionalized story of a Chicago juvenile delinquent who meets Jack Robbins, founder of the BBR, a boy's club that still exists today. A familiar face in one scene is the ubiquitous Argentina Brunetti, to whom Dean Martin sang "That's Amore" in "The Caddy." At the end of the story, Young introduces actor Chick Chandler and the real-life Jack Robbins.
- S1E25
The Count of Ten
Mar 14, 1954Tiger Tipton retired from a successful boxing career at his wife's insistence. Now broke from her expensive medical care, he arranges one last fight with the champ, but he can't let his wife find out.
- S1E26
The Clara Schumann Story
Mar 21, 1954The great composer and his concert pianist wife, whose seemingly idyllic marriage descends into mental breakdown.
- S1E27
Son, This is Your Father
Mar 28, 1954Flashbacks tell the story of a charming but irresponsible ex-husband who re-enters the lives of his wife and son. The father/son relationship is similar to that of Gloria's son and her first husband on the series, "Modern Family." In this episode, Young's character's name is "Ginger," a decade before her co-star, Alan Hale Jr., addressed Tina Louise by the name on "Gilligan's Island."
- S1E28
The First Man to Ask Her
Apr 4, 1954Offbeat comic tale of a sheltered young woman whose house is turned upside down by an eccentric lady, her cowboy son -- and his horse. Jock Mahoney makes the first of his many appearances in the series, playing nephew "Andy" to Frances Bavier, who would ironically play Aunt Bee to Andy Griffith less than a decade later.
- S1E30
Forest Ranger
Apr 18, 1954A forest ranger's wife unknowing allows into her house an escaped convict who seeks revenge on her husband.
- S1E31
The Enchanted Schoolteacher
Apr 25, 1954A near-sighted, reclusive teacher is romanced by the father of her shyest pupil and discovers what she's been missing.
- S1E32
The Judgment
May 2, 1954A woman is plagued by guilt when her politician husband killed a pedestrian in a car accident. Instead of taking responsibility, he was elated to see someone else arrested and blamed for it.
- S1E33
Oh, My Aching Heart
May 9, 1954Nora is hired as a secretary under the condition that she disguise herself to be old and unattractive, so as not to distract her boss. When her boss has need to drop in to Nora's home, he is taken with the young lady he finds there, who claims to be Nora's sister.
- S1E34
Dear Midge
May 16, 1954Midge is an unmarried social worker with an overactive imagination, including having a curmudgeonly fairy to guide her. Her fairy gets her into sticky situations, and she is afraid of making a poor impression on her attractive neighbor.
- S1E35
Something Always Happens
May 23, 1954A young widow's beau won't marry her until he establishes some financial capital, so she deceives him into believing he won a $5000 raffle.
- S1E36
Lady in Wet Paint
May 30, 1954A new teacher in a remote Native American community struggles to get children out of work and into school, and she ends up instigating a strike against the local farmer who employs most of the natives.