Season 1

39 episodes

Forbidden Area

E1 Forbidden Area

1956-10-0490 min2.0

Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will anyone believe him?

Requiem for a Heavyweight

E2 Requiem for a Heavyweight

1956-10-1190 min

An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is exploited by his manager, despite the efforts of a compassionate young woman who tries to help him recover his self-respect.

E3 Sizeman and Son

1956-10-1890 min

The happy atmosphere in Mr. Sizeman's factory is disrupted by an argumentative newcomer - his son.

E4 Rendezvous in Black

1956-10-2590 min

A woman is inexplicably killed on a street-corner. What has this to do with other deaths around the city?

E5 The Country Husband

1956-11-0190 min

After a near-death experience, a businessman starts to re-think his life, and wonders about leaving his wife.

E6 The Big Slide

1956-11-0890 min

A vaudeville comic becomes a silent film star.

E7 Heritage of Anger

1956-11-1590 min

A wealthy industrialist has trouble with his sons.

E8 Eloise

1956-11-2290 min

It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.

E9 Confession

1956-11-2990 min

When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.

E10 Made in Heaven

1956-12-0690 min

When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.

E11 Sincerely, Willis Wade

1956-12-1390 min

A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.

E12 The Family Nobody Wanted

1956-12-2090 min

A true story, it follows a pastor and his wife through forties beginning with one biological child, Donny. But the upheaval of the war years results in a number of mixed raced children that the Doss family adopt until they have 12 children.

E13 Massacre at Sand Creek

1956-12-2790 min

An investigation into a massacre of Native Americans.

E14 Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses

1957-01-0390 min

Some racetrack Johnnies are talking between races when one wonders if you can hypnotize a horse into thinking it's a champion. The idea sets in motion a series of hilarious events.

E15 The Ninth Day

1957-01-1090 min

Events in the aftermath of World War Three.

E16 So Soon to Die

1957-01-1790 min

Down on his luck, war hero Lionel Amblin contemplates committing a murder.

E17 The Star Wagon

1957-01-2490 min

An inventor, pondering on how he might differently have arranged his life, invents a time machine and decides to make a few changes.

E18 The Greer Case

1957-01-3190 min

When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

E19 The Miracle Worker

1957-02-0790 min

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

E20 The Comedian

1957-02-1490 min7.5

Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than his. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, whom Sammy has hired as his assistant but whom he really uses as his whipping boy.

E21 One Coat of White

1957-02-2190 min

A newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.

E22 The Blackwell Story

1957-02-2890 min

In the 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell determines to become a doctor.

E23 Invitation to a Gunfighter

1957-03-0790 min

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.

E24 The Last Tycoon

1957-03-1490 min

A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.

E25 The Hostess with the Mostes'

1957-03-2190 min

The story of Perle Mesta, who became, first, a renowned society hostess, and then an ambassadress.

E26 Where's Charley?

1957-03-2890 min

Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".

E27 Clipper Ship

1957-04-0490 min

A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shipping 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.

E28 If You Knew Elizabeth

1957-04-1190 min

E29 Three Men on a Horse

1957-04-1890 min

A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.

E30 Four Women in Black

1957-04-2590 min

Four nuns, led by Sister Teresa, begin a treacherous journey across the Arizona desert in 1870. Their faith enables them to deal with the challenges of nature and the hostility of their fellow mankind.

E31 Child of Trouble

1957-05-0290 min

E32 Homeward Borne

1957-05-0990 min

Just after World War Two ends, an American woman takes in a Polish war orphan boy, a concentration camp survivor. But conflict arises when her husband, a returning Air Force bomber pilot, hates the boy and his psychological baggage.

E33 The Helen Morgan Story

1957-05-1690 min

Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star of top rated shows and owning her own club. Also seen is her poor choices, such as her affair with a married man, her short marriage to a much younger man, a court fight over an adopted baby and her fatal descent into booze addiction.

E34 Winter Dreams

1957-05-2390 min

E35 Circle of the Day

1957-05-3090 min

On her tenth wedding anniversary (which is also her daughter's birthday), a wife begins to suspect her husband of unfaithfulness.

E36 Without Incident

1957-06-0690 min

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.

E37 Clash by Night

1957-06-1390 min

Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.

E38 Ain't No Time for Glory

1957-06-2090 min

American soldiers must use stealth to take over a German command post in Normandy.

E39 The Fabulous Irishman

1957-06-2790 min

Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.