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Season 3

Season 3 • 1950

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Episodes

1. High Tor

Van Dorn is getting the hard sell from businessmen wanting to buy his mountain, High Tor, for commercial use. When the group becomes trapped by a landslide, Van Dorn goes for help and encounters a Dutchwoman who's been haunting the mountain for two centuries.

1950-09-1060 min

2. The Long Run

1950-09-1760 min

3. Dear Guest and Ghost

A mother receives help with her troublesome kids from a friendly ghost.

1950-09-2460 min

4. The Touch of a Stranger

A scientist's life has been destroyed by another man's greed and takes out his anger on three innocent strangers, implicating them in his own death.

1950-10-0160 min

5. The Vine That Grew on Fiftieth Street

Seeds planted in a New York City backyard grow into a magical plant that brings happiness to those living near it. Formerly unpleasant neighbors turn into caring, warm-hearted individuals.

1950-10-0860 min

6. A Husband for Mama

The three children of a widowed woman scheme to get their mother a new husband, setting their sites on a middle-aged doctor.

1950-10-1560 min

7. Portrait in Smoke

A debt collector searches for the woman who saved him from an armed holdup; he wants her to have a $1000 reward. As he talks with those who knew her, he learns that she was a siren with a couple of murders to her credit.

1950-10-2260 min

8. The Gambler

A scathing denunciation of gambling and feudal aristocrats of the 19th Century, this story relates how Philip, a young medical student, bargains away his career for the unsure success of high gambling stakes. His caution turns to uncontrollable greed when he learns that money can buy women and quick fame. His destiny is bound to Theresa's, a beautiful young woman who has been mortgaged in marriage for her stepfather's debt, and to her wealthy grandmother's, who chooses to gamble away her fortune so there will be no inheritors.

1950-10-2960 min

9. The Power Devil

A young attorney involves himself in many shady deals as he pursues political ambitions. His wife speaks up and demands he clean up his act. The threat of disbarment also contributes to his final decision.

1950-11-0560 min

10. The Man Who Got Away With It

1950-11-1260 min

11. I'm Still Alive

A mousy teacher at a small school had written a swashbuckling story filled with international spies and adventure. Unbeknownst to him, the story is sold to a newspaper as a true account of his life. Suddenly, femme fatales and real gangsters are paying him visits.

1950-11-1960 min

12. Torch for a Dark Journey

A Czech scientist escapes from Prague with the aid of an American industrialist, who wants to hire him for his personal benefit. The scientist is followed by a former student, now a fanatic Communist, who insists that the scientist must return to his own country to work for the People's Republic. The scientist must decide whether to return or abandon his countrymen and accept personal freedom in America.

1950-11-2660 min

13. Wacky, the Small Boy

1950-12-0360 min

14. Bonanza

The residents of a Western ghost town won't admit that their gold rush "boom town" days ended long ago.

1950-12-1060 min

15. Decoy

1950-12-1760 min

16. The Pupil

A tutor hired to instruct an uncontrollable 10-year-old soon recognizes the child's problem: it's his parents. The boy has had never received any affection from his negligent mother and father.

1950-12-2460 min

17. Leaf out of a Book

1950-12-3160 min

18. The Symbol: Jefferson Davis

Three decades in the life of the Confederate president are covered by three women: each of his two wives, and his daughter.

1951-01-0760 min

19. The Lost Diplomat

1951-01-1460 min

20. Confession

The final confession of the highest degree. A compelling story, told by the eyes of the beholder.

1951-01-2160 min

21. The Great Escape

The story of the biggest POW-camp escape of World War II.

1951-01-2860 min

22. A Matter of Life and Death

1951-02-0460 min

23. Kitty Doone

A faded movie star schemes to keep her career at all costs.

1951-02-1160 min

24. Let Them Be Sea Captains

Horace Greeley, volatile editor of The New York tribune, and Margaret Fuller, the mid-19th century feminist and first woman employed on the newspaper's staff.

1951-02-1860 min

25. The Man Who Bought a Town

A butcher purchases the town he calls home to preserve its quiet lifestyle.

1951-02-2560 min

26. No Medals on Pop

A young boy believes his father deserves a medal for being in the war and is heartbroken when he finds out the truth and how his father disgraced the family.

1951-03-1160 min

27. The Dark Corridor

The story of the Marr family which is made up of a dominant mother who bates everyone, the vacillating son, his wife, and the blind son. Then a new maid arrives, a maid who has served a term in prison as an accessory to a murder.

1951-03-1860 min

28. Bulletin 120

In Mississippi in 1915, Dr. Joseph Goldberger works with a test group of convicts and discovers that pellagra is caused by a dietary deficiency and not infection.

1951-03-2560 min

29. Parnassus on Wheels

In 1900's New England, Helen McGuill buys a horse-drawn, traveling bookstore, "Parnassus," from its owner, Roger McGuill. Roger travels with Helen in the beginning of her book-selling odyssey, and out of that comes adventure and romance.

1951-04-0160 min

30. Routine Assignment

A reporter gets a confession of robbery from a man only to have the man then deny his guilt in a complex twist of events.

1951-04-0860 min

31. Hour of Destiny

1951-04-1560 min

32. The Birth of the Movies

Drama on the career of D.W. Griffith. Producer Fred Coe briefly talks with Lillian Gish before and following the drama.

1951-04-2260 min

33. Mr. Arcularis

After undergoing important surgery, Mr. Arcularis goes on a long ocean voyage - where increasingly strange things occur.

1951-04-2960 min

34. A Secret Island

A vicious woman is determined to see her niece wed for money and social position instead of for love.

1951-05-0660 min

35. The Visitors

A young boy's disappearance when his mother remarries leads to a mystery when he is found and has forgotten who he is.

1951-05-1360 min

36. Justice and Mr. Pleznik

The story of a naturalized immigrant's first experience with jury duty.

1951-05-2060 min

37. Rescue

1951-05-2760 min

38. The Adventures of Hiram Holliday

A mild-mannered proof-reader goes on a world tour, and demonstrates several esoteric skills whilst undergoing exciting adventures.

1951-06-0360 min

39. The Fast Dollar

A humorous tale of life in a small town and its impact on a would-be confidence man.

1951-06-1060 min

40. Operation: Airlift

The story of the Berlin airlift, when the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. The success of the airlift humiliated the Soviets claiming that such a thing would never work.

1951-06-1760 min

41. Dr. Hudson's Secret Journal

Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medical practice success by using the Good book as guidance.

1951-06-2460 min

42. The Plot

Widower Dr. Hudson lives with his daughter and housekeeper and keeps his medical practice success by using the Good book as guidance.

1951-07-0160 min

43. Case History

A sleuthing psychiatrist probes a murder in his fiancee's home and stirs up a hornet's nest with his future in-laws.

1951-07-0860 min

44. I Want to March

The year is 1915 and the suffragettes cause a stir in the home of a zoology professor as his wife takes up the banner of "women's rights".

1951-07-1560 min

45. Pretend I Am A Stranger

The story of a British soldier and his buddy's widow as the two grow closer in their grief.

1951-07-2260 min

46. Television Story

A covetous young actress' career means more to her than marriage to a middle-aged actor who turns to TV after a successful career in other facets of show business only to find that his wife influences his work there.

1951-07-2960 min

47. The Return

An amnesia victim is told by his alleged stepfather that he is heir to a fortune. When his so-called family greet him with reserve, however he gets busy to iron out the unreal problem.

1951-08-0560 min

48. Ephraim Tutt's Clean Hands

Lawyer Tutt refuses to cross the street for a $5 million account, but goes clear to Pottsville to draw up a will for Jim Lawton, staying there until he successfully contests a claim to a woman's farm.

1951-08-1260 min

49. Come Alive

An arrogant woman whose self-centered tactics cause endless grief for her secretary, husband, sister and anyone who comes into contact with her.

1951-08-1960 min

50. Night at the Vulcan

When an actor is murdered backstage, the cast of the production become the suspects, seems the actor had plenty of enemies.

1951-08-2660 min

51. This Time Next Year

The ghost of Ulysses S. Grant materializes every year at the same time, at his tomb, Grant's Tomb.

1951-09-0260 min

52. Women of Intrigue

In this tale of Communist intrigue set in England, a man who works for the foreign office disappears.

1951-09-0960 min

53. The Wayward Season

A composer's reaction to his daughter's marriage to a middle-aged man brings changes in his own life.

1951-09-1660 min

54. The Spur

After the assassination of President Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth leaped to the stage below, his spur became entangled in the American flag draping the balcony causing Booth to break his leg.

1951-09-2360 min

55. By-Line for Murder

A bitter assistant foreign editor of a London newspaper commits murder in the newspaper office after being passed over yet again for a promotion.

1951-09-3060 min

56. Requiem for a Model A

After buying a very used car, a writer uncovers some very unusual items under one of the seat cushions. The story of the vehicle's former owners is told via flashbacks.

1951-10-0760 min