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- A television version of the radio quiz show "Twenty Questions". Panelists had to guess in twenty questions the identity of an item selected by the audience members. The television show started in November 1949 as a local show in New York state, broadcast by WOR-TV. It then was picked up as a program by the network NBC, for the last month of 1949. ABC broadcast the show from 1950 to 1951, and the DuMont Television Network broadcast it from 1951 to 1954. The show returned to ABC from 1954 to 1955, but was then canceled permanently. There were pilot episodes for attempted revivals of the show in 1975 and 1989, but neither pilot attracted much interest.
- Two teenage girls go missing, one of which is soon found dead and freshly buried. The team soon suspects that the killings are related to the witness protection program.
- A greatly sadistic serial killer who disembowels women and forces them to clean it up before killing them proves difficult to catch thanks to his social charm and simple, yet clever, disguises.
- 1981–198625mTV-Y7.5 (153)TV EpisodeA mysterious stranger invites the Spider-Friends - and unknown to them, Sub-Mariner, Shanna the She-Devil, Captain America and Doctor Strange - to a weekend at Wolf Island.
- A black comedy centered around a TV weather girl and the two very different men who pursue her.
- An unusually high suicide rate in Pittsburgh appears to be the work of an Angel of Death.
- Clawdeen Wolf invites her friend Frankie Stein to a slumber party at her house. Cleo De Nile is aware that this is Frankie's first invitation to a slumber party, and warns her that a game of Truth or Dare will reveal Frankie's true nature. Frankie realizes that Cleo will use the game to find out whether Frankie has a secret crush. At the party, Frankie uses various stalling tactics to avoid playing the game. Cleo eventually pressures her into playing. Choosing truth, Frankie would have to reveal her secret crush. Choosing dare, she would have to invite a large number of boys to her house for a party. Frankie chooses dare, and Cleo tells her that she will get in trouble with her parents by inviting the boys. Frankie reveals that she misunderstood Cleo's instructions. She used Cleo's phone to invite the boys to Cleo's house. Cleo realizes that she is the one in trouble, and not Frankie. Clawdeen expresses her amusement.
- Shakespeare is all ears as Bugs battles Witch Hazel in Macbeth's castle.
- A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
- The wild misadventures of Edina "Eddy" Monsoon and her best friend Patsy Stone, who live in a nearly constant haze of drugged, drunken selfishness.
- 2010–20118.6 (13)TV EpisodeCharon, Hermes, and Menippus answer an add about work, and are hired as assassins by the vampire Dracula. He wants them to assassinate rival vampire Carlisle Cullen, who is embarrassing vampire kind with his pacifist ideas. Meanwhile the trio has interactions with Carlisle's egotistic son Edward and Edward's love interest Bella.
- Alice goes with her sister to a picnic and then she falls asleep and starts dreaming about a wonderland full of talking animals and walking playing cards.
- A short-lived change of format for the talk show "Tonight Starring Steve Allen". The co-hosts Steve Allen and Ernie Kovacs were dismissed, and the series changed into a news show. Jack Lescoulie and Al "Jazzbo" Collins served as the new hosts, while Hy Gardner conducted the interviews. The news show suffered from low ratings, and several NBC affiliates dropped the show. NBC then changed the format back into a talk show, under the title "Tonight Starring Jack Paar".
- Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was poisoned and 'Timmy' spots the young widow in a nightclub only a day later, she descends on the town where the death took place to dig out the facts. When her reporting results in the arrest of the young widow, 'Timmy' continues to dig, since she isn't quite convinced that the facts she reported cover all the angles.
- Frankie Stein is texting while walking, and bumps into the invisible teacher Mr. Where. Her neck bolts fall off, and she places them back in position. She fails to notice that they are in reverse position. Due to her reversed polarity, everyone around her is either struck by electricity or has an accident caused by magnetism. Frankie is increasingly miserable, until Ghoulia Yelps places the neck bolts back in the correct positions. Frankie gives a big hug to Ghoulia, thanking her friend for watching her back. They both fail to notice Cleo de Nile, who is still attached to her locker and is calling for help.
- Frankie Stein eats a supposedly cursed snack, and a pimple appears on her pretty face. Cleo de Nile takes an embarrassing photo of her, and three other students laugh at her. Frankie still has the support of her friends, but she decides to wear a paper bag over her head to hide the pimple. The bag also hides her ears, and causes a hearing problem for her. She can not understand what her friends are saying to her. When Frankie removes the bag, she discovers that the pimple is gone. Ghoulia Yelps reveals that she had applied a blemish cream to the pimple when she briefly touched Frankie in the bathroom. At that moment, Cleo screams in horror. She had eaten a dose of the same cursed snack, and her entire face is covered in pimples. Ghoulia places another paper bag on Cleo's head, and it is now Cleo's turn to have hearing problems.
- The death by vicious beating of an airline supervisor seems to point toward the men she's complained to management for harassment.
- British convicts have been sent to Australia as punishment for their crimes. As they try to live their new lives, they have to live with the new rules. The soldiers also have to adjust.
- A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
- Loopy helps a bear with his relationship with Emmy Lou who has a angry boyfriend named Braxton, who has a jealous streak.
- When an assistant district attorney acts in self-defense and kills a hit man in his home, the detectives attempt to find who ordered the hit on the ADA's life.
- Betty takes a trip to the beach and needs the assistance of a big, hunky lifeguard when she rides her rubber horsy out too far!
- The team travels to Fredericksburg, Virginia, where women are being abducted, burned and mutilated. Soon it turns out that similar killings happened in the 1980s.
- After arriving back in Hawaii from the Army, Chad Gates (Elvis Presley) defies his parents' wishes for him to work at the family business and instead goes to work as a tour guide at his girlfriend's agency.
- The aquatic monster Lagoona Blue is romantically interested in her classmate Gillington "Gill" Webber, but she is too shy to speak to him. She silently stares at him during their shared classes, though her friends try to stop this behavior. Gill tells Lagoona that he wants to study in the library, and hints that he wants her to join her. Lagoona realizes that she has lost the book which she needs for the study session, and feels disappointed. Gill returns the lost book to her. It contains a note from him, asking Lagoona on a date.
- Bob McKellaway is a well-known author in New York City and the owner of a small publishing house. He has recently divorced his wife Mary McKellaway (a magazine columnist), because he found her near-constant sarcastic quips to be infuriating. He is currently engaged to Tiffany Richards, and needs to meet Mary to discuss an agreement over their financial situation before his expected second marriage. Bob has run into financial problems, and is offered money to publish a book written by the famous and wealthy actor Dirk Winsten. He is reluctant to do so, in part because Dirk is his former buddy from his days of serving in the United States Navy and their current relationship is rather cold. Once Dirk meets Mary for the first time, he starts falling for her. This inspires feelings of jealousy in Bob, and it becomes increasingly clear that he is still in love with Mary. Mary flirts with both men, though she is giving them mixed signals. Due to a misunderstanding, Tiffany has concluded that Bob had a one-night stand with Mary. The interactions between the four people get increasingly weird due to their mixed emotions.
- A television version of the popular radio game show "Break the Bank" (1945-1955). Contestants would be asked questions for a progressively larger cash prize, and the final question was the "break the bank" question which was worth all the money in the bank. The television version debuted in 1948 on ABC, co-hosted by Bert Parks and Bud Collyer. In October 1956, a prime version of the show debuted on NBC under the title "Break the $250,000 Bank". It was permanently canceled in January 1957, featuring the actress Ethel Waters as the penultimate contestant.
- Filmed operetta in Technicolor based on hit play/book that opened on Broadway in 1922 and ran 232 performances.
- Documentary film about the military preparations of the United Kingdom in World War I. It includes scenes of military training of new recruits in Aldershot Garrison, Hampshire. The Royal Navy is depicted stationed at Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands.
- Morgan, an ex-cop, takes it personally when a serial killer targets police officers in Phoenix, Arizona.
- On a travel tip from Ray Bradbury, Bugs ends up in King Arthur's time and is mistaken for a "dwagon" by the always astute Sir Elmer of Fudde.
- A detective (Roger Pryor) courts a gangster's (Anthony Quinn) ex-wife (Joan Perry) to lure him into a trap.
- A behind-the-scenes look at the making of "The Bugs Bunny 51st-and-a-Half Anniversary Spectacular," complete with shaky camera and a variety of outtakes from stars Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, and Yosemite Sam.
- The film is set in 1944, in German-occupied Netherlands. There is an ongoing famine. Jan Alting is a a Dutch patriotic farmer, who uses his farm as a place of refuge for Jews, communists, and Dutch resistance members. He has disinherited his son Anton Alting, who is a German collaborator. One day, Anton unexpectedly visits his father's residence and discovers a group of subversives hiding there. He orders his father to kick them out, threatening to shoot them if he refuses. Jan is torn between his patriotic duty and his desire to avoid direct conflict with his estranged son.
- In 1962, the veteran news anchor Douglas Edwards was replaced with Walter Cronkite. The news show initially used the title "Walter Cronkite with the News", but was soon re-titled to "CBS Evening News". It was the first half-hour weeknight news broadcast on network television. The show dominated the ratings among the network evening news programs for nearly two decades, and Cronkite became known as "the most trusted man in America" (after being given this title in a poll). Cronkite faced mandatory retirement in March 1981, at the age of 65. He was soon replaced by a younger news anchor, Dan Rather.
- A short-lived American anthology series, lasting for about 3 months. Its first episode was an adaptation of the novel "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes. The show featured early television appearances by then-popular film actors, such as Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly. The series was created by famed theatre manager Norris Houghton, but failed to find a show sponsor.
- Documentary about African-American culture, and the issues faced by modern-day African Americans. Topics covered include single parenthood. racial disparities in the education system, the effects of sexually transmitted disorders, workplace conditions for African-American women, the status of the African-American middle class, the career achievements of African-American men, and the high-rates of incarceration for African-American Men.
- A sketch-comedy television series, featuring Sid Caesar as the main star. It was based on Caesar's previous comedy shows, "Admiral Broadway Revue" and "Your Show of Shows", but often featured lengthier sketches than either of them. The series used most of the same cast and writers as the previous shows. The unavailable Imogene Coca (Caesar's long-time comedy partner) was replaced by Nanette Fabray. Several sketches were parodies of film genres, and others were satirical portrayals of the acting profession.
- A 15-minute American television news program which regularly aired on NBC from 1948 to 1956. John Cameron Swayze served as the news anchor. The series was the first NBC news program to use NBC-filmed news stories rather than newsreels produced for movie theaters. The show was canceled in 1956, and replaced by the "Huntley-Brinkley Report".
- The adventures of Captain Pugwash and his crew aboard the pirate ship - the Black Pig.
- The cops wrestle with an unthinkable crime when a family is murdered in their sleep.
- A man is jumping trains along Highway 99, brutally killing couples in their homes whenever he stops.
- A husband and wife discuss three incidents that occurred in various situations.
- A syndicated anthology television series. It was produced by Four Star Productions, and some of the episodes were intended as pilots for potential series. At least one episode was devoted to the pirate Captain Kidd, in order to see whether the audience would be receptive to a pirate-themed series.
- Cleo de Nile and Clawdeen Wolf are competing for a major role in a new theatrical adaptation of "Hamlet", and they are angry at each other. When called to perform their respective monologues for the audition, they go out of their way to sabotage each other's performance. Demolishing the theatre stage in the process. Draculaura chastises them with a Shakespeare-inspired monologue about mercy. Draculaura ends up cast in the role that her friends wanted, though she was not actually competing. Cleo and Clawdeen watch her performance from the audience seats, while severely injured from their fight. Clawdeen is walking with a crutch, while Cleo is using a wheelchair.
- A short-lived television version of the radio musical quiz program "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge" (1938-1949). It was again hosted by the bandleader Kay Kyser, and featured a small cast of regular performers. It only lasted from December 1949 to December 1950. There was a brief revival in 1954, featuring Tennessee Ernie Ford as the new host.
- Clawdeen Wolf is reminded that this is the day for her class to take an aptitude test, but she forgot to study. Cleo de Nile tells her to copy the answers from Ghoulia Yelps, the smartest girl in the school. During the test, Ghoulia does not seem to be writing anything, so Clawdeen can not copy from her. At the last second, Ghoulia writes down all her answers at super-speed. Clawdeen can neither read her answers, nor write them down at a similar speed. Clawdeen is aware that she failed the test.
- An American weekly anthology series, hosted by veteran actress Gloria Swanson. The show was created for New York City's television market and was broadcast by local television station WPIX. Most of the episodes were filmed in New York City, while some were reportedly filmed on location in Mexico. The show was an early work for production company Bing Crosby Productions, which was owned by actor and singer Bing Crosby.
- Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to learn to support himself until help arrives.
- The nerdy zombie girl has fallen for the basketball player Sloman "Slo Mo" Mortavitch, but she has no idea how to express her feelings for him. Her friends provide her with an earpiece, telling her to follow Draculaura's instructions on ways to woo him. Ghoulia either misunderstands Draculaura's instructions or performs them in awkward ways, confusing Slo Mo. Ghoulia decides to get rid of the earpiece and to express herself naturally. Slo Mo likes her, and they walk away while holding hands. Draculaura comments that she has no actual experience in dating.