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- A black man who is maligned by his military peers. They play jokes on him to see his reaction; and he soon becomes "The Patsy" for their abusive entertainment. They lose all respect for him until they play their last "joke" on him; and through his selfless act of boundless courage he makes them realize that he is a better man than the lot of them combined.
- Todays theme is Go Fight City Hall.
- An accountant by day and novelist by night, Miss Burrows has grown tired of rejection notices from publishers. Her latest submission is about an author who shoots an editor after his book is rejected.
- A new home holds a violent old past and present.
- Todays theme is A Possibility of Oil.
- Todays theme is At Miss Minner's.
- Todays theme is The Story of Judith.
- A young man becomes infatuated with the older Countess and the Countess falls for the young man, unaware that the young man plans to wed his childhood sweetheart.
- A man about to retire from his job at a department store after 30 years of service plots to make off with $50,000 from the store's safe.
- Todays theme is The Cold Touch.
- 1953–196230mTV-G8.2 (41)TV EpisodeAn artist seeks the perfect model for a painting of a Madonna. In the process of his search, he becomes involved in a murder case.
- 1953–196230mTV-G8.2 (27)TV EpisodeTodays theme is The Victorian Chaise Longue.
- Circus clown Emmett Kelly creates his famous character Weary Willie.
- An alcoholic reaches the bottom one night. Six weeks later, he is recovering and begins helping other alcoholics who believe they have nowhere to turn.
- Comic Sid Benton takes a hard-boiled, cynical view of life in his nightclub act where it pays off. But when he runs this attitude over into his private life, he loses his wife's affections.
- An elderly couple of naturalized Germans living in the U. S. discovers after 60 years of marital bliss that, technically, they were never married.
- When Dr. Mark Andrews meets tyrannical society woman, Katherine Belmont, he believes her caustic attitude is caused by a fear that she is losing her sight. He persuades her to undergo a cornea-transplant operation
- Detective Hercule Poirot investigates the disappearance of Mr. Davenheim.
- Todays theme is Incident.
- 1953–196230mTV-G7.8 (36)TV EpisodeTodays theme is a Judy Garland Musical Special.
- Young Randy's insistence that his invisible friend Tippy-Top is real causes friction between his mother and the man she intends to marry. Mom humors her son, but Bob wants to convince the boy that his best buddy is imaginary.
- Newspaper reporter turned novelist Dan Holiday is kidnapped, framed for murder, and held in an asylum before he escapes and proves his innocence.
- A scarecrow is brought to life by a witch and made to pose as a nobleman.
- A hood forces a doctor and his wife to remove a bullet from the hood's partner.
- A nattily dressed gentleman climbs out of a manhole, goes down the street to the home of the Willoughbys and introduces himself to Mrs. Willoughby as Nick Lucifer, alias Beelzebub, the Prince of Darkness.
- A husband and wife are driving on a trip to Palm Springs. They stop for gas and are kidnapped by a pair of criminals, who have just killed a store clerk during a robbery. They plan to flee to Mexico and need the couple to help get them through police roadblocks.
- An ex-gunfighter, after hiding his identity for years, enters a shooting contest to raise money for a windmill in hopes he can provide water to his family farm.
- A young fighter lets his winnings go to his head. His more experienced fighter is worried that he will go over the top, so he sets out to teach the "boy" a lesson.
- When his daughter Margie announces her intention to marry young Fred Judson, John Graham is disturbed. He believes the couple is too young for marriage and, more importantly, unprepared for the independence he believes marriage requires. Margie and Fred seem content to live on hand-outs from their parents, but John seems the only parent to think that's a bad idea. No matter what he says, the two insist on marrying, even if John won't attend the wedding. Eventually, it's what John doesn't say that affects their decision.
- A presentation of the 1960 episode of the same name.
- Todays theme is Nobody's Child.
- Orphaned Prosper sets out from his mining camp for San Francisco. He's looking for a mother to bring back to the camp. And he finds one, a kindly old eccentric who drinks medicine liberally flavored with 'hootch'.
- Having survived a plane crash in the jungle, Henty finds a fortress-like home in the middle of nowhere, belonging to the affable Mr. McMaster. The latter doesn't want Henty to leave.
- A plumber receives a late night call for a job that turns out to be with a gang of jewel thieves.
- A man who has a face no one can remember is suckered into serving as the stooge for a bank robbery.
- In a Cold War tale, two Soviets are in an occupied Eastern European country. One is the womanizing martinet who gets himself murdered, and the other is the sympathetic Russian.
- 1953–196230mTV-G7.1 (15)TV EpisodeBoxer Jim Corbett returns to face Joe Louis in the ring.
- A promising and intelligent young man has great success in the ring. His mother wants him to continue his education, but his father and his manager want him to become a fighter.
- Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians perform an program of Christmas music.
- 1922, civil war in Ireland. A suspect is captured after a bloody ambush.
- 1953–196230mTV-G6.8 (26)TV EpisodeA mysteriously familiar stranger sees fit to practice a bit of magic on a lazy, selfish Ozark hillbilly.
- 1953–196230mTV-G6.8 (17)TV EpisodeA meddling mother-in-law and a near tragic auto mishap cause a desperate young wife, trying to save her shaky marriage, to become trapped in a murder scheme.
- A piano tuner, known for his honesty, is caught up in a crime when stolen jewels are hastily hidden in his tool bag. He doesn't realize he's got them until he gets to his girl's home, when her no-account brother hatches a scheme to blackmail him into surrendering the baubles to him, just as the thief is coming to recover them himself.
- An ex-gunfighter goes against his boss and teaches the son how to shoot. He also falls in love with the boss's daughter. But when he gets involved in a gunfight in town, his boss sends him passing and turns his two children against him.
- 1953–196230mTV-G6.6 (59)TV EpisodeJewel thieves Chico and Harpo Marx disguised as Groucho plan the perfect crime. Groucho appears as himself at the end in a police line up.
- A man tells the story of his coming to adulthood when he left home at age 18 and learned the consequences of telling a lie to impress a girl.
- A writer stops at a sleepy southern town intending to debunk a legend concerning a confederate soldier leaving a local girl for the battlefields, never to return. He soon realizes that he and a girl he's fallen in love with are descendants of those people.
- When a schoolteacher fails one of her students, she tries to show her student compassion and understanding.
- Retelling of the biblical tale of David and Goliath.
- Ruth and her lover David are caught having an affair by her husband John. When John refuses to give Ruth a divorce, David shoots him. Before Ruth and David can make plans to cover up the murder, John's blind friend Chris shows up.
- A retelling of the Nativity story from the point of view of the Innkeeper's wife, her husband and their servants.
- 1953–196230mTV-G6.2 (20)TV EpisodeA traveling lecturer wants to retire and spend more time with her son.
- After a housewife attends a meeting of the Alien Protection Committee, an FBI agent informs her that the Committee is suspected of being a Communist front organization. He asks her to join as a spy
- A cowboy helps a young runaway learn the meaning of Christmas by telling the boy the story of "A Christmas Carol," changed to the American west.
- Singer Johnnie Pulaski goes on an important audition and impresses. There is one condition that makes him want to refuse their offer--they ask him to change his last name. His girlfriend convinces him that the name is unimportant if he can sing. Ray, as Pulaski, introduces a new single, "Path to Paradise."
- A man is torn between his conscience and loyalty when a friend shoots an Indian in the back. Even though the Indian had been an idol of his son's, the man at first refuses to aid local townspeople in the arrest of the murderer.
- Todays theme is The Road to Edinburgh.
- Todays theme is And One Was Loyal.
- When Julius Caesar and his roman legions prepare to enter the Egyptian kingdom of Cleopatra, the terrified young queen flees.
- A young mountain girl marries a widower with four children and goes to live in his rustic cabin. Not only does she find the unfamiliar routine hard, but she must face the task of winning over the frightened youngsters.
- A retelling of the Nativity story from the viewpoint of the innkeeper's wife.
- Once an internationally respected statesman, former Senator Ryder is now in his 90s, and his life is turned upside down when a young history scholar, Walter Shelley, decides he wants one of Ryder's treasures: a letter written to him by Queen Victoria.
- A movie director has a grudge against an actor and makes life very hard on everyone.
- A movie director has a grudge against an actor and makes life very hard on everyone.
- In the pioneering days of the 1760's in frontier Pennsylvania, a spirited Amish woman takes matters into her own hands when her husband-to-be refuses to bear arms against the Indians threatening the community.
- A cavalry captain and his small band are out-numbered by Comanche Indians. When the company surgeon offers to tend the fatally wounded son of the attacking chief, the captain must choose between certain death for the surgeon and safety for the rest.
- Successful, attractive society-reporter, Alice Lockman, wouldn't mind being married. But the available eligible bachelors really don't measure up to Alice's standards - or her mother's either.
- Newlyweds Paul and Carol Madsen have scarcely settled in their new apartment when the phone begins ringing. The caller is a psychotic crank who drives Carol to near hysteria.
- A new preacher comes to town and is not quite up to the challenges that lie ahead of him.
- Benedict Arnold Brummel admits that he is a humorless stuffed shirt. But his routine life as a junior executive is suddenly changed one morning when it is announced in a New York gossip column that he is romancing the glamorous movie star Roselle King.
- A woman trying to nurse her desperately ill husband back to health is faced with a powerful temptation when an author-friend of theirs comes to visit.
- A roving peddler becomes stranded in a rural community in the deep South. Appalled by the pitiable existence of one of the families he meets, he finds himself performing the first unselfish deed of his life.
- After he has invested in a publishing firm, a Broadway star is shocked to learn that it prints unsavory literature. He argues with the publisher, strikes the man, and is convinced he is guilty of murder.
- A comedy about a romance writer who doesn't believe in his own love stories.
- Robert "Spider" Johnson is stationed in Germany in 1951, where he is "adopted" as a father by an orphaned boy. Spider is a taciturn man, preferring to remain alone to hide the pain of his own orphaned youth. When he encounters an abandoned boy nicknamed Joe Louis, however, Spider feels an emotional bond with the child. He becomes unnerved though, when the boy mistakenly believes that the soldier is his father. Spider leaves town, denying that he has become attached to the orphan. But when Joe hides in the back of Spider's jeep, the soldier must confront his paternal feelings for the boy during their drive back to the orphanage.
- Howard Douglas is driving through a deserted section of the city when he notices a body lying in the street. Stopping to investigate, he finds himself surrounded by a gang of teenagers armed with zip guns and switchblades.
- A man serving time for stealing jewels insists that he is innocent and spends every waking moment plotting revenge against those he claims framed him.
- British novelist Hilary Joyce comes to America to promote his book and encounters a beautiful woman who changes his beliefs in living.
- 1953–196230mTV-GTV Episode
- A young refugee learns about American patriotism from a bandit.
- An Army nurse resorts to a cruel ruse in an attempt to rouse a young sergeant from complete apathy and possible death.
- Adam Tenney is on the road to Virginia to deliver a wagonload of flour when he loses his town's income from the flour in a poker game.
- A female taxicab driver finds a dead man in the back seat of her cab, and a persistent suitor in the person of the detective who investigates the case.
- The exploits of Robert Hale, a US Treasury Department agent. Hale recruits a civilian locksmith named Johnny Henderson to help retrieve stolen currency plates.
- A man in a mental hospital realizes he witnessed a murder in London.
- Setting out on his vacation, newspaper reporter Mike Hackett comes across an auto accident. The injured driver is a well-known Hungarian scientist. His unharmed passenger, a young lady hitchhiker, blames the accident on the scientist.
- The story of a Hollywood couple who are on their way to Nevada for a divorce.
- Miss Winoah Kelsey lives alone in her large Southern mansion. One night during a violent flood, a young man enters a second-story window of her home and threatens to kill her.
- Arthur Martin makes his living at home, writing articles for a monthly magazine. But working at home has its disadvantages: the family hardly ever leaves him at peace.
- 82 year old inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison is honored in 1929 and he reflects back on his sixty year career of scientific achievement.
- A frantic mother tries desperately to find her husband to inform him that their little girl has been hospitalized in severe shock after being hit by a car.
- A carpenter returns to his village, discouraged by his lack of success and respect.
- A widowed actress who formerly teamed with her husband in all her performances is finding it hard to get a solo acting job. She becomes a cosmetic saleswoman and tries to succeed at that.
- A police detective discovers that his future father-in-law and fellow cop has taken a bribe.
- George Hogan, undefeated middleweight champion of the world, retires from the ring. But new champion Eddie Seaboard wants to force him out of retirement and taunts him in front of his young son. When Hogan refuses to fight, the youngster loses faith in his father.
- During World War 2, a ship's captain picks up the survivors of a torpedoed ship. Among those rescued are a pretty Eurasian girl and a sinister-appearing man.
- A woman's curiosity uncovers a neatly executed murder.
- A manager and his big time singing protegee have been engaged a long time. But he's too busy booking her to take time off for marriage. Finally, the strain of overwork becomes too much for the songstress.
- A widow decides the time has come to set her life straight. She returns to the town where she lived when she was young and confesses to the murder of her husband, who had died there years before.
- 1953–196230mTV-GTV EpisodeThe warship HMS MARLBOROUGH is torpedoed while out alone in the Atlantic Ocean. With the vast majority of the crew killed in the explosion and no way in which to call for assistance, the captain struggles to bring his crippled ship back safely into harbour, with the old sloop on the edge of foundering the entire time.
- Calvin is an unemployed comedian who tries to make some easy money in a gold mine venture, which leads to the usual sitcom complications.
- A single father of three attempts to raise his children and decides to hire a mother for them.
- TV-news cameraman Jonathan Love is in Acapulco, Mexico covering the mysterious torpedoing of a freighter. Not far behind is his inevitable competition: Hank Wahr, cameraman for a rival TV news service.
- A ransom is demanded for a baby elephant missing from a hotel room.
- J. Willingham Bardley is a staid and refined businessman with an eye on the presidency of his firm, until he is shaken by the arrival of a mischievous imp.
- A young boy aboard a small plane has to try and land with radio help from the ground.
- A stagecoach driver and cavalry officer vie for the affections of a young lady traveling west with them.
- A tailor has a dream of becoming a committeeman, but because he's Italian-American he feels his chances are slight.
- Tom Parkes is still attached to the memory of his first wife. Jo, his new wife, vows to win his complete affection.
- A happily married couple is separated when the husband is called to Cairo on a business trip. His letters tell her constantly of his devotion, and she lives for his return.
- Professor Arthur Barris is unsympathetic when Jack Evans, an Army veteran and a father, falls behind in his grades. Barris refuses to allow for Evans' adjustment from Army to college life. But Jack's mother, with womanly charm, intervenes.
- When Lincoln and Mary Todd were married, he had the phrase, "Love is Eternal", inscribed in her wedding band. Though years of loneliness and disappointment seem to disprove this sentiment, the historic pair finally realize its truth.
- Paul Ashcroft is traveling through the French Riviera equipped with a bicycle and a kit for disguises. He gains entrance to a vacant mansion, passing himself off as one M. Durobat, and proceeds to work his charm on local gambling devotees.
- The story of a flutist's devotion to his dog.
- Western comedy about a pharmacist and his son at the turn of the 20th century.
- A wealthy recluse felt that her last years had been made happier by the guidance of Reverend Theodore Carlisle, and she named him as the major beneficiary of her will.
- Six-year-old Barnaby Baxter longs to go hunting with his father. He wishes on a star for a fairy godmother who can make his dream come true and is answered by a cigar-smoking, pink-winged fairy godfather named O'Malley.
- After Marion Miller testifies before a Congressional committee concerning her years as an anti-communists spy, she looks forward to a peaceful life as a housewife. But it seems the Communists have other ideas.
- Judge Cyrus Dunn is determined to get away for a holiday fishing trip. But at the last moment, his wife Betsy insists that the gardener's salary must be paid. This leaves the judge with no ready cash for his trip.
- A man is plagued with constant troubles when his wife wants a new car and then a new house.
- In this musical comedy set in the 1870s, Silas Haley wants his daughter to marry a city slicker. Matilda, however, has her eyes on a good looking trapper.
- An abusive husband gives his wife no choice but to retreat from her world of pain and degradation.
- Nora's husband Judge Wayne Douglas has been nominated for DA. He fires his campaign manager Neil Watson for receiving a questionable campaign contribution. Neil then asks Nora for a favor, reminding her of the favor he once did for her.
- Embittered by his wife's death during the birth of their eighth child, an Irishman refuses to set eyes on the girl and acknowledges only seven children.
- New York Detective Joe McQueen would like to know how to get Grover Healy, his freeloading brother-in-law, out of his house. But it isn't until smalltime hoodlum Willy Zucks shows up at McQueen's home that Grover considers leaving.
- A young boy (army brat) Struggles between his father and a deserter
- A man thinks his nutty aunt has killed someone.
- Set in 1882 Paris, a young girl gets her big break for the Paris Ballet after much sacrifice from her mother.
- Mrs. MacDowell makes daydream plans for her young college professor son in the belief that pretending will make them so.
- A successful actress is torn between the desire to marry and settle down, and the urge to continue her career on the stage. Her producer is against her plans to leave the stage, for a number of reasons.
- Two law enforcement officers and a dangerous young outlaw fight their way back against a common enemy to civilization and surprising justice.
- A high school basketball coach is concerned when his star player skips practice to study for an exam.
- While on duty on a lonely beach, a sailor meets a beautiful girl. It's love at first sight for the boy. But he learns that the girl is blind and pledged to marry another if her vision is restored.
- A man is considering running for national office and to clinch the deal his wife throws a party with a powerful Washington lawmaker in attendance.
- A sheriff struggles to keep his job even as he loses his hearing.
- Stan Mayor is a well-known movie comic whose face fits his talents as a clown. When his girl friend refuses to take him seriously and expresses admiration for handsome men, Stan decides to make a drastic change.
- Connie Marlowe is responsible for orphaned younger brother, Buzz. He hopes to win some money in a father-son bowling match, so he asks Connie to get a stand-in father for him.
- A small town girl comes to New York to forget a recent tragedy only to have her life threatened by a masked stranger.
- 1953–196230mTV-GTV EpisodeMadeline, the daughter of famed actress Lili Parrish, is on trial for murder. Lili, the key witness, is determined to make her testimony the most believable performance of her career.
- One-time film star plans her anniversary to be as romantic as her honeymoon.
- The story of scientist Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the man who made lightning. He did research for General Electric and then went on to become a professor of Union College in Schenectady.
- Stella Rutledge, traveling to the new frontier of the West, accepts temporary lodging with the Gaines family when the stagecoach breaks down. Noting the isolated family's hunger for news she entertains the two youngsters with tales about her former home, a Southern plantation, and discovers the girl plans to run away from home.
- In the Old West, itinerant cowboy Joe Garvey finds himself stranded in the brutal Arizona desert along with an Apache Indian. Although they speak different languages and harbor deep animosity toward one another, the men soon realize they must rely on one another if they are to survive their ordeal.
- Max Grossblatt, an elderly Chicago tailor, dreams of being able to visit his son Larry in California. But on a tailor's salary, all that Max can afford is dreams
- A rejected boyfriend is 'all wet' in his plan to regain the attention of his lady love. The event had been engineered by a smooth-talking so-called pal.
- A child's face helps restore a disabled vet's self-confidence.
- An office worker named Alma can't get her bookkeeper boy friend Stanley to pop the question. His excuse: no nest egg. Her solution: make a killing at the races - with money from the office petty cash box.
- 1953–196230mTV-GTV EpisodeOrlovsky, a Russian defector, falls in love with Miriam Raskin, the widowed daughter of a rabbi. Although Orlovsky moved away from religion as a child, he re-connects to his Jewish tradition through Miriam, who is preparing to celebrate her son's bar mitzvah.
- A struggling photographer runs over a dog while driving near the home of an actress. Little does he know that this insignificant auto accident will lead to his involvement in murder.
- Author Emily Marsden secludes herself in a small village after quarreling with her husband. There, she learns a lot about her own difficulties by trying to help someone else.
- A man in a Mexican family is murdered and the gems from his house are stolen. When his brother comes to investigate, he finds the answer lies with the most influential woman he meets.
- A cancer therapist defends himself against a charge of fraud made by a newspaperwoman and a doctor.
- A cynical intellectual shelters a 15-year-old boy who is wanted for murder.
- Two brothers, one a doctor the other a fast-draw Sheriff, live in conflict with each other in a town that is run by a ruthless saloon owner.
- Lydia Shaw, wife of a successful lawyer, is being blackmailed by a man who has some love letters she wrote before her marriage. Afraid to let her husband find out about the romance, Lydia agrees to pay off her former sweetheart.
- A family endures a difficult time and comes together during Easter.
- Yankees take over the Southern home of a young girl and her sick mother who are caring for an injured Confederate deserter.
- The one-ring circus run by Anthony Mullins begins to prosper when a handsome trapeze artist, Angeli, joins the troupe. But Mullins is upset when his fiancee, Sue Ellen, becomes fascinated with Angeli.
- The Story of Ben, an engineering student works nights in a supermarket to support his family.
- Martha Allen's husband and teenage offspring seem to be taking her for granted. To win recognition, she decides to learn how to fly an airplane.
- 1953–196230mTV-GTV Episode
- A little boy in a small town hotel is the only one who believes that a washed up elderly employee used to be a top notch railroad brakeman.
- Pio, a bartender in Capri, has dreamed all his life of going to America. He asks two American tourists to help him find a way to make his dream come true.
- The United States information officer in a small village in Southeast Asia has little faith in the fight against communism. His attitude provokes a conflict with Emily Skinner, the dedicated librarian.
- Story about a young man acquitted of complicity in the death of a police lieutenant's wife.
- After her baby dies in childbirth, Alice Kellen retreats into a world of her own. As she sinks deeper into fantasy, her husband tries a desperate measure to snap her back to reality.
- After killing a man in a drunken brawl, wagon maker Joe Turner swears that he will never drink again. Joe and his wife settle in a small town hoping to start a new life. But the vicious town boss starts a campaign to drive the Turners out of town.
- It is the year 1880, and Elizabeth a lovely miss from the East, is preparing to journey West to marry her fiance. Elizabeth's mother cautions her about the Wild West, but the young girl assures her that the pioneer country has been tamed.
- Newsman Paul Stylos follows the story of Harry Pell, a cunning murderer who has managed to elude capture. Stylos contacts Pell's former military captain Joe Kittridge, then tricks him into agreeing to be the bait that could entice Pell into a trap.
- A champion rodeo rider, though getting older, refuses to retire to a ranch house, even though his fiancée begs him to. After another rider and friend of them both is killed during a show, she gives him a choice, quit and marry her or she'll leave him.
- 1953–196230mTV-GTV Episode
- A Catholic priest burdened with the responsibilities of ministering to the spiritual and financial problems of his parish. Second of three stories running on this series dramatizing men of the cloth.
- 1953–196230mTV-GTV Episode
- 1953–196230mTV-GTV Episode
- Angie is out to put the marriage halter on boyfriend Joe, but Joe has dreams of adventure.
- Harness racing driver, Al Roberts, fights viciously to bring in the big money. And at home he has no patience with his son Joey and pushes the boy around.
- Mr. Parkinson's life has followed a familiar pattern up to now: working at his brokerage job during the week and playing golf on weekends. He's a happy, ordinary chap -- until the fact that he is secretly a poet is brought to light.
- An embittered spinster lives on her brother's ranch in Mexico. She becomes attracted to a young ranch hand, and when he doesn't return her affection she decides to get revenge.
- Ralph and Laura Whitemore have suffered many financial disappointments in their life together. But when a "sure thing" comes along at last, they eagerly await the phone call that will bring their "pot of gold".