Wed, Nov 13, 1957
Effie's the owner of a dive diner who constantly reminisces about her late, great husband Rocco: a gangster sentenced to the chair. Danny's a small-time pickpocket from the old days she's kept on as cook. He's madly in love with Effie and wants to impress her by doing something big. Danny picks the keys off a dining bank truck guard so he can heist the vehicle and its loot once its filled with cash.
Wed, Nov 20, 1957
A travelling family of country music performers, the Singing Canfields, face a crisis. His daughter Marietta has fallen for a farm boy and wants to settle down and get married. Papa Canfield will not stand for this; not only will he lose his best singer, but also his guitarist. Musician Troy, sure Marietta would one day marry him, decides to take action with his gun.
Wed, Dec 18, 1957
The Polish-American father of three daughters takes great pride in entering the annual polka contest each year with one of the girls. Last year, when his oldest daughter married, the second daughter Theckla danced and won the contest with Papa. However, this year, Theckla is in love, and she refuses to put on the old-country costume and dance.
Wed, Dec 25, 1957
This is the story of Ariaban, a fourth priest who also saw the star over Bethlehem. He sold all of his belongings to buy gifts for the Christ, but was detained from joining the other wise men because he wanted to care for a dying man. After years of searching, he finally finds his king: dying on the cross.
Wed, Jan 1, 1958
The networks' battle for ratings causes headaches for TV star Bill Brogan. For seven seasons, his variety hour has been a success. Now he's getting competition from a new young singer airing opposite him on another network. He's forced to jump into publicity fray to keep the upstart from stealing his audience.
Wed, Apr 23, 1958
Two young Polish men are arrested by the Communist authorities in Warsaw and thrown in prison, where they spend the next five years. They are never told what their "crimes" were and, in fact, are never tried in court. While in prison they wrote a book, and that is the basis for this episode.
Wed, Jun 11, 1958
Investigating the murder of a young woman named Annie Boone, two homicide detectives are startled to discover that they are getting vastly different descriptions of the girl from people who knew her intimately--her mother says she wasn't very bright but her father says she was brilliant. A male friend describes her as a wild, carefree "party girl" type, but another says she was shy, withdrawn and retiring. The detectives set out to find out exactly who Annie really was.
Wed, Jul 9, 1958
A cop is killed on duty, reportedly while breaking up a gambling ring. When the investigation focuses on one particular suspect, the precinct captain wants to immediately charge the man with murder. However, a detective investigating the case begins to suspect that the dead officer wasn't quite as squeaky-clean as he was being made out to be.
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Wed, Jul 16, 1958
A private charter plane carrying two businessmen crashes and kills all aboard. While investigating the crash, police discover that a third passenger never boarded the plane, and begin to suspect that the crash may have not have been an accident after all but a scheme by the third passenger to fake his own death.
Wed, Jul 23, 1958
A reporter sets out to investigate the murder of a Pulitzer Prize-winning colleague. He discovers that the man wasn't quite as squeaky-clean as was commonly believed: it turns out that he was a blackmailer, and there are more than a few people who had reason to want to see him dead.
Wed, Jul 30, 1958
Two college students hitching their way back to school. A fierce storm arises, and they take shelter in a local farmer's barn. The next day on the radio they hear that the daughter of the farmer who gave them shelter has been murdered, and the boys are shocked to hear that a description of the killers matches them perfectly.
Wed, Aug 6, 1958
A wealthy publisher has come to regret his quick marriage to a beautiful woman once he realizes she's cheating on him. He meets a man who can get rid of his "problem", and hires him to kill his wife. Afterwards, however, he changes his mind, and how he must find the would-be assassin before he carries out his assignment.
Wed, Aug 13, 1958
A tough veteran cop, expecting to be promoted to a supervisor position, is passed over, and finds himself assigned to a homicide by the man who took what he considered to be his job. His new boss warns him against using the brutal tactics he is infamous for, but the cop soon ditches his partner and pays a visit to the suspect in the case, in order to "interrogate" him--alone.
Wed, Aug 20, 1958
Elderly Aunt Violet lets it be known that she's particularly afraid of one of her heirs, who she thinks is greedy enough to do away with her to get her money. Not long after hiring a new gardener, Violet disappears. Her friends and neighbors suspect that she has been killed by the greedy heir, but her niece Helen decides to search the entire countryside to find out what happened to her aunt.
Wed, Aug 27, 1958
A loud, obnoxious former football player has alienated his neighbors with his boorish behavior, and also because they know he married his wife for her money. When her dead body washes up on an isolated beach, the husband is arrested and charged with her murder. Although he insists he didn't kill his wife, he refuses to hire the kind of lawyer who could prove it.
Wed, Sep 3, 1958
An ambitious politician running for governor is informed by his wife that she's leaving him and getting a divorce. He tells her that, in order not to harm his chances in the election, she had better stay with him until after the campaign. When he arrives home one night shortly afterward, he finds his wife fighting with an intruder, and he is then struck on the head and knocked out. When he regains consciousness, he discovers his wife lying on the floor, dead.
Wed, Sep 17, 1958
A new husband takes over his elderly father's hardware store, with the husband running the store and the wife taking care of the father and a somewhat dotty aunt who lives upstairs. However, when the father catches his daughter-in-law in a passionate kiss with another man, she decides it's time to get rid of the old man before he blabs to her husband.