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Season 21949

Season 2

September 4, 1949
45
Episodes
0.3
Rating
2
Votes
1949
Year

Cast

Bert Lytell
Bert Lytell
Self - Host

Episodes

45 episodes
Season 2
What Every Woman Knows

What Every Woman Knows

Sep 4, 19491h 0m0 votes

A Victorian Scotswoman of far-reaching ambition. Using her supposedly frail feminine wiles, she maneuvers her fatuous husband into a successful political career. He rises to a parliamentary seat, never quite realizing that he hasn't done it alone.

1 guest star
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Pride's Castle

Pride's Castle

Sep 11, 19491h 0m0 votes

Pride Dawson was one of those "Robber Barons", who started out his life in rags and turned his life to riches and women. His contempt for human decency or moral restraint left him ruthless and corrupt. He falls for Sharon O'Neill who is a woman filled with so much goodness in her soul, as much as he has evil in his.

5 guest stars
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The Little Sister

The Little Sister

Sep 18, 19491h 0m0 votes
Director: Albert McCleery

A woman from Kansas comes to Marlowe to help find her missing brother.

5 guest stars
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The Lonely

The Lonely

Sep 25, 19491h 0m0 votes

An engaged Air Force lieutenant goes on a ten-day furlough to Scotland with a female friend. Their understanding is that the trip will be purely platonic; instead, they fall madly in love. At his first opportunity, the lieutenant flies back to America to break the news to his fiancé and family.

5 guest stars
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The Queen Bee

The Queen Bee

Oct 2, 19491h 0m0 votes

A conniving and devious Southern socialite who manipulates the lives of those around her with tragic results.

2 guest stars
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Something's Got to Give

Something's Got to Give

Oct 9, 19491h 0m0 votes

A couple of New England housewives disrupt their marriages by becoming an early morning radio team.

2 guest stars
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The Last Tycoon

The Last Tycoon

Oct 16, 19491h 0m0 votes
Director: Fred Coe

A 1930's brilliant and efficient movie mogul and the story behind the Hollywood Dream Factory.

2 guest stars
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Because of the Lockwoods

Because of the Lockwoods

Oct 23, 19491h 0m0 votes

The Lockwoods are patronising toward their former neighbours, the Hunters, who are now living in the poorer district in town. The Hunters are saved from despair from the help of a young junk dealer named Oliver Read, who teaches the Lockwoods a lesson in humanity.

2 guest stars
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Damion's Daughter

Damion's Daughter

Oct 30, 19491h 0m0 votes
Director: Fred Coe

A theater owner's daughter discovers his father's true nature and is shaken by the discovery. She moments jealousy backstage to expose him.

4 guest stars
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The House of Seven Gables

The House of Seven Gables

Nov 6, 19491h 0m0 votes

With the ownership of Seven Gables, the opulent family estate, at stake, a man frames his brother for murder.

1 guest star
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The Promise

The Promise

Nov 13, 19491h 0m0 votes

A husband and wife are drifting apart due to different goals in their individual careers.

2 guest stars
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Medical Meeting

Medical Meeting

Nov 20, 19491h 0m0 votes

No overview available.

2 guest stars
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The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram

The Wonderful Mrs. Ingram

Nov 27, 19491h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

A female psychiatrist visits the home of a famous woman novelist and discovers unhappiness aplenty. She learns the novelist's ambitions and vanity are causes of the trouble.

1 guest star
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Mist on the Waters

Mist on the Waters

Dec 4, 19491h 0m0 votes

Blackmail terrorizes a couple because of an accident which was a terrible tragedy.

1 guest star
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The Beautiful Bequest

The Beautiful Bequest

Dec 11, 19491h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

The story of a spoiled and jilted young novelist of intellectual pretensions, who is freshened up and made marketable and happy again by design of his sporting publisher.

2 guest stars
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The Strange Christmas Dinner

The Strange Christmas Dinner

Dec 18, 19491h 0m0 votes

A modern day Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to close his store on Christmas Day.

2 guest stars
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In Beauty Like the Night

In Beauty Like the Night

Dec 25, 19491h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

A British pilot who lost his sight during the Second World War deals with the problems caused by the injury.

2 guest stars
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Little Boy Lost

Little Boy Lost

Jan 1, 19501h 0m0 votes

An English poet searches for his son whom he has never seen. The child disappeared shortly after his mother was killed by the Gestapo.

1 guest star
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Bethel Merriday
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Bethel Merriday

Jan 8, 19501h 0m1 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

A small-town girl named Bethel Merriday is determined to become an actress.

9 guest stars
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Murder at the Stork Club

Murder at the Stork Club

Jan 15, 19501h 0m0 votes

A wealthy matron is murdered at the Stork Club and the suspect list is growing.

1 guest star
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The Marriages

The Marriages

Jan 22, 19501h 0m0 votes
Director: Fred Coe

In England in the 1890s, Colonel Chart, a widower with four children, falls in love with a charming, wealthy American widow, Mrs. Churchley, but his 27-year-old spinster daughter Adela contrives to ruin the relationship. She also turns two of the other three children against their intended stepmother and spoils the widow's plans to help Adela's brother Godfrey out of an unpleasant situation.

2 guest stars
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Uncle Dynamite

Uncle Dynamite

Jan 29, 19501h 0m0 votes

Uncle Fred wants Pongo to marry Sally Painter, an unsuccessful American sculptor. They had been engaged but she broke it off when Pongo refused to smuggle jewellery into America for a friend of hers.

1 guest star
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The Sudden Guest

The Sudden Guest

Feb 5, 19501h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

A New England spinster Miss Leckton disregards her neighbours' cry for help and assistance during a hurricane. She resents the intrusion, especially since her neighbours happen to be Jews.

2 guest stars
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Ann Rutledge
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Ann Rutledge

Feb 12, 19501h 0m1 votes
Director: Gordon Duff

The short life of Ann Rutledge, Abraham Lincoln's one true love who passed away at age 22 of typhoid fever.

2 guest stars
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A Letter to Mr. Priest

A Letter to Mr. Priest

Feb 19, 19501h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

An attorney, voted most likely to succeed in college, looks back on his life.

5 guest stars
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Hometown

Hometown

Feb 26, 19501h 0m0 votes
Director: Fred Coe

Mitchell Hickok, an author from the country, comes to New York for a publicity build-up for his book. He meets a glamorous woman, who introduces him to the nightlife of Manhattan. He soon tires of cafés, cocktail parties, and public appearances, and returns to his simple way of living in the country and Eileen, his childhood sweetheart.

3 guest stars
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The Life of Vincent Van Gogh

The Life of Vincent Van Gogh

Mar 5, 19501h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

The tragic life story of the tormented artist.

2 guest stars
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The Uncertain Molly Collicutt

The Uncertain Molly Collicutt

Mar 12, 19501h 0m0 votes

A flirtatious woman has a difficult time settling down to her marital responsibilities.

2 guest stars
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The Trial of Steven Kent

The Trial of Steven Kent

Mar 19, 19501h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

A jury foreman seeks to wreak personal vengeance on the murder defendant.

2 guest stars
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The Second Oldest Profession

The Second Oldest Profession

Mar 26, 19501h 0m0 votes

An idealistic newspaper editor battles with his stubborn publisher.

2 guest stars
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Nocturne

Nocturne

Apr 2, 19501h 0m0 votes
Director: Fred Coe

In London in 1910, two sisters, Jenny and Emmy Blanchard, must support and care for their widowed, invalid father. Jenny, the younger, pretty sister, seeks to escape from the depressing reality of her poverty-stricken home, while Emmy, the older, plain sister, finds comfort and eventual happiness by serving their ailing father. At the end, both are engaged: Jenny will marry Keith Reddington and Emmy will wed Alf Rylett.

6 guest stars
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Dirty Eddie

Dirty Eddie

Apr 9, 19501h 0m0 votes

Dirty Eddie is a sleek black pig with a fat movie contract and Hollywood isn't too happy about it.

1 guest star
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The End is Known

The End is Known

Apr 16, 19501h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

A department store tycoon comes home and is nearly hit by a falling body. He then learns the suicide jumped from his apartment. A mystery surrounds a suicide.

4 guest stars
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The Man in the Black Hat

The Man in the Black Hat

Apr 23, 19501h 0m0 votes

A gambler has nothing to lose as his shady past with women and cards catch up to him.

3 guest stars
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The American

The American

Apr 30, 19501h 0m0 votes

An American travelling in Europe finds clashes between the two cultures.

4 guest stars
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The Feast

The Feast

May 7, 19501h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

A seaside resort hotel brings together an odd assortment of people: a frustrated married couple, four young lovers, children and an grouchy old miser.

4 guest stars
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Brat Farrar

Brat Farrar

May 14, 19501h 0m0 votes

Identical twins concoct a plan to defraud an insurance company and collect a large sum of cash.

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The Charmed Circle

The Charmed Circle

May 21, 19501h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

A poverty-ridden student feels out-of-place among his wealthy fraternity brothers. He eventually falls in love with a rich girl and leads a revolt against the President of the fraternity house.

4 guest stars
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Semmelweis

Semmelweis

May 28, 19501h 0m0 votes

Story of the great physician who saved millions of lives due to his discovery of the cause of childbed fever (puerperal fever) and eliminated its danger by prescribing the absolute sterlization of all instruments and the cleanliness of all persons coming in contact with the mother.

3 guest stars
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Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility

Jun 4, 19501h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

Sisters left poor by the death of the family matriarch search for suitable husbands in Georgian England.

2 guest stars
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The Bump on Brannigan's Head

The Bump on Brannigan's Head

Jun 11, 19501h 0m0 votes

A bonk on the head turns a grouchy hothead into the sweetest man in town. Brannigan runs for mayor of his small town--and wins--with his "love everybody" campaign. He even wins over the crooked newspaper publisher.

2 guest stars
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Anything Can Happen

Anything Can Happen

Jun 18, 19501h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

A Russian emigrant to America finds a new language, and strange manners bewildering but tries mightily to adapt to his new homeland.

1 guest star
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Hear My Heart Speak

Hear My Heart Speak

Jun 25, 19501h 0m0 votes

A shell-shocked WWI ex-soldier is unable to speak though doctors say the problem isn't physical. Tired of completing with his overbearing, doting mother, the woman he loves begins to withdraw from his life. It's then that he regains his ability to talk.

1 guest star
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The Reluctant Landlord

The Reluctant Landlord

Jul 2, 19501h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

Georgi, a kindly and honest immigrant from the Georgian area of Russia, experiences many difficulties as he tries to adapt to his adopted country. He works hard to make a place for himself in America, all the while fighting with the English language and the strange customs of an alien people.

2 guest stars
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The Tentacles

The Tentacles

Jul 9, 19501h 0m0 votes

A young wife fights to free her husband from the control of his manipulative and controlling father.

2 guest stars
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