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Season 41951

Season 4

October 21, 1951
25
Episodes
0.5
Rating
2
Votes
1951
Year

Cast

Bert Lytell
Bert Lytell
Self - Host

Episodes

25 episodes
Season 4
Marcia Akers

Marcia Akers

Oct 21, 19511h 0m0 votes

A young woman has an unhealthy desire to get ahead, climbing the social ladder and stepping on people along the way. She's set to marry a wealthy man--just what's always wanted--when she finds herself in love with a "regular guy".

2 guest stars
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The Education of a Fullback

The Education of a Fullback

Nov 4, 19511h 0m0 votes

A comedy on the foibles of campus activities about a professor who can't understand why a football hero shouldn't be given an unsatisfactory grade especially when he slept thru the classes.

1 guest star
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A Little Night Music

A Little Night Music

Nov 18, 19511h 0m0 votes

Elizabeth Chapin is the belle of the town who is now approaching 40 as a spinster music teacher.

2 guest stars
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Incident at Golden's Creek

Incident at Golden's Creek

Dec 2, 19511h 0m0 votes

An Iron Curtain delegation is marooned in a small mid-western town.

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Perspective

Perspective

Dec 16, 19511h 0m0 votes

The play suggested by the career of Hans VanMergeren called the master art forger.

2 guest stars
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The Sisters
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The Sisters

Dec 30, 19511h 0m1 votes

The lives of two sisters are disrupted by a psychopath who appears claiming to be their godson.

2 guest stars
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Without Fear or Favor

Without Fear or Favor

Jan 13, 19521h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

Modern day corruption investigations (film of the Kefauver investigation is shown) has a parallel in 1870s New York, where the New York Times crusades against the crooks in City Hall headed by Boss Tweed and his thieving cronies, which included judges, police officials and even the Mayor.

3 guest stars
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Segment

Segment

Jan 27, 19521h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

During a convention, a visiting family takes a hotel room. The father and Mother get ready while the daughter leaves. The wife nagging pushes the man over the edge and he is determined to kill her after he makes her listen to his list of reasons she's been cruel to him. Meanwhile police try to talk him out of it, and watch him with a television camera across the street.

3 guest stars
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Rich Boy
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Rich Boy

Feb 10, 19521h 0m1 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

This well-received adaptation of the 1924 F. Scott Fitzgerald short story starred Gene Lyons as rich playboy Anson Hunter, who realizes too late that he has wasted his life by allowing the one woman he truly loved (Kelly) to slip out of his grasp.

5 guest stars
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Tender Age

Tender Age

Feb 24, 19521h 0m0 votes

The tragic aspects of the so-called "lost generation" of the 20's is told.

1 guest star
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Dusty Portrait

Dusty Portrait

Mar 9, 19521h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

A tragic story of an innocent victim of justice based entirely on circumstantial evidence.

2 guest stars
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The Best Laid Schemes

The Best Laid Schemes

Mar 23, 19521h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

Boy can we relate to this PLOT TWIST from back in the 40's. Doctors are helpless in dealing with an epidemic that hits New York City. The answer is provided by an exterminator.

3 guest stars
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The Room Next Door

The Room Next Door

Apr 5, 19521h 0m0 votes

A social-climbing couple scheme to find a mate for their unromantic inclined daughter. She however prefers an unstable piano player over an established member of the tea and crumpet set, things build up with a tragic ending.

1 guest star
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The Basket Weaver

The Basket Weaver

Apr 19, 19521h 0m0 votes

The story of the marine assault on Iwo Jima leads a former veteran into a crackup with a bullying personality increased by a personal crisis.

2 guest stars
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We Were Children

We Were Children

May 4, 19521h 0m0 votes

A close knit family learns that a man who was the son of their family gardener is related to them thru an indiscretion.

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A Cowboy for Chris

A Cowboy for Chris

May 18, 19521h 0m0 votes

A little boy's infatuation for a cowboy who boards at his home and another boarder who attempts to disillusion the child.

2 guest stars
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A Man's Game

A Man's Game

Jun 1, 19521h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

A big league manager travels to Alabama to scout catcher Chub Evans but signs Evans' fireball pitching sister instead.

1 guest star
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Flight into Darkness

Flight into Darkness

Jun 15, 19521h 0m0 votes

A psychological drama about two brothers obsessed with the idea that he is going insane and later that his brother, a doctor is going to murder him.

1 guest star
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The Monument

The Monument

Jun 29, 19521h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

A reporter has undertaken the biography of a Confederate general to get the authentic version of his heroism at Bull Run.

3 guest stars
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A Letter to Mr. Priest

A Letter to Mr. Priest

Jul 13, 19521h 0m0 votes

The camera becomes you and you become the narrator as the camera becomes a person and unfolds the story. Nelson Olmsted is the voice.

2 guest stars
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Bratt Farrar

Bratt Farrar

Jul 27, 19521h 0m0 votes

No Not Brett Favre- Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the identity of Patrick Ashby, heir to the Ashby fortune who disappeared when he was 13.

2 guest stars
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The Five Fathers of Pepi

The Five Fathers of Pepi

Aug 10, 19521h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

A young war orphan is taken in by five men living along the Italian Riviera. Their hope is to find a wealthy American couple who will adopt Pepi and give him a proper upbringing. When the time comes to give the tyke up.

3 guest stars
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Three Sundays

Three Sundays

Aug 24, 19521h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

A criminal brings scandal to the family of a dead intelligence officer but eventually confesses his shoddy motives for creating the affair and absolves the dead man.

3 guest stars
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The Last Hour

The Last Hour

Sep 7, 19521h 0m0 votes
Director: Delbert Mann

A woman is on trial for espionage and has but a few hours to prove her innocence.

3 guest stars
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Holiday Song

Holiday Song

Sep 14, 19521h 0m0 votes

The night before Rosh Hashonah, a cantor suffers a spiritual crisis. That same night, he is sent by someone to see a rabbi out in Brooklyn, A mysterious train station attendant gives him directions after which he stops a woman from committing suicide because she is despondent over the death of her husband in the war. On his way home, the cantor meets up with the husband. He thought his wife had died. The cantor reunites them. After trying to find the station guard, the cantor learns that no one has ever worked there fitting the man's description. thus the cantor realizes that some sort of 'celestial conductor' must have had a hand in the matter. His faith restored, the cantor is able to resume his life's work.

3 guest stars
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