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Season 11956

Season 1

October 4, 1956
39
Episodes
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1956
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Episodes

39 episodes
Season 1
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Forbidden Area

Oct 4, 19561h 30m1 votes
Director: John Frankenheimer

Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will anyone believe him?

7 guest stars
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Requiem for a Heavyweight

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Oct 11, 19561h 30m0 votes
Director: Ralph Nelson

An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is exploited by his manager, despite the efforts of a compassionate young woman who tries to help him recover his self-respect.

16 guest stars
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Sizeman and Son

Sizeman and Son

Oct 18, 19561h 30m0 votes

The happy atmosphere in Mr. Sizeman's factory is disrupted by an argumentative newcomer - his son.

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Rendezvous in Black

Rendezvous in Black

Oct 25, 19561h 30m0 votes
Director: John Frankenheimer

A woman is inexplicably killed on a street-corner. What has this to do with other deaths around the city?

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The Country Husband

The Country Husband

Nov 1, 19561h 30m0 votes

After a near-death experience, a businessman starts to re-think his life, and wonders about leaving his wife.

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The Big Slide

The Big Slide

Nov 8, 19561h 30m0 votes

A vaudeville comic becomes a silent film star.

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Heritage of Anger

Heritage of Anger

Nov 15, 19561h 30m0 votes

A wealthy industrialist has trouble with his sons.

1 guest star
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Eloise

Eloise

Nov 22, 19561h 30m0 votes
Director: John Frankenheimer

It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.

5 guest stars
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Confession

Confession

Nov 29, 19561h 30m0 votes

When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.

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Made in Heaven

Made in Heaven

Dec 6, 19561h 30m0 votes

When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.

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Sincerely, Willis Wade

Sincerely, Willis Wade

Dec 13, 19561h 30m0 votes

A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.

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The Family Nobody Wanted

The Family Nobody Wanted

Dec 20, 19561h 30m0 votes
Director: John Frankenheimer

A true story, it follows a pastor and his wife through forties beginning with one biological child, Donny. But the upheaval of the war years results in a number of mixed raced children that the Doss family adopt until they have 12 children.

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Massacre at Sand Creek

Massacre at Sand Creek

Dec 27, 19561h 30m0 votes

An investigation into a massacre of Native Americans.

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Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses

Snowshoes: A Comedy of People and Horses

Jan 3, 19571h 30m0 votes

Some racetrack Johnnies are talking between races when one wonders if you can hypnotize a horse into thinking it's a champion. The idea sets in motion a series of hilarious events.

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The Ninth Day

The Ninth Day

Jan 10, 19571h 30m0 votes
Director: John Frankenheimer

Events in the aftermath of World War Three.

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So Soon to Die

So Soon to Die

Jan 17, 19571h 30m0 votes

Down on his luck, war hero Lionel Amblin contemplates committing a murder.

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The Star Wagon

The Star Wagon

Jan 24, 19571h 30m0 votes

An inventor, pondering on how he might differently have arranged his life, invents a time machine and decides to make a few changes.

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The Greer Case

The Greer Case

Jan 31, 19571h 30m0 votes

When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

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The Miracle Worker

The Miracle Worker

Feb 7, 19571h 30m0 votes

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

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The Comedian
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The Comedian

Feb 14, 19571h 30m2 votes
Director: John Frankenheimer

Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than his. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, whom Sammy has hired as his assistant but whom he really uses as his whipping boy.

11 guest stars
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One Coat of White

One Coat of White

Feb 21, 19571h 30m0 votes

A newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.

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The Blackwell Story

The Blackwell Story

Feb 28, 19571h 30m0 votes

In the 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell determines to become a doctor.

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Invitation to a Gunfighter

Invitation to a Gunfighter

Mar 7, 19571h 30m0 votes

A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter to drive him out of town. The townsfolk thought they had it bad until they handed the reigns over to the new terror. Pooling their money again, this time to hire Jeffers to get rid of Dancer.

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The Last Tycoon

The Last Tycoon

Mar 14, 19571h 30m0 votes
Director: John Frankenheimer

A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.

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The Hostess with the Mostes'

The Hostess with the Mostes'

Mar 21, 19571h 30m0 votes

The story of Perle Mesta, who became, first, a renowned society hostess, and then an ambassadress.

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Where's Charley?

Where's Charley?

Mar 28, 19571h 30m0 votes

Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".

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Clipper Ship

Clipper Ship

Apr 4, 19571h 30m0 votes

A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shipping magnate, and her growing love for a handsome young political prisoner who was scheduled to be put to death when the vessel reached its destination. Though unyielding at first, the ship's stern captain eventually helped the woman to make a clean getaway, with the condemned man in tow.

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If You Knew Elizabeth

If You Knew Elizabeth

Apr 11, 19571h 30m0 votes
Director: John Frankenheimer

No overview available.

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Three Men on a Horse

Three Men on a Horse

Apr 18, 19571h 30m0 votes

A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.

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Four Women in Black

Four Women in Black

Apr 25, 19571h 30m0 votes

Four nuns, led by Sister Teresa, begin a treacherous journey across the Arizona desert in 1870. Their faith enables them to deal with the challenges of nature and the hostility of their fellow mankind.

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Child of Trouble

Child of Trouble

May 2, 19571h 30m0 votes

No overview available.

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Homeward Borne

Homeward Borne

May 9, 19571h 30m0 votes

Just after World War Two ends, an American woman takes in a Polish war orphan boy, a concentration camp survivor. But conflict arises when her husband, a returning Air Force bomber pilot, hates the boy and his psychological baggage.

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The Helen Morgan Story

The Helen Morgan Story

May 16, 19571h 30m0 votes

Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star of top rated shows and owning her own club. Also seen is her poor choices, such as her affair with a married man, her short marriage to a much younger man, a court fight over an adopted baby and her fatal descent into booze addiction.

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Winter Dreams

Winter Dreams

May 23, 19571h 30m0 votes
Director: John Frankenheimer

No overview available.

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Circle of the Day

Circle of the Day

May 30, 19571h 30m0 votes

On her tenth wedding anniversary (which is also her daughter's birthday), a wife begins to suspect her husband of unfaithfulness.

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Without Incident

Without Incident

Jun 6, 19571h 30m0 votes

Captain Russell Bidlack, commander of a U.S. Cavalry unit in 1870, determines to complete a rescue mission through dangerous Indian territory. In the course of the mission, he rescues the wives of two slain traders and captures the Indian chief accused of the murders. When he returns to the fort, he's faced with a revolt among his own men.

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Clash by Night

Clash by Night

Jun 13, 19571h 30m0 votes
Director: John Frankenheimer

Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.

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Ain't No Time for Glory

Ain't No Time for Glory

Jun 20, 19571h 30m0 votes

American soldiers must use stealth to take over a German command post in Normandy.

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The Fabulous Irishman

The Fabulous Irishman

Jun 27, 19571h 30m0 votes
Director: John Frankenheimer

Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.

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