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Season 31958

Season 3

September 25, 1958
38
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1958
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Episodes

38 episodes
Season 3
The Plot to Kill Stalin

The Plot to Kill Stalin

Sep 25, 19581h 30m0 votes

In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with anti-Semitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.

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Days of Wine and Roses

Days of Wine and Roses

Oct 2, 19581h 30m0 votes
Director: John Frankenheimer

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

4 guest stars
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The Time of Your Life

The Time of Your Life

Oct 9, 19581h 30m0 votes

William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the characters drift in and out of the bar and each other's lives, giving voice to Saroyan's philosophies as they randomly comment about the impending world war, the beauty of art, and traditional notions of good and evil.

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The Long March

The Long March

Oct 16, 19581h 30m0 votes

No overview available.

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Shadows Tremble

Shadows Tremble

Oct 23, 19581h 30m0 votes

An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.

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Word from a Sealed-Off Box

Word from a Sealed-Off Box

Oct 30, 19581h 30m0 votes

A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.

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Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness

Nov 6, 19581h 30m0 votes

A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.

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Old Man

Old Man

Nov 20, 19581h 30m0 votes
Director: John Frankenheimer

To fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts.

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The Return of Ansel Gibbs

The Return of Ansel Gibbs

Nov 27, 19581h 30m0 votes

After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.

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Free Weekend

Free Weekend

Dec 4, 19581h 30m0 votes

No overview available.

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Seven Against the Wall

Seven Against the Wall

Dec 11, 19581h 30m0 votes

The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.

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The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker

Dec 25, 19581h 30m0 votes

This telecast of George Balanchine's famous production was broadcast only four years after it was premiered by the New York City Ballet. This was the only episode of the series televised in color.

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Face of a Hero

Face of a Hero

Jan 1, 19591h 30m0 votes
Director: John Frankenheimer

No overview available.

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The Wings of the Dove

The Wings of the Dove

Jan 8, 19591h 30m0 votes

An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.

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The Blue Men

The Blue Men

Jan 15, 19591h 30m0 votes
Director: John Frankenheimer

No overview available.

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The Velvet Alley

The Velvet Alley

Jan 22, 19591h 30m0 votes

Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.

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A Quiet Game of Cards

A Quiet Game of Cards

Jan 29, 19591h 30m0 votes

A few friends meet each weekend for a quiet game of cards. But they're bored with poker and, in trying to find another diversion, gradually find themselves plotting a hypothetical murder. It is hypothetical, isn't it?

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Child of Our Time

Child of Our Time

Feb 5, 19591h 30m0 votes

War deprives Tanguy of his childhood. When his mother returns to Spain to oppose the Franco regime, he is left in Nazi-occupied Marseilles, France.

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The Second Man

The Second Man

Feb 12, 19591h 30m0 votes

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The Raider

The Raider

Feb 19, 19591h 30m0 votes

A corporate raider plans a hostile takeover. To stall him, pressure is put on a scientist to rush through a new type of engine before all necessary tests have been completed.

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The Ding-A-Ling Girl

The Ding-A-Ling Girl

Feb 26, 19591h 30m0 votes

A housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her.

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Made in Japan

Made in Japan

Mar 5, 19591h 30m0 votes

A young soldier in occupied Japan after World War II falls in love with a lovely Japanese girl, but is horrified about what his prejudiced family in Philadelphia will think if he takes her home with him.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1

Mar 12, 19591h 30m0 votes
Director: John Frankenheimer

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.

13 guest stars
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For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2

Mar 19, 19591h 30m0 votes
Director: John Frankenheimer

The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.

12 guest stars
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A Trip to Paradise

A Trip to Paradise

Mar 26, 19591h 30m0 votes

No overview available.

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In Lonely Expectation

In Lonely Expectation

Apr 2, 19591h 30m0 votes

No overview available.

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The Day Before Atlanta

The Day Before Atlanta

Apr 9, 19591h 30m0 votes

No overview available.

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Judgment at Nuremberg

Judgment at Nuremberg

Apr 16, 19591h 30m0 votes
Director: George Roy Hill

In the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice.

18 guest stars
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A Corner of the Garden

A Corner of the Garden

Apr 23, 19591h 30m0 votes

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Dark December

Dark December

Apr 30, 19591h 30m0 votes

During World War II, an army doctor struggles to convert a Franciscan monastery into a field hospital.

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Diary of a Nurse

Diary of a Nurse

May 7, 19591h 30m0 votes

The daily emergencies and stresses of a major city's hospital ward as seen through the eyes of nurse Gail Lucas.

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A Marriage of Strangers

A Marriage of Strangers

May 14, 19591h 30m0 votes

Marry in haste, repent at leisure? Well, maybe.

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Out of Dust

Out of Dust

May 21, 19591h 30m0 votes

On a cattle drive across the prairie, the sons of a wealthy cattle baron plot his death.

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The Rank and File
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The Rank and File

May 28, 19591h 30m1 votes
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

A powerful union leader is interrogated by a Senate committee. Testifying before a Senate, William Kilcoyne tells the story of his career. He began as a factory worker and his shrewdness and ambition carried him up through the ranks to his present position as head of a large union.

5 guest stars
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The Killers of Mussolini

The Killers of Mussolini

Jun 4, 19591h 30m0 votes

As the Salo Republic crumbles around him, Mussolini, along with his mistress and several of his ministers flee with retreating Nazi soldiers, but are caught at the town of Dongo by red partisans. All are brutally executed without trial.

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Project Immortality

Project Immortality

Jun 11, 19591h 30m0 votes

Key defense scientist Doner has cancer. Schramm is assigned to code Doner's thinking into a computer. He gets to know him as a friend, a husband and father. The project is successful, but he now knows identity is not programmable.

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Dark as the Night

Dark as the Night

Jun 18, 19591h 30m0 votes

A British politician finds himself open to blackmail because of the indiscretion of his American wife.

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The Second Happiest Day

The Second Happiest Day

Jun 25, 19591h 30m0 votes

A man about to be married recalls the day his life changed permanently.

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