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Season 61956

Season 6

September 28, 1956
44
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1956
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44 episodes
Season 6
Moment of Vengeance

Moment of Vengeance

Sep 28, 19560 votes
Director: Alvin Ganzer

When a $20-a-month ranch hand elopes with the daughter of a cattle baron, the father gets his dander up and figures the young man is after his money.

6 guest stars
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The House That Jackson Built

The House That Jackson Built

Oct 5, 19560 votes

A woman who has devoted herself to her career decides she is never to wed. She proceeds to buy a house and build a life that doesn't involve having a family. But she is pleasantly surprised about what happens next.

2 guest stars
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The Trophy

The Trophy

Oct 12, 19560 votes

A self-made man uses his money to offset his crudeness. His wife is constantly humiliated by his bad taste.

3 guest stars
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Enoch Prentiss

Enoch Prentiss

Oct 19, 19560 votes

A hard man in business is on the receiving end of the squeeze play when his daughter is threatened by a blackmailer who wants $25,000 in exchange for her reputation.

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Always the Best Man

Always the Best Man

Oct 26, 19560 votes

A bachelor talks his best friend into breaking his engagement. But after he meets the man's ex-fiance, he begins to fall in love with her himself.

4 guest stars
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The Night They Won the Oscar

The Night They Won the Oscar

Nov 9, 19560 votes

A dedicated director has had the loving support and understanding of his wife during the years in which he mastered his craft. After he wins an Oscar for a picture he directed, they find they are rapidly drifting apart.

7 guest stars
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Explosion

Explosion

Nov 16, 19560 votes

An American secret agent fighting to get control of a South American oil well poses an Englishman to thwart enemy agents.

1 guest star
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The Letter

The Letter

Nov 23, 19560 votes

A Southern girl discovers that Confederate soldiers are not receiving letters from home. She therefore decides to deliver letters from her neighbors to their sons and sweethearts.

2 guest stars
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Once Upon a Time

Once Upon a Time

Nov 30, 19560 votes

A small girl teaches a thief about honesty after she sees him commit a crime.

3 guest stars
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Washington Incident

Washington Incident

Dec 7, 19560 votes
Director: John Brahm

During the trying days of 1862, Abraham Lincoln overhears a disturbing conversation.

6 guest stars
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A Tale of Wells Fargo

A Tale of Wells Fargo

Dec 14, 19560 votes
Director: Bernard Girard

After a series of train robberies and stagecoach hold-ups, the Wells Fargo Company assigns special agent Jim Hardie to capture the outlaws.

6 guest stars
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A Light in the Desert

A Light in the Desert

Dec 21, 19560 votes

A doctor saves a mother, dying in childbirth, and restores his own soul in the process.

2 guest stars
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The Big Payoff

The Big Payoff

Dec 28, 19560 votes

Joe McQuade is a respected and honest detective, who is in line for a promotion. His daughter needs an operation and a racketeer offers him money.

2 guest stars
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The Lady Was a Flop

The Lady Was a Flop

Jan 4, 19570 votes

Red McGivney, a former jockey who now works as an exercise boy, is sure that a race horse named Lady has the makings of a champion. After everyone else has given up, Red buys her to train and race himself.

3 guest stars
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Tower Room 14-A

Tower Room 14-A

Jan 11, 19570 votes
Director: Don Weis

A house detective believes all women to be unfaithful until he meets a certain beautiful young lady.

5 guest stars
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Terror in the Streets

Terror in the Streets

Jan 18, 19570 votes

The story of an artist who moves into a cheap tenement apartment to decide whether or not to marry, but instead of peace of mind finds herself in the middle of terror.

4 guest stars
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The Enchanted

The Enchanted

Jan 25, 19570 votes
Director: John Brahm

A man brings a young girl into his house with the intention of training her to be his wife.

5 guest stars
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One Left Over

One Left Over

Feb 1, 19570 votes

An auto accident takes the lives of a man's wife and his two sons, and he must find the courage to live for his daughter.

3 guest stars
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Sometimes You Break Even

Sometimes You Break Even

Feb 8, 19570 votes
Director: John Brahm

An Army doctor and nurse have two critical patients and lock horns over how to deal with the lack of resources.

1 guest star
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Night Drive

Night Drive

Feb 15, 19570 votes

A drive with an old lady over a lonely road turns out to be a nightmare for a young woman when the old lady proves to be a man with a gun.

2 guest stars
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The Wedding Present

The Wedding Present

Feb 22, 19570 votes

A lonely woman, tired of her reputation as a respectable spinster, takes a drifter in as a boarder and discovers he's wanted for murder.

6 guest stars
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The Life You Save

The Life You Save

Mar 1, 19570 votes
Director: Herschel Daugherty

Marriage is the furthest thing from the mind of one-armed tramp, Tom Triplet -- then he sees Lucy Nell Crater, a deaf-mute girl with angelic innocence.

6 guest stars
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Carriage from Britain

Carriage from Britain

Mar 8, 19570 votes

A young mother's desire to keep ahead of the Joneses leads her to import a baby buggy like the one Prince Charles had.

2 guest stars
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The Girl in the Grass

The Girl in the Grass

Mar 15, 19570 votes
Director: Ray Milland

Harry Carstairs wakes up feeling young and adventurous. His wife, however, doesn't share his romantic mood, so Harry wanders off to the park. He intends to read the financial page, but finds himself being stared at by a beautiful girl.

3 guest stars
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For Better, For Worse

For Better, For Worse

Mar 22, 19570 votes
Director: John Brahm

Walter Van Buren begins to suspect that his new wife is a compulsive liar.

2 guest stars
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The Restless Gun

The Restless Gun

Mar 29, 19570 votes

On the trail to visit his old friend Dan, former gunfighter Britt Ponset meets an escaped murderer nursing a grudge and plotting to kill Dan. Britt's job now is to warn Dan and help him prepare for the inevitable showdown.

4 guest stars
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Clothes Make the Man

Clothes Make the Man

Apr 5, 19570 votes

A mousy little button salesman gets thrown out of his hotel when it is taken over by a new chain, because he wore outlandish clothes.

8 guest stars
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The Blue Hotel

The Blue Hotel

Apr 12, 19570 votes
Director: John Brahm

Strangers stranded in a hotel by a blizzard pass the time by playing poker. Tensions rise when one of them accuses another of cheating.

7 guest stars
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Girl With a Glow

Girl With a Glow

Apr 19, 19570 votes

An attractive, charming librarian is smitten with the movie director who's been hanging around the library. He enlists her help in tracking down a stunning woman he'd seen there days before; he describes her as having "a glow." Though she's glad to help, she hates that she hasn't captured his attention like the future movie star has.

2 guest stars
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Hey, Mac

Hey, Mac

Apr 26, 19570 votes

A beautiful divorcee and her spoiled teenage son destroy the peace of a widower and his pretty teenage daughter.

1 guest star
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The Traveling Corpse

The Traveling Corpse

May 3, 19570 votes

Professor Stephen Bolt, a teacher of criminology, hears a strange story from a guest lecturer: a man dies suddenly. While his wife is arranging the burial, the corpse disappears

3 guest stars
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The Dead are Silent

The Dead are Silent

May 10, 19570 votes

No overview available.

4 guest stars
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Switch Station

Switch Station

May 17, 19570 votes
Director: John Brahm

A drifter takes a temporary job at a stagecoach station but refuse a permanent one from manager Henry Maguire. As he's ready to move on bandits arrive threatening Henry and daughter Bess. The cowboy makes a crucial choice.

6 guest stars
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Sister Louise Goes to Town

Sister Louise Goes to Town

May 24, 19570 votes
Director: John Brahm

A nun is bothered by the cloister's leaky roof, so, after learning she has come into an inheritance, she decides to do something about it.

2 guest stars
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The Sword

The Sword

May 31, 19570 votes

Cyrano de Bergerac is saved from the executioner's axe only by the adroit swordsmanship of de la Force.

3 guest stars
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An Old Spanish Custom

An Old Spanish Custom

Jun 7, 19570 votes
Director: John Brahm

A temperamental movie star believes she can issue orders to everyone - even people she's just met.

6 guest stars
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Storm Over Rapallo

Storm Over Rapallo

Jun 14, 19570 votes
Director: Paul Henreid

Pietro and Francesca live in a little Italian village on the Mediterranean. She's the cook in a ramshackle hotel and he's the waiter, but he rebels at spending his life picking up crumbs and plots big business deals at the waterfront. His association with Rubio, an evil fisherman frightens Francesca, but she is powerless to dissuade Pietro from entering into a scheme with Rubio to rob a pair of American tourists.

4 guest stars
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Fifty Beautiful Girls

Fifty Beautiful Girls

Jun 21, 19570 votes

A dancer repeatedly receives death threats by mail and phone calls.

2 guest stars
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Sporting Chance

Sporting Chance

Jun 28, 19570 votes

A jealous man turns a duck hunting expedition into a manhunt.

1 guest star
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Easy Going Man

Easy Going Man

Aug 2, 19570 votes

A boy plays cupid for his widowed mother and her old flame.

2 guest stars
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Hands of the Enemy

Hands of the Enemy

Aug 9, 19570 votes
Director: Paul Henreid

A defense attorney is met with antagonism when he arrives in a small town to help a boy already convicted by public opinion of stealing $8,000.

4 guest stars
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The Face of a Killer

The Face of a Killer

Aug 16, 19570 votes
Director: Mark Stevens

A gangster pursued by the police convinces a crooked plastic surgeon to alter his face to look like a respected banker so the thug can kill and assume the identity of the respected citizen

2 guest stars
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Goodbye, Joe

Goodbye, Joe

Aug 22, 19570 votes

No overview available.

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Always Open and Shut

Always Open and Shut

Aug 29, 19570 votes

Two policeman who are partners on a dangerous beat vie for the love of the same woman.

4 guest stars
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