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Season 11955

Season 1

October 5, 1955
35
Episodes
4.6
Rating
38
Votes
1955
Year

Episodes

35 episodes
Season 1
Meet The Governor
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Meet The Governor

Oct 5, 195530m1 votes
Director: Leo McCarey

A "bumpkin-type" lawyer runs for governor until the opposition digs into his past.

5 guest stars
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Day is Done
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Day is Done

Oct 12, 195530m1 votes

During the catastrophic 1951 retreat of American troops in Korea, a recruit finds a Chinese bugle. His sargeant then attempts to use it to instill the fighting spirit in his men.

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Midsummer Daydream
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Midsummer Daydream

Oct 19, 195530m1 votes
Director: John Brahm

A young man who wants desperately to get married finds "The Girl" in, of all places, a marriage license bureau. But the happy ending is threatened by the appearance of a suave, smooth, sophisticated gambling man.

2 guest stars
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Arroyo
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Arroyo

Oct 26, 195530m1 votes
Director: George Waggner

A small New Mexican town enjoys a reasonably peaceful existence under the rule of self-appointed judge Lamar Kendall. This state of affairs is disrupted by the appearance of a wounded young woman, who reports that an Indian raid has wiped out her wagon train.

5 guest stars
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Want ad Wedding
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Want ad Wedding

Nov 2, 195530m1 votes
Director: William A. Seiter

A young naval officer, alone in a strange city, is planning to be married. Having no friends in town, he places an ad in the newspaper advertising for wedding guests.

5 guest stars
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The Life of Vernon Hathaway
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The Life of Vernon Hathaway

Nov 9, 195530m1 votes
Director: Norman Z. McLeod

A meek little watch repairman daydreams himself into exciting adventures. When his alter ego takes over, he begins living his dreams in real life.

11 guest stars
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The Final Tribute
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The Final Tribute

Nov 16, 195530m1 votes
Director: Andrew L. Stone

A nurse in a small-town doctor's office protests the attitude of the new young physician. His cold, impersonal treatment of patients is exactly opposite that of the kindly and gentle elderly doctor he will someday replace.

5 guest stars
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The Brush Roper
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The Brush Roper

Nov 23, 195530m1 votes
Director: Stuart Heisler

Grandpa Atkins tries to live up to his tales of former glory as a cowpoke. He learns a dangerous bull is at large in the brush, saddles up, and goes after him with his rope.

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Tom and Jerry
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Tom and Jerry

Nov 30, 195530m1 votes
Director: Leo McCarey

It's Christmas Eve at the Macy house. Tom Macy plays Santa for he and wife Jerry's little boy, Tommy. It is obvious that Jerry is not happy with her husband Tom. Jerry knows Tom has a woman on the side named Lola. Their dear friends, Father O'Dowd and attorney Mr. Garrity coax Tom and Jerry into seeing sense and save the couple's marriage.

1 guest star
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Rookie of the Year
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Rookie of the Year

Dec 7, 195530m1 votes
Director: John Ford

A small-town newspaper sports writer harbors an ambition to work for a big city daily. He sees his chance to achieve his goal while attending the World Series: one of the rookies shows a style reminiscent of a former all-time great banned from baseball for accepting a bribe.

7 guest stars
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Lincoln's Doctor's Dog
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Lincoln's Doctor's Dog

Dec 14, 195530m1 votes
Director: H. C. Potter

Discouraged and saddened by the War Between the States, President Lincoln is cheered by the gift of a puppy from his physician.

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The Silent Partner
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The Silent Partner

Dec 21, 195530m2 votes
Director: George Marshall

Watching the TV broadcast of the Academy Awards presentation, a faded actress realizes that the patron at another table in the restaurant was once a well-known comic. Her happy discovery is marred, however, by a man who calls both of them has-beens.

11 guest stars
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Titanic Incident
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Titanic Incident

Dec 28, 195530m2 votes
Director: Ted Tetzlaff

A cardsharp and his wife aboard the Titanic on its fateful last voyage pick a wealthy Britisher as their pigeon. The cardsharp sets up the Britisher for a climactic card session, but the tables seem to turn as the ship goes down.

5 guest stars
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Hot Cargo
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Hot Cargo

Jan 4, 195630m2 votes
Director: Tay Garnett

A chorus girl, stranded in a waterfront town in the Orient, is befriended by the skipper of a freighter. She marries the skipper and then meets a good-looking young harbor policeman who falls in love with her.

6 guest stars
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It's Always Sunday
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It's Always Sunday

Jan 11, 195630m2 votes

A kindly minister who believes in doing good for the unfortunate befriends a pair of itinerants who arrive in town.

6 guest stars
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Number Five Checked Out
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Number Five Checked Out

Jan 18, 195630m2 votes
Director: Ida Lupino

A young deaf woman is left alone to look after the resort cabins owned by her father. Two dangerous bank robbers move in, using the secluded spot as a temporary hideout.

4 guest stars
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Prima Donna
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Prima Donna

Feb 1, 195630m2 votes
Director: David Butler

A philanthropic concert artist takes an interest in a 13-year-old newsboy with an outstanding singing voice. She runs into difficulties when the boy also shows a marked preference for baseball.

7 guest stars
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Cry Justice
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Cry Justice

Feb 15, 195630m3 votes
Director: George Sherman

Bitter because his law partner married the woman he loved, a man plots his own disappearance, making it appear he has been murdered by his partner. Ten years later, the partner is released from prison and seeks revenge.

7 guest stars
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Affair in Sumatra
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Affair in Sumatra

Feb 22, 195630m2 votes
Director: Byron Haskin

A beautiful half-caste girl is torn between love for her people and love for a man.

3 guest stars
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One Against Many
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One Against Many

Mar 7, 195630m2 votes
Director: William Dieterle

A scientist devoted to saving lives is faced with a difficult decision: he may be forced to kill in order to prevent a state-wide livestock epidemic.

12 guest stars
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It's a Most Unusual Day
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It's a Most Unusual Day

Mar 14, 195630m2 votes
Director: Claude Binyon

A married couple take in a night club show starring Jimmy McHugh, and are prompted by his melodies to relive their past.

13 guest stars
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The Sword Of Villon
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The Sword Of Villon

Apr 4, 195630m2 votes

The swashbuckling poet Francois Villon fights for love and liberty while preventing the assassination of the King of France by a scheming count and countess.

6 guest stars
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Markheim
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Markheim

Apr 11, 195630m2 votes
Director: Fred Zinnemann

Late on Christmas Day, a man coaxes an antiques shopkeeper to let him in under the pretense of needing a gift for his fiancée, but it is soon clear he wants something else. To his surprise, what he gets is a battle with his own conscience.

4 guest stars
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Claire
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Claire

Apr 25, 195630m1 votes
Director: Frank Tuttle

A young doctor brings his second wife to his lakeside home to live. She is taunted by the presence of his pet cat, which serves to remind her that because she couldn't swim, she stood helplessly by while the first wife drowned.

1 guest star
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A Ticket For Thaddeus

A Ticket For Thaddeus

May 9, 195630m0 votes

A humble refugee from war-torn Poland has never been able to shed his fear of anyone in uniform. When the immigrant is involved in a minor traffic altercation, he tries to prove to the police he was at fault even though he wasn't.

5 guest stars
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The Dream
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The Dream

May 16, 195630m1 votes
Director: Hugo Haas

In France in 1887 an impressionable youth gives his mother cause for alarm. The young man has a recurrent dream in which he searches for his dead father. The mother is further upset when the boy tells her of meeting a baron who offers to take him aboard ship for a journey to the West Indies.

3 guest stars
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What Day is it?

What Day is it?

Jun 6, 195630m0 votes

A husband and wife dance team bicker backstage when the husband can't remember what special date his wife is observing. Between song and dance numbers, the arguments escalate until a singing telegram arrives. Music by Leon Klatzkin. Songs: Yankee doodle boy, Mary's a grand old name by George M. Cohan; When you're a clown by Jeff Bailey, Jack Latimer; arrangements by Walter Sheets, Russell Garcia

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Every Man Had Two Wives

Every Man Had Two Wives

Jun 13, 195630m0 votes
Director: Lewis Allen

In the spring, when one gentleman's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of a former love, his wife decides to take drastic action. She and hubby make a trip back to the old home town, determined to come face to face with his childhood sweetheart.

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Partners

Partners

Jul 4, 195630m0 votes
Director: Tay Garnett

A rodeo star befriends an orphan boy who yearns to compete.

2 guest stars
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White Corridors

White Corridors

Jul 11, 195630m0 votes
Director: Ted Post

An American tourist in London accompanies a friend to the hospital for an emergency operation. At the hospital, she claims she has witnessed a murder, but the doctors think she is imagining things.

4 guest stars
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The Carroll Formula

The Carroll Formula

Jul 18, 195630m0 votes
Director: Tay Garnett

A college professor stumbled across a fantastic formula for reducing the size of things in the unpublished mathematical works of C.L. Dodgson, who, as Lewis Carroll, wrote Alice in Wonderland.

3 guest stars
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Apples on the Lilac Tree

Apples on the Lilac Tree

Jul 25, 195630m0 votes
Director: John Rich

A couple's peculiar marital arrangement is the talk of the town. It seems that the husband loves to do the housework, while his wife spends the day at the office.

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Bitter Waters

Bitter Waters

Aug 1, 195630m0 votes
Director: John Brahm

In a fashionable German resort at the turn of the century, a wealthy young American touring Europe with his uncle meets a woman and her widowed mother. A romance develops between the young couple, until the society matron mother brings her own past to bear on their relationship.

5 guest stars
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The Day I met Caruso

The Day I met Caruso

Sep 5, 195630m0 votes

On a train between Boston and New York, a ten-year-old Quaker girl meets Enrico Caruso. She takes him to task for his worldliness and extravagances, but is eventually won over by his voice, as he sings arias from Aida, La Boheme, Tosca, and Pagliacci, as well as the World War I tune ""Over There.""

3 guest stars
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High Air

High Air

Sep 12, 195630m0 votes

Long separated, a river-tunnel foreman and his son come face to face during an under-river disaster which almost takes their lives.

6 guest stars
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