Season 3

1956–1957

Sep 6, 1956 · 60m

An English vicar believes in the innocence of an artist, thought by everyone to be the murderer of a missing farmer. With the help of the murdered man's wife, he solves the mystery and unmasks the real killer.

E2. Burst of Violence

Sep 13, 1956 · 60m

A Texas rancher whose opposition to slavery led him to fight for the Union in the Civil War returns home to find himself despised for betraying the South even by his family.

E3. The Garsten Case

Sep 20, 1956 · 60m

Two nuclear scientists, married to each other, are working on a top-secret experiment when the woman is accidentally exposed to atomic radiation. With only a week to live, she and her husband decide to perform a series of usually fatal experiments in the name of science, with her as the subject.

E4. The Fog

Sep 27, 1956 · 60m

A strange, poisonous fog envelops a small town. In the struggle against death in the mysterious fog, several people re-evaluate their lives and those of others close to them.

E5. Island in the City

Oct 4, 1956 · 60m

A Puerto Rican detective in the big city tries to keep a youngster from getting into trouble, but is suspended from the force for alleged brutality to the boy.

E6. Journey Into Fear

Oct 11, 1956 · 60m

A munitions expert goes on an arms smuggling mission to Istanbul and becomes a target for Nazi agents.

E7. The Midas Touch

Oct 18, 1956 · 60m

The owner of a mine comes to a small South American town to investigate the cave-in, which caused his brother's death. But the townspeople refuse to co-operate.

E8. Night of the Heat Wave

Oct 25, 1956 · 60m

After serving a six-year sentence for jewel robbery, a man is released from prison. He and his wife are threatened by characters from the underworld who believe the ex-convict knows where a missing $150,000 star-brilliant is hidden.

E9. Flight to Tomorrow

Nov 8, 1956 · 60m

A co-owner of a small charter service plans to fake a plane crash in order to steal a casino's cash.

E10. Night Shriek

Nov 15, 1956 · 60m

The young bride of a Jamaica plantation owner is frightened by her husband's violent outbursts of rage. She begins to believe the rumors that he was responsible for the death of his first wife, whose body was never found

E11. The Chinese Game

Nov 22, 1956 · 60m

A newspaper columnist buys an unusual Chinese game at a curio shop. As he plays this game, he sees himself murdering his wife for another woman.

E12. The Secret Thread

Nov 29, 1956 · 60m

On a visit to his childhood home, a man discovers a cache of stolen goods in the attic. He is injured by falling crates, and, unable to leave, finds himself at the mercy of the leader of the gang that stole the goods.

E13. Savage Portrait

Dec 6, 1956 · 60m

After the loss of his patron and the failure of his one-man show, an artist decides that the only way he can acquire money is to steal it.

E14. Strange Hostage

Dec 20, 1956 · 60m

The kidnapping of a retired doctor whom the criminals mistakenly believe to be wealthy is witnessed by a young boy whose story no one believes.

E15. Ten Minutes to Curfew

Dec 27, 1956 · 60m

A paroled convict and a hoodlum are both in love with the same girl. The hoodlum tries to provoke the ex-convict into a violation of his parole.

E16. Carnival at Midnight

Jan 3, 1957 · 60m

The elderly owner of a carnival is infatuated with the bareback rider he discovered. She rejects his love and his jealousy drives him to plot murder.

E17. The Gold Dress

Jan 17, 1957 · 60m

Richard leaves Louella, from a prominent family, to marry Jean. Louella vows vengeance even if it's from the grave.

E18. Circle of Destruction

Jan 24, 1957 · 60m

A ruthless convict breaks out of prison and intimidates his family into helping him stay free.

E19. The Trouble at Number 5

Jan 31, 1957 · 60m

A middle-aged woman takes a job as a wealthy old lady's housekeeper and, in an attempt to gain the security she longs for, plots to dispose of her employer.

E20. The Stalker

Feb 7, 1957 · 60m

A businessman who testifies against a gangster learns that the criminal is now out of jail.

E21. Stain of Honor

Feb 14, 1957 · 60m

The son of a former governor who was assassinated is himself running for the same office when the son of the killer, who was shot while trying to escape, arrives in town under an alias. The candidate confronts the newcomer and makes it clear he plans to use the assassination to further his own career.

E22. The Long Count

Feb 21, 1957 · 60m

After a cocky American boxer on a European tour is defeated by a French fighter, he is befriended by a beautiful cafe owner who tries to rouse him from the depression that threatens his career.

E23. And Don't Ever Come Back

Feb 28, 1957 · 60m

A man wrongly accused of murder is released from prison only after the guilty man confesses to the crime on his deathbed. A newspaper reporter seeks to learn if the townspeople will accept the ex-convict in their midst now that it has been proved he was innocent of the crime.

E24. Night of a Rebel

Mar 7, 1957 · 60m

A young boy is ashamed of his father's bootlegging activities. When the parents of his girlfriend refuse to let her see him, he decides to run away to the big city to become a success.

E25. Let It Be Me

Mar 21, 1957 · 60m

Corruption in the recording industry plays out just as the music plays in.

E26. Strange Sanctuary

Mar 28, 1957 · 60m

In the old southwest, a pair of bank robbers must ride out after killing a man. They intend on eventually getting far away, but one seeks to reunite with his daughter in a nearby convent. When he is wounded in a gunfight, they end up hiding out there, though the men from town are a mob out for their blood,sanctuary or not.

E27. Don't Touch Me

Apr 4, 1957 · 60m

A successful woman designer returns to her small home town in an attempt to ward off an emotional breakdown. She is still tormented by the memory of a murder she witnessed as a child.

E28. Mad Bomber

Apr 18, 1957 · 60m

Months after the arrest of New York's notorious mad bomber, new bomb threats terrorize the city. A detective begins a slow, painstaking effort to solve the case.

E29. Avalanche at Devil's Pass

Apr 25, 1957 · 60m

Among the passengers on a train trapped by an avalanche are a possessive woman, the irresponsible playboy she's been following, a man hunting for a drug addict, and a conductor awaiting news of the birth of his first child.

E30. Strange Deaths at Burnleigh

May 2, 1957 · 60m

At the turn of the century, Scotland Yard receives letters accusing a village doctor of killing some of his patients. The detective sent to investigate is opposed by the townspeople and the doctor's attractive young niece.