Season 4

E1. Trial by Fire

Sep 5, 1957 · 60m

A forest fire spreads with fury, threatens a town with destruction, and brands a boy a murderer.

E2. The Secret of the Red Room

Sep 12, 1957 · 60m

The technical notes say that this television drama was in black and white. But I remember its being broadcast in color, one of the very few broadcasts in color at that time. I remember because my father was trying out, on loan, a new color television set, and we saw this broadcast as a test of the color quality of the broadcast and of the set. The quality was good for this broadcast, as I recall, but not for all broadcasts.

E3. Necessary Evil

Sep 19, 1957 · 60m

When a man with the reputation of a fast gun turns up in a small New Mexico community, the townspeople, including the man's son, want no part of him. Then two brothers who have vowed revenge on the gunfighter ride into town.

E4. Along Came a Spider

Sep 26, 1957 · 60m

As she's leaving to meet her daughter at the airport, a psychoanalyst receives a phone call from one of her patients, who tells her he's just killed a man. When the two women return home the patient, who is waiting for them, pulls a gun, forces the daughter into a room, and locks the door.

E5. Jacob and the Angels

Oct 3, 1957 · 60m

A criminal lawyer makes a desperate gamble to defend a boy charged with murder. Risking his career, his love, even his health, he faces an even greater terror when he finds his own guilty conscience is on trial.

E6. Mask for the Devil

Oct 10, 1957 · 60m

Tom Gardener invites the invalid widow of a man he accidentally killed to live with himself and his wife, unaware that her facade of sweetness and gentleness conceals a scheme to destroy his marriage.

E7. The Largest City in Captivity

Oct 17, 1957 · 60m

An American newspaperman in West Berlin and an East German freedom fighter in the anti-Soviet underground are in love with the same woman, in whose apartment the freedom fighter takes refuge after being wounded.

E8. Tunnel of Fear

Oct 24, 1957 · 60m

Drama about the men who struggle to move rivers and dig tunnels.

E9. Keep Me in Mind

Nov 7, 1957 · 60m

Publicity hungry, Las Vegas lounge singer, Mike Owens stages a hoax publicity stunt making the local police and his entourage furious with him, especially his press agent. And like the little boy who cried wolf, he discovers when he actually can identify a cop-killer, the cops and the newspapers and his press agent don't believe him. But the killer knows he isn't lying and determines to kill him next.

E10. Two Tests on Tuesday

Nov 14, 1957 · 60m

A college professor tries to help an ex-GI with a history of mental illness whose anxiety over low grades caused him to cheat on his final exam.

E11. A Matter of Life and Death

Nov 21, 1957 · 60m

A man wakes up with a hangover one morning believing he is responsible for a murder. All he can remember is standing over a body holding a broken bottle in his hand. The girl in love with him is convinced he is innocent and helps him try to prove

E12. Murder Has a Deadline

Nov 28, 1957 · 60m

A ruthless gossip columnist who's been receiving threatening letters asks for police protection and then, in a panic attack, barricades himself in his apartment.

E13. The Devil's Brood

Dec 5, 1957 · 60m

Two fugitives, hoping for a life of ease and respectability, leave for Australia to buy a sheep ranch, not knowing they're being followed by a blackmailer.

E14. Hurricane Diane

Dec 12, 1957 · 60m

Among the people seeking shelter from a flood at a rundown Southern hotel are a man accused of murder, the deputy sheriff to whom he's handcuffed, a compassionate young social worker, a preacher, and the hotel owner's disturbed wife who claims she's a countess.

E15. To Walk the Night

Dec 19, 1957 · 60m

On a snowy Christmas eve, police detective Ed Brooks hopes to be able to get away early. But a call comes in that a prowler, who has murdered several women, has struck again.

E16. Shadow of a Memory

Dec 26, 1957 · 60m

A woman returns to the cottage owned by her late husband and tries to settle in, but a body is discovered in the living room and she is accused of murder.

E17. Scream in Silence

Jan 2, 1958 · 60m

Medical student tries to help depressed neighbor.

E18. Thieves of Tokyo

Jan 16, 1958 · 60m

While on the trail of a black-market ring in Tokyo, an undercover man runs across a murder. During the investigation he begins to date a pretty Japanese dancer, which upsets his American girlfriend.

E19. Sound of the Moon

Jan 23, 1958 · 60m

Facing a personal crisis on a coast-to-coast flight, an airline hostess appeals for help to a doctor on the plane, but he claims he's too busy to see her.

E20. Burst of Fire

Jan 30, 1958 · 60m

A singer orders a copy made of an antique cross for an old friend of hers, a priest. While she is in the jewelry store to pick up the cross, the store is held up by a masked gunman who steals the cross and makes his escape. The thief resembles the priest's brother. Then the third brother, a policeman, is assigned to investigate the case.

E21. Four Hours in White

Feb 6, 1958 · 60m

Trapped in a crossfire of human emotions, a hospital chief surgeon fights his own conscience to decide the fate of two men. He must weigh the possible sacrifice of one life for another. Drawing on years of experience, he defies the pressures of time and personal fear to face one crucial moment of judgment.

E22. The Secret Love of Johnny Spain

Feb 20, 1958 · 60m

Four days before his movie is to be released, singing idol Johnny Spain is killed in an airplane crash. His press agent decides he must dig up some publicity to make the up-coming movie pay-off. He pressures Julie, a young starlet, to pose as Spain's secret love.

E23. Albert Anastasia, His Life and Death

Feb 27, 1958 · 60m

The story of Murder Inc. and the 1957 barber shop rub-out of mob czar Albert Anastasia. Anastasia had an appeal that belied his reputation for brutality and impetuosity. He had a sense of confidence and presence, and because he was so sure of himself he was at ease with other people.

E24. The Thief With the Big Blue Eyes

Mar 6, 1958 · 60m

In Rome, an American actor and his wife come upon an Italian street urchin who appoints himself their guardian angel and after awhile begins trying to cajole them into adopting him permanently.

E25. So Deadly My Love

Mar 13, 1958 · 60m

While on a date with her boyfriend a woman runs into her erratic estranged husband. Later that night two ruffians beat up the boyfriend and kidnap the woman.

E26. The Great World and Timothy Colt

Mar 27, 1958 · 60m

A large Manhattan law firm hires the tireless dedicated Timothy Colt, the young lawyer. As he rises in the firm the opportunity to see the conflict between ethics and ambition are upon him. His disillusionment and the constant dishonesty shakes him to his foundations of belief against the bitter cynical conquest of his new great world.

E27. On the Take

Apr 3, 1958 · 60m

In trying to clean up the local bookmakers, the Washington, D.C. Police department becomes convinced that members of the force are accepting payoff money. Lt. Todd Thoman is assigned the task of discovering the crooked cops.

E28. The Volcano Seat

Apr 10, 1958 · 60m

This true story involving the crew of an in-air refueling operation for Air Force bombers who take a training team on a dangerous mission. RAF Flight Lieutenant MacKenzie Barton is assigned to an American Air Force base as a result of an exchange of pilots between the RAF and the U.S. Air Force. Barton receives orders to pilot an Air Force tanker--a plane which is capable of refueling jet bombers in mid-air. But in trying to gain the confidence of the American crew members, Barton encounters only resentment. The story is based on an actual experience.

E29. Shooting for the Moon

Apr 24, 1958 · 60m

Engineer Frank Colby and his staff have developed a nose cone capable of launching into outer space.

E30. The Deadly Tattoo

May 1, 1958 · 60m

A detective is assigned to investigate a series of murders in which the killer left a heart-shaped tattoo on each of his victims.