Season 3

1950–1951

Sep 10, 1950 · 60m

Van Dorn is getting the hard sell from businessmen wanting to buy his mountain, High Tor, for commercial use. When the group becomes trapped by a landslide, Van Dorn goes for help and encounters a Dutchwoman who's been haunting the mountain for two centuries.

E2. The Long Run

Sep 17, 1950 · 60m

E3. Dear Guest and Ghost

Sep 24, 1950 · 60m

A mother receives help with her troublesome kids from a friendly ghost.

E4. The Touch of a Stranger

Oct 1, 1950 · 60m

A scientist's life has been destroyed by another man's greed and takes out his anger on three innocent strangers, implicating them in his own death.

E5. The Vine That Grew on Fiftieth Street

Oct 8, 1950 · 60m

Seeds planted in a New York City backyard grow into a magical plant that brings happiness to those living near it. Formerly unpleasant neighbors turn into caring, warm-hearted individuals.

E6. A Husband for Mama

Oct 15, 1950 · 60m

The three children of a widowed woman scheme to get their mother a new husband, setting their sites on a middle-aged doctor.

E7. Portrait in Smoke

Oct 22, 1950 · 60m

A debt collector searches for the woman who saved him from an armed holdup; he wants her to have a $1000 reward. As he talks with those who knew her, he learns that she was a siren with a couple of murders to her credit.

E8. The Gambler

Oct 29, 1950 · 60m

A scathing denunciation of gambling and feudal aristocrats of the 19th Century, this story relates how Philip, a young medical student, bargains away his career for the unsure success of high gambling stakes. His caution turns to uncontrollable greed when he learns that money can buy women and quick fame. His destiny is bound to Theresa's, a beautiful young woman who has been mortgaged in marriage for her stepfather's debt, and to her wealthy grandmother's, who chooses to gamble away her fortune so there will be no inheritors.

E9. The Power Devil

Nov 5, 1950 · 60m

A young attorney involves himself in many shady deals as he pursues political ambitions. His wife speaks up and demands he clean up his act. The threat of disbarment also contributes to his final decision.

E10. The Man Who Got Away With It

Nov 12, 1950 · 60m

E11. I'm Still Alive

Nov 19, 1950 · 60m

A mousy teacher at a small school had written a swashbuckling story filled with international spies and adventure. Unbeknownst to him, the story is sold to a newspaper as a true account of his life. Suddenly, femme fatales and real gangsters are paying him visits.

E12. Torch for a Dark Journey

Nov 26, 1950 · 60m

A Czech scientist escapes from Prague with the aid of an American industrialist, who wants to hire him for his personal benefit. The scientist is followed by a former student, now a fanatic Communist, who insists that the scientist must return to his own country to work for the People's Republic. The scientist must decide whether to return or abandon his countrymen and accept personal freedom in America.

E13. Wacky, the Small Boy

Dec 3, 1950 · 60m

E14. Bonanza

Dec 10, 1950 · 60m

The residents of a Western ghost town won't admit that their gold rush "boom town" days ended long ago.

A tutor hired to instruct an uncontrollable 10-year-old soon recognizes the child's problem: it's his parents. The boy has had never received any affection from his negligent mother and father.

E17. Leaf out of a Book

Dec 31, 1950 · 60m

E18. The Symbol: Jefferson Davis

Jan 7, 1951 · 60m

Three decades in the life of the Confederate president are covered by three women: each of his two wives, and his daughter.

E19. The Lost Diplomat

Jan 14, 1951 · 60m

E20. Confession

Jan 21, 1951 · 60m

The final confession of the highest degree. A compelling story, told by the eyes of the beholder.

E21. The Great Escape

Jan 28, 1951 · 60m

The story of the biggest POW-camp escape of World War II.

E22. A Matter of Life and Death

Feb 4, 1951 · 60m

E23. Kitty Doone

Feb 11, 1951 · 60m

A faded movie star schemes to keep her career at all costs.

E24. Let Them Be Sea Captains

Feb 18, 1951 · 60m

Horace Greeley, volatile editor of The New York tribune, and Margaret Fuller, the mid-19th century feminist and first woman employed on the newspaper's staff.

E25. The Man Who Bought a Town

Feb 25, 1951 · 60m

A butcher purchases the town he calls home to preserve its quiet lifestyle.

E26. No Medals on Pop

Mar 11, 1951 · 60m

A young boy believes his father deserves a medal for being in the war and is heartbroken when he finds out the truth and how his father disgraced the family.

E27. The Dark Corridor

Mar 18, 1951 · 60m

The story of the Marr family which is made up of a dominant mother who bates everyone, the vacillating son, his wife, and the blind son. Then a new maid arrives, a maid who has served a term in prison as an accessory to a murder.

E28. Bulletin 120

Mar 25, 1951 · 60m

In Mississippi in 1915, Dr. Joseph Goldberger works with a test group of convicts and discovers that pellagra is caused by a dietary deficiency and not infection.

E29. Parnassus on Wheels

Apr 1, 1951 · 60m

In 1900's New England, Helen McGuill buys a horse-drawn, traveling bookstore, "Parnassus," from its owner, Roger McGuill. Roger travels with Helen in the beginning of her book-selling odyssey, and out of that comes adventure and romance.

E30. Routine Assignment

Apr 8, 1951 · 60m

A reporter gets a confession of robbery from a man only to have the man then deny his guilt in a complex twist of events.