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Season 1

  • S01E01 People Need People

    • October 10, 1961
    • ABC (US)

    Dr. Harry Wilmer has just 10 days to prove that his radical method of treating violent war veterans will work.

  • S01E02 The Fugitive Eye

    • October 17, 1961
    • ABC (US)

    Paul Malone wakes up in a forest to find an empty limousine, a dead chauffeur and three unsavory characters staring at him.

  • S01E03 The Fortress

    • October 24, 1961
    • ABC (US)

    Shotdown during the Korean War, Lt. Brown is held captive in a basement where the light is never turned off. His captors will not treat his mangled leg unless he signs a confession.

  • S01E04 The Girl With a Glow

    • October 31, 1961
    • ABC (US)

  • S01E05 Family Outting

    • November 14, 1961
    • ABC (US)

  • S01E06 The Witch Next Door

    • November 28, 1961
    • ABC (US)

  • S01E07 The Breaking Point

    • December 5, 1961
    • ABC (US)

  • S01E08 Delbert, Texas

    • December 12, 1961
    • ABC (US)

  • S01E09 End of a World

    • December 19, 1961
    • ABC (US)

    The events leading up to the Sarajevo Assassination in 1914 of Archduke Ferdinand which triggered World War I are seen through the eyes of three men.

  • S01E10 The Cake Baker

    • December 26, 1961
    • ABC (US)

    A housewife is always daydreaming even on the night her young daughter runs away from home.

  • S01E11 Pattern of Guilt

    • January 9, 1962
    • ABC (US)

    A reporter covers a series of murders all against perpetrated spinsters.

  • S01E12 The Hour of the Bath

    • January 16, 1962
    • ABC (US)

    American agricultural expert Henry Detweiler is a prisoner of Vietnam under sentence of death.

  • S01E13 The Jail

    • February 6, 1962
    • ABC (US)

    In this future time a young man was charged with an offense against the state and marshaled into a huge building crammed with banks and banks of computers. These computers would absorb and assess the evidence, circumstances and facts in his case. All of them were operated by one master button-puncher.

  • S01E14 Mr. Easy

    • February 13, 1962
    • ABC (US)

    Andrew Whitbeck is bored of his successful business and decides to chuck it all and "enjoy himself".

  • S01E15 The Man With A Shine On His Shoes

    • February 20, 1962
    • ABC (US)

    An elderly drifter decides to get work on the town newspaper because he thinks he is the greatest typesetter in the world.

  • S01E16 The Doctor

    • February 27, 1962
    • ABC (US)

  • S01E17 Of This Time, Of This Place

    • March 6, 1962
    • ABC (US)

    The story of Joseph Howe, an English professor at Channing University whose new job is made difficult by a brilliant, uncompromising student.

  • S01E18 Second Chance

    • March 13, 1962
    • ABC (US)

    One-time bronc-rider Hoby Dunlap has served his sentence for defecting during the Korean War. But when he tries to return to the rodeo circuit, he finds that his reputation has preceded him.

  • S01E19 The Tiger

    • March 20, 1962
    • ABC (US)

  • S01E20 Seven Against the Sea

    • April 3, 1962
    • ABC (US)

    A US Navy sailor must deal with the hardships of World War II - his name is Quinton McHale.

  • S01E21 A Very Custom Special

    • April 10, 1962
    • ABC (US)

  • S01E22 All My Clients Are Innocent

    • April 17, 1962
    • ABC (US)

  • S01E23 Rules of the Game

    • May 1, 1962
    • ABC (US)

    Years ago, a newspaper editor helped to send Owen Miller to the electric chair and now he learns that Miller was innocent.

  • S01E24 Cry Out in Silence

    • May 15, 1962
    • ABC (US)

  • S01E25 A Place To Hide

    • May 22, 1962
    • ABC (US)

  • S01E26 The Boy Who Wasn't Wanted

    • June 5, 1962
    • ABC (US)

  • S01E27 It Takes a Thief

    • June 19, 1962
    • ABC (US)

  • S01E28 The Time of the Tonsils

    • June 26, 1962
    • ABC (US)

Season 2

  • S02E01 Flashing Spikes

    • October 4, 1962
    • ABC (US)

    An old ballplayer, thrown out of baseball due to a bribery scandal, becomes friends with a young phenom. The younger player is at first tainted by his association with the old-timer, but eventually the truth about the scandal is revealed.

  • S02E02 Guest in the House

    • October 11, 1962
    • ABC (US)

    Fascinating and original story of a war hero turned grifter (Astaire) who returns to an air force buddy's life and helps his family through a crisis.

  • S02E03 Seven Against the Sea

    • October 18, 1962
    • ABC (US)

    A dramatic tale of PT Captain and his crew.World War Two drama about a resourceful group of stranded American PT boat crewmen hiding out on a South Pacific island controlled by the Japanese Navy.

  • S02E04 The Voice of Charlie Pont

    • October 25, 1962
    • ABC (US)

  • S02E05 Mr. Lucifer

    • November 1, 1962
    • ABC (US)

    The Devil Himself (Astaire) is a hard-bitten businessman with a group of somewhat bumbling yes-men on staff and a curvy assistant in the person of Elizabeth Montgomery (no Gwen Verdon, but fairly amusing, all the same). Together they use their best temptations in an attempt to thwart the honesty and decency of a young suburban couple (Aletter and Bulifant).

  • S02E06 The Masked Marine

    • November 8, 1962
    • ABC (US)

    A marine sergeant decides to teach his difficult private a lesson in humility.

  • S02E07 Ordeal in Darkness

    • November 15, 1962
    • ABC (US)

  • S02E08 Whatever Happened to Miss Illinois

    • November 22, 1962
    • ABC (US)

    A reporter asks that question about Miss Illinois and other losers of national contests.

  • S02E09 The Hands of Danofrio

    • November 29, 1962
    • ABC (US)

  • S02E10 The Contenders

    • December 6, 1962
    • ABC (US)

    Three unprincipled actresses vie for the best-performance award at a film festival.

  • S02E11 The Long Walk Home

    • December 13, 1962
    • ABC (US)

  • S02E12 The Potentate

    • December 20, 1962
    • ABC (US)

    Disquieting is the word for Stefan Tamarov's first visit to New York City. As Minister of Economics and Foreign Trade for a Communist satellite country, Tamarov has no trouble with his official duties; it's the "little" things that bother him. His daughter Svezda is seeing an American reporter much too often, and his best friend Andreas Vrim, his country's UN delegate, has confided a few thoughts to Stefan that could be interpreted as treason.

  • S02E13 Blues For A Hanging

    • December 27, 1962
    • ABC (US)

    Ted Miller (Astaire), a down-on-his-luck musician, was in a drunken fight last night, and begins to think he could have murdered a man. His loving girlfriend Connie (Paige) refuses to believe this and together they piece together what really transpired.

  • S02E14 Impact of an Execution

    • January 3, 1963
    • ABC (US)

    A doctor tries to convince a mother to approve a life saving operation for her boy while his daughter's murderer is due to be executed. A judge tries to convince the doctor to petition the Governor to halt the execution.

  • S02E15 Lollipop Louie

    • January 10, 1963
    • ABC (US)

  • S02E16 The Glass Palace

    • January 17, 1963
    • ABC (US)

    There's trouble afoot when ice skater Vince Gallard (Ricardo Montalban) begins to slip: a coming ice show depends on him.

  • S02E17 Five, Six, Pick Up Sticks

    • January 24, 1963
    • ABC (US)

    After several years in Europe, a temperamental jazz drummer returns to the U.S.

  • S02E18 George Gobel Presents

    • January 31, 1963
    • ABC (US)

    This was an unsold pilot that appeared on Alcoa Premiere.

  • S02E19 The Hat of Sergeant Martin

    • February 7, 1963
    • ABC (US)

  • S02E20 Blow High, Blow Clear

    • February 14, 1963
    • ABC (US)

  • S02E21 Chain Reaction

    • February 21, 1963
    • ABC (US)

  • S02E22 Hornblower

    • February 28, 1963
    • ABC (US)

  • S02E23 The Dark Labyrinth

    • March 7, 1963
    • ABC (US)

    Despite an earthquake hazard, five tourists insist on visiting a famous labyrinth in Crete.

  • S02E24 Jeeney Ray

    • March 14, 1963
    • ABC (US)

    When her grandmother dies, timid Jeeney Ray (Brenda Scott) must move in with her hostile brother and sister-in-law.

  • S02E25 The Best Years

    • March 21, 1963
    • ABC (US)

  • S02E26 Of Struggle and Flight

    • March 28, 1963
    • ABC (US)

    Karen Evans (Janice Rule) seems normal enough to her husband, but now, for the second time, the Missing Persons Bureau has been sent searching for her, and this time her clothes have washed up on the beach.

  • S02E27 The Broken Year

    • April 4, 1963
    • ABC (US)

    Eric and Hilary's romance becomes filled with hatred and bitterness when she blames herself for his crippling accident.

  • S02E28 This Will Kill You

    • April 11, 1963
    • ABC (US)

  • S02E29 Million Dollar Hospital

    • April 18, 1963
    • ABC (US)

    A run-down hospital offers a very lucrative offer for a new doctor.

  • S02E30 The Town That Died

    • April 25, 1963
    • ABC (US)

    Successful businessman Adam returns to an island where he used to live and finds it barren and poverty-stricken. The major industry, a cannery that he and his brother Will owned, had been forced out of business due to a strike in which Will was killed. Now the remaining inhabitants want to kill Adam, but he convinces them that if they work together they can rebuild the island.