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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs

    • January 17, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    This episode is based on the true story of the "Shooting Sheriff", Jim Roberts, who comes out of retirement to investigate a string of bank robberies.

  • S01E02 Trouble on the Double

    • January 24, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    A soon-to-deliver woman needs a doctor, but a bad storm and a train wreck conspire to keep him away. The father improvises a solution.

  • S01E03 Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson

    • January 31, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    Author Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife search for a healthy environment as she battles tuberculosis.

  • S01E04 How Chance Made Lincoln President

    • February 7, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    This episode looks at five events which resulted in Abraham Lincoln's sucessful election.

  • S01E05 I'll Pick More Daisies

    • February 14, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    A middle-aged man, believing himself to be a failure, reviews three crucial moments from his past.

  • S01E06 Top Secret

    • February 21, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    Louie Meyer has his beloved bus declared state property by the East German police. This prompts his attempted escape from the country.

  • S01E07 A Matter of Life and Death

    • February 28, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    A young boy considers the tradition of old Southern feuds to be distasteful. As an adult and a brain surgeon, he performs a serious operation on the grandson of his childhood enemy.

  • S01E08 The End of Blackbeard the Pirate

    • March 7, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    The infamous Blackbeard the Pirate meets his demise at the hands of Lt. Robert Maynard in a 1718 battle off the coast of North Carolina.

  • S01E09 The American Master Counterfeiters

    • March 14, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    At the start of the twentieth century, detective William Burns helps the Secret Service find the counterfeiters of hundred-dollar bills that look just a little too good.

  • S01E10 America's First Great Lady

    • March 21, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    Pocahontas is the "great lady"in this story of the two men she loved: tobacco planter John Rolfe and Captain John Smith.

  • S01E11 The Manufactured Clue

    • March 28, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    A private eye uses some unusual techniques to track down a girl's murderer; he's hired to manufacture clues.

  • S01E12 Incident on the China Coast

    • April 4, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    A passenger plane on a flight from Bangkok to Hong Kong is shot down. The survivors fight for their lives while floating in the China Sea in a lifeboat. This episode is a dramatization of a true story.

  • S01E13 How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants

    • April 11, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    In 1911, gamblers kidnap New York Yankee's picher Charlie Faust, the man responsible for their winning streak, to keep him from playing.

  • S01E14 Honeymoon in Mexico

    • April 18, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    A Texas man and his bride from Boston celebrate their honeymoon by moving to a small Mexican to paint. Their effort to help an injured kid results in them becoming the child's parents. Before they know what's happened, they've become mother and father to ten orphaned children.

  • S01E15 The Great Armored Car Robbery

    • April 25, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    The man who master-minded a crime finds that "going straight" can be harmful to your health.

  • S01E16 A Million Dollar Story

    • May 2, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    This episode dramatizizes the true story of Captain Henrik Kurt Carlsen and “The Flying Enterprise.” In 1952, the freighter encountered rough seas out of England, causing the ship to list severely. With their lifeboats lost, the captain refuses to leave until all the passengers and crew have been rescued.

  • S01E17 Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts

    • May 9, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    The life of composer Stephen Foster is told, from his days as a bookkeeper though his early success and tragic death.

  • S01E18 France's Greatest Detective

    • May 16, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    Alphonse Bertillon revolutionized the French Police's investigations by implementing scientific methods. His measuring and studying of bones and body features is credited with convicting over seven thousand criminals. His institution of fingerprinting was even more successful at capturing criminals.

  • S01E19 Around the Horn to Matrimony

    • May 23, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    A man arranges for a boatload of women to travel from New York to the wild frontier town of Seattle. The purpose of the voyage was simple: women were needed for marriage.

  • S01E20 The Anatomy of a Graft

    • May 30, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    A naive attorney enters politics, intending to practice clean government. Unfortunately, others in positions of power do not share his idealism.

  • S01E21 Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror

    • June 6, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    Because he takes an interest in his passengers' lives, cabbie Joey White becomes involved in a maternity case and a kidnapping.

  • S01E22 Mr. Pak Takes Over

    • June 13, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    A native interpreter is assigned to an American officer during the Korean War.

  • S01E23 My First Bullfight

    • June 20, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    An American artist is drawing bullfighting posters in Mexico City. After a little too much tequiila, he feels he has what it takes to battle a bull.

  • S01E24 Comrade Lindemann's Conscience

    • June 27, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    The methods he's used to send innocent people to prison begins to bother an assistant state's attorney in Communist East Germany.

  • S01E25 Six Hours of Surgery

    • July 4, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    The personal problems in the lives of the surgeon and his assistants are revealed under the stress and strain of a delicate heart operation on a 16-year-old boy.

  • S01E26 The Baron and His Uranium Killing

    • July 11, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    A rich French baron and his wife are swindled out of money in an uranium scam.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Child Pioneer

    • October 17, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    Traveling westward in a covered wagon train, the parents of six children meet their death. Their 13-year-old son is now head of the family and leads his siblings on the rest of the journey.

  • S02E02 Old Master Detective

    • October 24, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    A Hollywood producer who's in need of cash is collecting insurance money on his forged collection of great artwork.

  • S02E03 The Archer-Shee Case

    • October 31, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    A 17-year-old cadet at the Royal Naval College is discharged for stealing in the dramatization of a famous British court case.

  • S02E04 The Brainwashing of John Hayes

    • November 7, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    The Communist Chinese government in Beijing arrests and imprisons American English teacher/Presbyterian missionary John Hayes, claiming he is a spy. They attempt to break his spirit through starvation, solitary confinement, and sleep deprivation. When facing the so-called court headed by a supposed friend, he warns that they too will be betrayed by the Communist leaders they're now serving.

  • S02E05 The Making of a Submarine

    • November 14, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    Young men wanting to serve in the U. S. Submarine Serivce endure a rigid program of training and discipline.

  • S02E06 The Voyage of Captain Tom Jones, Pirate

    • November 21, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    The true story of how a pirate forced the Pilgrims to land at Plymouth is dramatized.

  • S02E07 If I Were Rich

    • November 28, 1955
    • ABC (US)

  • S02E08 The Sad Death of a Hero

    • December 5, 1955
    • ABC (US)

  • S02E09 Emergency Case

    • December 12, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    The real life adventures of a young intern who spends a day working on a big city ambulance.

  • S02E10 When the Wise Men Appeared

    • December 19, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    A young boy, dressed as one of the Three Wise Men, is being taken to school for a Christmas pageant. When the car dies, he head out on foot. Singing "Come All Ye Faithful" and dressed in a robe and crown, he brings about some small miracles along the way.

  • S02E11 Ordeal at Yuba Gap

    • December 26, 1955
    • ABC (US)

    Based on actual events from December 1952, massive snowstorms trap the locomotive "City of San Francisco" and its passengers in the infamous Donner Pass.

  • S02E12 In the Eye of a Hurricane

    • January 2, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    A cargo vessel sets out from Florida, heading into the eye of a hurricane.

  • S02E13 Why the Choir Was Late

    • January 9, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    Each member of the choir of a small town Nebraska church were running late for practice. It proved a Divine case of multiple tardiness since the church was destroyed by a twister five minutes before practice time.

  • S02E14 The Man Who Beat Death

    • January 16, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    The true story of tennis star Billy Talbert's battle with diabetes is dramatized.

  • S02E15 A Bell for Okinawa

    • January 23, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    Dr. Van Scorebrand searches the world over for a bell that will bring faith and hope to the patients at a leprosy hospital in Okinawa.

  • S02E16 Cochise, Greatest of the Apaches

    • January 30, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    Former Civil War leader General Oliver Otis Howard is sent by President Grant to meet with the Chief of the Apaches, Cochise, and end a 12-year war.

  • S02E17 The Mystery of Minnie

    • February 6, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    A woman's bequest continues to benefit the residents of her hometown years after her death.

  • S02E18 Texas in New York

    • February 13, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    A new teacher gets her first job in New York City and finds a classroom full of thugs and hoodlums. She moves away to return 29 years later and finds that very little has changed.

  • S02E19 Return from Oblivion

    • February 20, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    A businessman begins to crack from the pressure of running his construction business. He becomes unjustifiably suspicious of his partner.

  • S02E20 The Case of the Uncertain Hand

    • February 27, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    A woman private detective, employed to defend a couple accused of grand larceny, tries to prove that the handwriting on a bank deposit slip is not that of the accused wife.

  • S02E21 Lost, Strayed, and Lonely

    • March 5, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    After an argument with his studious father, a sensitive 10-year-old boy feels unwanted and unloved and runs away from home.

  • S02E22 Night Court

    • March 12, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    A night court judge uses compassion in making decisions on the varied people who parade through his courtroom.

  • S02E23 No Horse, No Wife, No Mustache

    • March 19, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    A West Point enrollee faces punishment for breaking the one of the Academy's more important rules.

  • S02E24 The Trigger Finger Clue

    • March 26, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    The FBI is relentless in pursuing the robbers who committed a $250,000 heist.

  • S02E25 The Secret Weapon of Joe Smith

    • April 2, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    Joe Smith, a newspaper reporter hired to cover the United Nations, decides to work over a rude Russian delegate using kindness.

  • S02E26 Courage

    • April 9, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    A man protects a German-born shopkeeper from a crazed mob during the height of anti-German bigotry during World War I.

  • S02E27 The Woman Who Changed Her Mind

    • April 16, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    A movie producer marries a gorgeous but dumb showgirl. Their relationship runs into trouble when she belatedly decides to get an education.

  • S02E28 Uncle Sam's C Men

    • April 23, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    The work of the Department of Commerce's Office of International Trade Enforcement is profiled.

  • S02E29 Miss Victoria

    • April 30, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    A British woman acts heroically on a cargo ship during World War II.

  • S02E30 The Old, Old Story

    • May 7, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    Two teen-aged lovers announce their plans to marry and immediately face opposition from their parents.

  • S02E31 Britain's Most Baffling Murder

    • May 14, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    Despite having an air-tight alibi, William Wallace, a sheepish husband, is brought to trial for the murder of his shrewish wife. When Wallace's union is asked for financial help, they first stage a mock trial before deciding to back him. The real-life jury, however, is not so easily convinced.

  • S02E32 Down on the Tennessee

    • May 21, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    A young first mate on a Tennessee riverboat deals with an unweildly crew of oddballs and misfits.

  • S02E33 The Man Who Dreamt Winners

    • May 28, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    A Harvard grad student's dreams reveal the winning horses in upcoming races. He fights the overpowering urge to sell this skill for riches.

  • S02E34 The General's Escape

    • June 4, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    French General Henri Giraund plans a daring escape from a Nazi prision in this dramatization of a true story.

  • S02E35 The Gigantic Bank Note Swindle

    • June 11, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    A smooth-talking con man buys and operates the Bank of Portugal using five million dollars in counterfeit currency.

  • S02E36 Go Fight City Hall

    • June 18, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    A broken water pipe is the straw that breaks the camel's back for an New York taxpayer. He forms a citizens' committee and takes on corrupt officials in the local government.

  • S02E37 Family Reunion USA

    • June 25, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    A Greek janitor struggles to raise money so his family can join him in America. His co-workers at a U.S. Naval depot come to his aid.

  • S02E38 The Only Way Out

    • July 2, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    An painter being held as an East German political prisoner plans an escape from a Communist prision, and his guard chooses to flee with him.

  • S02E39 The Smuggler

    • July 9, 1956
    • ABC (US)

    An oriential drug ring demands a Norwegian sailor help smuggle opium into the United States.