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- A well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas.
- A pinnacle of the Golden Age of Television, "Studio One" presented a wide range of memorable dramas and received eighteen Emmy nominations and five wins during its prestigious nine-year run on CBS.
- Suspense/Anthology series based on an ABC radio series which ran from 1946-48. The half-hour series mostly consisted of original dramas concerning murder, mayhem or insanity. Series narrator Larry Semon was the only regular; each week a new set of actors were featured. The title of the series was derived from a clock which was major plot element in each story. The show's musical theme was "The Sands of Time."
- Live dramas based on stories by members of the Mystery Writers of America
- Made with the intention of being an on-air "adult education" course, each epsiode of this program was an in-depth look at some aspect of American and world culture. Some of the featured subjects included documentaries, dramas of classic literature pieces, stage preformances and panel discussions. Later in the series, the focus was shifted toward showing the work of various professions that supposedly made the world a better place.
- "Mr. District Attorney! Champion of the people! Guardian of our fundamental rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." The opening lines to a TV adaptation of a radio serial about a D.A., his investigator, and secretary.
- A man wandering around aimlessly encounters a helpful young woman who gives him food and love.
- Omnibus was a television program that sought to provide the best of what television could provide as the highest common denominator of intellectual curiosity and interest. This level of programing excellence has not been achieved again.
- Mr. Peepers is a shy science teacher at Jefferson Junior High. He is always faced with problems but is never outwitted.
- Mr. Peepers shows up for his first day of work at Jefferson High and has initially a difficult time. His classroom isn't ready and the other science teacher wants him gone. Music teacher Miss Dean is welcoming and Principal Gurney wants to give him a chance.
- Mr. Peepers agrees to give a speech on wildflowers for Mrs. Gurney at the same time Mr. Gurney needs him to play for a chess championship. Gym teacher Charlie develops a workout routine for Mr. Peepers but he gets stuck in a basketball hoop.
- Mr Peeper's gets his hand stuck in a fish while trying to retrieve his tie pin. His bad day continues when his first paycheck get blown into an air pipe and he has to crawl in it to get it back.
- The teaching staff pitches in on various custodial jobs when the janitor needs to be absent. Mr. Peepers is assigned to to run the striping machine which goes amok, leaving white stripes everywhere.
- An American anthology series, with a new episode and different actors and actresses each week. Hosted by Ronald Reagan, the series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.
- Walter Cronkite hosted the reenactments of historical events. Shows included "The Landing of the Hindenburg", "The Salem Witchcraft Trials", "The Gettysburg Address", "The Fall of Troy", and "The Scuttling of the Graf Spee".
- Stories taken from the files of various law-enforcement agencies, including city, county and state police, park rangers, military police, etc.
- In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
- A detective is assigned to track down a murderer and gets a surprise when he finds him.
- Based on actual cases from the San Francisco police files, Lieutenant Guthrie and Inspector Grebb work as a team to track down the criminals.
- "Inner Sanctum" was a hosted horror and mystery anthology series hosted by Paul McGrath, and later by House Jameson as "Your Host".
- Dramatic show based on cases tried by lawyers of the Legal Aid Society of New York City.
- A non-denominational Sunday morning religious show that covered issues from multiple perspectives.
- A drama series that ran every other week, attracted top notch actors and actresses, and was broadcast from New York City.
- A murder allows an innocent man to be executed for his crime rather than confess.
- A stage star's conniving understudy finds a plot which is a perfect set-up for carrying out scheme to further her own ambitions.
- Marshal Matt Dillon keeps the peace in rough-and-tumble Dodge City.
- Series of unrelated short stories covering elements of crime, horror, drama, and comedy about people of different backgrounds committing murders, suicides, thefts, and other sorts of crime caused by certain motivations, perceived or not.
- In this hit 1950s TV series, a millionaire indulges himself giving away $1 million apiece to persons he has never met.
- A weekly examination of the arts and literature, on Sunday mornings when there was more likely to be an audience interested in such matters and there was less competition for ratings.
- A young private investigator finds himself trapped by a web of circumstantial evidence and his name linked to that of a homicidal mugger. The tension mounts as he strives to clear himself.
- An anthology based (earlier more so than later) on the novels and stories of Zane Grey. Dick Powell was often the star, as well as the host.
- Of the many anthology series, this is considered the most ambitious with outstanding talent in front of the camera. Attracting top ranked directors and scripts, it was often filmed live including the entire first season.
- A new senior at a boy's prep school, finds himself harassed by the machismo culture of his classmates and the unfeelingly behavior by his father, only being treated with decency by his roommate and with affection by the coach's wife.
- 1955–196230mTV-147.2 (906)TV EpisodeDishonest Frank and Lorna Bramwell visit the home of wealthy, eccentric Monica Laughton, with the intention of robbing her.
- A senior executive is passed over for promotion in favor of a young upstart. The old man removes an award from the young man's office. He intends to return the award, but in a moment of panic the old man puts the award in a broom closet.
- A young woman insists that her mother give her a separate room in her boarding house, so she can enjoy some privacy.
- A 35-year-old ex-champion is goaded into the boxing ring by a sportscaster to fight the current champion.
- The adventures of a gentlemanly gunfighter-for-hire.
- A man about to retire from his job at a department store after 30 years of service plots to make off with $50,000 from the store's safe.
- Davey Harper is determined to goad Big Jim Morrison into a gunfight for killing his father 12 years earlier. Big Jim Morrison is determined not to pick up a gun.
- Carol Wesley, an actress, dips into her bank account to finance a Broadway play for the producer she loves.
- Peter Gunn is a private detective with a knack for finding trouble. His cases often mean he runs into the shadiest characters, most vicious thugs and the most powerful crime bosses. Cool and resourceful, he always gets the guilty party.
- The cases of the N.Y.P.D.'s 65th Precinct.
- Former combat cameraman Mike Kovac is now a freelance photographer in New York City, specializing in difficult and dangerous assignments where he can get the kinds of pictures that other photographers can't, or won't take. He sometimes gets help, often reluctantly, from his contact in the police department, Lt. Donovan, and advice from his immigrant father Anton.
- A man challenges a bigger guy to a duel with weapons after his lustful actions cause his wife to leave him for the other man.
- Paladin suspects his services may be wasted when he is hired to rein in a fiery female performer's violent, unladylike demeanor.
- A new husband takes over his elderly father's hardware store, with the husband running the store and the wife taking care of the father and a somewhat dotty aunt who lives upstairs. However, when the father catches his daughter-in-law in a passionate kiss with another man, she decides it's time to get rid of the old man before he blabs to her husband.
- Mike takes an assignment doing a story on a U.S. Air Force jet pilot. When the pilot doesn't return on schedule from a test flight, his fiancé is convinced he's died, and that it's her fault, so attempts suicide.
- Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
- "One Step Beyond" was a collection of tales about paranormal events, horrifying folklore, and the world of the unknown.
- Clay McCord is who often helped Chief Marshal Simon Fry in 1880's Arizona territory. McCord eventually becomes Fry's Chief Deputy assigned to Silver City. Fry and McCord are assisted by Sergeant Hapgood Tasker Army cavalry Sergeant.
- Captain Matt Holbrook leads a squad of brave and tough detectives in a large, unnamed city. Instead of leading personal lives, they spend all of their time tracking murderers, thieves, corrupt cops, con-men and other lawbreakers. Holbrook's squad always consisted of three detectives, and rarely were all four men on a case at the same time.
- Grey Holden wins a river boat in a poker game, which he then pilots, along with his crew, in various adventures along the Mississippi River. This action series is set in the nineteenth century.
- A short-lasting (but expensive) series derived from the writings of Ernest Hemingway.
- A woman called Esther has unsettling visions of buildings set alight by an arsonist and claims that her sister, whom she has not seen for many years, is responsible. She states that she is able to will her sister to come to town and a woman resembling Esther is seen at the station but disappears. Afterwards it is disclosed that the sister died many years ago in a fire.
- 1955–196230mTV-145.5 (515)TV EpisodeDavid Logan lives at home with his mother and he's still upset that his father left them many years before. He is haunted by an event when he was twelve years old and he came home to find his father with a blue-eyed blond. He tells his mother he has an appointment at 11:00 so he skips dinner and heads to a bar. There he meets a girl and repeats several times that something big is going to happen at 11:00. He gets into a fight with a sailor in the bar and tells him the same and then again with a patron in an Irish pub, now saying someone is going to die at the prescribed hour. When the 11 o'clock news come on the air, you learn the full story.
- Rivalry for the affections of a former saloon gal leads to a frame-up for murder.
- Paladin befriends a famed gunfighter. He tries to avoid a showdown, but there is no other way out.
- When a mayoral candidate is killed in an explosion, Paladin sees fit to remind the widow that her great state of Wyoming is the first to grant women suffrage.
- George Blake regrets having strayed from his wife, and terminates the affair just moments before the woman is murdered by another jealous man. Blake is the prime suspect, and works to clear his name and find the killer.
- Gunn is hired by the wife of a prominent lawyer who is convinced that her husband and his mistress are plotting to kill her. Complicating matters is the mistress's connection to a local mobster.
- Three different viewpoints of the same story - a kidnapping and its aftermath.
- Three beatniks terrorize the middle-aged manager of a supermarket.
- After an attempt on his life, Joel Connors flees to New York - pursued by the killers.
- Mildred Dunnock and four other actors read selections of poetry by Robert Frost.
- The program has only one segment: "Malice in Wonderland" (three-part drama satirizing Hollywood).
- Experience the complete series of the show that was hailed as the most frightening ever created for television--now available for the first time.
- Don Corey and Jed Sills operate Checkmate, Inc., a very high-priced detective agency in San Francisco. Helping them protect the lives of their clients is British criminologist (once an Oxford professor) Carl Hyatt.
- This American Roman Catholic religious-themed anthology sheds light on the contemporary search for meaning, freedom, and love.
- Zack and Sandy run a shoestring air charter business in remote East Indies. Their lives are turned upside down when the stunning Wilhelmina takes over the managing and the guys find themselves dealing with various scoundrels and adventurers.
- Two people are drawn to a remote town and to each other without explanation.
- Tom Todd is getting a surprise visit from his daughter who he hasn't in years. Zack and Sandy try to make things go smoothly.
- After the Glen City sheriff runs him out of town, boxing promoter Dan Muldoon convinces his old friend Grey Holden to host a prize fight on the Enterprise. When Grey Holden knocks out Muldoon's fighter, The Dublin Boy, by accident, he is forced to take the young man's place in the ring or he'll have to return the gate receipts to a boat-full of angry passengers. Meanwhile, a couple of thieves plan to steal all the money that has been wagered on the bout.
- Working in the New York area, Eliot Ness and his men are trying to trace an incoming shipment of narcotics. Some years before, mobster and nightclub owner Jack "Legs" Diamond spent time in Europe and he made a deal with a Greek crime family to buy $5 million worth of narcotics. Diamond is flamboyant and loves publicity but his partners, Lucky Luciano and Dutch Schultz, want him to lay low for a while and they send him off to his cabin in the Catskills. When Diamond learns that they have gone ahead with the drug deal without informing him, he assumes they're trying to cut him out of the deal and goes after the drugs himself.
- An aging Mafia chief, Joe Bucco, is being pushed out of the organization in favor of his younger rival. But Bucco doesn't intend to retire without a fight.
- Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro.
- A father and son lawyer duo take a variety of cases that often deal with the important issues of the day.
- Gritty realistic hospital drama featuring manly Dr. Casey against the medical establishment, at first, under the watchful eye of Dr. Zorba, and later under the thumb of Chief of Surgery Dr. Freeland.
- Manhattan's 87th precinct forms the backdrop for this grim and gritty police drama based on the long-running series of novels by Ed McBain. Storylines focus on neighborhood crime, and the lives of the officers of the 87th and their families: Steve Carella and his deaf/mute wife, Teddy; rookie Bert Kling; long-time veteran Roger Havilland and the wryly philosophical Meyer Meyer.
- Tony Ryder takes over his dead uncle's media empire while trying to keep quiet the mysterious circumstances of his death in a Palm Beach hotel room.
- An anthology weekly drama series.
- Captain Gus Hornochek and Sergeant Danny Keller are members of a special force dedicated to eliminating criminal elements. Taking place in an unnamed Midwestern city, the two officers report to Commissioner Matt Gower.
- For three seasons, NBC ran a series of special programs as a summer replacement. In 1961, the series ran on Tuesday night; 1962, on Friday and 1963 on Thursday.
- Detective Meyer feels responsible after a mistake in judgment enables a small-time hood to escape from his custody, particularly after the man is bitten during a holdup by a watchdog---who then is discovered to be infected with rabies.
- An ex-boxer in hock to a pair of loan sharks agrees to help them carry out a robbery in exchange for their erasing his debt to them.
- When a judge and friend of Dr. Hyatt receives telephone calls and letters threatening his life if a man he sent to death row is e executed, Checkmate investigates the guilty man and the judge's character.
- The Prestons are hired by a stage actress who wants full custody of her son, and does not even want to grant visitation rights to the boy's father. But she refuses to tell them the full reason why, although Kenneth suspects that the father may be suicidal.
- A woman whose outlaw husband, Lem Brown, was lynched outside their home returns to Silver City after an eight year absence. She accuses the townspeople of hanging her husband, while the town's citizens accuse her of hiding the loot from her husband's crimes. Clay convinces a prison warden to allow the last surviving member of the Brown gang to escape, hoping that he'll lead the deputy to the money the gang stole.
- Ex-con Perce McCall helps to save Matt's life in a shootout, and then falls for a beautiful, but greedy saloon girl who puts him under great pressure to start stealing again.
- Martha Jane Conroy aka Calamity Jane is at rock bottom. With the help of an old friend, Paladin, she tries to recoup some losses from her former business partner.
- A shady businessman's junior partner takes it upon himself to order the death of a blackmailer. The junior partner has also schemed to reunite his boss and estranged wife. These "favors" lead to a fatal chain of events which no one, including the junior partner, could possibly have predicted.