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- Ordinary people find themselves in extraordinarily astounding situations, which they each try to solve in a remarkable manner.
- 1963–19641h9.1 (9)TV EpisodeDown on his luck and in decline, Wild Bill Hickok arrives at the end of his trail in Deadwood in 1876.
- Oscar Kilroy's ability to involve himself in other people's problems leads to some unusual results.
- A henpecked book lover finds himself blissfully alone with his books after a nuclear war.
- Used to blowing in the wind, Johnny rebels against his new circumscribed lifestyle.
- Jess as acting deputy frees a bounty hunter's prisoner who had cut down Jess during a lynching five years earlier saving his life. Having paid his debt, he decides to see if the prisoner was truly innocent himself or should be recaptured.
- A private investigator, who had been a successful lawyer, solves crimes almost anywhere in the world, although he is based in New York City.
- Exploits of a US Treasury Special Agent Philip Conroy (SA-7).
- Deputy US Marshal Bronco chases an escaped prisoner from Montana to New Mexico. After a friend is murdered, He discovers a complicated scheme to protect outlaws on the run, and winds up sentenced to the gallows himself.
- Slim and Jess collect a $2000 bounty on a man they killed after stealing their horse. After collecting the bounty, they learn the dead man is really a sheriff chasing the man they thought they killed who returns to steal the money.
- A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
- "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour" was a continuation of the dramatic anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) hosted by the Master of Suspense and Mystery.
- A filmed series of one-hour dramatizations of the lives of famous historical people, as well as important historical events.
- Cheyenne is forced to join an outlaw gang lead by the "Ghost of the Cimarron". He is the only person who can clear Cheyenne with the law who was framed for reward money. Over time Cheyenne comes to realize why the man is respected.
- Judge Daniel Redmond has been nominated to run for Lt. Governor for his high level of integrity and respect. However, he is soon forced to turn it down when he's accused of fraud and murdering the witness against him.
- Widower Sheriff Andy Taylor, and his son Opie, live with Andy's Aunt Bee in Mayberry, North Carolina. With virtually no crimes to solve, most of Andy's time is spent philosophizing and calming down his cousin Deputy Barney Fife.
- A Disney-produced anthology covering many different genres.
- 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".
- 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.
- Cord, a gunfighter, works undercover for the local Army garrison Commander, trying to help keep peace in the territory.
- President Grant again sends for Jason's help. While talking, Jason is told that General Custer may be performing an Indian attack soon. Jason at first refuses to deceive his friend Custer by spying on him, but after listening to Custer and Grant talk with General Sheridan, Jason is convinced he must do as Grant requested in order to save his friend from making a terrible mistake.
- The trials of a master criminal defense attorney handling the most difficult cases in support of the innocent.
- This well-received series was a comedy-drama about an immigrant family living in 1910s San Francisco.
- "Inner Sanctum" was a hosted horror and mystery anthology series hosted by Paul McGrath, and later by House Jameson as "Your Host".
- An oil company executive is charged with the murder of a man who had been blackmailing him. The defendant says the victim stumbled during a fight and fell off a platform accidentally, but two witnesses insist that he was pushed.
- A basketball player seeks out a faith healer for his injured knee instead of having the surgery Dr. Welby recommends.
- While conducting an inventory of a home whose owner died intestate, tax official Ralph Duncan comes across $153,000 in very old currency hidden under a drawer. The money is stolen from his briefcase so he consults Perry Mason.
- At a river the drovers are startled by a bugle and stopped by a group of Jayhawkers wanting $5 per head to cross the river. They are lead by a Judge who has conned his son-in-law into thinking they own the land and are acting legally.
- Tod and Buz, in San Diego and employed in aerospace jobs, save a drunken man from drowning while they are enjoying a day off. The man's underage niece uses her influence to get Tod and Buz to help her. The objective is to sober him up so he can remain her guardian. The man is not cooperative and is hiding a secret.
- Returning to Shiloh, The Virginian has his horse and gun stolen by a man and his hands who have the local town cowered. He meets an old friend in the town who helps convince him to help arrest them after her daughter is injured by them.
- Mary Halstead is in search of a son she gave up a long time ago. With months to live, she comes west on the trail of someone who could be her son, but he may also turn out to be a notorious outlaw.
- Pepino feels his job is threatened when Grampa takes on another hired hand.
- Ryan Stockstad discusses the movie Psycho (1960).
- Maxwell Smart, a highly intellectual but bumbling spy working for the CONTROL agency, battles the evil forces of rival spy agency KAOS with the help of his competent partner Agent 99.
- An anthology series of insightful science fiction tales.
- The cases of the N.Y.P.D.'s 65th Precinct.
- Experience the complete series of the show that was hailed as the most frightening ever created for television--now available for the first time.
- Mike Connors played an unnamed police undercover Agent who infiltrated organized crime to expose the leaders and their plots. His name changed with each episode in order to protect him.
- The adventures of the Tiki III and crew as they sailed from island to island through the South Pacific, carrying cargo and the odd passenger from one drama to another.
- After serving seven years in prison for manslaughter, a man returns to his hometown to find that the eyewitness whose testimony convicted him has second thoughts, and the town drunk has confessed to the crime.
- Model Ruth Woods hosted this anthology series of twice-weekly one act plays. The stories could be either dramatic or light comedy with a different cast for each episode. The series ran for only the 1952-53 season.
- Blue needs new boots and the ranch needs supplies but cash is limited. Big John agrees to let Blue join Buck on a trip to town for supplies along with Manolito. However, the three lose their guns and the money on poker, drink, and women.
- The gorgeous Dianne Adler is a friend of Della who has quit her job when a man signed her to a modeling contract that Perry discovers allows the agent to take half of any money she comes into. When the agent is murdered she is charged.
- The Virginian is in the southwest to collect for a bad check. He gets his money from the man's dad but when he is killed, The Virginian's old flame is convicted of it and he has to protect her while hoping Garth can prove her innocence.
- 1961–196630m8.2 (40)TV EpisodeWhen Hazel finds out that bookstore owner used to date the author of a new book years ago, she is determined to get the two of them together.
- Marshal Matt Dillon keeps the peace in rough-and-tumble Dodge City.
- Two Secret Service agents, equipped with a wide array of gizmos, work for the government in the Old West.
- A doctor, wrongly convicted for a murder he didn't commit, escapes custody and must stay ahead of the police to find the real killer.
- The hard-hitting adventures of tough Lieutenant Frank Ballinger, a member of the Chicago Police Department's M Squad, an elite crime-fighting unit.
- The adventures of frontier lawyer Temple Houston, son of the legendary Sam Houston.
- Mitch Guthrie is a champion bronco rider in the rodeo who tries to keep his kid brother, Andy, from pursuing the same life.
- Conserving the dwindling buffalo is a hot issue. Cheyenne decides to step into recently vacated shoes and becomes a Senator. When drawing up the bill, he finds he has a lot of lessons in politics to learn; one of them his own impeachment.
- Dennis wants Mr. Wilson to perform as a magician at Dennis's birthday party. Mr. Wilson is reluctant to do so - until he learns that actress Spring Byington will also be guest at the party.
- Operating on a tip, Erskine and Rhodes arrest Charles Burnett and Allen Cole just before they were going to commit murder and kidnapping. The tipster was Burnett's former wife, for whom he still has feelings. The ex-wife flees before the duo can be tried for conspiracy to commit kidnapping. Now, the FBI agents and the conspirators are in a race to get to the ex-wife first. She has fled to the Florida Keys, where she was raised, just as a hurricane is closing in. Erskine and a wounded Rhodes are with the ex-wife as Burnett closes in.
- Bishop Arthur Mallory searches for a young woman who may be the heiress to $1,000,000 from the Charles Burroughs estate. Carol Delaney fits the bill. Mallory is beaten by Wallace Lang and his henchman to persuade him to drop the case.
- On the trail of a Cavalry deserter and the horses he stole, Josh rides into a town ruled as the private fiefdom of its autocratic, psychopathic marshal who is holding the horses and deserter. He wants a ransom from Josh for them.
- A Civil War veteran with a sawed-off rifle as a holstered weapon makes a living as a bounty hunter in the Wild West of the 1870s.
- After the Civil War, nomadic adventurer Cheyenne Bodie roamed the West looking for fights, bad guys to beat up, and women. His job changed from episode to episode.
- The Aliens are here, posing as human, and not friendly. David Vincent has seen them land and now must evade them and convince others of their presence while not being put in the booby hatch.
- Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
- A well-received anthology series presenting live television dramas.
- In this live drama series, over two hundred live plays, covering all aspects of society, were shown.
- The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, from early youth to his election as President of the United States, as told from Eleanor's point of view.
- Ellery Queen was a mystery writer who assisted his father, a detective with the New York Police Department, in solving murders. Queen's methods were arcane and intellectual rather than action oriented, and he always astounded his father by arriving at a correction solution by purely deductive reasoning.
- Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 black-and-white, low-budget film Psycho gave birth to the modern psychological thriller.
- Tracy Steele hunts a hit-and-run driver.
- Scott catches one of the robbers who was trying to rob a store in a nearby town. The robber turns out to be a young woman, and Scott is deputized to keep an eye on her. It's not so easy, as the girl is a wild young hellion who does whatever she can to cause trouble.
- 1957–19661hTV-PG8.0 (370)TV EpisodeA man that faked his death has been exposed and is blackmailed. With help from Perry, he plans on returning to his wife. But, before that can happen, he is found dead and a woman he had a relationship with is charged and needs Perry's help.
- Perry's client is menaced by a car driven by a hooded man, whom she shoots at with a gun that was planted in her room. When the guy winds up dead from a bullet, Perry confuses matters by firing an identical gun later at the scene.
- Scot Cahill has a contract with Karl Magovern to take his party to kelp beds near Mexico each weekend. Magovern canceled but suddenly decides to go. Perry is called when Magovern is found murdered and suspected of smuggling stolen gold.
- Morton Halas is an aggressive and very successful defense attorney who will stop at nothing to get his clients off. Having successfully defended Big Mike Probich he finds himself working for Larry Coombs, another small-time mobster who has ambition to rise to the top. Coombs and his top enforcer Whitey Metz decide to knock off Probich and take over his network. They succeed but things don't go as smoothly as planned and Eliot Ness soon has an eye witness who can identify both of them. Halas has a flair for the dramatic and just as the verdict in the case is about to be announced, he arranges for someone to stand up in open court and announce, with murder weapon in hand, that he is the killer. Ness and the District Attorney know that the fix is in and find they have to rely on their own trickery if Halas, Coombs and Metz are to face justice.
- Agent Jim Hardie splits his life between being an agent helping Wells Fargo cope with bad guys, and owning a ranch near San Francisco, California.
- Gil Favor is trail boss of a continuous cattle drive. He is assisted by Rowdy Yates. The crew runs into characters and adventures along the way.
- Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
- Two ex-cons murder a family in a robbery attempt, before going on the run from the authorities. The police try to piece together the details of the murder in an attempt to track down the killers.
- Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman travels the Old West tracking down assorted killers, bank robbers, horse thieves, and other evil-doers.
- After his brothers are killed in a shootout, a gunfighter decides to hang up his guns and uphold the law by becoming a lawyer.
- Actor, Producer, and Director Robert Montgomery introduced each telecast, sometimes interviewing one of the stars, and sometimes appearing in the play.
- "The New Breed" was an American crime - drama series ,aired on ABC network from 1961 to 1962, with thirty-six episodes,starring Leslie Nielsen at age 35.
- A former Naval intelligence officer works as a private detective in San Diego, California.
- Sam Benedict is the go to lawyer in the San Francisco area with a reputation for winning impossible cases. Trudy has his office running efficiently while Hank keeps things from getting too serious as Benedict's right hand man.
- Bronco hired as shotgun by the Silver Flats bank is saved from certain death at the hands of a gunfighter by the quick wits of Rev. Dave Clayton, which leads to the confirmation that the preacher may not be exactly who he says he is.
- 1952–197025mTV-PG7.9 (36)TV EpisodeBilly Ralston is a fast talking banker who cannot cover his customer's assets. He comes up with a scheme involving the mint to solve his problem yet remain out of jail.
- After falling over a dressing cart, Kildare injures his back and is forced to spend a few days recuperating in a room with four others who don't mind seeing a doctor becoming a patient for once.
- After a quantity of diamonds go missing from a jewelry firm, the boss's secretary is the only member of staff to refuse to take a lie-detector test, and refuses to divulge the reason.
- Kimble breaks jail with a friendly, simple-minded young man, and finds out the man may have been falsely blamed for a crime he did not commit years ago.
- While working for a small town veterinarian, Dr. Kimble comes across the sick baby of an unwed mother whose religious father doesn't believe in medicine. As Kimble secretly treats the baby, a jealous dismissed deputy discovers his true identity.
- An architect's close encounter with a spaceship leads him to investigate a small town's hydroelectric plant.
- Shayne regrets taking a day off to go fishing when he learns that a would-be client, a hard-charging investigative reporter, who urgently begging for his assistance, was murdered before he could contact her. Taking the case personally, he ignores proper procedure and begins his own investigation into her murder and learns that a gambling racketeer, her estranged husband and a man accusing her of blackmail all had reason to kill her.
- Barry Davis is a young man trying to find his way in life. He has been working for a partner of his dead uncle who rides him to work harder. Fed up, he quits and is hired to investigate his uncle and the former boss who is murdered.
- Rowdy is a week late to start a drive with a tight deadline. If they make the it, a big bonus awaits. However, Rowdy has to take Lash Whitcomb as his Segundo. Lash drives the men hard but near the end Rowdy learns why Lash is on the drive.
- Hoby, passing through Lampasas, involves himself when the whole town seems intent on the legal lynching of what he thinks is an innocent man.
- In this hit 1950s TV series, a millionaire indulges himself giving away $1 million apiece to persons he has never met.
- After the end of the Civil War, a former Confederate Army private roams the Wild West, and, as a rogue drifter, gets involved in helping out various settlers threatened by various bad guys.
- Criminal cases where criminals are mentally evaluated, or people in the verge of a nervous breakdown.
- A former New Orleans cop partners with an Ivy League lawyer to open up a private detective agency with offices on the city's famed Bourbon Street.