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- A bumbling fairy godfather tries to grant a girl's wish that her cabby father lands a Broadway role.
- The clock is ticking down for death-row inmate Joe Caslin. After he hears about a robbery and murder similar to what he was condemned for, he pleads with Sam and Jim to look into the recent crime in the hopes that it will clear him. Even after the suspects in the newer case are caught, will it make a difference in Caslin's case?
- A smalltime US filmmaker goes to Cannes to try to get his movie in the limelight. A wife of one of the producers there gets interested in his story and they begin an affair.
- In 1860 Andrew Johnson is a US Senator from Tennessee. He desperately tries to keep his home state from seceding from the Union, risking his reputation, his political future, and his life.
- In early Boston, midwife Anne Hutchinson is put on trial for preaching her unorthodox religious beliefs and criticizing the local ministers.
- Nick celebrates his birthday at a waterfront saloon where he is drugged and shanghaied for sea duty. Jarrod suspects an old client of his, Barbary Red, is behind Nick's disappearance- Eugene and Heath help him investigate his hunch.
- The amusing trials of the executive staff of a television network.
- Paul must locate a Colonel who thinks he is still in Vietnam after escaping from an American hospital.
- Moyher's good boy Benny Silman from Brooklyn becomes an economics student at Arizona State University for the sun and sexy girls- and the proximity of gambling paradise Las Vegas. Benny aces his studies, being a mathematical genius, but the one who earns money from him at sports is bookie Troy, who however recruits him as subcontractor, making a few thousand for himself. The next year Benny starts for himself, with a few dozen student vassals, and makes a hundredfold. A friend's big brother, Chicago stock-broker Joe Jr., doesn't hold Benny to a $6,000 loss but plants the idea of cheating by playing the 'spread' trough an accomplice jock, notably NBA-class college basketball player Stevin 'Hedake' Smith. Local drug lord Big Red imposes himself as second investor, but Benny manages to keep that secret for Joe's 'family'. Alas Benny also makes a single female conquest, Carolina horse rancher's daughter Callie, whose moralistic nagging not to 'waste his talent' makes working job, studies and dating simultaneously just too hard, so one day he dozes off too long to be where he should be to make it all work, in a business which rarely forgives losses. Then the FBI starts investigating suspicious statistics...
- Legendary entertainer Bob Hope hosted, and occasionally starred in, one of the last major anthology series on network television, featuring many of Hollywood's top names, including quite a few who didn't do much television otherwise
- Carlyle family patriarch Baylor learns that his son-in-law Philip Hastings has been embezzling money from the family's bank and demands his resignation. Philip and Tracy, Baylor's daughter, celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary, a marriage arranged to hide the fact that Tracy was already pregnant with the child of a Greek guide. Meanwhile, Baylor's irresponsible playboy son Duncan, a European race car driver, finds his private plane hijacked to a Latin-American country, where his old college chum Miguel Santerra is now a guerrilla in a revolution. Angered over being ousted from the bank, Philip threatens to tell Tracy's son Jeffrey the truth about his parentage.
- After learning that he has only months left to live, Baylor realizes that son Duncan needs to settle down and take his rightful place in the family's banking empire. Duncan considers helping friend Miguel Santerra and his revolutionaries in their cause. Baylor pays a visit to Jeffrey at college with the intention of revealing that Philip isn't his father. Tracy and Philip engage in an angry confrontation.
- In 1920 the New York Legislature threatens to expel 5 members who are in the Socialist Party. Since they were legally elected and part of a recognized political party , Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes speaks out in their defense.
- Comfort, Texas is a small census-designated place, a populated area without its own local government that resembles a small town.
- When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team.
- A counterfeiter with a habit of "eliminating" the competition moves in next door to the Robbersons. Two cops move in with the Robbersons for a stakeout.
- A fatal car crash causes a bank robber to lose his loot.
- A fatal car crash involving Paul causes a bank robber to lose his loot.
- In 1850 Daniel Webster is a US Senator from Massachusetts and an outspoken abolitionist. Fearing the breaking up of the Union, he risks his reputation and his political career when he considers supporting the Missouri Compromise.
- Gabriel's released from prison. His con man friend makes a foolish bet with Diggstown's owner on who'd win the boxing matches - their man against ten Diggstown men.
- Movie comedy queen Bette Midler reigns supreme in this rocking, rolling concert movie bash. The Divine Miss M at her trashiest, flashiest, heavenly best!
- Quietly cocky Robert Redford joins U.S. ski team as downhill racer and clashes with the team's coach, played by Gene Hackman. Lots of good skiing action leading to an exciting climax.
- The dramatic relationship between a young medical intern and his surgeon mentor.
- In 1868 President Andrew Johnson appoints General Thomas to replace Edwin Stanton as Secretary of War, against the wishes of Congress. This leads to his impeachment trial. Kansas Senator Edmund G. Ross will cast the deciding vote.
- While working undercover wisecracking newspaper reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher is offered a large sum by a millionaire with a terminal disease to kill him. Intrigued, Fletch decides to unearth the full story behind the offer.
- After receiving an inheritance in Louisiana, Los Angeles reporter Irwin Fletcher heads to the Belle Isle plantation where he gets himself into hilarious trouble.
- The story of Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who fled to the North in the days before the Civil War. Douglass decided to use his writing and oratorical skills to lead the fight to abolish slavery, a risky move because the Fugitive Slave Act allowed an escaped slave to be captured anywhere in the US and returned to his owners in the South.
- Flying all the way from Nigeria, stubborn anthropologist and author Felix Holman is admitted to Blair suffering from an undetermined pulmonary infection which is proving strangely difficult to treat. First of four parts.
- 1964–196530m8.7 (7)TV EpisodeIn 1838 tensions are rising between the Mormons and the other settlers of Missouri. General Alexander W. Doniphan faces a moral dilemma when he is ordered to go to war against the Mormons.
- In 1917 a lame duck US House of Representatives passes the Armed Ships Bill. Nebraskan Senator George W. Norris, calling it an indirect declaration of war, leads a filibuster against the bill.
- The story of Gov. John Slaton of Georgia, who in the early 1900s pardoned Leo Frank, who had been convicted of and sentenced to death for raping and murdering a young girl. Slaton believed that Frank, who was Jewish, had been convicted not on the evidence but because of rampant anti-Semitism on the part of the prosecution and the jury. Slaton's decision outraged the public, but as it turned out, he was right--several years later it was revealed that it wasn't Frank who committed the murder but a local handyman.
- In 1887 President Grover Cleveland goes up against the GAR when he threatens to veto the Veterans Dependent Pensions bill. He also supports lowering a popular tariff, risking further condemnation.
- In 1869 Cuba is struggling for its independence from Spain. Secretary of State, Hamilton Fish, working against the corrupt administration of President Grant and the public's desire for war, continues to seek a diplomatic solution.
- Whilst traveling greyhound, Paul crosses paths with Tina, an abrasive yet enigmatic fifteen-year-old. However, their journey is shortly interrupted by a breakdown, forcing the two to continue via a rental car. However, her problematical attitude soon clashes with our mild manner Samaritan. Infuriating him to the point of abandoning her at the roadside of sparsely traveled desert highway. But being good of heart, he shortly returns to a less hubris Tina. Paul later learns that she is a runaway, awarded custody to the grandparents of her widower father. A small book store owner, believed to be living somewhere on the southwest side of Flagstaff Arizona.
- A look at how musical films of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s made dancing part of the story.
- Paul meets a woman whose sculptor husband is serving time in prison for her murder.
- Due to Holman's still delicate condition and their tendency to argue, his devoted missionary assistant is asked to not visit him until he recovers further. Meanwhile Kildare becomes concerned when he learns that a teenage hospital assistant is dating a much older doctor.
- Marie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than she can chew and faces a new, immortal danger.
- As a young lawyer and politician, John Adams takes on the unpopular task of defending in court the British soldiers who fired on a crowd in the so-called Boston Massacre of 1770.
- In 1807 Aaron Burr is on trial for treason. President Jefferson and the majority of Americans are certain of his guilt. Presiding over the case is Chief Justice John Marshall who wants a fair and constitutional trial for Burr.
- Illinois Governor, John Peter Altgeld, reviews the cases of the men convicted in the Haymarket Riots. When he becomes convinced that they did not receive a fair trial he considers granting an unpopular pardon.
- In 1807 British warships are raiding US vessels and conscripting US sailors. Thomas Jefferson asks Senator John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts to help pass an embargo that might devastate the economy of the Senator's home state.
- Mary S. McDowell is a Brooklyn school teacher at the outbreak of WWI. As a Quaker she is reluctant to support a war in any manner, including signing a loyalty oath demanded by the school board.
- Sam manages to get the abused girlfriend of extortionist Gorley to help put him away.
- Fast-paced, fun and informative, Modern Marvels is The History Channel's signature series focusing on historical technology.
- 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.
- A finely study of a relatively obscure figure, Oscar W. Underwood, and a probe of his fight against the Ku Klux Klan at the Democratic Party convention of 1924, which cost him the presidential nomination.
- A vicious Kansas City slaughterhouse owner and his hick family are having a bloody "beef" with the Chicago crime syndicate over profits from their joint illegal operations. Top enforcer Nick Devlin is sent to straighten things out.
- This anthology series presented episodes in the lives of true-life historical personages who each faced a terrible crisis in their life.
- In 1833, Prudence Crandall runs a girls boarding school in Canterbury CT. Trouble ensues when she accepts the application of Sarah Anderson, an African American.
- In 1894, Richard T. Ely is a professor at the University of Wisconsin. When the politically appointed school superintendent attacks his character and his method of teaching Professor Ely stands up for the principles of academic freedom.
- In 1946 many Nazis are sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials. Senator Robert A Taft of Ohio questions the legality of these trials since the men have no chance for appeal and since their crimes were enacted after the fact.
- The doctor tells a successful lawyer that he is terminally ill and will die in less than two years.
- Gov. Sam Houston's losing battle to keep Texas in the Union during the secession crisis.
- A three-way friendship between two free-spirited professional football players and the owner's daughter becomes compromised when two of them become romantically involved.
- A social comedy about a beauty pageant for young Californian women, held annually in Santa Rosa, and how it affects the locals and participants.
- A serial killer with his signature heavy breathing proceeds to systematically kill the students and teachers of Lamab high school.
- An outlaw gang leader orders his men to kidnap a teacher so he can learn to read and write for a special purpose. His men nab Victoria by mistake-she pretends to be the school marm to buy time for the Barkley boys to find her.
- Modern Marvels looks at the history of television from its invention by Philo Farnsworth to its popularization by David Sarnoff.
- The 74th Annual Academy Awards
- An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
- A small-time hustler takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best Little League baseball team, sparking off a series of adventures and mishaps.
- The Wild West adventures of the Barkley family in California's San Joaquin Valley.
- Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
- While leading a movement to constitutionally outlaw gambling Paul encounters mobsters.
- A burnt-out shrink needs a temp. A charming escaped convict takes over his practice and radio show.
- A mysterious fair that comes to a small community in the countryside could make real the illusions of two teenagers.
- Twenty-year veteran Detective Sergeant Sam Stone is paired with rookie Briggs in a large Western metropolis. The tough-as-nails desk Sergeant is the father of young Briggs, and helps the force deal with tribulations that come with being on the police force.
- A private detective specializing in missing children is charged with the task of finding a special child whom dark forces want to eliminate.
- A journalist takes his son with him to investigate pirate activity off the coast of Florida. But he gets stranded on a mysterious island--where he might not be alone.
- After her release from prison, a woman wants Paul to clear her of the murder of her husband.
- Paul Bryan and Neil Trotter are en route to Trinidad to pick up a crew for a sailboat race in Rio when the autopilot they are testing breaks down and forces them to land in Bonaire. When Trotter is murdered Paul becomes the prime suspect and is forbidden to leave the island by Inspector Kronig. After Kronig discovers an American from Trotter's hometown living in Bonaire, he enlists Paul's help to find out what she knows. Soon after, at his hotel, Paul meets another woman from the same town.
- The two top Agents of the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement (U.N.C.L.E.) fight the enemies of peace, particularly the forces of T.H.R.U.S.H.
- Paul and his friend Ramon work to free an American millionaire's daughter held captive in Andorra.
- Solo, on the verge of capture by Thrush, takes Capsule B, which induces amnesia.
- David Ross is a orphaned, ex-con, loner living in a world that loaths and makes a living as a private investgator in Los Angeles to tackle his financial problems and other people's problems as well.
- Pilot for the detective drama series has Darren McGavin playing David Ross, a hard-nosed, private eye/ex-con hired to tail a woman in an embezzling case which takes a turn when he finds himself the prime suspect when the woman is found dead in his own office, by his gun.
- 19931h 39mR6.6 (1.4K)TV MovieWanda Holloway tries to hire a hitman (through her ex's brother) to kill either or both a cheerleader and her mother. With the intended victims out of the way, Wanda's daughter gets the chance to become a cheerleader. When the media get hold of the story, Wanda's trial turns into a media circus.
- The story of a baseball scout who discovers a talented but troubled baseball player.
- A young man is arrested on suspicion of sabotaging the plane of his girlfriend's father, a wealthy man who despises him.
- 1966–196930m7.7 (22)TV EpisodeStone and Briggs are on the scene when a fight breaks out between a valet and high-powered attorney Leslie Gorman. The lawyer tries to foist money onto Jim to make him overlook everything, but the young cop arrests him instead for attempted bribery. Gorman files a report at the station stating that Jim roughed him updduring the arrest. Sam knows that Gorman is lying and when he tries to prove it, he almost gets nailed for a similar brutality charge. tries to nail the older cop with a similar complaint.
- Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a grudge against the two.
- Internal conflicts of a wealthy family, the Carlyles. A banking czar, his playboy son, his daughter engaged to a philanderer, they became entangled with South American politics.
- The program has four segments: (1) "The Trial of St. Joan" (based on George Bernard Shaw's play), (2) "Balance" (an architect illustrates the history of architecture), (3) "The Chick" (film short on the incubation of a chicken's egg), and (4) "Kitimat" (short feature on hydroelectric power facilities for the aluminum smelting industry in British Columbia).
- Ross takes an assignment to investigate the death of a beautiful young girl's boyfriend. His investigation reveals that not only is the boyfriend not dead, but that he staged a huge insurance scam. Ross makes a deal with the insurance company to bring back the crook and the money, but it turns out to be more difficult than he thought.
- The story of U.S. Senator Thomas Corwin, a rising star in the Whig party in the 1840s who was one of the few political leaders to oppose the US-Mexican War initiated by the administration of President James Polk.
- In 1850 Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri hopes for California statehood. Knowing it will not be admitted as a slave state he fights Senator Calhoun's bill that would forbid Congress from voting against slavery in the Territories.
- In this Christmas themed episode, Paul Bryan gets stranded when his plane takes an emergency landing and the other passengers grab all the rental cars to get home for the holiday. He ends up spending Christmas eve with a garrulous cab drive and determines to play Santa for his new found friend.
- 1963–19671h7.6 (9)TV EpisodePrivate detective Adam Steels looks into the death of a friend who worked for a millionaire Hollywood businessman. His investigation leads him to believe that his friend's former boss is somehow linked to the murder.
- Pardoned after a long imprisonment for a crime he didn't commit, a man has Jarrod's help in adjusting to being free again. The man is hired to work at the ranch and after having doubt planted by one of the hands, his fear of returning to prison may lead to the death of the man who was the Prosecuting Attorney in the his case- Jarrod.
- A soldier of fortune commandeers Paul's plane to rescue an anti-Castro prisoner held in Cuba.
- A rookie high school football coach has a harder time than she expected trying to whip her tough inner city team into shape.