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- Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama.
- The postwar housing boom creates the suburbs, the Russians explode their first nuclear bomb, television becomes popular, communists take over China, and America tries to deal with racism at home.
- An accountant meets an aged millionaire, who appoints him executor of a trust fund for the millionaire's dog, Shaftsbury.
- A jockey favored to win throws the race and is fatally stabbed. Kane must figure out who is behind the double cross.
- Grampa takes on a trio of con men.
- A singer is given a lucky charm by a girl in his neighborhood and his career suddenly takes off. When he accidentally breaks the trinket, his good luck ends just as abruptly.
- When an Apache is seen over the dead body of a woman who befriended him, everyone assumes he is guilty. He refuses to speak for himself but the Rangers question his guilt. As part of the jury Joe is only one to question his guilt.
- 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.
- Special Deputy Hoss goes in search of the gunman who shot Little Joe, tangling with testy townsfolk, two crafty brothers, and their mother, who is more interested in protecting her sons than seeing justice done.
- 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.
- The star of a theater group, an aging Lothario with several marriages to his credit, falls for a younger actress in the cast. After meeting her family, he realizes that his past will stand in the way of their happiness. He pretends to romance one of his ex-wives so the girlfriend will be able to dump him.
- Tracy Steele hunts a hit-and-run driver.
- Steve is sued for selling a haunted house to a client, until Hazel comes to the rescue.
- An overbearing young female reporter is determined to better her father, competing against him in the coverage of a news story.
- Mrs. Hoyle, a retired school teacher, resides in a hotel bought by Morganti, a gangster, who evicts most of the tenants but allows Mrs. Hoyle and Angela Brown, a dance-hall girl to remain. Mrs. Hoyle's influence for good is felt quickly by Morganti and all of his henchmen with the exception of Rogan. Ther latter, despite Morganti's orders to go straight robs a market with his accomplice Slatterty. Mrs. Hoyle is arrested when the robbery money and jewels are found in her apartment.
- 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.
- A newspaper publisher who has no time for love hires a psychology professor to write the "Advice to the Lovelorn" column in his paper. Before he knows it, he's fallen in love with the columnist.
- Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry, two of the most wanted outlaws in the history of the West, are popular "with everyone except the railroads and the banks".
- Andy Hardy, now a grown man with a wife and children, returns to his hometown on a business trip and finds himself getting mixed up in local politics.
- Anne was raised in a tawdry environment and constantly overshadowed by her successful, sexy younger sister. She enrolls in an art class for relief from her drudgery and meets a handsome, but jaded, playboy. He finds her a breath of fresh air, but Anne can't believe a good-looking man would have any interest in her,
- Katy keeps getting mail-in orders for books she doesn't want. She tries to cancel but the computer keeps sending her books and bills.
- An elderly man who is in love with a young woman discovers that too many people are interested in his romance. The love affair is the immediate concern of the middle-aged widower's daughter-in-law, his housekeeper, and the neighbors. Their interference almost deprives him of years of happiness.
- Filmed live each week, this program gave viewers a glimpse of drama and adventure from around the world and from the distant and not-so-distant past. Subjects of the weekly plays included the American wars, as well as conflicts of far-away countries, and were performed by a number of well-known stars of the time.
- Documentary dramas, plays that were based on true stories, were the forte of Armstrong Circle Theater. Many movie actors and actresses got their start here.
- Loading-dock worker Arnie's work and family life is thrown into disorder when he suddenly gets promoted to a high-level management position.
- The misadventures of a single adoptive father raising a teenage niece with the help of his manservant.
- Further misadventures of comic soldiers Willie and Joe, now in Japan.
- As a law school project Mark takes on a review of the possible conviction of an innocent man. The convict claims he was framed by the police Sergeant leading the investigation: Ed Brown.
- Mr. Harding, a kindly clergyman, must deal with an altogether more severe colleague, Mr. Slope.
- A law clerk schemes to murder his boss. He has help from the man's housekeeper. The two commit what they think is the perfect crime. Craig Stevens is the host.
- Two weeks after its maiden voyage on May 13, 1941, the battleship Bismarck was spotted, torpedoed and sunk by the British in the North Atlantic. This was a crucial point in World War II for the Germans, taking more than 2,000 lives.
- An architect's close encounter with a spaceship leads him to investigate a small town's hydroelectric plant.
- A promotional film for Johnson Wax products, with a romantic subplot told mostly in rhyme.
- A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
- On the eve of her wedding, a German girl faces tragedy. Her father, who is working against the communists in the Eastern Zone, is betrayed and captured.
- The Bradleys have to track down a letter that was sent by one of their guests Mr. Norton, who deeply regrets sending it in the first place.
- A witch married to an ordinary man cannot resist using her magic powers to solve the problems her family faces.
- "Big Town" was a long-running, highly-successful network radio series (1937- 1952) and film series ("I Cover the Underworld," "Underworld After Dark," and "Underworld Scandal") before becoming a hit television series. Shot in film-noir style, the series focused on the exploits of Steve Wilson and the staff of 'The Illustrated Press' newspaper as they reported on the important social issues of the day.
- After his brothers are killed in a shootout, a gunfighter decides to hang up his guns and uphold the law by becoming a lawyer.
- An edited-down compilation of three episodes from Chuck Connors' 1965-1966 TV series, "Branded." In "Now Join the Human Race," Burt Reynolds plays an Indian who, having left the reservation, is cornered by U.S. Cavalry soldiers. In the two-part "Fill No Glass for Me," Greg Morris plays a soldier who, along with Chuck Connors, is captured by Indians. In the three-part "Call to Glory," Robert Lansing plays General Custer as he becomes involved in military and political troubles.
- Fairly-typical 1950s teenagers Arthur Bartley and Janet Willard find their lives turned upside-down when Janet becomes pregnant. Arthur is desperate to tell his parents of the predicament he and Janet are in, but when he can't manage to, he arranges for Janet to have an abortion. The internal turmoil that this causes him finally forces him to tell his father, who races to save Janet from the back-room abortionist.
- The Wild West adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their Nevada ranch while helping the surrounding community.
- 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.
- A man enlists the aid of a parson to fake his own death.
- In the 1880s Jason McCord travels the country trying to prove he's no coward. He needs to do this because the military career of this West point graduate came to an end when he was thrown out of the army after being accused of cowardice.
- A New York City cop who has retired to a small Western town is drawn into the local case of an Indian who is accused of murdering a sheriff.
- A former confederate soldier wanders the old west, and meets such famous characters as Jesse James, William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody, and Theodore Roosevelt.
- The millionaire captain of the LAPD homicide division is driven to the crime scenes in his 1962 Rolls-Royce by his loyal chauffeur.
- Lassie races for help after an earthquake traps Corey under a tree in the path of a rock slide. Unfortunately the motorist who finds Lassie confines and drugs her then sells her to a vet conducting animal experiments.
- A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring 100 top criminals to justice.
- 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.
- Things are heating up between Custer and the Indians. Custer is becoming a loose cannon, and things are about to come to a head. A chain of events leads Jason on a desperate journey to get to the truth of just who is trying to set General Custer up to raid the Indians.
- 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.
- Used to blowing in the wind, Johnny rebels against his new circumscribed lifestyle.
- 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 police get a tip on a killer from Evans, but he refuses to reveal his source.
- A beach bum locks onto a wealthy young woman whose sadness is as obvious as her flashy jewels and sports car. At first Ralphie Teal only desires a quick score, but when the comely Ms. Landers forgives his larceny in exchange for his serious attention, the heel sees a much bigger payoff looming, via her only relative, a harsh uncle who's loaded.
- A woman is found dead on a lonely beach outside a small town.
- An old man who resides at a rest home mistakenly answers the summons for jury duty meant for another. Upon reporting, he discovers that he has important evidence in the murder trail he's deciding on.
- Matt and Chester find a man shot in the back in his lonely cabin and the immediate suspects are two men who have been trying to force him to sell his land.
- Young Dick Banks is fascinated by guns, despite his father's opposition to them. Clay, seeing that the boy's growing interest in guns parallels his own start as a professional gunfighter, takes the boy under his wing.
- Christopher Colt appeared to be a gun salesman, but he was actually a government agent tracking down notorious bad guys. His cousin Sam took the lead when the studio had contract disputes with the original star.
- A jewel robbery leads Dan Adams to help a couple recover their property and at the same time bring the jewel thieves to justice.
- A former Naval intelligence officer works as a private detective in San Diego, California.
- A killer's descendant plots to quickly inherit what he thinks works rightfully be his, when his ill, rich uncle Pontifex, takes up with Queenie De Lyte, a stripper turned art fancier. Tundifer looks exactly like his evil ancestor, a portrait of whom hangs in the family home, whose expensive renovation may include a portal to a prior century.
- An idealistic tenderfoot Chicago hotel clerk is taken on a cattle-drive to Mexico by famous trail boss Tom Reece but discovers that cowboy life isn't what he expected.
- Josh brings in a young man wanted for robbery but loses his reward and expenses. A well meaning Dr. pays an innocent man to take the blame for his son's robbery, but the son sets out to kill the man to make sure he never tells.
- Frontier hero Daniel Boone conducts surveys and expeditions around Boonesborough, running into both friendly and hostile Indians, before, during, and even after the Revolutionary War.
- Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.
- CONTROL must track down the secret journal of a retired secret agent.
- Western stories and legends based, and filmed, in and around Death Valley, California. One of the longest-running Western series, originating on radio in the 1930s. The continuing sponsor was "20 Mule Team" Borax, a product formerly mined in Death Valley.
- A strong-willed backwoods girl is bent on murder for money, and she shows signs of knowing how to get it.
- Bart Allison and sidekick Sam arrive in the town of Sundown on the wedding day of town boss Tate Kimbrough, whom Allison blames for his wife's death years earlier.
- Television episodes built around the same sorts of incidents found in Hank Ketcham's long-running comic strip.
- 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.
- A basketball player seeks out a faith healer for his injured knee instead of having the surgery Dr. Welby recommends.
- In 1950's Hawaii, a bigoted and ruthless land baron, with political ambitions, bans his sister from marrying a native Hawaiian even though he himself has secretly impregnated an Asian woman.
- A man from a small town, a career woman, and an unemployed-but-talented older man are each unknowingly competing for the same advertising agency job. The two younger people end up falling in love but their relationship starts takes a back seat to professional competition.
- 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.
- The dramatic relationship between a young medical intern and his surgeon mentor.
- A pianist has lost both of his hands in a tragic accident. A respected surgeon performs the impossible by grafting the hands of a recently-hanged killer onto the disabled musician. The musician's new hands prefer murdering to playing sonatas.
- 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.
- 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.
- While cleaning a television studio late one night, janitor Ernest P. Duckweather accidentally makes contact with the planet Jupiter and becomes long-distance friends with two of the residents, Johnny Jupiter and B-12, a robot.
- Mr. Duckweather informs Johnny that 3-D movies are all the rage on Earth. Johnny tells his Earth friend that Jupiter used to show movies in seven dimension, but now prefer to watch them in only one.
- Johnny and his cohorts on Jupiter agree to help Duckweather prepare a sailor friend to win a quiz show contest.
- Mr. Duckweather tries to help an actress get a role with Johnny's help.
- Johnny and Mr. Duckweather discuss the differences between television on Jupiter and Earth.
- Mr. Duckweather is invited to appear on a Jupiter television program, but first there are endless rehearsals.
- Duckweather becomes a newscaster for a Jupiterian television station.