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A young Spanish aristocrat must masquerade as a fop in order to maintain his secret identity of Zorro as he restores justice to early California.

The female editor of a crime magazine hires Phillip Marlowe to find the wife of her boss. The private detective soon finds himself involved in murder.

The crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941, and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.

A nurse who suspects her very rich husband of killing his first wife seeks advice from a lawyer instead of going to the police.

A miserable, hen-pecked husband buys his wife a poisonous snake to add to her menagerie of live animals hoping that it will bite her and put him out of his misery, but all does not go as planned.

The father of a teenage girl being romanced by a much older man is bludgeoned to death with a pipe wrench and suspicion immediately falls on the older man.

Even though he has several large bank accounts, Alexander Gifford is so obsessed with money that he begins to see his wife as nothing but a collection of expenses. When she finds his hidden accounts, the trouble really unfolds.

A goodhearted man picks up an old man and his adult son and daughter hitchhiking, but they steal from him every chance they get.

Two kidnappers think they have made their escape when they hijack a tanker truck in the arid desert, leaving the truck drivers and the female kidnap victim behind to die.

Middle-aged piano player Bert Haber injects himself into a scuffle between a mobster named Little Dandy and a nightclub singer named Georgia. Dandy is knocked to the floor and vows revenge.

Henry Taylor visits the town of Kirkland where, three years before, a bank employee, Arnold Mathias, had been convicted of stealing $200,000 from the bank where he worked. None of the money has been found and Mathias always maintained his innocence. It would appear that Mathias had recently been killed in an attempted prison escape and Taylor visits the bank manager telling him he's an author researching a book on the robbery. It turns out that Taylor is after something altogether different and all is not altogether what it seems.

Carol Thorby is furious when she discovers her husband has bought what they think is a chimp that can draw. Soon, though, they're both bewildered when they find the chimp is not a chimp at all.

A coroner's inquiry takes a man back to a fateful decision.

A woman is heartbroken when she is forced to end her affair with a colonel.

A woman who's been hypnotized at a house party picks up a pair of shears and stabs her husband in the back, apparently influenced by the spirit of a woman who committed the same crime over a hundred years before.

When Capt. Ernest Fisher learns that Milton Potter has been released from prison after serving his 15-year sentence, he tells his subordinates about this very strange case. Potter was a bookkeeper for a bank. He did his work well and was reliable but people knew very little about his private life. When it's determined that he embezzled $200,000 he is eventually sent to jail. No one can quite believe that he was really the type to steal, and he never tells anyone what happened to the money. After his release, Fisher visits him and incredibly, Potter tells him he's not the type to run and returns the stolen money. Only later, aboard a cruise ship does he explain to a fellow passenger that there is "method" to his apparent madness.

Cash Bentley is having a hard time coping with middle age. A one-time champion hurdler, he now drinks a bit too much and doesn't quite earn enough money to pay for the lifestyle he would like to provide for his family, such as a membership at the local country club. Despondent, he decides to try one last "race," with tragic results.

Tony Lorca arrives in a small town in the middle of a blizzard to a less-than-pleasant reception in the local saloon. One of the locals says he's seen him before but leaves the saloon before trouble starts. Lorca loses his gun in a poker game at which point the same local returns with a sheriff's poster: Lorca is a wanted man with a $5,000 reward on his head. Seeing no way out, Lorca auctions himself to the highest bidder, offering to turn himself in without a fuss. His plan is to spend the money and have a good time before he meets the hangman. Turns out he killed the saloon girl's husband some time ago and she has something else in mind. But is Lorca really who he says he is?

Helen Parch shares a party-line telephone with several others. She likes to talk on the phone quite a bit but also listens in on others. She's warned by the police one day that a Mr. Miller, with whom she once shared the party line, has broken out of prison and that her life may be in danger. Years before, Miller needed to contact a doctor when his wife was ill, and Helen refused to get off the line. Miller's wife died and he turned to a life of crime. Now he may be after Helen.

An imprisoned lifer breaks out of prison to meet the pen pal he has fallen in love with, but finds only her middle-aged aunt at home.

George Clarke, who's afraid of guns being pointed at him and feels he must punish anyone who would do such a thing, walks in on a store holdup and uses the proprietor's pistol to pursue and shoot the juvenile robber.

Parents living in modern Salem, think their lonely 9-year-old daughter might need an evil spirit driven from her, when she seems to have made up a girlfriend with a witchcraft ancestry.

Scotland Yard believes recently widowed Lady Gwendolyn Avon plans to sell valuable emeralds outside the country even though the treasury has a claim on them. When the surveilled jewels disappear, it seems she's prevailed.

In the future year of 1980, life expectancy has increased dramatically and J.J. Bunce provides an essential service for those in need. He approaches John Treadwell and informs him that the octogenarian mother-in-law who lives with him will live at least another 32 years. Bunce's offer is quite simple; he will dispose of her for a fee. Treadwell initially rejects the offer out of hand, but the old lady is becoming more and more demanding, further eroding Treadwell's tolerance of her constant aggravation. In the end, he accepts Bunce's offer but then ponders what his own children might do when the time comes.

Desperate for attention, particularly from the prom king, Susan Harper fabricates a crime. As the requests from the police and press feed her craving, she adds details-never suspecting those details could become a problem.