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- For his birthday, Chase gets a cigarette lighter, but it won't light. He works on it with ill-suited tools as his family all advise. Finally, he unwisely fuels it with gasoline, which gets it lit--but soon, so is his house.
- Chase makes tries to escape from a compromising situation with a dame he took to be his wife's sister.
- Lou Kirn, a Navy football star in 1931 and a Squadron Commander during WW2, is faced with his biggest challenge in 1954 - a dreaded form of paralysis. During this personal battle he reaches out to save a paralyzed boy.
- Joseph Priestley, a minister and scientist is up against much when his followers dismiss his scientific findings.
- At the end of the Civil War, Texas cattlemen find themselves facing disaster with too many cattle, a bad drought, and no market for their livestock.
- Billy Halop plays Chaplin's Lt.Ray Hall in this true story. He battles his fear and a fellow soldiers of jumping out of an airplane. They both jump and conquer their fear and Chaplin Hall survives the war and becomes a doctor.
- While in Shanghai a husband races against time to develop insulin for his wife.
- Charley impersonates his double, a man named Bud Martin, unaware that he's a wanted criminal.
- After serving a 3-year sentence, a man is immediately picked up again on a gun charge. However, he is immediately bailed out by a local crime boss.
- A hypnotist comes to town and puts the gang in animal-like trances. Now that the spell is off, the gang returns back to their usual roles. But then while at an afternoon tea social , the spell returned, ruining a perfectly good afternoon.
- Man is overcome by the gambling sickness and finds himself in debt to a crooked casino operator, who then tries to compel the man to embezzle from his employer.
- In Paris at the time of the French Revolution, Dr. Pinel is assigned to oversee the lunatic asylum. He is shocked at the squalor in which the patients are forced to live and sets about to reform the asylum.
- A dramatization of the capture of German submarine U-505, the only German sub ever captured in World War II.
- Hugo Haas' own story of escape from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia.
- Bicycle riding Rabbi Henry Cohen pays a daily visit to the jail in Galveston, Texas. There, he hears the plea of Josef Demchuk, who is being held for deportation as an illegal immigrant. Rabbi Cohen has the man released into his custody.
- Samuel Howe has the daunting task of teaching a young girl blind and deaf from her infancy. After about 200 lessons, he finally discovers the key to breaking through to her.
- The story of the relationship between Austrian pacifist Bertha Kinski von Suttner and Alfred Nobel.
- It is the opening of deer season and the long-running feud between two old codgers has heated up again. When one is found shot in the woods, the other is of course the prime suspect.
- The Gang turn to playing football, and face tough competition against the Gas House Garlics.
- A newly-married woman disguises herself as a doughboy in order to stay close to her husband.
- In 1958, Ben Blue played all four brothers (the wealthy snob, the vaudevillian, the tramp and the average guy), in this comedy pilot for CBS. The network didn't exercise it's option and the pilot wasn't aired until 1965.
- When a policeman gives Snub and his pal thirty minutes to find work or be jailed they hire out as life guards where there is evidently a premium paid for each person rescued. His pal pushes persons and dogs off the dock so that the new life saver will have a chance to save them but the regular life guard seems to be at hand at the right time to get all the glory.
- Snub writes a scenario and goes to the local theater to see the picture. After a good deal of trouble he and his wife succeed in getting into the house, but are unable to find two seats together. The center aisle is built very steep, and the ushers are dressed like Alpine climbers. This provides a great deal of action for those who must climb up, and those who slide into their seats. Then comes the film. The main title tells that the picture is made by the "Shameless Film Co." As Snub's seat is up against the screen he sees the picture greatly distorted. The picture shown on the screen satires the current melodrama, and will bring a laugh in itself. The comedy ends in a free-for-all fight.
- Paul finds a new use for building machinery when he spends an eventful lunch hour in an edifice under construction. The giant derrick is his particular pet. See him play poker in mid-air and get a thrill as he leaps from the roof with an umbrella for a parachute in order to meet the pretty time-keeper.
- Paul and his little pal "Sunshine Sammy" are traveling across the continent and their arrival in a small town is disclosed by the opening of a man hole cover on the top of an empty tank car. Not having much coin of the realm, the hungry pair immediately scheme to get a meal. When passing an appetizing looking restaurant they meet an apparently benevolent old gentleman to whom they tell their tale of woe. The kindly disposed man takes them into the restaurant and tells them to eat any and everything they desire and excuses himself for a moment but fails to return. The scenes which follow arrival of the proprietor whose explanation that the man who ordered the meal for them had escaped from an asylum, add to the discomforture of the now satisfied travelers. Their endeavors to make restitution and their flight from the restaurant wind up in a merry chase and their eventual eluding of the police.
- Charley brings an actor friend home to dinner without telling his wife beforehand, and she protests. The two instead head to a theater. Charley's wife later follows to apologize and unbeknownst to her and the friend, Charley uses costumes from the theater to pretend to be other people.
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- Susannah and Nugey come across a family of stowaways hiding in a lifeboat.
- A woman confesses to shooting her ex-husband and is to stand trial for murder. Her boyfriend tells the public defender what really happened.
- A kid is arrested for gang activity after mugging a cop, but the gang is being organized by some influential people, so the other gang members threaten to kill the kid if he talks. The Public defender must get to the bottom of things before someone else is hurt!
- During a raid on the Carter family still, a warden is shot and killed. Jesse Carter, fresh home from the service, is arrested for the killing.
- A 'Good Kid' gets caught up with the wrong crowd and his parents seem unable to do anything About it.
- A tunnel that carries water to a valley's farmers is buried in a landslide. Blasting crews have only a few months to carve out an entirely new channel to bring water to the valley before the area's farmers lose everything they have.
- A potted account of the 1912 Titanic disaster, focused on Margaret "Maggie/Molly" Brown.
- Capt. Braddock investigates the case of a man who is suspected of faking his own death to collect the life insurance money.
- A woman accused of stealing $250 is sentenced to jail. A newspaper man in the Courtroom recognizes the lady. He wakes the Public Defender in the middle of the night. He is anxious to tell the story of "Lisa", hoping Bart can get her freed.
- An ex-con is forced to rob his employer's safe by two other ex-cons who knew him from the joint.
- Joey leaves his orphanage to be a jockey when an encounter with hotel owner Mr. Barry gets him returned. But after the hotel is burned Joey is arrested. Only Sister Anthony continues to believe him during the trial.
- Will is seen as a farm hand who is so lazy that any sort of work makes him sick. A "naturalist" offers him a job photographing "wild beasts" in their native haunts and the rest of the comedy deals with his very funny efforts in this direction.
- Have you a little donkey in your home? If so Paul will show you how to take care of it. Paul, living in the Hotel Grant which allows no animals to be lodged in the rooms, is informed that his cousin is coming to visit him. The "relative" appears, in the form of a donkey, and Paul is hard put to keep the animal from causing the ejection of both.
- Charley tries to get a photograph taken with his wife and child.
- A Congressman deals with the efforts of his family to get social recognition.
- A movie cameraman (Charley Chase) is on the lookout for new material but a rival plans to copy everything he films.