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The story of the founding, by Stratford-born journalist Tom Patterson, of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada, which opened in July of 1953 with a performance of "Richard III" starring Alec Guinness. Expanding in the years since to include many other great works of the theatre other than Shakespeare, it is now known simply as the Stratford Festival of Canada and is the largest classical repertory theatre in North America.

Jonathan Winters Presents: A Wild Winters Night is a nutty, undisciplined, mostly ad lib show. Guest Art Carney and Winters use props and try to top each other. The New Christy Minstrels sing two songs, then are joined by Winters, who ad libs some folksy tunes. A quiet pool game between Winters, as Maude Frickert, and her old gentleman caller (Carney), turns into a wild 100th birthday celebration. Winters ends with a look at a family picture album.

A short film produced for the National Consumer Finance Association with the purpose of educating high school and college students on debt, loans, and how much additional debt should be taken on given net income less fixed expenses and other necessities. It centers on a conservative, stuffy business-like character named "Mr. Money" and his explaining of debt to two students. Very campy and naive, so much so that it is featured as comic relief in excerpts, and in its entirety as a special feature, in the DVD release of the 2006 documentary "Maxed Out," which deals with the predatory lending practices of credit card companies and their sponsorship of the recent anti-consumer changes in bankruptcy law.

A profile of the Great Wallendas, the famous family aerial circus act, who had just suffered the deaths of two members and the permanent paralyzing of another, Mario Wallenda, the adopted son of leader Karl Wallenda. This occurred the year before, in January 1962, at a performance in Detroit after their trademark high-wire multi-person pyramid collapsed.