1954 • 38 Episodes
October 7, 1954
Private Detective Philip Marlowe decides to help out a friend Lennox when his wife is found brutally murdered. Marlowe winds up in jail accused of her murder and tries to solve the case after his release.
October 14, 1954
When his friend is murdered, Edward Wales sets out to capture the killer. He stages a seance and invites 13 people, any one of who may have killed the dead man, but it ends in chaos when the killer strikes again during a blackout.
October 21, 1954
American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions. The first dramatization of a James Bond novel.
November 4, 1954
A neurotic invalid whose only contact with the outside world is her phone. One night, because of a crossed wire, she hears plans for a murder which turns out to be her own. Her frantic efforts to get help and her growing terror and realisation of the truth chill you to the bone.
November 11, 1954
The death of his crippled wife causes upheaval for the husband and his mistress. Only his family friend believes in his innocence.
November 25, 1954
A steward aboard a yacht thinks his job is easy sailing until the dream voyage turns into a nightmare. The ship's officer is thrown overboard and another is hacked to death who is next.
December 2, 1954
A carnival huckster ingratiates himself with an elderly farmer and his naïve daughter; she soon falls for her new suitor and marries him, only to wind up dead shortly afterwards, the husband quick to confess.
December 9, 1954
An unsuspecting Iron Curtain refugee is used as a pawn by two French traitors while he is at a resort in France.
December 16, 1954
A woman receives some mysterious white carnations, which seem to be an innocent gift but lead to terror.
December 30, 1954
Thru romantic eyes she knew not what he was.
January 6, 1955
Private investigators Cool and Lam become involved in this suspenseful tale of thugs, thieves and legal chicanery.
January 13, 1955
An American engineer in Germany crosses over into the Soviet Zone on business and becomes entangled with the secret police.
January 27, 1955
The Mojave Kid is warned to stay away from a small town feud.
February 3, 1955
The story revolves around two women, one a successful career woman, the other an ambitious girl. After giving the daughter of an old friend a job, the successful businesswoman realizes the drawbacks of her generosity.
February 10, 1955
Lt. Comm. Knowles is assigned to skipper the USS Hamilton from England back to New York. While he and his crew celebrate New Year's Eve 1943, an unknown danger lurks nearby.
February 24, 1955
A hated columnist becomes involved in murder after receiving an innocent-looking box of chocolates with a note from the manufacturer asking him to try them.
March 3, 1955
They were strangers to each other, even the married ones, and they all dreamed in human ways. But the least of these eight persons did something about his little dream. In so doing, he bound the strangers in an intimate circle, whether they knew it or not. He touched them all in passing and changed their lives and dreams forever, according to their own choices. In one turn of the earth something happened.
March 10, 1955
The action of this tale of intrigue and espionage takes place in the jungles of East Africa in 1914. The destinies of Germany and Great Britain are dependent upon one man whose decision is influenced by one of the two women in his life.
March 24, 1955
An ex-cop is released from San Quentin after five years and sets out on revenge against the men who framed him for manslaughter.
March 31, 1955
The famous story deals with a boxer whose rise to fame has been at the expense of friends and associates. Through flashbacks, we see how Midge Kelly rose from the Chicago slums to a world championship.
April 7, 1955
A woman doctor probes the twisted minds of her patients in a mental institution.
April 21, 1955
A doctor forsakes the medical profession following a court trial where he was the defendant. Now a successful businessman travelling under an assumed name, he must decide between keeping his secret and saving the eyesight of a fellow passenger.
April 28, 1955
The threat of scandal, revolving around the death of a man in London, prompts an ambitious lawyer to disregard both legan and moral principles. His concern for his own career puts an innocent man's life in jeopardy.
May 5, 1955
A courageous nun suffers ordeals while trying to escape from behind the Iron Curtain.
May 19, 1955
A Scottish student has the historical Stone of Scone stolen from Westminster Abbey. His purpose is to get England to recognize Scotland's independence.
May 26, 1955
An American, in the Italian Army during World War I, who meets a nurse and falls in love with her. Together they try to find a haven from the turbulence around them.
June 2, 1955
The life of an ordinary, mild-mannered man is changed when he identifies the murderer of his employer's brother.
June 16, 1955
A gold miner returns to his righteous California hometown, circa1857. He has great wealth, but also a burdened conscious; he has killed a man.
June 23, 1955
All the pent-up prejudices and hatreds of postwar Europe are revived when a Nazi lieutenant recovers consciousness in a British hospital after being in a coma for years.
June 30, 1955
No overview available.
July 7, 1955
A handsome, devil-may-care fortune hunter [from South America] makes his home with a well-to-do Southern family. He is attracted at first to the daughter, until he discovers the mother is the one who holds the key to the family fortune.
July 14, 1955
No overview available.
July 21, 1955
A brilliant surgeon, burdened with a self-centered wife and a beautiful heiress who's in love with him, becomes tormented by doubts about his ability after losing a patient during a difficult operation.
July 28, 1955
Classic Stevenson tale of a scientist whose experiments into the duality of man transform him into the misshapen, murderous Mr. Hyde.
August 4, 1955
In 1937, the members of a jazz ensemble come to the aid of one of their colleagues who is stricken with tuberculosis.
August 11, 1955
A small town banker and his family are threatened with death if he identifies the leader of the gang that tried to rob his bank.
August 18, 1955
True story of ballplayer battling mental illness and domineering father.
August 25, 1955
A teenage boy gets into a dispute with an abusive movie theater manager Mr. Grubbs. The boy's father Tom Ditmar accepts the manager's somewhat twisted version of the incident and doesn't give his son a chance to explain his side of the matter.