Season 1 (1953)

Trial Run
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September 20, 1953

The first episode of the series, explaining the letter anthology format. A shop girl is courted by a man whose family looks down u...Read more

The Mirror
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September 27, 1953

A spoiled and selfish woman goes without her husband to a vacation home and is tormented by a woman escaped from a mental institut...Read more

Prisoner at One O'Clock
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October 4, 1953

A young man is accused of murder in a small Western town, but the sheriff's wife believes him innocent, while the townspeople form...Read more

Girl on a Flagpole
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October 11, 1953

A teacher publicly opposes a candidate, only to be romanced by him, much to the chagrin of her boyfriend.

Turn of the Card
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October 18, 1953

A shipboard con artist falls for his mark.

Earthquake
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October 25, 1953

A man using an iron lung who has lost hope regains his will through the efforts of his wife to keep him breathing when an earthqua...Read more

The One That Got Away
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November 1, 1953

The glowing, tiresome reminisces of a wife and mother about her now-famous former beau and his devotion to her comes to a head.

Kid Stuff
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November 8, 1953

Two widowed parents fall in love but feel their relationship might be hampered by their lively young children.

The Bronte Story
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November 15, 1953

Charlotte Bronte struggles to cope with her controlling and oppressive father even as it interferes with her courtship with and ma...Read more

Thanksgiving in Beaver Run
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November 22, 1953

The kidnapping of a boy by young toughs takes an unexpected turn when one of the hoodlums befriends the boy.

Love Story
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November 29, 1953 • 30m

An aspiring actress falls in love with a clown and marries him, but then she's ashamed to be publicly associated with him.

Laughing Boy
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December 6, 1953

Glass-jawed Walter Stone attempts to rescue Kay Coughlin from a purse snatcher, but he gets hurt instead. Kay nurses him back to h...Read more

The Faith of Chata
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December 13, 1953

A little girl in a Mexican village falls desperately ill and places her faith in God through her patron saint, regardless of wheth...Read more

The Night My Father Came Home
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December 20, 1953

Charming holiday story about a small boy who frequents a postal station, chatting incessantly with a disillusioned laborer.

Hotel Irritant
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December 27, 1953 • 30m

Corporate hotel snoop Sally Webster creates unpleasant situations in a hotel to test its operation while becoming impressed with t...Read more

Inga
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January 3, 1954

Indomitable Inga Helborg convinces a bank president to conditionally reverse the foreclosure of the family farm and takes labor fr...Read more

Lady Killer
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January 10, 1954 • 30m

A mystery writer discovers she is marked for death.

Secret Answer
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January 17, 1954

A spirited wife challenges the stodgy attitudes of researcher husband by refusing to respond to one of his survey questions: "If y...Read more

Big Little Lie
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January 24, 1954

Beverly Washburn plays a lonely schoolgirl whose decision to start a rumor about her mother turns into classroom blackmail. Jeanne...Read more

The Hollywood Story
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January 31, 1954

Madge Mason based on her prowess as a local actress in a small Iowa town goes to Hollywood and meets with only modest success but ...Read more

A Family Out of Us
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February 7, 1954

The son of an affluent couple, whose father has little time for him, joins the Cub Scouts.

Act of Faith
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February 14, 1954

Eddie Albert plays a mild-mannered soul whose happy marriage to an earthy woman seems to be coming to an end.

The New York Story
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February 28, 1954

A glamorous mother and wife who dallies with other men's attention takes her own husband and son for granted. Clever opening schoo...Read more

Nobody's Boy
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March 7, 1954

Fictionalized story of a Chicago juvenile delinquent who meets Jack Robbins, founder of the BBR, a boy's club that still exists to...Read more

The Count of Ten
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March 14, 1954

Tiger Tipton retired from a successful boxing career at his wife's insistence. Now broke from her expensive medical care, he arran...Read more

The Clara Schumann Story
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March 21, 1954

The great composer and his concert pianist wife, whose seemingly idyllic marriage descends into mental breakdown.

Son, This is Your Father
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March 28, 1954

Flashbacks tell the story of a charming but irresponsible ex-husband who re-enters the lives of his wife and son. The father/son r...Read more

The First Man to Ask Her
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April 4, 1954

Offbeat comic tale of a sheltered young woman whose house is turned upside down by an eccentric lady, her cowboy son -- and his ho...Read more

Man's Estate
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April 11, 1954

Profile of a teenager who wants to be treated as an adult.

Forest Ranger
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April 18, 1954

A forest ranger's wife unknowing allows into her house an escaped convict who seeks revenge on her husband.

The Enchanted Schoolteacher
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April 25, 1954

A near-sighted, reclusive teacher is romanced by the father of her shyest pupil and discovers what she's been missing.

The Judgment
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May 2, 1954

A woman is plagued by guilt when her politician husband killed a pedestrian in a car accident. Instead of taking responsibility, h...Read more

Oh, My Aching Heart
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May 9, 1954

Nora is hired as a secretary under the condition that she disguise herself to be old and unattractive, so as not to distract her b...Read more

Dear Midge
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May 16, 1954

Midge is an unmarried social worker with an overactive imagination, including having a curmudgeonly fairy to guide her. Her fairy ...Read more

Something Always Happens
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May 23, 1954

A young widow's beau won't marry her until he establishes some financial capital, so she deceives him into believing he won a $5000 raffle.

Lady in Wet Paint
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May 30, 1954

A new teacher in a remote Native American community struggles to get children out of work and into school, and she ends up instiga...Read more