In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with anti-Semitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first. Air Date : 25th-Sep-1958  Read More

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together. Air Date : 2nd-Oct-1958  Read More

William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the characters drift in and out of the bar and each other's lives, giving voice to Saroyan's philosophies as they randomly comment about the impending world war, the beauty of art, and traditional notions of good and evil. Air Date : 9th-Oct-1958  Read More

Air Date : 16th-Oct-1958  Read More

An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals. Air Date : 23rd-Oct-1958  Read More

A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis. Air Date : 30th-Oct-1958  Read More

A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul. Air Date : 6th-Nov-1958  Read More

To fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts. Air Date : 20th-Nov-1958  Read More

After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service. Air Date : 27th-Nov-1958  Read More

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The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929. Air Date : 11th-Dec-1958  Read More

This telecast of George Balanchine's famous production was broadcast only four years after it was premiered by the New York City Ballet. This was the only episode of the series televised in color. Air Date : 25th-Dec-1958  Read More

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An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without. Air Date : 8th-Jan-1959  Read More

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Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time. Air Date : 22nd-Jan-1959  Read More

A few friends meet each weekend for a quiet game of cards. But they're bored with poker and, in trying to find another diversion, gradually find themselves plotting a hypothetical murder. It is hypothetical, isn't it? Air Date : 29th-Jan-1959  Read More

War deprives Tanguy of his childhood. When his mother returns to Spain to oppose the Franco regime, he is left in Nazi-occupied Marseilles, France. Air Date : 5th-Feb-1959  Read More

Air Date : 12th-Feb-1959  Read More

A corporate raider plans a hostile takeover. To stall him, pressure is put on a scientist to rush through a new type of engine before all necessary tests have been completed. Air Date : 19th-Feb-1959  Read More

A housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her. Air Date : 26th-Feb-1959  Read More

A young soldier in occupied Japan after World War II falls in love with a lovely Japanese girl, but is horrified about what his prejudiced family in Philadelphia will think if he takes her home with him. Air Date : 5th-Mar-1959  Read More

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge. Air Date : 12th-Mar-1959  Read More

The completion of the mission has tragic consequences. Air Date : 19th-Mar-1959  Read More

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In the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice. Air Date : 16th-Apr-1959  Read More

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During World War II, an army doctor struggles to convert a Franciscan monastery into a field hospital. Air Date : 30th-Apr-1959  Read More

The daily emergencies and stresses of a major city's hospital ward as seen through the eyes of nurse Gail Lucas. Air Date : 7th-May-1959  Read More