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Season 6, 51 episodes

Episode 1: Paradise Junction
- Now playing
- Sep 1, 1953
The story of a traveling circus and its unhappy owner.
Episode 2: Reign of Terror
- Sep 8, 1953
An innocent woman is sentenced to death during the French Revolution.
Episode 3: The Darkest Night
- Sep 15, 1953
Murder and blackmail ruin a bride-to-be's bridal shower.
Episode 4: The Riddle of Mayerling
- Sep 22, 1953
A dramatic adaptation of the famous and true story of a commoner's ill-fated romance with the Archduke Rudolph of Hapsburg.
Episode 5: The Sister
- Sep 29, 1953
The tragic tale of a pair of recluses whose lives are brought into focus for the first time after years of frustration and jealousy.
Episode 6: Death at Skirerud Pond
- Oct 6, 1953
The story of a tense trial in Norway when a jury was asked to remember what it was like in their homeland during the war. The actual verdict is revealed at the end of the program.
Episode 7: The Accounting
- Oct 13, 1953
The story of a corrupt supply captain, son of an illustrious military hero, and a fiercely loyal major who challenges him to a duel to preserve the family's honor.
Episode 8: The Valley of the Kings
- Oct 20, 1953
The tense story of an archaeological expedition searching for the tomb of King Tutmose. They finally find it and its treasures untouched; but then the curse of the Pharaoh on anyone defiling his tomb's sacred precincts begin to strike.
Episode 9: The Others
- Oct 27, 1953
Episode 10: The Interruption
- Nov 3, 1953
An English gentleman gloats over the murder of his wife only to learn that his evil housekeeper knows his secret.
Episode 11: Needle in a Haystack
- Nov 10, 1953
The behind-the-scenes story of how the U. S. Navy ferreted out the secret of Communist minefields in Wonsan Harbor, enabling minesweepers to clear the way for the safe landing of 22,000 Marines.
Episode 12: The Newcomer
- Nov 17, 1953
A story of a brash stranger in a small Western town who changes his ways when arrested for the murder of a local belle.
Episode 13: My Short Walk to Freedom
- Nov 24, 1953
When a fugitive from a Russian concentration camp is cornered in his Budapest home, he disguises himself and his brother to try a get beyond the Iron Curtain.
Episode 14: Laugh It Off
- Dec 1, 1953
A kindly young man believes a girl's story that she is marked for murder and risks his life to save her, despite warnings from friends that she is a habitual liar and thrill-seeker.
Episode 15: The Dance
- Dec 8, 1953
This episode is a remake of an episode previously shown on the series. This episode and the previous one were both shown live and featured different casts.
Episode 16: Cagliostro and the Chess Player
- Dec 15, 1953
A dramatization based on the life of the 18th Century Italian magician, Count Alessandro di Cagliostro. The cunning magician inveigles King Stanislaus into a chess game with his mechanical genius. That, in the end, becomes his downfall.
Episode 17: The Gift of Fear
- Dec 22, 1953
A little boy in a department store and a night watchman who likes toys better than people are featured in this odd Christmas tale.
Episode 18: Mr. Nobody
- Dec 29, 1953
A wealthy, vicious woman turns a goodhearted but naive tramp into a pawn in her evil plans.
Episode 19: Diamonds in the Sky
- Jan 5, 1954
A gang of smugglers, diamonds and a beautiful woman add up to trouble for the pilot on a trans-Atlantic flight.
Episode 20: The Scrap Iron Curtain
- Jan 12, 1954
The true story of Baclav Uhlik, a Czech machinist who built an armored car and last July transported his wife, two children and four friends 40 miles through the Bohemian forests to the town of Waldmeunchen in the western zone of Germany.
Episode 21: The Haunted
- Jan 19, 1954
The second wife of a ski-lodge owner suspects her husband of the murder of his first wife.
Episode 22: An Affair With a Ghost
- Jan 26, 1954
A dead French underground leader returns to save a band of hostages when a Nazi collaborator goes back on his promise.
Episode 23: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
- Feb 2, 1954
A drama based on the hoax of Canadian George DuPre, who claimed service in the French underground as a British intelligence officer during World War II.
Episode 24: The Moonstone
- Feb 9, 1954
A precious stone taken from India is coveted by many parties.
Episode 25: The Execution
- Feb 16, 1954
Her son's heroic death in battle unseals the lips of a mother about a 10-year-old tragedy involving her brutal husband.
Episode 26: Death on the Screen
- Feb 23, 1954
A frantic wife sits by her TV set, watching a public dinner where a deranged man is getting ready to kill her husband.
Episode 27: I Do Solemnly Swear
- Mar 2, 1954
The story of the first woman juror in the United States, in 1870 in Laramie, Wyoming.
Episode 28: Before the Act
- Mar 9, 1954
A young bank official is the intended scapegoat of a carefully designed plan to rob the vault of $100,000.
Episode 29: The Fourth Degree
- Mar 16, 1954
A psychiatrist makes a weird experiment in a last ditch attempt to get a key witness in a homicide case to talk.
Episode 30: The Tenth Reunion
- Mar 23, 1954
A college reunion crowd discover that one of the gang has been missing since graduation. Those present have had reasons to do away with her.
Episode 31: Torment
- Mar 30, 1954
Behind the Iron Curtain, a condemned prisoner's wife tries to save him by appealing to an old friend, the police chief.
Episode 32: Open Transom
- Apr 6, 1954
Episode 33: Operation: Barracuda
- Apr 13, 1954
Operation:Barracuda is a 1954 TV episode or short film directed by Robert Mulligan. "The heartless captain of a German u-boat crashes his vessel along the Atlantic coast at the close of WWII. Only the captain and his lieutenant escape the sinking vessel containing the personal fortune of Nazi leader Herman Goering. After eight years, the captain returns to salvage the loot and tries to recruit his former shipmate in the effort." - Episode Summary from TV.com
Episode 34: The Return Journey
- Apr 20, 1954
A window washer is tempted by an unguarded amount of money and realizes the error in his judgment all too soon.
Episode 35: The Terror Begins
- Apr 27, 1954
The story of how Stalin held a grip on the Russian people after assassinating S.M. Kirov.
Episode 36: Smoke
- May 4, 1954
The two sons of a disgusting and destructive old man stand to benefit as a result of his violent death.
Episode 37: Operation: Nightmare
- May 11, 1954
A dramatization of the heroics of nurse Ann Bernatitus during the Battle of Bataan.
Episode 38: Breakout
- May 18, 1954
A prison riot breaks out and a guard is taken hostage. The inmates want the keys to the main gate in exchange for the guard.
Episode 39: Fingerprints
- May 25, 1954
A true story taken from the cases of Alfonse Bertillon, chief of the Identification Bureau of the Paris Police in the early 1900's. Bertillon invented the first system of crime detection through the use of physical features.
Episode 40: Race Against Murder
- Jun 1, 1954
A young doctor leaves his practice to find a cure for polio after watching his patients suffer.
Episode 41: North Side
- Jun 8, 1954
The true story of the workings of a New York homicide squad as it goes about the solution of a brutal murder.
Episode 42: The Pistol Shot
- Jun 15, 1954
An Army Captain wants revenge on a fellow officer in 19th century Russia. The young Captain has bested him in cards and love.
Episode 43: String
- Jun 22, 1954
Thirty men in a secret unit, started by President Roosevelt during World War II, are captured and tortured at the Belsen concentration camp before escaping.
Episode 44: The Hunted
- Jun 29, 1954
An unethical hunter is caught shooting a tame animal on a wildlife preserve. The game warden delivers an unexpected punishment: three bullets and a ten minute head start.
Episode 45: The Girl in Car Thirty-Two
- Jul 6, 1954
An investigator puts his life in danger after he falls for the woman he is tailing.
Episode 46: Conversation at an Inn
- Jul 13, 1954
A bicyclist makes up fantastic tales of murder on "clues" she finds along her rides. When she finds a shoe and a lighter, she tells an elaborate tale that turns out to be very close to the truth.
Episode 47: Once a Killer
- Jul 20, 1954
A woman's faith in a hoodlum is destroyed when the police prevail upon her to get him to surrender.
Episode 48: Main Feature: Death
- Jul 27, 1954
A woman gets locked in movie theater by mistake and encounters a pair of killers who break in to rob the safe.
Episode 49: The Last Stand
- Aug 3, 1954
A would-be recluse's best friend discovers gold on his land. He realizes his only security is his friend's death, but he is thwarted in the effort of murder by some fast-traveling news.
Episode 50: The Iron Cop
- Aug 10, 1954
A policeman's niece is murdered. He resolves to find the killer but has to pit his wits against an "electronic brain" to do so.
Episode 51: Barn Burning
- Aug 17, 1954
A mentally incapacitated war hero seeks revenge against society.

1949 to 1954
6 seasons
25m per episode
Drama

5.1TMDB(12)

Overview

An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens all had stories adapted for the series, while contemporary authors such as Roald Dahl and Gore Vidal also contributed.

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Ran for 6 seasons and 262 episodes (1949 to 1954)
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Music by Henry (Hank) Sylvern
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Status: Ended
Seasons: 6
Episodes: 262
First aired: January 6, 1949
Last aired: August 17, 1954
Original language: English
Countries: US

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Episodes

Season 6, 51 episodes

Episode 1: Paradise Junction
- Now playing
- Sep 1, 1953
The story of a traveling circus and its unhappy owner.
Episode 2: Reign of Terror
- Sep 8, 1953
An innocent woman is sentenced to death during the French Revolution.
Episode 3: The Darkest Night
- Sep 15, 1953
Murder and blackmail ruin a bride-to-be's bridal shower.
Episode 4: The Riddle of Mayerling
- Sep 22, 1953
A dramatic adaptation of the famous and true story of a commoner's ill-fated romance with the Archduke Rudolph of Hapsburg.
Episode 5: The Sister
- Sep 29, 1953
The tragic tale of a pair of recluses whose lives are brought into focus for the first time after years of frustration and jealousy.
Episode 6: Death at Skirerud Pond
- Oct 6, 1953
The story of a tense trial in Norway when a jury was asked to remember what it was like in their homeland during the war. The actual verdict is revealed at the end of the program.
Episode 7: The Accounting
- Oct 13, 1953
The story of a corrupt supply captain, son of an illustrious military hero, and a fiercely loyal major who challenges him to a duel to preserve the family's honor.
Episode 8: The Valley of the Kings
- Oct 20, 1953
The tense story of an archaeological expedition searching for the tomb of King Tutmose. They finally find it and its treasures untouched; but then the curse of the Pharaoh on anyone defiling his tomb's sacred precincts begin to strike.
Episode 9: The Others
- Oct 27, 1953
Episode 10: The Interruption
- Nov 3, 1953
An English gentleman gloats over the murder of his wife only to learn that his evil housekeeper knows his secret.
Episode 11: Needle in a Haystack
- Nov 10, 1953
The behind-the-scenes story of how the U. S. Navy ferreted out the secret of Communist minefields in Wonsan Harbor, enabling minesweepers to clear the way for the safe landing of 22,000 Marines.
Episode 12: The Newcomer
- Nov 17, 1953
A story of a brash stranger in a small Western town who changes his ways when arrested for the murder of a local belle.
Episode 13: My Short Walk to Freedom
- Nov 24, 1953
When a fugitive from a Russian concentration camp is cornered in his Budapest home, he disguises himself and his brother to try a get beyond the Iron Curtain.
Episode 14: Laugh It Off
- Dec 1, 1953
A kindly young man believes a girl's story that she is marked for murder and risks his life to save her, despite warnings from friends that she is a habitual liar and thrill-seeker.
Episode 15: The Dance
- Dec 8, 1953
This episode is a remake of an episode previously shown on the series. This episode and the previous one were both shown live and featured different casts.
Episode 16: Cagliostro and the Chess Player
- Dec 15, 1953
A dramatization based on the life of the 18th Century Italian magician, Count Alessandro di Cagliostro. The cunning magician inveigles King Stanislaus into a chess game with his mechanical genius. That, in the end, becomes his downfall.
Episode 17: The Gift of Fear
- Dec 22, 1953
A little boy in a department store and a night watchman who likes toys better than people are featured in this odd Christmas tale.
Episode 18: Mr. Nobody
- Dec 29, 1953
A wealthy, vicious woman turns a goodhearted but naive tramp into a pawn in her evil plans.
Episode 19: Diamonds in the Sky
- Jan 5, 1954
A gang of smugglers, diamonds and a beautiful woman add up to trouble for the pilot on a trans-Atlantic flight.
Episode 20: The Scrap Iron Curtain
- Jan 12, 1954
The true story of Baclav Uhlik, a Czech machinist who built an armored car and last July transported his wife, two children and four friends 40 miles through the Bohemian forests to the town of Waldmeunchen in the western zone of Germany.
Episode 21: The Haunted
- Jan 19, 1954
The second wife of a ski-lodge owner suspects her husband of the murder of his first wife.
Episode 22: An Affair With a Ghost
- Jan 26, 1954
A dead French underground leader returns to save a band of hostages when a Nazi collaborator goes back on his promise.
Episode 23: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
- Feb 2, 1954
A drama based on the hoax of Canadian George DuPre, who claimed service in the French underground as a British intelligence officer during World War II.
Episode 24: The Moonstone
- Feb 9, 1954
A precious stone taken from India is coveted by many parties.
Episode 25: The Execution
- Feb 16, 1954
Her son's heroic death in battle unseals the lips of a mother about a 10-year-old tragedy involving her brutal husband.
Episode 26: Death on the Screen
- Feb 23, 1954
A frantic wife sits by her TV set, watching a public dinner where a deranged man is getting ready to kill her husband.
Episode 27: I Do Solemnly Swear
- Mar 2, 1954
The story of the first woman juror in the United States, in 1870 in Laramie, Wyoming.
Episode 28: Before the Act
- Mar 9, 1954
A young bank official is the intended scapegoat of a carefully designed plan to rob the vault of $100,000.
Episode 29: The Fourth Degree
- Mar 16, 1954
A psychiatrist makes a weird experiment in a last ditch attempt to get a key witness in a homicide case to talk.
Episode 30: The Tenth Reunion
- Mar 23, 1954
A college reunion crowd discover that one of the gang has been missing since graduation. Those present have had reasons to do away with her.
Episode 31: Torment
- Mar 30, 1954
Behind the Iron Curtain, a condemned prisoner's wife tries to save him by appealing to an old friend, the police chief.
Episode 32: Open Transom
- Apr 6, 1954
Episode 33: Operation: Barracuda
- Apr 13, 1954
Operation:Barracuda is a 1954 TV episode or short film directed by Robert Mulligan. "The heartless captain of a German u-boat crashes his vessel along the Atlantic coast at the close of WWII. Only the captain and his lieutenant escape the sinking vessel containing the personal fortune of Nazi leader Herman Goering. After eight years, the captain returns to salvage the loot and tries to recruit his former shipmate in the effort." - Episode Summary from TV.com
Episode 34: The Return Journey
- Apr 20, 1954
A window washer is tempted by an unguarded amount of money and realizes the error in his judgment all too soon.
Episode 35: The Terror Begins
- Apr 27, 1954
The story of how Stalin held a grip on the Russian people after assassinating S.M. Kirov.
Episode 36: Smoke
- May 4, 1954
The two sons of a disgusting and destructive old man stand to benefit as a result of his violent death.
Episode 37: Operation: Nightmare
- May 11, 1954
A dramatization of the heroics of nurse Ann Bernatitus during the Battle of Bataan.
Episode 38: Breakout
- May 18, 1954
A prison riot breaks out and a guard is taken hostage. The inmates want the keys to the main gate in exchange for the guard.
Episode 39: Fingerprints
- May 25, 1954
A true story taken from the cases of Alfonse Bertillon, chief of the Identification Bureau of the Paris Police in the early 1900's. Bertillon invented the first system of crime detection through the use of physical features.
Episode 40: Race Against Murder
- Jun 1, 1954
A young doctor leaves his practice to find a cure for polio after watching his patients suffer.
Episode 41: North Side
- Jun 8, 1954
The true story of the workings of a New York homicide squad as it goes about the solution of a brutal murder.
Episode 42: The Pistol Shot
- Jun 15, 1954
An Army Captain wants revenge on a fellow officer in 19th century Russia. The young Captain has bested him in cards and love.
Episode 43: String
- Jun 22, 1954
Thirty men in a secret unit, started by President Roosevelt during World War II, are captured and tortured at the Belsen concentration camp before escaping.
Episode 44: The Hunted
- Jun 29, 1954
An unethical hunter is caught shooting a tame animal on a wildlife preserve. The game warden delivers an unexpected punishment: three bullets and a ten minute head start.
Episode 45: The Girl in Car Thirty-Two
- Jul 6, 1954
An investigator puts his life in danger after he falls for the woman he is tailing.
Episode 46: Conversation at an Inn
- Jul 13, 1954
A bicyclist makes up fantastic tales of murder on "clues" she finds along her rides. When she finds a shoe and a lighter, she tells an elaborate tale that turns out to be very close to the truth.
Episode 47: Once a Killer
- Jul 20, 1954
A woman's faith in a hoodlum is destroyed when the police prevail upon her to get him to surrender.
Episode 48: Main Feature: Death
- Jul 27, 1954
A woman gets locked in movie theater by mistake and encounters a pair of killers who break in to rob the safe.
Episode 49: The Last Stand
- Aug 3, 1954
A would-be recluse's best friend discovers gold on his land. He realizes his only security is his friend's death, but he is thwarted in the effort of murder by some fast-traveling news.
Episode 50: The Iron Cop
- Aug 10, 1954
A policeman's niece is murdered. He resolves to find the killer but has to pit his wits against an "electronic brain" to do so.
Episode 51: Barn Burning
- Aug 17, 1954
A mentally incapacitated war hero seeks revenge against society.

Episodes

E1 Episode 1: Paradise Junction

E2 Episode 2: Reign of Terror

E3 Episode 3: The Darkest Night

E4 Episode 4: The Riddle of Mayerling

E5 Episode 5: The Sister

E6 Episode 6: Death at Skirerud Pond

E7 Episode 7: The Accounting

E8 Episode 8: The Valley of the Kings

E9 Episode 9: The Others

E10 Episode 10: The Interruption

E11 Episode 11: Needle in a Haystack

E12 Episode 12: The Newcomer

E13 Episode 13: My Short Walk to Freedom

E14 Episode 14: Laugh It Off

E15 Episode 15: The Dance

E16 Episode 16: Cagliostro and the Chess Player

E17 Episode 17: The Gift of Fear

E18 Episode 18: Mr. Nobody

E19 Episode 19: Diamonds in the Sky

E20 Episode 20: The Scrap Iron Curtain

E21 Episode 21: The Haunted

E22 Episode 22: An Affair With a Ghost

E23 Episode 23: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

E24 Episode 24: The Moonstone

E25 Episode 25: The Execution

E26 Episode 26: Death on the Screen

E27 Episode 27: I Do Solemnly Swear

E28 Episode 28: Before the Act

E29 Episode 29: The Fourth Degree

E30 Episode 30: The Tenth Reunion

E31 Episode 31: Torment

E32 Episode 32: Open Transom

E33 Episode 33: Operation: Barracuda

E34 Episode 34: The Return Journey

E35 Episode 35: The Terror Begins

E36 Episode 36: Smoke

E37 Episode 37: Operation: Nightmare

E38 Episode 38: Breakout

E39 Episode 39: Fingerprints

E40 Episode 40: Race Against Murder

E41 Episode 41: North Side

E42 Episode 42: The Pistol Shot

E43 Episode 43: String

E44 Episode 44: The Hunted

E45 Episode 45: The Girl in Car Thirty-Two

E46 Episode 46: Conversation at an Inn

E47 Episode 47: Once a Killer

E48 Episode 48: Main Feature: Death

E49 Episode 49: The Last Stand

E50 Episode 50: The Iron Cop

E51 Episode 51: Barn Burning

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E1 Episode 1: Paradise Junction

E2 Episode 2: Reign of Terror

E3 Episode 3: The Darkest Night

E4 Episode 4: The Riddle of Mayerling

E5 Episode 5: The Sister

E6 Episode 6: Death at Skirerud Pond

E7 Episode 7: The Accounting

E8 Episode 8: The Valley of the Kings

E9 Episode 9: The Others

E10 Episode 10: The Interruption

E11 Episode 11: Needle in a Haystack

E12 Episode 12: The Newcomer

E13 Episode 13: My Short Walk to Freedom

E14 Episode 14: Laugh It Off

E15 Episode 15: The Dance

E16 Episode 16: Cagliostro and the Chess Player

E17 Episode 17: The Gift of Fear

E18 Episode 18: Mr. Nobody

E19 Episode 19: Diamonds in the Sky

Episode 1: Paradise Junction

Episode 2: Reign of Terror

Episode 3: The Darkest Night

Episode 4: The Riddle of Mayerling

Episode 5: The Sister

Episode 6: Death at Skirerud Pond

Episode 7: The Accounting

Episode 8: The Valley of the Kings

Episode 9: The Others

Episode 10: The Interruption

Episode 11: Needle in a Haystack

Episode 12: The Newcomer

Episode 13: My Short Walk to Freedom

Episode 14: Laugh It Off

Episode 15: The Dance

Episode 16: Cagliostro and the Chess Player

Episode 17: The Gift of Fear

Episode 18: Mr. Nobody

Episode 19: Diamonds in the Sky

Episode 20: The Scrap Iron Curtain

Episode 21: The Haunted

Episode 22: An Affair With a Ghost

Episode 23: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

Episode 24: The Moonstone

Episode 25: The Execution

Episode 26: Death on the Screen

Episode 27: I Do Solemnly Swear

Episode 28: Before the Act

Episode 29: The Fourth Degree

Episode 30: The Tenth Reunion

Episode 31: Torment

Episode 32: Open Transom

Episode 33: Operation: Barracuda

Episode 34: The Return Journey

Episode 35: The Terror Begins

Episode 36: Smoke

Episode 37: Operation: Nightmare

Episode 38: Breakout

Episode 39: Fingerprints

Episode 40: Race Against Murder

Episode 41: North Side

Episode 42: The Pistol Shot

Episode 43: String

Episode 44: The Hunted

Episode 45: The Girl in Car Thirty-Two

Episode 46: Conversation at an Inn

Episode 47: Once a Killer

Episode 48: Main Feature: Death

Episode 49: The Last Stand

Episode 50: The Iron Cop

Episode 51: Barn Burning

Episode 1: Paradise Junction

Episode 2: Reign of Terror

Episode 3: The Darkest Night

Episode 4: The Riddle of Mayerling

Episode 5: The Sister

Episode 6: Death at Skirerud Pond

Episode 7: The Accounting

Episode 8: The Valley of the Kings

Episode 9: The Others

Episode 10: The Interruption

Episode 11: Needle in a Haystack

Episode 12: The Newcomer

Episode 13: My Short Walk to Freedom

Episode 14: Laugh It Off

Episode 15: The Dance

Episode 16: Cagliostro and the Chess Player

Episode 17: The Gift of Fear

Episode 18: Mr. Nobody

Episode 19: Diamonds in the Sky

Episode 20: The Scrap Iron Curtain

Episode 21: The Haunted

Episode 22: An Affair With a Ghost

Episode 23: The Man Who Wouldn't Talk

Episode 24: The Moonstone

Episode 25: The Execution

Episode 26: Death on the Screen

Episode 27: I Do Solemnly Swear

Episode 28: Before the Act

Episode 29: The Fourth Degree