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E1 Episode 1: Revenge

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• Sep 10, 1957

A school teacher from Massachusetts comes to a small western town to marry a young homesteader, but finds that he's been murdered. The jury frees the murderer on a phony plea of self-defense. Determined to see justice done, she decides to stay in town as a constant irritant to the murderer's conscience. She makes him so crazy, he picks a fight with one of his friends and is killed. Dismayed by her own vengefulness, the teacher decides that justice would be better served by true social reform. She campaigns successfully for women to be selected as jurors, which results in the second murderer being convicted and sent to prison.

E2 Episode 2: Here Lies Francois Gold

• Sep 17, 1957

E3 Episode 3: Campaign For Marriage

• Sep 24, 1957

E4 Episode 4: The Gadfly

• Oct 1, 1957

E5 Episode 5: Hole in the Wall

• Oct 8, 1957

E6 Episode 6: The Man the Navy Couldn't Sink

• Oct 15, 1957

E7 Episode 7: Under Seventeen

• Oct 22, 1957

E8 Episode 8: The Other Van Gogh

• Oct 29, 1957

E9 Episode 9: Arithmetic Sailor

• Nov 5, 1957

E10 Episode 10: I Get Along Without You Very Well

• Nov 12, 1957

Composer Hoagy Carmichael relates the story of a song inspired by an anonymous poem, I get along without you very well. The year is 1938. Hoagy is asked to write a song to be introduced on Dick Powell's radio show. While going through his files, Hoagy discovers a nearly forgotten poem and promises a melody for it. He remembers little about the source of the poem except that a girl gave it to him at a college sorority party several years before. But the lyricist must grant permission before the music can be cleared for use on the radio. There ensues a desperate nation-wide search, aided by the broadcasts of Walter Winchell to find the author before air time.

E11 Episode 11: Alice's Wedding Gown

• Nov 19, 1957

E12 Episode 12: The Rescue

• Nov 26, 1957

E13 Episode 13: Novel Appeal

• Dec 3, 1957

An author frees an innocent man from prison.

E14 Episode 14: Sam Houston's Decision

• Dec 10, 1957

E15 Episode 15: The Frying Pan

• Dec 17, 1957

E16 Episode 16: A Picture of the Magi

• Dec 24, 1957

E17 Episode 17: Death of a Nobody

• Dec 31, 1957

E18 Episode 18: Abby, Julia and the Seven Pet Cows

• Jan 7, 1958

E19 Episode 19: Cavalry Surgeon

• Jan 14, 1958

The story of a military surgeon who in a moment of crisis has to perform an action repugnant to his very nature. The story of a cavalry skirmish in the Mexican War and of two men who fought with different philosophies and methods toward the same end. One lived heroically and one died a hero.

E20 Episode 20: A Stubborn Fool

• Jan 21, 1958

E21 Episode 21: Flight for Life

• Jan 28, 1958

E22 Episode 22: The Immortal Eye

• Feb 4, 1958

A baby is born with an incurable ailment, and given only three months to live. The young mother decides that when the baby dies, its eyes must be donated to the eye bank.

E23 Episode 23: Recipe for Success

• Feb 11, 1958

Renowned chef Henri Charpentier--the man who invented Crepes Suzette--recalls the "good old days" with famed actress Sarah Bernhardt. He recalls for her how he went from being one of the world's most famous--and richest--chefs to his situation now, with his business gone and his once considerable fortune dissipated.

E24 Episode 24: The Checkered Flag

• Feb 18, 1958

Story of an unsung racing mechanic who because of a club foot, has never dared to race himself. All he needed was the confidence in himself to succeed. Based on the true story of Bud and Gina Hand.

E25 Episode 25: The Vestris

• Feb 25, 1958

In the spring of 1828, the bark Vestris, is 16 days out enroute from England to Boston. The weather is fair, but the captain's ailing wife suddenly has a vision telling her (in a message written on a blackboard) to have the ship change course. At first the captain refuses, but when the weather changes and his wife becomes sicker, he reluctantly agrees. As a result, they find and rescue three survivors of a shipwreck. One of the three is a doctor, and appears to be the ""spirit"" seen by the wife. He saves her life. As it turns out, the message on the blackboard is in his handwriting. Curiously, the doctor is as puzzled as everyone else by the wife's vision.

E26 Episode 26: War Against War

• Mar 4, 1958

E27 Episode 27: The Quality of Mercy

• Mar 11, 1958

E28 Episode 28: Man of Principle

• Mar 25, 1958

Hiero II, king of ancient Syracuse, orders a gold crown to be made as an offering to the gods. The gold is delivered to a goldsmith and the man's wife persuades him to substitute silver for some of the gold.

E29 Episode 29: Trail Blazer

• Apr 1, 1958