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4 seasons · 102 episodesSeason 126 ep. · 1963–1964
Episode 1: A Killing At Sundial
Oct 4, 1963
A young interloper comes between a disgruntled wife and her older husband.
Episode 2: Something About Lee Wiley
Oct 11, 1963
The story of jazz singer Lee Wiley, her failed marriage to bandleader Jess Stacy.
Episode 3: Seven Miles of Bad Road
Oct 18, 1963
In a small southern town, the sheriff's wife is attracted to handsome Gabe Flanders, who is hitchhiking to California. Trouble ensues.
Episode 4: Four Kings
Nov 1, 1963
Four prisoners, who are all serving life sentences, are pulled out of jail by the US military and given an opportunity for a pardon. They are expected to do is sneak into Germany and steal the secret plans for the V2 missile.
Episode 5: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Nov 8, 1963
Under Stalin, it was inconceivable that anyone could publish a book attacking Soviet injustice. But under Khrushchev, a limited but distinct thaw has taken place. Prime evidence of this change was open publication of One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, an exposé of Stalin's labor camps where the author, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, himself did time. Tonight's adaptation of the novel is set in 1951 in Siberia. A group of prisoners persuade the authorities to transfer them to warmer work by promising to top the previous work record on the first day. But if they fail, it's back to laying barbed wire in the snow. One officer, Lieutenant Volkovoi, would like nothing better.
Episode 6: The House Next Door
Nov 15, 1963
Easterner George Warren thinks he has made quite a steal when he purchases a home in fashionable Waverly Hills, Cal. George is unaware that his next-door neighbor is mobster Ernie Santee.
Episode 7: The Fifth Passenger
Nov 29, 1963
A British Intelligence Officer suspects a Naval War Hero of giving secret information to the Soviets.
Episode 8: The Candidate
Dec 6, 1963
Things seem to be closing in on campaign manager Parker Hite: he can't get any supporters for his candidate, and his marriage is beginning to collapse.
Episode 9: It's Mental Work
Dec 20, 1963
Ernie Wigman is tired of the bar he owns and wants to get rid of it. Rich, his bartender, might be a good customer for it, only Rich doesn't seem to have the cash.
Episode 10: Corridor 400
Dec 27, 1963
Anita King, an undercover FBI agent. Posing as a nightclub singer, Anita gets a job in a nightclub owned by Ralph Traven. He takes quite a fancy to her; she wants to prove that he's a kingpin in a narcotics ring.
Episode 11: War of Nerves
Jan 3, 1964
Two suitors drive a beautiful woman crazy with their pursuit of her.
Episode 12: Runaway
Jan 10, 1964
When folksinger Richie Darden fails to show up for a performance, his girlfriend Cress thinks club owner Mig Semple should put Richie's expensive guitar in his safe. And Cress has the right idea--two customers are planning to steal the instrument.
Episode 13: The Seven Little Foys
Jan 24, 1964
The story of vaudeville performer Eddie Foy, widowed father of a brood of good-natured but exasperating children who are trying to get an education while at the same time continuing to perform with him on stage.
Episode 14: Two is the Number
Jan 31, 1964
Hoodlum Joey Rome is electrocuted in his home, and police suspect that middle-aged spinster Jenny Dworak is responsible. The murder investigation brings together two lonely people: Jenny Dworak, who runs a pawnshop, and a police investigator who is a widower.
Episode 15: A Wind of Hurricane Force
Feb 7, 1964
During a terrible storm in Mexico two men come to heads for the treasure they both seek.
Episode 16: Wake Up Darling
Feb 21, 1964
Polly Emerson, has aspirations to be an actress. Her husband, Don, is a successful advertising man, who yearns to be a playwright, and has a shelf of unproduced plays to his credit. Don, understandably, isn't too happy when Polly comes home with Deerfield Prescott, a very young man who has written Broadway's next musical hit - or so he tells Polly and Don.
Episode 17: The Meal Ticket
Feb 28, 1964
Eddie a fly by night kind of guy, finds romance with a wealthy woman.
Episode 18: The Square Peg
Mar 6, 1964
Comedy about a gangster who hires a ""personnel psychologist"" to evaluate the aptitudes of his gang.
Episode 19: White Snow - Red Ice
Mar 13, 1964
Secret agent Piper finds beauty and brains intriguing and disruptive to his assignment.
Episode 20: A Slow Fade to Black
Mar 27, 1964
Mike Kirsch built his studio from nothing in the 1920s; now, four decades later, he is on the way out, the victim of a corporate takeover. We follow Kirsch as he exercises his waning authority on a temperamental movie star, browbeats his alcoholic wife, rebellious daughter and longtime yes-man associate Landers, and vainly attempts to push through an outdated pet movie project. Finally he is wrenched off his throne by a former assistant, who is now in cahoots with the conglomerate buying the studio. Kirsch is left alone to weep in his projection room as one of his past hits plays upon the screen.
Episode 21: A Case of Armed Robbery
Apr 3, 1964
Montrose is an angry young man whose bitterness alienates him from his father, Alfred, his girlfriend, Jean, and his work foreman. He blames his ex-wife, Carol, for their marriage failure and clumsily attempts to show love for his son Danny. In his resentment he plans to rob a gas station, ends up getting involved with unsavory characters and doing worse.
Episode 22: Time For Elizabeth
Apr 24, 1964
After enduring a pompous and tyrannical boss for 28 years, Ed Davis has a brief argument with him, gets fired, and decides to retire to Florida with his wife.
Episode 23: The Game with Glass Pieces
May 1, 1964
A deadly game of cat and mouse, where everything isn't what it seems to be.
Episode 24: The Command
May 22, 1964
Major Morgan holds his Commander as coward and attempts to overtake his command.
Episode 25: The Sojourner
May 29, 1964
Called home because of his father's failing health, foreign correspondent John Ferris recalls the events that led to the collapse of his marriage.
Episode 26: Echo of Evil
Jun 5, 1964
Ex-crime boss Oscar Teckla, now out of the rackets and involved with respectable enterprise, Teckla would like nothing more than to bury the past. But the district attorney is anxious to break up Teckla's old mob. To do this, he must get Teckla on the stand--any way he can.
Season 225 ep. · 1964–1965
Episode 1: Think Pretty
Oct 2, 1964
A dancing record executive who is trying to sign up a star comedian.
Episode 2: Murder in the First
Oct 9, 1964
Brad Kubec, who was a first year law student went to work as a live-in gardener for the the Hartley family, one of the richest families in the state. Brad was shy, had a shuttering problem and was a little unstable. He finds himself falling in love with Carol Hartley.Carol was a spoiled housewife who seemed to have everything but was desperate for Brad's attention. She led him on and let Brad take her out on a date to the county fair while her husband was away on business. This only fed Brad's obsession with her. When she broke off the affair, something snapped in Brad and it was ""Murder In The First"".
Episode 3: Have Girls Will Travel
Oct 16, 1964
Old west marriage broker Horatio Lovelace travels from town to town matching lassies to prospective husbands.
Episode 4: The Turncoat
Oct 23, 1964
The turncoat is young Peter Thornton, a defector to the Chinese during the Korean War. Now, with forged credentials, he's en route to a missile plant to do the job of espionage he was groomed for.
Episode 5: The Timothy Heist
Oct 30, 1964
The scam became the scammed and the heist that was never was.
Episode 6: Out of the Outskirts of Town
Nov 6, 1964
Tough girl Faye has her way with a disapproving husband.
Episode 7: Parties to the Crime
Nov 27, 1964
Stinson comes to terms with the help of a Sister.
Episode 8: Mr. Biddle's Crime Wave
Dec 4, 1964
Eccentric research chemist Arthur Biddle isn't a safe man to be around: he's caused two plants to burn down and done extensive damage to another, managed to break a few traffic regulations, wrecked a policeman's motorcycle and has accidentally broken the arm of police chief Sinclair—who also happens to be his fiancee's father.
Episode 9: The Shattered Glass
Dec 11, 1964
After her alcoholism devastates her life, her marriage ends and new love is found.
Episode 10: Clash of Cymbals
Dec 25, 1964
Aspiring concert pianist Laura Macon is one of three finalists in a scholarship competition, and her romantic involvement with a flamboyant conductor who's also one of the judges has her teacher worried.
Episode 11: Double Jeopardy
Jan 8, 1965
Fred Piper, a jet-setting private eye who takes on cases no one else can solve. Right now he's trying to find out what happened to a missing millionaire, a task made difficult by the millionaire's wife. For some reason, she doesn't want Piper to question her identical twin sister (note the title ""Double Jeopardy"").
Episode 12: Bob Hope Annual Special
Jan 15, 1965
Bob Hope's annual tour overseas: this time he hits Southeast Asia--Korea, Guam, the Philippines, Okinawa, Vietnam.
Episode 13: Exit From A Plane Flight
Jan 22, 1965
After their plane is shot down, the recovery mentally and physically is challenging for three men.
Episode 14: The Loving Cup
Jan 29, 1965
When the Senator's wife is caught in bed with another man, his career is jeopardized.
Episode 15: The Fliers
Feb 5, 1965
After being captured the fliers resort to all kinds of mischief to disrupt the plans of the enemy.
Episode 16: Cops and Robbers
Feb 19, 1965
When a bungling group of crooks get messed up with a bunch of incompetent cops you know the outcome.
Episode 17: Terror Island
Feb 26, 1965
Newlyweds Mark and Carol visit Mark's old island home, where his foster mother and her embittered, crippled daughter live in seclusion--and where the memory of Mark's first wife still lingers.
Episode 18: The War and Eric Kurtz
Mar 5, 1965
After being a prisoner of war Eric has to come to grips with his deeds and overcome his mental breakdown.
Episode 19: In Any Language
Mar 12, 1965
Hannah King has two reasons for being in Rome: to win back her husband, who's courting an Arabian princess; and to land a role in Italian director Aldo Carmenelli's new art film.
Episode 20: Perilous Times
Mar 19, 1965
A Hungarian photographer is sad when she discovers that her handsome lover no longer cares for her.
Episode 21: Memorandum For A Spy [1]
Apr 2, 1965
James Congers, a CIA agent who becomes an alcoholic, believing himself responsible for the death of two close friends. The Russians believe that he would be useful in fingering potential soviet defectors. The Americans plans to use Conger's inebriated state to get him into a mental hospital, and there locate an enemy spy. His girl friend merely wants to get him to pull himself together.
Episode 22: Memorandum For A Spy [2]
Apr 9, 1965
James Congers, a CIA agent who becomes an alcoholic, believing himself responsible for the death of two close friends. The Russians believe that he would be useful in fingering potential soviet defectors. The Americans plans to use Conger's inebriated state to get him into a mental hospital, and there locate an enemy spy. His girl friend merely wants to get him to pull himself together.
Episode 23: A Time For Killing
Apr 30, 1965
During Wartime several heroes emerge.
Episode 24: Escape Into Jeopardy
May 28, 1965
The Nazi want to get their hands on a set of counterfeit plates which they plan to use to flood neutral countries with phony dollars, but U.S. Intelligence plans to beat them to the punch with the help of convict Larry Martin, the only man who knows where the plates are hidden.
Episode 25: Simon Says Get Married
Jun 4, 1965
Girl-shy scientist Charles Fenton has decided that it?s time he married-scientifically, by letting a computer play cupid.
Season 325 ep. · 1965–1966
Episode 1: The Game
Sep 15, 1965
After being invited for a big hunt, he soon realizes he is the game.
Episode 2: The Crime
Sep 22, 1965
A pair of illicit lovers have been murdered, and prosecuting attorney Abe Perez is going all out to get a conviction against the dead man's wife, a wealthy socialite who used to date Perez.
Episode 3: March From Camp Tyler
Oct 6, 1965
Hostilities arise between Cavalryman and Native Americans in this western episode.
Episode 4: Kicks
Oct 13, 1965
Troublemaking is his past time, as police close in on his hoaxes.
Episode 5: Back to Back
Oct 27, 1965
After an unhappy marriage she seeks happiness in the arms of a married man.
Episode 6: Mister Governess
Nov 10, 1965
An unlikely male governess turns the family upside down.
Episode 7: Russian Roulette
Nov 17, 1965
Comedy about an inadequate spy.
Episode 8: Highest Fall of All
Dec 1, 1965
An actress comes between a man and his wife while on holiday.
Episode 9: The Betrayal
Dec 8, 1965
Two friends are betrayed by the woman they love.
Episode 10: The Admiral
Dec 29, 1965
The admiral's wife dies, he tries to begin again and get along with his son.
Episode 11: The Enemy on the Beach
Jan 5, 1966
Enemy on the Beach is set on the coast of Ireland during World War II. Two German mines wash up on shore, posing a hazard to everyone within miles. The UXB squad dispatched to disarm the bombs consists of a cocksure merchant marine officer and a martinet British commander. It's a toss-up as to which will explode first: the bombs or the hostility between the two men.
Episode 12: After the Lion, Jackals
Jan 26, 1966
Adrian Harris takes a job in Sicily as secretary to cynical novelist C.C. Conover, whom she falls for and soon marries. But Conover turns out to be anything but a good husband, and a handsome Sicilian soon enters the picture.
Episode 13: When Hell Froze
Feb 2, 1966
In 1919, housewife Addie Joslin's act of kindness to a wandering war veteran forms the basis of a cruel misunderstanding.
Episode 14: A Small Rebellion
Feb 9, 1966
An angry young man of the theatre, who has written a play that could be a hit, if actress Sara Lescaut agrees to play the lead. Kolinos, however, is determined not to alter one word of his script to make it a more commercial vehicle.
Episode 15: Wind Fever
Mar 2, 1966
Diagnosed with an illness, an eccentric millionaire finds out the true meaning of family.
Episode 16: Guilty or Not Guilty
Mar 9, 1966
Andrew Dixon, a New York assistant DA. disgusted by the crime rate and the court's revolving door policy regarding street criminals, Dixon organizes a citizen's protection committee in his own neighborhood.
Episode 17: Tell Them The Streets are Dancing
Mar 16, 1966
Coroner Dr. Steve Wojeck investigated the death by caisson disease of an Italian worker, and his inquiry led him to examine the conditions of the victim's workplace, a tunnel under construction.
Episode 18: Brilliant Benjamin Boggs
Mar 30, 1966
Benjamin Boggs, a brilliant but acutely unlucky research scientist is persude by a world-renowned big game hunter who sets her romantic sights on Mr. Boggs. She is determined to ""bag"" him for her own, and never mind that he's already married.
Episode 19: The Sister and the Savage
Apr 6, 1966
Sister Mary Clare, formerly a singer and now a nurse at St. Jerome's Hospital, tries to convince a young rock 'n' roll singer to go through with a needed operation.
Episode 20: The Faceless Man
May 4, 1966
Agent Don Owens goes undercover in a counterfeit operation to find a killer. One of the services performed by BOSS is to help behind the Iron Curtain, but the service hasn?t been too good of late: Four defecting seamen have been found murdered, and two BOSS agents have been lost while investigating the crimes. Agent Don Ownes? assignment: Infiltrate the waterfront and find out who is behind the murders.
Episode 21: Holloway's Daughters
May 11, 1966
Admiral Holloway has one big problem, his daughters! When suitors come knocking, they usually end up running.
Episode 22: One Embezzlement and Two Margaritas
May 18, 1966
After embezzling a large amount of money two drifters end up in Mexico seeking a new life, when a sweet senorita tries to swindle them out of their money.
Episode 23: Runaway Boy
May 25, 1966
After being treated like a deserter, Brophy has to confront many demons.
Episode 24: Shipwrecked
Jun 8, 1966
During a storm a couple end up on an island.
Episode 25: In Pursuit of Excellence
Jun 22, 1966
When the senatorial race comes to a small glitch health issues need to be resolved.
Season 426 ep. · 1966–1967
Episode 1: Nightmare
Sep 14, 1966
In her secluded mansion, crippled Isobel Cain receives loving care from her husband Morgan and her twin sister Vicky. But the two have more than Isobel's welfare at heart: they're planning to poison dear Isobel and live happily ever after on her money.
Episode 2: Time of Flight
Sep 21, 1966
Private detective Al Packer had his legs broken by two hoods after he put their friend behind bars. Now, barely able to hobble around his apartment, Packer receives an attractive offer for a routine job: $300 a week to protect a small-time thief named Markos. But the new case is anything but routine: At a seedy hotel hideout, Packer sees Markos gunned down -- or does he? The ""corpse"" comes alive, fires Packer and leaves the hotel.
Episode 3: And Baby Makes Five
Oct 5, 1966
A New York author fed up with the pressures of urban living, quits his job and moves with his pregnant wife to a small California town. Here he accepts an editor's position at a tiny weekly newspaper, inspiring both praise and wrath by using the publication as a pulpit for his crusading.
Episode 4: Crazier than Cotton
Oct 12, 1966
Matt, a 34-year-old sculptor who is spectacularly unsuccessful, knows he's hit rock bottom when he has to borrow money from his girlfriend in order to attend his father's funeral. As he stands at graveside, Matt vows to do something ""worthwhile"" with his life. Problem is, sculpting is all he knows.
Episode 5: Murder at N.B.C.
Oct 19, 1966
Fifteen fellow comedians join Bob in ""Murder at NBC"", a spy spoof. Bob plays a mad scientist with a nuclear chemical capable of shrinking the U.S.A. Spies are Don Adams, Milton Berle, Red Buttons, Johnny Carson, Jack Carter, Bill Cosby, Wally Cox, Bill Dana, Jimmy Durante, Don Rickles, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, Soupy Sales, Dick Shawn and Jonathan Winters.
Episode 6: Massacre at Fort Phil Kearny
Oct 26, 1966
On December 21, 1866 eighty men rode out of Fort Phil Kearny to support a wood-cutting expedition that had come under attack. The wood was necessary to build the fort. They were led out onto the Bozeman Trail and ambused in the pass by the Sioux and wiped out. The leader of the Sioux tribe was Chief Red Cloud.
Episode 7: Dear Deductible
Nov 9, 1966
A popular but improvident songwriter, after spending all of his royalties, agrees to marry an heiress, not because of her money, but because of her lack of money. You see, both plan to file a joint income tax return, thereby enjoying the bounty of the IRS' ""deductible"" system. This will keep them both solvent until they can recoup their fortunes.
Episode 8: Bing and Me
Nov 16, 1966
Where there's Hope, there's often Bing. And when Bing and Bob get together you'll invariably find pretty scenery - almost all of it female! Bob introduces Bach Yen (White Swallow), a 23-year old Vietnamese singer, and his own selection of promising Hollywood starlets. Bach Yen sings ""What Now My Love?"" (in French & English) and ""Dem Dong"", a Vietnamese folk song. Bing offers ""In the Cool, Cool of the Evening"" and ""Pennies From Heaven"". Sketches include, a wealthy Texan (Bob) and a snooty Englishman (Bing) enter their prize ponies in the Grand National. And ""Fantastic Stomach"" a parody of the movie ""Fantastic Voyage"" which finds a miniaturized Bob and Bing penetrating the Vast Waistline to find out what's ailing Jackie Gleason. Les Brown conducts the orchestra.
Episode 9: The Blue-Eyed Horse
Nov 23, 1966
A beleaguered husband stands before the judge, trying to explain why his wife has disappeared. The police suspect foul play, offering as evidence the strained relationship of the couple and the debts incurred by her gambling. Only he knows (or thinks he knows) the incredible truth: his wife has been magically transformed into a horse!
Episode 10: The Fatal Mistake
Nov 30, 1966
Set in England, a respectable accountant and family man every month on the dot, he is visited by his ""friend"", who graciously bestows gifts upon his wife and children, then retires with his host into the den. Here he collects his monthly blackmail check--just as he does with all his other ""clients"". Tired of paying out extortion, he plans a neat little mishap for him.
Episode 11: Storm Crossing
Dec 7, 1966
Trapped by a severe storm, do they risk getting out.
Episode 12: The Eighth Day
Dec 21, 1966
An embittered ex-athelete finds himself very much alone after stealing priceless jewels from a church on Christmas Eve.
Episode 13: Free of Charge
Dec 28, 1966
This free-wheeling story about a composer named Harrybell, who swings around Los Angles seeking inspiration for a musical tribute to the city. Harrybell is also running from the police, who think he?s some kind of nut.
Episode 14: A Time to Love
Jan 11, 1967
A tired doctor is renewed by a young protege while his wife finds her own distraction.
Episode 15: Code Name: Heraclitus (1)
Jan 18, 1967
Frank G. Wheatley is a British spy who is investigating the past of Lydia Constantine, the widow of a secret agent. Constantine is suspected of selling Cold War secrets to the Communists. To ascertain the truth, it is necessary to ""rebuild"" Constantine and send his living counterpart behind the Iron Curtain.
Episode 16: Code Name: Heraclitus (2)
Jan 25, 1967
A man who dies on an operating table is brought back to life, but he has no memory of anything that happened before he wakes up. A government agent decides that he would make a perfect undercover operative.
Episode 17: The Lady is My Wife
Feb 1, 1967
Set in the post-Civil War Old West. A wealthy horse breeder hires the Bannisters, a genteel--and broke--Southern couple. The cowboy has more in mind than horses when he sets his sights on Mrs. Bannister.
Episode 18: Blind Man's Bluff
Feb 8, 1967
While investigating a murder, involvements become an entangled mess when love happens.
Episode 19: A Song Called Revenge
Mar 1, 1967
A singer gets caught up in a romantic triangle.
Episode 20: The Reason Nobody Hardly Ever Seen A Fat Outlaw in the Old West is as Follows
Mar 8, 1967
Comical Sheriff Tinsley is up against the Swine Gang and mighty frightened of Curly the Kid.
Episode 21: Verdict For Terror
Mar 22, 1967
Law student Darryl Cooper invites an ambitious D.A. to meet his fraternity brothers in 'the griddle,' a political question and answer session. The D.A. accepts, but soon wishes he hadn't, five years ago, he sent Darryl's brother to the gas chamber. Now, Darryl intends to use the griddle to prove his brother's innocence, and to destroy the D.A.'s career.
Episode 22: Dead Wrong
Apr 5, 1967
A tense drama about a hermit monk, whose isolated mountain cabin is invaded by a gun-wielding ex-convict, his younger brother and the girl they both love.
Episode 23: Don't Wait For Tomorrow
Apr 19, 1967
Newspaperman Matt Braid's search for an international criminal leads him to a lavish villa on a Greek island -- where a vicious beating convinces Braid that he's on the right track.
Episode 24: Wipeout
Apr 26, 1967
Surfer Greg Travis tries to cash in on his friendship with an aging film star-by stealing her multimillion-dollar jewel collection.
Episode 25: To Sleep, Perchance to Scream
May 10, 1967
In Hollywood, private eye Adam Steele investigates the murder of a colleague who was working for a ruthless business tycoon. Steele?s search for motive and murder leads up several blind alleys-but all are somehow connected with his friend's employer.
Episode 26: Deadlock
May 17, 1967
Virginia Cloyd is the widow of a notorious criminal. Early one morning, Virginia calmly walks into a police precinct office--armed with a pistol and vial of nitroglycerine. In a measured voice, she announces that she intends to wait for detective James Lassiter, the man responsible for the death of her husband. She also declares that she intends to kill Lassiter, in full view of the other cops.















