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- 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. At least one of the relationships stands a chance of enduring: a brawny innocent named Tom is falling in love with a vulnerable young prostitute named Kitty.
- In the South, convicts get a temporary release to help during a flood.
- Americans try to cope with the aftermath of a nuclear catastrophe.
- In the Warsaw ghetto, a Jewish man seeks revenge for the rape of his sister by a German soldier.
- An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is exploited by his manager, despite the efforts of a compassionate young woman who tries to help him recover his self-respect.
- Based on a true story, Donald Bashor robs and bludgeons two women to their deaths. While committing the crimes he maintans a normal existence with his girlfriend Florry.
- A weakling sheriff is unable to prevent a lynching. Can he redeem himself by preventing a second one?
- A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shipping magnate, and her growing love for a handsome young political prisoner who is scheduled to be put to death when the vessel reaches its destination.
- The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
- In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with antisemitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.
- 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.
- A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter to drive him out of town. The townsfolk thought they had it bad until they handed the reigns over to the new terror. Pooling their money again, this time to hire Jeffers to get rid of Dancer.
- In the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice.
- Slow witted, and tired, Fentry leads a lonely life of grinding poverty in his sharecropper's shack until a sick, pregnant woman escaping her abusive husband comes there. He takes her in and cares for her, eventually falling in love with her.
- Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than his. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, whom Sammy has hired as his assistant but whom he really uses as his whipping boy.
- 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.
- Jerry and Louise are two shy types who meet and wed through a lonely hearts club. They soon learn that being a married couple is not like the movies or romance novels.
- A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.
- A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his wealthy neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.
- This telecast of George Balanchine's famous production was broadcast only four years after it was premiered by the New York City Ballet.
- A hard-hearted Colonel loses many men in his group's bombing missions over World War Two Germany, but keeps on going and won't tolerate lightly a young LIEUTENANT losing his nerve under the strain,who refuses to continue.
- Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star of top rated shows and owning her own club. Also seen is her poor choices,such as her affair with a married man, her short marriage to a much younger man, a court fight over an adopted baby and her fatal descent into booze addiction.
- Karl Ohringer is acquitted of murder on grounds that the killing was not intentional. A wealthy and eccentric man, Emery Ganun, decides to take justice into his own hands.
- An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from radar. We see how its disappearance affects people on the ground.
- American soldiers must use stealth to take over a German command post in Normandy.
- The story of the last hours in the life of Spain's most celebrated matador.
- As the Salo Republic crumbles around him, Mussolini, along with his mistress and several of his ministers flee with retreating Nazi soldiers, but are caught at the town of Dongo by red partisans. All are brutally executed without trial.
- The captain of a U.S. Cavalry unit rescues two wives of slain traders who were being held hostage by hostile Native Americans but then is faced with a mutiny among his own men.
- It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.
- During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
- The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.
- Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will anyone believe him?
- An unemployed actor, Lionel Amblin, is hired to kill a young girl before she reaches her 25th birthday. He becomes curious to know why someone would want her dead, and begins an investigation of the girl and her friends.
- Just after World War Two ends, an American woman takes in a Polish war orphan boy, a concentration camp survivor. But conflict arises when her husband, a returning Air Force bomber pilot,hates the boy and his psychological baggage.
- Key defense scientist Doner has cancer. Schramm is assigned to code Doner's thinking into a computer. He gets to know him as a friend, a husband and father. The project is successful, but he now knows identity is not programmable.
- The story of abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.
- 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.
- The story of Perle Mesta, who became, first, a renowned society hostess, and then an ambassadress.
- The story of the Sand Creek massacre, an 1864 massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the U.S. Army.
- Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".
- Long ago, Christian made a run of 80 yards to make the winning touchdown in a football game. It was the greatest moment of his life. Or was it the beginning of his decline?
- October 17, 1957, the CBS Television Network diverted from its typical format of live dramatic presentations for "Playhouse 90" to cover Michael Todd's gigantic party commemorating the one-year anniversary of the release of his film "Around The World In 80 Days". Todd invited 18-thousand people to the gala in New York City's Madison Square Garden though the number probably was far greater because of party-crashers. Walter Cronkite hosted the coverage with future ABC Sports ace Jim McKay and news veteran Bill Leonard handling the interviewing of numerous celebrity party guests. During the broadcast, Garry Moore hosted occasional comedy vignettes of how Todd came to create his Academy award-winning movie.
- An American is hired to work for a displaced persons camp in Italy. He falls in love with a Czechoslovakian refugee, but he is confronted with obstacles when he decides to marry and bring his bride back to the United States.
- A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.
- After the death of her mother, a teenage girl, Barbara, moves in with Dorothy, her mother's best friend, and Louis, Dorothy's weak and beaten husband.
- A State Department official is required to leak a confidential document - which may have terrible repercussions.
- 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?
- A young security police officer in a future totalitarian state is assigned to suppress illegal intellectual activity, including executing book readers. He catches a librarian hiding a banned book and joins her in reading books.
- A troubled teenage boy, Raymond Austin, meets a Ellie, a provocative teenage beauty who introduces him to delinquents and youthful "beatniks".
- A surgeon becomes convinced of the innocence of a convicted murderer based on the convict mumbling while under anesthesia. He risks his reputation to save the convict from the electric chair.
- Following the death of Jesse James, his peace-loving, law-abiding son, Jesse Jr., and his uncle Frank return to the family's home town, hoping to live peaceably and raise horses.
- A young Spanish boy, Tanguy, is deprived of childhood by World War II. He is left in France when his mother returns to Spain to oppose the Franco regime.
- On her tenth wedding anniversary (which is also her daughter's birthday), a wife begins to suspect her husband of unfaithfulness.
- Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.
- When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.
- During World War II, an army doctor struggles to convert a Franciscan monastery into a field hospital.
- A British politician finds himself open to blackmail because of the indiscretion of his American wife.
- The daily emergencies and stresses of a major city's hospital ward as seen through the eyes of nurse Gail Lucas.
- Drama of a prosecuting attorney whose cowardice results in a death for which an innocent man is blamed.
- Four nuns, led by Sister Teresa, begin a treacherous journey across the Arizona desert in 1870. Their faith enables them to deal with the challenges of nature and the hostility of their fellow mankind.
- During "parents' weekend" at Camp Mojave, parents maneuver to aid their children in winning the camp's awards.
- During the American Civil War, the commander of a Northern prisoner of war camp orders the execution of a Confederate soldier. The brother of executed soldier then seeks revenge on the commander.
- Industrialist Eddie Hanneman learns that his sons do not wish to take over the business that he has built. Son Johnny aspires to be a jet pilot. However, his sales manager, Paul Fletcher, does wish to take over the business.
- A woman converts a house into a home for unwed mothers and tries to help a teenage girl decide whether to keep her child or agree to an adoption.
- Patients at a mental hospital meet for a group therapy session.
- Set in Colorado in 1830, the owner of a trading post seeks to annul the marriage between his brother and a Cheyenne woman.
- When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.
- 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.
- A group of people gathered at a wealthy man's country home on a summer weekend engage in an exploration of their varied romantic entanglements.
- A Civil War veteran returns home to find his father has become a social pariah.
- After the first atom bomb test, scientists realize the bomb was more powerful than they expected - which may have terrible results.
- A Nazi spy, Wilhelm Konreid, travels to London in 1939, posing as a Polish patriot. He ingratiates himself into high British government circles and is offered a job with the BBC.
- A newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.
- On a cattle drive across the prairie, the sons of a wealthy cattle baron plot his death.
- The investigation into a plane crash concludes that it was caused by pilot error. At the inquiry, the co-pilot seeks to place the blame on the captain who died in the crash.
- Financier Charles Gray, under consideration for a promotion, is sent to his home town in New England, visits his childhood sweetheart, and questions his life and marriage.
- Johnny Marr's fiancee is killed by a whiskey bottle thrown from an airplane. Marr seeks revenge by killing the loved ones of the passengers on the flight.
- A New York lawyer, Jason Merrick, organizes a reunion for his World War II comrades. Each tells a life secret. The reunion becomes a test of the relationship between Merrick and his wife.
- A married American bomber pilot, Capt. Neil Dameron, is stationed at an air base in England during World War II. He falls in love with an English entertainer, Sidney Cantrell.
- The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.
- An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.
- Morris Sizeman is a successful garment manufacturer in New York City. His son, Harold Sizeman, returns from the Korean War with new ideas about human rights, believing that the quest for wealth is the cause of the world's difficulties.
- Some racetrack Johnnies are talking between races when one wonders if you can hynotize a horse into thinking it's a champion. The idea sets in motion a series of hilarious events.
- Three conspirators plan the death of a South American head of state.
- A down-and-out vaudeville comedian, Buddy McCoy, becomes a successful silent movie star, but experiences tragedy in his personal life. May Marley is an alcoholic friend who Buddy tries to help.
- In the 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell determines to become a doctor.
- The career of veteran New York police detective Roy Brenner is put on a departmental trial after he refuses to file charges against a boy accused of theft and an influential businessman questions his integrity.
- A young stranger, Brat Farrar, shows up claiming to be the twin brother of a young Englishman, Peter Ashby, who is set to inherit a huge fortune. Farrar claim to have a right to half of the estate.
- After a car crash and the arrival of a beautiful babysitter, a young businessman, William Wiley, considers leaving his wife for the babysitter.
- A French army officer arrives at a remote fort in Algeria and discovers that atrocities against the local population are commonplace.
- A drama set in 1956, during the unsuccessful Hungarian uprising against the Russians.
- During the American Civil War, a Union scouting party kills a man and his teenage son as they attempt to defend their plantation. A soldier discovers a young girl hiding inside the mansion.
- A housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her.
- A lawyer's new brother-in-law disapproves of his specialty of defending murderers. But when he finds himself accused of murder, he asks for his help.
- Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.
- A true story, it follows a pastor and his wife through forties beginning with one biological child, Donny. But the upheaval of the war years results in a number of mixed raced children that the Doss family adopt until they have 12 children.
- Mr. Golden wonders if he has wasted his life; but the news that he is to become a grandfather cheers him.
- When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.
- In Australia, a landowner is arrested for murder - but where's the body?
- A journalist out to expose political corruption finds his family is in danger.
- In the last days of World War II, two English airmen are captured by an ordinary German citizen, who, instead of handing them over to the authorities, keeps them prisoner in his cellar, neglecting to tell them when the war ends.
- When a rich man marries a much younger wife and his ailing health gets rather worse, the housekeeper suspects a murder attempt is looming.
- A psychoanalyst treats a noted atomic physicist who believes that he lives on Earth as a scientist in a government research laboratory, and on another planet where he is the dominant authority and has powers of telepathy and teleportation.
- A veteran lawyer must defend his own son when the latter is threatened with disbarment.
- In the old West, Mitch Barrett's wife dies during childbirth. Barrett blames the town's leaders who failed to assist. He seeks revenge by robbing the bank where the rich cattleman who runs the town has deposited his money.
- Lt. Col. Rocky Thompson orders a group of Marines on a 36-mile march after a training mission.
- The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Tommy is upset that his wife Ellen also suggested he not read the passage. Meanwhile, Ellen's old boyfriend, the football player Joe Ferguson, comes to visit for the homecoming weekend. He takes Ellen out dancing after the football rally, causing Tommy to worry that he will lose her to Joe.
- The story of William Palmer, one of the most notorious poisoners in Victorian England - or was he?
- After World War III a small group of people live in the desert. A young man tries to run away, hoping to find other communities of survivors, but is told by the elders that he must stay and marry the group's only young woman.
- Three siblings return home when their mother wins a "Mother of the Year" award from a magazine.
- 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.
- An alcoholic factory worker becomes the president of the local union, rises to national prominence, and becomes involved in corruption and racketeering. He is called to testify before the U.S. Senate where he tells his story.
- After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.
- The story of a struggle for control of a Hollywood talent agency.
- A man about to be married recalls the day his life changed permanently.
- A woman barrister at a prestigious London chambers tries to save a young man accused of murdering his wealthy aunt.
- Determined to pay off his debts, Mark Twain sets off on a lecture tour.
- The old people's home is a pretty miserable place - until the arrival of the mysterious Mr. Erwenter.
- Three different viewpoints of the same story - a kidnapping and its aftermath.
- An inventor, pondering on how he might differently have arranged his life, invents a time machine and decides to make a few changes.
- Middle-aged actress Victoria Maxwell comes to terms with her destructive lifestyle as she struggles with the lead role in a Broadway-bound play. Matters are complicated by the fact that she is co-starring opposite her estranged husband, Allen Grant, whom she never stopped loving. As the drama begins, Sydney Lowe, a Broadway director, is eager to hire Victoria Maxwell to star in his production of "Thundering Wave," written by his friend Lew Downs, an accomplished writer. Maxwell agrees to take the part, but insists that Sydney hire Grant to play opposite her. Sydney is thrilled with the suggestion since he was hoping to cast Grant, anyway. Grant, however, is not eager to take the part. He finally accepts it, however, in order to give his daughter Louise, who is practically engaged, some freedom from her overbearing mother. On the train ride to Boston where the show will premiere, Maxwell starts to get cold feet and angers Sydney when she pretends to be ill. Grant goes to her compartment to comfort her, but winds up telling her to grow up and stop depending on him for support. On opening night, things get progressively worse when Sydney's wife, Marcia, arrives in Boston to tell him she wants a divorce. After fifteen years of marriage, she has learned of his frequent indiscretions with other women. Upset by Marcia's request for a divorce, Sydney gets drunk, and then, needing to lash out at someone, tells Maxwell that she is doing a rotten job. Needless to say, opening night does not go well, and the notices in the newspapers reflect the disaster. However, when the show reaches New York, things change dramatically both on-stage and off. (The Paley Center for Media)
- A group of university students beat and kill an outspoken journalist for the school newspaper. One of the students struggles with his conscience over his vow to remain silent about the event.
- In the Civil War, a tunnel is dug under Confederate lines, and filled with explosives.
- Photographer Paul is invited to a French estate to take pictures but a romance develops with the lady of the house. A sudden death creates a suspicion of murder.
- 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.
- A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
- In Paris, a former soldier is alarmed when the girl he has fallen in love with demonstrates a rather naive and romanticized attitude to war.
- A mild-mannered schoolteacher gradually abandons all his principles - and finds the success which has always hitherto eluded him.
- Story begins at Calcutta, near the end of World War 2. The hero of this romantic comedy is Pvt. Linus Powell of the USAAC. When Powell is transferred across the Himalayas to China he is determined to get back to his girlfriend in Calcutta.
- Marina Arkwritght is put on trial for allegedly poisoning her son. Three of the jurors have prejudices that they bring to the case.
- A successful young man announces his recent engagement, only to be forced to reconsider his future following the sudden reappearance of a girl he has loved for years.
- A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.