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Playhouse 90 Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - Forbidden Area

First aired: Oct/04/1956
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Vincent Price (Clark Simmons), Charlton Heston (Major Jesse Price), Diana Lynn (Katherine Hume), Tab Hunter (Stanley Smith), Jackie Coogan (Sgt. Ciocci), Victor Jory (General Clumb), Charles Bickford (General Keaton)

An Army officer working in the Pentagon becomes convinced that defects in a new type of United States bomber were the result of sabotage by Soviet agents and that the Soviets are planning a nuclear attack. Unfortunately, he can't get any of the military brass to listen.



2 :01x02 - Requiem for a Heavyweight

First aired: Oct/11/1956
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Ralph Nelson
Guest star: Max Baer (Mike), Jack Palance (Harlan 'Mountain' McClintock), Kim Hunter (Grace Carney), Ed Wynn (Army), Keenan Wynn (Maish Rennick), Max 'slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom (Steve), Edgar Stehli (Doctor), Stanley Adams (Parelli), Ned Glass (Bartender), Frank Richards (Fighter in Bar), Lyn Osborn (Photographer), Joe Abdullah (Fight Announcer)

After his crooked manager sells him out, a boxer quits the ring and struggles to find meaning in his life. An understanding employment counselor tries to help him.



3 :01x03 - Sizeman and Son

First aired: Oct/18/1956
Writer: Elick Moll
Director: Vincent J. Donahue
Guest star: Dan Blocker (Lewis), Mona Freeman (Marie Sizeman), Farley Granger (Harold Sizeman), Peter Lorre (Karp), Lawrence Dobkin (Rosenzweig), Nan Boardman (Sophie), Than Wyenn (Wilinski), Peter Leeds (Larry Kogen), S. John Launer (Magnusson), Roberta Shore (Jennie), Frances Morris (Mrs. Morris), Ernestine Wade (Gladys), Jeanne Cooper (Receptionist), Eddie Cantor (Morris Sizeman), Carol Morris (Francine), Frances Lax (Bessie), Ruth Ain (Miss Youssem)

The son of a New York City dressmaker returns from the service with new social and political ideals which disrupt the happy working atmosphere at the factory when he tries implementing them.



4 :01x04 - Rendezvous in Black

First aired: Oct/25/1956
Writer: James P. Cavanagh
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Franchot Tone (Johnny Marr), Laraine Day (Florence Strickland), Boris Karloff (Ward Allen), Tom Drake (Johnny Mark), Viveca Lindfors (Martine), Elizabeth Patterson (Mrs. Middleton)

The strange death of a young man's fiancee who was killed while waiting for him on a street corner sets off a series of seemingly unrelated homicides in a city.



5 :01x05 - The Country Husband

First aired: Nov/01/1956
Writer: Paul Monash
Director: James Neilson
Guest star: Frank Lovejoy (William Wiley), Barbara Hale (Julia Wiley), Felicia Farr (Anne Murchison), Kerwin Mathews (Clay Farrell), Herbert Rudley (Farrell), Jeanne Cooper (Shirl), John Zaremba (Murchison), Hugh Sanders (Robert Guiness), S. John Launer (Passenger)

After a close brush with death, a man experiences a mid-life crisis that includes having an affair with the family baby sitter.



6 :01x06 - The Big Slide

First aired: Nov/08/1956
Writer: Edmund Beloin, Dean Riesner
Guest star: Red Skelton (Buddy McCoy), Shirley Jones (May Marley), Murray Hamilton (Chick Tolliver), Jack Albertson (Al St. George), Jack Mulhall (Joe Ashley), Fay Spain (Crystal Vail), Lyn Osborn (guest star), Victor Sutherland (L. K. Zimmer)

A vaudeville comic becomes a silent movie star but instead of finding happiness he finds tragedy and heartbreak.



7 :01x07 - Heritage of Anger

First aired: Nov/15/1956
Writer: Harold Jack Bloom
Director: Vincent J. Donahue
Guest star: Nina Foch (Libby Hanneman), Ralph Bellamy (Eddie Hanneman), Lloyd Bridges (Paul Fletcher), John Ericson (Johnny Hanneman), Tom Brown (Arthur Hanneman), Onslow Stevens (Sidney Lennox)

A cold-blooded industrial tycoon discovers that his two sons have no interest in taking over his business and that his ruthless sales manager will try anything to takeover.



8 :01x08 - Eloise

First aired: Nov/22/1956
Writer: Leonard Spigelgass
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Evelyn Rudie (Eloise), Ethel Barrymore (Herself), Louis Jourdan (Prince), Hans Conried (Rene), Charlie Ruggles (Murphy), Mildred Natwick (Nanny), Jack Mullaney (Tutor), Max 'slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom (Himself), Monty Woolley (Himself), William Roerick (Manager), Inger Stevens (Joanna), Bartlett Robinson (Lawyer), Kay Thompson (Herself), Conrad Hilton (Himself)

A six year old girl, who lives in a luxury hotel with her nursemaid, decides to play matchmaker.



9 :01x09 - Confession

First aired: Nov/29/1956
Writer: Devery Freeman
Director: Anton Leader
Guest star: John Crawford (Gunman), Dennis O'Keefe (Ben Birch), June Lockhart (Amy Mathewson), Paul Stewart (Martin Hoeffer), Henry Daniell (Hubbell), Ivan Triesault (Carl Kersch), Charles Watts (Emerson Fricke), Chet Stratton (Bergstrom), Jason Johnson (Watchman), Romney Brent (Toby Mathewson)

A reporter assigned to do a series of articles on a newly deceased civic leader uncovers the man's role in a public swindle.



10 :01x10 - Made in Heaven

First aired: Dec/06/1956
Writer: Hagar Wilde
Guest star: Phyllis Kirk (Nancy Tennant), Imogene Coca (Elsa Meredith), Jacques Bergerac (Laszlo Vertes), Eddie Mayehoff (Phillip Dunlap), Robert Preston (Zachary Meredith), Sheila Bond (June), Benay Venuta (Marian Hunt)

A couple gets into an argument returning home from a cocktail party that leads to their separation. They then become romantically involved with other people.



11 :01x11 - Sincerely, Willis Wayde

First aired: Dec/13/1956
Writer: Frank D. Gilroy
Director: Vincent J. Donahue
Guest star: Peter Lawford (Willis Wayde), Charles Bickford (Henry Harcourt), Jeff Donnell (Sylvia), Jane Darwell (Mrs. Jacoby), Walter Abel (Wade), Howard Smith (P. L. Nagle), Edmon Ryan (Bryson Harcourt), Katherine Squire (Mrs. Wade), Sarah Churchill (Bess Harcourt)

The young protege of a mill owner tries to convince him not to sell out to a large corporation that plans to demolish the mill.



12 :01x12 - The Family Nobody Wanted

First aired: Dec/20/1956
Writer: George Bruce
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Lew Ayres (Carl Doss), Nanette Fabray (Helen Doss), Timothy Hovey (Donny), Cherylene Lee (Sue Yin)

A couple who are unable to have children of their own end up adopting 12 children of mixed ancestry.



13 :01x13 - Massacre at Sand Creek

First aired: Dec/27/1956
Writer: William Sackheim
Director: Arthur Hiller
Guest star: Roy Roberts (Colonel Collery), Everett Sloane (Col. John Templeton), Gene Evans (Sgt. Maddox), John Derek (Lt. Norman Tucker), William Schallert (Captain Kingsley), H. M. Wynant (Free Horse), Marshall Bradford (Presiding Officer), Rick Vallin (Henshaw), Ben Wright (Prosecuting Attorney), Michael Granger (Little River), William Bryant (Calhoun), Ken Mayer (Major Downing), Anthony Lawrence (Reed), Robert Bice (Chief), William Henry (Townsman)

A self-serving Army colonel forces unarmed Cheyenne into an unprotected region known as Sand Creek and then gives the order to fire on them. But a young lieutenant refuses to obey his command.



14 :01x14 - Snowshoes: a Comedy of People and Horses.

First aired: Jan/03/1957
Writer: Bob Barbash
Guest star: Kenny Delmar (Parker), Harpo Marx (guest star), Barry Sullivan (Hard Boiled Harry), Stuart Erwin (Sentimental Mousie), Marilyn Maxwell (Dolly), Wallace Ford (Rebel), John Carradine (Felix the Great), Addison Richards (guest star)

Two horsetrack bettors hatch a wild scheme to have a mesmerist hypnotize a horse they've bet on to win every race.



15 :01x15 - The Ninth Day

First aired: Jan/10/1957
Writer: Dorothy Baker, Howard Baker
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: John Kerr (David McAdam), Piper Laurie (Ruth), James Dunn (Jackson), Victor Jory (Reverend Powell), Mary Astor (Virginia Jackson), Elizabeth Patterson (Aunt Ida)

In a post-apocalyptic community, a young man wants to leave and find other survivors of the third world war but the group elders decree that he must stay and marry the group's only young woman.



16 :01x16 - So Soon to Die

First aired: Jan/17/1957
Writer: Marc Brandel
Director: John Brahm
Guest star: Lester Matthews (Colonel McKinley), Richard Basehart (Lionel Amblin), Sebastian Cabot (Blaize), Anne Bancroft (Isobel Waring), Torin Thatcher (Sgt. Galloway), Larry Gelbman (Sam), Victoria Ward (Jane Lovett), Ben Wright (Harold Bond), Barbara Morrison (Mrs. Trabert), Tita Purdom (Grace Pell)

An unemployed actor is hired to kill a girl before she turns 25 years old. Curious as to why she must die, the actor begins investigating the girl and her friends.



17 :01x17 - The Star Wagon

First aired: Jan/24/1957
Director: Vincent J. Donahue
Guest star: Jackie Coogan (Hanus Wicks), William Bishop (Charles Duffy), Diana Lynn (Martha Minch), Eddie Bracken (Stephen Minch), Margaret Hayes (Halle Arrington), Billie Burke (Mrs. Rutledge)

An inventor uses a time machine to travel back with a childhood friend to the idealistic days of their youth.



18 :01x18 - The Greer Case

First aired: Jan/31/1957
Writer: Whitfield Cook
Guest star: Melvyn Douglas (Howard Hoagland), Zsa Zsa Gabor (Erika Segnitz), Edmund Gwenn (Jack Baldwin), Anita Louise (Mabel Seymour Greer), Raymond Burr (Lester Friedman), Una Merkel (Louise Hoagland), Jane Darwell (Annie Jackson), Philip Reed (Francis Wells), Alan Marshal (Raymond Armbruster)

A wealthy widow who's dying decides to change her will to leave everything to the child she abandoned years before. When the woman dies before signing the will a lawsuit breaks out between the man claiming to be her son and Harvard University to whom she'd originally left the money.



19 :01x19 - The Miracle Worker

First aired: Feb/07/1957
Writer: William Gibson
Director: Arthur Penn
Guest star: Mickey Rooney (Host), Carroll McComas (Aunt Ev), Paulene Myers (Viney), Milas G. Clark (Percy), Patricia McCormack (Helen Keller), Teresa Wright (Annie Sullivan), Burl Ives (Captain Keller), John Drew Barrymore (James Keller), Akim Tamiroff (Anagnos), Katharine Bard (Kate Keller), Jason Johnson (Doctor)

The Keller family sends away to the Perkins Institute for help with their young daughter, Helen, who has been blind, deaf,and mute since infancy. The Institute sends Annie Sullivan to work with Helen.



20 :01x20 - The Comedian

First aired: Feb/14/1957
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Constance Ford (Connie), Mickey Rooney (Sammy Hogarth), Edmond O'Brien (Al Preston), Kim Hunter (Julie Hogarth), Mel Tormé (Lester Hogarth), Whit Bissell (Elwell), King Donovan (Director), Eddie Ryder (Jake), H. M. Wynant (Sonny), Mike Ross (Masseur)

An egomaniacal TV comedian threatens to fire his head writer unless he comes up with some exceptionally funny and clever material for the upcoming show.



21 :01x21 - One Coat of White

First aired: Feb/21/1957
Writer: Leonard Spigelgass
Guest star: Darlene Albert (Marietta), Paul Henreid (Roland Lautisse), Claudette Colbert (Betsy Gregg), Leif Erickson (Ben Riggs), Larry Blyden (Luke), Mark Roberts (Bill)

A widow on a trip to Europe begins a romance with a French painter.



22 :01x22 - The Blackwell Story

First aired: Feb/28/1957
Writer: Mel Barr
Director: James Neilson
Guest star: Joanne Dru (Elizabeth Blackwell), Dan O'Herlihy (Dr. Keller), Charles Korvin (Dr. Von Neff), Marshall Thompson (David), Keith Larsen (Howard), Wilton Graff (Samuel Blackwell), Philip Tonge (Dean Parkington), Paul Keast (Dean Robertson), Damian O'Flynn (Dr. McKay), Joanna Barnes (Ellen Blackwell), Harvey Stephens (Dr. Adams), Royal Dano (guest star), Barbara Hale (guest star)

Biographical drama about the numerous obstacles faced by Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman licensed to practice medicine in the United State.



23 :01x23 - Invitation to a Gunfighter

First aired: Mar/07/1957
Writer: Leslie Stevens
Director: Arthur Penn
Guest star: Pat O'Brien (Sheriff Kyle Bickford), Hugh O'Brian (Matt Jeffers), Gilbert Roland (Dancer), Anne Bancroft (Julie Bickford), Ray Collins (Harris Clayton)

Townspeople deputize a gunman to deal with a troublesome returning Civil War veteran but the gunman proves to be a handful himself.



24 :01x24 - The Last Tycoon

First aired: Mar/14/1957
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: William Roerick (Kellogg), Robert F. Simon (Brady), Jack Palance (Monroe Stahr), Edward McNally (Whitey), Keenan Wynn (Lou Myrick), Peter Lorre (Pete Zavras), Viveca Lindfors (Kathleen Moore), Lee Remick (Cecelia Brady), John Hudson (Wylie White), Reginald Denny (Dean), Helen Kleeb (Birdy), Arthur Batanides (Van Dyke)

The head of a floundering movie studio spends a fortune trying to turn its latest film into a smash hit but his decisions are challenged by the studio's financial expert.



25 :01x25 - The Hostess with the Mostest

First aired: Mar/21/1957
Writer: Hagar Wilde, Speed Lamkin
Director: Paul Nickell
Guest star: Shepperd Strudwick (Charley Potter), Shirley Booth (Perle Mesta), Evelyn Rudie (Perle as a Child), Frank Milan (Phillip Caldwell), Hedda Hopper (Maizie Weldon), Paul Millard (Forbes), Robert Lowery (George Mesta), Louise Beavers (Mattie Mae), Joan Wetmore (Emily), Edgar Barrier (Count)

A dramatization based on the life of famed Washington DC hostess and socialite Perle Mesta.



26 :01x26 - Charley's Aunt

First aired: Mar/28/1957
Writer: Leslie Stevens
Director: Arthur Penn
Guest star: Jackie Coogan (Coach Sanderford), Art Carney (Lord Fancourt Babberly), Jeanette MacDonald (Donna Lucia d'Alvadores), Orson Bean (Charley Wyckham), Tom Tryon (Jack Chesney), Sue Randall (Kitty Verdun), Richard Haydn (Stephen Spettigue), Venetia Stevenson (Amy Spettigue), Gene Raymond (Sir Francis Chesney), Melville Cooper (Brassett)

An Oxford student is persuaded to put on a dress and impersonate the aunt of a fellow student at a dinner party. He does his job so well that he attracts two marriage proposals.



27 :01x27 - Clipper Ship

First aired: Apr/04/1957
Writer: Berne Giler
Director: Oscar Rudolph
Guest star: Charles Bickford (Captain Joel Kingdom), Jan Sterling (Helen Ott), Steve Forrest (Matt Bowers), Helmut Dantine (Luis Obregon), Paul Fix (Dr. Shaw), George Keymas (Reeder), Jack Grinnage (Jones)

A hard-boiled clipper ship captain discovers that he has two special passengers on his latest voyage: the comely widow of the ship's owner and a political prisoner whom he's transporting to his doom.



28 :01x28 - If You Knew Elizabeth

First aired: Apr/11/1957
Writer: Tad Mosel
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Claire Trevor (Elizabeth Owen), Gary Merrill (Walter Hubbard), Ernest Truex (Uncle John), Natalie Schafer (Geneva), Doro Merande (Mrs. Adolph), Stephen Wootton (Schudy), Joi Lansing (Miss Swanson), Joe Sweeney (Owen)

The fiancee of a college professor disappears after discovering that he was only marrying her as a step in his plan to become university president.



29 :01x29 - Three Men on a Horse

First aired: Apr/18/1957
Writer: A. J. Russell
Director: Arthur Hiller
Guest star: Carol Channing (Mabel), Edward Everett Horton (Mr. Carver), Jack Carson (Patsy), Mona Freeman (Audrey Trowbridge), Johnny Carson (Erwin Trowbridge), Larry Blyden (Clarence), Allen Jenkins (Harry), Frank McHugh (Charlie), Arnold Stang (Frankie), Jane Darwell (Lady on Bus)

Erwin Trowbridge has an uncanny knack for picking winning horses at the racetrack although he never places a bet on any of his picks. He ends up being kidnapped by three characters who have learned of his talent and want him to pick winners for them.



30 :01x30 - Four Women in Black

First aired: Apr/25/1957
Writer: Bernard Girard
Director: Bernard Girard
Guest star: Katy Jurado (Sister Monica), Helen Hayes (Sister Theresa), Ralph Meeker (Carbine Webb), Janice Rule (Sister Martha), Jim Davis (Sheriff), Narda Onyx (Sister Hyacinth), Lita Milan (Carmen), Rudy Alonzo (Pepito)

Four nuns journeying across the desert from Santa Fe to Tucson have to depend upon a fleeing outlaw for survival when their horse is stolen.



31 :01x31 - Child of Trouble

First aired: May/02/1957
Writer: James P. Cavanagh
Guest star: Patricia McCormack (Toby Green), Ricardo Montalban (Teddy Green), Joan Blondell (Helen Green), Chester Morris (Warden), Richard Arlen (Louis Contino), Frank Puglia (Green, Sr.), Lillian Roth (Irene Contino)

The daughter of a convict leading a prison uprising tries to persuade her father not to kill the guards he's holding hostage.



32 :01x32 - Homeward Borne

First aired: May/09/1957
Writer: Halsted Welles
Director: Arthur Hiller
Guest star: Paulene Myers (Louise), Richard Kiley (Bob Lyttleton), Linda Darnell (Meg Lyttleton), Keith Andes (Andy Colby), Richard Eyer (Tommy Lyttleton), Sarah Selby (Secretary), Rene Korper (Ben), Steve Firstman (Paul)

Returning home from the service after World War II, a fighter pilot discovers that his wife has adopted a war orphan. He soon comes to resent the child because the boy reminds him all to well of his ordeals in the war.



33 :01x33 - The Helen Morgan Story

First aired: May/16/1957
Writer: Leonard Spigelgass, Paul Monash
Director: George Roy Hill
Guest star: Polly Bergen (Helen Morgan), Sylvia Sidney (Lulu Morgan), Hoagy Carmichael (Marty Dix), Benay Venuta (Texas Guinan), Robert Lowery (Roy Patterson), Reginald Denny (George White), Ronnie Burns (Bobby Talbot), Lili Gentle (Marilyn Flood)

Dramatization based on the life of troubled songstress Helen Morgan.



34 :01x34 - Winter Dreams

First aired: May/23/1957
Writer: James P. Cavanagh
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Raymond Bailey (Mr. Holt), Darryl Hickman (Larry), Robert F. Simon (Joe Green), Dana Wynter (Judy Holt), John Cassavetes (Dexter Green), Mildred Dunnock (Martha Green), Phyllis Love (Irene Hedrich), Edmund Gwenn (Gordon), Peter Votrian (Dexter as a Child), Howard Wendell (Hedrich), Tom Palmer (Sandwood), Lana Wood (Judy as a Child), Helen Kleeb (Nurse), Howard Price (McKenna)

A successful young man has just announced his engagement to a sensible, conservative woman when the rich girl whom he's loved for many years suddenly re-appears in his life.



35 :01x35 - Circle of the Day

First aired: May/30/1957
Director: Arthur Hiller
Guest star: Michael Rennie (Eric Millet), Nancy Kelly (Barbara Millet), Zsa Zsa Gabor (Marta Lorenz), Pamela Mason (Mona), Gladys Cooper (Mrs. Millet), Mary Wickes (Grace), Portland Mason (Jane Millet)

A wife of a theatrical agent begins to suspect that her husband was having an affair with a client who just recently perished in a plane crash.



36 :01x36 - Without Incident

First aired: Jun/06/1957
Writer: David Victor, Herbert Little, Jr.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Guest star: Ann Sheridan (Kathy), John Ireland (Sgt. Turley), Julie London (Angela), H. M. Wynant (guest star), Rodolfo Acosta (guest star), John Pickard (guest star), Irene Tedrow (guest star), Richard Shannon (guest star), Bing Russell (guest star), Errol Flynn (Capt. Russell Bidlack)

In the days of the Old West, 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.



37 :01x37 - Clash by Night

First aired: Jun/13/1957
Writer: F. W. Durkee, Jr.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Lloyd Bridges (Earl Pfeiffer), E. G. Marshall (Jerry Wilenski), Edgar Stehli (Vincent Kress), John Bleifer (Mr. Wilenski), Kim Stanley (Mae Wilinski)

The unhappy wife of a California fisherman finds herself attracted to his best friend.



38 :01x38 - Ain't No Time for Glory

First aired: Jun/20/1957
Writer: Malvin Wald, Jack Jacobs
Director: Oscar Rudolph
Guest star: Richard Jaeckel (Sergeant Luke Mertz), Gene Barry (Lt. Roy Koalton), John Drew Barrymore (Lt. Stegel), Bruce Bennett (Lt. Col. Granville), Eddie Ryder (Sgt. Webbner), Joe De Santis (Maurice Remy), Dan Barton (Corporal Kelson), John Beradino (Sgt. Prados), William Bryant (Private Tanier)

Behind enemy lines during World War II, an American officer embarks upon a dangerous mission to rescue two of his men who have been wounded and taken prisoner.



39 :01x39 - The Fabulous Irishman

First aired: Jun/27/1957
Writer: Elick Moll
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Art Carney (Robert Briscoe), Katharine Bard (Lillian Isaacs), Michael Higgins (Jamie Farrow), Charles Davis (Sean O'Brien), Eli Mintz (Isaacs)

Dramatization based on events in the life of Robert Briscoe, an Irish rebel/patriot who later became Lord Mayor of Dublin.



40 :02x01 - The Death of Manolete

First aired: Sep/12/1957
Writer: Barnaby Conrad, Paul Monash
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Jack Palance (Manolete), Suzy Parker (Tani Morena), Robert Middleton (Perea), Ray Danton (Antonito), Nehemiah Persoff (Carras), Esther Minciotti (Augustias)

A dead matador's manager blames a young bullfighter for his death and years later, after the younger man has become famous, plays a part in the latter's own death in the bullring.



41 :02x02 - The Dark Side of the Earth

First aired: Sep/19/1957
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Arthur Penn
Guest star: Van Heflin (Colonel Sten), Earl Holliman (Captain Volodney), Dean Jagger (Anton Rojas), Kim Hunter (Anna Rojas), Jerry Paris (Chevak), Ian Wolfe (General Kerch)

During the 1956 Hungarian revolt against Soviet occupation, a Soviet colonel learns that his troops have captured a group of revolutionaries who were responsible for the death of his son.



42 :02x03 - Topaze

First aired: Sep/26/1957
Writer: Ellis St. Joseph
Director: Vincent J. Donahue
Guest star: Ernie Kovacs (Topaze), Carl Reiner (Regis), Richard Haydn (Muche), Sheree North (Suzy), Roxanne Arlen (Germaine), Stephen Wootton (Castle-Benac)

A teacher at a small French private school gets fired for refusing to raise the grades of a student soon finds another job working for a corrupt politician.



43 :02x04 - Sound of a Different Drummer

First aired: Oct/03/1957
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Sterling Hayden (Gordon Miller), Diana Lynn (Susan Ward), John Ireland (Ben Hammond), David Opatoshu (Ellis)

In a futuristic totalitarian society where possession of unauthorized reading material is banned, a young police officer catches a librarian in possession of a banned book. She then insists that he read it too.



44 :02x05 - The Playroom

First aired: Oct/10/1957
Writer: Tad Mosel
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Guest star: Mildred Dunnock (Mrs. Flood), Tony Randall (Kenneth), Nina Foch (Mrs. Kelly), Patricia Neal (Margaret), Marilyn Erskine (Katherine), Charles Drake (Albert)

Three siblings, all of whom are prominent, return home for the announcement that their mother has won an award from a national magazine.



45 :02x06 - Around the World in 90 Minutes

First aired: Oct/17/1957
Director: Byron Paul
Guest star: Garry Moore (Host), Michael Todd (Himself), Elizabeth Taylor (Herself), Frank Sinatra (Himself), Charles Boyer (Himself), Maurice Chevalier (Himself), George Jessel (Himself), Walter Cronkite (Himself), Jim McKay (Himself)

For this show, Playhouse 90 suspended its usual dramatic format to telecast a remote from Madison Square Garden where movie producer Michael Todd was throwing a big party for some 18,000 guests to celebrate the first anniversary of the Broadway opening of his film "Around the World in 80 Days."



46 :02x07 - The Mystery of Thirteen

First aired: Oct/24/1957
Writer: David Shaw
Director: Robert Mulligan
Guest star: Jack Lemmon (Dr. Billy Palmer), Margaret O'Brien (Annie Brookes), Herbert Marshall (Dr. Knight), Gladys Cooper (Mrs. Palmer), Henry Jones (Walter Palmer), John Baragrey (John Parsons Cook)

A young medical student falls in love with the ward of his professor, gets expelled from school for stealing from patients in the university infirmary, and ends up on the end of a hangman's noose for poisoning a friend.



47 :02x08 - The Edge of Innocence

First aired: Oct/31/1957
Writer: Berne Giler
Director: Arthur Hiller
Guest star: Dan Barton (Jay Pauling), Joseph Cotten (Robert Rainey), Beverly Garland (Gay Sherman), Lorne Greene (Lowell Williams), Maureen O'Sullivan (Julia Williams), Teresa Wright (Carol Morton)

A successful but unscrupulous defense attorney defends the brother-in-law of his fiancee on a murder charge.



48 :02x09 - The Clouded Image

First aired: Nov/07/1957
Writer: James P. Cavanagh
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Guest star: Farley Granger (Peter Ashby/Brat Farrar), Judith Anderson (Aunt Bee), Terry Moore (Eleanor), Vincent Price (Alex), Patricia McCormack (Jane), John Williams (Sandal)

A young stranger with a remarkable resemblance to a dead heir lays claim to an English fortune by saying he's the deceased's twin brother.



49 :02x10 - The Jet Propelled Couch

First aired: Nov/14/1957
Writer: Stanley Roberts
Director: Burgess Meredith
Guest star: Donald O'Connor (Dr. Robert Harrison), David Wayne (Dr. Kirk Allen), Peter Lorre (Dr. Ostrow), Gale Gordon (General Dagby), Phyllis Avery (Eleanor Harrison)

The Pentagon calls in a renowned psychiatrist to treat an atomic physicist who believes that he lives part of his life on another planet--and has the maps and charts of the place to prove it.



50 :02x11 - The Troublemakers

First aired: Nov/21/1957
Writer: George Bellak
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Guest star: Ben Gazzara (Stanley Carr), Keenan Wynn (Sprock), Barbara Rush (Clara), Robert Vaughn (Steve Sprock), Mary Astor (Mattie), Jackie Coogan (Bender), Nick Adams (Sandy)

An outspoken editor of a campus newspaper is beaten to death after he gets into an argument with some fellow students about one of his editorials.



51 :02x12 - Panic Button

First aired: Nov/28/1957
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Guest star: Robert Stack (Jerry Cook), Vera Miles (Carolyn Cook), Lee J. Cobb (Al Bengston), Leif Erickson (Paul Henderson), Marian Seldes (Kate Sullivan)

The investigation into a plane crash reveals that either the dead pilot or the surviving co-pilot was the person at fault.



52 :02x13 - Galvanized Yankee

First aired: Dec/05/1957
Writer: Russell Hughes
Director: Paul Wendkos
Guest star: Lloyd Nolan (Captain Kuyper), James Whitmore (Captain Stanley), Victor Jory (Captain Hume), Neville Brand (Sgt. Duggan), Chuck Courtney (Bob Shay), Martha Vickers (guest star), William Boyett (guest star)

A Confederate captain being held in a POW camp swears vengeance against the Union commandant who had his brother executed for attacking a guard.



53 :02x14 - The Thundering Wave

First aired: Dec/12/1957
Writer: Robert Alan Aurthur
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: James Mason (Sidney Lowe), Franchot Tone (Allen Grant), Joan Bennett (Vickie Maxwell), Pamela Mason (Marcia Lowe), Susan Oliver (Louise Grant), Jack Klugman (Lew Downs)

An acting couple agrees to perform in a play together after a long marital and professional separation. Many of their old problems still remain.



54 :02x15 - For I Have Loved Strangers

First aired: Dec/19/1957
Writer: Elick Moll
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Guest star: Don Murray (Bob Munson), Hope Lange (Raiya), Robert Flemyng (Dr. Farlo), Vladimir Sokoloff (Bartok), Werner Klemperer (Boris)

The marriage plans of a young Czech refugee and a young man on the staff of a relocation camp are threatened by the bureaucratic red tape involved in bringing a foreign bride into the United States.



55 :02x16 - The Lone Woman

First aired: Dec/26/1957
Writer: Al C. Ward
Guest star: Kathryn Grayson (Lone Woman), Scott Brady (William Bent), Vincent Price (Jesse White), Jack Lord (Jim Kester), Raymond Burr (Charles Bent), Buddy Baer (Angel), Harry Carey, Jr. (Cliff Eastland)

A trading post owner in 1830's Colorado Territory seeks to have the marriage of his brother and a Cheyenne woman annulled.



56 :02x17 - Reunion

First aired: Jan/02/1958
Guest star: Hugh O'Brian (Jason Merrick), Martha Hyer (Louise Merrick), Dane Clark (Saul Leventhal), Charles Drake (GuySchmidt), Jack Lord (Homer Aswell), Neva Patterson (Elizabeth Murray), Patricia Barry (Lucille), Frances Farmer (Val Schmidt)

A World War II vet, now a successful attorney, hosts a reunion party for three of his former comrades in arms. At the party each of the four reveals a secret about his life that's unknown to any of the others.



57 :02x18 - The Last Man

First aired: Jan/09/1958
Writer: Aaron Spelling
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Sterling Hayden (Mitch Barrett), Carolyn Jones (Julie), Lee Philips (Dan), Wallace Ford (Mule Rogers), Hurd Hatfield (Ivers), Peter Mark Richman (Stu)

A man schemes to destroy a town because its citizens refused to help when his wife was dying.



58 :02x19 - The 80 Yard Run

First aired: Jan/16/1958
Writer: David Shaw
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Guest star: Paul Newman (Christian Darling), Joanne Woodward (Louise Darling), Darryl Hickman (Herbie), Robert F. Simon (Sam), Richard Anderson (Pete)

The stock market crash of 1929 causes the business of a former football hero to fail. Meanwhile, his wife finds a job at a fashion magazine and is a huge success. Marital discore ensues.



59 :02x20 - Before I Die

First aired: Jan/23/1958
Writer: Berne Giler
Director: Arthur Hiller
Guest star: Richard Kiley (Dr. David Delvecchio), Kim Hunter (Joyce McClure), Skip Homeier (George Weaver), Coleen Gray (Carol Dennison), Jay C. Flippen (Lester Carr), Joe De Santis (Dr. Bronstein), John Hoyt (Dr. Harper), Dayton Lummis (Dr. Engle), Anthony Eisley (Anesthetist)

While performing an emergency operation on a death row convict, the surgeon becomes convinced by the patient's mumbling's under anesthesia that he's innocent.



60 :02x21 - The Gentleman from Seventh Avenue

First aired: Jan/30/1958
Writer: Elick Moll
Director: Allen Reisner
Guest star: Walter Slezak (Golden), Patricia Neal (Rena Mencken), Sylvia Sidney (Mrs. Golden), Robert Alda (Morris Kogan), Lawrence Dobkin (Elbaum), Joyce Jameson (Miss Cooper), Howard Dayton (Sidney), Peggy Maley (Shelly), Judy Nugent (Jenny)

Everyone mistakenly thinks that a dress manufacturer is having an affair with his attractive designer.



61 :02x22 - The Violent Heart

First aired: Feb/06/1958
Writer: Leslie Stevens
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Dana Wynter (Marquise), Ben Gazzara (Paul), Charles Korvin (Marquis), Pamela Brown (Baroness), Vivian Nathan (Annette), Mimi Gibson (Celeste), William Roerick (Manager)

On the Riviera, a young marquise finds herself attracted to the owner of a photography shop.



62 :02x23 - No Time at All

First aired: Feb/13/1958
Writer: David Swift, Charles Einstein
Director: David Swift
Guest star: Shepperd Strudwick (Reagan), Jack Haley (Stanley Leeds), William Lundigan (Ben Gammon), Jane Greer (Karen), Regis Toomey (Joe Donaldson), Keenan Wynn (Marshall Keats), Buster Keaton (Harrison), Betsy Palmer (Emily Verdon), Jay C. Flippen (Happy Gallant), Reginald Gardiner (Felix Allardyce), James Gleason (Dolph Grimes), Mary Beth Hughes (Mrs. Leeds), Sylvia Sidney (Mrs. Kramer), Florence Halop (Mrs. Laurie), Charles Bronson (Kip), Howard McNear (Bertram), Kathryn Card (Mrs. Bertram), Jack Mulhall (Editor), Richard Crane (Pilot), Frank Wilcox (guest star), Sam Gilman (guest star), Chico Marx (Kramer), Cliff Edwards (Webber's Manager), Harry Einstein (Laurie)

En route from Miami to New York a plane develops electrical troubles and the passengers' friends and relatives on the ground react in different ways to their possible fate.



63 :02x24 - Point of No Return

First aired: Feb/20/1958
Writer: Frank D. Gilroy
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Guest star: Charlton Heston (Charles Gray), Hope Lange (Jessica Lovell), Katharine Bard (Nancy Gray), Edward Andrews (Roger Blakesley), John Williams (Lovell), Ainslie Pryor (Jackie Mason)

An executive in line for a promotion to vice-president in his firm goes on a business trip to his hometown. Re-visiting the scenes of his boyhood and meeting several old friends causes him to re-think his goals and attitudes toward life.



64 :02x25 - Portrait of a Murderer

First aired: Feb/27/1958
Writer: Leslie Stevens
Director: Arthur Penn
Guest star: Tab Hunter (Donald Bashor), Geraldine Page (Florrie), Rudy Bond (Eddie), Elizabeth Patterson (Mrs. Finch), Frank London (Jackie), Ned Glass (Charlie), Barbara Turner De Hubp (Sandra), Sidney Clute (Cooney), Richard Bisutti (Bobby)

Donald Bashor is a handsome, clean cut young man with a respectable job who leads an apparently exemplary life. But there's also a dark side to Donald that includes both robbery and murder.



65 :02x26 - The Last Clear Chance

First aired: Mar/06/1958
Writer: A. E. Hotchner
Director: George Roy Hill
Guest star: Paul Muni (Sam Arlen), Luther Adler (District Attorney Garvin), Dick York (Scott Arlen), Lee Remick (Peggy Maylin), John Hoyt (Ross Melnichor), Carl Benton Reid (Judge), Eithne Dunne (Mrs. Matson)

A noted attorney comes out of retirement to defend his lawyer son in a disbarment proceeding on grounds that the son withheld evidence in order to get his client acquitted of a murder charge.



66 :02x27 - The Male Animal

First aired: Mar/13/1958
Director: Vincent J. Donahue
Guest star: Andy Griffith (Professor Tommy Turner), Ann Rutherford (Ellen Turner), Edmond O'Brien (Joe Ferguson), Charlie Ruggles (Dean Damon), Gale Gordon (Ed Keller), Dick Sargent (Michael), Ronnie Knox (Student)

A college English professor defies the attack of trustees on academic freedom at his university at the same time his wife's old flame returns to town for a big football game.



67 :02x28 - The Right-Hand Man

First aired: Mar/20/1958
Writer: Dick Berg
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Guest star: Dana Andrews (Leo Bass), Anne Baxter (Pat Bass), Leslie Nielsen (Ralph Mohr), Stuart Erwin (George Clay), Ruta Lee (guest star), June Collyer (Trixie Clay)

A Hollywood talent agent is torn between ambition and friendship when he learns that the loyalty of a good friend and fellow agent is being questioned by the head of the agency.



68 :02x29 - Turn Left at Mount Everest

First aired: Mar/27/1958
Writer: Del Reisman
Guest star: Peter Lorre (Tenzig), Fess Parker (Private Linus Powell), Patricia Cutts (Sally Gates), Paul Ford (Colonel), Arnold Stang (Allencamp)

During World War II, an Army Air Corps private is transferred from an outpost in India to remote duty station in China on the other side of the Himalayas. He hatches a plan to return to his girlfriend in Calcutta despite the fact that his commanding officer is having him shadowed.



69 :02x30 - The Dungeon

First aired: Apr/10/1958
Writer: David Swift
Director: David Swift
Guest star: Paul Douglas (Emery Ganun), Agnes Moorehead (Rose Ganun), Julie Adams (Janice Ohringer), Patricia McCormack (Mahala May), Dennis Weaver (Karl Ohringer), Thomas Gomez (John Marin), Ian Wolfe (Edward Wingate), Patrick McVey (Lt. Galifa), Werner Klemperer (Jesse Eastland), Russell Collins (Walter Hinch), Eduard Franz (Burton Wheless), Ken Lynch (guest star), John Crawford (Chuck Ohringer), Robert Osterloh (guest star), Philip Tonge (guest star)

A wealthy sadist named Emery Ganun is intently following the trial of one Karl Ohringer who is charged with a killing. When the jury rules that the killing was accidental, Ganun decides to mete out his own brand of justice.



70 :02x31 - Bitter Heritage

First aired: Apr/17/1958
Writer: Richard K. Brockway, Joseph Landon
Director: Paul Wendkos
Guest star: Franchot Tone (Frank James), Russell Thorson (Sheriff Piets), Dayton Lummis (Colonel Brecker), Henry Hull (Old Henry), Denver Pyle (Sam Wheeler), Strother Martin (Earl Wheeler), Robert Middleton (Luke Crocker), Elizabeth Montgomery (Grace Brecker), James Drury (Jesse James), Eva LeGallienne (Grandma James)

When the notorious James brothers are framed for a bank heist, the banker's daughter comes forward with evidence of their innocence.



71 :02x32 - Verdict of Three

First aired: Apr/24/1958
Writer: James P. Cavanagh
Director: Buzz Kulik
Guest star: Michael Wilding (Sir John Alexander), Angela Lansbury (Victoria Atkins), Yvonne DeCarlo (Marina Arkwright), Gladys Cooper (Mrs. Allen), Cecil Kellaway (Dr. Parks), Carmen Mathews (Alice Morris), Rod Taylor (Francis Allen)

When a woman is charged with poisoning her son in order to keep him from receiving a substantial inheritance, three jurors selected for the trial bring their own particular prejudices to the case.



72 :02x33 - Rumors of Evening

First aired: May/01/1958
Writer: Leslie Stevens
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Robert F. Simon (General Strayer), John Kerr (Neil Dameron), Barbara Bel Geddes (Sidney Cantrell), Robert Loggia (Major Woulman), Pat Hitchcock (Irma Jean Deever), Carl Benton Reid (Colonel), Billie Burke (Mrs. Purcell)

During World War II, an American pilot volunteers for a dangerous mission knowing that if he survives he'll be sent stateside and thus be able to renew his romance with a USO entertainer with whom he's fallen in love.



73 :02x34 - Not the Glory

First aired: May/08/1958
Writer: David Shaw
Guest star: James Mason (Wilhelm Konreid), Ann Todd (Lady Diane Goodfellow), Dennis King (Sir Wallace Goodfellow), Walter Fitzgerald (Major Wickham)

In 1939, a German agent posing as an escaped Polish patriot arrives in London and is later offered a job as a radio commentator for the BBC.



74 :02x35 - Nightmare at Ground Zero

First aired: May/15/1958
Writer: Paul Monash, Rod Serling
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Guest star: Jack Warden (Long), Carl Benton Reid (General Tyler), Barry Sullivan (Daniel Joyce), Ainslie Pryor (Beloit)

Scientists on an atoll 20 miles away from the site of the first hydrogen bomb test discover that the bomb is much more powerful than they had originally calculated.



75 :02x36 - Bomber's Moon

First aired: May/22/1958
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Martin Balsam (Capt. Mantell), Bob Cummings (Colonel Culver), Rip Torn (Lt. Harrison), Hazel Court (Mary Jarvis), Larry Gates (Major), J. Pat O'Malley (Pub Keeper), Cliff Robertson (Host)

During World War II, a hard as nails C.O. of an American bomber wing publicly accuses a young flier of cowardice on a mission in which one of the unit's best pilots was shot down.



76 :02x37 - Natchez

First aired: May/29/1958
Writer: Martin M. Goldsmith
Director: David Lowell Rich
Guest star: Cliff Robertson (Danny Carson), Macdonald Carey (Alexander Lamar), Thomas Mitchell (Carson), Felicia Farr (Valerie Lamar), Ted de Corsia (Jenkins), Dan Blocker (guest star), Chubby Johnson (guest star), Keith Vincent (guest star)

A Civil War veteran returns to his home in Natchez, Mississippi only to learn that his planter father is considered a traitor because he refused to burn his crops like other planters. This causes a rift between the two and the young man takes a job working on a riverboat where he soon falls for the owner's wife.



77 :02x38 - The Innocent Sleep

First aired: Jun/05/1958
Writer: Tad Mosel
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Guest star: Buster Keaton (Charles Blackburn), Hope Lange (Alex Winter), John Ericson (Leo West), Hope Emerson (Mrs. Downey), Dennis King (Clyde Winter), Peg Hillias (Mrs. Howe)

An elderly invalid's housekeeper gets suspicious of his much younger new bride especially when a young man keeps calling on her.



78 :02x39 - A Town Has Turned to Dust

First aired: Jun/19/1958
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Rod Steiger (Sheriff Harvey Denton), William Shatner (Jerry Paul), Fay Spain (Annamay Paul), James Gregory (Hennify), Mario Alcaide (Ramon Rivera), Martin Garralaga (Priest), Eugene Iglesias (Pancho Rivera)

After a lynching, a cloud of darkness settles over a town in the American Southwest.



79 :02x40 - The Great Gatsby

First aired: Jun/26/1958
Writer: David Shaw
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Guest star: Robert Ryan (Jay Gatsby), Jeanne Crain (Daisy Buchanan), Rod Taylor (Nick Carraway), Virginia Grey (Myrtle Wilson), Patricia Barry (Jordan Baker), Philip Reed (Tom Buchanan), Barry Atwater (George Wilson)

In this adaptation of Fitzgerald's classic novel, a mysterious millionaire attempts to win back an old love who's now married to someone else.



80 :03x01 - The Plot to Kill Stalin

First aired: Sep/25/1958
Writer: David Karp
Director: Delbert Mann
Guest star: Melvyn Douglas (Joseph Stalin), Eli Wallach (Poskrebyshev), Oskar Homolka (Nikita Khrushchev), E. G. Marshall (Lavrenti Beria), Luther Adler (Vyacheslav Molotov), Thomas Gomez (Georgi Malenkov), Marian Seldes (Madame Molotova), Lawrence Dobkin (Shtemenko), Bert Freed (Sokolov), David J. Stewart (Ignatiev), Paul Bryar (Marshal Georgi Zhukov), Paul Lambert (Rassine), Paul Maxwell (Recorder), Edwin Jerome (Physician), Harry Davidson (Ryumim)

During his later years, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin grows more and more paranoid and begins planning one last purge that includes members of his inner circle. Sensing this, some members of the inner circle begin a plot of their own.



81 :03x02 - Days of Wine and Roses

First aired: Oct/02/1958
Writer: J. P. Miller
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Piper Laurie (Kirsten Clay), Cliff Robertson (Joe Clay), Charles Bickford (Ellis Arnesen), Malcolm Atterbury (Jim Hungerford), Marc Lawrence (Scarface), Martha Wentworth (Mrs. Nolan)

A once successful couple has seen their lives and marriage disintegrate because of their alcoholism. At an AA meeting, the husband recounts how it all began for them.



82 :03x03 - The Time of Your Life

First aired: Oct/09/1958
Writer: A. J. Russell
Director: Tom Donovan
Guest star: Dick York (Tom), Jackie Gleason (Joe), Betsy Palmer (Kitty Duval), Jack Klugman (Nick), Bobby Van (Harry), James Barton (Kit Carson), Bert Freed (Blick), Terry Carter (Wesley), Steve Franken (Willie), Carlos Montalban (Arab), Billy M. Greene (Drunk), Dina Merrill (Mary), Jeri Archer (Killer), Ray Mchugh (Newsboy), Lynne Forrester (Friend), Gloria Vanderbilt (Elsie)

This teleplay centers on a motley collection of people who frequent a San Francisco dive known as Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Chief among these patrons is a philosophical gent named Joe.



83 :03x04 - The Long March

First aired: Oct/16/1958
Writer: Roger Hirson
Director: Delbert Mann
Guest star: Sterling Hayden (Colonel Templeton), Rod Taylor (Lt. Culver), Jack Carson (Captain Mannix), Mona Freeman (Betsy), James Congdon (Private Hobbs)

A hard-nosed Marine colonel orders a reserve unit called to active duty during the Korean War to undergo a 36 mile march back to the base following a rigorous battle exercise.



84 :03x05 - Shadows Tremble

First aired: Oct/23/1958
Director: Ernest Kinoy
Guest star: Edward G. Robinson (Oscar Bromek), Ray Walston (Partridge), Beatrice Straight (Grace), Robert Webber (Malcolm Field), Lori March (Felicia Field), Byron Foulger (Frank Post), Frank Conroy (Ty Tyburn), Parker Fennelly (George Putnam)

An immigrant toy manufacturer retires to a small Vermont town but finds that the native townies virtually ignore him.



85 :03x06 - Words from a Sealed-Off Box

First aired: Oct/30/1958
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Guest star: Maria Schell (Greta), Jean-Pierre Aumont (Henri), Vivian Nathan (Frieda), Betsy von Furstenberg (Lisa), Theodore Bikel (Rapp)

When a courier for the Dutch underground in World War II is captured by the Germans and taken to Gestapo headquarters she desperately tries to concoct a story that will protect the agent she was unable to contact.



86 :03x07 - Heart of Darkness

First aired: Nov/06/1958
Director: Ron Winston
Guest star: Boris Karloff (Kurtz), Roddy McDowall (Marlow), Oskar Homolka (Doctor), Eartha Kitt (Queen), Richard Haydn (Accountant), Inga Swenson (Maria), Cathleen Nesbitt (Old Woman)

A seaman named Marlow journeys into the heart of deepest Africa to find Kurtz, the man who raised him.



87 :03x08 - Old Man

First aired: Nov/20/1958
Writer: Horton Foote
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Stafford Repp (Steamboat Captain), Sterling Hayden (Tall Convict), Geraldine Page (Young Woman), Milton Selzer (Second Convict), James Westerfield (Warden), Malcolm Atterbury (Doctor), Sandy Kenyon (Deputy), Marc Lawrence (Cajun), Len Lesser (Man with Gun), Richard LePore (Man on Cotton Horse), Naomi Stevens (Woman on Boat), James Forster (Motorboat Pilot), Alvin Childress (Farmer), Clegg Hoyt (Army Officer), Bob Duggan (Steam Launch Pilot), Ned Roberts (Sergeant)

In 1927, a Mississippi penal farm releases some convicts to fight a flood. One sees it as an opportunity to escape while another decides to stay and help the efforts.



88 :03x09 - The Return of Ansel Gibbs

First aired: Nov/27/1958
Writer: David Davison
Director: Ralph Nelson
Guest star: Melvyn Douglas (Ansel Gibbs), Diana Lynn (Anne), Mary Astor (Sylvia), Earl Holliman (Robin Tripp), Loring Smith (Senator Farwell), John Hoyt (Porter Hoyt), Ilka Chase (Louise)

Retired politico Ansel Gibbs decides to accept a Cabinet position in Washington D.C. and has to undergo unwanted scrutiny about his past public and private life.



89 :03x10 - Free Weekend

First aired: Dec/04/1958
Writer: Steve Gethers
Guest star: James Whitmore (Guy Cato), Nina Foch (Wanda Newton), Kim Hunter (Shirl Cato), Jim Backus (Jerry), Charles Bickford (Marvin), Buddy Ebsen (Phil), Martin Balsam (Sam Gordon), Nancy Marchand (Sylvia Sands), June Dayton (Dorothy Gordon), Jack Albertson (Herbert Sands), Paul Langton (Paul Newton), Lee Kinsolving (Richard)

At a summer camp, several groups of parents each pressure their child to win the annual Best All-Around Camper award.



90 :03x11 - Seven Against the Wall

First aired: Dec/11/1958
Writer: David Davison
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Guest star: Paul Lambert (Al Capone), Tige Andrews (Frank "the Enforcer" Nitti), Dennis Patrick (George "Bugs" Moran), Frank Silvera (Nick Sorello), Dennis Cross (Pete Gusenberg), Barry Cahill (Frank Gusenberg), Richard Carlyle (Reinhard Schwimmer), Paul Stevens (Jack McGurn), Celia Lovsky (Mrs. Schwimmer), Paul Burke (Paul Salvanti), Don Gordon (Borotta), Jean Inness (Mrs. Doody), Al Ruscio (Albert Weinshank), George Keymas (James Clark), Milton Frome (Adam Heyer), Wayne Heffley (John May), Karl Lukas (Willie Marks), Nesdon Booth (Mike Heitler), Robin Morse (Charlie Fischetti), Walter Barnes (Bartender), Warren Oates (Ted Newberry), Lewis Charles (Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik), Nicholas Georgiade (Rocco), Sid Cassel (Angelo), Connie Davis (Mrs. Walsh), Robert Cass (O'Meara)

Dramatization of the events leading up to the bloody St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929 Chicago.



91 :03x12 - The Nutcracker

First aired: Dec/25/1958
Guest star: Bonnie Bedelia (Clara), June Lockhart (Narrator)

In this special Christmas episode, the New York City ballet, choreographed by George Balanchine, presents the tale of a little girl, who has a nutcracker shaped soldier, fall asleep and dream she is a princess taken on a series of adventures by her nutcracker soldier prince.



92 :03x13 - Face of a Hero

First aired: Jan/01/1959
Writer: Robert L. Joseph
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Jack Lemmon (David Poole), James Gregory (Chief Fuller), Rip Torn (Harold Rutland, Jr.), Henry Hull (Bishop), Anne Meacham (Catherine), Larry Gates (Senator Knox), William Hansen (Millard), Malcolm Atterbury (Simon), Florida Friebus (Woman)

While a prosecuting attorney is summing up his case for a jury, flashbacks depict an event several that occurred months earlier where he stood by helplessly while a young girl drowned.



93 :03x14 - The Wings of the Dove

First aired: Jan/08/1959
Writer: Meade Roberts
Director: Robert Stevens
Guest star: Dana Wynter (Kate Croy), James Donald (Miles Denshaw), John Baragrey (Lord Mark), Henry Daniell (Lionel Croy), Lurene Tuttle (Susan Stringham), Inga Swenson (Milly Theale), Isabel Jeans (Maude Lowder)

A wealthy woman allows her young niece to move into her London home but demands that she renounce her shiftless father and poor but honest boyfriend.



94 :03x15 - The Blue Men

First aired: Jan/15/1959
Writer: Alvin Boretz
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: David Lewis (Lanier), Jack Warden (Joe Cushing), Edmond O'Brien (Roy Brenner), Eileen Heckart (Rose), James Westerfield (Mack Harris), Rafael Campos (Jules Roman), Richard LePore (Ernie), Cameron Prud'Homme (Captain Marshack)

A veteran police detective is busted in the ranks and put on trial for dereliction of duty after he refuses to arrest a youth accused of petty theft.



95 :03x16 - The Velvet Alley

First aired: Jan/22/1959
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Guest star: Alexander Scourby (Harvey Diedrich), Micky Dolenz (Melvin), David White (Freddie Henderson), Art Carney (Ernie Pandish), Leslie Nielsen (Eddie Kirkley), Katharine Bard (Pat Pandish), Jack Klugman (Max Salter), Bonita Granville Wrather (Mrs. Kirkley), George Voskovec (Steve Pandish), Eddie Ryder (Julius), Martha Wentworth (Mrs. Cowznoski), John Conwell (Kirkley's Associate), Dyan Cannon (Gloria), Burt Reynolds (Actor)

A stuggling writer learns that one of his scripts has sold to "Playhouse 90" so he prepares to fly to Hollywood where he thinks the hard times are behind him forever. However, things don't exactly unfold as planned.



96 :03x17 - A Quiet Game of Cards

First aired: Jan/29/1959
Writer: Reginald Rose
Director: Alex Segal
Guest star: Barry Sullivan (Sturbridge), Franchot Tone (Raymond), Gary Merrill (McBurnie), E. G. Marshall (Merrill), William Bendix (Wales), Irene Hervey (Mrs. McBurnie)

Five wealthy men, who have participated in a weekly poker game for years, become bored with the game and devise a more exciting way to gamble, aiming for the highest stakes possible.



97 :03x18 - Child of Our Time

First aired: Feb/05/1959
Writer: Irving Gaynor Neiman
Director: George Roy Hill
Guest star: Robert Crawford, Jr. (Tanguy), Lou Jacobi (Puigdellevol), Maximilian Schell (Gunther), George Dolenz (Albert), John Wengraf (Cohen), Rene Korper (Guy), Beppy de Vries (Concierge), Guy De Vestel (Dulac), Edgar Barrier (Mayo), Liliane Montevecchi (Carla), Voytek Dolinski (Antoine)

A woman returning to Spain to fight the Franco regime abandons her young son in Vichy Marseilles where he searches for a family and a home to call his own.



98 :03x19 - The Second Man

First aired: Feb/12/1959
Guest star: James Mason (Heskeith), Margaret Leighton (Miss Kerrison), Hugh Griffith (Jaggers), Kenneth Haigh (Maudsley), Barry Morse (guest star), Diana Wynyard (Jane Birman)

The first female barrister in a prestigious British law firm is allowed to prove herself by handling a difficult murder case.



99 :03x20 - The Raider

First aired: Feb/19/1959
Writer: Loring Mandel
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Guest star: Paul Douglas (David Ringles), Frank Lovejoy (Arthur Hennicut), Rod Taylor (Bob Castillo), Leif Erickson (James Mayberry), Donald Crisp (Samuel Harmon), Leon Ames (Marvin Tannis)

With a proxy fight against a large corporation looming, the chairman of a company's board considers giving up the fight until the tactics of his rival convince him otherwise.



100 :03x21 - The Dingaling Girl

First aired: Feb/26/1959
Writer: J. P. Miller
Director: Fielder Cook
Guest star: Eddie Albert (Leroy Dawson), Mort Sahl (Dettering Rohn), Sam Jaffe (Grandy), Harry Townes (Mickey Cassidy), Diane Varsi (Lurene Dawson), Edward S. Brophy (Gabo Barch)

A domineering husband sees dollar signs when his wife is offered a movie contract but she would prefer to stay home and take care of their children.



101 :03x22 - Made in Japan

First aired: Mar/05/1959
Writer: Leslie Stevens
Director: Herbert Hirschman
Guest star: Dean Stockwell (Roy Riverlee), Harry Guardino (Lt. Michael Largo), Dick York (Matthew Sherwood), E. G. Marshall (Captain Kirby), Robert Vaughn (Earl Randolph), Nobu McCarthy (Song Mayonaka)

Despite being engaged to a girl back home, a young soldier in postwar Japan begins a romantic relationship with a Japanese woman.



102 :03x23 - For Whom the Bell Tolls (Part One)

First aired: Mar/12/1959
Writer: A. E. Hotchner
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Jason Robards (Robert Jordan), Maureen Stapleton (Pilar), Maria Schell (Maria), Nehemiah Persoff (Pablo), Eli Wallach (Rafael), Steven Hill (Augustin), Sydney Pollack (Andres), Vladimir Sokoloff (Anselmo), Joseph Bernard (Primitivo), Milton Selzer (Fernando), Nicholas Colasanto (Eladio), Marc Lawrence (El Sordo), Herbert Berghof (General Golz)

An American fighting on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War joins up with a band of partisans and falls in love with a female guerilla fighter.



103 :03x24 - For Whom the Bell Tolls (Part Two)

First aired: Mar/19/1959
Writer: A. E. Hotchner
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: Jason Robards (Robert Jordan), Maureen Stapleton (Pilar), Maria Schell (Maria), Nehemiah Persoff (Pablo), Eli Wallach (Rafael), Steven Hill (Augustin), Sydney Pollack (Andres), Vladimir Sokoloff (Anselmo), Joseph Bernard (Primitivo), Milton Selzer (Fernando), Nicholas Colasanto (Eladio), Marc Lawrence (El Sordo)

American Robert Jordan, who is fighting with a band of Loyalist guerillas during the Spanish Civil War,helps plan the destruction of a strategic bridge.



104 :03x25 - A Trip to Paradise

First aired: Mar/26/1959
Writer: Adrian Spies
Director: Buzz Kulik
Guest star: Susan Oliver (Ellie), Burt Brinckerhoff (Raymond Austin), Martha Scott (Mrs. Austin), Buddy Ebsen (Froelich), Martin Balsam (guest star)

A troubled teenaged boy, lonely and depressed since the death of his father, meets a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who introduces him to a group of delinquents with whom she hangs out.



105 :03x26 - In Lonely Expectation

First aired: Apr/02/1959
Writer: Mayo Simon
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Guest star: Diane Baker (Sheila Cass), Philip Abbott (Cass), Susan Harrison (P. J.), Buzz Martin (Billy), Virginia Kaye (Mrs. Runnells)

A woman who runs a home for unwed mothers tries to help a teacher's pregnant teenaged daughter decide whether to keep her baby or put the child up for adoption.



106 :03x27 - The Day Before Atlanta

First aired: Apr/09/1959
Writer: John Gay
Director: Ralph Nelson
Guest star: Jack Warden (Jubal), Suzi Carnell (Carrie), Dabbs Greer (Clayton), Clu Gulager (Zach), Gavin Gordon (Slade), Timmy Everett (Doug), Musa Williams (Esther), Clinton Sundberg (Matt)

A Union soldier begins to feel sickened of war after his scouting patrol kills a man and his son who are guarding a plantation.



107 :03x28 - Judgment at Nuremberg

First aired: Apr/16/1959
Writer: Abby Mann
Director: George Roy Hill
Guest star: Werner Klemperer (Emil Hahn), Maximilian Schell (Hans Rolfe), Claude Rains (Judge Ben Haywood), Paul Lukas (Ernst Janning), Melvyn Douglas (General Barker), Albert Szabo (Peterson), Martin Milner (guest star), Ludwig Donath (guest star), Gregory Gaye (guest star), Alex Gerry (guest star), Wendell Holmes (guest star), Celia Lovsky (guest star), Oliver McGowan (guest star), Torben Meyer (guest star), Otto Waldis (guest star)

A respected American judge is sent to Nuremberg after World War II to preside over the trial of four Nazi judges accused of war crimes.



108 :03x29 - A Corner of the Garden

First aired: Apr/23/1959
Writer: Tad Mosel
Director: Robert Stevens
Guest star: Eileen Heckart (Dorothy), Gary Merrill (Louis), Susan Gordon (Lorraine), Tommy Kirk (Jack), Heather Sears (Barbara)

After her close friend's death, a domineering woman becomes the guardian of her deceased friend's daughter only to have the girl become attracted to her husband.



109 :03x30 - Dark December

First aired: Apr/30/1959
Writer: Merle Miller
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Guest star: Barry Sullivan (Capt. Hobart Schuyler), James Whitmore (Major Abe Kasner), Richard Beymer (Leroy Cadman), Paul Burke (Farley Mathews), Lili Darvas (Belgian Woman)

During the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, a military doctor takes over an ancient monastery and tries to turn it into a temporary hospital.



110 :03x31 - Diary of a Nurse

First aired: May/07/1959
Writer: Arthur Hailey
Director: David Greene
Guest star: Inger Stevens (Gail Lucas), Victor Jory (George Bavister), Mary Astor (Eileen Bavister), Mildred Dunnock (Elsie Chiapetta), Adam Kennedy (guest star), Polly Rowles (guest star), Suzanne Pleshette (guest star), Elizabeth Patterson (guest star), Carolyn Kearney (guest star)

A young student nurse tries to help a patient who's panicked and refuses to cooperate with his doctors.



111 :03x32 - A Marriage of Strangers

First aired: May/14/1959
Writer: Reginald Rose
Director: Alex Segal
Guest star: Red Buttons (Jerry Shoemaker), Diana Lynn (Louise Shoemaker), Joan Blondell (Mrs. Patrick), Larrian Gillespie (Sharon Patrick), Gina Gillespie (Cathy Patrick)

Two lonely people, who got married shortly after meeting through a lonely hearts club, begin to have second thoughts about their future together.



112 :03x33 - Out of Dust

First aired: May/21/1959
Guest star: Charles Bickford (Old Man Grant), Uta Hagen (guest star), Dick York (guest star), Gloria Talbott (Rose), Fritz Weaver (King)

A tyrannical cattle baron winds up at odds with his sons on a long cattle drive.



113 :03x34 - The Rank and File

First aired: May/28/1959
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Guest star: Van Heflin (Bill Kilcoyne), Luther Adler (Irving Werner), Harry Townes (Gabe Brewster), Charles Bronson (Andy Kovaric), Cameron Prud'Homme (Joseph Farrell), Carl Benton Reid (Senator Henders), Bruce Gordon (Tony Russo), Whitney Blake (Martha Brewster), Addison Richards (Harker), Wright King (Riley), Tom Palmer (Eaton), Danny Richards, Jr. (Charlie Hacker), Joseph Sullivan (Union Man), Clegg Hoyt (Guard), Henry Barnard (Secretary), Alfred Hopson (Striker), Jay Overholts (Striker), Robert Cass (Striker), Bruce Hall (Dickson)

Testifying before a Senate committee, a labor union leader recalls his rise to prominence.



114 :03x35 - The Killers of Mussolini

First aired: Jun/04/1959
Writer: A. E. Hotchner
Director: Buzz Kulik
Guest star: Nehemiah Persoff (Benito Mussolini), Ilka Windish (Clara Petacci), Harry Guardino (Neri), Michael Ansara (Longo), John Dehner (Tedesco), Eduardo Ciannelli (Graziani), Lawrence Dobkin (Pavolini), Frank Puglia (Cardinal), Erika Remberg (Gianna)

In the final days of World War II, former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini is captured by partisans and prepares to meet his fate.



115 :03x36 - Project Immortality

First aired: Jun/11/1959
Writer: Loring Mandel
Guest star: Michael Landon (Arthur Doner), Lee J. Cobb (Dr. Lawrence Doner), Patricia McCormack (Ketti Doner), Kenneth Haigh (Martin Schramm), Gusti Huber (Mrs. Doner)

Several military personnel and civilians, all with high I.Q.'s, are selected by scientists hoping to create an electronic device that will duplicate human thought. The machine is patterned after the brain of a brilliant scientist who's dying of a terminal illness.



116 :03x37 - Dark as the Night

First aired: Jun/18/1959
Guest star: Laraine Day (Lauren Hughes), Michael Wilding (Chris Hughes), Dennis Price (Percy), Michael Hordern (Griffith), Bill Owen (Peters), Hermione Baddeley (Rose), Sydney Tafler (Club Manager), Marianne Stone (Ellen), Ronald Allen (Tommy)

A British lawyer standing for a seat in Parliament faces all kinds of problems. His American wife is preparing to leave him and a gossip columnist is blackmailing him.



117 :03x38 - The Second Happiest Day

First aired: Jun/25/1959
Director: Ralph Nelson
Guest star: Tony Randall (Gus Taylor), Margaret O'Brien (Lila Norris), Judith Anderson (Ava Norris), Fay Wray (Tula Marsh), Jack Mullaney (Cuppy Vale), John Lupton (George Marsh III)

On the eve of his marriage, a man recalls his college days and a meeting that changed his life.



118 :04x01 - Target for Three

First aired: Oct/01/1959
Writer: David Davison
Guest star: Ricardo Montalban (Vincente), George C. Scott (Juan), Marisa Pavan (Consuelo), Liliane Montevecchi (Estrella), Dale Evans (guest star), H. M. Wynant (guest star), Pedro Armendariz (Montez)

Three Revolutionaries in a Latin American country are given the task of assassinating its president.



119 :04x02 - The Sounds of Eden

First aired: Oct/15/1959
Writer: George Bellak
Guest star: James Whitmore (Anderson), Kim Hunter (Mrs. Anderson), Everett Sloane (Lawson), Henry Jones (Jess Brown), Martin Landau (McCormick), Dick Foran (Brady)

When a wealthy man is kidnapped the story is told from his viewpoint as well as those of the kidnappers, his family, and the FBI.



120 :04x03 - Misalliance

First aired: Oct/29/1959
Director: Robert Stevens
Guest star: Claire Bloom (Hypatia), Robert Morley (John Tarleton), Siobhan McKenna (Lina), Kenneth Haigh (Gunner), Rod Taylor (Joey), John Williams (Lord Summerly), Isobel Elsom (Mrs. Tarleton), Robert Casper (Bentley), Patrick Macnee (Johnny)

An airplane pilot, his passenger, and a militant socialist all enter the lives of an English country gentleman and his family.



121 :04x04 - The Hidden Image

First aired: Nov/12/1959
Writer: David Karp
Guest star: Franchot Tone (Avery Yarbrough), Martin Gabel (George Barrow), Nancy Marchand (Mrs. Yarbrough), George Grizzard (Leo Portnoy), Frank Maxwell (Tommy Atwell)

A gubernatorial election campaign is disrupted by newspaper reports digging into the relationship between a political boss and an influential businessman.



122 :04x05 - The Grey Nurse Said Nothing

First aired: Nov/26/1959
Writer: Sumner Locke Elliott
Director: Ron Winston
Guest star: Ann Todd (Laura Mills), Hugh Griffith (Reverend Light), Angela Lansbury (Hazel Wills), Don Dubbins (Bluey), Michael David (Herbert Wills), Patricia Cutts (Mavis Greenhop), Paul Comi (Patrick Aherne), Tony Haig (Boy)

In Australia, a man is charged with murder despite the absence of a corpse.



123 :04x06 - The Tunnel

First aired: Dec/10/1959
Writer: David Shaw
Director: Delbert Mann
Guest star: Richard Boone (Colonel Pleasants), Rip Torn (Lt. Douty), Onslow Stevens (General Burnside), Jack Weston (Wocziki), Ken Lynch (Sgt. Reese), Robert Carson (General Meade), Sandy Kenyon (Martinson), Bartlett Robinson (Captain Handley), Sam Edwards (Confederate Corporal), Frank Killmond (Gorcey), Jason Wingreen (Blair), Oliver McGowan (General Ledlie), Tom McKee (General Potter), Stephen Chase (General Wilcox), James Gavin (General Ferraro), Jay Overholts (Litter Bearer), Fletcher Allen (Orderly), Edward Faulkner (Soldier), Hal Needham (Soldier)

A Union officer devises a plan to end a Civil War battle quickly by tunneling under Confederate forces and filling the tunnel with dynamite.



124 :04x07 - The Silver Whistle

First aired: Dec/24/1959
Writer: Robert Mcenroe
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Guest star: Eddie Albert (Oliver Erwenter), Henry Jones (Emmett), Bethel Leslie (Miss Tripp), Harry Townes (Reverend Watson), Doro Merande (Miss Hammer), Margaret Hamilton (Miss Hoadley), Enid Markey (Mrs. Samples), Zamah Cunningham (Mrs. Gross), Joe Sweeney (Cherry), Arthur Hughes (Beebe)

A man claiming to be 77 years old but looking much younger arrives at a Florida retirement home. He promises to make all the residents there feel years younger and begins by blowing a silver whistle.



125 :04x08 - John Brown's Raid

First aired: Jan/14/1960
Director: Sidney Lumet
Guest star: James Mason (John Brown), Robert Duvall (guest star), Ossie Davis (guest star), Terry Carter (guest star)

Teleplay about the 1859 raid on the Federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry by abolitionist John Brown.



126 :04x09 - A Dream of Treason

First aired: Jan/21/1960
Writer: David Davison
Guest star: Richard Basehart (Martin Lambert), Leora Dana (Eleanor Lambert), John Williams (Walter Ferguson), Susan Oliver (Valerie Ferguson)

A State Department press secretary receives secret orders to release a confidential memo which might lead to an international crisis.



127 :04x10 - To the Sound of Trumpets

First aired: Feb/09/1960
Writer: John Gay
Director: Buzz Kulik
Guest star: Stephen Boyd (Captain Cronyn), Dolores Hart (Janet Marshall), Judith Anderson (Madame Duvier), Boris Karloff (Guibert), Dan O'Herlihy (Roger Smythe), Sam Jaffe (Schiller), Robert Coote (Sgt. Beggs), Peter Foster (Henley)

An AWOL British officer in Paris during World War I meets an American nurse and is disturbed by her romantic attitude towards the war.



128 :04x11 - The Cruel Day

First aired: Feb/24/1960
Writer: Reginald Rose
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Guest star: Van Heflin (Captain), Cliff Robertson (Lieutenant), Phyllis Thaxter (Nicole), Raymond Massey (Father Ricquoi), Charles Bronson (Sergeant), Peter Lorre (Cafe Owner), Nehemiah Persoff (Father), Thano Rama (Algerian Boy), Miko Oscard (Michel), Adeline De Walt Reynolds (Old Woman)

In Algeria, a French army captain is faced with having to use torture to obtain information about the rebel guerillas who slaughtered an Algerian family.



129 :04x12 - Tomorrow

First aired: Mar/07/1960
Writer: Horton Foote
Director: Robert Mulligan
Guest star: Richard Boone (Jackson Fentry), Kim Stanley (Sarah Eubanks), Charles Aidman (Thornton Douglas), Chill Wills (Pruitt), Beulah Bondi (Mrs. Hulie), Elizabeth Patterson (Mrs. Pruitt), Andrew Prine (Isham), Peter Oliphant (Longstreet Ferry)

A laconic and solitary farmer encounters a pregnant young girl, cares for her, and when she dies in childbirth raises the son she delivers. Then, years later, the woman's relatives come to claim the child.



130 :04x13 - The Hiding Place

First aired: Mar/22/1960
Writer: Adrian Spies
Director: Sidney Lumet
Guest star: Richard Basehart (guest star), James Mason (Hans Frick), Kim Hunter (Maria), Helmut Dantine (Colonel), Robert Emhardt (Neusel), Bsail Langton (Sanders), Dick Cavett (guest star), Trevor Howard (Robert Wilson)

Two downed British airmen are kept prisoners in a cellar for seven years by a German shopkeeper who keeps informing them of the latest Third Reich victories in what he claims is still an on-going war.



131 :04x14 - Journey to the Day

First aired: Apr/22/1960
Writer: Roger Hirson
Director: John Frankenheimer
Guest star: James Gregory (Endicott), Mary Astor (Helen May Whitfield), Mike Nichols (Arthur Millman), Steven Hill (Dr. Gutera), Janice Rule (Karen Andrews), James Dunn (Melvin Cooper), Peter Votrian (Billy King), Vivian Nathan (Martha Kowalski), David J. Stewart (guest star), Helen Kleeb (guest star)

In a state mental hospital, a psychiatrist brings together six patients for group therapy.



132 :04x15 - Alas, Babylon

First aired: Apr/03/1960
Writer: David Shaw
Director: Robert Stevens
Guest star: Rita Moreno (Rita), Kim Hunter (Helen Bragg), Don Murray (Randy Bragg), Dana Andrews (Mark Bragg), Barbara Rush (Liz), Everett Sloane (Dr. Gunn), Don Gordon (Pete), Robert Crawford, Jr. (Richard), Gina Gillespie (Laura), Burt Reynolds (Ace), Judith Evelyn (Lavinia)

A man living in a small Florida town is warned by his brother that nuclear war is only hours away.



133 :04x16 - The Shape of the River

First aired: May/02/1960
Writer: Horton Foote
Director: Boris Sagal
Guest star: Franchot Tone (Samuel Clemens), Leif Erickson (Wiliam Dean Howells), Katharine Bard (Livy Clemens), Shirley Knight (Susy Clemens), Nancy Rennick (Clara Clemmons), Katherine Squire (Katie), Larry Gates (Henry Rogers), Philip Coolidge (Albert Bigelow Paine), James Bell (John Briggs), Jane Mcarthur (Jane Clemens)

in 1893, author Mark Twain embarks upon an around the world lecture tour in order to pay off his debts and escape bankruptcy.



134 :04x17 - In the Presence of Mine Enemies

First aired: May/18/1960
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Fielder Cook
Guest star: Charles Laughton (Rabbi Adam Heller), Arthur Kennedy (Paul Keller), Susan Kohner (Rachel Heller), Oskar Homolka (Josef Chinik), George MacReady (Captain Richter), Sam Jaffe (Emmanuel), Robert Redford (Sgt. Lott), Otto Waldis (Kohn), Bernard Kates (Israel), Norbert Schiller (Doctor)

During World War II, in Warsaw's Jewish ghetto, a rabbi struggles to hold his flock together and communicate to them his own courage and faith.