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1 :01x01 - Lion on Fire
Writer: William Wood
Guest star: Ollie O'Toole (Watchman), Alfred Ryder (Count Von Scherling), Joan Freeman (Nina Henderson), Dale Van Sickle (Ed Gallo), Harry Guardino (James Paleski)
One-legged James Paleski, once a great lion tamer, asks Slate for a job.
2 :01x02 - Silent Love, Secret Love
Guest star: Tuesday Weld (Louisa Johansen), Robert Webber (Rudy), Ruth Roman (Inge Johansen), Russ Tamblyn (Tom Tittle)
A girl wants to join the flying trapeze act of her sister and brother-in-law.
3 :01x03 - No Middle Ground for Harry Kyle
Guest star: José Ferrer (Harry Kyle), Robert J. Wilke (Lou Sirotta), Joseph V. Perry (Anton), Martha Scott (Claire Kyle), Buddy Lewis (Guido), Joey Walsh (Ted Kyle), Aaron Saxon (Pete Hanley), Dell Graham (Acrobat)
Slate tries to convince a once famous escape artist, now a carnival swami, to return to the Big Top.
4 :01x04 - Don't Look Down, Don't Look Back
Guest star: Buck Taylor (Joe), Theodore Marcuse (Bill Morris), Brenda Vaccaro (Felicia), Bradford Dillman (Vito Fortunato), Gilbert Roland (Cesare Fortunato)
A man wants to quit his family's high-wire act but his father threatens to disown him if he does so.
5 :01x05 - Garve
Guest star: Harold Stone (Greenwood), Maggie Pierce (Betty), Hugh O'Brian (Garve), Peggy McCay (Anne), Ted Stanhope (Doc), Booth Colman (Boykin)
Slate is faced with a choice of either firing a bareback rider or having to close his show.
6 :01x06 - The Loser
Guest star: Sal Mineo (Billy Archer), Helen Westcott (Veda Devine), Joby Baker (Rick Andover), Eddie Albert (Frank Land), Diane Sayer (Cynthia), Rudy Dolan (Policeman)
An actor hires a former trapeze star to coach him for his latest role unaware that the man caused his wife's death.
7 :01x07 - Uncaged
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
Guest star: James Coburn (Kelly), Joseph V. Perry (Clown), Zeme North (Eloise), Douglas Henderson (Lempeck), Fabian (Mac), Robert Doyle (Eddy), Marian McCargo (Mrs. Kelly)
A circus aerialist is charged with robbery and an overzealous prosecutor wants to add murder to the list of charges.
8 :01x08 - The Circus Never Came to Town
Writer: Bob Rafelson, Calvin Clements Sr.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Guest star: Michael Hinn (guest star), Billy Curtis (Danny), Monica Tenner (Cindy), Cliff Robertson (Willie Simple), Frank Sutton (Uncle Marko), David Winters (Tig), Dal McKennon (guest star)
Slate gives a mentally retarded man a job as a circus clown despite warnings against doing so.
9 :01x09 - An Echo of Faded Velvet
Guest star: Edward Faulkner (Dowling), John Baer (Crony), Anthony Franciosa (Warren Duval), Felicia Farr (Isabel Duval), John Astin (Bartley)
Slate unwittingly becomes the target of a revenge plot when he purchases five horses from the scion of a once great family empire.
10 :01x10 - The Hanging Man
Guest star: Robert Ball (Clerk), Ricardo Montalban (Gus Trikonis), Charles De Vries (Lederman), Michael Parks (Cristos), Fay Spain (Alicia)
An aerialist refuses to let his son bask in the spotlight so the lad begins flirting with the father's galpal.
11 :01x11 - Leaves in the Wind
Guest star: Marlyn Mason (Terry Carnahan), Sandra Gale Bettin (Doris), Nina Foch (Angelica Cellini), Paul Hartman (Eric Porter), Rudy Solari (Guy Duchamps), Ila Britton (Nurse), Paul Comi (Mike Wilkins), Berkeley Harris (Rod Nichols)
As a favor to a dying performer, Slate gathers some of her old pals together for a final visit.
12 :01x12 - The Wrecker
Guest star: Dennis Hopper (Rhymer), Dean Stockwell (Harley Brydell), Howard Caine (Bartender), Karl Swenson (Louis), Luana Anders (Margaret)
Two no talent assclowns steal an elephant from the circus.
13 :01x13 - Lady in Limbo
Writer: Frank Waldman, Tom Waldman
Guest star: Dabbs Greer (Pops), Roger C. Carmel (Kirov), Lucille Ball (Kate Reynolds), Robert F. Simon (Greenwalt), Irene Tedrow (Agatha Potter), Bill Mumy (Jeff)
Kate Reynolds is a performer with no real friends until she becomes foster mother to the orphaned son of an animal handler.
14 :01x14 - A Black Dress for Gina
Guest star: Chris Alcaide (Hodges), Geraldine Brooks (Gina), Steve Harris (Joey Gennaro), Michael Constantine (Verducci)
Gangsters pursue a high-wire artist they think can lead them to the location of a valuable pawn ticket.
15 :01x15 - Where the Wire Ends
Guest star: John Dehner (Aubrey), Erin Leigh (Sandra), Dorothy Malone (Jeannie Gilbert), Alejandro Rey (Chico), Neil Nephew (Pancho), Carol Sandifer (Norma)
A tightwire artist is resentful of the newcomer whom Slade has added to her act.
16 :01x16 - Corsicans Don't Cry
Director: Vincent McEveety
Guest star: Billy Gray (Nick), Frank DeKova (Joseph), Steven Hill (Frankie Sartene), Patricia Breslin (Lisa)
Slate gets a knife thrower to return to the circus in order to resume his act but the man must heal a breach with his wife whom he deserted years before.
17 :01x17 - Big Man from Nairobi
Guest star: Tim Graham (Finney), William Sargent (Jack Spangler), Ellen Burstyn (Susan Mason), Billy Curtis (Danny), Miranda Jones (Louise), Duane Grey (Pitchman), Cornel Wilde (Gil McMasters), Sarah Selby (Josephia)
Slate tries to keep an animal trainer from returning to Africa with his animals that he brought over.
18 :01x18 - The Show Must Go On-- to Orange City
Guest star: Ruby Keeler (Peggy Rusher), Charles Knox Robinson (Ollie Forest), Tony Dow (Billy Rusher), Danielle de Metz (Maggie Valois), Alan Carney (Sam), Ken Murray (Sean Rusher), Martha Hyer (Lucy Carroll)
Slate battles with a socialite who has booked an arena and refuses to let his circus use the place.
19 :01x19 - A Place to Belong
Guest star: Del Graham (Alex), Louis Jourdan (Kurt Von Hecht), Buddy Lewis (Usher), Susan Wedell (Marnie), Jon Silo (Pete Maas), Joseph V. Perry (Charles), Sally Carter-Ihnat (Jeannie), Charles H. Radilak (Unger), Leslie Wales (Kitty Brady), Francoise Ruggieri (Margot), Francine York (Deedee), Jeremy Slate (Tommy Jackson)
Slate hires a former circus boss to whip the show into shape and soon finds his authority being usurped.
20 :01x20 - Man in a Hole
Guest star: Bill Zuckert (Anderson), Phyllis Avery (Anne), Ed Peck (Sanders), Jennifer Billingsley (Marie), Arte Johnson (Mario), Jack Lord (Wally Walker), Russell Johnson (Dr. Arnold Andrews)
A former circus performer crawls into an abandoned mine shaft after being refused a job by Slate.
21 :01x21 - Clancy
Guest star: Edmond O'Brien (Mike O'Kelley), Jody McCrea (Patrick O'Kelley), Maggie McNamara (Moira O'Kelley), Marta Kristen (Billie Jo), Larry Storch (Bob Eagle), Skip Ward (Sean O'Kelley)
The head of an equestrian act refuses to replace an aging horse that has become dangerous.
22 :01x22 - The Last of the Strongmen
Guest star: Bruce Dern (Vernon), Red Buttons (Walter Wallace), Bernie Hamilton (J. J.), Marianna Hill (Edie), Billy Curtis (Danny), Walter Brooke (Ralph Mack), Nick Wolcuff (Manager), John Dennis (Charlie)
Slate hires a husband and wife team from bankrupt carnival only to have them begin causing all sorts of problems stemming from their marital woes.
23 :01x23 - The Night the Monkey Died
Guest star: Martin Landau (Mario de Mona), Paul Picerni (Marco the Magnificent), Barbara Bain (Betty), Yvonne DeCarlo (Magda Kolday), Suzi Carnell (Rachel), Buck Taylor (Tony)
Fear runs rampant in the circus when a Gypsy wardrobe mistress predicts that one of the performers will die.
24 :01x24 - Of Blood, Sawdust, and a Bucket of Tears
Guest star: Alan Baxter (Richards), Julie Newmar (Willa Harper), Henry Beckman (Spike Samson), Doris Dowling (Minnie), Al Ruscio (Julio), Arthur O'Connell (Pop Slate)
Slate's father asks him to turn his own small circus into a money making proposition.
25 :01x25 - Rosetta
Guest star: William Demarest (Paul Keller), Annette Funicello (Melanie Keller), Cecil Kellaway (Doc Browne), Dwayne Hickman (Dr. Greg Blakeley)
A young veterinarian offers the only hope of saving an ailing elephant.
26 :01x26 - The Glorious Days of the Used to Be
Guest star: Monique Lemaire (Prudence), Don Ameche (Collie McCullough), K. L. Smith (Sanford), Michael Panaieff (Art Stevens), Gene Roth (Russell Phillips), Betty Hutton (Julia Dana), Elaine Martone (Freda)
A former circus star tries to recapture her glorious past in the spotlight.
27 :01x27 - Love the Giver
Guest star: Brandon de Wilde (Vic Hawkins), Susan Silo (Susan Silver), John Brinkley (Ron Silver), James Whitmore (Marsh), William Woodson (Ringmaster)
A young man plots revenge on the father who deserted him and his family years ago.
28 :01x28 - This Train Don't Stop Till It Gets There
Writer: Paul Mason, Fenton Hobart, Jr.
Director: Allen Reisner
Guest star: Sally Kellerman (Judith), Rory Calhoun (Roger), Sheree North (Gloria), Deborah Walley (Anne), Spring Byington (Louise), Andrew Duggan (McHenry), Agnes Moorehead (Millie), J. Pat O'Malley (Ross)
On his circus train, Slate must contend with both Federal agents and thieves.
29 :01x29 - There are No Problems, Only Opportunities
Guest star: Joanna Moore (Denny Greenleaf), Barry Nelson (Clay Kelfer), Antony Carbone (Abbott), Bernard Kates (Fenton), Edgar Bergen (McTavish), Frank Maxwell (Markham)
A stockholder thinks his shares give him the right to tell Slate how to run things in regards to the circus.
30 :01x30 - You're All Right, Ivy
Guest star: Buster Keaton (Pippo), Ted Bessell (Loring Wagner), Lawrence Montaigne (Felix), Lynn Loring (Ivy Hatch), Joan Blondell (T. T. Hill), Betsy Jones-Moreland (Louella Grant), Barbara Pepper (Fat Lady), Joe E. Brown (Diamond Dimey Vine)
Slate must deal with a girl who left home to join the circus only to discover that she has no real talent.