Season 5

1952 · 50 episodes

Episodes

1The KillGrace Kelly in a very good early performance as the wife of Dick Foran, who is wrongly accused of murder. Nina Foch plays Foran's old girl friend who is still in love with him.
2The Square PegA psychologist evaluates a gangster's crew.
3The Doctor's WifeA doctor's wife suffers after he marries her as he's not yet over his previous love.
4Little Man, Big WorldA group of gangsters from a mid-sized city are getting squeezed out by their big city counterparts.
5The Great ConspiracyThe dictator of an unnamed European country is unaware that his advisers are plotting to assassinate him.
6The Love LetterProfessor White teaches at a provincial university who has lost his enjoyment of teaching. His hatred of youth and all it embellishes has destroyed his faith.
7The Incredible Mr. GlencannonAn adventurous sea captain, Mr. Glencannon, is a master at uncovering evil deeds.
8Plan For EscapeA crooked club owner's wife witnesses his murder, and has to flee from gangsters.
9The FormulaAn American spy and his wife, with the help of the widow of a Swiss scientist, compete with enemy agents to find the scientist's hidden formula for a psycho-active gas that erases the will to resist.
10I Am Jonathan ScrivenerThe tale of Jonathan Scrivener, told through his conversations with his secretary and his colleagues.
11The HospitalA hospital kitchen employee gets drunk and shuts off the main power, throwing the hospital into darkness and total chaos and disarray.
12The Great LadyA man travels to France on business and meets a beautiful but married woman whom he falls in love with. They plan to marry once she divorces, but her soon-to-be ex-husband attempts suicide, feeling there is no hope for them she stays with her husband.
13The Play of the Nativity of the Child JesusThe birth of Jesus and the serene Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem.
14Young Man AdamA young singer is striving for success in her career. She also pushes for success in her boyfriend's.
15Black RainA happy but impoverished family has to decide on continuing their present happiness or having a secure financial future when their rich yet troublesome aunt comes to live with them.
16The Trial of John Peter ZengerThe story of John Peter Zenger who fought British rule in the American colonies and printed materials against England's King George. This case is important to American historians and champions of the First Amendment because it represented a strong repudiation of British libel law and also marked an important fissure in the relationship between the American colonies and the mother country.
17Signal Thirty-TwoThe story of two rookie cops, one keeping to the straight and narrow and the other turning crooked.
18To a Moment of TriumphA young man on parole after seven years in Sing Sing tries to start his life with a clean slate. While his mother and his girlfriend are glad to see him, his brother is less than warm.
19Mark of CainA young man on parole after 7 years in Sing Sing tries to start his life with a clean slate, but while his mother and his girlfriend are glad to see him, his brother is less than warm.
20The River GardenThe story, set in 1944 China, of a missionary teacher called ""Teacher Jane,"" who is recovering from an injury during a bombing in Chun King.
21The Walsh GirlsTwo New England sisters reunite after the German husband of one of them dies in a concentration camp.
22The Show PieceAn egotistical boy's father tries to teach his son the blessings of life and good community spirit.
23My Beloved HusbandAn aging, lonely widow buys a young man's love. When she is found dead, questions are asked. Is it an accident, suicide or murder?
24The Garretson ChronicleThe story of three generations of a Massachusetts family through conflicts, desires and triumphs and failures.
25A Breath of AirAfter being thrown off course and landing on the island of Terraqueous, a man falls in love with the island's magical qualities as well as the people that inhabit the place.
26The Edge of EvilA woman sets out to fathom the mystery of her sister's "suicide" and nearly loses her own life to a killer.
27At Midnight on the Thirty-First of MarchA small town is cut off from the rest of the world to lead their own solitary existence.
28Shadow of the DevilJulia Winston is left penniless and in debt in Rome when her young artist husband is killed in an accident. Desperate, she allows herself to be influenced by an evil woman.
29The Magic LanternA theatrical family heads out to Hollywood as the motion picture industry begins.
30The FathersAn innocent family is brought near tragedy through the sin of a kinsman.
31Along Came a SpiderA petroleum engineer is sought by the police to testify in a law case.
32BirthrightA young man is stunned to learn of his connection with a sensational murder case as he prepares to accept his inheritance.
33King CoffinA psychopathic writer bent on killing a stranger but winding up using a gun on himself.
34The Laugh MakerJerry Giles, a tortured comic who is afraid of failure, is being pestered by a magazine writer sent out to profile him.
35Fly with the HawkA young woman's car breaks down in front of an abandoned garage which is used as headquarters for a band of crooks. Her sudden appearance on the scene causes some unforeseen complications in the gang's plans and she unwittingly becomes an accomplice to a planned robbery.
36RendezvousA retired conductor of an American symphony orchestra arrives in France with his young composer-protege and meets a woman he had known many years before.
37ConflictA prisoner of war returns home after being declared dead and finds that his money and property have been left by his father to his childhood sweetheart, who refuses to return it.
38The Paris FeelingIn post-WWII Paris, a GI meets a girl in a hotel elevator and falls in love.
39GreedAn avaricious youth's inheritance from his grandfather lies behind a vault rigged up either to blow up when opened or not.
40Beyond ReasonA young wife is confronted with circumstantial evidence that her husband is trying to kill her.
41End of the HoneymoonAn English girl is desolated by the disappearance of her bridegroom on their Paris honeymoon trip.
42The Shadow of a ManAfter the death of his mother, a young man begins his journey to maturity. His grief opens his eyes not only to himself but to his stepfather whom he's always disliked.
43The King in YellowA seedy glimpse at Los Angeles, complete with crooked cops, double-crossing dames, and greedy opportunists.
44The Roman KidTommy Thompson, a streetwise New York sportswriter, falls in love with beautiful, demure Carla, a receptionist and tour guide at a museum in Rome. Carla's father, the museum's curator, and her fiance, his associate, both oppose Tommy's attentions to Carla. Although the odds are against him, Tommy wins the girl by saving Carla's father from disgrace and ruin.
45Flowers from a StrangerA psychiatrist's wife battles her own deteriorating emotional state when she receives a box of flowers from a stranger.
46Sentence of DeathA woman witnesses a murder during a store robbery but claims the accused man is not the killer. After he is convicted and weeks away from his execution date, she sees the real killer, but the police are reluctant to reopen the case.
47The Gathering NightThe story of a lonely child, Dick Heldar, who grows up to become a war artist. Following the British Army into battle, he experiences many difficulties and internal struggles while providing some outstanding descriptions of the desert and desert warfare.
48Letter from CairoThe mysterious disappearance of intelligence officer Steve Spence, after writing a letter to his wife in New York asking for a divorce comes under suspicion from his wife. She doesn't believe that he wrote the letter and a search for the agent is started.
49Look Homeward, HayseedA city-bred radio announcer begins to believe his own publicity when he finds himself a success as a crack-of-dawn rural broadcaster. He gets a rude awakening, but not from a mere rooster.
50The StormDuring a stormy night, a woman alone in a country house discovers a dead body in her basement and is terrorized by an intruder.