The Plot to Kill Stalin

S03 E01 • Thursday, Sep 25, 1958 • Sep 25 • 1h 30m

In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with anti-Semitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.

Days of Wine and Roses

S03 E02 • Thursday, Oct 2, 1958 • Oct 2 • 1h 30m

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.

The Time of Your Life

S03 E03 • Thursday, Oct 9, 1958 • Oct 9 • 1h 30m

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.

The Long March

S03 E04 • Thursday, Oct 16, 1958 • Oct 16 • 1h 30m

Shadows Tremble

S03 E05 • Thursday, Oct 23, 1958 • Oct 23 • 1h 30m

An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.

Word from a Sealed-Off Box

S03 E06 • Thursday, Oct 30, 1958 • Oct 30 • 1h 30m

A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.

Heart of Darkness

S03 E07 • Thursday, Nov 6, 1958 • Nov 6 • 1h 30m

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.

Old Man

S03 E08 • Thursday, Nov 20, 1958 • Nov 20 • 1h 30m

To fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts.

The Return of Ansel Gibbs

S03 E09 • Thursday, Nov 27, 1958 • Nov 27 • 1h 30m

After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.

Free Weekend

S03 E10 • Thursday, Dec 4, 1958 • Dec 4 • 1h 30m

Seven Against the Wall

S03 E11 • Thursday, Dec 11, 1958 • Dec 11 • 1h 30m

The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.

The Nutcracker

S03 E12 • Thursday, Dec 25, 1958 • Dec 25 • 1h 30m

This telecast of George Balanchine's famous production was broadcast only four years after it was premiered by the New York City Ballet. This was the only episode of the series televised in color.

Face of a Hero

S03 E13 • Thursday, Jan 1, 1959 • Jan 1 • 1h 30m

The Wings of the Dove

S03 E14 • Thursday, Jan 8, 1959 • Jan 8 • 1h 30m

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.

The Blue Men

S03 E15 • Thursday, Jan 15, 1959 • Jan 15 • 1h 30m

The Velvet Alley

S03 E16 • Thursday, Jan 22, 1959 • Jan 22 • 1h 30m

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 Quiet Game of Cards

S03 E17 • Thursday, Jan 29, 1959 • Jan 29 • 1h 30m

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?

Child of Our Time

S03 E18 • Thursday, Feb 5, 1959 • Feb 5 • 1h 30m

War deprives Tanguy of his childhood. When his mother returns to Spain to oppose the Franco regime, he is left in Nazi-occupied Marseilles, France.

The Second Man

S03 E19 • Thursday, Feb 12, 1959 • Feb 12 • 1h 30m

The Raider

S03 E20 • Thursday, Feb 19, 1959 • Feb 19 • 1h 30m

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.

The Ding-A-Ling Girl

S03 E21 • Thursday, Feb 26, 1959 • Feb 26 • 1h 30m

A housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her.

Made in Japan

S03 E22 • Thursday, Mar 5, 1959 • Mar 5 • 1h 30m

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.

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1

S03 E23 • Thursday, Mar 12, 1959 • Mar 12 • 1h 30m

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2

S03 E24 • Thursday, Mar 19, 1959 • Mar 19 • 1h 30m

The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.

A Trip to Paradise

S03 E25 • Thursday, Mar 26, 1959 • Mar 26 • 1h 30m

In Lonely Expectation

S03 E26 • Thursday, Apr 2, 1959 • Apr 2 • 1h 30m

The Day Before Atlanta

S03 E27 • Thursday, Apr 9, 1959 • Apr 9 • 1h 30m

Judgment at Nuremberg

S03 E28 • Thursday, Apr 16, 1959 • Apr 16 • 1h 30m

In the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice.

A Corner of the Garden

S03 E29 • Thursday, Apr 23, 1959 • Apr 23 • 1h 30m

Dark December

S03 E30 • Thursday, Apr 30, 1959 • Apr 30 • 1h 30m

During World War II, an army doctor struggles to convert a Franciscan monastery into a field hospital.

Diary of a Nurse

S03 E31 • Thursday, May 7, 1959 • May 7 • 1h 30m

The daily emergencies and stresses of a major city's hospital ward as seen through the eyes of nurse Gail Lucas.

A Marriage of Strangers

S03 E32 • Thursday, May 14, 1959 • May 14 • 1h 30m

Marry in haste, repent at leisure? Well, maybe.

Out of Dust

S03 E33 • Thursday, May 21, 1959 • May 21 • 1h 30m

On a cattle drive across the prairie, the sons of a wealthy cattle baron plot his death.

The Rank and File

S03 E34 • Thursday, May 28, 1959 • May 28 • 1h 30m

A powerful union leader is interrogated by a Senate committee. Testifying before a Senate, William Kilcoyne tells the story of his career. He began as a factory worker and his shrewdness and ambition carried him up through the ranks to his present position as head of a large union.

The Killers of Mussolini

S03 E35 • Thursday, Jun 4, 1959 • Jun 4 • 1h 30m

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.

Project Immortality

S03 E36 • Thursday, Jun 11, 1959 • Jun 11 • 1h 30m

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.

Dark as the Night

S03 E37 • Thursday, Jun 18, 1959 • Jun 18 • 1h 30m

A British politician finds himself open to blackmail because of the indiscretion of his American wife.

The Second Happiest Day

S03 E38 • Thursday, Jun 25, 1959 • Jun 25 • 1h 30m

A man about to be married recalls the day his life changed permanently.