A Thing to Fight For

S08 E01 • Friday, Sep 26, 1958 • Sep 26

A peace-loving Civil War veteran seeks refuge from the violence of war as overseer on a Florida plantation.

The Best House in the Valley

S08 E02 • Friday, Oct 3, 1958 • Oct 3

The Hasty Hanging

S08 E03 • Friday, Oct 10, 1958 • Oct 10

A man and his wife are sentenced to hang without a trial.

The Four

S08 E04 • Friday, Oct 17, 1958 • Oct 17

The Trouble With Ruth

S08 E05 • Friday, Oct 24, 1958 • Oct 24

Not even her husband knows that Ruth Elliot is a kleptomaniac. But hoodlum Joseph Libo finds out about her illness and threatens to tell her husband unless she helps him carry out a robbery.

The Connoisseur

S08 E06 • Friday, Oct 31, 1958 • Oct 31

False Impression

S08 E07 • Friday, Nov 7, 1958 • Nov 7

A crippled dental technician falls in love with a pretty girl who refuses to have anything to do with him. He decides to steal a fortune in jewels in order to force the girl to overlook his physical handicap and marry him.

A Game of Hate

S08 E08 • Friday, Nov 14, 1958 • Nov 14

Last Edition

S08 E09 • Friday, Nov 21, 1958 • Nov 21

Newspaper editor Sheldon Black is being shoved aside for the publisher's slimy protégé, Dean Lowell, who passed Black's ideas off as his own. Before exiting, Black orders Lowell to cover the execution of a condemned man that Lowell was friends with in the war. If the reptile Lowell had been willing to soil his "war hero" reputation and testify, he could have saved the man from the electric chair. Instead, he remains quiet and turns in quite a news story.

Coney Island Winter

S08 E10 • Friday, Nov 28, 1958 • Nov 28

Third Son

S08 E11 • Friday, Dec 5, 1958 • Dec 5

The youngest brother is torn between whether to follow in the footsteps of his brother who is a frontier marshal or the other one who is a dashing gambler.

Drive a Desert Road

S08 E12 • Friday, Dec 12, 1958 • Dec 12

No Answer

S08 E13 • Friday, Dec 19, 1958 • Dec 19

A swindler who's known for separating rich widows from their money is the lead suspect in the murder of this latest "pigeon." His alibi seems pretty air tight: he was with the investigating cop when the murder supposedly took place.

Small Wonder

S08 E14 • Friday, Dec 26, 1958 • Dec 26

A Fistful of Love

S08 E15 • Friday, Jan 2, 1959 • Jan 2

Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.

The Deadly Guest

S08 E16 • Friday, Jan 9, 1959 • Jan 9

You Can't Win 'Em All

S08 E17 • Friday, Jan 16, 1959 • Jan 16

A professional football player refuses to admit that his playing days are over.

And Practically Strangers

S08 E18 • Friday, Jan 30, 1959 • Jan 30

From childhood Alan Mitchell has always felt his abilities and achievements overshadowed by those of his younger brother Hugh. When Hugh requisitions Alan to work with him on a nuclear bomb project it puts an additional strain on their already tense relationship.

Death Trap

S08 E19 • Friday, Feb 6, 1959 • Feb 6

The Man Who Had No Friends

S08 E20 • Friday, Feb 13, 1959 • Feb 13

Champion Barry Brannon retires from a successful career as a fighter and goes into the restaurant business with his long-time manager, Charlie. When Barry proposes to his girl, he finds that she is in love with Charlie.

Various Temptations

S08 E21 • Friday, Feb 20, 1959 • Feb 20

On the Brink

S08 E22 • Friday, Feb 27, 1959 • Feb 27

Story of an intense hatred between father and son.

Stand-In for Murder

S08 E23 • Friday, Mar 6, 1959 • Mar 6

Ivy League

S08 E24 • Friday, Mar 13, 1959 • Mar 13

After 30 years in the Marine Corps, Bull Mitchell retires and enrolls as a college freshman.

Frederick

S08 E25 • Friday, Mar 20, 1959 • Mar 20

The Salted Mine

S08 E26 • Friday, Mar 27, 1959 • Mar 27

In the Old West, a beautiful mine owner hires a detective to discover if she has been swindled when she bought a mine.

The Dreamer

S08 E27 • Friday, Apr 3, 1959 • Apr 3

This Will Do Nicely

S08 E28 • Friday, Apr 17, 1959 • Apr 17

The Case of the Two Sisters

S08 E29 • Friday, May 1, 1959 • May 1

Boy on a Fence

S08 E30 • Friday, May 15, 1959 • May 15

Mirror, Mirror

S08 E31 • Friday, May 29, 1959 • May 29

The Rumor

S08 E32 • Friday, Jun 5, 1959 • Jun 5

The guys of the billing department at Brittanica Insurance heard that one of them is about to be let go. After breaking up with his girlfriend-of-the-week, office playboy Eddie shoots off his mouth and says he's gonna quit and leave town. Of course, he reconsiders as soon as he meets another woman.

The Miss and the Missiles

S08 E33 • Friday, Jun 12, 1959 • Jun 12

Hostage

S08 E34 • Friday, Jun 19, 1959 • Jun 19

A motorcycle cop becomes hostage to a cold-blooded slayer who plans to use him to escape police roadblocks.

Cowboy Five Seven

S08 E35 • Friday, Jul 17, 1959 • Jul 17

This dramatization was about a typical day in the lives of the men of SAC, was made by Stewart, a reserve officer in the air force, at Westover (Mass.) Air Base. No professional actors are used; officers and enlisted men and their families portray themselves.

A Ballad to Die By

S08 E36 • Friday, Jul 31, 1959 • Jul 31

Rancher Anna Carrick hires singing cowboy Johnny Guitar to play at her wedding. Johnny soon learns that Anna is to marry a killer against her will.