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Revenge
Episode number: 1
Overview: A school teacher from Massachusetts comes to a small western town to marry a young homesteader, but finds that he's been murdered. The jury frees the murderer on a phony plea of self-defense. Determined to see justice done, she decides to stay in town as a constant irritant to the murderer's conscience. She makes him so crazy, he picks a fight with one of his friends and is killed. Dismayed by her own vengefulness, the teacher decides that justice would be better served by true social reform. She campaigns successfully for women to be selected as jurors, which results in the second murderer being convicted and sent to prison.
Here Lies Francois Gold
Episode number: 2
Campaign For Marriage
Episode number: 3
The Gadfly
Episode number: 4
Hole in the Wall
Episode number: 5
The Man the Navy Couldn't Sink
Episode number: 6
Under Seventeen
Episode number: 7
The Other Van Gogh
Episode number: 8
Arithmetic Sailor
Episode number: 9
I Get Along Without You Very Well
Episode number: 10
Overview: Composer Hoagy Carmichael relates the story of a song inspired by an anonymous poem, I get along without you very well. The year is 1938. Hoagy is asked to write a song to be introduced on Dick Powell's radio show. While going through his files, Hoagy discovers a nearly forgotten poem and promises a melody for it. He remembers little about the source of the poem except that a girl gave it to him at a college sorority party several years before. But the lyricist must grant permission before the music can be cleared for use on the radio. There ensues a desperate nation-wide search, aided by the broadcasts of Walter Winchell to find the author before air time.
Alice's Wedding Gown
Episode number: 11
The Rescue
Episode number: 12
Novel Appeal
Episode number: 13
Overview: An author frees an innocent man from prison.
Sam Houston's Decision
Episode number: 14
The Frying Pan
Episode number: 15
A Picture of the Magi
Episode number: 16
Death of a Nobody
Episode number: 17
Abby, Julia and the Seven Pet Cows
Episode number: 18
Cavalry Surgeon
Episode number: 19
Overview: The story of a military surgeon who in a moment of crisis has to perform an action repugnant to his very nature. The story of a cavalry skirmish in the Mexican War and of two men who fought with different philosophies and methods toward the same end. One lived heroically and one died a hero.
A Stubborn Fool
Episode number: 20
Flight for Life
Episode number: 21
The Immortal Eye
Episode number: 22
Recipe for Success
Episode number: 23
The Checkered Flag
Episode number: 24
Overview: Story of an unsung racing mechanic who because of a club foot, has never dared to race himself. All he needed was the confidence in himself to succeed. Based on the true story of Bud and Gina Hand.
The Vestris
Episode number: 25
Overview: In the spring of 1828, the bark Vestris, is 16 days out enroute from England to Boston. The weather is fair, but the captain's ailing wife suddenly has a vision telling her (in a message written on a blackboard) to have the ship change course. At first the captain refuses, but when the weather changes and his wife becomes sicker, he reluctantly agrees. As a result, they find and rescue three survivors of a shipwreck. One of the three is a doctor, and appears to be the ""spirit"" seen by the wife. He saves her life. As it turns out, the message on the blackboard is in his handwriting. Curiously, the doctor is as puzzled as everyone else by the wife's vision.
War Against War
Episode number: 26
The Quality of Mercy
Episode number: 27
Man of Principle
Episode number: 28
Overview: Hiero II, king of ancient Syracuse, orders a gold crown to be made as an offering to the gods. The gold is delivered to a goldsmith and the man's wife persuades him to substitute silver for some of the gold.