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This Land is Mine

Episode number: 1

Overview: A homesteading couple find they are in danger of losing their farm.

My Friends, the Birds

Episode number: 2

Overview: When an eccentric dowager dies, she leaves several million dollars to a bird sanctuary.

Mrs. Snyder

Episode number: 3

Overview: When a wealthy, attractive woman appears, Duke Thompson, the aristocrat of confidence men, grooms himself for the most desirable, and challenging opportunity of his career.

Perfect Likeness

Episode number: 4

Overview: An itinerant artist visits a bar and solves a love triangle by producing an idealized portrait of the waitress.

Palm Springs Incident

Episode number: 5

Overview: A beautiful widow arrives in Palm Springs. She's determined to marry a young millionaire although he's already engaged.

Pride of Man

Episode number: 6

Overview: A retired gunslinger, who settled down as a peaceful rancher, has been involved in a fatal shooting. Accompanied by a young boy, he rides into a frontier town. His face is still battered from a brutal pistol-beating as he seeks out the man responsible for the vicious assault.

Teacher

Episode number: 7

Overview: A teacher's despair over her failure to educate backwoods children suddenly changes to great inspiration when she finds one of her charges smuggling out a spelling book. She learns that the book is not for the child, but for an old woman who insists she must learn to read.

The Charlatan

Episode number: 8

Overview: A cancer therapist defends himself against a charge of fraud made by a newspaperwoman and a doctor.

Swing Your Partner, Hector

Episode number: 9

Overview: A Texas cotton farmer is convinced he has what it takes to be an expert criminologist. He's read everything in detective fiction he can get his hands on.

Mister Cinderella

Episode number: 10

Overview: A young American visiting London meets an attractive English girl who's the ward of a strict old lady. With the old lady's permission, he takes the girl to dinner, only to become involved in murder.

The Blue Wall

Episode number: 11

Overview: No prisoner has ever escaped from Graymoor Prison, but a determined band of inmates conspire to accomplish the "impossible."

Challenge

Episode number: 12

Overview: Two men discuss the current newspaper stories about the murder of a pretty actress. The crime has been committed by a homicidal maniac - and one of the two men is the killer.

The Ballad of Jubal Pickett

Episode number: 13

Overview: An original ballad tells the story of "bad bad" Jubal Pickett, who escapes from jail and goes after the brother who turned him in.

Once Upon A Christmas Eve

Episode number: 14

Overview: Two lonely old men hail a cab on Christmas Eve and order the driver to take them to a restaurant.

Outpost

Episode number: 15

Overview: The captain of a fort in Indian Territory takes several of his men into a nearby town. In a saloon a veteran cavalryman sees a deserter from another post and a gunfight starts. The captain arrives in time to find a new recruit has been murdered.

The Big Leap

Episode number: 16

Overview: In order to prove he has not lost his touch, a once-famous news photographer risks his life for a photo of a young girl's attempted suicide.

Man On the Outside

Episode number: 17

Overview: Two Federal men, on the trail of an escaped convict, threaten a man's marriage and business.

The Alibi

Episode number: 18

Overview: A successful young author falls in love with a married woman. He convinces her that the only solution to the triangle is murder, and they devise an ingenious scheme.

You Take Ballistics

Episode number: 19

Overview: A detective is convinced a man is guilty of murder despite ballistics tests to the contrary.

Strange Quarry

Episode number: 20

Overview: Gangster Al Richards is being transferred by train to the state penitentiary. A washout occurs near a small western town and he escapes. A veteran detective teams up with the small-town police chief to track down the gangster.

Safe Enough

Episode number: 21

Overview: A jeweler's assistant exploits his employer's trust by planning a gem robbery.

Big Joe's Comin' Home

Episode number: 22

Overview: A former gangland boss returns after 25 years in prison, expecting things to be the same.