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The Green Pastures

Episode number: 1

Overview: African-American tales of spirituality and oral black storytelling through a collection of vignettes on various Biblical stories and figures.

On Borrowed Time

Episode number: 2

Overview: Suggested by Roark Bradford's ""Ol' Man Adam an' his chillun,"" based on the novel of the same name by Lawrence Edward Watkin.

Twelfth Night

Episode number: 3

Overview: A shipwreck separates Viola from her twin brother Sebastian. Disguised as a boy, Viola becomes a page to Duke Orsino. Orsino is sighing over his unrequited love for the fair Olivia; but Olivia becomes infatuated with Viola, believing her a boy.

Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates

Episode number: 4

Overview: The children's story of the boy who wants to win a skating cotest in order to pay for an operation for his blind father.

Little Moon of Alban

Episode number: 5

Overview: t is 1919 in Ireland. Brigid Mary and her mother fiercely oppose her fiance's rebel activities, for Brigid Mary's father and brother both died at the hands of the British, and the two women want no more grief. But before long, in her desperation, Brigid Mary is drawn into a religious order.

Dial M for Murder

Episode number: 6

Overview: A woman who slowly comes to realize that her husband is trying to murder her for her money.