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- DirectorTay GarnettStarsLoretta YoungBarry SullivanBruce CowlingAn invalid husband (Barry Sullivan) wrongly believes his wife (Loretta Young) and doctor (Bruce Cowling) are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in a letter, which causes a serious concern when he ends up dying anyway.
- DirectorLaslo BenedekStarsScott BradyRichard RoberK.T. StevensTwo narcotics agents go after a gang of murderous drug dealers who use ships docking at New York Harbor to smuggle in their contraband.
- DirectorStuart RosenbergStarsAlfred HitchcockJoseph CottenJulie AdamsA married man captures a gunman who tried to rob him and his mistress, but to avoid a scandal, he contemplates whether to let him go or kill him.
- DirectorAllen ReisnerStarsRobert StackFrank SuttonJohn LarkinA World War I veteran runs one of the city's most vicious extortion rackets, tasked to protect Chicago's butchers from the mob. But a double-cross by one of his own gives Ness an opening to trap the thug.
- CreatorLarry CohenWalter GraumanStarsRobert GouletChristine CarèreJohn van DreelenAn American correspondent pretends to go over to the Germans in World War II but is instead working for the officially neutral United States against Hitler.
- DirectorWayne WangStarsTom HulceMary Elizabeth MastrantonioVirginia MadsenAn artist, framed for the murder of a woman, is drawn into a web of corruption, blackmail and deceit.
- DirectorJesse HibbsStarsRaymond BurrBarbara HaleWilliam HopperGeneral Roger Brandon has been asked by a group to head an anti-corruption committee by the governor to fight George Emory. However, compromising pictures arrive showing Brandon's wife. Brandon visits Emory who is then found killed.
- CreatorAllan SloaneStarsBurt ReynoldsWayne GriceLeon JanneyThe crime busting techniques of Iroquois detective John Hawk of the New York City District Attorney's office.
- StarsBrian DonlevyHerb ButterfieldLyle Talbot"The Commissioner" sends US special agent Steve Mitchell to exotic locales where he encounters adventure and international intrigue, all played out using extreme violence.
- CreatorJerry McNeelyDavid VictorStarsArthur HillJoan DarlingLee MajorsIn a small California town, attorney Owen Marshall, assisted by several different younger lawyers, defends clients with great compassion for the accused.
- DirectorJohn SturgesStarsJohn WayneEddie AlbertDiana MuldaurSeattle cop is caught up in a corrupt police force that he is trying to make right. McQ is a cop with a mission.
- StarsPatrick McVeyMark StevensJane Nigh"Big Town" was a long-running, highly-successful network radio series (1937- 1952) and film series ("I Cover the Underworld," "Underworld After Dark," and "Underworld Scandal") before becoming a hit television series. Shot in film-noir style, the series focused on the exploits of Steve Wilson and the staff of 'The Illustrated Press' newspaper as they reported on the important social issues of the day.
- StarsJim DavisLang JeffriesNancy RennickThe missions of a rescue squad of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsPamela DuncanRichard GarlandAllison HayesA beautiful woman is sent back in time via hypnosis to the Middle Ages where she finds she is suspected of being a witch, and subject to being executed.
- DirectorLou BreslowStarsDick PowellPeggy DowJoyce HoldenAn ex-army dog inherits a fortune from his eccentric millionaire owner, and which is poisoned, asks the leader in the heaven for animals to send him back to Earth, as a human private investigator, to solve his own murder.
- DirectorRobert J. Gurney Jr.StarsWard CostelloJoyce HoldenFrederic DownsScientists build a time machine to snatch objects from the past. But little do they know that 20th-century objects put in the machine seem to be "traded" for analogous future objects by intelligent life.
- DirectorHenry LevinDino MaiuriStarsMike ConnorsDorothy ProvineRaf ValloneIn this spoof of spy films, CIA agent, Kelly, is in Rio De Janeiro spying on a wealthy industrialist, David Ardonian, who secretly plans to turn the world sterile and repopulate it with his harem. UK spy, Susan Fleming, helps Kelly.
- DirectorTony Lo BiancoStarsMike ConnorsAnne ArcherLeon Isaac KennedyA killer is brutally attacking several tenants that live in a high rise apartment building in New York City.
- StarsGeorge C. ScottElizabeth WilsonCicely TysonIn this weekly drama show, George C. Scott plays a dedicated social worker trying to solve the problems of his clients in the fascinating mix of cultures that makes up New York City.
- DirectorSidney SalkowStarsDennis O'KeefeColeen GrayCharles WinningerA teacher writing a book about gambling meets a hotel/casino owner threatened by a gangster.
- CreatorStan JonesMort BriskinStarsJohn BromfieldStan JonesRoy EngelWhile this sounds like a western, "The Sheriff of Cochise" was a contemporary police drama set in Cochise County, Arizona. Stories seemed strangely similar to "Highway Patrol," emphasizing fist fights and car chases rather than gunplay. Tough Sheriff Frank Morgan was eventually promoted to U.S. Marshall and given the entire state of Arizona to keep under control (the series title would subsequently change to U.S. MARSHAL and remain in syndication until 1960). Singer Stan Jones was the series creator but departed the show in 1958. A total of 156 episodes were produced under both titles.
- StarsDane ClarkJoan MarshallBernie GozierAn adventurer and his pretty young ward live in a house boat in Trinidad.
- DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsBurt LancasterPaul HenreidClaude RainsA man abused by a sadistic mining company cop before he could tell where on their desert property he'd found diamonds decides to steal them instead.
- DirectorHarold D. SchusterStarsEdward BinnsCarolyn CraigVirginia GreggA tavern owner in mid-century Portland, Oregon finds the safety of himself and his family threatened when he becomes involved in a war between labor unions and a violent local crime syndicate.
- DirectorJustus AddissStarsHarry LauterJack NicholsonCarolyn MitchellA teenage boy panics and takes hostages when he thinks he's committed murder.