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- Following her turn as the nation's First Lady, Dolley Madison's life continued to be colorful. As a widow in Washington, she's invited to a tea party by Beatrice Trent, the spiteful wife of a senator who's convinced Dolley prevented her husband from getting an ambassadorship. Determined to humiliate the former first lady, she invites Dolley's alcoholic son from a previous marriage to disrupt the festivities.
- During a convention in a large city, a visiting family consisting of a man, his wife and daughter checks into a hotel. When the girl leaves, the wife's incessant nagging pushes the man into a rage building for years, and he snaps. He's going to murder his wife with a long sharp piece of glass, police must go to extraordinary lengths to monitor when to rush in as he thrashes out every slight he's endured with her.
- Parents are concerned that their teen-aged daughter doesn't have a date for her school's formal dance. She assures them she has a boy named Al all lined up. Recalling that "Al" was the name of her imaginary childhood friend, Dad arranges for one of the boys from the office to escort her. It turns out that Al really does exist.
- The second wife of a wealthy Southerner moves with her husband to his family estate. She unexpectedly finds herself competing with his more glamorous first wife who's scheming to win him back.
- Hobo Duke by power of suggestion convinces a small town he is an eccentric millionaire and begins to change the attitude and fortunes of the town.
- A traveling salesman gets a surprise every time he comes home from the road, from the other fast-talking Ewings: his wife and voluptuous teenage daughter. The daughter's charity organization "The Spinsters" is appearing in a calendar, and when she's deemed too hippy for a swimsuit pose, she vows to make the cocky young photographer regret his assessment, by enrolling in modeling school.
- 1952–195730m7.8 (12)TV EpisodeA troublesome Poodle upsets the marital bliss of a young couple.
- 1952–195730m7.6 (13)TV EpisodeWhen Orrin Dooley, returning from war, is rejected by a woman for his ignorance, he enters grade school under his G.I. benefits where the woman betrothed to the insensitive principal is the teacher.
- A successful advertising woman finds love through a mystical test from the folklore of her Welsh origin despite the skepticism and pressure to compromise from her brother and brother's wife.
- An embezzler stalks a female subordinate who he has framed for the embezzlement after her failure to accept his advances and lies about a marriage to a private investigator he has hired to maintain information about the woman's location.
- An ad man is mistaken for a model by an artist who decides that all male and female relationships should be switched.
- When a playwright of declining fortune persuades an old lover and a popular actress to do his new play, his quarrelsome, jealous wife disappears and, when the clues point to murder, the man's alibis are oddly contradicted by the facts.
- A former all-American college football player attends a 20-year school reunion. He confronts his future by lying about his past.
- Spinster, workaholic banker Kate Osgood, held captive in her house by a man who intends to rob her bank, decides, despite the suspicions of an enamored doctor, to hide his actual intentions when the man saves her from a fire she starts.
- Expecting an emotional reaction, a man caught kissing another woman criticizes the wife for just pressing him on their business so the wife masquerades as her uninhibited sister dissuading him from business to underline her mindset.
- Faced with saving face and respect with the townspeople, a sheriff is faced with a rancher bent on eye for an eye revenge after his sons trial and hanging.
- Arriving in America, Antonin and granddaughter Vlasta learn that their sponsor is deceased, so they escape the immigration authorities to try to persuade the sponsor's son to take his father's place, but the son is resistant to do so.
- New bride Alison Stevens keeps making costly gaffes after she unexpectedly moves into the Stevens family's ancestral home. She blames each screw-up on her disabled brother-in-law Russel, a pianist who's long been cared for by the groom, Bruce Stevens. Is Russel playing diabolical tricks on her, or is she cracking up in the lonely, unfriendly surroundings ?
- A successful female novelist leaves her husband after they disagree about the amount of time she devotes to her career. On the train, she discovers an anonymous suicide note, and is afraid her husband wrote it.
- A wealthy man, whose poor friend has stolen the man's fiancée, bets the friend a fortune that the friend can not spend ten years in solitary confinement, which bet the friend accepts, despite the love of the woman.
- A remarried father tries to convince his son to love his new step-mother. It's a tough task because the boy has fond memories of his fun-loving late mother. Matters are complicated when the new wife becomes pregnant and needs the boy's care. Major inroads are made when the wife helps save the child's injured dog.
- A private investigator is hired by a pretty blonde to collect an envelope at a boxing match and deliver it to her the next day. What's in the envelope causes some inconvenience.
- James Lindsey insists his children Fitzjames and Violet face reality when Christmas fantasies are strong, but when their snowman comes to life and starts providing magical experiences, his sense of reality is shaken, until his wife Helen reminds him of his own magical experiences.
- A police detective troubled by memories of the Korean War has his already fragile mental health tested when he starts receiving calls from a man he had to kill in the war to preserve his unit.
- After a dock foreman is murdered because of his knowledge of thefts, a hired gunman moves across the street from the assistant foreman to execute a hit but the wife recognizes the gunman from a police photo after a neighborhood encounter.
- A painter and his American wife who enjoy an unconventional life style in Europe want their daughter to marry but the father questions his daughter's conventional leanings and develops some regret about the life he has chosen.
- A woman with a hat full of hope, newly released from a psychiatric facility, keeps making embarrassing gaffes after she moves back onto the Cartwright family's ancestral ranch. She can't believe that her recovering mind is playing tricks on her, though her psychiatrist assures her that no one can remember everything, she's becoming forlorn. The psychiatrist has a bonanza on his hands, because the woman is wealthy, a whiz at business, and in love with him. Is suave, arrogant Dr. Gregg playing diabolical tricks on her, or is she experiencing hallucinations due to overwork on a job which doesn't suit her ?
- Filmed with help from the US Navy, this fact-based story tells of the U.S.S. Barksdale during World War II. After surviving the attack on Pearl Harbor, Lt. Comdr. William Masterson takes over command as the captain falls ill with appendicitis. While in charge, Masterson allows the ship to take a torpedo to save a larger nearby cruiser. In route for repairs, they fight off a squadron of Japanese fighter planes.
- Mr. Duffy's secretive stableman under suspicion is asked by Julie on town's behalf to leave but she alters her feelings when the man singlehandedly defends the town against outlaw Clip Hart gang's plan to use the town as getaway station.
- After Sam Houston as governor of Tennessee refuses outlaw Jim Hawk as a boy to save his father from hanging, Hawk vows to kill Houston but. as a result of a teacher's influence, rejects opportunity to kill Houston as President of Texas.
- In 1941 Havana, a French intelligence officer investigates a conspiracy with the German navy in which the husband of a woman he loves might be involved.
- A well-to-do female casino owner seeks to separate a man from his wealthy wife to abandon him as revenge for the man allowing his parents to annul their youthful marriage and arrange a marriage to his present wife.
- A priest of a poor parish gains a benefactor but identifies as his patron his cruel Red Chinese prison interrogator and must decide whether to report the man to authorities while the man threatens to kill himself and wife if captured.
- A self-made, successful shipping tycoon refuses to take his son into his firm for fear he will be overshadowed by him.
- A desperate girl marries the town drunk and through her love and support he becomes an upstanding citizen.
- A successful Hollywood writing team can't seem to team up in a successful marriage. The wife discovers that the luscious leading lady for whom she and her husband are writing a picture is making a play for her husband.
- Pilot Dan Crawford is hired by a man and his wife to fly them to Las Vegas. But when the plane is approaching Las Vegas, the man draws a gun and forces Dan to land on the airstrip of a ranch.
- A good woman, embittered by an unjust prison sentence, vows revenge on those who sent her to jail.
- Aspiring model is in love with a modeling agent who hates models.
- A young matron's romantic ideas threaten her marriage.
- A wealthy fashion woman, poor in youth, faces a dilemma as to whether to extract her long desired revenge on a man with whom she eloped in her youth but who allowed his rich family to annul the marriage for a débutante he wants to leave.
- A wife wants to adopt a baby, but dislikes little boys.
- Dr. Stanley arrives in town and is asked by oil field owner Robles to establish a hospital for the area to which Stanley reluctantly agrees but continues to behave peculiarly.
- When coerced by his disapproving girlfriend, a cynical man reluctantly goes to see his estranged father after receiving a letter from his envied brother stating the father is dying.
- Movie star Carlos Cortez arrives in New York, only to face a frenzied mob of fans. He is rescued by his agent's efficient secretary, whose concern for his welfare is purely personal.
- When Fred Karnes is beaten by Bill Corby and two friends for dating Bill's sister Carol, DA Sloan's prosecution is difficult because Karnes is considered low class and a traitor while Carol is quiet to preserve her family's influence.
- Heiress Myla Marshall is a tabloid fixture for living the high life. The public, and her abusive ex-husband, are unaware of the son she's secretly kept at boarding schools since his birth. She was determined to save the child from the savage hands of his father. When news of the boy is leaked to the press, her hateful ex reappears and begins to rough her up. He ends up dead and Myla faces a murder trial.
- A chaplain loses contact with his outfit during the Korean retreat.
- While reading Faust, a man falls asleep and dreams he makes a pact with the devil.
- A stranger attempts a swindle in shabby Florida Keys inn by interesting the owners and patrons in an inherited treasure map that he knows leads to a junk hoard but falls for the owner's restless sister.
- A daughter named Diane (Lucy Marlowe) postpones getting engaged to boyfriend Peter (John Lupton) until she helps her widowed mother Marion (Joan Bennett) finds a man of her own. At a Palm Springs resort, Diane finds a good prospect named Stanley (Gene Raymond), but he pursues her, not the mom.
- A woman learns that her son, reported missing in action, is alive and returning home from Korea.
- Sally is tired of watching all of her dates run for the door when they learn she's a widowed mother of three. Hoping for a better outcome, she plans to keep the kids a secret until a man is hooked. Her secretiveness makes her new, promising beau suspect she's got another man on the side. A friend who warned that her ruse would backfire intervenes to save the relationship.
- A dedicated but bumbling assistant press photographer inadvertently documents political corruption.
- Two news cameramen who use ruthless subterfuge in their rancorous competition chase a story of a brutal criminal during which one of them becomes a hostage to the criminal along with a woman for which both cameramen have designs.
- Harry Cummings must flee after wounding in self defense at a poker game a high ranking criminal whose desire for revenge interferes with Harry's plan to use his winnings to marry his hometown sweetheart.
- An armed man breaks into a family's home during a terrible thunderstorm. It is about a recently escaped prisoner who is wanted by the police. Gradually we learn more about the man. He is a doctor, Harvey Barron, but he no longer dares to practice the profession. He is also found to be innocent. A young girl in the home suffers from acute appendicitis. The roads are blocked due to the storm. After much insistence, Dr. Barron will operate on her and thus save her life.
- When a newspaper reporter losses a note from a potential Russian defector in a meeting with his estranged newspaper reporter daughter, the daughter vengefully publishes the story without considering the consequences to the defector.
- A boy is jealous of his crippled brother. He longs for attention himself.
- A man in jail for not paying alimony decides to have himself killed for the insurance money. He tries to convince his cell-mate to do it.
- Kitty O'Dare, a pretty lady horse-race handicapper, has a streak of luck picking winners. Frustrated, the local bookies decide the only way to stop her from betting is to get her married.
- A newspaperman prints unfounded criticism of the juvenile crime unit and particularly of its chief officer until the gang beating of his son causes him to realize the struggles of the officer and awakens him to his own shortcomings.
- A boxing promoter gets word that his conniving brother is returning home. Years before he turned into a cheating, crooked fighter, and now is slipping. He broke the heart of a girl that still loves him, He also must win one last fight-if his brother can help him.
- A doctor's cold scientific attention is aroused by a girl who has a preference for sleeping by day and living by night.
- A former sheriff comes into conflict with a tough cattleman who refuses to recognize the law.
- Louise Warner has witnessed a murder. She hesitates to go to the police for fear of losing her parole, and the killer is now tracking her down.
- A girl gets the man she wants by pretending she wants another.
- When two struggling people, a musician and young woman, make a deal in a pawnshop to resolve their individual financial shortfalls, an attraction, complicated by the woman's licentious landlady and overbearing suitor, ensues.
- Hope Foster is wary about the arrival of her husband's former wartime companion. She is sure that the woman is in love with him, and soon begins to think that he may be in love with her.
- In a desperate effort to prove that he is as good a lawyer as his father, a young man rigs a witness as a device to win a spectacular murder case.
- A patient falls in love with his lady doctor.
- A girl misses a cue in a dramatic-school play. To everyone's surprise a man calls her, says he's a talent scout, and praises her acting.
- A man tries to capture the romance he and his wife once shared.
- A voice coach starts drinking heavily after the death of his greatest star.
- A happily married couple are overjoyed to see the husband's old Army buddy, who promptly moves in on them. They are not so pleased when they find that the old buddy has no intention of moving out again.
- A woman saloon owner in California, known as gunslinger "Madame 44," is tried and acquitted for murder after defending herself from a claim jumper. Later, passing for respectability in New Orleans, a suitor threatens to expose her past.
- Lorna Gilbert is trapped in a plane after a crash. As she waits to be rescued, she reviews her life and marriage.
- A plantation owner and his love are united during a fight with red-armed guerrillas in Malaya.
- A pretty young woman uses all her savings to trap a husband, and her handsome landlord succumbs to her wiles.
- A detective is arrested on a brutality charge.
- Irony ensues as a humble bank treasurer's defalcation of a reserve fund for philanthropic purposes causes him to be perceived as a rich heir which perception requires he continue the embezzlement to avoid detection.
- A lonely puppeteer finds his only happiness in fashioning his puppets, until he meets a beautiful girl who looks like his first puppet.
- Laura Chandler is unable and seemingly unwilling to recover from the loss of her son.
- A father rejects his daughter's poor choice in a husband.
- A bridegroom is bitter when his wife has them appear on a television show.
- A jilted loan-company employee advances money to his ex-fiancee.
- A policeman is falsely suspected of taking a bribe.
- Widow Janet Wilson and her daughter come for a holiday at a seaside cabin, where a local beachcomber gets friendly with them. He spends his time working driftwood into art, and she urges him to better himself. After finding they both lost spouses, a romance begins.
- Widower P.J. Reilly, a retired vaudeville dancer, is worried about his daughter. He fears she may be putting her theatrical ambitions before love.
- Curiously no one remembers that Dan Doyle has been with a man who saved his life on D-day and whom he has by chance encountered in post war Paris under an assumed name and then learns the man is a black marketeer who may be murdered.
- During the London Blitz in World War 2, an American captain and a British Lady meet. They fall in love, and plan to marry when the woman receives her divorce. Then they learn that the woman's husband has been wounded in battle.
- Two students meet on a voyage to France.
- An honest boy meets and falls in love with an engaged girl. The boy's less than honest family decides to help the romance along.
- A detective is furious when he learns that his bride, a municipal court judge, is appearing on a new TV show.
- Gentlemanly conman Silas Burton shows up in Abbeyvale with his new young assistant in tow. He smooth-talks the town's merchants and politicians into staging "Remembrance Day," a celebration of Christmas during June. All he asks is a hefty fee to be paid by the stores for the increase in business he guarantees them. Getting in the way of his flimflam is his assistant's love for a local girl and a couple of clergymen who are onto his scheme.
- Matty Curran loses his championship box title to a younger fighter. Matty's young son is afraid that his father has become a coward, and has let him down at a crucial moment.
- Teenage Katherine has a new friend, a worldlier girl named Laura. Katherine's aunt Sheila trusts her implicitly, but after the two girls break curfew by switching places so Laura can see her boyfriend, suspicion is cast on what Katherine is doing.
- A gentle nun, the superintendent of a large hospital, is called upon to solve her patients' problems.
- Linda spends a week at a resort with her divorced sister while her husband stays behind in the city. She enjoys the attention of a fellow guest who flirts with her shamelessly; he jokes that he should murder her husband so that they can be together. At least she thinks he's joking until he calls her New York City apartment. It' a good thing her sister intercepts the phone call.
- A handsome young cattle rancher visits the big city only to find that the girl he left behind is not ready to relinquish her man.
- A war correspondent in Malaya goes to stay at the home of a middle-aged plantation owner.
- A young naval officer is assigned to the submarine his father commands. He has not seen his father since his parents were divorced when he was a child.
- After two years a gunman returns to the lawless frontier town he left, only to find it has become a respectable community. His presence is a threat to both the town and his former girlfriend.
- An alcoholic young man demands inheritance money from the uncle who's executor of his father's estate. The uncle refuses, but makes his nephew an offer: he'll give him $15,000 if he'll travel to the South Seas and murder a man named Jake Finch. The trip to the islands involves a three-week cruise on a schooner where the sad drunk has time to reevaluate his life.
- Private detective Vic Chambers is hired by a dancer to crack a murder case she's a suspect in, but she too is murdered. The entire case seems to hinge on a single fingerprint. The search for the killer is complicated by the fact his leading suspect is his rival Scoop Donnelly.
- A crooner leaves his clamoring fans for the quiet of the country.
- In a small coastal village, an engaged couple is slowly being drawn apart by a rumour campaign concerning the woman's deceased husband. It's said that she lead him to suicide, but it soon appears that a lot of facts about him are being suppressed by his rich mother, who rules the town's fortunes.
- A woodsman accuses the mayor of a small town of wanting to change the charter only in order to get more power for himself.
- With his housekeeper as chaperon, a bachelor puts up a young girl in his home for the night. His problem is to keep his girlfriend from seeing his guest.
- The wife of a prizefighter promises her dying husband that their son will be a fighter.
- Ex-con Frank Darin meets his onetime nemesis, the detective that put him in prison years ago. though they part friends, he is immediately suspected when the detective is found murdered. The possibility of a crooked cop on the force being responsible starts a plan to catch him that will clear Darin's name: he poses as an eyewitness to the crime under police protection.
- A lawyer agrees to defend his girlfriend's brother despite the fact that he thinks he's guilty.
- A pretty young woman makes up her mind to disprove a psychiatrist's theories about how a woman tries to catch a man.
- The one normal member of a wacky family has a hard time convincing her sweetheart's pompous parents that she'd make a suitable daughter-in-law.
- Donny Weaver grows to manhood with one idea fixed in his mind - to track down and kill the gunman who murdered his mother and father.
- A killer is tried and sentenced to death for murdering a cop. However, he breaks out of prison and hunts down his ex-wife, who had fingered him to the police. A down-on-his-luck reporter tells his editor that, for a $100 bonus, he'll track down the escaped killer on his own and get a scoop for the paper. However, things don't work out quite the way the reporter had counted on.
- Father Devlin has but one worldly possession - a dog named Spot.
- A married couple become almost strangers to each other.
- In 1947 Berlin, a shabby figure tries to sell a valuable jewel, but is chased through the rubble by police. He hides out with an American nurse, who discovers he's lost his memory. She gives him a job at the hospital, where he shows inexplicable familiarity with medical procedures.
- A boxer strives for the middleweight championship in order to fund his friend's business venture.
- Over a tearoom lunch, a gypsy-fortuneteller informs Carlos that he will marry a brunette he meets after a short trip across the water and an encounter with some fire and smoke. His co-workers immediately pair him up with the boss' secretary, an attractive woman he likes but doesn't love. It takes an office costume party, and some help from friends, for him to meet the right brunette.
- Since her parent's death, a young woman has looked to her employer for guidance. When she marries a young artist who expresses his emotions on canvas rather that in words, she again turns to her employer for understanding.
- A lawyer receives a phone call telling him he has only 30 minutes to live.
- A husband and wife, both lawyers, get a continuance in their case to get a second Honeymoon, only for the wife to delay their trip to take on the cause of an indigent boy accused of poaching.
- A wife is fed up with her husband's clownish behavior and decides she has had enough.
- On her son's fifth birthday a mother plants a lilac bush. When the boy dies, she flies into a fit of rage and attempts to destroy the bush.
- Count Da Salvaggio has fought as a professional swordsman under the alias Lupo to hide his nobility and now must find a way avoid a forbidden duel with his unsuspecting American friend whose fiancée he has stolen.
- To win a new house, an engaged couple enters a contest for married people, planning to marry if they win. They quarrel but they win, so they draw a line down the middle of the house, evenly dividing their property.
- An escaped convict fails to impress a busy housewife.
- John Stevens is the operator, pilot and sole stockholder of a one-plane airline who has been hired to pick up a valuable Chinese antique in San Francisco's Chinatown. The seemingly simple job proves to be worth the high price he offered as every underworld figure in town strives to finger him and hijack the prize - the Ming Lama. Johnny finds that his attraction for Lola Walker, whom he meets during his quest, proves a more useful weapon than his fists. Lola's talent with a gun, though misdirected, proves the edge he needs to fulfill his contract.
- The vagabond Mumby family moved into a ritzy subdivision which causes the developer to plot their eviction. Their continued presence disturbs their haughty neighbors but also teaches them some important lessons.
- A prospector sends his emissary to find him a bride and the emissary falls hopelessly in love with the woman.
- A criminal lawyer volunteers to defend a truck driver who appears certain to be convicted on circumstantial evidence.
- Meek office worker's life is changed when he gives a blood transfusion to crime lord Joe Aladdin.
- A former gun-slinger turned preacher takes up his guns again to save his flock.
- A young man falls in love at first sight, but an unknown girl declares him to be her fiance.
- A man commits a robbery to meet payments on his fishing boat, accidentally blinding a girl in the process.
- A selfish old man tries to keep his children from leaving home.
- A girl plots to marry a millionaire by hook or by crook.
- A boy suspects his step-father is the murderer of a man who attempted to put a small town newspaper out of business.
- A girl tries to shift a scandal from herself to her brother's fiancee.
- A man brings his fiance home to meet his teenage daughter.
- A young wife is haunted by her dead mother-in-law.
- Callahan is a small-town newspaper reporter still stinging from his son's death in the Korean War. His editor sends him to Fog Point to find out why someone's digging up the beach. He become personally involved in the story of a young man with a lost love, a broken heart, and no answers as to why she went away.
- In 1870, a woman doctor dreams of serving the people in a small western town. But the townspeople hate this woman who has dared to enter a male profession.
- A tramp and a millionaire exchange positions in life when they find that they look alike.
- A newspaper expose precipitates a violent quarrel between the writer and his family.
- The wife of a colonel throws a party for her husband on the eve of his departure for active duty in Korea.
- An actress researches a role on "skid row" and falls for a man down on his luck.
- An Army chaplain, upon his return, tells his congregation about the Korean War and those who served and the families that lost loved ones.
- During the Indochina War, a girl meets a young flier at a wedding. They fall in love, but the flier, sure he will be killed shortly, refuses to give up his reckless way of life.
- A wife is overcome with romance one afternoon, forgets she's married, and flirts with a handsome young doctor. She get caught up in the moment and makes a date with the man for that evening. Upon arriving home, she tells her husband about the silly predicament she's now in. Hubby decides the "other man" should come over as planned for a lesson on romance.
- The story of an aspiring actress who learns happily that she would rather have a husband than a TV career.
- A veteran harness racing driver gives his son strict orders regarding the race. He is angered when the young boy disobeys him and drives to win the first heat.
- A returned war veteran is under treatment for memory loss. His wife, whom he does not remember, struggles to help him.
- It's Mary McNeill's wedding day, and as she dresses for the ceremony she reminisces about her two suitors and how difficult it was to choose between them.
- An attractive widow feels that her teenage daughter is too young to date the school basketball coach. But when the young man comes to call, the widow finds she's attracted to him herself.
- At a grade school, several boys seem to be drawn to bad behavior because of one delinquent. Wise old Miss Emerson doesn't believe he's really so bad, and bucks the school board's plans to expel him, reminding them of another antisocial student, back in the early 1920's, who was also given to breaking rules, and how she helped him.
- A bride-to-be changes her mind on her wedding day.
- A girl working in a book shop meets a young medical student.
- A middle-aged theatrical producer suddenly begins mixing with the younger set.