The United States Steel Hour

David Durfee's young son is kidnapped by desperate criminals, yet he refuses to pay the ransom that the town feels would ensure the boy's safety.

A story about a psychiatrist and two of his patients

Though rough around the edges, a self-made man tries to get his daughter admitted to Boston's high society 400.

A story about a gunfighter who didn't particularly care for gunfighting.

The story of a beloved housekeeper and nanny who doesn't want to retire.

A story revolving around a widow and her extended family on New York's Lower East Side, spanning the years 1910-1931, including such historic events as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, World War I, and the Great Depression, events that shaped the lives and destinies of the family.

A story about a Pennsylvania Dutch Mennonite family in the 1940s, in which the parents adhere to their faith while their two children desire to be more ""worldly"" until they feel the personal call to the Mennonite faith.

A power-mad businessman finds true values in a desert utopia called Carthage.

In a small backward Norwegian town in the 1860s, a woman who is married to a scholar whom she does not love subtly asserts her power over the people in her life.

In Paris, the Head of the Missing Persons Bureau disappears and his assistant, hoping for a promotion, searches for him.

A penniless society girl falls in love with the handsome sheriff's man sent to keep an eye on her belongings.

A story examining the seeming loss of the American work ethic, as well as the issues of racism and prejudice.

The story of the psychological torment of American soldiers after they return home from Commmunist prison camps.

The life of an Italian-American family is continuously upset by their Uncle Zi-Zi's schemes to appear as a contestant on a TV quiz program, on which he is certain that his fortune will be made.

David Durfee's young son is kidnapped by desperate criminals, yet he refuses to pay the ransom that the town feels would ensure the boy's safety.

A bankrupt man, who becomes a migrant oil worker to repay his debts, journeys with his family and dreams of returning to the home they once owned.

A young Army officer faces a court-martial as a result of his collaboration with the enemy while a prisoner of war.

A country bumpkin is drafted into the Air Force and wreaks havoc.

A captain with 25 years of service on the ""Singapore"" faces a mental collapse as he takes his freighter out on its last voyage. Tension among the crew members mounts as the men battle one another and the elements on the fateful trip to Hong Kong.

A man (played by James Dean) is falsely accused of stealing in this very good melodrama. Dean harbors a secret love for a married woman, but he does not get the girl in the end.

The story of a 40-year-old pitcher facing his retirement from baseball.

During World War II, Corporal Neville, an intelligent young man awaiting appointment to officers' candidate school, is asked, much to his displeasure, to become an instructor to illiterates.

A story about compulsive gambling

When the narrow-minded citizens of a community acquit a psychopathic bully for the murder of an immigrant shopkeeper, a retired judge tries to persuade the community to rectify this miscarriage of justice.

A story about an Irish country girl's first love

The love story of Zajj and Caribee Jones, told in the form of a jazz ""ballet""

Phillip the Sailor meets Andre, Haiti's wealthiest inhabitant, who wants to sell Phillip a magic bottle containing an all-powerful Imp, which brought him his great fortune. Phillip isn't interested in the power the bottle can bring until he meets a beautiful girl whom he wants to marry, but he doesn't have the wealth which the girl's father demands.

The town's sheriff, possessed of an irrational hatred of outlaws, kills a young man, claiming that the youngster had made an attempt on his life.

The powerful moving story of the friendship between the star pitcher of a baseball team and a catcher who is dying from Hodgkin's Disease.

Bat Bethune, former marshal of a New Mexico town, has become a legendary figure as a result of his boldness during the wild early days of the town's history. But, in his old age, he is given to shooting at imaginary badmen, endangering the inhabitants. Finally, the mayor decides Bethune must leave town.

John Woodruffe is tormented by memories of the horrors he suffered in a Japanese prison camp during World War II. He recalls his vow to avenge the death of a chaplain executed by Sakamura, the brutal camp adjutant. Years later, Woodruffe finds himself face to face with the object of his bitter hate, Sakamura.

A mute spinster who becomes a mail-order bride to a widower goes to his farm and wins over the widower and his younger son, but not his older son, who feels that his father is not being true to the memory of the boy's mother.

A musical version of the classic story

Former vaudeville singer Lil Andrews ambitiously makes preparations for her daughter's professional singing debut. She is unaware that the girl, who is living out of town with an aunt while taking singing lessons, has secretly married and given up plans for a singing career.

For years May Golden has ended every argument with her husband by threatening to get a job. When Mimi, her youngest married daughter, becomes exasperated with her mother's daily visits and free advice, May decides it's time to prove her value by making good her threat.

The son of a wealthy French collaborator, who is secretly a member of the underground, falls in love and marries a young girl hiding from the Gestapo.

Dr. Victor Payson, a widower for just 6 months and father of a teenage daughter, is slated for the post of Chief of Surgeons of Collins General Hospital. But the wife of the hospital's director plants doubt among Payson's colleagues as to his suitability for the job because of his romance with a young divorcee.

A young woman whose mother is in a sanitorium and father has just died of malaria must find a way to cope with life.

Colonel and Lady Morrigan were very nicely provided for in their brother's will. Now Muriel no longer need fear a poverty-stricken old age and the Colonel can pay his debts and renew membership in his beloved club. But then the Colonel studies the will and discovers that, in order to get the money, he'll have to tell a lie so he refuses it.

Although it disappoints his wife and kids, a man can't bear to spend another summer in their cottage by the lake so he decides to sell the house and use the money for a long trip.

Mr. and Mrs. Pollard feel that their son-in-law, novelist Mark Davis, isn't a fit parent for their grandchild. Lawyer Ellen Reed is convinced the Pollards' charge is based on their disapproval of Mark's latest book.

Paula Marsten, who has attempted suicide and been brought to a mental hospital in a state of nervous collapse, is recognized by the head physician, Dr. King, who refuses to become involved in the case.

The story of a beloved housekeeper and nanny who doesn't want to retire.

Producer Max Liebman turns the tables and investigates the private eye. Sketches: Private Life of a Private Eye: Mike Mallet's after a thug, but his doting wife keeps getting in his way. Nairobi Safe Robbery: Simians sack a safe. The Good Old Days: A widow beseeches Percy Dovetonsils to find her husband's murderer. More Gore: The sponsor has doubts about his TV Series. Peter Legato: The star of the series is the music. Silent Movie: Nick Carter triumphs again. Musical Highlights: Conductor Charles Sanford ""Chase"" Ballet (""Son of Drum Suite:) ..... Buzz Miller Vocalise: Debussy Preludes ............... Edie Adams ""Girl Friday"" ............................ Pat Carroll

Charlie Gordon, a retarded man working in a bakery, is made a genius through medical technology.

In “The Mating Machine,” we meet four people involved with such a gadget — Geraldine Brooks, who runs it; Diana Lynn, as a waitress who mistakes Miss Brooks’ office for an employment agency: John Ericson, as a physicist who thinks he needs a wile, selected scientifically, and George Grizzard, as a disbeliever, They are all thrown together a bit too concidentally, but after that, it is every man (and woman) for himself (or herself).

A woman hears a mysterious message in another woman's voice on a Bach tape she's listening to.

A woman decides to put an end to the marital bliss of her ex-husband and his new wife.

Sue Dulaney and Gordon Killman go out for a drink, and on the way home, Gordon runs another car off the road. He calls the police but refuses to give his name.

Phyllis and Arthur Bannister, teachers at Thoreau College, receive a real shock at the faculty meeting. It's been decided that the school 'image' has got to be modernized and a Madison Avenue expert is hired to do the job.

Romance blossoms between a lovely Soviet guide and an American Senator's son, despite objections from their families.

Russell Hampshire hasn't spent much time with his son Teddy during summer vacation, but the youngster has found a substitute--Captain Walker, a retired airline pilot.

Twelve-year-old Jeff Wheeler, whose father is an Army doctor stationed in Germany, wants to prove to the old man that he is self-reliant so he sneaks into the attic at night to make a pipe rack for him.

Paul Gardiner, Latin teacher at a private school, was an adopted child who never bothered to inquire who his real parents were. But now his snobbish future mother-in-law insists that he learn their identities before he gets married.

Caring for her elderly invalid husband is a lonely task for Francie Broderick, and when a truck driver named Charlie Williams barges into her life, she sees him as her salvation.

Margot Forrester, a young mother of two small children and an active participant in her community's social life, has been told that she has a serious heart defect, which even surgery may not correct.

A young man with a speech impediment who is having a hard time landing his first job gets a job in the mailroom of a big company through his mother's intervention and quickly gains confidence, loses his stutter, and finds love with a young woman who works at the same company.