Episode list

A wealthy couple going thru martial woes are headed for tragedy when their 14-year-old daughter realizes that both her parents are falling apart.

The story of an unscrupulous Hollywood promoter.

Sammy's irresistible rise to Hollywood success continues.

Today: A Tribute to Eleanor Roosevelt on Her Diamond Jubilee.

Milton Berle extends his engagement at a Las Vegas night club for an extra 2 weeks along with his bandleader Ricky Ricardo. When Milton's wife gets upset at him missing their anniversary, Ricky's wife, Lucy, assists Milton in a crazy scheme to help Milton's wife forgive her. In the process, they get mixed up with 2 mobsters as hilarity ensues. This is basically a "lost" episode of "I Love Lucy."

The year is 1798. Eli Whitney (Burgess Meredith), inventor of the cotton gin, finds himself penniless, his patent stolen. He has wasted 10 years in various countries trying to obtain royalties. Determined to mold his anger into creativity, he offers to manufacture 10,000 muskets for the federal government, at $13.40 each, to be delivered in two years. Although government officials label him an "impractical dreamer," he obtains the order - proposing to make the muskets according to a new principal of interchangeable parts. Rifles had been hitherto been made stock to barrel, the parts of one gun never fitting another. He arranges the financing although the money involved, $134,000, is the biggest financial transaction in the country. Then, he designs and builds the machinery for America's first "mass production line." At the end of the first year, only 500 muskets have been turned out. The Secretary of the Treasury distrusts Whitney's unorthodox methods and fails to reply to when he asks for a $10,000 advance. His backers become worried and his friends desert him. Only Henrietta (Peggy Ann Garner), who was to become his wife, remains loyal. In desperation, Whitney seeks an interview with new President, Thomas Jefferson.

Jimmy Durante and his guests, Jane Powell, Jimmie Rodgers, Eddie Hodges and Ray Bolger pay tribute to fifty years of Broadway, including songs from early George M. Cohan musicals to the latest showstoppers such as 'You Gotta Have Heart' from "Damn Yankees" and 'I Could Have Danced All Night' from "My Fair Lady". Featured numbers include Jane Powell demonstrating her dancing skills, performing an inspiring duet with recording star Jimmie Rodgers of "It Was Mary" and displaying her talent working a player piano. Ray Bolger demonstrates his prodigious skills as a drummer.Jimmy sings "That's Entertainment" and his now signature version of "Young At Heart"

Drama based on the early career of Gore Vidal's grandfather, Senator Thomas Gore. In the early 1890s, Thomas seeks employment in the office of a Texas judge. During the interview Thomas reveals that it is his life's ambition to become a United States Senator. He also informs Judge Wingate that he is completely blind.

The dramatization of the noted LIFE magazine photographer's courageous battle against Parkinson's disease.

Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper looks back over the 30 years she has spent in Hollywood, examining the past, present and future, interviewing members of the industry and visiting their homes and studios.

An original drama about a political idealist who comes to power and is turned into a machine boss.

John Charles Fremont is known as the Pathfinder because his explorations in the 1840's opened the way to the Pacific through the uncharted wilderness of western America. This hour-long live drama tells the story of that period in Fremont's life. The play recounts the support he received from Senator Thomas Hart Benton; the devotion and understanding of Benton's daughter, who became Fremont's wife; and the achievements of Kit Carson, who served as his guide.

The rise and fall of Adolf Hitler, is chronicled in a repeat presentation of this documentary with a new prolog and epilog narrated by Frank McGee. "The Twisted Cross" is composed almost entirely of newsreel footage showing the events as they took place. The films show Hitler's early political activities and his rise to the position of dictator of Germany. Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Hess and other Nazi leaders are seen at the height of their success. There are shots of concentration camps and reconstructed scenes of victims being prepared for extermination. The final stages of the film show the disintegration of Nazi power and Hitler's last days. Alexander Scourby narrates the film.

Steve Elliott quits his job to avoid attending the office Christmas party, so it's off to the psychiatrist for him. At the psychiatrist's office, another patient, Susan Chambeth, mistakes Steve for the doctor. Smitten with her, he plays along and begins a rather unprofessional analysis of her problems.

New Englander Jabez Stone is about to lose the farm, in a fit he tells his wife that he'd sell his soul to the devil for just about two cents! And of course the devil takes him up on it. Contract in hand, he offers Jabez the customary irresistible terms, seven years of good fortune.

At age 63, Ulysses S. Grant learns he is dying of cancer. Mark Twain, his friend, remarked, "He was groping in the past to find himself, to salvage from the wreckage of his life some remnants of his self-esteem." The story unfolds in flashbacks through his illustrious life.

Joe and Jill are a young couple trying to get a referendum passed which will bring more money for schools. They lose, and decide that not only America, but their marriage has something radically wrong with it. Old librarian Doc and grocer Bill offer the wisdom of the ages and send Tony back into the fray.

A psychological drama written by Alfred Bester. When Mario's Giant Variety Show & One-Ring Circus loses its star with the death of Gerard the Great, Peter, the architect son of Gerard who knows the act, is asked by Mario to join the traveling troupe temporarily. While Peter is trying to decide whether to become a circus illusionist, he is perplexed by the brand of illusion practiced offstage by Francesca, who was his father's assistant.

A repeat broadcast of the documentary "Life in the Thirties." Back in the Thirties, the United States was struggling to recover from the Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt instituted the New Deal, Prohibition was repealed, swing music and jitterbugging were born, the Hindenburg burned at its mooring and the decade was capped by a World's Fair in New York City. These are some of the events which are shown.

This program dramatizes the early life of Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Between scenes of a movie ("Sands of Iwo Jima") in which he appears as an extra, Pima Indian Ira Hayes recalls the horrors of the actual battle of Iwo Jima in which he forever sealed his fate in history as one of the men who raised the flag in the world-famous photograph taken during the battle.

Boris Karloff is the host for this show celebrating Hollywood musicals. Tammy Grimes and Eddie Albert spoof the denizens of this land as they sing and dance from movie musicals of different periods.