S1 E1
Trial Run
The first episode of the series, explaining the letter anthology format. A shop girl is courted by a man whose family looks down upon her, so she feigns crassness to teach them a lesson. One of a few episodes with a laugh track.
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Season 1
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36 episodes · First aired 1953-09-20
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S1 E2
The Mirror
A spoiled and selfish woman goes without her husband to a vacation home and is tormented by a woman escaped from a mental institution which makes her confront her own mental challenges.
S1 E3
Prisoner at One O'Clock
A young man is accused of murder in a small Western town, but the sheriff's wife believes him innocent, while the townspeople form a mob to storm the jail.
S1 E4
Girl on a Flagpole
A teacher publicly opposes a candidate, only to be romanced by him, much to the chagrin of her boyfriend.
S1 E5
Turn of the Card
A shipboard con artist falls for his mark.
S1 E6
Earthquake
A man using an iron lung who has lost hope regains his will through the efforts of his wife to keep him breathing when an earthquake causes a power failure.
S1 E7
The One That Got Away
The glowing, tiresome reminisces of a wife and mother about her now-famous former beau and his devotion to her comes to a head.
S1 E8
Kid Stuff
Two widowed parents fall in love but feel their relationship might be hampered by their lively young children.
S1 E9
The Bronte Story
Charlotte Bronte struggles to cope with her controlling and oppressive father even as it interferes with her courtship with and marriage to Arthur Nicholls.
S1 E10
Thanksgiving in Beaver Run
The kidnapping of a boy by young toughs takes an unexpected turn when one of the hoodlums befriends the boy.
S1 E1130 min
Love Story
An aspiring actress falls in love with a clown and marries him, but then she's ashamed to be publicly associated with him.
S1 E12
Laughing Boy
Glass-jawed Walter Stone attempts to rescue Kay Coughlin from a purse snatcher, but he gets hurt instead. Kay nurses him back to health and asks Walter to help her get her boyfriend jealous to goad him into proposing.
S1 E13
The Faith of Chata
A little girl in a Mexican village falls desperately ill and places her faith in God through her patron saint, regardless of whether she survives or not.
S1 E14
The Night My Father Came Home
Charming holiday story about a small boy who frequents a postal station, chatting incessantly with a disillusioned laborer.
S1 E1530 min
Hotel Irritant
Corporate hotel snoop Sally Webster creates unpleasant situations in a hotel to test its operation while becoming impressed with the character and ambition of hotel clerk Newton Ralston.
S1 E16
Inga
Indomitable Inga Helborg convinces a bank president to conditionally reverse the foreclosure of the family farm and takes labor from the prison farm by which both actions she successfully demonstrates her resolute and trusting nature.
S1 E1730 min
Lady Killer
A mystery writer discovers she is marked for death.
S1 E18
Secret Answer
A spirited wife challenges the stodgy attitudes of researcher husband by refusing to respond to one of his survey questions: "If you had it to do all over again, would you marry the same person?"
S1 E19
Big Little Lie
Beverly Washburn plays a lonely schoolgirl whose decision to start a rumor about her mother turns into classroom blackmail. Jeannette Nolan portrays her stern Aunt.
S1 E20
The Hollywood Story
Madge Mason based on her prowess as a local actress in a small Iowa town goes to Hollywood and meets with only modest success but when it appears she is on verge of major success she has second thoughts about the price of fame.