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- Produced by the ABC as its television network was just getting off the ground, this program was one of the first dramatic series television to attract top-name actors and actresses. Performing plays by such authors as Poe and Thurber, cast members included current well-known performers like Julie Harris and Cloris Leachman, as well as up-and-coming talents like Marlon Brando. The series was renamed "The Play's the Thing" midway through its final season.
- An unscrupulous agent is able to sell a story by an unknown authoress to a Hollywood studio chief for big money. But he has to conceal the fact that the writer is only nine years old.
- Todays theme is Hannah.
- Marlon Brando plays a doctor forced at gunpoint to operate on a wounded gangster, played by Harry Bellaver, in this adaptation of a Henry Kane story.
- Joe McSween is a factory worker who builds a machine in his basement. The machine doesn't do anything--it just runs. Naturally, everyone thinks that it's an atomic machine and the government gets involved.
- Joe McSween is a factory worker who builds a machine in his basement. The machine doesn't do anything--it just runs. Naturally, everyone thinks that it's an atomic machine and the government gets involved. (Re-staged from Season I)
- Mr. Mummery is out to catch a cook who disappeared after poisoning her guests.
- Tim O'Halloran travels from Ireland to America for his love, Kitty Malone. He gets a job on the railroad, where he meets the leprechaun, Rory. Out of this encounter, strange and wonderful things happen for all.
- An aging spinster spins a tale of rape and changes the lives of two people.
- A busybody believes sincerely that her interference in the lives of other people is all for the best. She is perhaps mistaken.
- A misunderstanding at a small rural fair leads to a false arrest for a murder that never happened.
- In the 1600s, cowardly Sir Simon of Canterville flees a duel and seeks solace in the family castle. His ashamed father seals him in the room where he is hiding and dooms him to life as a ghost until one of his descendants performs a brave deed. Simon believes he may be saved when he meets Cuffy Williams, an American kinsman stationed with a troop of soldiers at the castle in 1943. Will this blood relative save the family honor, or will his blood be as yellow as the rest of the Cantervilles?
- A grieving man can't accept that his wife has died during childbirth. He badgers other train passengers with stories of his happy home life.
- Mae slings hamburgers in a diner on a cheap carnival midway. She's fed up with the noise and dirt and, most of all, the poverty. Although married to rollercoaster operator Chick, Mae is having an affair with another carny, Mike. Together they cook up a scheme to kill Chick in what will look like an accident, and then to collect his insurance money and make a new life for themselves. But fate intervenes.
- Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe for a bride and he's bored by the whole courtship routine. He is more interested in the estate's dairy than Alexandra's rose garden. And then he starts playing football with the tutor and Alexandra's brothers. Invite the tutor to the ball that night and watch how gracefully Alexandra dances with him.
- In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim's beating heart torments the murderer's mind.