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  • Premiered: Jan 1955
  • Episodes: 65
  • Followers: 0
  • Ended
  • ABC (US)
  • Monday
  • Documentary

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Season 1
1x1
The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs
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Air date
Jan 17, 1955
This episode is based on the true story of the "Shooting Sheriff", Jim Roberts, who comes out of retirement to investigate a string of bank robberies.
1x2
Trouble on the Double
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Air date
Jan 24, 1955
A soon-to-deliver woman needs a doctor, but a bad storm and a train wreck conspire to keep him away. The father improvises a solution.
1x3
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Air date
Jan 31, 1955
Author Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife search for a healthy environment as she battles tuberculosis.
1x4
How Chance Made Lincoln President
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Air date
Feb 07, 1955
This episode looks at five events which resulted in Abraham Lincoln's sucessful election.
1x5
I'll Pick More Daisies
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Air date
Feb 14, 1955
A middle-aged man, believing himself to be a failure, reviews three crucial moments from his past.
1x6
Top Secret
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Air date
Feb 21, 1955
Louie Meyer has his beloved bus declared state property by the East German police. This prompts his attempted escape from the country.
1x7
A Matter of Life and Death
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 28, 1955
A young boy considers the tradition of old Southern feuds to be distasteful. As an adult and a brain surgeon, he performs a serious operation on the grandson of his childhood enemy.
1x8
The End of Blackbeard the Pirate
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Air date
Mar 07, 1955
The infamous Blackbeard the Pirate meets his demise at the hands of Lt. Robert Maynard in a 1718 battle off the coast of North Carolina.
1x9
The American Master Counterfeiters
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 14, 1955
At the start of the twentieth century, detective William Burns helps the Secret Service find the counterfeiters of hundred-dollar bills that look just a little too good.
1x10
America's First Great Lady
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Air date
Mar 21, 1955
Pocahontas is the "great lady"in this story of the two men she loved: tobacco planter John Rolfe and Captain John Smith.
1x11
The Manufactured Clue
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 28, 1955
A private eye uses some unusual techniques to track down a girl's murderer; he's hired to manufacture clues.
1x12
Incident on the China Coast
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 04, 1955
A passenger plane on a flight from Bangkok to Hong Kong is shot down. The survivors fight for their lives while floating in the China Sea in a lifeboat. This episode is a dramatization of a true story.
1x13
How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 11, 1955
In 1911, gamblers kidnap New York Yankee's picher Charlie Faust, the man responsible for their winning streak, to keep him from playing.
1x14
Honeymoon in Mexico
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Air date
Apr 18, 1955
A Texas man and his bride from Boston celebrate their honeymoon by moving to a small Mexican to paint. Their effort to help an injured kid results in them becoming the child's parents. .. show full overview
1x15
The Great Armored Car Robbery
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Air date
Apr 25, 1955
The man who master-minded a crime finds that "going straight" can be harmful to your health.
1x16
A Million Dollar Story
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Air date
May 02, 1955
This episode dramatizizes the true story of Captain Henrik Kurt Carlsen and “The Flying Enterprise.” In 1952, the freighter encountered rough seas out of England, causing the ship to .. show full overview
1x17
Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts
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Air date
May 09, 1955
The life of composer Stephen Foster is told, from his days as a bookkeeper though his early success and tragic death.
1x18
France's Greatest Detective
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Air date
May 16, 1955
Alphonse Bertillon revolutionized the French Police's investigations by implementing scientific methods. His measuring and studying of bones and body features is credited with convicting .. show full overview
1x19
Around the Horn to Matrimony
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Air date
May 23, 1955
A man arranges for a boatload of women to travel from New York to the wild frontier town of Seattle. The purpose of the voyage was simple: women were needed for marriage.
1x20
The Anatomy of a Graft
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Air date
May 30, 1955
A naive attorney enters politics, intending to practice clean government. Unfortunately, others in positions of power do not share his idealism.
1x21
Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror
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Air date
Jun 06, 1955
Because he takes an interest in his passengers' lives, cabbie Joey White becomes involved in a maternity case and a kidnapping.
1x22
Mr. Pak Takes Over
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Air date
Jun 13, 1955
A native interpreter is assigned to an American officer during the Korean War.
1x23
My First Bullfight
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Air date
Jun 20, 1955
An American artist is drawing bullfighting posters in Mexico City. After a little too much tequiila, he feels he has what it takes to battle a bull.
1x24
Comrade Lindemann's Conscience
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 27, 1955
The methods he's used to send innocent people to prison begins to bother an assistant state's attorney in Communist East Germany.
1x25
Six Hours of Surgery
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 04, 1955
The personal problems in the lives of the surgeon and his assistants are revealed under the stress and strain of a delicate heart operation on a 16-year-old boy.
1x26 Season finale
The Baron and His Uranium Killing
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 11, 1955
A rich French baron and his wife are swindled out of money in an uranium scam.

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