George Hogan, undefeated middleweight champion of the world, retires from the ring. But new champion Eddie Seaboard wants him to force him out of retirement and taunts him in front of his young son. When Hogan refuses to fight, the youngster loses faith in his father.
Gunfighter Buchanan Smith's job is to get rid of a gang of outlaws.
Professor Arthur Barris is unsympathetic when Jack Evans, an Army veteran and a father, falls behind in his grades. Barris refuses to allow for Evans' adjustment from Army to college life. But Jack's mother, with womanly charm, intervenes.
After killing a man in a drunken brawl, wagonmaker Joe Turner swears that he will never drink again. Joe and his wife settle in a small town hoping to start a new life. But the vicious town boss starts a campaign to drive the Turners out of town.
J. Willingham Bardley is a staid and refined businessman with an eye on the presidency of his firm, until he is shaken by the arrival of a mischievous imp.
Adapted from the Christopher La Farge story.
Katherine Belmont, a tyrannical society woman, casually meets Dr. Mark Andrews. He believes her caustic attitude is caused by a fear that she is losing her sight, and persuades her to undergo a cornea-transplant operation.
Based on Charles Dickens story, "A Christmas Carol."
A boy is disillusioned by Christmas and runs away from home. He meets a man who narrates "A Christmas Carol", by Charles Dickens, but sets the story in the Old West.
Adapted from the Sholem Asch story.
Eight-year-old Frankie Morgan is terrified when his father collapses at the controls of the private plane he was piloting. Since there is no one else aboard, the little boy attempts desperately to maneuver the plane. A dispatcher at an airport intercepts the youngster's distress signal and tries to instruct the boy in landing the aircraft.
A happily married couple is separated when the husband is called to Cairo on a business trip. His letters to his wife tell her constantly of his devotion and she lives for his return. But the man is killed in a plane crash, and the wife, overcome with grief, turns her affairs over to her attorney. The attorney learns a startling fact about the husband's letters.
On the eve of an election, a frontier sheriff discovers that he is losing his hearing. Hoping that the lawless faction of the town will not learn of his affliction, he continues to campaign for office.
Adapted from the Jerome Weidman story.
A woman is trying to nurse her desperately ill husband back to health, and finds herself faced with a powerful temptation when an author-friend of theirs comes to visit. Long in
love with her, the author offers her a life of ease and luxury, something she knows she can never find with her husband.
Todays theme is Incident.
Edith Miller is convinced that she has seen an ancient limousine-taxi and its driver. She decides to go to a psychiatrist for help when she also becomes convinced that people of another era are connected with the car.
Second and concluding part. In last week's episode Edith Miller sought the help of a psychiatrist when she became convinced that she had seen an ancient limousine-taxi and its driver. In part two the psychiatrist convinces Edith that she must ride in the ancient vehicle. He feels that this is the only way to cure her of her hallucination.
Adapted from the R.E. Connell story.
A roving peddler becomes stranded in a rural community in the deep South. Attempting to make some money, he approaches a shack in the backwoods, convinced he can sell something to the tenants. Appalled by the pitiable existence of the family he meets, he finds himself performing the first unselfish deed of his life.
Returning home from work early on evening, a husband surprises his wife with another man. The husband demands a divorce and the two men fight. During the struggle the husband is killed and the wife and her friend try to establish an alibi.
A man is found clinging to a piece of driftwood off the New England coast. He is taken in by a farmer to help with the harvest, but he knows nothing of farm work and is terrified by the tractor.
An alcoholic reaches the bottom one night. Six weeks later, he is recovering and begins helping other alcoholics who believe they have nowhere to turn.
Todays theme is The Cold Touch.
When her daughter marries and goes to England, a widow decides that the time has come to set her life straight. She returns to the town where she lived when she was young and confesses to the murder of her husband, who had died there years before.
Stella Rutledge, traveling to the new frontier of the West, accepts temporary lodging with the Gaines family when the stagecoach breaks down. Noting the isolated family's hunger for news she entertains the two youngsters with tales about her former home, a Southern plantation, and discovers the girl plans to run away from home.
Benedict Arnold Brummel admits that he is a humorless stuffed shirt. But his routine life as a junior executive is suddenly changed one morning when it is announced in a New York gossip column that he is romancing the glamorous movie star Roselle King.
Adam Tenney is on the road to Virginia to deliver a wagonload of flour when he loses his town's income from the flour in a poker game.
The story of a young sailor who sees a pretty teenager struck by an older man in a railroad station. He restrains the man and the girl flees. Later he overtakes the girl and learns that the man is her foster father and she has run away because of his cruelty to her.