Season 3

1. The Plot to Kill Stalin

1958-09-25 · 90m

In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with anti-Semitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.

2. Days of Wine and Roses

1958-10-02 · 90m

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

3. The Time of Your Life

1958-10-09 · 90m

William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the characters drift in and out of the bar and each other's lives, giving voice to Saroyan's philosophies as they randomly comment about the impending world war, the beauty of art, and traditional notions of good and evil.

4. The Long March

1958-10-16 · 90m

5. Shadows Tremble

1958-10-23 · 90m

An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.

6. Word from a Sealed-Off Box

1958-10-30 · 90m

A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.

7. Heart of Darkness

1958-11-06 · 90m

A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.

8. Old Man

1958-11-20 · 90m

To fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts.

9. The Return of Ansel Gibbs

1958-11-27 · 90m

After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.

10. Free Weekend

1958-12-04 · 90m

11. Seven Against the Wall

1958-12-11 · 90m

The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.

12. The Nutcracker

1958-12-25 · 90m

This telecast of George Balanchine's famous production was broadcast only four years after it was premiered by the New York City Ballet. This was the only episode of the series televised in color.

13. Face of a Hero

1959-01-01 · 90m

14. The Wings of the Dove

1959-01-08 · 90m

An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.

15. The Blue Men

1959-01-15 · 90m

16. The Velvet Alley

1959-01-22 · 90m

Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.

17. A Quiet Game of Cards

1959-01-29 · 90m

A few friends meet each weekend for a quiet game of cards. But they're bored with poker and, in trying to find another diversion, gradually find themselves plotting a hypothetical murder. It is hypothetical, isn't it?

18. Child of Our Time

1959-02-05 · 90m

War deprives Tanguy of his childhood. When his mother returns to Spain to oppose the Franco regime, he is left in Nazi-occupied Marseilles, France.

19. The Second Man

1959-02-12 · 90m

20. The Raider

1959-02-19 · 90m

A corporate raider plans a hostile takeover. To stall him, pressure is put on a scientist to rush through a new type of engine before all necessary tests have been completed.

21. The Ding-A-Ling Girl

1959-02-26 · 90m

A housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her.

22. Made in Japan

1959-03-05 · 90m

A young soldier in occupied Japan after World War II falls in love with a lovely Japanese girl, but is horrified about what his prejudiced family in Philadelphia will think if he takes her home with him.

23. For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1

1959-03-12 · 90m

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.

24. For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2

1959-03-19 · 90m

The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.

25. A Trip to Paradise

1959-03-26 · 90m

26. In Lonely Expectation

1959-04-02 · 90m

27. The Day Before Atlanta

1959-04-09 · 90m

28. Judgment at Nuremberg

1959-04-16 · 90m

In the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice.

29. A Corner of the Garden

1959-04-23 · 90m

30. Dark December

1959-04-30 · 90m

During World War II, an army doctor struggles to convert a Franciscan monastery into a field hospital.

31. Diary of a Nurse

1959-05-07 · 90m

The daily emergencies and stresses of a major city's hospital ward as seen through the eyes of nurse Gail Lucas.

32. A Marriage of Strangers

1959-05-14 · 90m

Marry in haste, repent at leisure? Well, maybe.

33. Out of Dust

1959-05-21 · 90m

On a cattle drive across the prairie, the sons of a wealthy cattle baron plot his death.

34. The Rank and File

1959-05-28 · 90m

A powerful union leader is interrogated by a Senate committee. Testifying before a Senate, William Kilcoyne tells the story of his career. He began as a factory worker and his shrewdness and ambition carried him up through the ranks to his present position as head of a large union.

35. The Killers of Mussolini

1959-06-04 · 90m

As the Salo Republic crumbles around him, Mussolini, along with his mistress and several of his ministers flee with retreating Nazi soldiers, but are caught at the town of Dongo by red partisans. All are brutally executed without trial.

36. Project Immortality

1959-06-11 · 90m

Key defense scientist Doner has cancer. Schramm is assigned to code Doner's thinking into a computer. He gets to know him as a friend, a husband and father. The project is successful, but he now knows identity is not programmable.

37. Dark as the Night

1959-06-18 · 90m

A British politician finds himself open to blackmail because of the indiscretion of his American wife.

38. The Second Happiest Day

1959-06-25 · 90m

A man about to be married recalls the day his life changed permanently.