Episode list

Vesley is a mid-level functionary in the Czech Communist Party. He is under intense pressure from his superior to fill his quota of men for the labor camps. His wife and doctor want him to resign. His assistant, however, has a 3rd option.

A psychological drama about a young husband who discovers that his beautiful bride is plotting his death.

A man decides to stamp out corruption in his state.

A young doctor faces a career-threatening decision when faced with an epidemic of ergot poisoning.

A chauffeur learns a secret and decides to capitalize on his knowledge through blackmail.

A farmer searches for a hidden pot of gold.

A chaplain struggles with his faith while trapped behind enemy lines with three soldiers.

A young woman working in a millinery shop falls in love in an unusual way.

Four men are trapped in a coal mine disaster resulting in the death of one of the miners. Their wives wait to learn which of their husbands survived the cave-in.

A man fleeing a robbery tries to convince a grieving mother that he was the friend of the woman's son who lost his life in Korea.

A woman's husband leaves her because of she hates children.

A young man's love almost drives him to crime.

An Englishman is dogged by tragedy.

When a woman sues a newspaper for libel, a reporter is assigned to investigate her.

A woman's fiancé asks her to trust him.

A husband is suspected of murder when his wife mysteriously disappears.

A young reporter writes a story about a policeman's widow resulting in conflict with her editor.

The life of a dysfunctional family between Christmas 1951 and Christmas 1952 is told.

Two couples live in an apartment building on different floors, one above the other. One member of each couple suffers from insomnia.

A small-town newspaper editor, who was once the star reporter for a major metropolitan daily, struggles with money problems.

The town council fires it's sole policeman because there hasn't been a crime committed in the small Maine community in more than ten years.

The son of a washed-up professional boxer tries shield his father from the neighborhood kids ridicule.

An old man searches pawnshops for the proper suit for his burial.

A young woman with pressing financial obligations reluctantly accepts a marriage proposal of a wealthy older man.

When a long-lost husband returns, a man in love with the wife contemplates murder.

A stuffy banker tries to dissuade his son from pursuing a career as a song-writer by composing a number of his own with unexpected results.

When a nine-year-old girl learns her beloved au pair plans to be married, she plots to break up the engagement so she won't have to spend time with her obnoxious parents.

A baseball team is mired in the second division until its manager follows the advice of his son's imaginary friend.

A young boy reading Robert Louis Stevenson's classic pirate story dreams of adventure and unexpectedly finds it when two strangers enter his life.

A young boy who wants a father runs away from boarding school to try to find one of his mother's ex-husbands.

A small-time gambler tries to dissuade his daughter from marrying a young man who is a ne'er-do-well like himself.

Even though the man is acquitted at his trial, a policeman knows his former childhood friend was guilty of the crime.

When a girl becomes disillusioned, her father tries to help.

A washed-up playwright, an alcoholic producer and a bitter actress set out to build a better future for themselves.

A writer composes a series of fictional magazine articles about the man she loved and lost to her best friend.

A man's shady past catches up with him.

A lieutenant in the Air Force longs to be flying aircraft rather than predicting the weather until his expertise is required when fog shrouds the airfield with aircraft aloft.

A burglar stumbles across top secret documents.

The wife of an aging physician pressures him to retire.

A pretty magazine researcher, unhappy that she's still single at 28, sets her sights on the man she wants to marry. Unfortunately, her quarry learns of her intentions and breaks off their relationship.

A soldier recently returned from Korea resents his brother's over-protectiveness.

A German war widow tracks down the American soldier that killed her husband during combat.

A new tenant concerns a mailman and his wife.