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- A widow rents a cottage and forms a friendship with the ghost of the previous owner.
- A one-hour television version of "Phone Call from a Stranger", with Bette Davis repeating her film role.
- 'Smoke Jumpers' of the U.S. Forest Service battle a raging fire in Montana that ends in tragedy.
- Tom Jeffords helps an Apache and becomes blood brother to the great Apache chief Cochise. Jeffords falls in love with a beautiful woman of Cochise's tribe, Sonseeahray, but the greed and racism of the local white community bring tragedy to Jeffords and the Apache.
- A quiet New England household is disrupted by an invasion of art dealers who take an unexpected interest in a painting owned by one of the servants.
- Based on the movie of the same title. A powerful drama about a lynch mob that takes the law into its own hands.
- During World War 2, a former concert pianist working for British Intelligence is captured by the Nazis. Under torture, he reveals vital secret information - unaware that it was false.
- Based on the screenplay by 'Philip Dunne', from the play by John P. Marquand and George S. Kaufman, based on the novel by Marquand. The daughter of a socially prominent family rebels against her father's snobbery when he opposes her marriage to a young man from the wrong side of the tracks. Following the production, a behind-the-scenes look at a screen test being made. The test, in which Joseph Cotten performs, is for 15-year-old Susan Luckey, who happily is given a contract by the studio. Also appearing is Fox casting director W.L. Gordon. Following that, a look at scenes from the forthcoming Fox feature Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955), starring Jennifer Jones and Robert Stack. The behind-the-scenes portion of the programme was written by Henry Taylor and directed by Joe Parker.
- Germans hope to get secret information from a man whose code name is Cicero.
- (1955) Cameron Mitchell, William Gargan, Sylvia Sidney, Vera Miles. A mentally and emotionally disturbed young man...
- A detective is assigned to a case of murder of the wrong victim. During the investigation he finds himself taking a more than professional interest in the intended victim, the mysterious Laura.
- 1955–195746mPG6.0 (323)TV EpisodeOne Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this is nothing to the stir he causes by announcing that he is not merely a make-believe St. Nick, but the real McCoy. The production is followed by a preview of scenes from the Fox feature film The Rains of Ranchipur, starring Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, and Michael Rennie. This behind-the-scenes portion was produced and directed by Joe Parker.
- "An outlaw's son is torn between affection for his father and his own belief in law and order. While riding with the outlaw band, he is captured and imprisoned, then learns the gang abandoned his wife to die, leaving his newborn son homeless. Furious, he turns against the gang and joins forces with the law" (TV guide, April 4, 1956. Following the drama, scenes from the forthcoming film _Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The (1956)_ are introduced by Fredric March, who also talks with Joseph Cotten).
- The story of an English family during the momentous years that followed the death of Queen Victoria.
- An American army officer is stationed in Japan. After a devastating earthquake hits the country, he and his wife end up adopting an orphaned Japanese girl. Not long afterward the officer is transferred to Hawaii, and there he discovers that his commanding officer is severely prejudiced against the Japanese. The officer is afraid to stand up to his CO's racism, much of it directed at his new daughter, because of concerns it may hurt his career. Complications ensue.
- A dramatization of the great Chicago fire, featuring Mrs. O'Leary's cow, and the political and romantic rivalry of the O'Leary brothers. The brothers want different things for the city, but they have the same woman in their sights.
- A newspaperman has a tough decision. Which is more important, the safety of a kidnapped child or keeping the public informed?
- How can some high strung frogmen accomplish their mission when they don't really get along?
- Jimmy Ringo does not always want to live up to his reputation as the fastest gun in the West. But this kind of reputation dies hard, and affects the behaviour of all those with whom he comes into contact - or nearly all anyway.
- Story of a reporter who follows up on an ad placed by a convicted man's mother, claiming her son's innocence. Arthur Farlee is a detective in the Pasadena, California Police Department, and plays himself in the drama.
- The story of a family's reaction to the death of their son. Based on the movie "Happy Land", starring Don Ameche.
- When does a man stand and fight and when does he take his family out of harm's way? A man's stepson is the only witness in a murder trial.
- A father and his two sons are determined to prove that their American racing car is better than any of the competing cars in an important Italian race.
- The story of Miss Sherwood, a young school teacher, and how her influence over an unruly boy helped him to become a famous man.
- The story of the self-proclaimed genius, Mr. Belvedere, who takes on the task of looking after three bratty kids.
- Feeling neglected by her busy husband, a bored housewife ends up with her best friend's spouse.
- "When his young stepson is accidentally pinned under a truck, the driver frantically tries to rouse help in a nearby town. But he is caught taking equipment from a closed service station and is unable to convince anyone the boy is in trouble" (TV guide, May 16, 1956)
- Young lawyer Abraham Lincoln defends two brothers who both confessed to killing the same man.
- Carey Rydal endeavours to keep her scheming mother from being reunited with her father, having left him twenty years ago.
- John Hodges doesn't want to retire and devises a cunning scheme to avoid having to do so.
- The long-suffering wife of a kindly but not very practical man has had just about enough of her husband's money-making schemes. In order to keep the family in food she takes in boarders.
- A man employs the same ruthless authority in running the bank he founded that he imposes on his own family. His sons hate him enough to want to destroy him.
- Mae Swasey, a New York marriage broker with some interesting clients, meets pretty Christina Brady in the beauty salon of one of Mae's clients. Christina has just unhappily discovered that her boyfriend is married. Mae, who lost her own husband to another woman, convinces Christina to break up with the married man. She then plans to set Christina up with a likable --and very single-- dentist, Matt Hornbeck. But Christina, who disapproves of the marriage broker business, doesn't actually know Mae's profession. Can Mae bring the young couple together without Christina's discovering Mae's line of work?
- Lighthearted tale of an elderly counterfeiter, played by Spring Byington. Based on the movie Mister 880,in which Edmund Gwenn played the counterfeiter.
- A story of the American Civil War and its effect on an isolated Army post when men from both sides join forces to fight a common enemy - Apaches.
- How does a cop protect his family when his profession encroaches on his family life?
- In the teeth of a hurricane, the luxury yacht Magnolia receives an S.O.S. from a fishing boat in distress, but there are those on board whose urge to reach port without delay is in violent conflict with the call for help.