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Episode 1

60 Mins

Trial by Fire

Synopsis

A forest fire spreads with fury, threatens a town with destruction, and brands a boy a murderer.

Episode 2

60 Mins

The Secret of the Red Room

Synopsis

The technical notes say that this television drama was in black and white. But I remember its being broadcast in color, one of the very few broadcasts in color at that time. I remember because my father was trying out, on loan, a new color television set, and we saw this broadcast as a test of the color quality of the broadcast and of the set. The quality was good for this broadcast, as I recall, but not for all broadcasts.

Episode 3

60 Mins

Necessary Evil

Synopsis

When a man with the reputation of a fast gun turns up in a small New Mexico community, the townspeople, including the man's son, want no part of him. Then two brothers who have vowed revenge on the gunfighter ride into town.

Episode 4

60 Mins

Along Came a Spider

Synopsis

As she's leaving to meet her daughter at the airport, a psychoanalyst receives a phone call from one of her patients, who tells her he's just killed a man. When the two women return home the patient, who is waiting for them, pulls a gun, forces the daughter into a room, and locks the door.

Episode 5

60 Mins

Jacob and the Angels

Synopsis

A criminal lawyer makes a desperate gamble to defend a boy charged with murder. Risking his career, his love, even his health, he faces an even greater terror when he finds his own guilty conscience is on trial.

Episode 6

60 Mins

Mask for the Devil

Synopsis

Tom Gardener invites the invalid widow of a man he accidentally killed to live with himself and his wife, unaware that her facade of sweetness and gentleness conceals a scheme to destroy his marriage.

Episode 7

60 Mins

The Largest City in Captivity

Synopsis

An American newspaperman in West Berlin and an East German freedom fighter in the anti-Soviet underground are in love with the same woman, in whose apartment the freedom fighter takes refuge after being wounded.

Episode 8

60 Mins

Tunnel of Fear

Synopsis

Drama about the men who struggle to move rivers and dig tunnels.

Episode 9

60 Mins

Keep Me in Mind

Synopsis

Publicity hungry, Las Vegas lounge singer, Mike Owens stages a hoax publicity stunt making the local police and his entourage furious with him, especially his press agent. And like the little boy who cried wolf, he discovers when he actually can identify a cop-killer, the cops and the newspapers and his press agent don't believe him. But the killer knows he isn't lying and determines to kill him next.

Episode 10

60 Mins

Two Tests on Tuesday

Synopsis

A college professor tries to help an ex-GI with a history of mental illness whose anxiety over low grades caused him to cheat on his final exam.

Episode 11

60 Mins

A Matter of Life and Death

Synopsis

A man wakes up with a hangover one morning believing he is responsible for a murder. All he can remember is standing over a body holding a broken bottle in his hand. The girl in love with him is convinced he is innocent and helps him try to prove

Episode 12

60 Mins

Murder Has a Deadline

Synopsis

A ruthless gossip columnist who's been receiving threatening letters asks for police protection and then, in a panic attack, barricades himself in his apartment.

Episode 13

60 Mins

The Devil's Brood

Synopsis

Two fugitives, hoping for a life of ease and respectability, leave for Australia to buy a sheep ranch, not knowing they're being followed by a blackmailer.

Episode 14

60 Mins

Hurricane Diane

Synopsis

Among the people seeking shelter from a flood at a rundown Southern hotel are a man accused of murder, the deputy sheriff to whom he's handcuffed, a compassionate young social worker, a preacher, and the hotel owner's disturbed wife who claims she's a countess.

Episode 15

60 Mins

To Walk the Night

Synopsis

On a snowy Christmas eve, police detective Ed Brooks hopes to be able to get away early. But a call comes in that a prowler, who has murdered several women, has struck again.

Episode 16

60 Mins

Shadow of a Memory

Synopsis

A woman returns to the cottage owned by her late husband and tries to settle in, but a body is discovered in the living room and she is accused of murder.

Episode 17

60 Mins

Scream in Silence

Synopsis

Medical student tries to help depressed neighbor.

Episode 18

60 Mins

Thieves of Tokyo

Synopsis

While on the trail of a black-market ring in Tokyo, an undercover man runs across a murder. During the investigation he begins to date a pretty Japanese dancer, which upsets his American girlfriend.

Episode 19

60 Mins

Sound of the Moon

Synopsis

Facing a personal crisis on a coast-to-coast flight, an airline hostess appeals for help to a doctor on the plane, but he claims he's too busy to see her.

Episode 20

60 Mins

Burst of Fire

Synopsis

A singer orders a copy made of an antique cross for an old friend of hers, a priest. While she is in the jewelry store to pick up the cross, the store is held up by a masked gunman who steals the cross and makes his escape. The thief resembles the priest's brother. Then the third brother, a policeman, is assigned to investigate the case.

Episode 21

60 Mins

Four Hours in White

Synopsis

Trapped in a crossfire of human emotions, a hospital chief surgeon fights his own conscience to decide the fate of two men. He must weigh the possible sacrifice of one life for another. Drawing on years of experience, he defies the pressures of time and personal fear to face one crucial moment of judgment.

Episode 22

60 Mins

The Secret Love of Johnny Spain

Synopsis

Four days before his movie is to be released, singing idol Johnny Spain is killed in an airplane crash. His press agent decides he must dig up some publicity to make the up-coming movie pay-off. He pressures Julie, a young starlet, to pose as Spain's secret love.

Episode 23

60 Mins

Albert Anastasia, His Life and Death

Synopsis

The story of Murder Inc. and the 1957 barber shop rub-out of mob czar Albert Anastasia. Anastasia had an appeal that belied his reputation for brutality and impetuosity. He had a sense of confidence and presence, and because he was so sure of himself he was at ease with other people.

Episode 24

60 Mins

The Thief With the Big Blue Eyes

Synopsis

In Rome, an American actor and his wife come upon an Italian street urchin who appoints himself their guardian angel and after awhile begins trying to cajole them into adopting him permanently.

Episode 25

60 Mins

So Deadly My Love

Synopsis

While on a date with her boyfriend a woman runs into her erratic estranged husband. Later that night two ruffians beat up the boyfriend and kidnap the woman.

Episode 26

60 Mins

The Great World and Timothy Colt

Synopsis

A large Manhattan law firm hires the tireless dedicated Timothy Colt, the young lawyer. As he rises in the firm the opportunity to see the conflict between ethics and ambition are upon him. His disillusionment and the constant dishonesty shakes him to his foundations of belief against the bitter cynical conquest of his new great world.

Episode 27

60 Mins

On the Take

Synopsis

In trying to clean up the local bookmakers, the Washington, D.C. Police department becomes convinced that members of the force are accepting payoff money. Lt. Todd Thoman is assigned the task of discovering the crooked cops.

Episode 28

60 Mins

The Volcano Seat

Synopsis

This true story involving the crew of an in-air refueling operation for Air Force bombers who take a training team on a dangerous mission. RAF Flight Lieutenant MacKenzie Barton is assigned to an American Air Force base as a result of an exchange of pilots between the RAF and the U.S. Air Force. Barton receives orders to pilot an Air Force tanker--a plane which is capable of refueling jet bombers in mid-air. But in trying to gain the confidence of the American crew members, Barton encounters only resentment. The story is based on an actual experience.

Episode 29

60 Mins

Shooting for the Moon

Synopsis

Engineer Frank Colby and his staff have developed a nose cone capable of launching into outer space.

Episode 30

60 Mins

The Deadly Tattoo

Synopsis

A detective is assigned to investigate a series of murders in which the killer left a heart-shaped tattoo on each of his victims.

Episode 31

60 Mins

The Big Success

Synopsis

Leo Carson a businessman who worked his way up from machinist's helper to owner of a million-dollar business. He realizes too late that the important things in life, his family have chosen destructive lifestyles and his own mistakes have caused harm to everyone else.

Episode 32

60 Mins

The Disappearance of Daphne

Synopsis

A young heiress marries a dancer after a whirlwind courtship, but soon comes to suspect he's responsible for the mysterious disappearance of his former dancing partner.

Episode 33

60 Mins

Time of the Hanging

Synopsis

In Texas, during the 1880's, cattlemen resent the intrusion of homesteaders on their grazing lands. When cattleman Mannon Tate's brother is sentenced to hang for the murder of a homesteader, Tate makes a desperate attempt to prevent the execution. Believing the sheriff is allied with the farmers, Tate takes him and his wife hostage.

Episode 34

60 Mins

The Push-Button Giant

Synopsis

A song plugger making his daily rounds meets an attractive young singer in a recording executive's waiting room and, by passing himself off as her manager, begins climbing to the top of the music world.

Episode 35

60 Mins

Spider Web

Synopsis

JosÃ© Aragon, wealthy Texas cattleman, is on a cattle-buying expedition on the Mexican border. After a gueling day looking over the stock, Aragon returns to his hotel, tired and dirty. A beautiful young woman sees Aragon enter the hotel, and, because of his unkempt appearance, believes he is one of the local peasants. She approaches him and asks him to do her a favor. Amused when she offers him five dollars for the errand, Aragon consents to cross the border and pick up a package for her.

Episode 36

60 Mins

House of Doubt

Synopsis

When she loses her job, Gwen Dacres seeks economical lodgings in a boarding house run by a mysterious old woman, Mrs. Garr. Strange noises and incidents disturb Gwen's peace of mind. Gwen is attacked and Mrs. Garr disappears and is later found dead. Gwen starts to investigate and uncovers a twenty year old mystery.

Episode 37

60 Mins

Cabin B-13

Synopsis

Shortly after Ann and Robert Brewster board a luxury liner for their honeymoon cruise, Robert disappears with the fortune he received as a wedding present from Ann. Ann reports her husband's disappearance to the captain. To her astonishment he informs her that there is no record of either herself or her husband as passengers, and that the cabin number she has given is non-existent.