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Original Air Date: January 4, 1954
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Cast: Leatrice Joy, June Lockhart, Arthur Franz
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Title: A CASE OF IDENTITY
Original Air Date: January 11, 1954
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Title: RICHARD SAID NO
Original Air Date: January 25, 1954
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Cast: Phyllis Thaxter, John Newland
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Title: THE 17th OF JUNE
Original Air Date: February 1, 1954
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Cast: Wendell Corey
Notes: Synopsis: A little man becomes a hero during the uprisings in East Berlin on the 17th of June. Based on a series of articles in the New Yorker by Joseph Wechberg.
Title: MR. WHITTLE AND THE MORNING STAR
Original Air Date: February 8, 1954
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Cast: Elliott Nugent
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Title: OUR HEARTS WERE YOUNG AND GAY
Original Air Date: February 15, 1954
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Director: Perry Lafferty
Writer: Nathaniel Curtis
Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery (Cornelia Otis Skinner); Sally Kemp (Emily Kimbrough); Elliott Reid (Alistair Cochran); Cliff Robertson (Paul Smith); Marjorie Gateson (Mrs. Skinner); John Griggs (Mr. Otis Skinner); Earl Hammond (Henri); Lucie Lancaster (Hawkins); Michael Dreyfus (Ralph); Felix Deebank (Band Leader); Stafford Dickens (The Steward); Peter Pagan (The Guide)
Notes: Based on the autobiographical stories of Cornelia Otis Skinner and Emily Kimbrough
Title: THE LAND OF HAPPINESS
Original Air Date: February 22, 1954
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Cast: Osa Massen (Liz); Robert Wark (Erick Poulson); John Newland (Frederick Carstens); Anne Seymour (Baroness)
Notes: Synopsis: A wealthy Copenhagen girl marries a struggling young minister and goes with him to a lonley Faeroe Island near Iceland. -- Adapted from a play by Hans Peter Falk-Ronne.
Title: SUCH A BUSY DAY
Original Air Date: March 1, 1954
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Cast: Walter Hampden
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Title: THE PARADISE CAFE
Original Air Date: March 8, 1954
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Cast: Barbara Baxley, James Dunn
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Title: THE QUALITY OF MERCY
Original Air Date: March 15, 1954
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Cast: Lillian Gish
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Title: THE PINK HIPPOPOTAMUS
Original Air Date: March 22, 1954
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Cast: Oscar Homolka
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Title: MY LITTLE GIRL
Original Air Date: March 29, 1954
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Cast: James Dunn, Lee Remick
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Title: FOR THESE SERVICES
Original Air Date: April 5, 1954
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Cast: Raymond Massey, Arthur Franz, Gale Page
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Title: THE PALE BLONDE OF SAND STREET
Original Air Date: April 12, 1954
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Cast: Joan Lorring, Billy Halop
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Title: BIG BOY
Original Air Date: April 19, 1954
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Cast: Ed Begley
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Title: LOVE STORY
Original Air Date: April 26, 1954
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Cast: Geraldine Fitzgerald, John Newland, Frederick Worlock
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Title: WAGES OF FEAR
Original Air Date: May 3, 1954
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Cast: Louis Jourdan
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Title: PILGRIM'S PRIDE
Original Air Date: May 10, 1954
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Cast: Elliott Nugent, Cliff Robertson
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Title: SKYBLOCK
Original Air Date: May 17, 1954
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Cast: Zachary Scott
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Title: ONCE UPON A TIME
Original Air Date: May 31, 1954
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Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery, Peggy Ann Garner
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Title: THE PATRIOT FROM ANTIBES
Original Air Date: June 7, 1954
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Cast: Francis Lederer
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Title: THE PROMISE
Original Air Date: June 14, 1954
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Cast: Estelle Winwood, Rex Thompson
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Title: GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Original Air Date: June 14, 1954
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Cast: Roddy McDowall
Notes: Based on the Charles Dickens novel
Title: IN HIS HANDS
Original Air Date: June 28, 1954
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Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery, John Newland
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Title: THE EXPERT
Original Air Date: July 5, 1954
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Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery, Cliff Robertson
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Title: STORY ON 11th STREET
Original Air Date: July 12, 1954
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Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery
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Title: IT HAPPENED IN PARIS
Original Air Date: July 19, 1954
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Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery, Orson Bean
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Title: PATRICIA
Original Air Date: July 26, 1954
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Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery (Patricia); John Newland (Michael); Vaughn Taylor (Captain Crocker); Don Dubbins (Luke); Katherine Anderson (Mrs. Howes)
Notes: Synopsis: A society girl defies family opposition to her desire for the Bohemian life. She enters an art school and promptly falls in love with an older instructor, who rejects her attention.
Title: HOME TOWN
Original Air Date: August 2, 1954
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Cast: Cliff Robertson, Elizabeth Montgomery, John Miner, Vaughn Taylor, Anne Seymour
Frank Albertson
Notes: Synopsis: The story of a country boy who goes to the big city where he meets a super publicity man and a city-slicker girl.
Title: ABOUT SARA CAINE
Original Air Date: August 9, 1954
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Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery
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Title: INVITATION TO MURDER
Original Air Date: August 16, 1954
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Writer: Doria Folliott
Cast: John Newland (Felix); Claudia Morgan (Judith); Vaughn Taylor (Barnes); Jan Miner (Lesley); Nelson Olmsted (Rutherford); Anne Seymour (Caroline); William Neil (Williams)
Notes: Synopsis: A publisher who has received a manuscript with damaging statements about many prominent people invites the author and all of those he mentions to a party. The publisher suggest to his guests that the best method of retaliation would be for one of them to murder the author. ---- Based on the play "Distinguished Gathering" by James Parish.
Title: PERSONAL STORY
Original Air Date: August 23, 1954
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Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery
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Title: A MATTER OF LUCK
Original Air Date: August 30, 1954
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Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery
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Title: THE PEOPLE YOU MEET
Original Air Date: September 6, 1954
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Title: TEN MINUTE ALIBI
Original Air Date: September 13, 1954
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Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery, Cliff Robertson
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Title: DIARY
Original Air Date: September 20, 1954
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Title: A DREAMER OF SUMMER
Original Air Date: September 27, 1954
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Cast: Jackie Cooper
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Title: TWO WISE WOMEN
Original Air Date: October 4, 1954
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Cast: Carl Betz, Signe Hasso
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Title: AUTUMN CROCUS
Original Air Date: October 11, 1954
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Cast: Julie Haydon
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Title: THE GENTLEMAN
Original Air Date: November 1, 1954
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Cast: Donald Woods, Joan Westmore
Notes: Synopsis: A Southerner with a desire to live a normal life gets fed up with the rush and roar of New York's jungle. He leaves his job in a brokerage house and his demanding wife to return to the town where he was raised.
Title: THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Original Air Date: November 8 & 15, 1954
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Cast: Robert Ellenstein, Hurd Hatfield, Bramwell Fletcher, Mary Sinclair, Frederick Worlock
Notes: Based on the Victor Hugo novel
Title: HOMECOMING
Original Air Date: November 22, 1954
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Cast: Don Taylor, Joanne Woodward, John Lupton
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Title: JUDITH
Original Air Date: November 29, 1954
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Cast: Margaret Phillips
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Title: DR. ED
Original Air Date: December 6, 1954
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Cast: Walter Matthau
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Title: END OF A MISSION
Original Air Date: December 13, 1954
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Cast: Leslie Nielsen
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Title: DAVID COPPERFIELD
Original Air Date: December 20 & 27, 1954
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Cast: David Cole (David Copperfield); Ralph Bunker (Mr. Wickfield); Earl Montgomery (Uriah Heep); Sarah Marshall (Agnes Wickfield); Carolyn Lee (Dora); Ethel Owen (Aunt Betsey); Frederic Worlock (Mr. Spenlow); Cavada Humphrey (Jane Murdstone); J. Pat O'Malley (Mr. Micawber); Isobel Elsom (Mrs. Micawber); Anthony Kemble-Clark (Mr. Jorkins); Josephine Brown (Mrs. Crupp)
Notes: Based on the Charles Dickens novel
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