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Season 8

36 episodes · 1958

  1. 1

    A Thing to Fight For

    Sep 26, 195830 min

    A peace-loving Civil War veteran seeks refuge from the violence of war as overseer on a Florida plantation.

  2. 2

    The Best House in the Valley

    Oct 3, 195830 min

  3. 3

    The Hasty Hanging

    Oct 10, 195830 min

    A man and his wife are sentenced to hang without a trial.

  4. 4

    The Four

    Oct 17, 195830 min

  5. 5

    The Trouble With Ruth

    Oct 24, 195830 min★ 8.2

    Not even her husband knows that Ruth Elliot is a kleptomaniac. But hoodlum Joseph Libo finds out about her illness and threatens to tell her husband unless she helps him carry out a robbery.

  6. 6

    The Connoisseur

    Oct 31, 195830 min

  7. 7

    False Impression

    Nov 7, 195830 min★ 8.0

    A crippled dental technician falls in love with a pretty girl who refuses to have anything to do with him. He decides to steal a fortune in jewels in order to force the girl to overlook his physical handicap and marry him.

  8. 8

    A Game of Hate

    Nov 14, 195830 min

  9. 9

    Last Edition

    Nov 21, 195830 min

    Newspaper editor Sheldon Black is being shoved aside for the publisher's slimy protégé, Dean Lowell, who passed Black's ideas off as his own. Before exiting, Black orders Lowell to cover the execution of a condemned man that Lowell was friends with in the war. If the reptile Lowell had been willing to soil his "war hero" reputation and testify, he could have saved the man from the electric chair. Instead, he remains quiet and turns in quite a news story.

  10. 10

    Coney Island Winter

    Nov 28, 195830 min★ 7.4

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    Third Son

    Dec 5, 195830 min

    The youngest brother is torn between whether to follow in the footsteps of his brother who is a frontier marshal or the other one who is a dashing gambler.

  12. 12

    Drive a Desert Road

    Dec 12, 195830 min

  13. 13

    No Answer

    Dec 19, 195830 min

    A swindler who's known for separating rich widows from their money is the lead suspect in the murder of this latest "pigeon." His alibi seems pretty air tight: he was with the investigating cop when the murder supposedly took place.

  14. 14

    Small Wonder

    Dec 26, 195830 min

  15. 15

    A Fistful of Love

    Jan 2, 195930 min

    Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.

  16. 16

    The Deadly Guest

    Jan 9, 195930 min

  17. 17

    You Can't Win 'Em All

    Jan 16, 195930 min★ 7.2

    A professional football player refuses to admit that his playing days are over.

  18. 18

    And Practically Strangers

    Jan 30, 195930 min

    From childhood Alan Mitchell has always felt his abilities and achievements overshadowed by those of his younger brother Hugh. When Hugh requisitions Alan to work with him on a nuclear bomb project it puts an additional strain on their already tense relationship.

  19. 19

    Death Trap

    Feb 6, 1959

  20. 20

    The Man Who Had No Friends

    Feb 13, 1959

    Champion Barry Brannon retires from a successful career as a fighter and goes into the restaurant business with his long-time manager, Charlie. When Barry proposes to his girl, he finds that she is in love with Charlie.

  21. 21

    Various Temptations

    Feb 20, 1959

  22. 22

    On the Brink

    Feb 27, 1959

    Story of an intense hatred between father and son.

  23. 23

    Stand-In for Murder

    Mar 6, 1959

  24. 24

    Ivy League

    Mar 13, 1959

    After 30 years in the Marine Corps, Bull Mitchell retires and enrolls as a college freshman.

  25. 25

    Frederick

    Mar 20, 1959

  26. 26

    The Salted Mine

    Mar 27, 1959

    In the Old West, a beautiful mine owner hires a detective to discover if she has been swindled when she bought a mine.

  27. 27

    The Dreamer

    Apr 3, 1959

  28. 28

    This Will Do Nicely

    Apr 17, 1959

  29. 29

    The Case of the Two Sisters

    May 1, 1959

  30. 30

    Boy on a Fence

    May 15, 1959

  31. 31

    Mirror, Mirror

    May 29, 1959

  32. 32

    The Rumor

    Jun 5, 1959

    The guys of the billing department at Brittanica Insurance heard that one of them is about to be let go. After breaking up with his girlfriend-of-the-week, office playboy Eddie shoots off his mouth and says he's gonna quit and leave town. Of course, he reconsiders as soon as he meets another woman.

  33. 33

    The Miss and the Missiles

    Jun 12, 1959

  34. 34

    Hostage

    Jun 19, 1959

    A motorcycle cop becomes hostage to a cold-blooded slayer who plans to use him to escape police roadblocks.

  35. 35

    Cowboy Five Seven

    Jul 17, 1959

    This dramatization was about a typical day in the lives of the men of SAC, was made by Stewart, a reserve officer in the air force, at Westover (Mass.) Air Base. No professional actors are used; officers and enlisted men and their families portray themselves.

  36. 36

    A Ballad to Die By

    Jul 31, 1959

    Rancher Anna Carrick hires singing cowboy Johnny Guitar to play at her wedding. Johnny soon learns that Anna is to marry a killer against her will.