Telephone Time

Season 3

1957 · 29 episodes · 8.0/10

Episodes

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   1. Revenge

   10 Sept 1957

   A school teacher from Massachusetts comes to a small western town to marry a young homesteader, but finds that he's been murdered. The jury frees the murderer on a phony plea of self-defense. Determined to see justice done, she decides to stay in town as a constant irritant to the murderer's conscience. She makes him so crazy, he picks a fight with one of his friends and is killed. Dismayed by her own vengefulness, the teacher decides that justice would be better served by true social reform. She campaigns successfully for women to be selected as jurors, which results in the second murderer being convicted and sent to prison.

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   2. Here Lies Francois Gold

   17 Sept 1957

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   3. Campaign For Marriage

   24 Sept 1957

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   4. The Gadfly

   1 Oct 1957

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   5. Hole in the Wall

   8 Oct 1957

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   6. The Man the Navy Couldn't Sink

   15 Oct 1957

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   7. Under Seventeen

   22 Oct 1957

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   8. The Other Van Gogh

   29 Oct 1957

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   9. Arithmetic Sailor

   5 Nov 1957

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    10. I Get Along Without You Very Well

    12 Nov 1957

    Composer Hoagy Carmichael relates the story of a song inspired by an anonymous poem, I get along without you very well. The year is 1938. Hoagy is asked to write a song to be introduced on Dick Powell's radio show. While going through his files, Hoagy discovers a nearly forgotten poem and promises a melody for it. He remembers little about the source of the poem except that a girl gave it to him at a college sorority party several years before. But the lyricist must grant permission before the music can be cleared for use on the radio. There ensues a desperate nation-wide search, aided by the broadcasts of Walter Winchell to find the author before air time.

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    11. Alice's Wedding Gown

    19 Nov 1957

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    12. The Rescue

    26 Nov 1957

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    13. Novel Appeal

    3 Dec 1957

    An author frees an innocent man from prison.

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    14. Sam Houston's Decision

    10 Dec 1957

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    15. The Frying Pan

    17 Dec 1957

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    16. A Picture of the Magi

    24 Dec 1957

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    17. Death of a Nobody

    31 Dec 1957

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    18. Abby, Julia and the Seven Pet Cows

    7 Jan 1958

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    19. Cavalry Surgeon

    14 Jan 1958

    The story of a military surgeon who in a moment of crisis has to perform an action repugnant to his very nature. The story of a cavalry skirmish in the Mexican War and of two men who fought with different philosophies and methods toward the same end. One lived heroically and one died a hero.

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    20. A Stubborn Fool

    21 Jan 1958

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    21. Flight for Life

    28 Jan 1958

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    22. The Immortal Eye

    4 Feb 1958

    A baby is born with an incurable ailment, and given only three months to live. The young mother decides that when the baby dies, its eyes must be donated to the eye bank.

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    23. Recipe for Success

    11 Feb 1958

    Renowned chef Henri Charpentier--the man who invented Crepes Suzette--recalls the "good old days" with famed actress Sarah Bernhardt. He recalls for her how he went from being one of the world's most famous--and richest--chefs to his situation now, with his business gone and his once considerable fortune dissipated.

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    24. The Checkered Flag

    18 Feb 1958

    Story of an unsung racing mechanic who because of a club foot, has never dared to race himself. All he needed was the confidence in himself to succeed. Based on the true story of Bud and Gina Hand.

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    25. The Vestris

    25 Feb 1958 · 8.0/10

    In the spring of 1828, the bark Vestris, is 16 days out enroute from England to Boston. The weather is fair, but the captain's ailing wife suddenly has a vision telling her (in a message written on a blackboard) to have the ship change course. At first the captain refuses, but when the weather changes and his wife becomes sicker, he reluctantly agrees. As a result, they find and rescue three survivors of a shipwreck. One of the three is a doctor, and appears to be the ""spirit"" seen by the wife. He saves her life. As it turns out, the message on the blackboard is in his handwriting. Curiously, the doctor is as puzzled as everyone else by the wife's vision.

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    26. War Against War

    4 Mar 1958

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    27. The Quality of Mercy

    11 Mar 1958

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    28. Man of Principle

    25 Mar 1958

    Hiero II, king of ancient Syracuse, orders a gold crown to be made as an offering to the gods. The gold is delivered to a goldsmith and the man's wife persuades him to substitute silver for some of the gold.

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    29. Trail Blazer

    1 Apr 1958