Episode 1
The Pillars of Midnight
1958-09-14
A smallpox outbreak hits an English city.
TV season
1958-09-14
Episode 1
1958-09-14
A smallpox outbreak hits an English city.
Episode 2
1958-09-21
Episode 3
1958-09-28
An elderly woman and her spinster niece are accused of kidnapping.
Episode 4
1958-10-05
Racing driver Raymond Sibley faces dangers both on and off the track as he competes in the famous Le Mans twenty-four hour race.
Episode 5
1958-10-12 • 60 min
Senior officials in the British, American and Russian governments all receive the same cryptic and unsigned message - "I Can Destroy The Sun". What can it mean?
Episode 6
1958-10-19
This is a performance of the play "The Time of Your Life" that was telecast on British television.
Episode 7
1958-10-26
Episode 8
1958-11-02
Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, the youth kills an enemy of Brookfield's while under the trance. No one believes Brookfield's protestations that Thorne is innocent of any murderous intent, so Brookfield teams up with retired lawyer Martin Prentice in hopes of saving the young man from the gallows.
Episode 9
1958-11-09
Just after a young unknown American becomes the first on the Moon returns, he dies in an accident. He's laid to rest with full honours, but only the president and a few high officials know just what sort of a man their hero was.
Episode 10
1958-11-16
A black comedy in which Mr Potz, a rich man who longs to die, hires his own assassin. He chooses Miss Higgins, an eccentric author of detective fiction, to carry out the grim task.
Episode 11
1958-11-23 • 60 min
Episode 12
1958-11-30
Episode 13
1958-12-07 • 60 min
A bereaved mother, Jessie Dean, steals a baby belonging to a mother who had wanted her child adopted.
Episode 14
1958-12-14 • 60 min
A new magistrate takes up a post in a British colony in Africa aiming to uphold justice against corruption.
Episode 15
1958-12-21 • 60 min
Episode 16
1958-12-28 • 60 min
A small construction company's new year's eve party is taken over by a crook who has intricate knowledge of the men's private lives, forcing them into an incredible bank robbery plot.
Episode 17
1959-01-04 • 60 min
An American Civil War drama in which Meade, a Confederate soldier, faces the dilemma of knowing that his brother, who is fighting on the other side, has been left to die in the course of an act of sabotage.
Episode 18
1959-01-11 • 60 min
Episode 19
1959-01-18 • 60 min
A lonely doctor with a mysterious past shies away from operating on a friendly Scottish giant aboard a storm-tossed Antarctic whaler.
Episode 20
1959-01-25
The marriage of a woman from a humble background to a rich Northern mill owner and her growing resentment at what she regards as the condescending nature of him and his family.
Episode 21
1959-02-01 • 60 min
Jack Palmer, a strong union man, is forced to confront his principles when his daughter wants to marry a black man.
Episode 22
1959-02-08 • 60 min
Ernie Barger, a senior partner in a pottery firm, initially celebrates his son's graduation but soon learns that not only is he twenty years behind the times but could also be responsible for his wife's illness.
Episode 23
1959-02-15 • 60 min
The relationship between Lewis, a young tearaway, and Charlotte, a shy girl who works in a record shop with her sick father.
Episode 24
1959-02-22 • 60 min
A cabal in an unnamed South American country pulls a coup by choosing a popular dissident as dictator. His well meant reforms are not well received, and as his marriage fails, he shows the people what a real dictator is capable of.
Episode 25
1959-03-01
A drama based on the life of Ivar Kreugar, a Swedish financier who built up a monopoly in the match industry during the 1920s.
Episode 26
1959-03-08
A group discover a famous designer and their entrepreneur sees this as a chance to have his name associated with their new production. The leading lady is outraged at the way they intend to exploit the old man.
Episode 27
1959-03-15
A courtroom drama in which a young American lawyer is accused of concealing material evidence in a murder case.
Episode 28
1959-03-22
An Italian set suspense drama in which Bruno, a visiting American criminal is introduced to Grazia, an Italian woman whose motives are mysterious by a strange cloaked figure.
Episode 29
1959-03-29
International singing star Adeline Girard is all but forgotten, then she meets a young couple who do not want to get married.
Episode 30
1959-04-05
Episode 31
1959-04-12
Episode 32
1959-04-19
The life of a young convict released on parole and torn between the needs of his family and his former criminal associates.
Episode 33
1959-04-26
Episode 34
1959-05-03
Episode 35
1959-05-10
Episode 36
1959-05-17
A satire set in the advertising industry.
Episode 37
1959-05-24
A girl who has lost her memory discovers that she is rich - a fact resented by others.
Episode 38
1959-05-31
Episode 39
1959-06-07
Episode 40
1959-06-14
Episode 41
1959-06-21
Episode 42
1959-06-28
Episode 43
1959-07-05
Episode 44
1959-07-12
Episode 45
1959-07-19
Episode 46
1959-07-26
Episode 47
1959-08-02
Episode 48
1959-08-09
Episode 49
1959-08-16
Jim Mason's wife Molly vanishes after purportedly leaving to visit her parents. When Jim calls the in-laws he has never met, he discovers she never arrived. As the mystery deepens, the police suspect Jim of a sinister crime.
Episode 50
1959-08-23
Episode 51
1959-08-30
Episode 52
1959-09-06
A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.