This episode is based on the true story of the "Shooting Sheriff", Jim Roberts, who comes out of retirement to investigate a string of bank robberies.
A soon-to-deliver woman needs a doctor, but a bad storm and a train wreck conspire to keep him away. The father improvises a solution.
Author Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife search for a healthy environment as she battles tuberculosis.
This episode looks at five events which resulted in Abraham Lincoln's sucessful election.
A middle-aged man, believing himself to be a failure, reviews three crucial moments from his past.
Louie Meyer has his beloved bus declared state property by the East German police. This prompts his attempted escape from the country.
A young boy considers the tradition of old Southern feuds to be distasteful. As an adult and a brain surgeon, he performs a serious operation on the grandson of his childhood enemy.
The infamous Blackbeard the Pirate meets his demise at the hands of Lt. Robert Maynard in a 1718 battle off the coast of North Carolina.
At the start of the twentieth century, detective William Burns helps the Secret Service find the counterfeiters of hundred-dollar bills that look just a little too good.
Pocahontas is the "great lady"in this story of the two men she loved: tobacco planter John Rolfe and Captain John Smith.
A private eye uses some unusual techniques to track down a girl's murderer; he's hired to manufacture clues.
A passenger plane on a flight from Bangkok to Hong Kong is shot down. The survivors fight for their lives while floating in the China Sea in a lifeboat. This episode is a dramatization of a true story.
In 1911, gamblers kidnap New York Yankee's picher Charlie Faust, the man responsible for their winning streak, to keep him from playing.
A Texas man and his bride from Boston celebrate their honeymoon by moving to a small Mexican to paint. Their effort to help an injured kid results in them becoming the child's parents. Before they know what's happened, they've become mother and father to ten orphaned children.
The man who master-minded a crime finds that "going straight" can be harmful to your health.
This episode dramatizizes the true story of Captain Henrik Kurt Carlsen and “The Flying Enterprise.” In 1952, the freighter encountered rough seas out of England, causing the ship to list severely. With their lifeboats lost, the captain refuses to leave until all the passengers and crew have been rescued.
The life of composer Stephen Foster is told, from his days as a bookkeeper though his early success and tragic death.
Alphonse Bertillon revolutionized the French Police's investigations by implementing scientific methods. His measuring and studying of bones and body features is credited with convicting over seven thousand criminals. His institution of fingerprinting was even more successful at capturing criminals.
A man arranges for a boatload of women to travel from New York to the wild frontier town of Seattle. The purpose of the voyage was simple: women were needed for marriage.
A naive attorney enters politics, intending to practice clean government. Unfortunately, others in positions of power do not share his idealism.
Because he takes an interest in his passengers' lives, cabbie Joey White becomes involved in a maternity case and a kidnapping.
A native interpreter is assigned to an American officer during the Korean War.
An American artist is drawing bullfighting posters in Mexico City. After a little too much tequiila, he feels he has what it takes to battle a bull.
The methods he's used to send innocent people to prison begins to bother an assistant state's attorney in Communist East Germany.
The personal problems in the lives of the surgeon and his assistants are revealed under the stress and strain of a delicate heart operation on a 16-year-old boy.
A rich French baron and his wife are swindled out of money in an uranium scam.
Traveling westward in a covered wagon train, the parents of six children meet their death. Their 13-year-old son is now head of the family and leads his siblings on the rest of the journey.
A Hollywood producer who's in need of cash is collecting insurance money on his forged collection of great artwork.
A 17-year-old cadet at the Royal Naval College is discharged for stealing in the dramatization of a famous British court case.
The Communist Chinese government in Beijing arrests and imprisons American English teacher/Presbyterian missionary John Hayes, claiming he is a spy. They attempt to break his spirit through starvation, solitary confinement, and sleep deprivation. When facing the so-called court headed by a supposed friend, he warns that they too will be betrayed by the Communist leaders they're now serving.
Young men wanting to serve in the U. S. Submarine Serivce endure a rigid program of training and discipline.
The true story of how a pirate forced the Pilgrims to land at Plymouth is dramatized.
The real life adventures of a young intern who spends a day working on a big city ambulance.
A young boy, dressed as one of the Three Wise Men, is being taken to school for a Christmas pageant. When the car dies, he head out on foot. Singing "Come All Ye Faithful" and dressed in a robe and crown, he brings about some small miracles along the way.
Based on actual events from December 1952, massive snowstorms trap the locomotive "City of San Francisco" and its passengers in the infamous Donner Pass.
A cargo vessel sets out from Florida, heading into the eye of a hurricane.
Each member of the choir of a small town Nebraska church were running late for practice. It proved a Divine case of multiple tardiness since the church was destroyed by a twister five minutes before practice time.
The true story of tennis star Billy Talbert's battle with diabetes is dramatized.
Dr. Van Scorebrand searches the world over for a bell that will bring faith and hope to the patients at a leprosy hospital in Okinawa.
Former Civil War leader General Oliver Otis Howard is sent by President Grant to meet with the Chief of the Apaches, Cochise, and end a 12-year war.
A woman's bequest continues to benefit the residents of her hometown years after her death.
A new teacher gets her first job in New York City and finds a classroom full of thugs and hoodlums. She moves away to return 29 years later and finds that very little has changed.
A businessman begins to crack from the pressure of running his construction business. He becomes unjustifiably suspicious of his partner.
A woman private detective, employed to defend a couple accused of grand larceny, tries to prove that the handwriting on a bank deposit slip is not that of the accused wife.
After an argument with his studious father, a sensitive 10-year-old boy feels unwanted and unloved and runs away from home.
A night court judge uses compassion in making decisions on the varied people who parade through his courtroom.
A West Point enrollee faces punishment for breaking the one of the Academy's more important rules.
The FBI is relentless in pursuing the robbers who committed a $250,000 heist.
Joe Smith, a newspaper reporter hired to cover the United Nations, decides to work over a rude Russian delegate using kindness.
A man protects a German-born shopkeeper from a crazed mob during the height of anti-German bigotry during World War I.
A movie producer marries a gorgeous but dumb showgirl. Their relationship runs into trouble when she belatedly decides to get an education.
The work of the Department of Commerce's Office of International Trade Enforcement is profiled.
A British woman acts heroically on a cargo ship during World War II.
Two teen-aged lovers announce their plans to marry and immediately face opposition from their parents.
Despite having an air-tight alibi, William Wallace, a sheepish husband, is brought to trial for the murder of his shrewish wife. When Wallace's union is asked for financial help, they first stage a mock trial before deciding to back him. The real-life jury, however, is not so easily convinced.
A young first mate on a Tennessee riverboat deals with an unweildly crew of oddballs and misfits.
A Harvard grad student's dreams reveal the winning horses in upcoming races. He fights the overpowering urge to sell this skill for riches.
French General Henri Giraund plans a daring escape from a Nazi prision in this dramatization of a true story.
A smooth-talking con man buys and operates the Bank of Portugal using five million dollars in counterfeit currency.
A broken water pipe is the straw that breaks the camel's back for an New York taxpayer. He forms a citizens' committee and takes on corrupt officials in the local government.
A Greek janitor struggles to raise money so his family can join him in America. His co-workers at a U.S. Naval depot come to his aid.
An painter being held as an East German political prisoner plans an escape from a Communist prision, and his guard chooses to flee with him.
An oriential drug ring demands a Norwegian sailor help smuggle opium into the United States.