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Season: 1

Episode: 1

The Long Goodbye

Air Date:07/10/1954

Private Detective Philip Marlowe decides to help out a friend Lennox when his wife is found brutally murdered. Marlowe winds up in jail accused of her murder and tries to solve the case after his release.

Crew

Name: E. Jack Neuman

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

Name: William H. Brown Jr.

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Teresa Wright

Character: Eilene Wade

Department: Acting

Name: Dick Powell

Character: Philip Marlowe

Department: Acting

Name: Tom Drake

Character: Terry Lennox

Department: Acting

Name: Tristram Coffin

Character: The Body

Department: Acting

Name: Cesar Romero

Character: Mendy Mendez

Department: Acting

Name: Horace McMahon

Character: Detective

Department: Acting

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Episode: 2

The Thirteenth Chair

Air Date:14/10/1954

When his friend is murdered, Edward Wales sets out to capture the killer. He stages a seance and invites 13 people, any one of who may have killed the dead man, but it ends in chaos when the killer strikes again during a blackout.

Crew

Name: Allen Reisner

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Walter Newman

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: John Alvin

Character: Sir Roscoe Crosby

Department: Acting

Name: Dennis O'Keefe

Character: Inspector Marney

Department: Acting

Name: Ethel Barrymore

Character: Mme. Rosalie La Grange

Department: Acting

Name: Arthur Franz

Character: Dick Crosby

Department: Acting

Name: Lamont Johnson

Character: Lionel Trent

Department: Directing

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Episode: 3

Casino Royale

Air Date:21/10/1954

American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions. The first dramatization of a James Bond novel.

Crew

Name: Charles Bennett

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

Name: William H. Brown Jr.

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Ian Fleming

Role: Novel

Department: Writing

Name: Antony Ellis

Role: Teleplay

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Barry Nelson

Character: Jimmy Bond

Department: Acting

Name: Peter Lorre

Character: Le Chiffre

Department: Acting

Name: Michael Pate

Character: Clarence Leiter

Department: Acting

Name: Linda Christian

Character: Valerie Mathis

Department: Acting

Name: Eugene Borden

Character: Chef de Parte

Department: Acting

Name: Jean Del Val

Character: Croupier

Department: Acting

Name: Kurt Katch

Character: Zoltan

Department: Acting

Name: Gene Roth

Character: Basil

Department: Acting

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Episode: 4

Sorry, Wrong Number

Air Date:04/11/1954

A neurotic invalid whose only contact with the outside world is her phone. One night, because of a crossed wire, she hears plans for a murder which turns out to be her own. Her frantic efforts to get help and her growing terror and realisation of the truth chill you to the bone.

Crew

Name: Allen Reisner

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Don Brodie

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Paul Guilfoyle

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Nestor Paiva

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Paula Winslowe

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Shelley Winters

Character: Leona Stevenson

Department: Acting

Name: Robert B. Williams

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Paul Picerni

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Lillian Bronson

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 5

The Gioconda Smile

Air Date:11/11/1954

The death of his crippled wife causes upheaval for the husband and his mistress. Only his family friend believes in his innocence.

Guest Stars

Name: Dorothy McGuire

Character: Janet Spence

Department: Acting

Name: Eduard Franz

Character: Dr. James Lifford

Department: Acting

Name: Franchot Tone

Character: Henry Hutton

Department: Acting

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Episode: 6

The After House

Air Date:25/11/1954

A steward aboard a yacht thinks his job is easy sailing until the dream voyage turns into a nightmare. The ship's officer is thrown overboard and another is hacked to death who is next.

Guest Stars

Name: Patricia Medina

Character: Laura

Department: Acting

Name: Steve Cochran

Character: Ralph Leslie

Department: Acting

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Episode: 7

An Error in Chemistry

Air Date:02/12/1954

A carnival huckster ingratiates himself with an elderly farmer and his naïve daughter; she soon falls for her new suitor and marries him, only to wind up dead shortly afterwards, the husband quick to confess.

Crew

Name: David Dortort

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

Name: William H. Brown Jr.

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Edmond O'Brien

Character: Joel Flint

Department: Acting

Name: Margaret Field

Character: M'liss

Department: Acting

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Episode: 8

Epitaph for a Spy

Air Date:09/12/1954

An unsuspecting Iron Curtain refugee is used as a pawn by two French traitors while he is at a resort in France.

Crew

Name: Allen Reisner

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: David O'Brien

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Marjorie Lord

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Edward G. Robinson

Character: Josef Vadassy

Department: Acting

Name: Melville Cooper

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Sheila Bromley

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Hilda Plowright

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Ivan Triesault

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 9

The White Carnation

Air Date:16/12/1954

A woman receives some mysterious white carnations, which seem to be an innocent gift but lead to terror.

Crew

Name: Jack Smight

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: John Frankenheimer

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Raymond Chandler

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

Name: Don Medford

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Boris Karloff

Character: Dr. Philip Nestri

Department: Acting

Name: Claudette Colbert

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Teresa Wright

Character: Lorna Baylor

Department: Acting

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Episode: 10

Nightmare in Copenhagen

Air Date:30/12/1954

Thru romantic eyes she knew not what he was.

Guest Stars

Name: Lilia Skala

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 11

The Bigger They Come

Air Date:06/01/1955

Private investigators Cool and Lam become involved in this suspenseful tale of thugs, thieves and legal chicanery.

Guest Stars

Name: Jane Darwell

Character: B. Cool

Department: Acting

Name: Art Carney

Character: Donald Lam

Department: Acting

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Episode: 12

Escape From Fear

Air Date:13/01/1955

An American engineer in Germany crosses over into the Soviet Zone on business and becomes entangled with the secret police.

Crew

Name: Allen Reisner

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Mari Blanchard

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Jay Novello

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Howard Duff

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Tristram Coffin

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 13

The Mojave Kid

Air Date:27/01/1955

The Mojave Kid is warned to stay away from a small town feud.

Crew

Name: William H. Brown Jr.

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Tony Barr

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Ward Bond

Character: Sheriff Ab Kale

Department: Acting

Name: Barbara Ruick

Character: Judith Kale

Department: Acting

Name: John Lupton

Character: The Mojave Kid

Department: Acting

Name: Ricardo Montalban

Character: Pete McLean

Department: Acting

Name: Harry Carey, Jr.

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 14

The Leaf Out of the Book

Air Date:03/02/1955

The story revolves around two women, one a successful career woman, the other an ambitious girl. After giving the daughter of an old friend a job, the successful businesswoman realizes the drawbacks of her generosity.

Crew

Name: Allen Reisner

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Sylvia Sidney

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: George Brent

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Hugh Beaumont

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Diana Lynn

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Louis Jean Heydt

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 15

The Valiant Men

Air Date:10/02/1955

Lt. Comm. Knowles is assigned to skipper the USS Hamilton from England back to New York. While he and his crew celebrate New Year's Eve 1943, an unknown danger lurks nearby.

Guest Stars

Name: Robert Young

Character: Lieutenant Commander Knowles

Department: Acting

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Episode: 16

The Box of Chocolates

Air Date:24/02/1955

A hated columnist becomes involved in murder after receiving an innocent-looking box of chocolates with a note from the manufacturer asking him to try them.

Guest Stars

Name: Vanessa Brown

Character: Vera

Department: Acting

Name: Pat O'Brien

Character: Police Lieutenant Moore

Department: Acting

Name: Victor Jory

Character: Robert

Department: Acting

Name: Robert Preston

Character: William Struthers

Department: Acting

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Episode: 17

South of the Sun

Air Date:03/03/1955

They were strangers to each other, even the married ones, and they all dreamed in human ways. But the least of these eight persons did something about his little dream. In so doing, he bound the strangers in an intimate circle, whether they knew it or not. He touched them all in passing and changed their lives and dreams forever, according to their own choices. In one turn of the earth something happened.

Crew

Name: John Frankenheimer

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Natalie Schafer

Character: Lucrece Durhurst

Department: Acting

Name: Jeffrey Hunter

Character: Wesley Jerome Penn

Department: Acting

Name: Edward Arnold

Character: Jock Fathian

Department: Acting

Name: Thomas Gomez

Character: Senor Torres, Commandante of Police

Department: Acting

Name: Margaret O'Brien

Character: Kathy Fathian

Department: Acting

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Episode: 18

The Great Impersonation

Air Date:10/03/1955

The action of this tale of intrigue and espionage takes place in the jungles of East Africa in 1914. The destinies of Germany and Great Britain are dependent upon one man whose decision is influenced by one of the two women in his life.

Crew

Name: Allen Reisner

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Steven Geray

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Maureen O'Sullivan

Character: Lady Dominey

Department: Acting

Name: Michael Rennie

Character: Lord Edward Dominey / Major General Von Raggenstein

Department: Acting

Name: Paul Cavanagh

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Anthony Eustrel

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Zsa Zsa Gabor

Character: Princess Stephanie

Department: Acting

Name: Leonard Carey

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Milton Parsons

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 19

The Darkest Hour

Air Date:24/03/1955

An ex-cop is released from San Quentin after five years and sets out on revenge against the men who framed him for manslaughter.

Crew

Name: John Frankenheimer

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Joanne Dru

Character: Marcia

Department: Acting

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Episode: 20

The Champion

Air Date:31/03/1955

The famous story deals with a boxer whose rise to fame has been at the expense of friends and associates. Through flashbacks, we see how Midge Kelly rose from the Chicago slums to a world championship.

Crew

Name: Allen Reisner

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Rod Serling

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Wally Brown

Character: Tommy Haley

Department: Acting

Name: John Craven

Character: The Reporter

Department: Acting

Name: Wallace Ford

Character: Bunco Kelly

Department: Acting

Name: Rory Calhoun

Character: Midge Kelly

Department: Acting

Name: Geraldine Brooks

Character: Emma Herich

Department: Acting

Name: Peggy Maley

Character: Grace Knight

Department: Acting

Name: Ray Collins

Character: Jerome Harris

Department: Acting

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Episode: 21

Private Worlds

Air Date:07/04/1955

A woman doctor probes the twisted minds of her patients in a mental institution.

Crew

Name: John Frankenheimer

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Marguerite Chapman

Character: Myra Saunders

Department: Acting

Name: Warren Stevens

Character: Dr. Alec McGregor

Department: Acting

Name: Lorne Greene

Character: Dr. Charles Saunders

Department: Acting

Name: Katherine Warren

Character: Matron

Department: Acting

Name: Claudette Colbert

Character: Dr. Jane Everest

Department: Acting

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Episode: 22

Flight 951

Air Date:21/04/1955

A doctor forsakes the medical profession following a court trial where he was the defendant. Now a successful businessman travelling under an assumed name, he must decide between keeping his secret and saving the eyesight of a fellow passenger.

Crew

Name: Allen Reisner

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Paul Douglas

Character: Dr. Merle Gardner

Department: Acting

Name: Barbara Britton

Character: Duana Clarke

Department: Acting

Name: Kenneth Tobey

Character: Captain Coppedge

Department: Acting

Name: Cathy O'Donnell

Character: Mona Herbert

Department: Acting

Name: Robert H. Harris

Character: Grady

Department: Acting

Name: Booth Colman

Character: Bruno McKee

Department: Acting

Name: Irene Hervey

Character: Nancy Blount

Department: Acting

Name: John Emery

Character: Abel Dennis

Department: Acting

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Episode: 23

The First and the Last

Air Date:28/04/1955

The threat of scandal, revolving around the death of a man in London, prompts an ambitious lawyer to disregard both legan and moral principles. His concern for his own career puts an innocent man's life in jeopardy.

Crew

Name: John Frankenheimer

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Robert Newton

Character: Keith Dorrant

Department: Acting

Name: Peggy Ann Garner

Character: Nora Wallen

Department: Acting

Name: John Agar

Character: Larry Dorrant

Department: Acting

Name: John Carradine

Character: John Evan

Department: Acting

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Episode: 24

The Deliverance of Sister Cecilia

Air Date:05/05/1955

A courageous nun suffers ordeals while trying to escape from behind the Iron Curtain.

Guest Stars

Name: Claudette Colbert

Character: Sister Cecilia

Department: Acting

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Episode: 25

No Stone Unturned

Air Date:19/05/1955

A Scottish student has the historical Stone of Scone stolen from Westminster Abbey. His purpose is to get England to recognize Scotland's independence.

Crew

Name: John Frankenheimer

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Dan O'Herlihy

Character: Ian Hamilton

Department: Acting

Name: Jeff Donnell

Character: Kay Matheson

Department: Acting

Name: Cedric Hardwicke

Character: Professor Robertson

Department: Acting

Name: Tom Drake

Character: Alan

Department: Acting

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Episode: 26

A Farewell to Arms

Air Date:26/05/1955

An American, in the Italian Army during World War I, who meets a nurse and falls in love with her. Together they try to find a haven from the turbulence around them.

Crew

Name: Allen Reisner

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Guy Madison

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Martin E. Brooks

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Diana Lynn

Character: Catherine Barkley

Department: Acting

Name: Katherine Warren

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 27

The Unimportant Man

Air Date:02/06/1955

The life of an ordinary, mild-mannered man is changed when he identifies the murderer of his employer's brother.

Crew

Name: John Frankenheimer

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Macdonald Carey

Character: John Benson

Department: Acting

Name: Elliott Reid

Character: Scotty Henderson

Department: Acting

Name: Ruth Hussey

Character: Katherine Benson

Department: Acting

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Episode: 28

The Dark Fleece

Air Date:16/06/1955

A gold miner returns to his righteous California hometown, circa1857. He has great wealth, but also a burdened conscious; he has killed a man.

Guest Stars

Name: Lloyd Bridges

Character: Jason Burrage

Department: Acting

Name: Phyllis Thaxter

Character: Olive

Department: Acting

Name: Joan Bennett

Character: Honora

Department: Acting

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Episode: 29

To Wake at Midnight

Air Date:23/06/1955

All the pent-up prejudices and hatreds of postwar Europe are revived when a Nazi lieutenant recovers consciousness in a British hospital after being in a coma for years.

Crew

Name: John Frankenheimer

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Akim Tamiroff

Character: Albert Ganz

Department: Acting

Name: Wendell Corey

Character: Lieutenant Erich Ganz

Department: Acting

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Episode: 30

The Dance

Air Date:30/06/1955

Crew

Name: Allen Reisner

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Frieda Inescort

Character: Martha Hale

Department: Acting

Name: Robert Middleton

Character: Sheriff

Department: Acting

Name: Richard Kiley

Character: Charley Kincaid

Department: Acting

Name: Barbara Baxley

Character: Catherine Jones

Department: Acting

Name: Ethel Waters

Character: Aunt Kate

Department: Acting

Name: Janet Blair

Character: Joan Hale

Department: Acting

Name: Addison Richards

Character: Papa

Department: Acting

Name: Vanessa Brown

Character: Marie Bannerman

Department: Acting

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Episode: 31

Wild Stallion

Air Date:07/07/1955

A handsome, devil-may-care fortune hunter [from South America] makes his home with a well-to-do Southern family. He is attracted at first to the daughter, until he discovers the mother is the one who holds the key to the family fortune.

Crew

Name: DeWitt Bodeen

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: Evelyn Keyes

Character: Drusilla Cayley

Department: Acting

Name: Paul Henreid

Character: Capt. Sebastian Von Reis

Department: Acting

Name: Kathleen Crowley

Character: Laura Harriss

Department: Acting

Name: Richard Long

Character: Max Harriss

Department: Acting

Name: Mary Astor

Character: Mrs. Harriss

Department: Acting

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Episode: 32

The Escape of Mendes-France

Air Date:14/07/1955

Crew

Name: Allen Reisner

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Louis Jourdan

Character: Pierre Mendes-France

Department: Acting

Name: Jean Del Val

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Werner Klemperer

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Walter Cronkite

Character: Self - Narrator (voice)

Department: Acting

Name: Rick Vallin

Character:

Department: Acting

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Episode: 33

The Healer

Air Date:21/07/1955

A brilliant surgeon, burdened with a self-centered wife and a beautiful heiress who's in love with him, becomes tormented by doubts about his ability after losing a patient during a difficult operation.

Guest Stars

Name: Bonita Granville

Character: Laura Jordan

Department: Acting

Name: Barry Sullivan

Character: Dr. Donald Carter

Department: Acting

Name: Geraldine Fitzgerald

Character: Miriam Lambert

Department: Acting

Name: Marguerite Chapman

Character: Mrs. Carter

Department: Acting

Name: Arthur Franz

Character: Dr. Joyce

Department: Acting

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Episode: 34

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Air Date:28/07/1955

Classic Stevenson tale of a scientist whose experiments into the duality of man transform him into the misshapen, murderous Mr. Hyde.

Crew

Name: Allen Reisner

Role: Director

Department: Directing

Name: Gore Vidal

Role: Writer

Department: Writing

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Guest Stars

Name: John Hoyt

Character: Poole

Department: Acting

Name: Barbara Morrison

Character: The Dowager

Department: Acting

Name: Cedric Hardwicke

Character: Mr. Utterson

Department: Acting

Name: Michael Rennie

Character: Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Hyde

Department: Acting

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Episode: 35

One Night Stand

Air Date:04/08/1955

In 1937, the members of a jazz ensemble come to the aid of one of their colleagues who is stricken with tuberculosis.

Crew

Name: Bernard Girard

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Bob Sweeney

Character: Gil Rodin

Department: Directing

Name: Cloris Leachman

Character: Mrs. Sullivan

Department: Acting

Name: John Forsythe

Character: Joe Sullivan

Department: Acting

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Episode: 36

Edge of Terror

Air Date:11/08/1955

A small town banker and his family are threatened with death if he identifies the leader of the gang that tried to rob his bank.

Crew

Name: John Frankenheimer

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: Jean Porter

Character: Joan

Department: Acting

Name: Phyllis Kirk

Character: Mrs. Evans

Department: Acting

Name: Tom Laughlin

Character: Paisan

Department: Acting

Name: Karen Steele

Character: Gloria

Department: Acting

Name: Edward Binns

Character: Lieutenant Lewis

Department: Acting

Name: Lloyd Bridges

Character: Joe Donner

Department: Acting

Name: Dennis O'Keefe

Character: Evans

Department: Acting

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Episode: 37

Fear Strikes Out

Air Date:18/08/1955

True story of ballplayer battling mental illness and domineering father.

Guest Stars

Name: Tab Hunter

Character: Jimmy Piersall

Department: Acting

Name: Lori Nelson

Character:

Department: Acting

Name: Mona Freeman

Character: Mary Piersall

Department: Acting

Name: John Conte

Character: Dr. Duillermo Brown

Department: Acting

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Episode: 38

Deal a Blow

Air Date:25/08/1955

A teenage boy gets into a dispute with an abusive movie theater manager Mr. Grubbs. The boy's father Tom Ditmar accepts the manager's somewhat twisted version of the incident and doesn't give his son a chance to explain his side of the matter.

Crew

Name: John Frankenheimer

Role: Director

Department: Directing

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Guest Stars

Name: James MacArthur

Character: Hal Ditmar

Department: Acting

Name: Byron Foulger

Character: Man in Theatre

Department: Acting

Name: Whit Bissell

Character: Mr. Grubbs

Department: Acting

Name: Macdonald Carey

Character: Tom Ditmar

Department: Acting

Name: Phyllis Thaxter

Character: Helen Ditmar

Department: Acting

Name: Edward Arnold

Character: Lieutenant Shipley

Department: Acting

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