Screen Directors Playhouse — 1949
50 episodes broadcast in 1949.
A stagecoach of mismatched strangers -- among them the outlaw Ringo Kid, a drunken doctor, and a good-hearted outcast -- braves Apache country on the run from Tonto to Lordsburg.
A frazzled ad man juggling a fickle client and a scheming ex-fiancee falls for the very author of the self-help book meant to calm his nerves.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. plays the exiled King Charles II, hiding in Holland among Cromwell's assassins and finding romance while plotting his return to the English throne.
A bickering couple discover their marriage was never legal -- and the war over whether to wed again turns into all-out romantic combat.
A businessman marries his devoted secretary for convenience, never guessing she has quietly loved him all along.
A reckless playboy indirectly causes a good doctor's death, then remakes himself to secretly aid -- and win -- the man's blinded widow.
An Englishman who is the double of a kidnapped king is pressed to impersonate him on the throne, falling for the princess as intrigue swirls around the crown.
A man cursed with the power to foresee the future -- including his own death -- lives out a chronicle of dread in this tale of the supernatural.
In occupied Berlin, an American army captain is caught between a prim visiting congresswoman and a sultry cabaret singer with a Nazi past.
A romance set to music: a bandleader's whirlwind marriage to a small-town girl is tested by the pressures of show business.
On their anniversary a seemingly ideal couple find their marriage suddenly in deadlock, teetering between divorce and reconciliation.
A woman back from wartime service finds the lawyer husband she left behind now wants a divorce -- and she sets out to win him back.
A wisecracking entertainer and a young heiress brave a haunted Cuban castle full of ghosts and zombies to claim her inheritance.
In a wartime orchestra, a pregnant young musician anxiously awaits word from her soldier husband, buoyed by her fellow players and her small, hopeful sister.
Three servicemen return from the war to the same hometown and struggle to rebuild their civilian lives, loves, and dignity.
A war-hero fighter pilot on furlough in New York hides his identity while romancing a magazine photographer during his last carefree days.
A psychology professor who has literally written the book on dominating women meets his match in a sharp-tongued newspaper columnist.
On Christmas Eve a despairing small-town man is shown by his guardian angel how much poorer his town would be had he never been born.
A charming European gigolo stranded on the Mexican border woos an American schoolteacher into marriage just to slip into the States -- then falls in love for real.
A wife's well-meaning meddling in her ad-man husband's work throws his career -- and their marriage -- into comic chaos.
A merry mix of murder and romance: a detective chases a glamorous murder suspect around the world and loses his heart along the way.
After a $200,000 heist, a double-crossing ex-con is marked for death -- and an insurance investigator unravels the betrayal behind it.
A harried city ad-man buys a ramshackle Connecticut farmhouse and is nearly ruined by the runaway cost of making it his dream home.
A magazine crime editor is set to hunt a mystery man in a murder -- only to realize the man everyone is chasing is himself, framed by his own boss.
A band of outlaws fleeing across the desert seizes a ghost town held by an old prospector and his tough granddaughter, and greed soon turns them on each other.
In the Algiers Casbah, dashing jewel-thief Pepe le Moko -- safe only while he never leaves the quarter -- risks everything for the love of a beautiful visitor.
Three ex-flyers in postwar Indochina take a dangerous job hauling a fortune in cash, hiding from one of them that he has only months to live.
A rigid cavalry colonel's contempt for his frontier post and for Cochise's Apaches drives his command toward disaster.
A willful Southern belle's pride costs her the man she loves, until a yellow-fever epidemic offers a chance at redemption.
To stop his wife from divorcing him, a husband feigns insanity -- with his old flame living one floor below only making things worse.
A playwright marries a dedicated lady doctor who insists on keeping her own apartment and identity, straining their unconventional marriage.
A despairing retired professor rents rooms to a young veteran and his pregnant wife, whose warmth and hope give him a reason to keep living.
A small-town telegraph boy delivering wartime messages of joy and grief comes of age and learns what life is all about.
A soft-spoken railroad detective hunts a gang of train robbers and finds his oldest friend being drawn into their crimes.
An ad-man's little white lie about a client sends his wife's loyalty test spinning into a comedy of jealous misunderstandings.
The life of Yankees great Lou Gehrig -- his rise to stardom and his courageous farewell in the face of a fatal illness.
A bumbling senator's diary of his party's dirtiest secrets goes missing, and everyone scrambles to grab it first.
An armored-car robbery built on a double-cross unravels into a tangle of betrayal when the man who planned it is himself set up.
A bored insurance man's fling with a model pulls him into blackmail and violence as a jealous investigator and her ex-con fiance close in.
A beautiful amnesiac cannot recall killing her husband -- and had every reason to -- in this haunting melodrama of buried memory.
A prosecutor takes a lovely shoplifter home for Christmas and falls in love with the very woman he is duty-bound to send to trial.
A poor kid boxes his way to the championship, only to be corrupted by the crooked money men who own his contract.
A brother and sister buy a beautiful clifftop house in Devon and find it haunted -- its secret bound to a troubled young woman.
A mute servant girl in a gloomy mansion becomes the likely next target of a killer preying on afflicted young women.
A manufacturer who shipped faulty airplane parts in wartime -- and let his partner take the blame -- faces a reckoning within his own family.
A crusading reporter reopens an eleven-year-old cop killing and fights to free the man he comes to believe was wrongly convicted.
A charming actress turns out to be a different woman to every man who loves her, to the confusion of her several suitors.
A department-store Santa insists he is the real Kris Kringle, and winds up in a courtroom that must decide whether Santa Claus exists.
An escaped convict and a woman who is secretly dying fall in love aboard an ocean liner, each hiding the truth from the other.
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