Screen Directors Playhouse — 1950
34 episodes broadcast in 1950.
A pollster discovers a town whose opinions perfectly mirror the whole nation -- and moving in to exploit it upends the place he comes to love.
A soldier disfigured and thought dead in the Great War stays away for twenty years, then returns unrecognized to find his wife remarried.
A charming gambler scheming to fleece a war-relief charity has a change of heart when he falls for one of its society volunteers.
A woman who keeps calling off weddings meets the flesh-and-blood double of her imaginary dream man -- who promptly moves in.
Castaways rescued by the brutal, philosophizing Captain Wolf Larsen become prisoners of his cruelty aboard his schooner.
A newlywed husband home from three months in the jungle is stunned to learn his bride wants to begin their marriage strictly platonic.
A flea-circus owner learns of a fortune hidden in one of five antique chairs and races a pack of rivals to find it.
February 24, 1950
Incendiary Blonde
A timid frontier dentist blunders into the West as the unwitting hero of gunslinger Calamity Jane's undercover mission.
A struggling artist meets a mysterious girl who ages years between each encounter, and paints the haunting portrait of a love outside time.
A ruthless young boxer punches his way to the top, trampling everyone who helped him get there.
A reporter finds a dead girl no one will claim and, from the address book she left behind, uncovers the gangsters who ruined her.
Identical twin sisters -- one of them a killer -- confound a murder investigation, since no one can tell which is guilty.
A dashing Irish adventurer wields sword and wit to foil Napoleon's secret plan to invade England.
A mild college professor invents a formula that makes a baseball dodge wood, and secretly becomes a star pitcher.
A stuffy concert pianist unexpectedly inherits an apartment building and falls for one of its lively tenants.
Adventurers and a ruthless police chief clash over hidden diamonds in South Africa's forbidden desert, with revenge and romance in the mix.
The rocky marriage of an ambitious burlesque comic and his loyal wife is tested as fame pulls them apart.
A safecracker roped into babysitting winds up bringing the infant along on a midnight burglary.
A scatterbrained secretary hired as a front for small-time bookies innocently turns their whole operation upside down.
A stranded carnival dancer claws toward respectability in a small town ruled by a corrupt political boss who means to destroy her.
A no-nonsense lady psychiatrist falls, against her better judgment, for a persistent cartoonist she meets on a train.
A city couple's dream of a Connecticut farmhouse turns into a comedy of runaway repairs and rural mishaps.
June 16, 1950
A Star Is Born
A ruthless woman guarding a childhood secret -- an aunt's death and an innocent man's framing -- watches her buried past resurface.
June 30, 1950
Cinderella
A beloved uncle visits his adoring niece, who slowly realizes he may be the Merry Widow strangler the police are hunting.
Survivors of a torpedoed ship, adrift in a single lifeboat, take aboard a man from the U-boat that sank them -- and turn on one another.
A free-spirited lady plumber and a penniless refugee flout stuffy pre-war English society in a gentle romance.
A Boston girl marries a Canadian Mountie and braves the hardship and beauty of life in the far North.
A man remarries after his first wife is declared lost at sea -- on the very day she turns up alive.
A businessman's wife idly tries the casino on a Las Vegas trip and spirals into a ruinous gambling addiction.
A department-store Santa who claims to be the real Kris Kringle is put on trial, and a little girl's faith helps prove his case.
A crusading district attorney who would give his soul to nail a crime boss gets his wish from a smooth stranger named Nick Beal -- the Devil himself.
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