Screen Directors Playhouse — 1951
39 episodes broadcast in 1951.
In Renaissance Italy a low-born schemer serving the ruthless Cesare Borgia is sent to betray a noble house -- and his conscience turns him against his master.
A beautiful, ruthless Edwardian woman will let nothing -- not even murder -- stand between her and the wealthy life she craves.
Two American airmen flying supplies into blockaded Berlin find love and disillusion amid the rubble of the airlift.
A psychiatrist falls for a troubled amnesiac posing as her hospital's new chief, and races to prove him innocent of a murder he cannot remember.
A high-powered woman advertising executive hires a handsome male secretary to pose as her escort, and business soon turns to romance.
A draft-dodging racketeer shoved into the Army schemes to sell military secrets -- until patriotism unexpectedly gets the better of him.
A carefree, wealthy young woman confronting a fatal illness finds love and meaning in the time she has left.
An eccentric artist invites himself into a doctor's household and cheerfully sets about romancing the doctor's wife.
In occupied Berlin an army captain is caught between a prim visiting congresswoman and a cabaret singer with a Nazi past -- a restaging of the 1949 broadcast.
A shop clerk mistaken for the mother of an abandoned baby is drawn, foundling and all, into the life of the store owner's son.
A district attorney falls for a woman who becomes the prime suspect in the very murder he must prosecute.
A bumbling scoutmaster aboard an ocean liner blunders into the hunt for a card-cheating strangler -- Bob Hope chaos ensues.
A young actress and her war-correspondent husband watch their careers pull them to opposite ends of the earth and strain their marriage.
A restless woman abandons small-town life and claws her way up through a crime syndicate to the very top.
A secretary marries her boss on paper for a business maneuver, then finds herself running -- and reshaping -- the whole company.
A gifted, working-class violinist rises under the patronage of a wealthy, unhappily married woman whose love for him turns tragic.
A happily married man wins a fortune on a radio quiz show and discovers the prize brings nothing but trouble.
A young Spanish nobleman fleeing the Inquisition joins Cortez's conquest of the New World in search of fortune and revenge.
A polished magazine photographer clashes with, then falls for, the brash tunnel sandhog she first hires only to prove him beneath her.
An American agent joins the French Foreign Legion in Indochina to hunt a fugitive Nazi war criminal in hiding.
A woman gives up everything to spend her life as the hidden mistress of the banker she loves but can never marry.
A haunted war veteran enters West Point and faces a hazing inquiry that puts the academy's Honor Code itself on trial.
The fastest gun in the West, weary of his reputation, only wants to hang it up -- but every young challenger wants to be the man who beat him.
Hired to escort a young woman to a haunted Cuban castle, a jittery entertainer bumbles through ghosts and zombies to protect her.
A man told he has been fatally poisoned and has only days to live races to solve his own murder before it kills him.
A cautious New York working girl on a bus tour out West loses her heart to an easygoing rodeo cowboy.
A woman bears the child of a soldier who has forgotten their one night together, and years later fate brings them together again.
In a country that has outlawed the Church, the last remaining priest becomes a hunted fugitive walking toward a martyr's end.
A prosecutor takes a lovely shoplifter home for Christmas and falls in love with the woman he is duty-bound to convict.
An RAF pilot who miraculously survives a parachuteless fall must plead before a heavenly court that his new love has earned him the right to live.
A frightened young first-timer is hardened by the brutal world of a women's prison.
Childhood sweethearts divided by class -- the wild Heathcliff and the genteel Cathy -- love and destroy each other on the Yorkshire moors.
A widow moves into a seaside cottage haunted by a gruff sea captain's ghost, and the two fall into an impossible love.
A Broadway star who killed her domineering producer in self-defense wrestles with guilt as an innocent woman falls under suspicion.
A widow enrolls at her daughter's college and scandalously falls for the same professor her daughter admires.
A frontier scout brokers a fragile peace with Apache chief Cochise and marries an Indian woman, in a Western that casts the Apache as heroes.
A celebrated cricketer who is secretly a gentleman jewel-thief plans one last heist while a Scotland Yard man closes in.
A pregnant, abandoned woman assumes a dead bride's identity among wealthy strangers -- until blackmail threatens to expose her.
In wartime London a ballet dancer, told her officer love has been killed, turns to the streets -- and his sudden return brings tragedy.
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