5x1 - To Each His Own

August 26, 1954

An unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.

5x2 - Welcome, Stranger

September 2, 1954

5x3 - Christmas in July

September 9, 1954

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the ,000 grand prize. As a result, he gets a promotion, buys presents for all of his family and friends, and proposes to his girl. When the truth comes out, he's not prepared for the consequences.

5x4 - Hold Back the Dawn

September 16, 1954

Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.

5x5 - The Heiress

September 23, 1954

A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.

5x6 - Meet Jo Cathart

September 30, 1954

5x7 - The Mansion

October 7, 1954

Young Master Lacy must make up his mind between a daughter of the Old South and a Northern hussy.

5x8 - A Visit from Evelyn

October 14, 1954

5x9 - An Angel Went AWOL

October 21, 1954

5x10 - September Tide

October 28, 1954

5x11 - Imperfect Lady

November 4, 1954

5x13 - Captive City

November 18, 1954

5x14 - A Medal for Benny

November 25, 1954

Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when the townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.

5x15 - Craig's Wife

December 2, 1954

A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.

5x16 - Ladies in Retirement

December 9, 1954

The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results.

5x17 - Double Indemnity

December 16, 1954

An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.

5x18 - September Affair

December 23, 1954

An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.

5x19 - The Chase

December 30, 1954

Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.

5x20 - Sunset Boulevard

January 6, 1955

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

5x21 - Penny Serenade

January 13, 1955

A couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unexpected sadness and unexpected joy.

5x22 - Love Letters

January 20, 1955

5x23 - So Evil My Love

January 27, 1955

Olivia Harwood, missionary's widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. When Olivia opens a lodging house Mark becomes her lodger, then her lover. Olivia falls so completely under amoral Mark's spell that he's able to overcome her scruples, and soon she's his willing tool in an ambitious scheme of theft and blackmail...maybe too ambitious.

5x24 - One Foot in Heaven

February 3, 1955

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

5x25 - A Bell for Adano

February 10, 1955

Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life.

5x26 - The Copperhead

February 17, 1955

Milt Shanks lives a shamed life, hated by his neighbors for having been a traitor to the North in the American Civil War. But Shanks carries with him a secret, one he promised Abraham Lincoln to tell no one.

5x27 - So Dark the Night

February 24, 1955

A renowned and relentless Paris detective takes his first vacation in eleven years at a small inn in the French countryside. There he meets and falls in love with the hotelier's daughter, who had been betrothed to a neighboring farmer, but who hopes to marry him and move to Paris. On the evening of their engagement, both the fiancée and the farmer disappear. What has happened to them? Who is responsible? Can the famed detective apply his talents to a rural mystery?

5x28 - Casablanca

March 3, 1955

Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

5x29 - The Life of Emile Zola

March 10, 1955

The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.

5x30 - It Grows on Trees

March 17, 1955

What happens when an American family gets two trees that grow spendable money.

5x31 - Shadow of a Doubt

March 24, 1955

A young woman discovers her visiting "Uncle Charlie" may not be the man he seems to be.

5x32 - My Name is Julia Ross

March 31, 1955

Julia Ross is a young woman alone in the world and is in search of a job. She is hired by an elderly woman named Mrs. Hughes to act as her live-in personal secretary. One of Mrs. Hughes' stipulations is that whomever she hire treat this job as one of a long term nature, meaning no current boyfriends or marriage on the horizon. The closest person to Julia was Dennis Bruce, who lived at the same boarding house and who was somewhat sweet on Julia but left to get married to another woman. As such, Julia is grateful for her new job. When Julia awakens after her first night...

5x33 - The Browning Version

April 7, 1955

Forced to retire from an English public school. a disliked professor must confront his utter failures as a teacher, a husband, and a man.

5x34 - No Sad Songs for Me

April 14, 1955

Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every moment of her life count, but her effort is weakened by the discovery that Brad is interested in his assistant, Chris Radner. But when she learns that Brad does indeed love her and not Chris, and that Chris is leaving town, she realizes what she must do to ensure the future happiness of Brad and Polly. She persuades Chris to stay, makes a genuine friend of her and watches Polly grow ...

5x35 - An Act of Murder

April 21, 1955

A hard-line judge is tempted toward mercy-killing by his wife's terminal cancer.

5x36 - The Great McGinty

April 28, 1955

Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics. But endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.

5x37 - Remember the Night

May 5, 1955

Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent. He postpones the trial because it is hard to get a conviction at Christmas time. But he feels sorry for her and arranges for her bail, and ends up taking her home to his mother for Christmas. Surrounded by a loving family (in stark contrast to Lee's own family background) they fall in love. This creates a new problem: how do they handle the upcoming trial?

5x38 - Eight Iron Men

May 12, 1955

Tensions arise when a WW II squadron is ordered not to rescue a squad mate pinned down by the enemy, for fear of risking more lives.

5x39 - Make Way for Tomorrow

May 19, 1955

An elderly couple are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.

5x40 - Thunder on the Hill

May 26, 1955

Convicted murderess Valerie Carns is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. Nurse Sister Mary becomes convinced of her innocence and sets out to find the real killer.

5x41 - The Suspect

June 2, 1955

A middle aged man commits murder when he feels that his happiness is threatened. Without remorse the man continues on believing he's executed the perfect crime and won't be caught.

5x42 - Lightning Strikes Twice

June 9, 1955

Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.

5x43 - The Inside Story

June 16, 1955

When money is inadvertently removed from an hotel safe, it leads to all kinds of problems.

5x44 - Forever Female

June 23, 1955

An aging actress refuses to admit she is too old to play the ingénue role anymore.

5x45 - Last Year's Snow

June 30, 1955

5x46 - The Creaking Gate

July 7, 1955

5x47 - Dark Tribute

July 14, 1955

Murder mystery in which a woman who has won the sweepstakes is found murdered.

5x48 - Desparate Glory

July 21, 1955

5x49 - The Bride Came C.O.D.

July 28, 1955

A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.

5x50 - The Nine-Penny Dream

August 4, 1955

A dream of winning a penny pool is realized by the meek owner of an English pub, but the prestige he expected eludes him.

5x51 - Perilous Deception

August 11, 1955

A man murders his wife then makes his interest known to her best friend.

5x52 - Nor All Your Tears

August 18, 1955

5x53 - June Bride

August 25, 1955

A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong.

5x54 - The Last Confession

September 1, 1955

5x55 - The Happy Man

September 8, 1955

A man finds a wallet in a taxicab with a lot of money in it. He turns it in to the police, who--according to the law--will hold it for 90 days, and if no one claims it, the wallet and its content will be given to the person who found it. However, when his friends and neighbors find out that he turned in the wallet, they ridicule him mercilessly, and he begins to wonder if he did the right thing or not.

5x56 - The Lucky Finger

September 15, 1955

5x57 - The Eyes of Father Tomasino

September 22, 1955

When a gentle older priest is found killed a young man quota the force so he can devote all his time to finding the killer.