3x1 - The Plot to Kill Stalin

September 25, 1958

In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with anti-Semitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.

3x3 - The Time of Your Life

October 9, 1958

William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play revolves around the denizens of a San Francisco bar in 1939. Lonely, lovelorn, weary or cynical, the characters drift in and out of the bar and each other's lives, giving voice to Saroyan's philosophies as they randomly comment about the impending world war, the beauty of art, and traditional notions of good and evil.

3x4 - The Long March

October 16, 1958

3x5 - Shadows Tremble

October 23, 1958

An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.

3x6 - Word from a Sealed-Off Box

October 30, 1958

A courier for the Dutch Resistance is captured by the Nazis.

3x7 - Heart of Darkness

November 6, 1958

A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.

3x8 - Old Man

November 20, 1958

To fight a Mississippi flood in 1927, a prison farm releases some convicts.

3x9 - The Return of Ansel Gibbs

November 27, 1958

After years in retirement, Ansel Gibbs is asked to return to government service.

3x10 - Free Weekend

December 4, 1958

3x11 - Seven Against the Wall

December 11, 1958

The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.

3x12 - The Nutcracker

December 25, 1958

This telecast of George Balanchine's famous production was broadcast only four years after it was premiered by the New York City Ballet. This was the only episode of the series televised in color.

3x13 - Face of a Hero

January 1, 1959

3x14 - The Wings of the Dove

January 8, 1959

An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without.

3x15 - The Blue Men

January 15, 1959

3x16 - The Velvet Alley

January 22, 1959

Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.

3x17 - A Quiet Game of Cards

January 29, 1959

A few friends meet each weekend for a quiet game of cards. But they're bored with poker and, in trying to find another diversion, gradually find themselves plotting a hypothetical murder. It is hypothetical, isn't it?

3x18 - Child of Our Time

February 5, 1959

War deprives Tanguy of his childhood. When his mother returns to Spain to oppose the Franco regime, he is left in Nazi-occupied Marseilles, France.

3x19 - The Second Man

February 12, 1959

3x20 - The Raider

February 19, 1959

A corporate raider plans a hostile takeover. To stall him, pressure is put on a scientist to rush through a new type of engine before all necessary tests have been completed.

3x21 - The Ding-A-Ling Girl

February 26, 1959

A housewife is offered a Hollywood contract. She'd rather stay home, but her husband has ambitions for her.

3x22 - Made in Japan

March 5, 1959

A young soldier in occupied Japan after World War II falls in love with a lovely Japanese girl, but is horrified about what his prejudiced family in Philadelphia will think if he takes her home with him.

3x23 - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1

March 12, 1959

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.

3x24 - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2

March 19, 1959

The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.

3x25 - A Trip to Paradise

March 26, 1959

3x26 - In Lonely Expectation

April 2, 1959

3x27 - The Day Before Atlanta

April 9, 1959

3x28 - Judgment at Nuremberg

April 16, 1959

In the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice.

3x29 - A Corner of the Garden

April 23, 1959

3x30 - Dark December

April 30, 1959

During World War II, an army doctor struggles to convert a Franciscan monastery into a field hospital.

3x31 - Diary of a Nurse

May 7, 1959

The daily emergencies and stresses of a major city's hospital ward as seen through the eyes of nurse Gail Lucas.

3x32 - A Marriage of Strangers

May 14, 1959

Marry in haste, repent at leisure? Well, maybe.

3x33 - Out of Dust

May 21, 1959

On a cattle drive across the prairie, the sons of a wealthy cattle baron plot his death.

3x34 - The Rank and File

May 28, 1959

A powerful union leader is interrogated by a Senate committee.

3x35 - The Killers of Mussolini

June 4, 1959

As the Salo Republic crumbles around him, Mussolini, along with his mistress and several of his ministers flee with retreating Nazi soldiers, but are caught at the town of Dongo by red partisans. All are brutally executed without trial.

3x36 - Project Immortality

June 11, 1959

Key defense scientist Doner has cancer. Schramm is assigned to code Doner's thinking into a computer. He gets to know him as a friend, a husband and father. The project is successful, but he now knows identity is not programmable.

3x37 - Dark as the Night

June 18, 1959

A British politician finds himself open to blackmail because of the indiscretion of his American wife.

3x38 - The Second Happiest Day

June 25, 1959

A man about to be married recalls the day his life changed permanently.