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Good Friday 1865
Robert Montgomery Presents - S7 - E23
A teen-aged boy gets a bit part in a play so he can meet his idol, Abraham Lincoln. Instead, he ends up witnessing the assassination of the president at the Ford Theater.
Robert Montgomery Presents: Season 7 - 51 Episode s
7x1 - My Dear Emily
September 5, 1955
In the final summer stock performance of the season, a father's extreme possessiveness of his daughter ruins her life.
7x2 - Woman in the Window
September 12, 1955
A reserved college professor is fascinated by the portrait of a woman that hangs near his mens' club. While admiring the picture one day, he happens to meet its gorgeous blonde subject. This leads to an invite to her apartment, some champagne, and a murder.
7x3 - Mr. and Mrs. Monroe
September 19, 1955
On his own while his wife's away in Europe, henpecked Mr. Monroe decides he'll be the suave and adventurous man of his imagination. In his fantasies, he captures a diamond smuggler and a dangerous escaped convict.
7x4 - Along Came Jones
September 26, 1955
A soft-spoken cowboy shows up in a small western town looking for work. The locals mistakenly assume he's a murderous troublemaker, causing great tension when he starts dating the real killer's girlfriend.
7x5 - The Stranger
October 3, 1955
Authorities hope that their release a low-level war criminal will lead them to a Nazi Germany leader who "disappeared" after World War II. Following the released man, they're led to a small Connecticut town and a respected professor.
7x6 - Paper Town
October 10, 1955
A family is at odds when the father, successful in the lumber business, insists his son take over the company. The son, married and expecting a child soon, wants to finish law school instead.
7x7 - Tomorrow is Forever
October 17, 1955
An American soldier, whose disfigured face was reconstructed by Austrian plastic surgeons, returns home after twenty years, but no one recognizes him. His widow is married to another man, and his son is a grown young man.
7x8 - Man Lost
October 24, 1955
A Navy man loses his will to live following the death of his wife. He witnesses an A-bomb test in the Pacific and then goes "on leave" in Hawaii where he makes positive discoveries about himself.
7x9 - In a Foreign City
October 31, 1955
The truth eventually catches up with a sad man when his life is revealed to have been nothing but lies.
7x10 - The World to Nothing
November 7, 1955
Being an incredible actor is not enough as a performer feels nothing but loneliness even though he has a wife and daughter.
7x11 - Cry Silence
November 14, 1955
When a farmer's young wife dies in an "accident", the local police have doubts about how accidental her death actually was.
7x12 - Isobel
November 21, 1955
The successful writer of detective stories is the last person to see a young woman alive. The girl, Isobel, also shares the name of the heroine in one of the author's novels.
7x13 - End of the Rainbow
November 28, 1955
The heads of two immigrant families feud constantly, even though they are are neighbors and work at the same factory. It's practically inevitable that two of their youngsters would fall in love.
7x14 - Lucifer
December 5, 1955
A publishing manager who has caused a great deal of unhappiness throughout his career gets his turn in the hot seat.
7x15 - See the Man
December 12, 1955
A young mechanic hides a shameful secret-- he's unable to read, having left school early because of poverty. He believe his illiteracy is standing in the way of his success.
7x16 - Quality Town
December 19, 1955
A man who climbed the ladder from wildcatter to oil tycoon spoils his daughter with the material things he never had.
7x17 - The Second Day of Christmas
December 26, 1955
This is the story of the young Hans Christian Anderson's love for singer Jenny Lind and her refusal to give up her singing career.
7x18 - Three Men from Tomorrow
January 2, 1956
Three individual one-act stories are told, each involving young men facing moral or ethical decisions which will have profound effects on their futures. Act one profiles a high school student who's planning to elope with his girlfriend; Act two looks at a young man who's asked to deal drugs; Act three is the story of a college fraternity president who's supposed to expel one of the brothers.
7x19 - The End of the Tether
January 9, 1956
An elderly mariner is making his final voyage as the captain of a non-seaworthy boat owned by shady characters. Determined to retire with his dignity, the captain takes the ragged ship out to sea with the intention of wrecking the wreck.
7x20 - The Tyrant
January 16, 1956
A small town newspaper editor takes a stand against a powerful local citizen who acts with dictatorial rule.
7x21 - Aftermath
January 23, 1956
A lawyer who finds himself at a murder scene quickly leaves town, fearing that the crime will be pinned on him. He returns five years later with a shocking revelation.
7x22 - Mr. Tutt Baits the Hook
January 30, 1956
Eccentric lawyer Ephriam Tutt puts his unconventional methods to use to help a young man charged with murder.
7x23 - Good Friday 1865
February 6, 1956
A teen-aged boy gets a bit part in a play so he can meet his idol, Abraham Lincoln. Instead, he ends up witnessing the assassination of the president at the Ford Theater.
7x24 - The Man Who Vanished
February 13, 1956
A middle-aged man decides that the joys of youth were preferable to the success he now enjoys in business. As he retreats into the dreams of his carefree youth, he physically begins to fade away before the eyes of his friends and associates.
7x25 - An Excuse for Shanks
February 20, 1956
A shy, young man in a small town has been disliked by people his whole life. He makes his first real friend, the wife of the local pool hall owner, and falls madly in love with her. Shanks unwittingly becomes a factor is his own downfall.
7x26 - End of Morning
February 27, 1956
A school bus driver steers his vehicle into the path of an on-coming train and four children are killed. As a man who once believed he had all of life's answers finds himself struggling to make sense of anything.
7x27 - Adam's Son
March 5, 1956
A judge's campaign for the governorship has his son feeling that he can never live up to his father's achievements. At least that's the case until the judge makes a serious mistake.
7x28 - The Briefcase
March 12, 1956
A young couple's marriage is on the rocks because of the husband's failure to get ahead at work. He encounters obstacles from an underhanded office worker in the grocery business.
7x29 - The Secret
March 19, 1956
A lumberjack actively guards a mysterious black box in his possession. This piques the curiosity of the others in the logging camp. Everyone has a theory about its contents, ranging from love letters to evidence of a murder.
7x30 - The Long Way Home
March 26, 1956
A commuter suffers a heart attack in Grand Central Station as he's heading home to Connecticut.
7x31 - Death Insurance
April 2, 1956
An auto mechanic unhappy with his lot in life plans to kill his wife and collect on the insurance policy he just opened on her. When the "accident" he arranged for her fizzles, he cancels the policy. As luck would have it, his wife becomes seriously injured in a real accident. Now he's fighting to keep her alive because her recently deceased father left her a small fortune that goes to charity if she dies.
7x32 - Pistolero
April 9, 1956
A gas station owner in a small prairie town decides to expose the local political boss as the evil that he is. The angry strongman responds by hiring a hit man to kill the troublemaker.
7x33 - Portrait of a Man
April 16, 1956
The life of the genius Albert Einstein is highlighted in this biography. His early years in Prague, when he proposed his famed Theory of Relativity, are presented. The show then focuses on his later life when he lived modestly among the people of Princeton, New Jersey.
7x34 - The Baobab Tree
April 23, 1956
A South African plantation is home to a baobab tree, a large native plant which is said to kill all other life near it. The action centers on a woman who flirts shamelessly and the price she pays for her actions.
7x35 - Don't Do Me Any Favors
April 30, 1956
A singer discovers that success can carry a high price when he gets swept up by fast-talking con men. As he rises to the top, he finds the people around him are more interested in a piece of his income than in his welfare. Johnny Desmond sings "Please Don't Forget Me, Dear."
7x36 - Jack Be Nimble
May 7, 1956
A bigamist has two different wives in two different cities that he travels between for business. Neither knows about the other, until one fateful day. Unable to justify his behavior to either woman, he commits a crime he never thought he would have.
7x37 - The Right Thing
May 14, 1956
Following the death of a girl in a car accident, Bob Slater is tortured by the idea that he was somehow negligent in his driving that day.
7x38 - All Expenses Paid
May 21, 1956
A naive salesclerk is named "Miss Courtesy" by her store and is awarded an all-expenses paid trip to Nassau. While vacationing at the exotic locale, she falls under the spell of a suave and sophisticated man of the world.
7x39 - Who?
May 28, 1956
In this unusual drama, seven actors portray the same character as he's seen through the eyes of different people. The "Standard Who" is how the man sees himself, along with the "Ineffectual Who", the "Solid Who", the "Slob Who", the "Satyr Who", the "Nasty Who" and the "Godlike Who".
7x40 - Honored Guest
June 4, 1956
Krisons Rigo, a recent immigrant, settles in a small Long Island town. Though he taught in the old country, he cannot get a certificate here, so he takes a job as a school janitor.
7x41 - Storm Over Swan Lake
June 11, 1956
A teacher's opposition to dismissal by a tyrannical school superintendent throws a small town into turmoil.
7x42 - The Soldier Room
June 18, 1956
An unhappy wife is forbidden by her psychotic husband to even have friends. he's a man who retired early to play with his toy soldier collection. When she falls in love with another, she see the chance to leave this unhappy life behind. She's torn, however, because she knows her husband would be lost without her.
7x43 - An Elephant for Peanuts
June 25, 1956
A young boy nicknamed Peanuts desperately wants an elephant for a pet. He steals a purchase order from his father's work and buys a baby pachyderm that he hides in their garage.
7x44 - Dream No More
July 2, 1956
A college professor is obsessed with getting a piece of property owned by the mother of one of his students. He tries to charm the the property from her, before attempting to destroy the woman. The mother gets the last word, but pays a big price for it.
7x45 - A Matter of Conscience
July 9, 1956
A husband and wife have begun to drift apart after nine years of marriage. The husband spends more and more time at his law office, convincing his spouse that he's having an affair. She confronts him with her belief.
7x46 - Day of Grace
July 16, 1956
A meek editor at a religious publishing house believes that only a large sum of money could give him the life he wants and the nerve to propose to the woman he loves. Upon discovering the next day's newspaper at his doorstep, he becomes bold and aggressive trying to capitalize on the stock market and race track results the magic newspaper contains.
7x47 - Catch a Falling Star
July 23, 1956
Ken Reed, once a big name actor in Hollywood, refuses to accept that he's no longer the star he thinks he is. Even though he hasn't had a film role in two years, he continues to live lavishly, even refusing a supporting part on Broadway because it's beneath him. He is given one last chance at career redemption, and it hinges on a successful test for television.
7x48 - Southern Exposure
July 30, 1956
In this comedy set in Mississippi, an aging Southern belle grudgingly opens her mansion to tacky Yankee tourists during the annual azalea festival. Needing the money to keep the bank from foreclosing on her home, she also takes in a boarder, a young man who's written a popular but critical book about the Natchez way of life.
7x49 - Maybe Tomorrow
August 6, 1956
Bernice has spent her whole life working in her father's store and being dominated by her beautiful mother. When she finally finds love in the form of a salesman, her mother disapproves. Bernice is forced to choose between the man of her dreams and her controlling parent.
7x50 - The Company Wife
August 27, 1956
An accountant who's a rabid baseball fan is chosen to umpire the game between his office and their biggest competitor. When he makes a close call against his company's team, he finds himself a shunned outcast.
7x51 - Mr. Parker's Rhubarb
September 3, 1956
An accountant is picked to umpire the baseball game between his firm and it's competitor. The ump makes a critical decision against his own team and this doesn't make him a hero around the office or his home.