Four Star Playhouse
This award-winning TV series featured four rotating stars, Charles Boyer, David Niven, Ida Lupino, and Dick Powell in individual episodes consisting of everything from comedy to drama.
The Man in the Cellar
A little girl who regularly talks to imaginary friends grows frustrated when her parents refuse to believe that there is a real man in the cellar.
Interlude
A girl at a boarding school is neglected by her family and grows depressed until she becomes infatuated with a vacationing newspaper correspondent who befriends her.
The Wallet
A French waiter with more pride than money will not stand for his sickly wife to be admitted to a free public hospital. When a wealthy customer leaves behind a wallet containing thousands of dollars, the server takes it to upgrade his wife's medical care.
The Adolescent
Ida Lupino is a teacher who, in her role as a member of her school's disciplinary board, must investigate her nephew's misconduct.
Vote of Confidence
A con man, recently released from prison, attempts to recoup his fortunes by convincing an heiress' secretary that he needs funds to run an orphanage.
My Own Dear Dragon
A successful playwright does his best to avoid reading the script written by his young new wife. She can't understand why he refuses to encourage her. At a party celebrating his 25th year in the theatre, he reveals the incident from his past.
Meet a Lonely Man
An attractive young lady mistakes a lonely hotel desk clerk for a Texas oil millionaire she'd once met. Loving the attention she's lavishing on him, he plays along...until his big-spending catches up with him.
Bourbon Street
Jeff Ward is a musician who got out of his Bourbon Street neighborhood but lost his wife to Danny Paris. Three years later, his ex-wife is dead, and Jeff comes back intending to kill Danny for what he's done.
Stuffed Shirt
An unfaithful wife learns the hard way that her husband isn't the only "stuffed shirt" to give her problems.
Breakfast in Bed
An artist is enticed away from his lucrative commercial advertising contracts by a young model who shows obvious disappointment that he is not striving to achieve his potential as a creative artist.
A Kiss for Mr. Lincoln
Henry entertains railroad executive Murdock to persuade him to support Lincoln for president, but Murdock is only interested in Henry's wife Delight.
Fair Trial
Chicago television newsman Dave Sheridan (Dick Powell) arrives in a small Ohio town, Hadenville, where Richard Fulton has just been lynched. The chief of police tells Sheridan he confessed to killing sweet old Mrs. Winslow and the town went wild.
Henry and the Psychopathic Horse
After falling for a medical student, a New York City psychiatrist travels to her family ranch to announce their engagement. Her father hates city slickers and challenges Henry to ride an unbroken stallion known as a "killer."
The Collar
The night before the military plans to massacre a warring tribe of Blackfoot Indians, an imprisoned and tortured priest comes out from the tribe to ask for mercy.
With All My Heart
Sarah is a plump schoolteacher who has been a good friend to Joe all of his life. Joe loves and marries someone else, but Sarah stays close to Joe and helps him raise his family when Joe's wife dies.
Uncle Fred Flits By
Uncle Fred descends upon a suburban home, completely disrupts the lives of the family by his eccentric behavior, and brings two young lovers together. His unwilling accomplice, and a horrified spectator of this chaos, is his nephew, Pongo.
The Frightened Woman
Carol buys a book at a quaint bookstore but forgot to take it with her. The next day, the store has disappeared. Her husband and a therapist think she's imagining it, but Carol encounters the saleswoman who sold her the book on the street.
