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September 26, 1958

Season 8

01. A Thing to Fight For

A peace-loving Civil War veteran seeks refuge from the violence of war as overseer on a Florida plantation.

September 26, 1958

02. The Best House in the Valley

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October 3, 1958

03. The Hasty Hanging

A man and his wife are sentenced to hang without a trial.

October 10, 1958

04. The Four

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October 17, 1958

05. The Trouble With Ruth

Not even her husband knows that Ruth Elliot is a kleptomaniac. But hoodlum Joseph Libo finds out about her illness and threatens to tell her husband unless she helps him carry out a robbery.

October 24, 1958

06. The Connoisseur

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October 31, 1958

07. False Impression

A crippled dental technician falls in love with a pretty girl who refuses to have anything to do with him. He decides to steal a fortune in jewels in order to force the girl to overlook his physical handicap and marry him.

November 7, 1958

08. A Game of Hate

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November 14, 1958

09. Last Edition

Newspaper editor Sheldon Black is being shoved aside for the publisher's slimy protégé, Dean Lowell, who passed Black's ideas off as his own. Before exiting, Black orders Lowell to cover the execution of a condemned man that Lowell was friends with in the war. If the reptile Lowell had been willing to soil his "war hero" reputation and testify, he could have saved the man from the electric chair. Instead, he remains quiet and turns in quite a news story.

November 21, 1958

10. Coney Island Winter

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November 28, 1958

11. Third Son

The youngest brother is torn between whether to follow in the footsteps of his brother who is a frontier marshal or the other one who is a dashing gambler.

December 5, 1958

12. Drive a Desert Road

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December 12, 1958

13. No Answer

A swindler who's known for separating rich widows from their money is the lead suspect in the murder of this latest "pigeon." His alibi seems pretty air tight: he was with the investigating cop when the murder supposedly took place.

December 19, 1958

14. Small Wonder

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December 26, 1958

15. A Fistful of Love

Drama of a prizefighter's battle for survival.

January 2, 1959

16. The Deadly Guest

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January 9, 1959

17. You Can't Win 'Em All

A professional football player refuses to admit that his playing days are over.

January 16, 1959

18. And Practically Strangers

From childhood Alan Mitchell has always felt his abilities and achievements overshadowed by those of his younger brother Hugh. When Hugh requisitions Alan to work with him on a nuclear bomb project it puts an additional strain on their already tense relationship.

January 30, 1959

19. Death Trap

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February 6, 1959

20. The Man Who Had No Friends

Champion Barry Brannon retires from a successful career as a fighter and goes into the restaurant business with his long-time manager, Charlie. When Barry proposes to his girl, he finds that she is in love with Charlie.

February 13, 1959

21. Various Temptations

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February 20, 1959

22. On the Brink

Story of an intense hatred between father and son.

February 27, 1959

23. Stand-In for Murder

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March 6, 1959

24. Ivy League

After 30 years in the Marine Corps, Bull Mitchell retires and enrolls as a college freshman.

March 13, 1959

25. Frederick

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March 20, 1959

26. The Salted Mine

In the Old West, a beautiful mine owner hires a detective to discover if she has been swindled when she bought a mine.

March 27, 1959

27. The Dreamer

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April 3, 1959

28. This Will Do Nicely

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April 17, 1959

29. The Case of the Two Sisters

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May 1, 1959

30. Boy on a Fence

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May 15, 1959

31. Mirror, Mirror

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May 29, 1959

32. The Rumor

The guys of the billing department at Brittanica Insurance heard that one of them is about to be let go. After breaking up with his girlfriend-of-the-week, office playboy Eddie shoots off his mouth and says he's gonna quit and leave town. Of course, he reconsiders as soon as he meets another woman.

June 5, 1959

33. The Miss and the Missiles

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June 12, 1959

34. Hostage

A motorcycle cop becomes hostage to a cold-blooded slayer who plans to use him to escape police roadblocks.

June 19, 1959

35. Cowboy Five Seven

This dramatization was about a typical day in the lives of the men of SAC, was made by Stewart, a reserve officer in the air force, at Westover (Mass.) Air Base. No professional actors are used; officers and enlisted men and their families portray themselves.

July 17, 1959

36. A Ballad to Die By

Rancher Anna Carrick hires singing cowboy Johnny Guitar to play at her wedding. Johnny soon learns that Anna is to marry a killer against her will.

July 31, 1959