Young Jody's widowed father lets her buy the gaudy, feathered hat she's dying to have. When his girl is bullied by other kids for wearing it, he begins to question his parenting skills and entertains the idea of sending her to a girl's boarding school.

S00E00 The Magic Hat

A dinner party is interrupted by an intruder.

S00E00 To Kill a Man

A man blames his wife's death on his soon to be son-in-law.

S00E00 Unforgivable

Extra

A retired gentleman has been forbidden by his wife from going to the casino. He sneaks out anyway and wins 2 million francs. A young vixen observes his winnings and demands the 2 mil as blackmail.

S01E16 The Lady'Game

Weary Dr. Gentry gets no rest from his irritating patients. He deals with ill-mannered kids and parents who can't make a move without checking with him first. An evening out with his wife becomes a disaster when a panicked new mother interrupts the balcony scene with a silly phone call.

S01E13 A Matter of Courage

A notorious criminal returns to his home town after 15 years away, and a young man wants to join him in notoriety and, probably, death at the hands of police.

S01E05 Welcome Home

A refined man stands outside of a home trying to convince strangers who pass by to retrieve his silk hat from inside the house.

S01E03 The LoHat

A writer's fiction becomes a terrifying reality, sucking him into his own novel being played out. Ray Ericson writes of a lovely woman who leaves her steady boyfriend for a man out to kill her. Suddenly he realizes life is imitating art: he is in the killer role!

S01E01 Dark Stranger

Season 1

A famous plastic surgeon is recruited to severely disfigure the face of a beautiful countess, in order to relate to her husband, who was burned and disfigured in a serious accident and has become a recluse.

S02E31 The Doctor and the Countess

An artist discovers that one of his favorite model's has been murdered and an investigation begins to discover the murderer.

S02E30 Village in the City

Kit and her fiancÃ© are hosting a Mardi Gras costume party at her huge mansion when frightening news arrives. Her ex-husband, a crazed murderer, has just escaped from prison and is believed to be costumed as the corpse-like character from Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death."

S02E29 Masquerade

Wise-guy newspaperman Fred Jordan writes a column making fun of normal men who panic during a fire. Soon afterward, he gets a letter from a deranged man who promises Jordan that he will soon know the real meaning of the word panic because within 24 hours, the man is going to kill Jordan.

S02E28 A in Panic

Neglected by her husband, Stacy goes out with wealthy bachelor Paul. The evening ends in a fatal car accident from which Stacy escapes unnoticed. She is the only one who can save Paul from manslaughter charges, but at risk of her own marriage.

S02E26 Lady of the Orchids

The ex-girlfriend of mobster Al Maxim provided him with an alibi in a murder case. Now she now wants to leave town before the trial and marry her new boyfriend. Al tries to shoot her, but she escapes, hopping on the last bus of the night.

S02E24 End of the Line

McGraw, a private eye, is hired by Lila Lamont to protect her from her threatening husband Louis.

S02E23 Meet McGraw Long Count

An engaged couple and the woman's former suitor take shelter in an abandoned house, too late to notice an unexploded bomb. Their retreat is cut off by a cave-in, and they must defuse the bomb with instructions delivered over a phone line.

S02E22 The Bomb

Jim is the storekeeper of a hardware store who offers to be the caretaker of a customer's relative named Nancy, an attractive 17-year-old girl. Pedigo, the Spanish bandit, fancies Nancy. In order to win her, Pedigo needs to settle a score with her handsome chaperone, Chuck.

S02E21 The Whizzer

S02E19 Indian Taker

The owner of a financially distressed casino faces a dilemma when his estranged son gambles against him. Either his casino will go bankrupt, or he'll bring about the financial ruin of his son.

S02E17 The Bad Streak

A woman visits an isolated house expecting to meet with the realtor. Instead, she encounters a murderer who's escaped from a mental hospital. When a couple drops in to tour the home, she tries to escape with them, but they refuse to believe her story of a killer with a body in the fireplace.

S02E15 Houfor Sale

Predictable Andy Bush is taking a train to his annual three week vacation without his wife. A young woman in trouble approaches him and asks him to help her by pretending to be her husband.

S02E13 A Man of the World

Trudy is incensed when her rent goes up after the city relaxes rent control. She marches down to the mayor's office and threatens to make his name mud if he doesn't reinstate the controls. He doesn't, so she calls some reporters and sets up housekeeping in the city park.

S02E11 The Girl on the Park Bench

A newspaper reporter is intrigued as to why a woman hired a dive team to retrieve her purse from the Chicago River.

S02E07 in the Night

A defense attorney idles in a swank restaurant while his client's on trial for murder. The attorney's PIs search for a female witness who can get the defendant off, so the attorney avoids court to keep delaying the trial. As the judge's temper boils, the attorney wonders if the woman really exists.

S02E05 The Witness

A brain-damaged war hero is exploited by his prominent family as he longs for his own small house, but his miserly sister-in-law refuses to provide the commander with a $500 down payment, claiming that she needs every sou to marry off his troublesome younger brother to a wealthy woman.

S02E03 A Place of HiOwn

Willie Dante begrudgingly lets the son of the district attorney play dice in his illegal gambling hall, under threat of exposure. Willie kicks him out anyway when he finds out that his checks are bad, but a gangster under indictment robs Dante of the boy's checks, in order to blackmail the DA.

S02E02 The Squeeze

Season 2

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.

S03E37 The Frightened Woman

Although it seems to be just another night in his gambling casino, Willie Dante runs into an old flame who reveals that the party she's with want to rob the place.

S03E31 The HouAlwayWins

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.

S03E30 With All My Heart

Jacques receives a letter from an old artist friend stating of his wife that "this woman will be the death of me". When this friend disappears and is presumed dead soon after, Jacques goes to Madeira to investigate.

S03E29 Madiera-Madiera

Robert Louis Stevenson, near the end of his life, mediates between two Samoan tribes to prevent war.

S03E22 Tusitala

On the way home after their honeymoon, a bride confesses two things to her groom: She's wealthy and has three teenage children plus a dog waiting for them at her home. He soon learns that they're a wild bunch in need of taming.

S03E21 The Wild Bunch

An unfaithful wife learns the hard way that her husband isn't the only "stuffed shirt" to give her problems.

S03E16 Shirt

A championship bridge player attempts to woo the woman he had previously loved and lost, by competing against her financially desperate husband.

S03E12 A ChampionAffair

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.

S03E10 Meet a Lonely Man

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 that causes him to discourage her writing.

S03E08 My Own Dear Dragon

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

S03E07 Vote af Confidence

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.

S03E03 Interlude

A novice social worker is dispatched to the home of a widower who refuses to send his children to school.

S03E02 Never Explain

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.

S03E01 Man in the Cellar

Season 3

Emily is an invalid who needs a caretaker. Her husband leaves her home alone one day, and she begins to stew over the low regard that he has for her. He, on the other hand, resents the opportunities that he's missed because of Emily.

S04E24 The Caof Emily Cameron

An elderly, wealthy, wheelchair-bound man is confronted by a younger man whom he had double-crossed over twenty years ago while travelling alone on a train. The younger man, now bent on revenge, tells the elderly man that he intends to kill him when the train passes through an upcoming tunnel.

S04E14 Tunnel of Fear

Billie hires an odd man as the new pin boy at her bowling alley but quickly fires him because of his violent outbursts. Only then does she learn he's a murderous psycho who only recently just escaped from prison.

S04E12 Dark Meeting

A man who is stressed over the affairs of his business walks out and goes on a surreal train ride to the nonexistent town of Meadbrook.

S04E10 A Place Full Of Strangers

Ann marries wealthy Richard and moves into his family mansion. Richard accidentally killed his first wife in a marital conflict, and Ann's presence in the mansion confuses him and causes flashbacks.

S04E08 Looking GlaHouse

In the Australian Army in North Africa in World War II, a military deserter was ordered executed for a murder he probably did not commit. Disgraced Captain Adams is ordered to lead the firing squad in exchange for the restoration of his own honor.

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