Four Star Playhouse

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.

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

Neglected by her family, a boarding school student is depressed until she becomes infatuated with a visiting journalist who befriends her.

A French waiter with more pride than money steals a wealthy customer's forgotten wallet to put his sickly wife in a good medical facility.

Ida Lupino is a teacher who, in her role as a member of her school's disciplinary board, must investigate her nephew's misconduct.

The head of detectives runs into problems when he suspect his fiancé has committed murder.

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.

A successful playwright actively avoids reading his new wife's script, and at his theatrical anniversary party, he finally tells her why.

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

A disillusioned Hollywood screenwriter returns to his old neighborhood bar, where he meets an alcoholic genius and undergoes an epiphany.

A dejected man planning to jump from a bridge hires a taxi to take him there. Rather than refusing service, the taxi driver offers companionship.

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

An artist in commercial advertising is enticed away by a young model who reminds him of his creative potential.

A nun in a German orphanage during WWII is determined to marry her oldest orphan to an American serviceman in order to secure a future for her.

While her husband is failing to persuade a railroad executive into supporting Lincoln's presidency, a loving wife concocts a flirtatious scheme.

A Chicago TV newsman arrives in a small Ohio town where a man has just been vengefully lynched by the townsfolk.

On the way home from their honeymoon, a bride confesses to her groom that she is wealthy and has three teenage children waiting for them.

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

An American professor in Japan is fired after falling for a former student. He returns to the US, resolved to bring his intended, but WWII intervenes.

A recently released criminal gets a restaurant job in an attempt to go straight, but her employer wants her to continue in her ways and cover for him.

A woman with no companion other than her young daughter knows that an escaped convict is on his way to kill her.

When an artist's muse becomes an unknown young woman he met on a bridge near his vacation retreat, he grows desperate to find her again.

The night before the military plans to massacre a tribe of Indians, an imprisoned and tortured priest comes out from the tribe to ask for mercy.

When an artist disappears and is presumed dead, a friend who had received a concerning letter about the man's wife goes to investigate.

A plump schoolteacher has been good to a male friend all of his life, but he falls in love and marries someone else.

On a standard night at the gambling hall, the owner of the place runs into an old flame -- who reveals she came with people who want to rob the place.

Uncle Fred descends upon a suburban home, completely disrupts the lives of the family by his eccentric behavior, and brings two young lovers together.

A con man on parole is drawn back into his old games when a single, wealthy woman moves in next door to him.

An innocent, naïve young woman is very verbal about her wish to be married, but no one has seen her betrothed and they speculate that he isn't real.

Deciding on a layover, two cops transporting a prisoner place him in a local jail, where he tries to trick the locals into releasing him.

A complex web of deception is revealed during the investigation of the assassination of a police official.

After leaving behind a purchased book, a woman returns the next day to retrieve it, only to find the quaint bookstore has disappeared.

After bombing her first attempt at live acting on Broadway, a world famous movie actress seeks out the help of an acting instructor.