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In the later stages of the Nuremberg Trials, four German judges are accused of perverting the course of justice.

October 17, 1957, the CBS Television Network diverted from its typical format of live dramatic presentations for "Playhouse 90" to cover Michael Todd's gigantic party commemorating the one-year anniversary of the release of his film "Around The World In 80 Days". Todd invited 18-thousand people to the gala in New York City's Madison Square Garden though the number probably was far greater because of party-crashers. Walter Cronkite hosted the coverage with future ABC Sports ace Jim McKay and news veteran Bill Leonard handling the interviewing of numerous celebrity party guests. During the broadcast, Garry Moore hosted occasional comedy vignettes of how Todd came to create his Academy award-winning movie.

An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is exploited by his manager, despite the efforts of a compassionate young woman who tries to help him recover his self-respect.

A group of people gathered at a wealthy man's country home on a summer weekend engage in an exploration of their varied romantic entanglements.

Three conspirators plan the death of a South American head of state.

On a cattle drive across the prairie, the sons of a wealthy cattle baron plot his death.

The completion of the mission has tragic consequences.

War deprives Tanguy of his childhood. When his mother returns to Spain to oppose the Franco regime, he is left in Nazi-occupied Marseilles, France.

This telecast of George Balanchine's famous production was broadcast only four years after it was premiered by the New York City Ballet. This was the only episode of the series televised in color.

The story of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929.

An elderly immigrant tries to buy an old house in New England and is opposed by snobbish locals.

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

The James boys, being framed for a bank heist, are saved by the banker's daughter.

A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his wealthy neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.

Based on a true story, Donald Bashor robs and bludgeons two women to their deaths. While committing the crimes he maintains a normal existence with his girlfriend Florry.

Waiting to find out if he's obtained a valuable promotion, a banker returns to the small town he grew up in.

Photographer Paul is invited to a French estate to take pictures but a romance develops with the lady of the house. A sudden death creates a suspicion of murder.

Middle-aged actress Victoria Maxwell comes to terms with her destructive lifestyle as she struggles with the lead role in a Broadway-bound play. Matters are complicated by the fact that she is co-starring opposite her estranged husband, Allen Grant, whom she never stopped loving.

The story of William Palmer, one of the most notorious poisoners in Victorian England - or was he?

Romanticized life story of Robert Briscoe, the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin.

In the 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell determines to become a doctor.

Sammy Hogarth, a vaudeville comedian who now has his own TV show, is a ruthless egomaniac who demands instant obedience from his staff and heaps abuse on those in lesser positions than his. His most vituperative behavior, however, is reserved for his weak-willed brother, Lester, whom Sammy has hired as his assistant but whom he really uses as his whipping boy.

An investigation into a massacre of Native Americans.

After a near-death experience, a businessman starts to re-think his life, and wonders about leaving his wife.

A woman is inexplicably killed on a street-corner. What has this to do with other deaths around the city?

The happy atmosphere in Mr. Sizeman's factory is disrupted by an argumentative newcomer - his son.

Patients at a mental hospital meet for a group therapy session.

Americans try to cope with the aftermath of a nuclear catastrophe.

Slow witted, and tired, Fentry leads a lonely life of grinding poverty in his sharecropper's shack until a sick, pregnant woman escaping her abusive husband comes there. He takes her in and cares for her, eventually falling in love with her.

A French army officer arrives at a remote fort in Algeria and discovers that atrocities against the local population are commonplace

In Paris, a former soldier is alarmed when the girl he has fallen in love with demonstrates a rather naïve and romanticized attitude to war.

A State Department official is required to leak a confidential document - which may have terrible repercussions.

The story of abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry.

The old people's home is a pretty miserable place - until the arrival of the mysterious Mr. Erwenter.

Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will anyone believe him?

Marry in haste, repent at leisure? Well, maybe.

In the last days of World War II, two English airmen are captured by an ordinary German citizen, who, instead of handing them over to the authorities, keeps them prisoner in his cellar, neglecting to tell them when the war ends.

Determined to pay off his debts, Mark Twain sets off on a lecture tour.

A vaudeville comic becomes a silent film star.

A wealthy industrialist has trouble with his sons.

It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.

When a much-admired community leader dies, a journalist starts to investigate his life - and finds he was not the man he seemed.

When Zachary and Elsa separate, each seems tempted to start a new love affair.

A wealthy mill owner finances the education of a clever, but poor, young man.

A true story, it follows a pastor and his wife through forties beginning with one biological child, Donny. But the upheaval of the war years results in a number of mixed raced children that the Doss family adopt until they have 12 children.

Some racetrack Johnnies are talking between races when one wonders if you can hypnotize a horse into thinking it's a champion. The idea sets in motion a series of hilarious events.

Events in the aftermath of World War Three.

Down on his luck, war hero Lionel Amblin contemplates committing a murder.

An inventor, pondering on how he might differently have arranged his life, invents a time machine and decides to make a few changes.

When a rich woman dies without signing her new will, all kinds of problems ensue.

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

A newly-widowed woman goes on a trip to Europe and meets a French artist.

A gunfighter is terrorizing a small western town. The townspeople finally pool their money to a hire another gunfighter to drive him out of town. The townsfolk thought they had it bad until they handed the reigns over to the new terror. Pooling their money again, this time to hire Jeffers to get rid of Dancer.

A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.

The story of Perle Mesta, who became, first, a renowned society hostess, and then an ambassadress.

Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".

A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shipping magnate, and her growing love for a handsome young political prisoner who was scheduled to be put to death when the vessel reached its destination. Though unyielding at first, the ship's stern captain eventually helped the woman to make a clean getaway, with the condemned man in tow.

A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.

Four nuns, led by Sister Teresa, begin a treacherous journey across the Arizona desert in 1870. Their faith enables them to deal with the challenges of nature and the hostility of their fellow mankind.

Just after World War Two ends, an American woman takes in a Polish war orphan boy, a concentration camp survivor. But conflict arises when her husband, a returning Air Force bomber pilot, hates the boy and his psychological baggage.

Broadway legend Helen Morgan 's life as told by her mother, from her early start in second rate speakeasies to star of top rated shows and owning her own club. Also seen is her poor choices, such as her affair with a married man, her short marriage to a much younger man, a court fight over an adopted baby and her fatal descent into booze addiction.

On her tenth wedding anniversary (which is also her daughter's birthday), a wife begins to suspect her husband of unfaithfulness.

Captain Russell Bidlack, commander of a U.S. Cavalry unit in 1870, determines to complete a rescue mission through dangerous Indian territory. In the course of the mission, he rescues the wives of two slain traders and captures the Indian chief accused of the murders. When he returns to the fort, he's faced with a revolt among his own men.

Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.

American soldiers must use stealth to take over a German command post in Normandy.

The last hours in the life of Spain's most celebrated matador.

A drama set in 1956, during the unsuccessful Hungarian uprising against the Russians

A mild-mannered schoolteacher gradually abandons all his principles - and finds the success which has always hitherto eluded him.