Alcoa Premiere

- Season 1

(1961)

A drama about the rehabilitation of psychologically disturbed.

Paul Malone (Charlton Heston) wakes up in a forest to find an empty limousine, a dead chauffeur and three unsavory characters staring at him.

Lloyd Bridges stars as a US fighter pilot shot down during the Korean War who is tortured and imprisoned in solitary confinement. To resist his captors he uses his mind to design a house that he always wanted to build for his wife and children while blocking out their attempts to break him.

A landowner has odd ways of showing his dislike for his new neighbor.

Six astronauts have been trained for the first one-man space flight and the day of the final choice has arrived.

While Helen Collins is busy settling her family into their new home, her little girl Julie strikes up a friendship with Emily Potter.

An ex-convict seems to be guilty of murder until a cop realizes that only the victim's wife profits from his death.

Frank and Ruth Willoughby are determined to find out why their son's college grades have suddenly dropped.

A docudrama about the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the event that triggered World War I.

Millie Norman (Shelley Winters), a lonely and bored young housewife, tries to escape the drudgery of her day-to-day existence by withdrawing into fantasy. Recognizing her problem, Millie tries to pull herself out of this morass by throwing herself into PTA work, but is thwarted by her inconvenienced but clueless husband (Ed Nelson).

A reporter covers a series of murders, all perpetrated against spinsters.

American agricultural expert Henry Detweiler is a prisoner in Vietnam under sentence of death.

In this future time a young man was charged with an offense against the state and marshaled into a huge building crammed with banks and banks of computers. These computers would absorb and assess the evidence.

Fred Astaire plays a swamped investment broker who retires early, only to become involved to the point of overwork in another career as a cartoonist.

An elderly drifter tries to get work on the town newspaper, because he thinks he's the greatest typesetter in the world.

Dr. Jonathan Bent happens upon a car accident on the highway and acting as a Good Samaritan stops to help injured motorist Bob Page. Shortly thereafter Page sues him for malpractice. Although Page agrees to an out of court settlement, Dr. Bent doesn't want to concede since he's done nothing wrong.

The story of Joseph Howe, an English professor at Channing University whose new job is made difficult by a brilliant, uncompromising student.

Professional bronco rider Hoby Dunlap was acquitted of treason during the Korean War, but his efforts to enter a rodeo contest are blocked by officials who fear audiences won't want a "traitor" in the rodeo. Rodeo star Mitch Guthrie fights to support Hoby.

Someone is trying to kill Jim Hunter (Gary Merrill), and it may be one of his daughter's boy friends.

A US Navy sailor must deal with the hardships of World War II - his name is Quinton McHale.

J.B. Marshall (J. Pat O'Malley ) is wiped out by the 1929 stock-market crash on the night of his daughter's debutante party.

Criminal lawyer Max McIntire (Barry Morse) tries to stop his partner's marriage. He's convinced a wife can ruin a career.

A dying man's startling confession to a murder arouses deep consternation in the people directly responsible for the conviction of the man who has already been executed for this crime.

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Actress Laura Bennett (Celeste Holm) must undergo a serious throat operation that may end her career.

Sue Wilson (Joan Hackett) has answered an ad for a job as housekeeper, but her nervousness arouses suspicions.

Dana Andrews stars as a detective who arrests a burglar and feels responsible for the welfare of the robber's little boy.

Frank and Rose Shelton arrive home one evening to find their apartment has been robbed. Frank is worried: If the police find out about one item stolen from his safe - he'll be in hot water.

An orphanage director (Eddie Albert) takes two children to have their tonsils out, only to discover that his must go too.

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