Telephone Time

- Season 1

(1956)

A Greek immigrant to the US goes to work at a junkyard owned by his friend. As he becomes more successful, he brings his wife and sons over from Greece, but his wife dies in a flu epidemic, leaving him to raise his sons alone. The sons eventually win a scholarship to a prestigious military school, and when they return home they find that their father now has his own "empire" of more than 20 junkyards and is known as "The Golden Junkman". But his success is tempered by the scorn and ridicule heaped on his sons because their "junkman" father's lack of education. He ...

A defiant farmer breaks the law of his New England town and grows a beard. Even after he's put on trial he refuses to shave it off.

A cobbler posing as a captain absconds with the treasury of a Berlin suburb in 1906. Based upon a true story.

A dramatization of the capture of German submarine U-505, the only German sub ever captured in World War II.

A dramatization of the story of Caspar Hauser, a tortured 17-year-old found lying on a street in Nuremberg in 1830.

After the death of his spouse, Thomas Lincoln brings home a new wife. Young Abe resents his new stepmother, but she slowly wins him over with her kindness.

While in Shanghai a husband races against time to develop insulin for his wife.

An old man who fancies himself Emperor of the United and Protector of Mexico becomes an object of ridicule in his home town of San Francisco.

Story of Heinrich Schliemann's quest for truth and riches in the myths he read about.

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When a mailman in Cuba learns that Cuba has no entries in the 1904 Olympic Games, he vows to enter the Marathon and win.

The story of an American engineer's rescue work after the earthquake of August 6, 1949 in Ecuador.

During the Revolutionary War, a German baker becomes a secret agent of the Continental Army. He enters British camps as a civilian and talks to Hessian soldiers.

Joseph Priestley, a minister and scientist is up against much when his followers dismiss his scientific findings.

Samuel Howe has the daunting task of teaching a young girl blind and deaf from her infancy. After about 200 lessons, he finally discovers the key to breaking through to her.

Once upon a time in Colonial America, publishers could be jailed for libel -- even if the libel was the truth. This is the story of Andrew Hamilton and the Zenger case, which would lead to the modernization of freedom of the press.

In Paris at the time of the French Revolution, Dr. Pinel is assigned to oversee the lunatic asylum. He is shocked at the squalor in which the patients are forced to live and sets about to reform the asylum.