Telephone Time

- Season 3

(1957)

Homesteader, Steve Williams, is murdered in cold blood by land grabber, Pete Dawson. Steve's fiancee Eliza Stewart watches as his killer is acquitted by a local jury, but the circuit judge is disgusted by the verdict and makes his feelings known. Dawson gets his just deserts when he is later killed in a poker dispute but, encouraged by the judge, Eliza determines to further the cause of justice in her own way.

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Story of two orphan boys vs. juvenile court.

A look at the trials and tribulations of the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh from the point of view of his brother Theo. This episode of "Telephone Time" depicts Theo Van Gogh's life and how he suffered with his famous brother.

The story of the seasick navigator ridiculed by sailors when he said that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line and would get them to where they were going.

Composer Hoagy Carmichael relates the story of a song he wrote in 1938 that was inspired by an anonymous poem, "I get along without you very well."

Before her final parole from a prison school, Alice Martin, a shy and reserved young girl, is given a job to see how she adjusts to the outside world. She returns to tell the other girls at the school that she is going to be married.

Two sailors explored jagged cliffs overlooking a remote beach near Monterey California. The earth suddenly gives way and one sailor falls to the rocks below. The other man goes for help and finds five telephone linemen at a nearby lodge who rush to the scene. They find the injured sailor far below them with the tide coming in.

A famous author sets out to prove that a convicted murderer is innocent of his crimes.

Story of how Sam Houston "retreated to victory" and helped win the war for the Republic of Texas.

Joey and other orphanage boys are looking through a mail-order catalog, choosing the inexpensive gift they are allowed at Christmas. When the superintendent asks Joey what he wants, Joey tells him he would like a frying pan to fry eggs.

In 1956, a Hungarian family whose son is a prominent revolutionary leader must flee their country during their abortive revolt against the Soviet Union before the Russians can capture them and use them as hostages to force the son to surrender. The daughter stumbles across a group of smugglers who she confuses with the Three Magi of the Bible and enlists their help in their race to the Austrian border.

A sad and lonely man, a Bowery bum, dies and the detectives probe his past to reveal he was a real hero of two World Wars.

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Battle of wills between surgeon and lieutenant of a cavalry unit in the Mexican American War. Lieutenant wants every available man - even the sick - to help take a key position. Surgeon tries to protect the sick men.

The owner of a ferry service across the Arno River in Italy decides to abandon his boat and build a bridge. But he can find no one to help him with his project.

The true story of Major Tyson, the captain of a military plane with engine trouble, and his fight to keep the plane in the air after reaching the point of no return.

A baby is born with an incurable ailment, and given only three months to live. The young mother decides that when the baby dies, its eyes must be donated to the eye bank.

Renowned chef Henri Charpentier--the man who invented Crepes Suzette--recalls the "good old days" with famed actress Sarah Bernhardt. He recalls for her how he went from being one of the world's most famous--and richest--chefs to his situation now, with his business gone and his once considerable fortune dissipated.

Story of an unsung racing mechanic who, because of a club foot, has never dared to race himself. All he needs is the confidence to succeed.

Troubled Mary Norrich embarks on her first voyage on her sea captain husband Robert Norrich's ship. Mary has a vision of a ghostly apparition who tries to tell her of some kind of impending danger. Alas, Mary can't convince her husband or the other crew members that something is amiss.

The story of the relationship between Austrian pacifist Bertha Kinski von Suttner and Alfred Nobel.

The U.S. Army has rejected an appeal to overturn the 1865 conviction of Dr. Samuel Mudd as an accomplice in the escape of John Wilkes Booth.

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At the end of the Civil War, Texas cattlemen find themselves facing disaster with too many cattle, a bad drought, and no market for their livestock.