The 20th Century-Fox Hour

- Season 2

(1956)

An American army officer is stationed in Japan. After a devastating earthquake hits the country, he and his wife end up adopting an orphaned Japanese girl. Not long afterward the officer is transferred to Hawaii, and there he discovers that his commanding officer is severely prejudiced against the Japanese. The officer is afraid to stand up to his CO's racism, much of it directed at his new daughter, because of concerns it may hurt his career. Complications ensue.

A widow rents a cottage and forms a friendship with the ghost of the previous owner.

Lighthearted tale of an elderly counterfeiter, played by Spring Byington. Based on the movie Mister 880,in which Edmund Gwenn played the counterfeiter.

'Smoke Jumpers' of the U.S. Forest Service battle a raging fire in Montana that ends in tragedy.

A man employs the same ruthless authority in running the bank he founded that he imposes on his own family. His sons hate him enough to want to destroy him.

A father and his two sons are determined to prove that their American racing car is better than any of the competing cars in an important Italian race.

Germans hope to get secret information from a man whose code name is Cicero.

Jimmy Ringo does not always want to live up to his reputation as the fastest gun in the West. But this kind of reputation dies hard, and affects the behaviour of all those with whom he comes into contact - or nearly all anyway.

Story of a reporter who follows up on an ad placed by a convicted man's mother, claiming her son's innocence. Arthur Farlee is a detective in the Pasadena, California Police Department, and plays himself in the drama.

Young lawyer Abraham Lincoln defends two brothers who both confessed to killing the same man.

When does a man stand and fight and when does he take his family out of harm's way? A man's stepson is the only witness in a murder trial.

A dramatization of the great Chicago fire, featuring Mrs. O'Leary's cow, and the political and romantic rivalry of the O'Leary brothers. The brothers want different things for the city, but they have the same woman in their sights.

A newspaperman has a tough decision. Which is more important, the safety of a kidnapped child or keeping the public informed?

A story of the American Civil War and its effect on an isolated Army post when men from both sides join forces to fight a common enemy - Apaches.

The story of Miss Sherwood, a young school teacher, and how her influence over an unruly boy helped him to become a famous man.

How can some high strung frogmen accomplish their mission when they don't really get along?

John Hodges doesn't want to retire and devises a cunning scheme to avoid having to do so.

How does a cop protect his family when his profession encroaches on his family life?

Mae Swasey, a New York marriage broker with some interesting clients, meets pretty Christina Brady in the beauty salon of one of Mae's clients. Christina has just unhappily discovered that her boyfriend is married. Mae, who lost her own husband to another woman, convinces Christina to break up with the married man. She then plans to set Christina up with a likable --and very single-- dentist, Matt Hornbeck. But Christina, who disapproves of the marriage broker business, doesn't actually know Mae's profession. Can Mae bring the young couple together without Christina's...