The Eleventh Hour

- Season 2

(1963)

Dr. Graham is joined by elder psychiatrist Dr. L. Richard Starke. Dr. Starke treats housewife Lillian Marnell who has discovered her husband's affair after a hotel returns a compact to her left behind on a trip she didn't take. When Lillian develops sudden pains, she's referred to Dr. Starke for treatment of psychosomatic illness, and he attempts to uncover the root of her problem, which begins with Lillian's frigidity.

Brilliant atomic scientist Howard Ellendale jeopardizes a potential government position when he declines to answer questions for a Senate inquiry committee regarding his late wife's psychiatric treatment. Dr. Starke is engaged to help decide Ellendale's suitability for government clearance.

Senility and the plight of elderly patients are the subject of Fear begins at 40.

A disfigured man who was once handsome gives up on life.

Inveterate pickpocket Steve Kowlowski attempts to keep parole and build a life for himself after being released from prison. When he calls in love with Ruth, he conceals his criminal past, but returns to a life of crime in order to lavish her with gifts he can't afford on a dishwasher's salary. He seeks counseling from Dr. Starke before he destroys his future.

Todays theme is The Bronze Locust.

Dr. Starke (Ralph Bellamy) treats an unstable actress, Hallie Lambert (Kathryn Hays), whose lesbian tendencies are caused by her overbearing mother (Doris Dowling).

Brilliant scientist Kenneth Newell resists treatment for a potentially fatal illness when he's on the brink of a scientific breakthrough and wants to continue. His pregnant wife Mary can't cope with the possibility of losing her husband and will do anything to make him undergo immediate surgery.

A teenage couple attempt to cope with an unplanned pregnancy and hysterical parents.

Middle-aged Agatha Miller faces humiliation when she's left waiting at the altar by her fiancé. Unable to deal with the embarrassment and rejection, she hallucinates a ceremony and later clings to her denial by insisting to perplexed family and friends that she's actually wed.

Under pressure and taken advantage of by her demanding family, Bea Miller experiences dizzy spells and other physical manifestations that he doctor speculates are psychological. He sends her for a consultation with Dr. Graham, who uncovers a martyr complex.

Young mother Valerie Walker abandons her nine month old baby in a park. Later, after falling down a flight stairs, she awakens with amnesia and denies having a child. Psychiatric tests indicate mental illness, and Dr. Starke suspects the key to her problems lies in her own childhood experiences.

Beloved clown Go-Go Garrity is hospitalized with a serious heart condition. There he meets Barry Stewart, a sick little boy whose life is threatened by a desire to join his recently deceased father who he believes is waiting for him in the afterlife on the planet Mars. In an attempt to give the child a will to live, Garrity assumes the role of a Martian and places his own health in jeopardy.

After years of living under the influence of her overprotective mother, withdrawn Alicia Carter is confronted with stark reality following her mother's death. When their apartment building is subsequently condemned, Alicia refuses to leave the security of her home. Dr. Graham counsels her, but in solving her problem he inadvertently creates another one.

When Cody and Ruth Evans divorce, Cody is devastated by the court's decision to limit his visits with seven year old son Barry to Sundays only. Unable to accept the situation, Cody's mental health begins to decline, while Barry too suffers the negative consequences of his parents' separation.

On his wedding night, Brad Hamilton's bride Carol is left perplexed when he becomes oddly emotional and expresses a strong desire to cry. Dr. Starke is consulted and attempts to unravel Hamilton's unhealthy attachment to his widowed mother Billie.

Todays question is You're So Smart, Why Can't You Be Good?

Hoppy Hopp is a colorful politician who's country ways appeal to voters. He usually goes along with his brother Calvin's political wises until he sees a massive scandal about to happen.

Phil Warman, a sincere but over-eager school teacher consults with Dr. Graham about one of his students, rebellious teenager Leonard McCarty. Graham attempts to help the boy and isolate the source of the conflict between teacher and student.

An impostor's lies become problematic for the family that befriends him.

After wanton woman Carol Devon encourages her fifteen year old daughter Jackie to date a variety of older men, Carol finds herself jailed as an unfit mother. Meanwhile, Dr. Starke recommends a foster home for the wayward Jackie who is sent to live with Cabellos family.

Repressed Eddie Sanderson can't escape the emotional hold his domineering mother has over him. When she's suddenly called away to care for an ailing relative, Eddie takes advantage of his freedom and spends the day with Melanie, a beautiful friend. However, Eddie's joy is short-lived. He learns that his mother's plane has crashed, and it takes Dr. Graham and Dr. Stark to assuage his inevitable guilt.

In this seriocomic tale, a relaxing convention in Los Angeles takes an unexpected turn for Dr. Starke when he decides to visit Madelyn, the daughter of an old colleague. His quest involves him with an assortment of odd characters including an eccentric landlady, three lushes, and Madelyn herself, a kooky artist who's high on LSD. Meanwhile, Dr. Graham receives notice from the police that Starke has been jailed following a fracas.

Sarah Packsey, a personnel director for a large business, quarrels constantly with her husband Dennis over the issue of integration. Sarah feels that integration works; however, Dennis, a militant black writer, defiantly opposes it. Marital conflict over the issue becomes so problematic for Sarah that she seeks therapy from Dr. Starke.

Child piano prodigy Steven Baker is plagued by sudden bouts of deafness and an inability to play his instrument. Dr. Starke suspects Steven's symptoms are the result of too many pressures including his demanding, overbearing parents who treat the boy more like an adult than a child.

In the first of a two-part story, neglected teenager Gina Fields gets into trouble at school and is sent to talk with Paul Graham. Later, Gina's pretentious, social climbing mother Caro accuses Graham of engaging in sexually explicit conversations with the school youths, which places his career as a counselor in serious jeopardy.

Social climber Caro Fields revels in the attention her accusations against Paul Graham are bringing her, and she receives another convert to her cause when nosy neighbor Mrs. Bredan joins the crusade against the counselor. Meanwhile, Graham's problems escalate when an alienated Gina loses control of a wild party thrown in rebellion, and Caro makes another accusation in the dramatic conclusion of a two-part story.

Pious Reverend Hank McKenzie, at odds with his wife Liz, gives comfort to Jane Wells, a lonely young parishioner whose husband recently died. Later an upset McKenzie seeks counsel from Dr. Starke to help him overcome feelings of guilt about his marital infidelity.

Dire finances lead a desperate Walter Farnham to commit suicide in order to ensure his family's stability through an insurance payout. Farnham's death has a particularly traumatic effect on his adult son David, who at first angrily blames Dr. Starke for his father's death, then begins to exhibit suicidal tendencies of his own.

Buck Denholt seeks help from Dr. Starke for mysterious headaches, blackouts, and nosebleeds which seem to not have an organic cause. Starke begins to believe that the unusual symptoms are a physical manifestation of Denholt's subconscious doubts about his affiliation with a communist organization.