The 20th Century Fox Hour
7.2
1955
Drama
The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.
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Episode 18 : The Hefferan Family
June. 13,1956
A well-meaning do-gooder spends so much time doing favors for others that he falls behind in his personal obligations. Meanwhile his long suffering wife has had enough of his money-making schemes she decides to take in boarders.
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Episode 17 : The Empty Room
May. 30,1956
A young Englishwoman and her American husband become entangled when Audrey's divorced mother comes to visit, the girl's natural warning system begins buzzing. Audrey endeavors to keep her scheming mother from being reunited with her father, who has been perfectly happy since the split.
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Episode 16 : Overnight Haul
May. 16,1956
When his young stepson is accidentally pinned under a truck, the driver frantically tries to rouse help in a nearby town. But he is caught taking equipment from a closed service station and is unable to convince anyone the boy is in trouble.
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Episode 13 : Gun in His Hand
April. 04,1956
An outlaw's son is torn between affection for his father and his own belief in law and order. While riding with the outlaw band, he is captured and imprisoned, and then learns the gang abandoned his wife to die, leaving his newborn son homeless. Furious, he turns against the gang and joins forces with the law.
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Episode 12 : Deception
March. 07,1956
A British Intelligence officer is captured and forced to divulge information, after which he moves to the West Indies in shame.
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Episode 11 : In Times Like These
February. 22,1956
The death of his only son makes it difficult for him to go on living.
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Episode 10 : Crack-Up
February. 08,1956
Bed ridden invalid Marie is visited by Trask, the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed her husband.
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Episode 9 : One Life
January. 25,1956
A bored housewife unhappy with her professor husband who is too busy with work to pay attention to her, ends up with her best friends husband, before realizing the consequences and how good her life actually is.
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Episode 6 : The Miracle on 34th Street
December. 14,1955
One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this is nothing to the stir he causes by announcing that he is not merely a make-believe St. Nick, but the real McCoy.
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Episode 5 : Christopher Bean
November. 30,1955
A country doctor learns his housekeeper is in possession of valuable painting given to her from an artist she befriended. Art collectors and swindlers attempt to get hold of these paintings.
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Episode 4 : The Late George Apley
November. 16,1955
The daughter of a socially prominent family rebels against her father's snobbery. He opposes the marriage of his daughter to a young man from the wrong side of the tracks.
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Episode 3 : The Ox-Bow Incident
November. 02,1955
A cattle rustling and the murder of the rancher leads the town on a mob lynching. While the sheriff is away the Major takes over and assumes control of the Posse.
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Episode 2 : Laura
October. 19,1955
Detective Mark McPherson is assigned to the case of a murdered fashion model only to find that the murder victim is someone else. During the investigation he finds himself taking a more than professional interest in the intended victim, the mysterious Laura.
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Episode 1 : Cavalcade
October. 05,1955
The story opens with the family patriarch marching off to the Boer war at the turn of the century, and ends thirty years later, with the now-aged principal characters coping with the Depression and the bleak days following Queen Victoria's death.
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