The United States Steel Hour - Season 1
1 - POW
Air Date: October 27, 1953
The story of the psychological torment of American soldiers after they return home from Commmunist prison camps.
2 - Hope for a Harvest
Air Date: November 10, 1953
A story examining the seeming loss of the American work ethic, as well as the issues of racism and prejudice.
3 - The Wedding
Air Date: November 24, 1953
4 - The Man in Possession
Air Date: December 8, 1953
A penniless society girl falls in love with the handsome sheriff's man sent to keep an eye on her belongings.
5 - The Vanishing Point
Air Date: December 22, 1953
In Paris, the Head of the Missing Persons Bureau disappears and his assistant, hoping for a promotion, searches for him.
6 - Hedda Gabler
Air Date: January 5, 1954
In a small backward Norwegian town in the 1860s, a woman who is married to a scholar whom she does not love subtly asserts her power over the people in her life.
7 - The Rise of Carthage
Air Date: January 19, 1954
A power-mad businessman finds true values in a desert utopia called Carthage.
8 - Papa Is All
Air Date: February 2, 1954
A story about a Pennsylvania Dutch Mennonite family in the 1940s, in which the parents adhere to their faith while their two children desire to be more ""worldly"" until they feel the personal call to the Mennonite faith.
9 - Highway
Air Date: February 16, 1954
10 - Morning Star
Air Date: March 2, 1954
A story revolving around a widow and her extended family on New York's Lower East Side, spanning the years 1910-1931, including such historic events as the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, World War I, and the Great Depression, events that shaped the lives and destinies of the family.
11 - Welcome Home
Air Date: March 16, 1954
The story of a beloved housekeeper and nanny who doesn't want to retire.
12 - The Last Notch
Air Date: March 30, 1954
A story about a gunfighter who didn't particularly care for gunfighting.
13 - Late Date
Air Date: April 13, 1954
14 - The Rise and Fall of Silas Lapham
Air Date: April 27, 1954
Though rough around the edges, a self-made man tries to get his daughter admitted to Boston's high society 400.
15 - The End of Paul Dane
Air Date: May 11, 1954
A story about a psychiatrist and two of his patients
16 - The Great Chair
Air Date: May 25, 1954
17 - Good for You
Air Date: June 8, 1954
18 - Fearful Decision
Air Date: June 22, 1954
David Durfee's young son is kidnapped by desperate criminals, yet he refuses to pay the ransom that the town feels would ensure the boy's safety.
19 - Haven's End
Air Date: July 6, 1954
20 - A Garden in the Sea
Air Date: July 20, 1954
21 - Oberstrasse Forty-Nine
Air Date: August 3, 1954
22 - The Grand Tour
Air Date: August 17, 1954
23 - Two
Air Date: August 31, 1954