Telephone Time - Season 3
1 - Revenge
Air Date: September 10, 1957
A school teacher from Massachusetts comes to a small western town to marry a young homesteader, but finds that he's been murdered. The jury frees the murderer on a phony plea of self-defense. Determined to see justice done, she decides to stay in town as a constant irritant to the murderer's conscience. She makes him so crazy, he picks a fight with one of his friends and is killed. Dismayed by her own vengefulness, the teacher decides that justice would be better served by true social reform. She campaigns successfully for women to be selected as jurors, which results in the second murderer being convicted and sent to prison.
2 - Here Lies Francois Gold
Air Date: September 17, 1957
3 - Campaign For Marriage
Air Date: September 24, 1957
4 - The Gadfly
Air Date: October 1, 1957
5 - Hole in the Wall
Air Date: October 8, 1957
6 - The Man the Navy Couldn't Sink
Air Date: October 15, 1957
7 - Under Seventeen
Air Date: October 22, 1957
8 - The Other Van Gogh
Air Date: October 29, 1957
9 - Arithmetic Sailor
Air Date: November 5, 1957
10 - I Get Along Without You Very Well
Air Date: November 12, 1957
Composer Hoagy Carmichael relates the story of a song inspired by an anonymous poem, I get along without you very well. The year is 1938. Hoagy is asked to write a song to be introduced on Dick Powell's radio show. While going through his files, Hoagy discovers a nearly forgotten poem and promises a melody for it. He remembers little about the source of the poem except that a girl gave it to him at a college sorority party several years before. But the lyricist must grant permission before the music can be cleared for use on the radio. There ensues a desperate nation-wide search, aided by the broadcasts of Walter Winchell to find the author before air time.
11 - Alice's Wedding Gown
Air Date: November 19, 1957
12 - The Rescue
Air Date: November 26, 1957
13 - Novel Appeal
Air Date: December 3, 1957
An author frees an innocent man from prison.
14 - Sam Houston's Decision
Air Date: December 10, 1957
15 - The Frying Pan
Air Date: December 17, 1957
16 - A Picture of the Magi
Air Date: December 24, 1957
17 - Death of a Nobody
Air Date: December 31, 1957
18 - Abby, Julia and the Seven Pet Cows
Air Date: January 7, 1958
19 - Cavalry Surgeon
Air Date: January 14, 1958
The story of a military surgeon who in a moment of crisis has to perform an action repugnant to his very nature. The story of a cavalry skirmish in the Mexican War and of two men who fought with different philosophies and methods toward the same end. One lived heroically and one died a hero.
20 - A Stubborn Fool
Air Date: January 21, 1958
21 - Flight for Life
Air Date: January 28, 1958
22 - The Immortal Eye
Air Date: February 4, 1958
23 - Recipe for Success
Air Date: February 11, 1958
24 - The Checkered Flag
Air Date: February 18, 1958
Story of an unsung racing mechanic who because of a club foot, has never dared to race himself. All he needed was the confidence in himself to succeed. Based on the true story of Bud and Gina Hand.
25 - The Vestris
Air Date: February 25, 1958
In the spring of 1828, the bark Vestris, is 16 days out enroute from England to Boston. The weather is fair, but the captain's ailing wife suddenly has a vision telling her (in a message written on a blackboard) to have the ship change course. At first the captain refuses, but when the weather changes and his wife becomes sicker, he reluctantly agrees. As a result, they find and rescue three survivors of a shipwreck. One of the three is a doctor, and appears to be the ""spirit"" seen by the wife. He saves her life. As it turns out, the message on the blackboard is in his handwriting. Curiously, the doctor is as puzzled as everyone else by the wife's vision.
26 - War Against War
Air Date: March 4, 1958
27 - The Quality of Mercy
Air Date: March 11, 1958
28 - Man of Principle
Air Date: March 25, 1958
Hiero II, king of ancient Syracuse, orders a gold crown to be made as an offering to the gods. The gold is delivered to a goldsmith and the man's wife persuades him to substitute silver for some of the gold.
29 - Trail Blazer
Air Date: April 1, 1958