TV Anthology Movies watched in 2024

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

A movie producer is slowly working himself to death.

A pitcher on a major-league baseball team finds out that his catcher is desperately trying to hide something, he is dying of a terminal disease and he doesn't want the owner to find out and fire him.

A mother of three notices that her baby son fascinates the lady renting a room in her home.

It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.

A college student faces embarrassment and expulsion for having cheated on an exam. Her fiance is a member of the university's undergraduate honor board and could quietly make the matter "disappear." The young woman reconsiders, deciding that covering up for her bad behavior would be wrong and build a bad foundation for their marriage.

The son (James Dean) of a French aristocrat is accused of stealing his father's money and of stealing his step-sister's heart.

A young man who suffers from a speech impediment is having a hard time landing his first job after graduating from high school. His mother intervenes without his knowledge and helps him get a job in the mail room of a large company. He quickly gains confidence and some control over his stuttering and falls for a young woman who works at the same company.

Alexander has been a faithful employee of Madame Pollard as maitre d' at her elegant resort. Eager to introduce his protege Rob, things go wrong when his wife Della finds an expensive bracelet lost by Pollard and begs to keep. The police are called and Alexander's dreams of his future begin to crumble.

Ernie Pandish has tried to be a writer for years and has never made much money out of it. But now he seems likely to hit the big-time.

A young beauty queen comes to New York City and joins the beatnik set. She falls in love with a young advertising copywriter, but he refuses to take their romance seriously.

A genius lives a life isolated from human companionship. A young woman tries to break through.

A Korean War admiral and his fighter pilot son have been estranged for years, but are now serving aboard the same ship under very difficult circumstances. The Admiral, facing the loss of his wife, tries to make amends with his son.

Twenty years ago, a murder took place at the Fennel boarding house. A man was convicted of the murder and sentenced to a twenty year prison term. Now, he has returned to the scene of the crime.

Longtime bar owner Ernie Wigman (Lee J. Cobb) wants to sell out, preferably to his bartender Rich (Harry Guardino), who has a yen to own a bar but lacks the cash.

An American tractor technician working seasonally in Africa, and about to return home to his family, becomes fascinated with a private gambling room of eccentrics playing Baccarat.

Despite being raised in a financially strapped family, a young woman tries to make her dream of being a respected actress come true.

A hospital kitchen employee gets drunk and shuts off the main power, throwing the hospital into darkness and total chaos and disarray.

Charlie Gordon, a mentally challenged man who is eager to learn, is given an experimental operation to increase his intelligence to genius level. The experiment seems to work, until one of the lab animals the procedure was tested on begins to lose its intelligence...

Season 3, Episode 6 of The United States Steel Hour (1953).

The story of court-martialed Union soldier William Scott, who is slated for execution for sleeping on duty after he was sent for by Abraham Lincoln.