S1 • E1
While covering a coal mine accident in West Virginia, Adam learns that a doctor passing through the town is treating injured workers miles below the earth's surface and wonders what could have motivated him to risk his life for strangers.
S1 • E2
Adam accompanies an U.S. Army officer to pick up the personal effects of an American doctor killed for aiding an attempted revolution. He wonders what brought the man to this country and what he experienced in the last hours before he was killed.
S1 • E3
Adam travels to a small Southern town to meet with the pretty newspaper editor. He hears the story of a poor uneducated couple who adopt a daughter who is discovered to be a genius. State officials decide that her adoptive parents are now unsuited to raise such a child and attempt to have the girl returned to state custody so a more suitable environment can be found for her.
S1 • E4
Adam Shepherd visits a Civil War museum commemorating the Centennial and is attracted to one of its artifacts, a pair of old boots. He imagines what the man who wore them felt during the battle. In his vision, he becomes a Confederate sergeant for a ceasefire with Union soldiers after a bloody battle to treat their wounded and bury their dead. The truce is violated by a Confederate private who covets a pair of boots worn by a Union soldier. The rebel sneaks into enemy lines, kills the Yankee and steals the boots only to discover the footwear of huge holes in their soles. Furious over the violation, the Yankees hurl themselves against the Confederate lines resulting in massive casualties for both sides.
S1 • E5
While visiting Hong Kong, an American businessman and his wife are appalled by the living conditions they find the villagers living in. Their attempts to help the local population are hindered by black marketeers who force the villagers to buy their noodles at exorbitant prices.
S1 • E6
While driving in the desert, Adam comes upon a tow truck pulling a Model A Ford from a lake with a "Just Married" sign on the bumper. He imagines why the vehicle ran off the road and what happened to the inhabitants.
S1 • E7
While attending the launch of a NASA rocket at Cape Canaveral, Adam imagines what it would be like to be the leader of a team of astronauts that has just landed on a planet that might not be as desolate as they were led to believe.
S1 • E8
While looking for a story in modern-day Normandy, Adam imagines himself the leader of a squad of paratroopers on D-Day who find a baby alone in a battered farmhouse.
S1 • E9
Communists try to incite a full-scale revolt when Japanese farmers balk at moving to make way for an American air base.
S1 • E10
Adam imagines himself a bandit who stashed his last haul in a statue of the Virgin Mary.
S1 • E11
Blaming a bridge for the destruction of his flowers, an old man plots to destroy the massive structure.
S1 • E12
Seaman McMasters encounters suspicion and hostility as he attempts to befriend a group of Vietnamese refugees.
S1 • E13
While researching the final days of the Civil War in Appomattox, Virginia, Shepherd stumbles upon a grave at the gate of a grand home and learns that it contains the body of a Union soldier, which is nevertheless tended with utmost respect. Shepherd is curious about the soldier's date of death on - April 10, 1865, the day after Lee's surrender - and the unusual epitaph, "His life in vain" carved on it's headstone, and wonders how the soldier met his end.
S1 • E14
A Christmas parable. Fred's daughter Cindy is convinced she can hear angels, and tells everybody she meets. But Fred doesn't believe her, and determines to find out from whence these voices came.
S1 • E15
While his car is being repaired at a garage bordering an Arizona ghost town, Adam learns that a large rock falling off a mountain onto Main Street caused its demise. He imagines the steps the townspeople would attempt to move the granite boulder and how a clever Easterner might outwit the town boss for the everyone's benefit.
S1 • E16
Commander Tyrone has been order to complete a construction of a new naval base on Okinawa, but has difficulty hiring local laborers due to the village elder's hatred of all things American. The labor situation goes from bad to worse when the elder's grandson is shot trespassing on the unfinished base.
S1 • E17
Adam imagines himself a Norwegian underground leader ordered to assassinate a traitor.
S1 • E18
An aging boxing champ is challenged to a title fight by his own son whom he hates.
S1 • E19
A widow has been awaiting the return of her sweetheart---for four years.
S1 • E20
A wealthy businessman who has been diagnosed with an incurable disease develops the will to live when he falls in love with a beautiful woman.
S1 • E21
Mickey Madden struggles to maintain his baseball team despite mounting debts including a mortgage held by Mr. Rogers. His last chance is his signing of a brilliant pitcher called Skippy Maxxox. Skippy, however, is a hypochondriac.
S1 • E22
On his wedding day, an Irish revolutionary undertakes a dangerous mission.
S1 • E23
In 1928, young Dave is most interested when aerial stuntman, Bill Wade, comes to town for an exhibition. Dave wants to be a stunt pilot like his father, who was recently killed in a plane crash.
S1 • E24
A painfully shy girl living with her grandmother and worried she would be forever left on the shelf due to her blindness, is flattered when a man asks for her hand in marriage, even though he is a virtual stranger.
S1 • E25
An offbeat love story set in the early 1930s about an ex-con and the girl he left behind.
S1 • E26
Peace and quiet elude writer Archie Hammond (Lloyd Bridges) as he searches for a place to work in his Greenwich Village apartment.
S1 • E27
In Africa, engineer Jack Bell (Lloyd Bridges) stalks the lion that killed three of his men.
S1 • E28
A small town in North Carolina has a hero: Boford Tyree has been summoned to the Senate -- to serve as a page boy.
S1 • E29
Fed up with his job, suburbia and married life, Frank Brenner is drawn to a beautiful fellow commuter.
S1 • E30
In 1963 Breznova, Czechoslovakia, two men work for months to create a tank out of an old truck in a attempt to escape with their families through the iron curtain.
S1 • E31
Driving along the same busy freeway he does every day at the same time, a man decides to break his routine by stopping and entering a bar to change the days of strangers too.
S1 • E32
An American archaeologist, grateful for the assistance that poor Bolivian villagers provided for his dig, decides to provide them with badly needed sacks of wheat. Bandits operating in the area are convinced that the bags are full of treasure and are determined to waylay the scientist on his trip.
S1 • E33
A photographer, travelling with his wife, goes to Yugoslavia to cover a village festival but arrives during an epidemic.
S1 • E34
A race-car driving champion is seeing a millionairess who wishes he would retire, but because he has had crashes, he feels the need to continue to stubbornly prove himself.
Adam Shepherd
Denis
Honey Wills
Everett
Sentry
Gloria Brenner
Andrew Jackson Tyree
Milovan
Piggy
Dr. Moncada