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S1 • E1

Don Quixote

In Spain, in the sixteenth century, an elderly gentleman named Don Quixote has gone mad from reading too many books on chivalry. Proclaiming himself a knight, he sets out with his squire, Sancho Panza, to reform the world and revive the age of chivalry, choosing a slut to be his noble lady Dulcinea. He mistakes inns for castles, a play about chivalry for the real thing, flocks of sheep for armies, convicts for wronged prisoners, and windmills for giants. While he and Sancho are off on their adventures, his niece, her fiancée, and the local priest think up a strategy to get him back home.

S1 • E2

Careless Love

S1 • E3

Into the Valley

S1 • E4

The Angel Was a Yankee

S1 • E5

Tom Sawyer, the Glorious Whitewasher

S1 • E6

The Sound Machine

S1 • E7

The Rose and the Ring

In Paflagonia and Crim Tartary, the lives and fortunes of four young royal cousins, Princesses Angelica and Rosalba, and Princes Bulbo and Giglio are explored.

S1 • E8

The Beggar's Opera

An adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera. With its story of a condemned highwayman, it brings to life the greed, lust and corruption of low-life London.

S1 • E9

The Talking Cure

The story behind the initial delving into psychoanalysis by the great Dr. Sigmund Freud is dramatized.

S1 • E10

Rocket

An aging junk dealer dreams of flying a rocket ship to Mars and finally devises a way to do it and take his family with him.

S1 • E11

The Gallows Tree

A historic account of the mass hangings in Salem during the witchcraft era.

S1 • E12

Riders to the Sea

Maurya, who lives in a village on the coast of Ireland, has lost her husband, father-in-law, and five sons to the sea. With a sense of foreboding, she predicts that by nightfall she will have no living sons remaining.

S1 • E13

My Eyes Have a Cold Nose

A story about the work of the Seeing Eye organization that trains dogs for blind masters.

S1 • E14

Rainy Day in Paradise Junction

Travelers take shelter in a train station while a thunderstorm rages outside. The most optimistic of the group is teenage Virginia, who announces she's headed for Hollywood to become a dancer now that her mother has died and she's an orphan. But Bill, another traveler, notices the brace on Virginia's leg and ridicules her ambitions.