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The internal struggles for power in a family reaches such a fever pitch that a murder seems likely.
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A naive young man from a small Midwestern town travels to Hollywood to break into the movies, and through a series of mishaps and lucky accidents, becomes a comedy star.
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Geronte, a rich nobleman, has selected a suitor for his daughter Lucille. She is not at all interested in his choice.
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A rich aunt whisks her niece away from her unemployed husband, believing he's no good. Thinking she's talking to the niece's servant, she hires the husband to work at her estate.
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This is a story of love under the carnival tent.
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An American man and a British woman have love at first sight. Quickly, he's called back to the United States and proposes.
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Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed and lives in fear of her husband's finding out and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
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Willie is a refugee who works as a houseman at a professor's home. He's a lovable character who enjoys interfering in other people's lives.
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A father retires to become a painter but their cash is soon lost. Needing money, his wife stages an auction of one of his paintings, but he's chagrined by who's buying it.
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A smart, level-headed wife helps her scatterbrained husband succeed in business.
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George quietly announces that he's a counterfeiter. His mooching relatives quickly scatter, and his close family reacts as expected. But what if he's putting them on?
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A war veteran, mistakenly reported to have died, is recognized by an old friend who threatens to tell his since remarried wife.
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A newlywed couple start their lives in a new town. He begins a new business and she becomes socially ambitious.
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A newlywed couple start their lives in a new town. He begins a new business and she becomes socially ambitious.
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The answer to a question has two very different outcomes: the results of what would have happened if Jo had said "Yes", and the results if she had said "No."
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When a woman's 'dead' husband returns she refuses to remarry her second until he consents to her niece's wedding.
S1 • E19
A controlling, vain woman succeeds in driving away anyone and everyone, including her friends and her husband.
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An argument leads to a woman hitting her head and seemingly dies. The man who brought her home panics and hides her body from his snooping landlord. A game of cat-and-mouse ensues.
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A woman again finds herself the subject of suspicion because of a murder case years earlier where the verdict was "not proven."
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Hounded by his creditors, a man in deep financial trouble kills his nephew, who is visiting him, and goes on a spending spree with the money.
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A family buys an old farmhouse in Connecticut and find out that two of the former owner's heirs are entitled to live there, and will soon be moving in. Tensions begin to build until an incident occurs that may help to bring the families together.
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An unhappily married young woman enters into an affair with one of her sick cousin's friends.
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A woman comes to believe that she's married to a serial wife-murderer.
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A college psychology professor, held hostage by a dangerous killer, uses his training to analyze the killer's mind and talk him out of killing again.
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A playwright dreams that he's the star of one of his own plays when thing take an unexpected turn. The characters come to life, stop following the script, and begin ad-libbing their own lines.
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A man's ghost returns to straighten out financial problems he secretly for his family and business partner caused while alive.
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A woman with plenty of money but no charm hires a movie star to teach her act. He sends his understudy, who helps her blossom.
S1 • E31
A college professor campaigns to get appointed president of the university.
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In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
S1 • E33
An engaged man doesn't "make nice" with the woman's husband, preferring to go his own way, treating life as a holiday.
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This Christmas-themed installment features two stories: the dramatic one-act Reverie; and Finch's The Desert Shall Rejoice. Set in the American southwest, a couple comes into Nick's Place looking for a room. Nick, who says he hates Christmas, only has a shed out back. The expectant wife soon goes into labor, prompting a modern-day Nativity scene.
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The elderly family patriarch Oliver Bladys makes a shocking confession that shakes the foundations of the family, leaving them to decided whether they should tell the truth about Bladys.
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A domineering mother has devoted her life to work to give her daughter the material things she never had. The daughter, on the verge of adulthood, wants more out of life.
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An ambitious D.A. convicts a possibly innocent man of murder. After six years, the D.A. is appointed prison warden while the convict's mental state has deteriorated. Feeling sympathy for the prisoner, the warden makes the convict his daughter's chauffeur. The two become romantically involved.
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A small group of passengers on an ocean liner have no idea why they are there or where the ship is heading. They soon figure out they're dead and heading for their final judgement.
S1 • E41
An army officer and his son move into an apartment building that used to be a home. The son, a shy and withdrawn youth, has one overriding passion in life: earthworms. His obsession with these creatures brings problems for his father's relationships with the opposite sex, as well as his own.
S1 • E42
An elderly man who is in love with a young woman discovers that too many people are interested in his romance. The love affair is the immediate concern of the middle aged widower's daughter-in-law, his housekeeper, and the neighbors. Their interference almost deprives him of years of happiness.
S1 • E43
The house of Alison Stanhope, the country's foremost poet who's been dead for 18 years, must now be sold. But it may hold secrets that could harm those she loved. Based upon Susan Glaspell's Pulitzer Prize winning play inspired by the life of Emily Dickinson.
S1 • E44
A successful lawyer is abandoned by everyone around him when an illegal act in his past come back to haunt him.
S1 • E45
Don Richie, an Air Force captain who is shot down over Germany during World War II, returns in spirit form to comfort his grieving family. He discovers that his wife, mother, father, and son remember him in different ways. At first, he is unable to "get through" to them, but then the family believes that whenever "the wind is ninety" or from the East, Don will be with them in spirit.
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A man's boring life is excited by a woman claiming to have escaped from Russia, a hidden treasure, and pirates.
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A rich man arranges for his daughter to meet an aristocrat, hoping that they'll eventually marry. The young man, however, is uncomfortable with high-society women. To win him over, the daughter pretends to be a poor barmaid.
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A naive young songwriter comes to New York City, with hopes of making it big in the business. He meets up a jaded woman and an older composer who helps him be a success.
S1 • E50
Mr. Harding, a kindly clergyman, must deal with an altogether more severe colleague, Mr. Slope.
S1 • E51
A domineering matriarch is less than happy when her son brings home his new bride. She immediately sets to work at sabotaging their marriage as well as the engagement of her younger and weaker son.
S1 • E52
As a publicity stunt, a studio cooks up a "lost at sea" story about their star actress in this comedy.
S1 • E53
An eminent, slightly eccentric theatrical clan are as flamboyant offstage as they are on. Real-life family drama occurs when the grand matriarch learns that her daughter and granddaughter may both be giving up the stage for marriage.
S1 • E54
A henpecked husband stands in the way of his daughter's romance.
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An old man moves in with his son and daughter-in-law. He befriends a young boy and helps direct the lad down the straight and narrow path.
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The host of a dinner party is murdered.
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A woman has gotten engaged to one man while she's truly in love with another.
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An actress is planning to wed her leading man when her missing, declared-dead husband suddenly shows up.
S1 • E61
A know-it-all con man marries his way into a family and soon is running their business.
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A young American man is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors.
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Families feud in Ireland.
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A diva and her loves, set in the world of the theatre.
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A businessman uses brutal methods to destroy his competitors, including murder, on his climb to the top.
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A young man leaves home after accidentally burning down the family's barn. He returns following his mother's death and falls in love with the young woman who had been his mother's caretaker.
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A woman of high society with a scandalous past is wooed by a persistent suitor. The young man's mother does her best to prevent a marriage.
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