"You've probably heard the saying that anything can happen in Hollywood. Well that's just nonsense! Hollywood is a very normal place, and except for a minority of people - like my partner, Rodney O'Mara - the entertainment business attracts very few screwballs, creeps or featherheads. To get ahead in movies, radio or television, you've got to have talent, industry, and a level head. So that saying about anything can happen in Hollywood simply doesn't apply... Except for my partner Rodney O'Mara..." As it turns out, the two of them just lost a Hollywood deal to 'Frisco Frank. So they decide that they'll use a different tactic - to find a big name, and build a series around him instead. Or a horse. A horse wouldn't ever turn its back on the agents who made him or her famous...

Jim Mathews cannot forgive himself for his selfish pride and flees from his home and family though his wife had long forgiven him and always loved him. Cast:James Stewart, Don Ameche, Loretta Young

God in his providence obscures the gold beyond the veil of sorrow, and smiles at men in pity when they seek to penetrate the morrow. With faith that all is for the best let’s bear what burdens are presented, that we shall say, let come what may we die as we have lived, contented…

A beautiful story of the love and understanding between a father and son who reach the depths of despair and are rescued by the power of prayer and forgiveness.

If you're married, it's likely you don't have as much trouble getting your husband out of bed in morning, as Jean does with her husband, Don. It's a little bit different for them, as he works nights. Not because he has to, but because he says it's easier to think at night - easier to let the imagination run free - and when you're a cartoonist, that can be pretty important. Jean believes his imagination is wonderful any time of the day though, at least, they would never have gotten married, or even had that first date if it weren't for Don's imagination!

Jane Carson isn't her real name, and her job as a stenographer in the state department isn't her real job. She works for an entirely different branch of the government...

An unmarried woman inherits a fortune from her deceased Uncle Jim. However, the will contains some strange provisions, calculated to get her married...

At war in Japan when news commentator Dan Coleman raises his head above the sandbags he encounters gunfire which renders him blind. The doctors don't know if they can save his vision and he has to learn to get along with only minimal use of his eyes.

Hosted by Shirley Temple. Little Steve’s daddy didn’t come back from the war so when he went his mother took him to Webber’s department store to see Santa Claus he asked for a daddy for Christmas. His mother had no idea how extra special that Christmas was going to be.

Years before their appearance, Jules Verne foretold the submarine, the balloon, the aeroplane, the telephone, the long range projecto, and many other inventions, but perhaps his best writing achievement was the complex, but very human character, Captain Nemo. In this man we glimpse Homer's Ulysses, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and ourselves, our dreams, our disillusionments, above all our instinctive yearning for good. These are the things that make Captain Nemo and his great adventure timeless...  The story begins in the late 1800s. The seas are no longer safe, with many ships lost. Sailors have returned to port with stories of a vicious giant whale with a long horn, which sinks their ships. A US expedition begins, sent to investigate these mysterious sinkings, where they encounter something entirely different...

Avery Macklemore tells his story which is mighty strange. It's the story of the Big Calm when the winds stopped blowing but it actually started long ago when Miss Keating was a little girl. Mr Macklemore has known her for twelve years since he was at he boarding house and she would tell him the story of how the wind had plagued her all her life.

In this episode, Jack Benny who plays Malcolm. Malcolm is a "teapot" - or that's what he considers himself - very teapotic by nature - even looking a little like one! His wife, is a "coffee pot", a huge, ever simmering, never-empty coffee pot - complete with spout!

Mr. Harrison has loads of good ideas to advance the company he works for but his boss Mr. Tucker is determined to keep him down fearful that Harrison will get his job. Mr. Harrison has a wife and children and can't afford to lose his job so he just ponders on. Then when wealthy millionaire aunt Thelma arrives at the family home, an aunt that Harrison has never heard of, she, without his knowing, helps him make a man of himself by standing on his own two feet and taking a chance he thought he couldn't afford to make. Well who is this aunt Thelma and why has she really turned up at the Harrison family?

By the fall of 1777, the Continental Army seemed on the verge of collapse, and the cause of American independence all but lost. Congress had fled Philadelphia to escape the British, and the desertion of colonial troops mounted by the hour, with winter rapidly approaching. It's the morning of October 15th, and in his headquarters at White Marsh, General Washington is laying plans for the evacuation of his army to a place called Valley Forge...

In the year 300, the capital of the known world was Rome. Outwardly, it gave no sign of the decadence that would finally crumble its Empire. Rome boasted an invincible army, a tradition of law, and a flourishing culture, and the Emperor himself subsidized its theater. Right now, the entertainment for the Romans is the punishment of the citizens who have been found to be Christians...

I Give You Maggie is an original story by Walter Newman. The scene opens in New York City on an October afternoon in the living room of a penthouse overlooking Central Park a party is being held in honor of a young novelist Tom Padget. Mrs Padget and Daphne Lewis are leaving the crowded room. Daphne Lewis is the literary editor for the Times and thinks it will be a good idea to interview Maggie Padget, the woman behind the author...

In this fantasy, Jim and Marian Jordan (better known as Fibber McGee and Molly), play Wallace and Agnes, tourists in Egypt, who encounter an absent-minded genie who grants Wallace wishes in a rather odd way.

At a uranium boom camp in the mountains, the de facto community have decided to take the law into their own hands, and hang Mr Mayfield for robbery. When Judge Arthur arrives, the judge agrees that under his authority, Mr Mayfield should stand trial for grand theft...

Monica used to picture married life in a small town as little more than just a boring existence... Alright for most women really, but a way of life that would never be suitable to a person of such exquisite tastes. Monica had great delusions of what her life should be, and they were all given to her by the same person - her Aunt Virginia. Thankfully, wisdom helped her to change her mind.

Once On A Golden Afternoon was the original title Lewis Carroll gave to his famous story Alice in Wonderland. This is the story of the inspiration behind that wonderful piece of children's literature, which has stood the test of time and is still as enchanting to listen to today. Not only was the name of the story changed but Charles Lutwidge Dodgson chose the pen name Lewis Carroll from the Latin of his name.