Andy Griffith Show s03e24 Aunt Bee's Medicine Man

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Original Air Date—11 March 1963
Andy must protect Aunt Bee from a charming traveling snake-oil huckster whose 170-proof "tonic" provides temporary relief from mid-life crisis.

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Treasury Men in Action (aka Federal Men) s05e05 The Case of the Man Outside

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Treasury Men in Action (aka Federal Men) is the title of a TV crime drama series broadcast live and which aired from 1950 through 1955 on ABC and starred Walter Greaza, Ross Martin, and Tom McKee. It was directed by William Beaudine, Leigh Jason, and Will Jason among others.

The series centers on a squad of agents of the U.S. Treasury Department headed by "The Chief". Counterfeiters, tax evaders, prison escapees, and other criminals are targeted.

Other actors who starred in this series include Jesse White, James Dean, Claude Akins, Carolyn Jones, Charles Bronson, and Nancy Evans.

Season 5, Episode 5 – Aired: 11/4/1954
Prison time can't keep a group of inventive counterfeiters from printing cash while behind bars.

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Lights Out s03e25 Curtain Call

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Original Air Date—12 February 1951
Master thespian Carlton Dane makes his grand return to the Shakesperean stage. His performance is ruined by the voice of his late wife, an actress named Alexis, charging him with her murder. When the show resumes, his daughter, Lydia, receives great acclaim from the crowd. This does not sit well with a drunken Carlton; there's room for only one star in this family. 


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Zane Grey Theater s01e01 You Only Run Once

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Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, sometimes simply called Zane Grey Theater, is an American Western anthology series which ran on CBS from 1956 to 1961.

"You Only Run Once" from 5 October 1956. On the run from the law a man maintains his innocence while searching for the real killer.

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Yancy Derringer s01e05 A Bullet For Bridget

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Yancy Derringer is a gentleman adventurer. He is a former Confederate Officer who has returned to New Orleans, Louisiana, after the Civil War. Widely respected by all parts of New Orleans society, he is asked by the city administrator, John Colton, to work as an secret agent at no pay, and only John Colton knows of Yancy's special work for Colton's office.

In "A.Bullet.For.Bridget" an Irish girl visits New Orleans and decides that Yancy is to be her future husband.


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Broken Arrow s01e01 The Mail Riders

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Broken Arrow is a Western series which ran on ABC-TV in prime time from 1956 through 1958 on Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Eastern time. It told a fictionalized account of the historical relationship between Indian agent Tom Jeffords (John Lupton) and the Chiricahua Apache chief Cochise (Michael Ansara).

This episode "The Mail Riders" aired 9/25/1956 and has the original commercials.

The Apaches have been attacking every mail rider going through their territory. Jeffords decides the only way to stop them is to ask Cochise himself.


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Frank Sinatra's Timex Show (1960) Welcome Home Party for Elvis Presley

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Welcome Home Elvis was a 1960 television special on ABC starring Frank Sinatra and featuring Elvis Presley in his first televised appearance since coming home from his military service in Germany. The special was officially titled It's Nice to Go Traveling, but is more commonly known as Welcome Home Elvis having featured Elvis on his first TV appearance in three years. This was also Frank Sinatra's fourth and final television special that he did for sponsor Timex.

The special also featured Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, Peter Lawford, and Nancy Sinatra, who later starred with Elvis in his 1968 film Speedway.

Elvis performed Fame and Fortune and Stuck on You, which were the two sides of his first post-Army single. He also performed a duet with Sinatra. Elvis performed Sinatra's classic Witchcraft while Frank performed the Elvis classic "Love Me Tender". None of these performances were released on record until the 1980s. Presley also sang a verse during the opening production number, "It's Nice to Go Traveling", which has yet to be commercially released.

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U.S. Marshal s01e39 R.I.P

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Original Air Date—6 June 1959
John Bromfield stars as Frank Morgan in this violent, modern-day (1950s) Western set in Arizona.


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U.S. Marshal s01e15 The Diner

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Original Air Date—1958
John Bromfield stars as Frank Morgan in this violent, modern-day (1950s) Western set in Arizona.

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Errol Flynn Theatre s01e05 Strange Auction

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Original Air Date—1957
A renegade offers his services to the winner of an auction. The high bidder is a widow who needs him to help out on her farm.

Flynn starred in the 1956 anthology series The Errol Flynn Theatre that was filmed in England, where he presented the episodes and sometimes appeared in them. The show was syndicated in the USA in 1957.

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Gang Busters - The Scissors Case

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Original Air Date—1952
State police attempt to apprehend the brutal Scissors Gang, who have committed over 50 armed robberies across Connecticut.

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Gang Busters

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One of the earliest crime/police dramas. This show featured dramatizations of real criminals with the stories taken from actual FBI and police files. The stories were presented in semi-documentary style. There was no continuing cast, but creator and writer Phillips H. Lord narrated each show.

"Gang Busters" was a pioneering radio series detailing the activities of the nation's most notorious crime figures of the day. It was unique in that at the end of every episode, the announcer would inform listeners to call the local police or "Gang Busters" for information on wanted criminals still on the loose. In that respect, it was definitely a precursor of today's reality shows like "America's Most Wanted".

The television version, which premiered in 1952, stayed true to the radio format, telling stories of legendary scum like John Dillinger, Willie "The Actor" Sutton, etc. And just as on radio, viewers were informed of criminals still on the loose, and were encouraged to contact the show or the police.

The Dillinger Case (you can watch or download below) I thought was a very interesting and entertaining story.





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Gang_Busters_Nobel_case_512kb.mp4
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Gang_Busters_Phantom_case_512kb.mp4
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Andy Griffith Show s03e23 Andy Discovers America

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Original Air Date—4 March 1963
Opie's had it with his history homework, and misinterprets Andy's empathy as an excuse to skip it and lead his friends in revolt against their teacher, "Old Lady" Crump. When Miss Crump holds Andy responsible, he must find a way to motivate Opie and his pals.

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I'm the Law s01e02 Cowboy And The Blind Man

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I'm the Law was a 30 minute syndicated American television police drama series which aired in 1953 starring George Raft as Lt. George Kirby, a NYPD detective  involved in solving a variety of crimes in New York City.  The series first aired on February 13, 1953 and ended on July 31, 1953.

In The Cowboy And The Blind Man, Kirby thought he had seen it all until he started investigating a blackmail scheme involving a bad guy, his ex-wife and a blind man.  This episode based on an episode of the 1949 Radio Series "Let George Do It".

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Mr. and Mrs. North s01e29 Breakout

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Original Air Date—17 April 1953
The warden at the State Penitentiary asks the Norths if they wish to interview a high-profile inmate for a potential book. While they're in the prison, a disturbance breaks out that suddenly escalates into a hostage situation--with the Norths as the hostages.

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Mr. and Mrs. North s01e13 Silent Butler

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Original Air Date—26 December 1952
Pam and Jerry hire a butler who ends being suspected of the murder of the butler from the next apartment. 

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Mr. and Mrs. North s01e02 Till Death Do Us Part

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Original Air Date—10 October 1952
Pam and Jerry's wedding anniversary celebration gets interrupted by a woman dressed in a bridal gown bursting into their apartment and then dropping dead, the victim of a murder.

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