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- A drama anthology series hosted by actress Loretta Young. In addition to hosting the series, she played the lead in various episodes.
- A young man attempts to reform his delinquent mother when she stops in town to see him.
- A successful Art Director lets her imagination run away with her when a young female business associate of her husband's wants to talk to her about something "personal."
- The spoiled daughter of a brash manicurist discovers that her father hadn't died when he returns from a prison sentence for forgery.
- The son of an affluent couple, whose father has little time for him, joins the Cub Scouts.
- A newly returned widow discovers to her dismay that her only daughter has been adopted while she was a POW. While trying to retrieve her daughter, she encounters frustrating complications that endanger her child and challenge her faith.
- A top fashion designer is charmed by the owner of a budget dress line -- until she discovers his company has copied her latest designs.
- Globe-trotting lady encounters what looks like her own portrait in an Italian gift shop, leading to a romantic fling and a shocking surprise.
- A newspaperwoman and her fiance find themselves involved in a Central American revolution. To further complicate things, her former sweetheart shows up in town.
- Eddie Albert plays a mild-mannered soul whose happy marriage to an earthy woman seems to be coming to an end.
- During a night flight aboard a transcontinental airplane, a dangerous drug disappears from its storage place.
- This familiar plot of a lone holdout juror benefits from extreme unusual close-ups, montages and double-exposures to "open up" the drama beyond the single room setting.
- Beverly Washburn plays a lonely schoolgirl whose decision to start a rumor about her mother turns into classroom blackmail. Jeannette Nolan portrays her stern Aunt.
- A mother, suffering sustained grief of losing one of her two sons, has distanced herself from her other son and husband. She becomes attached to a melancholy neighborhood boy.
- Only a few years after "Spellbound," but before "Vertigo" and "The Three Faces of Eve," this episode uses extended two-actor scenes in its thoughtful exploration of claustrophobia and the benefits of therapy - as well as forgiveness of others and oneself.
- This Christmas day tale of a small town waitress, lonely serviceman and the child of separated parents marks Loretta Young's first appearance on the series after many months of guest star presenters who filled in while she recovered from illness.
- A well-meaning friend tries to prevent a brilliant engineer from destroying his life.
- A man who is to be tried for murder tries to escape across the Mexican border since he was not granted a change of venue. His concern was that the judge, being a woman, would allow emotion to influence the verdict.
- The plight of poverty-stricken war orphans forces a hard-nosed war correspondent to face the flesh-and-blood effects of her cynical editorials.
- A woman's day of rest assigned to her by the husband due to a her developing cold becomes problematic due to the needs of her six children.
- Midge is an unmarried social worker with an overactive imagination, including having a curmudgeonly fairy to guide her. Her fairy gets her into sticky situations, and she is afraid of making a poor impression on her attractive neighbor.
- A wife who has written a loving book about her milkman husband encounters marital conflict when a Hollywood producer wants to make a movie based on the wife's book except the producer's vision is to change reality to suit cinema practices.
- The wife of a pilot runs the gamut of emotions and memories while awaiting the return of her husband, whose plane has lost an engine in a storm.
- True story of a Depression-era mother's efforts to redirect her talented little boy's creative projects to more practical pursuits -- and who this boy turns out to be is the twist, as Ms. Young introduces the real-life man and his mom at the end of the episode.
- A deaf woman is entangled in strange and deadly events.
- Granite jawed Hugh O'Brien, clearly enjoying a change of pace from his usual rugged roles, plays a shy cartoonist whose heroism is awakened by a fraud scandal involving a woman and a his exact double.
- A doctor unravels the mysterious circumstances and suspects surrounding the near-death of a young heiress.
- A man using an iron lung who has lost hope regains his will through the efforts of his wife to keep him breathing when an earthquake causes a power failure.
- An embittered man takes revenge on a beloved doctor who lost his wife on the operating table, leading to vigilantism. Among the cast is Oscar-winner Jane Darwell ("The Grapes of Wrath," "Mary Poppins"). The theme of friendly neighbors transformed into a hideous mob would be echoed in Twilight Zone episodes "The Shelter" and "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street."
- The drab life of a spinster is brightened by her interest in amateur painting and the encouragement of a kindly priest.
- At a desolate weather station, a woman (Phyllis Thaxter) encounters an escaped mental patient.
- In a memorable episode that showcases Ms. Young's comic timing and dancing talent, she plays a passive secretary who cuts loose after a visit to the dentist and the lingering effects of laughing gas. In the scene in which she makes a grand entrance, bellowing "Anita, DAH-ling!" it strongly resembles the first appearance of Cruella DeVil in Disney's animated "101 Dalmatians."
- Clever "amateur sleuth" tale with a sharp Catholic priest who helps a family escape from a smooth con man. Very "Columbo"-like.
- A forest ranger's wife unknowing allows into her house an escaped convict who seeks revenge on her husband.
- A widowed small-town gift-shop owner and children's book illustrator meets a charmingly foreign handyman and it seems her dreams of a Prince Charming are coming true.
- A famous New York stage actress finds herself allergic to her leading man.
- A family is engaged in a battle they may not win: their home is in the way of a proposed freeway.
- A teacher publicly opposes a candidate, only to be romanced by him, much to the chagrin of her boyfriend.
- During a beach picnic, a widowed mother recalls when her romance with a novelist hit an unexpected snag.
- Duke and Rita visit a remote mountain cabin for a romantic getaway. During a fierce snowstorm, a young boy with pneumonia shows up at their door. Duke won't call for help because he is wanted for robbery, but Rita uses a ham radio to ask for medical help.
- An aging man is unfaithful to his wife and negligent to his daughter.
- An otherwise responsible husband and father has a periodic urge to leave his family and wander.