The 20th Century Fox Hour
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The 20th Century Fox Hour

5.4 / 10
1955
2 seasons
37 episodes
Drama

The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States on CBS from 1955 to 1957. Some of the shows in this series were restored, remastered and shown on the Fox Movie Channel in 2002 under the title Hour of Stars. The season one episode Overnight Haul, starring Richard Conte and Lizabeth Scott, was released in Australia as a feature film.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Cavalcade

    05-10-195560m

    The story opens with the family patriarch marching off to the Boer war at the turn of the century, and ends thirty years later, with the now-aged principal characters coping with t...

  • Ep 2

    2.Laura

    19-10-195560m

    Detective Mark McPherson is assigned to the case of a murdered fashion model only to find that the murder victim is someone else. During the investigation he finds himself taking a...

  • Ep 3

    3.The Ox-Bow Incident

    02-11-195560m

    A cattle rustling and the murder of the rancher leads the town on a mob lynching. While the sheriff is away the Major takes over and assumes control of the Posse.

  • Ep 4

    4.The Late George Apley

    16-11-195560m

    The daughter of a socially prominent family rebels against her father's snobbery. He opposes the marriage of his daughter to a young man from the wrong side of the tracks.

  • Ep 5

    5.Christopher Bean

    30-11-195560m

    A country doctor learns his housekeeper is in possession of valuable painting given to her from an artist she befriended. Art collectors and swindlers attempt to get hold of these...

  • Ep 6

    6.The Miracle on 34th Street

    14-12-195560m

    One Kris Kringle, a department-store Santa Claus, causes quite a commotion by suggesting customers go to a rival store for their purchases. But this is nothing to the stir he cause...

  • Ep 7

    7.Man on the Ledge

    28-12-195560m

    Sure and it's a fine St. Paddy's dawn in New York City, and beat cop Bragan is finishing up his all-night midtown shift and heading back to his family. Mrs. Bragan is making waffle...

  • Ep 8

    8.Yacht on the High Sea

    11-01-195660m

    After years of neglect from her abrasive husband, Joan has decided to leave him. He asks that she come to his last business meeting in Nassau, and tells her what she needs is a chi...

  • Ep 9

    9.One Life

    25-01-195660m

    A bored housewife unhappy with her professor husband who is too busy with work to pay attention to her, ends up with her best friends husband, before realizing the consequences an...

  • Ep 10

    10.Crack-Up

    08-02-195660m

    Bed ridden invalid Marie is visited by Trask, the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed her husband.

  • Ep 11

    11.In Times Like These

    22-02-195660m

    The death of his only son makes it difficult for him to go on living.

  • Ep 12

    12.Deception

    07-03-195660m

    A British Intelligence officer is captured and forced to divulge information, after which he moves to the West Indies in shame.

  • Ep 13

    13.Gun in His Hand

    04-04-195660m

    An outlaw's son is torn between affection for his father and his own belief in law and order. While riding with the outlaw band, he is captured and imprisoned, and then learns the...

  • Ep 14

    14.Mr. Belvedere

    18-04-195660m

    All is not well on Hummingbird Hill, the King's are at their wits end. Their three children are full of mischief and trouble that desperate measures are needed. When an ad is place...

  • Ep 15

    15.Broken Arrow

    02-05-195660m

    Jeffords talks to Cochise about letting the mail carriers thru the pass without being attacked. During which time he falls in love with the ""White Painted Lady"". After an attack...

  • Ep 16

    16.Overnight Haul

    16-05-195660m

    When his young stepson is accidentally pinned under a truck, the driver frantically tries to rouse help in a nearby town. But he is caught taking equipment from a closed service st...

  • Ep 17

    17.The Empty Room

    30-05-195660m

    A young Englishwoman and her American husband become entangled when Audrey's divorced mother comes to visit, the girl's natural warning system begins buzzing. Audrey endeavors to k...

  • Ep 18

    18.The Hefferan Family

    13-06-195660m

    A well-meaning do-gooder spends so much time doing favors for others that he falls behind in his personal obligations. Meanwhile his long suffering wife has had enough of his money...

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