The Barbara Stanwyck Show
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
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The Barbara Stanwyck Show

6.2 / 10
1960
1 season
36 episodes
Drama

An American anthology drama television series hosted by Barbara Stanwyck served.

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  • Ep 1

    1.The Mink Coat

    19-09-196030m

    While her husband was still alive, Syd Charing enjoyed her life as a well-to-do socialite. Since his death, she has fallen on hard times. Now all she has left to remind of her of h...

  • Ep 2

    2.Good Citizen

    03-10-196030m

    Celebrated pianist Margot LaChelle is asked to perform in a charitable concert which will benefit a struggling youth center. She declines the invitation, telling her manager that s...

  • Ep 3

    3.Discreet Deception

    10-10-196030m

    Amelia Lambert, a theatrical producer, finds herself growing increasingly attracted to Simon, her dead husband's brother. Just one thing stands in Amelia's way: Simon's wife Vivian...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Seventh Miracle

    17-10-196030m

    Mary McShane is about to give birth to her seventh child, but her husband George has a broken leg and can't drive. It's up to their teenage son Joe to get his mother to the hospita...

  • Ep 5

    5.The Key to the Killer

    31-10-196030m

    Stella King, wife of a deputy sheriff, finds herself handcuffed to a murderer with a gun. Alone in the mountains of California, she has no recourse but to find the key to his twist...

  • Ep 6

    6.House in Order

    07-11-196030m

    Faced with heart surgery, Elizabeth Mowry is advised by her physician to put her house in order, but correcting the loss of understanding between herself and her family seems insur...

  • Ep 7

    7.The Miraculous Journey of Tadpole Chan

    14-11-196030m

    Already involved in a fight with the U.S. Consulate over a shipment of silk dresses, importer-exporter Josephine meets shabby refugee Tadpole Chan, who is having an equally hard ti...

  • Ep 8

    8.The Secret of Mrs. Randall

    21-11-196030m

    Liz Randall, president of an Oklahoma oil company, hires an ex-convict as her assistant and then falls in love with him. Their relationship is fiercely opposed by her mother-in-law...

  • Ep 9

    9.Ironbark's Bride

    28-11-196030m

    Crusty old farmer and wealthiest man in town, Ironbark, sends for a bride and draws a middle-aged woman and teenaged son. The boy gives him cool reception and repeatedly displeases...

  • Ep 10

    10.We Are the Women who Wait

    05-12-196030m

    Three wives of Strategic Air Command pilots, all of different temperaments, come together to wait for their men to return from a dangerous flight. We see how one (Barbara) has had...

  • Ep 11

    11.Out of the Shadows

    19-12-196030m

    Dr. Susan Bryce is a psychiatrist who once suffered a nervous breakdown. Now one of her patients, a beatnik trumpet player, is seeking vengeance against her, using an eerie melody...

  • Ep 12

    12.No One

    26-12-196030m

    Summer stock producer Cara Lester is seeking financial backing to move a new play to Broadway. She finds a willing patron in Jack Harrison. There's just one hitch: Harrison wants a...

  • Ep 13

    13.The Cornerstone

    02-01-196130m

    Sister Thomas Aquinas has finally acquired the funds to build a new high school. But just as the cornerstone is about to be laid, a detective shows up, investigating a recent jewel...

  • Ep 14

    14.Night Visitor

    09-01-196130m

    Marian Andres is preparing for a trip to Europe when a visitor arrives, posing as her husband's close friend. Failing in her blackmail attempt, the stranger produces a gun and dema...

  • Ep 15

    15.Size 10

    16-01-196130m

    A stolen sketch leads successful dress designer Maggie Wenley to point suspicion at members of her staff, destroying the loyalty of all those around her.

  • Ep 16

    16.Dear Charlie

    23-01-196130m

    Two old maids advertise in a newspaper for a male boarder so they will have a man in the house. Charlie Zane answers their ad and plots to have the two women pass their wealth to h...

  • Ep 17

    17.Dragon by the Tail

    30-01-196130m

    In return for a possible favor from the U.S. government, import-exporter Josephine Little finds herself enlisted by the CIA to retrieve a nuclear physicist from Indochina and retur...

  • Ep 18

    18.The Sisters

    06-02-196130m

    Janet Jones poses as a shoplifter to confront her sister's divorced husband with news that his son needs money for an operation. When they meet, he looks at Janet more as a potenti...

  • Ep 19

    19.Big Career

    13-02-196130m

    Attractive business executive Harriet Melvane closes her eyes to the shortcomings of her husband, Roy, and to the desires of her business partner, Phil.

  • Ep 20

    20.Confession

    20-02-196130m

    Attorney Jud Hollister talks unhappily married Paula Manning into staging a murder to get rid of her husband.

  • Ep 21

    21.Along the Barbary Coast

    27-02-196130m

    San Francisco detective Pete Bishop and waterfront racketeer Sam Verner declare a personal war over Verner's criminal operation and their mutual girlfriend, Trixie Callahan.

  • Ep 22

    22.Shock

    06-03-196130m

    On the verge of announcing a new formula, atomic physicist Rachel Harrison is shocked into silence by her daughter's accidental death. Dr. Paul Aldrich looks for the key to her loc...

  • Ep 23

    23.The Golden Acres

    13-03-196130m

    Ambitious and domineering, Avis Fleming decides to cheat an old family friend to impress Dexter Willis, an attorney she had once hoped to marry. When her two brothers, Ben and Coll...

  • Ep 24

    24.Adventure on Happiness Street

    20-03-196130m

    Import-exporter Josephine Little uses her Hong Kong contacts to help American doctor Paul Harris obtain medicine for his charity clinic. Her efforts unfortunately backfire and Dr....

  • Ep 25

    25.High Tension

    27-03-196130m

    A live, high-tension wire, broken in a storm and dangling from its pole, transforms a bus into a death trap in which the passengers are surrounded by metal walls carrying lethal el...

  • Ep 26

    26.Sign of the Zodiac

    03-04-196130m

    Madge Terry accompanies her sister-in-law, Helene, on a visit to a mysterious fortuneteller named Pierre. Haunted by guilt about the death of her husband, Madge becomes alarmed whe...

  • Ep 27

    27.Call Me Annie

    10-04-196130m

    When a well off family hires a nurse to care for a new baby, she discovers that the mother has no interest in it, and is in fact scared of being a mother. Her husband is a childish...

  • Ep 28

    28.The Choice

    17-04-196130m

    Trapped alone with two men, restaurateur Amanda Prescott is forced to decide which of the two - Horace or Joe - is an escaped psychopathic killer.

  • Ep 29

    29.Frightened Doll

    24-04-196130m

    Disillusioned and afraid of growing older, Hazel Wexley finds $100,000 and a new set of values. A chance meeting with gangster Jake Lytell and some hard-hitting advice from a barte...

  • Ep 30

    30.Yanqui Go Home

    01-05-196130m

    Mining engineer Clint Evans and his wife, Fanny, wait until the last minute to leave their post in a revolution-torn Latin American country. Their car is commandeered by a group of...

  • Ep 31

    31.Little Big Mouth

    08-05-196130m

    Based on actual events. Famed newspaperwoman Nellie Bly travels to Oklahoma Territory to write an expose on the Indian Reservation scandals. There she meets a heroic young doctor a...

  • Ep 32

    32.Assassin

    15-05-196130m

    Gentle Louise Forest is willing to accept her punishment when her employer, Mr. Carlisle, discovers she has embezzled $22,711. She doesn't, however, expect to be the intended victi...

  • Ep 33

    33.Triple C

    22-05-196130m
  • Ep 34

    34.The Hitch-Hiker

    29-05-196130m

    Attorney Maggie McClay risks her career and marriage to Mac McClay to help an immigrant mother retain custody of her infant against the wishes of the girl's wealthy mother-in-law,...

  • Ep 35

    35.Big Jake

    05-06-196130m

    City detective Jake Sloan is a tough, dedicated policeman with two major problems -- his waistline and his heart -- both of which are so big that they get him into more trouble tha...

  • Ep 36

    36.A Man's Game

    03-07-196130m

    Chris Mathews is a female saloon-keeper in a lawless Oklahoma Territory town so dangerous that no man dares to be sheriff. Uninhibited, Chris volunteers for the job in order to pre...

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