

The Barbara Stanwyck Show
An American anthology drama television series hosted by Barbara Stanwyck served.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.The Mink Coat
19-09-196030mWhile 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
03-10-196030mCelebrated 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
10-10-196030mAmelia 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
17-10-196030mMary 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
31-10-196030mStella 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
07-11-196030mFaced 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
14-11-196030mAlready 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
21-11-196030mLiz 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
28-11-196030mCrusty 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
05-12-196030mThree 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
19-12-196030mDr. 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
26-12-196030mSummer 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
02-01-196130mSister 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
09-01-196130mMarian 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
16-01-196130mA 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
23-01-196130mTwo 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
30-01-196130mIn 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
06-02-196130mJanet 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
13-02-196130mAttractive 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
20-02-196130mAttorney Jud Hollister talks unhappily married Paula Manning into staging a murder to get rid of her husband.
- Ep 21
21.Along the Barbary Coast
27-02-196130mSan 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
06-03-196130mOn 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
13-03-196130mAmbitious 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
20-03-196130mImport-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
27-03-196130mA 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
03-04-196130mMadge 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
10-04-196130mWhen 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
17-04-196130mTrapped 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
24-04-196130mDisillusioned 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
01-05-196130mMining 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
08-05-196130mBased 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
15-05-196130mGentle 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
29-05-196130mAttorney 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
05-06-196130mCity 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
03-07-196130mChris 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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